€1m spent on West Cork fire station that wasn’t built

Nearly €1m of taxpayers’ money was wasted on acquiring land in Co Cork for a fire station which was never built.

€1m spent on West Cork fire station that wasn’t built

The revelation comes less than a month after Cork County Council and the Department of Environment admitted it had spent €1m on plans for a 100-house development at Dararra, near Clonakilty.

That plan, which evolved in 2006, was later scrapped and it then emerged that the council never got the title deeds to the land earmarked for the project.

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