Enforcing legal action over bonfires ‘difficult’ says Cork council

Cork County Council has said it will be difficult to take legal action against people who put household waste, old cars and car tyres into bonfires, because in most cases they are minors.

The council was asked to introduce a policy on bonfires after an incident in a housing estate in Mitchelstown on Halloween night, where youths drove a car into the bonfire and attacked fire brigade and ambulance staff with fireworks when they arrived at the scene.

Cllr Deirdre O’Brien said she wanted a policy introduced by the local authority to prevent such forms of anti-social behaviour in the future.