Taxpayer left with €500k bill to clean dump site

The taxpayer has had to fork out more than €500,000 to clean up illegal dumping from waste ground next to one of the country’s worst Traveller halting sites.

The shock figures emerged on foot of a question to Cork’s city manager, tabled by Fianna Fáil Cllr Ken O’Flynn.

He sought the information after a recent stand-off by residents of the Spring Lane halting site on the northside of the city who blocked city council attempts to remove an authorised extension of the halting site which is now occupied by several caravans.