Gardaí urged to remove mobile homes

Gardaí have been asked to use powers under traffic and housing legislation to remove two unauthorised Traveller encampments from a town in North Cork.

One, involving a mobile home and a caravan, is on a roadway outside a graveyard in Fermoy and the other is located in a county council-owned picnic area.

Cork County Council officials said legal action would be taken very shortly to remove the Travellers under the two sets of legislation.