Mayor to honour council official despite objections

A HIGH-PROFILE Tralee Town Council official, who has been suspended since last October to allow for an investigation into local tourism projects, is to be honoured by the council against the wishes of their management.

Engineer John Griffin, who headed up the Jeanie Johnston and other projects in Tralee, is among six people due to receive mayoral awards from Tralee Mayor Johnny Wall in the town hall on Monday night.

Mayor Wall said he had discussed the situation with Kerry county manager Martin Nolan, who told him it would be ‘inappropriate’ to give an award to Mr Griffin at this time and that no officials would be attending.