What has Hitler got to do with city limits issue?

IN a week when one Cork city councillor came up with the interesting but much-too-late-in-the-day proposal that the European City of Culture should stage this year’s All-Ireland hurling final...

... former Kilkenny county council chairperson, Cllr Mary Hilda Cavanagh, went a step further in search of headlines by comparing the recent proposal by Waterford city council for a boundary extension into her county as “something that Hitler and his henchmen would try” (Irish Examiner, August 4).

Is it really fair to liken a matter of local authority jurisdiction, public service delivery and integrated regional planning - tied up though it is in matters of county and sporting identity - to the dark days of Nazism? Hardly.