The deputy lord mayor of Cork wants a party colleague hauled before a Fianna Fáil disciplinary committee and sanctioned following his call for the removal of the LGBT rainbow flag from above City Hall.

Gardaí fear there will be retaliation attacks and that a family feud will intensify after the death of a man following a fight outside a Cork city bar, according to the Evening Echo newspaper.

HISTORY was made when the largest local authority in the country elected its youngest ever mayor.