Water campaigners defend right to protest

The latest anti-water meter campaigners in Cork have defended their right to protest after angry exchanges with some of their neighbours yesterday.

About a dozen residents of another housing estate took to the streets at 10am to block the installation of meters. The move by some of the residents of Elmvale in Wilton brought to four the number of such protests in the area.

Similar protests are continuing in nearby Ashbrook Heights in Lehanaghmore — ground zero for the blockade movement — and in Fernwood and Palmbury.