In the Treaty City, a place marked by historic conflicts, there are no peace talks between the latest warring parties on the horizon. Meanwhile, amid the fallout, the prospect of a directly elected mayor in Dublin or Cork or anywhere else is receding into the distance. “Other authorities are looking at what’s going on here – and they won’t want to bring disharmony into their locker rooms,” says Conn Murray, who led the amalgamation of Limerick’s two councils and was CEO for seven years. That’s true, but in Limerick it was the voters who opted to change the status quo…

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