Cork City Futures Group 'a pointless exercise' without funding to back it, says councillor

Among its aims are maximising Cork City’s potential as a university city, and considering how Cork City’s arts and culture offering could be strengthened

Fine Gael councillor Shane O'Callaghan said: 'People are going to be looking to city council after this report is published, saying you need to do this and this and this, but we’re not getting extra money to do anything. It’s creating unrealistic expectations and pushing them onto the council.'

The long-awaited Cork City Taskforce has been described as a pointless exercise just hours after being signed off by government on Wednesday.

The independent chair of the new group will be Brendan Tuohy and the board will have expertise from local government, state agencies, academia, business and commerce, tourism, the transport sector, the gardaí, and the arts.