Have the councillors got sunstroke, or has God returned to county hall?

Pat Brosnan

Maybe it was the unprecedented hot spell and the effects of having to swelter through a council meeting that brought it on, but the late Pope John Paul II made it onto the agenda of the council meeting this week.

It will be recalled that John Paul's former private secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, had ignored the late pontiff's dying wish that his private papers be destroyed and, more importantly, upset some members of Cork county council in the process.