Gardaí were called in after a gang of masked men armed with golf clubs and bats forced security staff to withdraw from a city-owned landbank where a vast illegal dump was cleared two months ago.

The controversial site on the northside of Cork city, where a massive illegal dump clean-up is underway alongside an overcrowded Traveller halting site, must be included in a major new Traveller accommodation plan.

Eoin English Investigations are under way in a bid to trace those responsible for a vast illegal dump on the northside of Cork City where a massive clean-up operation has begun.

The long-awaited clean-up of a vast illegal dump next to a Traveller halting site on the northside of Cork city is finally underway.