Ex-mayor ‘devoted life to serving others’

A FORMER lord mayor of Cork and a legend on the city’s northside devoted his entire life to the service of others, mourners were told yesterday.

Hundreds of people applauded as the coffin carrying the remains of Independent Cllr Dave McCarthy was carried from St Mary’s on the Hill Church in Knocknaheeny after Requiem Mass for burial.

A former Fianna Fáil councillor, Mr McCarthy, 66, from Hillcrest Avenue, served the people of the city’s north west ward on Cork City Council for the last 25 years until his death at home on Monday after a long battle with cancer.