Playground bylaws not enacted two years on

Councillors have expressed shock that playground bylaws, which included the unlawful taking pictures of children, still haven’t been enacted two years after they were drawn up by Cork County Council officials.

It emerged yesterday that the bylaws, first mooted in 2009, were supposed to be enacted as a pilot project in North Cork after they went out for public consultation in Feb 2011.

The chairman of the council’s Northern Division, Cllr Noel McCarthy (Labour), said he was concerned that nothing had been done to enact the bylaws which would have allowed gardaí to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, including drinking and drug dealing.