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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013
EDITION NO. 34,948
Serving Cork for 120 years
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The new city By ALAN HEALY
CORK City Council wants to take Ballincollig, Little Island, Glanmire and Rochestown out of the county council area and bring them into the city. Councillors met with the city manager in recent days to discuss proposals to expand the city’s boundary. However they are facing a protracted battle with the county council which will be reluctant to give up key industrial and suburban areas with significant numbers of rate payers and homes liable for the property tax. The Minister for Local Govern-
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The four areas, clockwise from top left, Ballincollig, Rochestown, Little Island and Glanmire, that Cork City Council want to take from the County Council and make part of the city.
City Council wants to take Ballincollig, Little Island, Glanmire and Rochestown from county
ment, Phil Hogan, has asked Cork City Council and Cork County Council to come up with a new expanded boundary that would increase the size of the city. And under the city council’s proposal, the boundary would be extended to include Rochestown,
Douglas, Grange, Frankfield, Waterfall, Ballincollig, Rathpeacon, Glanmire, Glounthaune and Little Island. This would be the first significant boundary change to Cork in more than 50 years. ● Continued on page three.
Ciarán Lynch tipped for banking probe
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CORK TD Ciarán Lynch is hotly tipped to lead a planned Oireachtas inquiry into the banking collapse. Legislation enabling an Oireachtas committee to carry out such an investigation is making its way through the Dáil and the Seanad. Revelations this week from taped conversations between Anglo staff at the time the guarantee
By MARY SMITHWICK Politics Editor
was signed off have given extra impetus to having the framework approve before the Dáil summer recess. Informed speculation in Leinster House is that the Cork South Central TD would be the natural choice to lead an inquiry which
could be initiated as early as the autumn. As chair of the Oireachtas Finance Committee, Deputy Lynch is seen as an obvious choice to chair an inquiry, which could be made up of TDs drawn from the Finance committee. Deputy Lynch refused to be drawn on the speculation about any role for himself in an ● Continued on page two.
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