Persistent Cashel stone throwing will eventually cause a serious accident
Independent Cashel Cllr Liam Browne stated this week, that unless persistent stone and rock throwing at vehicles around Wallers Lot and the M8 Motorway was addressed, there would eventually be a serious accident or a death caused, and authorities would have serious questions to answer.
Cllr Browne stated this in response to an e mail he and other councillors received from a local coach operator, after rocks hit one of their busses, which was carrying fifty secondary students and their teachers on the way home to Coláiste Dún Iascaigh last week. It was also in relation to repeated incidents of stones being thrown at cars and vans over the weekend.
Cllr Browne stated that “this in ongoing, and enough is enough. The cause of the problem, is a small number of young children from the Travelling Community living in Wallers Lot, who seem to believe that they can act with impunity, and have no fear of any consequences from either the Gardai, their parents or any other institutions. But it has to stop. Throwing rocks off the over pass onto the motorway, will eventually finish up in tragedy, and no amount of hand wringing will replace the loss of life if that’s what happens.”
He went on to say that “it’s not as if this is an isolated incident. It is ongoing, and has been for years. I passed a group of young children congregating outside Wallers Lot on Sunday afternoon, and knew within an hour, I would be getting calls about stone throwing.
Unfortunately, I was right, and the calls stated by mid afternoon. When will they end though, that is what the people of Cashel are asking”. Cllr Browne has called on the Gardai, state entities like Tusla, and the Traveller education and network groups to get together and stop this behaviour once and for all.