Number of bank holiday arrests ‘higher than a normal weekend’

The bank holiday weekend produced a higher number of arrests for public order offences in Cork City than a normal weekend, a senior garda has said.

Supt Barry McPolin, who is in charge of policing the city centre, said that 40 arrests had been made, mainly involving people in their 20s and 30s.

Supt McPolin said that jazz fans had been well-behaved, but other revellers who had come into the city centre were not.