Cork council merger: Review of structures at local level in final phase

Group to issue recommendations on local government in September, says Eoin English

A defining report on Cork’s local government structures could see the city secure its first boundary extension in 50 years, and the creation of a huge metropolitan Cork region of almost 300,000 people.

As the government-appointed Cork Local Government Review Group enters the final phase of its work, the Irish Examiner today focuses on the process which will affect the lives of just over half a million people living in Ireland’s biggest county up to 2070.