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06 Sept 2025

South East bride votes straight after getting married

Toni marries her sweetheart but doesn't give him the Number 1!

Toni gets her priorities right

Bride Toni Kelly being congratulated by the Clinstown Presiding Officer, Kathleen Maher PHOTO: Harry Reid

Beautiful Kilkenny bride Toni Kelly voted this afternoon straight after getting married to her sweetheart, Pat Bergin.

From Jenkinstown, a few miles from Kilkenny city,  she wasn't going to let anything get in the way of exercising her right to vote.

Because of existing rules we can't say how she voted. 

What we can say is that new hubby, Pat Bergin, didn't drive her to the polling station from the nearby Jenkinstown Church because his leg is in plaster.

And she didn't mind keeping her wedding guests waiting to give her Number 1 to .......

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