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Cork City Council faces administration if a budget isn't passed within two weeks

It is believed the last time a Budget struggled to be passed was 1991.

CORK CITY COUNCIL faces being put into administration if a budget isn’t passed within the next two weeks.

Councillors last night voted against the city’s budget for 2015.

After five hours of talks, councillors twice rejected the proposals by 15 votes to 14.

If the council does not agree on a budget within the next 14 days, the council will be dissolved and run directly by the Minister for the Environment for the next five years.

 

Fianna Fáil councillor Fergal Dennehy, whose party holds the most seats on Cork City Council, pointed the finger of blame at Sinn Féin.

“It should be pointed out that they have opposed every budget that I am aware of since I entered the council in 2003, even in times when massive funding was being allocated to local government, party policy didn’t allow them to engage,” he wrote on Facebook.

“The difficulty now is that SF actually have a considerable voice in Cork City Council. If this trend continues into national politics we will have an establishment that will be so afraid to make an unpopular decision that they wont make any decisions at all.”

Sinn Féin councillor Stephen Cunningham took to Twitter last night to voice his opposition to what the party is calling an austerity budget.

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    Feb 24th 2016, 8:28 AM

    Beautiful fresh mornings!

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    Feb 24th 2016, 9:32 AM

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    Feb 24th 2016, 1:57 PM

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    Feb 24th 2016, 8:31 AM

    As long as it’s not fooking raining…

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    Feb 24th 2016, 8:36 AM

    Well last night it was beautiful clear skies and could see Jupiter beside the moon…

    Although twas a pain in the hole defrosting the car

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    Feb 24th 2016, 8:36 AM

    Much needed respite for farmers. The fields are drying at last.

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    Feb 24th 2016, 8:33 AM

    I was a bit chilly earlier while out walking. Wrap up well. It is a lovely dry but frosty morning.

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    Feb 24th 2016, 9:22 AM

    The Department of Education and the Catholic Church say Spring beings on the first of February.
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    The Astronomical Spring begins on Sunday 20th March.

    Green thumbs up if you think Spring begins in February and red thumbs down if you think Spring begins in March.

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    Feb 24th 2016, 10:19 AM

    Spring begins in March!

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    Feb 24th 2016, 11:18 AM

    Who cares?

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    Feb 24th 2016, 11:40 AM

    We don’t have seasons in Ireland. The cold rain just slowly gives way to the warmer rain.

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    Feb 24th 2016, 9:59 AM

    What’s with all the wusses who spend ages laboriously scraping their car windows with a piece of plastic because they’re afraid they’ll make the kettle of water too hot? That’s no way to live.

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    Feb 24th 2016, 12:28 PM

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    Feb 24th 2016, 11:48 AM

    Mild winter, cold spring and hot sunny summer (hopefully)!

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    Feb 24th 2016, 11:03 AM

    Better than the rain!

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    Feb 24th 2016, 10:13 AM

    Up and about on our local greenway before sunrise, lovely morning. Hope this weather lasts a while.

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    Feb 24th 2016, 9:54 AM

    Swimming pool again so

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    Feb 24th 2016, 9:17 PM

    Winter-November December January
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    That’s just what it is.

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    Feb 24th 2016, 8:38 PM

    I hope the rain doesn’t suppress turnout. The govt parties would benefit from that

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