Council meeting disrupted by ‘Blair arrest’ protester

THE woman who tried to arrest Tony Blair earlier this year disrupted a local authority meeting last night with a protest over the IMF bailout.

Activist Kate O’Sullivan, 24, from Mahon, Cork, who tried to perform a citizen’s arrest on Mr Blair in Dublin in September, interrupted a meeting of Cork City Council to demand councillors debate the bailout. It followed a failed attempt by Sinn Féin earlier to secure a debate on the bailout and its impact on local authority funding.

The meeting was discussing an economic report when Ms O’Sullivan, who was supported by about seven people in the public gallery, interrupted.