Midnight meeting sanctions legal challenge to Cork council merger plan

The government is facing a constitutional challenge over the controversial Cork super-council plan following an historic midnight meeting of the city council.

City councillors voted unanimously in the last hour to move a Section 140 resolution directing the council chief executive, Ann Doherty (pictured below), to seek a judicial review of the actions of the Cork Local Government Review (CLGR) group which published its city and county council merger recommendation two weeks ago.