Our facts stand up despite criticism

ON MONDAY evening Waterford City’s manager, Michael Walsh, suspended the council meeting to address an article which had appeared in the Irish Examiner.

The article had reported on the decision by the council to purchase 11 properties in the city centre for €2.2m despite its valuers believing the buildings were worth “considerably less” than half that amount.

Mr Walsh said the article, which was based on the outcome of an statutory audit, made mountains out of molehills.