Bin-tax protests continue as more campaigners jailed

AROUND 400 anti-bin tax protesters held a demonstration outside Mountjoy prison last night after three more bin campaigners were jailed yesterday.

The Dublin Campaign Against the Bin Tax plans another protest at Clover Hill prison this evening following the latest jail sentences handed down by the courts.

Brid Smith, the campaign’s PRO, was sentenced to two weeks in prison. Two other campaign members from the Mount Tallant area of Dublin, Chrissy Heffernan, a 60-year-old grandmother, and Karen Heffernan, the mother of a 14-month-old baby, were also jailed.