A SUGGESTION that The Kerryman newspaper be renamed 'The Kerrypeople' has been described as “balderdash”, with independent TD Michael Healy-Rae quipping that manholes will soon be called "person holes".
Fine Gael's Josepha Madigan has called for an end to gender titles such as ‘chairman’ and ‘spokesman’ and suggested the Kerry paper’s title be changed also.
But Mr Healy-Rae said he wouldn’t agree with the suggestion and that “this is really political correctness gone mad”.
The Kerry TD said Ms Madigan is a “dedicated and very sincere” politician but that there were bigger issues to worry about.
He told Newstalk “The CEO of The Kerryman newspaper is a lady, who has come out herself publicly and said as a woman and as the boss of The Kerryman newspaper, she has absolutely no problem with it being called The Kerryman newspaper.
“Some people go on with this political correctness in the hope of it being seen as popular amongst people, in particular women, because they might be offended.”
Siobhán Murphy, general manager of The Kerryman newspaper, said the content of the newspaper had changed with the times, but there was no need to change the title, which was their brand and had been since 1904.
