Cork City Council CEO appointment ratified

The appointment of the first female chief executive of Cork City Council was finally ratified last night.

City councillors voted 23 for, three against to rubber- stamp the appointment of the former senior HSE official, Ann Doherty, as CEO of the council for the next seven years.

Citing the “obscene salary” of €143,000, the three Anti-Austerity Alliance councillors voted against her appointment. Workers’ Party councillor Ted Tynan and Independent councillor Kieran McCarthy abstained.