Centre does U-turn and invites household charge protesters back

The board of directors at a community centre in a Cork harbour town has reversed a decision preventing an anti-household charge group from holding meetings at their property.

A row broke out a few weeks ago when the Cobh branch of the Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes was told it was no longer welcome to hold meetings in the town’s community centre — although it had hosted a number there since last November.

At the time, a spokesman for the board of directors said the decision had been made because they couldn’t afford to jeopardise government funding for the centre by allowing meetings to take place at which people were encouraged to break the law.