High Court sets aside Kerry Council vote to elect members to board of partnership

The judge said she was satisfied that the local authority had not used the correct voting procedures to select the two councillors

The judge said she will hear submissions as to whether the matter requires to be remitted back to Kerry County Council (pictured) and if so whether it should be remitted back to a meeting composed of the elected members who were present on 16 November 2020, at the time when the decision at the centre of the action was reached, or to some other meeting. File picture: Domnick Walsh

A decision taken by Kerry County Council to select two elected councillors to the board of a local community development partnership has been set aside by the High Court.

The decision, taken in November 2020, was challenged by Independent County Councillor Charlie Farrelly, who claimed that the procedure used in respect of the nomination of two members to the board of the North, East, and West Kerry Development Partnership was flawed and should be set aside.