Tributes to former council chair and rural campaigner

TRIBUTES have been paid to a former chairman of Cork County Council who championed the lives of rural people.

Michael Harrington, 70, who died at his home at Church Gate, Castletownbere, was chairman of the county council from June 1996 to June 1997.

He was co-opted onto the local authority in 1981 when sitting Fine Gael councillor Donie Harrington (no relation) died suddenly. He had served on the council since 1974.