Up to 20 Travellers are due to appear in court this morning following a series of arrests in Co Wexford over the Bank Holiday weekend.
The Travellers, who are part of a group who set up camp near the Riverbank House Hotel in Ferrybank outside Wexford town a week ago, were arrested by gardaí following disturbances on Saturday night.
They are due to appear before Judge Donnchadh Ó Buachalla at New Ross District Court this morning on public order and criminal damage charges.
Some 70 Travelling families from Cork, Limerick, Dublin, Northern Ireland and the UK vacated the Slaneyside site adjoining Wexford Bridge at lunchtime yesterday.
The convoy of vans left the seven-acre site, and headed in the direction of Dublin and Rosslare port.
Their departure was overseen by a small number of uniformed and plain-clothes gardaí.
Garda Sgt Mick Walsh, who was present at the site throughout the week, said that the "exemplary behaviour of the Travellers had been sullied by a few".
The first of the disturbances occurred in Taghmon, six miles from Wexford town, at around 10.45 p.m. on Saturday.
A row reportedly erupted outside a local pub between approximately a dozen Travellers who had visited the village and locals, including settled members of the Travelling community.
Garda cars from New Ross and Wexford were called to the scene.
Broken glass was visible on the Main Street of Taghmon village yesterday. However locals were unwilling to speak about the incident.
Gardaí were also called to a pub in Killinick, near Rosslare, and the window of a Wexford taxi firm was reportedly broken.
Arrests were also made in Trinity Street in Wexford town following an altercation.
At around 2.15 a.m. a disturbance erupted outside Wexford General Hospital involving some members of the Travelling community.
An inside window at Wexford Garda station is also understood to have been damaged.
Those arrested are in their late teens and early 20s, with addresses in Northern Ireland and the UK.
Mr Colm Campbell, the manager of the Riverbank House Hotel, said yesterday that the weekend had been "disastrous" in business terms.
"The weekend, as anticipated, was disastrous. Business was down by at least 70 per cent. This was without question our worst weekend on record ever, not to mention a Bank Holiday weekend.
"Business people in the town are very angry. Basically the whole town was held to ransom.
"I was elected last week to the board of Wexford Chamber of Commerce, and I will be doing all I can to ensure that there is no repeat of what happened here. Allowing them to stay on here over the Bank Holiday weekend was no deal."
Mr Adrian Doyle, the director of services with Wexford County Council, said he would be asking the Department of the Marine to secure the site "so this can't happen again in the future".
Mr John Sheridan, originally from Limerick who was on the site with his family, said the only reason they were leaving was that they were "intimidated".
Mr Sheridan said he would never return to Wexford.
Another member of the group, Mr John O'Reilly, a native of Cork, said they were "pushed out" of the town.
"We tried to keep to ourselves and we didn't cause any trouble," he said.