Call for salary of lord mayor to be slashed further

THE salary of the country’s best paid lord mayor should be slashed even further, a Fianna Fáil councillor urged last night.

Councillor Tim Brosnan was speaking after publication of Cork City Council’s draft budget for 2010.

It contains figures which show the 2010 payment for the city’s mayor being reduced from just over €102,000 to €94,000 as a result of the reduction in public sector pay announced in the budget.