Who negotiated the Togher Treaty and where?
Despite public perception and name, the majority of the Treaty was negotiated in The Glen with some off-the-record work also being done at Montenotte and Douglas. The final handshakes and signatures took place in the Deanrock Bar in Togher just after last call on Tuesday July 30th 2002. There was brief tension between Smokey Looney and one of the officials from Crosshaven over confusion about the gender of Smokey Looney’s “female” companion. A brief striptease outside the DeanRock eased tensions. Can I vote if I wasn’t born in Cork? Yes but we probably won’t count it. If your Nan or Granda was born in Cork we might think about it because we’re sound. Will the Togher Treaty make it harder for me to claim my compo? The Treaty has been carefully written so as not to affect the income of many Cork householders. Well defined and glaring loop holes have been written into the treaty by compo law experts as well as a commitment from the People’s Republic of Cork government to spend as little a
