‘Taxing UFOs’ - Former Waterford TD hits out at council for ‘b*llsh*t’ schemes

A former TD has hit out at Waterford City and County Council for introducing “b*llsh*t” schemes that are “killing” the city centre.

Independent Matt Shanahan took to Facebook to react to a Waterford Live article regarding calls for the toll to be removed from the Thomas Francis Meagher Bridge.

Mr Shanahan commented that local councillors “may as well raise the possibility of taxing passing UFOs”.

“These and other installations built by PPP [would cost] hundreds of millions to buy out of contract.”

The independent, who now describes himself as a ‘social advocate’, went on to give some advice to his former colleagues in the local authority.

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“Councillors are better employed to overturn Active Travel BS (b*llsh*t) around the city which is killing shopper and business visits’.

“We’ll have a car free city soon and zero rates and taxes. What budget will pay the corporation engineers and executive then?”, he asked.

Mr Shanahan was heavily involved in the campaign for 24/7 cardiac care at University Hospital Waterford in 2016.

He was co-opted onto Waterford City and County Council following the resignation of Cllr Mary Roche in 2019.

Mr Shanahan was subsequently elected to the Dáil on his first attempt in 2020. He sought re-election last year but narrowly missed out to Sinn Féin’s Conor D McGuinness.

He also unsuccessfully contested this year’s Seanad election.