Another fire at a vast illegal dump on the northside of Cork City has prompted renewed calls for the authorities to act.

Cork City faces a potential €250,000 bill for the clean- up of a notorious illegal dump site — again.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been asked to investigate illegal dumping activity on a site on the northside of Cork City after a spate of suspicious fires in recent days.

Illegal dumping alongside one of Ireland’s worst Traveller halting sites has sparked health fears and prompted calls for the site to be shut down quickly.

City officials have revealed a damning catalogue of obstruction, threats, and intimidation which have thwarted efforts to resolve issues at what has been branded Ireland’s worst Traveller halting site.

Goats gathering in growing numbers on an embankment are creating a risk of rocks falling on caravans and on children playing near them, it was claimed by Cork City Council yesterday.

Travellers have called for urgent action to resolve serious health and safety issues at an overcrowded halting site which has been branded one of the worst in Ireland.

Travellers living in one of Ireland’s worst halting sites have drafted their own plans to resolve what’s been branded a "humanitarian crisis".

Two politicians have agreed to spend a night at one of the country’s worst Traveller halting sites to experience the appalling conditions.

A large lagoon of water and raw untreated sewage poses a serious health and drowning risk to almost 100 children living alongside it, a damning report has warned.

The taxpayer has had to fork out more than €500,000 to clean up illegal dumping from waste ground next to one of the country’s worst Traveller halting sites.

Travellers living in one of the country’s worst halting sites have invited politicians to spend a night there to experience first-hand the appalling conditions they have to endure.

A Travellers’ rights group has lodged a formal complaint with the Council of Europe about appalling living conditions at an overcrowded halting site, which was at the centre of a stand-off with city workers yesterday.