Anti-austerity campaigners walk to the Dáil

Four anti-austerity crusaders yesterday set off on foot from Limerick to the Dáil to highlight a new political movement, Slí Níos Fearr (A Better Way).

Martin Critten, 55, who lives in Kildimo, Limerick; Pat Hannon, 51, also from Limerick; 28-year-old Peter O’Loughlin, from Douglas, Cork; and Dutch-born Zinaida Nourreddine, 57, hope to reach the gates of the Dáil in nine days’ time.

“When I first came here 30 years ago to work as a secretary in the Dutch embassy, there was huge unemployment,” said Ms Nourreddine.