Councillor Catherine Slattery walked out of a council meeting on Monday after Moran apparently made a comment about her attendance at implementation committee meetings. Part of the príomhchomhairleoir’s role is to attend implementation committee meetings, which monitor and support the mayor’s term of office. According to those present, he argued that councillors sit on the implementation committee and so can feed back what has happened. She returned and asked Moran for an apology. “I asked him, because he said the comment off-mic, I asked him to repeat the comment.

Source: The Irish Times April 01, 2026 07:14 UTC