Headline an insult claims councillor

Dundalk Councillor, John McGahon, has taken the Irish Times to task for an article in the property section entitled ‘Four bed hipster heaven for €240K but there’s a catch: It’s in Dundalk’.

The Fine Gael councillor was so incensed that he wrote a letter to the Editor, which he also posted on his Facebook page.

In the letter to the Editor, he stated: ‘It is disappointing to see that the Irish Times has lowered itself to specialising in ‘Clickbait’ articles as seen by Ms. Mulchay’s piece. Insulting a town of 40,000 people with a disgraceful headline in order to gain a few clicks onto your website is a new low.

‘ The people of Dundalk are fiercely proud of their home town and we have faced media bias in our time and always come out on top. For a national newspaper and a supposedly ‘credible’ journalist to suggest that buying a home in Dundalk is a ‘catch’ is disrespectful, in- sulting and unfair.

He stated that Dundalk is ‘an excellent location to live, work and raise a family, pointing out that it is home to DKIT, Ireland’s leading Institute of Technology; multinationals like PayPal and National Pen and the recent efforts of Dundalk FC in European football have made the entire country proud. Dundalk boasts An Tain Theatre named after the legendary tale Táin Bó Cúailnge. We have a thriving live music scene in the Spirt Store and other venues and top class transport services with motorway connections to the Dublin & Belfast as well as excellent bus and rail routes.’

He also invited reporter Orna Mulcahy to visit Dundalk.