Travellers bill to cost €450,000

TAXPAYERS will have to pay almost €50,000 to clean up and secure an 11-acre site taken over by members of the Travelling community last week.

The Department of the Marine-owned site in Wexford town is to be developed as part of the decentralisation of the Department of the Environment. The site will be secured with railings, gates and security fittings, junior minister at the Department of the Marine John Browne said.

Up to a dozen skips, along with trucks and other vehicles had to be brought in to clean up the site on Bank Holiday Monday when the Travellers left.