Fianna Fáil candidate for the Presidential election Jim Gavin. Photo: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos
When Henry Shefflin went to Galway, I thought of Martha Wainwright’s great line in her song ‘Factory’, “These are not my people, I should never have come here.”
Brian Cody’s iron handshake that drew the blood from Henry’s hand and face suddenly became his legacy. Cody did not say a word to Henry that day, but his aura roared, ‘You f**king traitor’. Upsetting Cody in Kilkenny is like an American comedian upsetting Donald Trump. When I spent a week in Kilkenny last year, people were shaking their heads sadly at what had become of Henry. Like Jimmy Kimmel, he had been cancelled.