Cork City Council to seek legal advice on review group’s actions over council merger

Cork City Council is to seek a judicial review of the administrative actions of the review group which has recommended a merger of the city and county councils.

The city is also expected to become the first local authority to challenge the constitutionality of government policy in relation to combining local authority areas.

The legal challenge was sanctioned at a council meeting last night attended by several former lords mayor, members of the Cork Business Association, and property developer Owen O’Callaghan.