Councillor refuses to use 'junket' tickets for Ploughing and gives them to beef farmers

A Carlow councillor has refused to use her "junket" tickets for this year's Ploughing and has given them to beef farmers.

In a statement on Facebook, Cllr Adrienne Wallace said: "Every councillor receives gratuities, but People Before Profit has a zero tolerance policy on elected reps going on junkets and on accepting these.

"So I've given the tickets I got for the Ploughing to the farmers I stood with on the pickets. It's the small and medium farmers who deserve this, not elected reps.