Cork City council ‘complicit in traders’ inability to pay rates’

Car ban on Cork’s St Patrick’s St is ‘the last straw’ for some traders.

Cork City Council is “complicit” in businesses not being able to pay their rates as a result of the daily afternoon car ban.

That was the argument put forward by one businesswoman who was among a number of traders in court yesterday for rates arrears —some as much as €74,000 — and she blamed the car ban on the city’s main street as “the last straw”.