THE bromance of the century is back in a big way. Former Council heavyweight Kevin Sheahan (FF) has come out of retirement to team up with his young apprentice Cllr Adam Teskey (FG), and not only are the pair proclaiming their undying devotion to one another on every Adare street corner, they’re looking to rename the bloomin’ streets too.
This unrivalled partnership shares the greatest political love of all – a passion for stirring the doo-doo and trying their damnedest to get people’s backs up.
But of course what they don’t realise is that if they were any more transparent, you’d wrap your sandwiches in them.
The dastardly duo are busy spreading the love throughout the Adare-Rathkeale district. The tourist hotspot of Adare was the first to be struck by Cupid’s arrow with young Teskey suggesting the Blackabbey Road now be renamed ‘The Kevin Sheahan Way’. I mean, if that’s not love, I don’t know what is.
If the politicians in the Dáil could take a leaf out of the former Fianna Fáil mayor and his loyal blue-shirt sidekick’s Mills & Boon love story, the country would be a housing crisis-free utopia.
But forget about piddling homes, our West Limerick scoundrels are focused on the big issues – rebranding crucial infrastructure!
Though, I wonder, is it truly an act of love or could such a move antagonise any of their political counterparts in the district? The old romantic in me would like to think the former, but mischief is this pair’s middle name.
“I was very saddened and disheartened to hear some councillors saying ‘over my dead body’ when I suggested this,” Teskey told the Limerick Post when questioned about the move.
The councillor who made this tongue-in-cheek retort to Cllr Teskey at a recent district meeting was none other than Fianna Fáil’s Cllr Bridie Collins. I wonder if these lost boys have an axe to grind with the FF general election candidate for Limerick County in 2024?
According to Teskey, he just wants to shout his amour for Kevin from the rooftops, seeing as the road and all that’s in it was his idea in the first place: “I remember the time when Kevin Sheahan was an elected councillor, and he brought in a petition into our local district, and he was the man that proposed this. I will tell the truth, it was Kevin’s idea, and this torch would not have been lit without him.”
Ah, well, it’s true what they say, ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’
– Local Democracy Reporting Scheme