Cha, Miah and Billa to be given freedom of Cork City

Cork City Council is to confer the freedom of Cork on three entertainers who have brought “joy to generations of people”.

Councillors last night supported Lord Mayor Cllr John Buttimer’s proposal to make Frank Duggan and Michael Twomey, aka Cha and Miah, and theatre star Billa O’Connell, freemen of the city next month.

Sinn Féin councillor Chris O’Leary said the three entertainers are as “synonymous as Shandon with the city”.