Anti-water-charge protest sees Cork City Council abandon meeting

Cork City Council has abandoned its meeting tonight after an anti-water charge protester refused to leave the council chamber.

Anti-water-charge protest sees Cork City Council abandon meeting

Cork City Council has abandoned its meeting tonight after an anti-water charge protester refused to leave the council chamber.

Diarmaid Ó Cadhla of the People’s Convention said he was protesting at a council’s decision to remove the group’s posters advertising an anti-water-charges march.

Earlier, the group staged a sit-in and blocked access to the chamber for several hours in protest over the council’s decision.

Deputy Lord Mayor Kenneth O’Flynn, of Fianna Fáil, said they had given the Council a list of demands which they could not meet.

"It would involve us ignoring a piece of legislation, a piece of national legislation when it comes to littering - littering of the city," he said.

"So, later on today at half past five we had our traditional council meeting. We had one protester plonk himself into the middle of the chamber and not allow us to continue on with a democratic forum of what is Cork City Council chamber meeting."

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