Council defends 'exceptionally modest' rents charged to Kinsale funfair

Cork County Council say the increase in rent levied on Piper's funfair in Kinsale reflects a contribution to the council services provided in the town

Brendan Piper, Piper's Fun Fair Kinsale and Cllr Sean O'Donovan with the showman's wagon currently being kept at Brendan's home near Glandore, Co. Cork. Photograph: David Forsythe

Cork County Council has launched a robust defence of its role in the row over the removal of the landmark Piper’s funfair ‘showman’s wagon’ from a square in Kinsale.

The local authority has also defended the “exceptionally modest” rent it charges the Piper family for the use of the tradition funfair site - a public car park - it has been using since the late 1930s.