Cork City Council defends mayor’s use of official car to drive him home from FF ard fheis

Cork City Council has defended the Lord Mayor’s use of the official mayoral car to drive him home from the Fianna Fáil ard fheis in Dublin last Saturday.

Paul Moynihan, the council’s director of services in corporate and external affairs, said Lord Mayor Cllr Tony Fitzgerald had been in Dublin on official mayoral business on the Friday night. He had made his own overnight arrangements and attended his party’s ard fheis in a private capacity the following day.

The city incurred no additional costs by his use of the car, he insisted.