Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)

Great cities have good mayors. Wherever we look around the world, we see examples of civic leadership from strong and coherent executives and leaders. The challenge in Dublin at present is that the divide and conquer approach of four different local authorities with four different agendas, managers and mayors elected on a revolving basis simply does not work. Henry Kissinger asked who would he talk to if he wanted to talk to Europe.

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