Organisers of Cork's anti-lockdown protest ignore calls to cancel event

Charity campaigners, business leaders, the Lord Mayor, and Irish Council for Civil Liberties are among those who have called for the event to be scrapped

Gardaí in Cork have prepared a major policing operation amid fears of a repeat of the violent scenes witnessed during an anti-lockdown protest in Dublin last weekend. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

Organisers of an anti-lockdown rally have ignored mounting calls for it to be cancelled, and insisted tonight that it's going ahead tomorrow as planned.

Pressure mounted on the event organisers today with charity campaigners, business leaders, the Lord Mayor of Cork, and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties among those who called for the event to be scrapped.