Posted by Updated / Monday, 7 Apr 2025 15:05
People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett has announced that he is stepping back from politics for a period as he receives treatment for throat cancer.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Claire Byrne, Mr Boyd Barrett said: “I wanted to take the opportunity to say I recently got a cancer diagnosis and I found out a few weeks ago.
“And I have to enter into a fairly intense period of cancer treatment over the next … well, it’s going to certainly take a couple of months probably.
“All in all, we could be talking three or four months.
“I wanted to explain it because if I just disappeared, people, the constituents who elected me, would be wondering where I’m gone, so I wanted to do them the service of telling them.
“The people who voted for People Before Profit deserve to know if I’m not around and I just want to stress, I plan to be back as soon as possible.”
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