Hundreds support AAA-PBP party’s ‘moral claim’ to Cork council seat

A political party says it has gathered hundreds of signatures backing its “moral claim” to the Cork City Council seat left vacant in the wake of the general election.

The Anti Austerity Alliance-People Before Profit (AAA-PBP) has also provided a legal opinion to city councillors which suggests that the city’s law agent has taken a “narrow view” of the law governing the filling of such casual vacancies, and sets out two possible solutions.

The filling of the seat was deferred for the second time last Monday after councillors were presented with legal advice from the council’s law agent advising that they had no legal entitlement to proceed with the co-option of AAA-PBP nominee Fiona Ryan to fill the vacancy arising out of the election of former AAA councillor Mick Barry to the Dáil.