Councillor breaks ranks over rubbish crisis

WATERFORD county councillor Brendan Mansfield has broken ranks with his council colleagues by making public details of private discussions on solutions to an impending waste crisis in the area.

The Sinn Féin councillor says he is not going to be “muzzled” by local authority management and will give the public whatever information he feels is in their interest, irrespective of any penalties threatened against him.

The council met in private to discuss the possible privatisation of the brown, organic bin collection in the county.