Security at Hollyhill Traveller project cost €300k

It is has cost the State at least €300,000 to provide round-the-clock Garda security at a Traveller accommodation building project in Cork City.

Travellers have levelled accusations of racial profiling at gardaí and the City Council over the policing and after CCTV cameras were installed near their halting site.

The Irish Examiner has learned that it costs €1,273 a day to maintain the Garda presence, which has been in place since last June at the St Anthony’s Park group housing scheme in Hollyhill on the northside of the city.