Gardaí maintain presence near old Crowne Paint factory after clashes on Monday
Coolock: Gardaí outside a residential property during a stand off with protesters at the former site of the Crown Paints factory. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
The Garda operation which continued on Tuesday after a tense stand-off on Monday resulted in a security man hospitalised, a number of gardaí injured, arson attacks on a Garda car and a digger, and 15 arrests being made. “We were actually advised by the police to leave our home, because there could be an explosion. But if we had, the roads were closed until 10pm last night, we wouldn’t have been able to get back.Ms Brennan criticised the potential housing of asylum seekers at the factory, and said that she has never received any information, from politicians or otherwise, about plans to use the site for accommodation.
“There’s people talking things like, ‘the only way you’ll stop anyone going in there is to burn it to the ground’. Nobody wants that. That’s wrong.” “Places like Coolock, places like East Wall, places like Darndale, places like Sherriff Street, they don’t care. If there’s any problems here, they’ll overspill into Darndale, it’ll overspill into Coolock. They won’t overspill into Killiney Hill,” he said.
A 76-year-old man, originally from England but a long-time resident of Coolock, criticised the use of force employed by public order Garda units on Monday.
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