Anger at revised electoral areas in county Cork

County councillors representing north-west Cork have reacted angrily to the redrawing of electoral areas by the Local Electoral Boundary Commission, with a senior council official saying the fall-out from it “will present challenges” to the local authority.

Standing orders were suspended at a meeting of the council’s Northern Division yesterday after Fianna Fáil councillor Bernard Moynihan claimed those who had redrawn the municipal district areas in the county “couldn’t have been beyond the Red Cow roundabout” and obviously knew nothing about parts of rural Cork.

He was furious that the boundary commission has recommended that large swathes of Duhallow are to be transferred from the Kanturk municipal district to the Macroom municipal district.