Gardaí have evidence parents dropped teenagers carrying alcohol into Cork City last weekend

Gardaí disperse large crowds on Grand Parade, Cork, in April. File picture: Damian Coleman

Gardai have evidence that parents knowingly dropped young teenagers into Cork city with alcohol to socialise last weekend, Chief Superintendent Barry McPolin has said.

Hundreds of teenagers and young adults gathered on the corner of Grand Parade and South Mall, where there were scenes of drunkenness and minor outbreaks of violence.