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Colleges to face grilling on antisocial students
By Sean O’Riordan
The governing bodies of UCC and CIT are to be asked to attend the next meeting of Cork City’s Joint Policing Committee to answer allegations that they are not doing enough to counter the drink-fuelled antisocial behaviour of their students.
Members of the JPC were told at a meeting in City Hall yesterday that students were running amok and were regularly “urinating, defecating and copulating” in people’s front gardens.Cllr Michael Ahern said he did not believe the third-level authorities ever took the trouble to monitor the extent of bad behaviour on the streets of the city by students, and added it was about time they did so.
Cllr John Buttimer agreed, saying students were causing “mayhem” which often led them to “urinate, defecate and copulate” in nearby private residential gardens houses, which was causing serious upset.
He welcomed news that gardaí, in conjunction with the city council, were intending to bring in mobile “covert and overt” CCTV cameras to monitor student behaviour off-campus.
Cllr Des Cahill said many secondary schools monitored their pupils’ behaviour outside school hours.
“UCC and CIT could take a leaf out of their books,” he said.
The chairman of the JPC, Cllr Patricia Gosh, said she would write to both governing bodies to express the concerns raised and ask them to attend the next JPC meeting in June.
Chief Supt Michael Finn, who is in charge of policing the city, said that while gardaí could not solve the problem on their own, he was particularly concerned that some landlords did not seem to be taking anti-social behaviour by their student tenants seriously.
“During Rag Week, there was one house where there were 120 students attending a party and that was a bit unfair on the neighbours,” said Supt Finn.
“Working with communities is key. It’s unfair if landlords don’t actively police student apartments too.”
Meanwhile, it emerged gardaí handed out 179 on-the-sport fines last year to people who were illegally drinking on the streets.
Of those, 128 €50 fines were paid and the rest are being pursued in the courts.
Cllr Kenneth O’Flynn, whose father Noel introduced the anti-drinking by-law in 2001, said he was not impressed by the level of enforcement.
“You could go down every alleyway in Cork most nights and find gangs of youths drinking,” Cllr O’Flynn said. “On a good Saturday night you’d have no problem handing out 50 of these fines.”
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