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Dan Grennan

Council boss laughs at official forging signature of previous city manager

*An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Mr Keegan had said that a now former official in CODEMA had forged the signature of a former City Manager on an application. Mr Keegan was in fact referring to a former official. It isn't clear where the official was from. We are happy to correct the position and apologise for any confusion. Mr Keegan became an assistant manager of Dublin City Council in 1993. CODEMA was established in 1997. This article has now been amended to reflect this correction.

Dublin City Council's Chief Executive Owen Keegan recounted a story of an official "forging" the signature of the then city manager in the mid-1990s.

The comments were made at a conference celebrating 50 years of EU membership in the Mansion House in which he appeared to reference the establishment of the agency. Mr Keegan said: "There was a funny story about the CODEMA.

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