'I am just devastated': Piper's funfair wagon forced to move from Kinsale site  

Funfair will not go ahead after Cork County Council sought a 50% increase in the cost of the lease on the traditional funfair site

Bill Piper sitting on the steps of his  showman's caravan in Kinsale.

The man behind one of Ireland’s last surviving traditional funfairs says he is devastated after being forced to move his family’s landmark ‘showman’s wagon’ from its traditional parking spot for the first time in almost a century.

Brendan Piper, the fourth generation of his family involved in the Piper's funfair business in Kinsale, Cork, has also confirmed he and his father, Bill, will not be staging a funfair in the harbour town this summer after Cork County Council sought a 50% increase in the cost of the lease on the traditional funfair site — a small car park on the town’s waterfront.