A Political Professor is calling for county boundaries in Ireland to be redrawn.
In a piece published in the Irish Independent, Professor of Politics at DCU, Eoin O'Malley says merging some smaller counties would deliver better services, and forming one council would make sense administratively and historically.
Among the calls made by Professor O'Malley, he believes that Leitrim County Council is now too small to efficiently provide the services the people living there need.
Professor O'Malley says a change would make councils more efficient: