Water charges protesters have stormed a meeting of Cork City Council this evening, forcing the suspension of the meeting.

A leading figure in the anti-water charges campaign said he wants to be tried by judge and jury after being charged with theft and causing criminal damage to water meters.

“THE longer this goes on, the more resolute we are becoming — there is fierce determination to resist Irish Water.”

More pockets of resistance against the installations of water meters have emerged even as Irish Water has said the rate of installations is still on target.

Anti-water tax campaigners have warned the Government it faces a wave of nationwide blockades after water meter protests spread yesterday.

Defiant residents behind the country’s first organised water meter blockade have vowed to maintain their protest after successfully preventing work for an entire day yesterday.

Residents in Co Cork have been mounting protests against the installation of water meters.

Protesters are continuing to block Irish Water contractors from installing water meters in a Cork housing estate.

Protesters opposed to water and property taxes forced the abandonment of another Cork City Council meeting last night, branding councillors “fucking rats” and “traitors”.

Two Cork City councillors, who were among five anti-property tax protesters arrested yesterday for occupying a bank, say they are proud of their actions.

Two Belfast men appeared in court today charged with attempting to extort money from a building site for loyalist paramilitaries.

THE regulator of credit unions has emphatically rejected a claim that he installed a puppet board in a Cork city credit union to enforce his own agenda.

A CREDIT union board of directors that refused to resign against members’ wishes face a second threat to their positions in three months’ time.