Streaming of council meetings ‘fraught with danger’

Live streaming of county council meetings in Kerry would be fraught with danger, officials advised due to the risk of some councillors “getting carried away” in full throttle.

Streaming of council meetings ‘fraught with danger’

However, the meetings, often colourful affairs with loud and heightened use of rich Hiberno-English at the most heated moments, are only to be broadcast after being edited.

Live streaming facilities, with full video, wifi facilities and a mobile translation booth – including Irish as well as Chinese – had been installed last summer as part of a €250,000 revamp of the council chamber in Tralee.

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