Violence divides water meter groups

A key figure in the growing anti-water meter movement in Cork has distanced himself from another blockade group after ugly scenes during a fracas.

Noel Dolan, who created the fliuch.org website, and who is behind the Fliuch Off Facebook and Twitter profiles, said he had “no choice” but to distance himself from the Ballyphehane/South Parish Says No group following what he said was their “failure to keep control over one of their members” at what was supposed to be a “peaceful and dignified” protest in a Carrigaline estate last Monday.

Residents in Owenabue, supported by members of Fliuch Off and the BSPSN, have been maintaining a blockade of their estate in a bid to prevent Irish Water contractors from installing water meters.