Honours for Knocknaheeny councillor

A SPECIAL civic reception will be held in Cork City Hall tonight to pay tribute to a councillor battling cancer and who is also marking 25 years in local politics.

Cllr Dave McCarthy, first elected onto the city council in 1985, served as lord mayor in 1997/98.

The Knocknaheeny man represented Fianna Fáil for a number of years but left the party in 2007 after failing to get a nomination to contest that year’s general election.