Residents call for levy on college students to pay for street security

Under-siege residents living near two of Ireland’s largest third-level colleges have called for a levy to be imposed on students to cover the costs of on-street security.

The proposal is one of several from the Cork University District Residents Forum in a bid to crackdown on drink-fuelled antisocial student behaviour around University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology.

The forum met last week to discuss the problem and it agreed to propose a student levy of between €3 and €5 to support the provision of an on-street security presence during the college term.