City officials reject Sinn Féin call to ban bonfires

Cork’s city officials have rejected calls for a bonfire ban at the city’s annual bonfire night celebrations.

It follows a call yesterday for the scrapping of the bonfire element of the city council-supported bonfire night events — five of which were staged across the city on Monday night at a cost of €30,000, attracting a record 13,000 people.

Illegal bonfires were lit across the city from early Monday evening — most of them on the northside — with the smell of smoke up to 14km outside the city.