Councillors urged to forego free tickets

IN an era of cutbacks public representatives have a duty to forego free nights rocking out to Metallica, according to a county councillor.

Unlike his council colleagues, Hugh Lewis, 25, newly elected People Before Profit councillor in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, in South Dublin, has voiced dismay at the practice of public representatives being given free concert tickets, which would cost punters more than €500 annually.

“At the very council meeting where we were discussing a range of cutbacks to services, councillors were handed out two tickets each for last weekend’s Metallica and Fat Boy Slim concerts in Marley Park.