Ethnic Cleansing in Cork

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday May 30, 2003 19:27 by Joe Collins Cork

Cork City Council used the Criminal Justice -Public Order- Act, to evict a family they had just agreed to accommodate. For refusing to get out of her caravan, i.e. her own home, a Traveller mother will now face a prosecution!!! The silly thing is, there was not even a need to evict this family from the roadside because they were due to move into a rented house today. The City Council knew that, because they will be the landlord, but still they ordered this eviction. Strange people.

It gets better and better. Cork City Council have lowered themselves even further by the latest action against a Traveller family. Yesterday morning around 7.30 a Traveller woman and her two daughters aged about 8 years and 18 months, all still in their night clothes inside their caravan, were towed by Gardaí to the local Garda station, acting under a Section 19 notice issued by the City Council. Under the 2001 Housing Act (which amends the 1984 Criminal Justice -Public Order- Act, (see http://www.indymedia.ie/features/trespass.html ) this notice gives the City Council the right effectively to order the Gardaí to carry out an eviction. For refusing to get out of the caravan, i.e. her own home, the mother will now face a prosecution under the Public Order Act!!! The silly thing is, there was not even a need to evict this family from the roadside because they were due to move into a rented house today. The City Council knew that, because they will be the landlord, but still they ordered this eviction. Strange people.