€900k County Cork site purchase ‘absolute scandal’

A councillor has described the near €900,000 purchase of a small parcel of land as “an absolute scandal”, as it is now being used to graze farm animals instead of housing a badly needed fire station.

Sinn Féin councillor Melissa Mullane criticised the price Cork County Council paid for the land at Kanturk, Co Cork, in 2008, saying the money would have been better spent doing up vacant local authority houses.

She has also claimed the price was well in excess of market value at the time.