County Hall may mount legal challenge to Mackinnon

Cork county councillors may consider instructing the County Hall executive to mount a legal challenge to prevent full implementation of the Mackinnon report’s recommendations for the extension of the city boundary.

It is one of the options being mulled over by some elected members, concerned that full implementation of the report would spell the death knell for the local authority.

“We will have to take all measures to defend the future of the county, including a legal challenge if people don’t listen,” said Fine Gael councillor John O’Sullivan.