Gardaí seek to ban youths from roaming estates

Cork City Council and community gardaí from Mayfield applied for excluding orders that would effectively ban named youths — one as young as 12 — from roaming through housing estates in the Mayfield area of the city.

Garda Alison O’Flynn and Garda Pat Costello appeared before Cork District Court yesterday with Cork City Council solicitor James O’Mahony to apply for excluding orders against six individuals.

One of them was 12 years old, another was 13, and three were a few years older.