Cork councillors call for end to schools being used as polling stations for elections

Councillor said there were many community centres and sports halls with excellent facilities which should be used instead of schools. File picture: Sasko Lazarov/ RollingNews.ie

Cork’s county sheriff is being asked to find alternative venues to the inordinate number of national schools used for polling stations in order not to interfere with early education.

The sheriff is to be written to after a councillor laid bare the scale of schools being used as polling venues.