Gardaí ask council to consider street begging bylaws

SENIOR gardaí have asked the Cork city council to consider drafting bylaws to help control street begging.

The request follows a High Court ruling earlier this year which struck down national legislation governing begging.

Dublin man Niall Dillon, a graduate understood to have fallen on hard times, won his High Court claim in March that a 19th-century law prohibiting begging in a public place was unconstitutional because it excessively interfered with his right to freedom of expression.