A motion from Sinn Féin councillor Fiona Kerins which proposed that “British Warships” should no longer be made welcome in Cork was convincingly rejected by councillors with just three Sinn Féin councillors in favour  and two abstentions. The motion elicited heated debate in the chamber with councillors from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour all claiming it was a regressive, backward-looking motion that belonged to the past.

When councillors questioned the Sinn Féin assertion that the six counties were occupied it drew an angry response from the Sinn Féin members. Despite this, Fianna Fáil’s Terry Shannon claimed that Sinn Féin could not on the one hand claim that Northern Ireland was under occupation and at the same time play an active roll in government in the six counties.

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