COUNCILLORS IN HEATED DEABTE OVER CONTROVERSIAL CITY BYPASS

Date Published: 16-Dec-2008

Three city councillors left last night's council meeting briefly after a proposed amendment to a motion on the controversial city bypass was refused by Mayor Padraic Conneely.Councillors Tom Costello, Collette Connolly and Níall O Brolchain walked out of the meeting refusing to vote on a motion put forward by Fianna Faíl Councillor John Connolly.Cllr John Connolly's motion to ask the NRA to devise an alternative route was eventually passed by a majority of nine votes.Meanwhile City Manager Joe McGrath said that a meeting with NRA officials is in the pipeline.