Cork county manager calls sit-in‘disgraceful’

CORK county manager Martin Riordan has described last Monday’s protest sit-in at County Hall as “disgraceful and unnecessary”.

However, yesterday he attempted to offer protesters an olive branch by promising to look into their claims that some planning permissions in west Cork have been turned down due to over-restrictive guidelines.

Mr Riordan said he was willing to examine up to 100 planning rejections in the region if protestors wished to furnish him with the files. He said after examining the cases he would then report back to county councillors on the matter.