Residents disrupt policing meeting at Cork City Hall

Residents of an estate blighted by antisocial behaviour disrupted a meeting in Cork’s City Hall yesterday when they were refused permission to address senior gardaí.

Lord Mayor Chris O’Leary had to suspend a meeting of the city’s joint policing committee (JPC) when three women from Mayfield’s Lagan Grove — where a Polish family has been forced out of their home and where three homes have been attacked in recent weeks — insisted on trying to raise questions despite repeated requests to sit down.

Mr O’Leary said the JPC was not a public forum but that members would meet the residents afterwards. But they persisted, forcing the mayor to suspend the meeting until calm was restored.