Special patrols to guard children’s playground after human excrement spread all over play equipment

Gardaí and community volunteers are holding special patrols of a children’s playground in Cork after human excrement was spread all over play equipment, resulting in some children getting smeared with it.

The “sickening scenes” were witnessed at a community-run playground in Blarney, Co Cork.

Parents alerted community council members to the situation after some children came down from zip wires with their hands covered in the excrement.