Dublin ‘unlikely’ to vote on mayor until spring 2011

DUBLIN is not likely to vote on a new mayor until next spring the Green Party has admitted, effectively giving up on its commitment to have the election this autumn.

Party chairman, Senator Dan Boyle, said if the legislation creating the new position is not signed off by Cabinet at today’s meeting – the last one before September – then the vote will not happen this year.

“It’s looking ever increasingly unlikely that it will be held this autumn,” he accepted yesterday.