Councillors resist plan to publish fund details

THE Lord Mayor of Cork is, despite objections, pressing ahead with plans to publish online details of how the city’s councillors spend a little-known €248,000 fund.

Two Fine Gael councillors raised concerns about publishing details of the “ward fund” when the issue was discussed at this week’s city council meeting.

Des Cahill and Patricia Gosch said that while they had no objection to the publication of who got money from their ward funds, they had concerns about the publication of the amounts each group got.