Footage shows at least four men shouting and throwing punches in Cork city centre over the bank holiday weekend, with one of those involved appearing to throw a table from a café
At least four men can be seen brawling in a punch-up on a busy street in front of shocked shoppers over the bank holiday weekend. Horror footage shows men stripped to the waist on Winthrop Street, just off Oliver Plunkett Street, in Cork, Ireland, at lunchtime on Friday as they fought with each other.
At one point one of the brawlers picked up a table from outside a café and threw it at one of the men involved in the fight in the ugly scenes. Two men can be seen screaming and throwing punches at another man as pedestrians try to get out of their way as the fighting started.
The video footage shared widely on social media shows others get involved with at least four men shouting and brawling in the street – three of them were stripped to the waist. The fight went on for at least two minutes, with one shocked onlooker telling CorkBeo: “They didn’t give a bit of care for anybody else on the street. It was completely feral.
“They just started screaming at each other and throwing punches and kicks. Two guys went after a bigger man, then another picked up a big table and just threw it at him.
“There were women trying get out of their way, one older woman was trying to push her bike past them and there were loads of people watching them. These thugs didn’t care about who got hurt.” However, Gardai said they had no report of trouble in the area at that time.
One local business owner said there is ‘usually a bad crowd hanging around by the General Post Office on Oliver Plunkett Street’.
They said: “The Gardai have been more visible in the past few months, but you get a very bad crowd just hanging around, you have aggressive beggars, including one particularly nasty guy who everybody in Cork knows at this stage, and then you have the street drinkers and the drug addicts.
“There are people trying to get in and out of the post office, people trying to do a bit of shopping and enjoy the city centre, and there are hard-working people around here who really do not need this in their faces every day.
“It’s making our lives very tough because these guys seem to think they have the run of the city.
“Surely there must be some way of prohibiting people who just cause trouble from morning to night, there must be some way of banning them from certain parts of the city?
“Because all they are doing is dragging this place down and making our lives a misery.” #
“The business owner added: “I don’t know what this row was about, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t work related.”