Codd launches with pop song

Jim Codd has become the first of this year’s local election candidates in County Wexford to have his own campaign song tailored made for him. “Give Jim Codd the Nod” was unveiled at the Aontu candidates official launch in Rathangan last Saturday night by local band L.I.V.E.L.Y. and their young support base.

 “Two months ago I was marking homework, reading books and fishing in the evenings,” Mr Codd said. “Now I’m trust into political work and even have my own campaign song. It’s more than a little surreal.”

 Mr Codd, a teacher at Bridgetown College, said he was both surprised and humbled by the amount of support he had received over the past few weeks. “I’m meeting people I might have taught twenty years ago and they’re saying they’ll vote for me, that they trust me and that, above all, County Wexford needs radical change. I’m meeting people every single day who are working longer hours but seem to be earning less. The working poor are the forgotten citizens of this Republic. No one speaks up for them.”

 “I took on this task reluctantly because I believed a stand had to be made against the tired, ineffective and manicured politics that had replaced integrity and public spirit over the years. I’m glad I did now because I have met so many former students, people who left my school as hard working, clever and idealistic young people, who are being cheated and worn down by this failed state and our ‘talent contest hopeful’ politicians, who will do only the things that award good publicity and ignore the hard decisions and the needs of ordinary citizens.”