Eoghan Murphy: Senior civil servants did not push for Cork merger

Local Government Minister Eoghan Murphy has rejected claims senior civil servants pushed a pro-merger agenda during the controversial 2015 review of Cork’s local government structures.

Mr Murphy also insisted the city boundary saga would be resolved “within a matter of weeks”.

He was speaking in Cork yesterday as the group he established to implement the Mackinnon-recommended boundary extension met representatives of the city and county councils again.