Cork City Council votes to revoke George Mitchell's freedom of the city

It comes after the former US senator George Mitchell lied about having continued a friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein after his 2008 conviction

Senator George Mitchell receiving the freedom scroll from then lord mayor of Cork Joe O'Flynn at City Hall in 1998. File picture: Dan Linehan

Cork City Council is looking into revoking the freedom of the city given to former US senator George Mitchell over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Mr Mitchell, a member of the Democratic party, served as US special envoy for the North from 1995 to 2001 and was key to brokering the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.