Tributes to Jim’s 40 years at the Corr of local politics

Glowing tributes were paid last night to the only public representative to have served 40 consecutive years in Cork’s City Hall.

Cllr Jim Corr (FG) is also the only modern-day councillor to have served as Lord Mayor twice, in 1979 and 1996.

He was co-opted onto the then Cork Corporation in May 1973 to replace Peter Barry, who had become a government minister. After that he successfully fought local elections in 1979, 1985, 1991, 1999, 2004 and 2009, but wasn’t as fortunate when he sought a Dáil seat in 1989 and 1992.