Boyle hopes return of a ‘green voice’ to city council will provide flood defence alternative

A “green voice” on Cork City Council will provide the city with a flood defence alternative to one of the OPW’s “worst works of butchery”, Green Party veteran Dan Boyle said.

The former city councillor, former senator and TD, who played a key role in negotiating the Green Party’s historic coalition with Fianna Fáil in 2007 and in the party’s decision to pull out of government in February 2011, was speaking yesterday at he confirmed he will be among five Green Party candidates running in the city in the 2019 local elections.