Taxpayer faces €4m legal bill over port dispute

THE taxpayer could be facing a e4 million legal bill because of a standoff between two state bodies in Cork over land.

The rift between Cork City Council and the Port of Cork over crucial sites in the city’s docklands region has been branded a “complete farce and a disgraceful waste of public money”.

Fine Gael city councillor, Dara Murphy called last night on the Taoiseach or a senior Government minister to intervene to prevent further waste of public money.