Old scores to settle in tough battle for seats

BY far, Kanturk is the most difficult Cork County Council electoral area to call now that it has been reduced from a five-seater to a four-seater due to boundary changes.

The 2004 poll topper has decided not to seek re-election and there are some old scores to be settled among candidates.

Gerard Murphy, Newmarket was first elected a county councillor in 1991 and remained in County Hall until he took a Fine Gael seat in the Dáil in 2002. Due to the dual mandate directive, he had to forfeit his local authority seat to Tim Collins.