Plan to ban gambling arcades in Cork towns put on hold

Plans to ban gambling arcades from setting up in towns and villages in Co Cork have been put on hold after Cork County Council received legal advice on the matter which raised more questions than answers.

Members of Charleville/Fermoy municipal district council sought to widen legislation first used in the 1980s by the former Fermoy Town Council to ban gaming arcades in its jurisdiction.

An application for a gambling arcade was made recently in Fermoy, but for the outskirts of the town where the prohibitive bylaw is not in place.