Former lord mayor calls for further honours for Elmes

Former lord mayor of Cork Des Cahill has said that a plaque should be in erected to honour Mary Elmes in her native Ballintemple following a decision to name the city’s newest bridge after the woman dubbed Ireland’s Oskar Schindler.

The aid worker, who was born in Cork in 1908, helped hundreds of Jewish children escape Vichy France and the threat of concentration camps.