Gardaí investigating blaze at Cork dump days after gang threaten security staff

Community leaders have called for urgent action to prevent “mob rule” after a security hut was burned down last night on a former illegal dump site in Cork city just days after a masked and armed gang forced security staff to withdraw from the site.

Firefighters were called to the Ellis’s yard site off Spring Lane in Ballyvolane on the north side of Cork city at around 11pm last night.