A tense stand off between Irish Water contractors and residents of a Cork housing estate who are objecting to the installation of water meters.

Water meter protests have spread across Dublin with Neilstown locals vowing to block their installation.

The latest anti-water meter campaigners in Cork have defended their right to protest after angry exchanges with some of their neighbours yesterday.

Residents in another Cork housing estate are protesting this morning against the installation of Irish Water meters.

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.

Residents of a Cork housing estate have vowed to continue their blockade against the installation of water meters after a stand-off with Irish Water contractors yesterday.

A turf war between competing ice cream men resulted in both facing charges of assault in a case where it was claimed that one reached into the other’s van and pulled his ice cream lever.

A Christmas night out at a hotel in Cork ended with one woman pushing another woman down steps, causing her to break her arm in two places.

Two men were arrested yesterday and charged with engaging in violent disorder at the Manhattan Bar in Togher, Cork, last Christmas, arising out of an incident where a man was killed.

A teenager is recovering in hospital in Cork this morning after being attacked by a man with a sword in the early hours of this morning.