Councillors move to assure outraged locals over true cost of tourist signage in West Cork town

Social media post claiming cost of one sign in Bantry was €670,000 is untrue, council officials say

It was posted on social media that €670,000 was being spent on the ‘Gateway Structure’ on Wolfe Tone Square in Bantry. Picture: Denis Scannell

It looked to be another Dáil bike shed overspending scandal when a social media post went viral, claiming one new tourist-attracting sign in a West Cork town cost an astonishing €670,000.

However, unlike the Leinster House fiasco, it was completely untrue. Cork County Council officials have now moved to unravel the picture in order to assauge local outrage in Bantry about the true costs.