EVA HUMPHREYS RESIGNATION
LOCAL POLITICS IS NO COUNTRY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: CO COUNCILLORS
Peter Hughes
The Ireland of his senior years might have been “no country for old men” to William Butler Yeats, but the modern world of local politics is no country for young people with career commitments, in the view of the members of Monaghan Co Council. This was their reaction on Monday to confirmation of the news that recently co-opted Fine Gael Council member Eva Humphreys had resigned her seat on the local authority, citing inability to manage both her responsibilities as a councillor and her professional duties as a barrister.
Ms Humphreys (daughter of Cavan/Monaghan TD and Government Minister Heather Humphreys) had replaced Ciara McPhillips as a Council member in October 2017, Ms McPhillips, a solicitor, herself resigning due to the demands of a legal career. Earlier in the term of the current Council, in September 2015, another FG representative, Eugene Bannigan, resigned his seat to avail of a work opportunity in the United States. Tributes to the contribution made by Ms Humphreys to the Co Council were….