Home pickets ‘not part of anti-tax campaign policy’

A leading figure in the Cork anti-property and water tax campaign has distanced the movement from claims that they plan to take their fight to the family homes of government politicians.

Socialist Party Cllr Mick Barry was reacting yesterday to comments made on RTÉ radio’s Liveline by a man who has been involved in several protests organised by the Cork campaigners.

John O’Donovan, who staged a lone protest outside the home of FG Cllr Joe O’Callaghan last week after an article in the Irish Examiner, said targeting the family homes of politicians is a new tactic which the group has decided to pursue.