The Lord Mayor of Cork, Labour’s Catherine Clancy, was the most high-profile casualty in the city’s local elections carnage as her party was annihilated.

Mary Regan says Sinn Féin has few answers to the country’s problems, and she is dismissive of our call for a wealth tax (Irish Examiner, Apr 15).

In her letter of Oct 11, Cllr Fiona Kerins says that we in Ireland ‘scored much better than the big two’ — France and Germany — in some past ‘mathematical metric’ that assessed how each country was doing economically. The fact that Ireland is now bankrupt highlights the failings of that particular mathematical metric.

Former Bloxham economist Joe Gill claims that “when the euro was launched in 1999 every dog in the street knew that economic management in core Europe was far more disciplined than around its fringes” (Irish Examiner 19/9/12).

Cork city councillors have moved to seek a High Court review of a Bord Pleanála decision that overturned a unanimous council vote and changed the city development plan for a retail project.

The recent closure of the emergency department at the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital is reflective of the current Government’s evident disdain for the communities they purport to serve.

Cork’s city manager has defended the sale price of public land to facilitate the GAA’s €40m revamp of Pairc Uí Chaoimh.

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

THE Lord Mayor of Cork last night urged people to line the city’s streets tomorrow to welcome the queen to the southern capital.

TWO local councillors, who refuse to claim conference expenses, have called for an immediate crackdown on the system so that taxpayers’ money can be put to better use.

A POPULAR Independent local politician fighting cancer failed last night in an attempt to change rules which he says “discriminate” against Independents.

IN our capacity as councillors we and our colleagues are faced daily with the appalling consequences for people arising from the economic and banking mismanagement of the past decade.

A RETIREMENT has made one thing certain – south central will have at least one new councillor after the elections.

ON September 1, Cork Sinn Féin held a protest at the Cork harbour objecting to yet another visit by a British warship, this time the HMS Westminster.

SINN FÉIN gained an extra seat on Cork City Council last night despite a row over procedures for filling vacant seats.