Crackdown 'needed' on far-right agitators targeting Cork library staff

Cork councillors said protestors must be 'faced down and challenged' by gardaí

The Fórsa solidarity rally in support of Cork City Library staff making its way to Cork City Hall from Grand Parade last Friday. Picture: Denis Minihane

Cork’s city councillors have urged Garda management to crack down on far-right agitators who are targeting public library staff.

The call came after it emerged the city’s main library on Grand Parade had to close for the first time in more than a century last March amid fears of a protest, and was closed again last Friday during another rally.