Residents told: What I do, I do for them

Cork City Council has said it acted in the interests of residents as a court case concerning access rights to a green area in Mayfield came to an end.

There was laughter from residents in the public gallery at Cork Circuit Court yesterday when Dave Holland, senior counsel for the local authority, said, “What I do, I do for them.”

Acknowledging the response of the residents in court, Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin suggested that Mr Holland should repeat himself. This came after three days of evidence and legal submissions about the residents’ assertion of a historically based right of use of the land, known as the Tank Field, versus the council’s plans to sell two of the 10-plus acres to a gaelscoil to build a school, and make changes in the arrangements for Brian Dillon’s GAA club in the area.