A Sinn Fein Councillor says a "feud" in County Waterford has left decent law-abiding citizens in terror.
Three people were arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning following an incident in the Estuary Heights areas of Dungarvan.
Two men were brought before the courts yesterday and charged with criminal damage.
Conor McGuinness says it cannot just be described as anti-social behaviour, but "violent criminality relating to feuding". Cllr McGuinness says it relates to "a small number of families and individuals" and "rears its head every now and then".
He said his phone was inundated over the weekend by people "who were very concerned, very scared" by what was going on: "by violence, fighting, intimidation, attacks on houses, criminal damage to council property to housing stock belonging to the council".
Cllr McGuinness says the council is limited in what it can do, however, he believes that some of the tensions could be down to social housing allocations and keeping families apart.
The current Mayor of Waterford Damien Geoghegan said the incidences of violence in the town were being played out on social media for everyone to see.
"what we witnessed...and we do witness it because it's played out on social media, we can see this criminality, feuding, callout videos, threats of violence, actual acts of violence all being played out on social media".
He said they were happening in one particular area "constantly".
The Fine Gael Cllr asked that a workshop be set up with between the Council and the gardaí in the next week- he said he was regularly contacted by people living in the area who wanted to hand back their keys and leave.
Catherine Horan is Senior Executive Officer with responsibility for Housing with Waterford Council, she said the housing department was "very concerned" and there was ongoing work with the gardaí to tackle the issues but it was challenging. She added that the anti-social behaviour was primarily an issue for gardaí.
"We have an allocations policy where we try to be fair, we have an obligation as a housing authority, we do garda checks and as best we can we try and match people with neighbourhoods, but if you take Dungarvan it's a small area, if there's a feud it's hard to separate them adequately".
Ms Horan said they had tried mediation services in the past but it wasn't successful.
