Traveller advocacy group lodges complaint against Cllr Ken O'Flynn

Cllr O'Flynn said: "This movement, and those like them, have one thing on their mind - to silence their critics and anybody who has an opinion which differs from theirs"

Mr O’Flynn has been a vocal critic of those engaged in illegal dumping on land next to the halting site, and of some Traveller advocacy groups which he claims have not been doing enough to help resolve the Spring Lane situation. Picture: Denis Minihane

A Traveller advocacy group has lodged a formal complaint with Cork City Council about a councillor’s comments about members of the Traveller community.

The Traveller Equality and Justice Project (TEJP) at the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at UCC lodged its complaint with the council’s ethics registrar about what it described as Cllr Ken O’Flynn’s “public statements and patterns of behaviour towards residents of the Spring Lane halting site” and Travellers in Cork in general.