Public support extending Cork city’s boundary: survey

The vast majority of people living on the fringes of Cork City have backed experts who favour a boundary extension, a survey has found.

Given the choice of a city boundary extension or a merger of the city and county councils, most people in the buffer zone would opt for a boundary extension.

The findings were published yesterday by high-profile Cork South Central Labour TD Ciarán Lynch, who undertook the online survey himself amid concerns about the lack of wider public consultation undertaken by the Cork Local Government Review Group (CLGR).