Man arrested over burning of Pride flags in Waterford city Suspect charged with criminal damage, due at Waterford District Court on July 6th
about 2 hours ago Eoghan Dalton
L-R: Adam Pidgeon, Enya Eccleston, Tia Weldon, Éadaoin Walsh, Fina Eccleston, Debbie O’Rourke and Mayor of Waterford Damien Geoghegan. Photogaph: Eoghan Dalton
A man in his 40s has been arrested in connection with the burning of Pride flags in Waterford city.
Gardaí said the man has been charged with a count of criminal damage and is due to appear at Waterford District Court on July 6th.
A number of Pride flags were taken down and set alight at the Mall in Waterford city in the early hours of last Monday.
A Sinn Fein Councillor says a “feud” in County Waterford has left decent law-abiding citizens in terror.
Three people were arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning following an incident in the Estuary Heights areas of Dungarvan.
Two men were brought before the courts yesterday and charged with criminal damage.
Conor McGuinness says it cannot just be described as anti-social behaviour, but “violent criminality relating to feuding”. Cllr McGuinness says it relates to “a small number of families and individuals” and “rears its head every now and then”.
He said his phone was inundated over the weekend by people “who were very concerned, very scared” by what was going on: “by violence, fighting, intimidation, attacks on houses, criminal damage to council property to housing stock belonging to the council”.