Gardaí called as armed men force security from illegal dumping site in Cork

Gardai were called in after a gang of masked men armed with golf clubs and bats forced security staff to withdraw from a city-owned landbank where a vast illegal dump was cleared two months ago.

A series of meetings involving gardaí, city council officials and Traveller representatives are due to take place over the coming days in a bid to resolve the issue following the tense altercation at the former Ellis’s yard site, alongside the Spring Lane Traveller halting site, on the northside of Cork city.