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May 2 2024
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SLATTERY WEST CLARE MUNICIPAL DISTRICT
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A DOONBEG politician has called out “fake news” over an alleged smear campaign in the local election campaign. Cllr Rita McInerney (FF) has told The Clare Echo that a smear campaign has been launched in the western section of the Kilrush LEA suggesting that she is being critical of the farming community and against the spreading of slurry. “It seems the political slurry spreading has started before the first blade of sweet grass has b een
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cut,” she stated. She told The Clare Echo, “Politics is a dirty game but you have to get involved. I want to encourage more people to get involved, more women and people from different backgrounds but you won’t get people involved if things are murky and if there’s fake news which is what this was”. Former US Preisident, Donald Trump known locally as the West Clare hotelier and who owns the five star Trump Doonbeg property was the first politician in Doonbeg to coin the ‘fake news’ term.
PICTURED: Rita McInerney and (inset) Donald Trump who first coined the phrase ‘fake news’
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