Residents want air quality monitors to assess St Patrick’s St traffic ban

An inner-city community in Cork has called for air quality monitors to assess the impact of the St Patrick’s St car ban on their area.

Residents of the Middle Parish said the 3pm to 6.30pm daily car ban on the city’s main street, introduced on Tuesday has, as they feared, turned their area into a busy thoroughfare.

“We told them (the city council) that this would happen,” local resident Noel Tobin said.