{"id":419006,"date":"2026-04-26T21:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419006\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:29:13","slug":"call-for-increased-garda-presence-along-vandalised-woodland-trail-in-cork-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/419006\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for increased garda presence along vandalised woodland trail in Cork town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A call has been made for increased garda patrols in Carrigaline following recent incidents of vandalism along the Waterpark Woodland Trail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Alan Desmond of Carrigaline Tidy Towns, manager of the Waterpark Woodland Trail project, told  The Echo that volunteers have repeatedly undertaken repair works within the park over recent months as incidents of vandalism persist in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Last weekend, two new wooden stairways, which were erected in the woodland to provide for a more accessible trail, were \u201csmashed to pieces\u201d by a group of vandals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The woodland is an area we started developing last year as part of a three-year Tidy Towns project,&#8221; Mr Desmond said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt was an overgrown woodland area that we went into, carved out pathways and opened it all up \u2013 but we\u2019ve had continued issues with vandalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5054351_1_articleinline_677202126_1258091756439416_1037780884571719120_n.jpg\" alt=\"One of the two railway sleeper staircases along the Waterpark Woodland Trail in Carrigaline after it was repaired this week due to vandalism.\" title=\"One of the two railway sleeper staircases along the Waterpark Woodland Trail in Carrigaline after it was repaired this week due to vandalism.\" class=\"card-img\"\/>One of the two railway sleeper staircases along the Waterpark Woodland Trail in Carrigaline after it was repaired this week due to vandalism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThere are three areas inside where we put staircases made from railway sleepers, but these vandals decided to go in last weekend and smashed two of them to pieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            \u201cIt\u2019s not about the cost, but more so the time and effort we\u2019ve put in \u2013 our pride is being hurt the whole time by this happening.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt&#8217;s a great amenity for the public, so all we can do is keep our chin up, go back in and repair them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt took four of us up to eight hours to repair them on Wednesday evening \u2013 we were only able to repair one, so we must go in and repair the other one still.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe deal with vandalism on a regular basis \u2013 even in the public park, there&#8217;s a free children\u2019s bookcase, where people can swap books, that was set on fire recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAnti-social behaviour in Carrigaline has started to get beyond a joke,\u201d said Mr Desmond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            \u201cThere are plenty of clubs and organisations in the area, there\u2019s loads to do, so there is no excuse for this.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt comes down to garda resources, there\u2019s not enough of them around to patrol the community \u2013 if they had an increased presence, these people might not be so fast to do something like this.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A call has been made for increased garda patrols in Carrigaline following recent incidents of vandalism along the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-419006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}