Calls on Cork City Council to shut illegal dump

Another fire at a vast illegal dump on the northside of Cork City has prompted renewed calls for the authorities to act.

The latest blaze at the Ellis’s Yard site, next to a Traveller halting site in Ballyvolane, brings to almost 80 the number of fire brigade call-outs to the site since the start of this year. That is more than the total number of call-outs to the site in the previous two years combined.