Concern over uneven ratio of councillors

VOTERS in Ireland’s least populous county are three times better represented by local politicians than in more populous areas of Cork, according to statistics released yesterday.

Leitrim, with 22 county councillors and 78,000 people, fares far better than the Carrigaline electoral area, which has seven councillors for 77,158 people.

That’s a ratio of one politician to every 11,023 members of the public, compared to Leitrim’s one to 3,545 ratio.