Super council planned for Cork

A ‘supercouncil’ to cover all of Cork looks to be on the cards after the majority of Cork county councillors said they were in favour of such a move.

That was the general view among the 55 county councillors after they left a closed-doors meeting yesterday, with a ministerial-appointed committee set up to look at the future of the city and county councils.

The media was excluded from the meeting in County Hall, which lasted more than two hours and delayed the council’s ordinary meeting.