Protesters interrupt council meeting

A local authority meeting was interrupted twice last night when anti-water tax protestors refused to sit down in the upper gallery of Cork’s City Hall.

Lord Mayor Catherine Clancy repeatedly asked the members of the Ballyphehane/South Parish Says No campaign to take their seats when they stood up and leaned on railings overlooking the council chamber during a council meeting.

She said standing was not allowed in the upper galleries for “health and safety reasons”.