Residents protest over cemetery development

GARDAÍ were called to the scene of a protest yesterday as a residents’ association accused Cork County Council of ignoring its own environmental protection guidelines.

More than a dozen people protested outside St Oliver’s Cemetery, near the Model Farm Road, as council workers removed a section of 200-year-old hedgerow.

The council, which firmly denies it is breaching guidelines, wants to remove 70 metres of hedgerow and ditch as part of its expansion plans for the cemetery.