Fresh bid to break Cork city boundary extension impasse

Fresh efforts are underway to break the impasse over the controversial Cork city boundary extension.

The county insisted yesterday that it is engaging fully with the government-appointed group tasked with drawing the new boundary as the city suggested that both sides should “explore the potential” for reaching agreement by working with that group.

City council chief executive Ann Doherty wrote to county chief executive Tim Lucey yesterday explaining why the city rejected his proposal for "bilateral talks" on the boundary. She said such talks would be “inconsistent" with the wishes of Local Government Minister Eoghan Murphy and the earlier unanimous decisions of the city council that the boundary line should be defined through the oversight group process.