Mayor: Uniting councils would ‘abolish Limerick’

THE newly-elected Fine Gael mayor of Limerick yesterday warned the city would effectively be abolished by a Government decision to unite the city and county councils as one administrative body from 2014.

Cllr Jim Long, addressing a specially convened meeting to discuss the decision, said: “Having studied what I have seen, I would be very fearful after 2014. We would have three cities in Ireland, Dublin, Cork and Galway.”

He said the Government decision was a wrong one, and one they as a council will have to deal with.