Residents maintain peaceful protest in Fermoy housing estate after mobile home installed next to caravan
It's day five of a stand off in a North Cork housing estate where residents have formed a blockade around a crane that delivered a mobile home there last week.
Residents of Beechfield Estate in Fermoy say a caravan had been situated there for the past two years but the delivery of a mobile home was a step too far, and they won't remove the blockade until the mobile home goes.
They're staging a peaceful protest next to the mobile home and are calling on the County Council to remove it.
Speaking to RedFM News local resident Trevor Maguire says they felt they had no other choice but to mount a peaceful protest:
However Emma O'Driscoll, her partner and their three children - all under the age of five - say they also have no other choice as the the caravan was not live-able in.
Speaking to RedFM News she says they can't and won't move until Cork County Council provides an alternative solution:
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