Fireworks 'put emergency services under added pressure', warns McEntee

Minister for Justice and Equality, Helen McEntee; Inspector Barry Mills, Chief Crime Prevention Officer; and Ann Losty, community representative and web Gardayouth diversionary project at Tara Street Fire Station this afternoon to highlight the issue of illegal and dangerous fireworks in the run up to and over the Halloween period. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Parents and children have been warned about the dangers of buying and using illegal fireworks in the run-up to Halloween.

Justice Minister Helen McEntee, speaking at the launch of the Government’s ’Don’t add to the problem' fireworks awareness campaign, called on the public to think of frontline services and workers dealing with Covid-19 before using them.