Three charged over anti-lockdown protest in Cork 

The arrests come ahead of another planned anti-lockdown rally in the city on Saturday

Gardaí policing a Cork city centre lockdown protest event on Saturday, March 6. File Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Three men were arrested at a small anti-lockdown protest in Cork city yesterday.

They were arrested during what was billed as a “peaceful assembly” on St Patrick’s Bridge at around 4pm which had been organised and promoted on social media calling for an “end to the lockdown”.