Cork City Hall rejection to extending city boundary ‘disappoints’ county mayor

The Mayor of the County of Cork, Declan Hurley, says he is disappointed “by the obvious lack of adequate assessment and consideration” given by City Hall to the County Hall’s offer and solution to extending the city boundary.

This latest salvo in the war of words between the two local authorities came after the city council said the county council’s offer to hand over control of Frankfield, Grange, Douglas, and Ballyvolane was “minimalist” and was nowhere near what the Mackinnon Report, on a new boundary, recommended.

The Mackinnon Report had recommended the city boundary should embrace Cork Airport, Ballincollig, Blarney, Glanmire, Little Island, and Carrigtwohill.