'You can only take so much': Piper's funfair 'may never return to Kinsale' 

Owner Brendan Piper was told by Cork County Council he would have to pay a €60,000 bond to set up the funfair in the town's car park

Brendan Piper: 'This was never about money, it was about keeping a tradition going in the town, something that the people of Kinsale wanted.' Picture: David Forsythe

Kinsale’s historic funfair, which has been an annual fixture in the Co Cork town for almost 90 years, may never return according to owner Brendan Piper. 

Mr Piper told the Irish Examiner he had been informed that Cork County Council requires a €60,000 bond before he will be allowed set up the funfair at its traditional home in the town car park on Pier Road — money he said he did not have and could not raise.