Cork city manager drops controversial plan to sell site

CORK’S city manager has scrapped a controversial tender to sell a prime publicly owned city site to protect the integrity of the process.

However, Tim Lucey defended the process and said the Deanrock site in Togher will be re-advertised once a reasonable time period has passed.

The official move to take the site off the market comes two weeks after furious councillors voted to halt the sale.