Cork city boundary should be extended ‘without delay’

A co-author of a minority report which helped sink plans for a Cork super-council has broken his silence to urge the Government to move quickly and extend the city boundary.

UCC professor Dermot Keogh spoke out after the Mackinnon review endorsed the dual-local authority, boundary extension stance he adopted with UCC’s Theresa Reidy as part of the 2015 Cork Local Government Review process.

Prof Keogh said repeated failures to extend the city’s boundary over the last 50 years has hurt the region’s economic development.