The case against a councillor accused of blacking out Queen Victoria-related street names in Cork almost three years ago has been scheduled for trial at Cork District Court on May 11. Diarmaid O Cadhla, of 8 Upper Beaumont Drive, Ballintemple, Cork, faces five counts of criminal damage to street signs at three separate locations in Cork city. He is charged with two counts of criminal damage at Victoria Road, two counts of criminal damage at Victoria Cross and one count of criminal damage at Victoria Street, Military Hill, in Cork city on February 2, 2017. A group called Cork Street Names Campaign was set up to have streets in Cork named after the British queen renamed. They describe the naming of streets after Queen Victoria as an insult to the dignity of the famine victims.

Source: Irish Examiner January 17, 2020 22:40 UTC