Public urged to support Cork library workers abused over LGBT+ reading material

Library staff are set to march from Grand Parade to City Hall at 12.30pm on Friday

Staff at the Cork city library have been confronted, and subjected to verbal abuse and intimidation on several occasions in recent months by people opposed to the display of certain LBGTQI+ reading material. Picture: Denis Minihane

The public has been urged to stand in solidarity with Cork library workers facing intimidation at work over LGBT+ reading material amid fears of a far-right counter protest in the city centre on Friday.

The trade union Fórsa has organised a solidarity protest in support of Cork library workers outside the city’s central library on Grand Parade from 12.30pm on Friday, before then marching to City Hall.