Protesters lift siege of Cork City Council

Protesters who successfully halted two consecutive meetings of Cork City Council were nowhere to be seen last night, as councillors finally managed to come together, uninterrupted, to trawl through the vast array of items accumulated over the past month.

Various security precautions helped facilitate the long overdue gathering – a team of black-clad stern-faced men with earpieces ensured the scene at City Hall was not entirely unlike one from The West Wing, while a maze of locked doors and a cleverly utilized side entrance ensured only authorised personnel could gain access to the night’s locked down democracy.

The measures were implemented after Diarmuid Ó Cadhla, a representative of The People’s Convention, staged a lone protest in the council chambers on Monday and refused to leave, forcing the council to abandon their meeting.