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Protest group against economic inequality From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Occupy Cork was a peaceful protest and demonstration against alleged economic inequality, social injustice and corporate greed taking place on the junction of the Grand Parade and South Mall and at the NAMA-listed Stapleton House on Oliver Plunkett Street in the Irish city of Cork.[1] The group occupied Stapleton House after receiving the keys to the building on 25 December 2011.[2] The camp was dismantled on 13 March 2012.[3][4]
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The protest at its original location had been going on for months,[5] with a camp at the junction of the Grand Parade and South Mall in the city centre since summer 2011.[6]
On 15 October 2011, simultaneous protests took place in Cork and Galway regarded by local and national media as having mimicked Occupy Wall Street (New York) and Occupy Dame Street (Dublin).[7][8] The protestors organised a number of demonstrations, including a 'teach-in' in AIB's branch on the South Mall; where a local schoolteacher held a maths class with primary school children in the front lobby of the bank, before the arrival of the police precipitated a 'recess'.[9]
On the evening of 3 January 2012, it was announced that a vacant six-storey[1] NAMA-listed building on Oliver Plunkett Street had been taken over after it was gifted to the people of Cork.[10] An anonymous donor reportedly left the keys to the building under the Christmas tree on Grand Parade on 25 December.[6][11] The Garda Síochána (police) visited the occupied building, and then left again soon afterwards.[2]
The building, unused since a part-demolition and refurbishment undertaken in 2008, had been cleaned by its occupiers.[6] The occupiers released an online video chronicling their takeover of the building.[12]
On 8 January 2012, there was a céilí mór (a "big" céilí) in the afternoon to raise funds.[2]
The Cork City Community Resource Centre intended to open in the occupied building on Monday 23 January 2012, after an open day. The facility was expected to include classrooms, a music school, health facilities, a library, a bookshop, a café, a crèche, and a number of free initiatives for the public, including internet access, advisory and counselling services.[2][10][13]
The camp was dismantled on 13 March 2012.[14]
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Fine Gael politician Des Cahill described the protest as "attention seeking".[15] Former Green Party senator and party chairman Dan Boyle described the manoeuver of 3 January as an "interesting development" and suggested that it was a legal and "legitimate protest".[15]
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