Pact stops SF motion against mayor

Sinn Féin attempts to sanction the lord mayor of Cork failed last night as the mayoral pact parties closed ranks.

The party was voted down after trying to table an emergency motion during a city council meeting which called on the council to state that the office of lord mayor should be apolitical.

The motion was prompted by Lord Mayor Terry Shannon’s attack on the party last week as part of a row over commemorative plaques erected in the republican plot in the city’s St Finbarr’s Cemetery.