Social media reacts angrily to Joan Burton 'expensive phones' comment

Users of social media have reacted angrily to Joan Burton’s comments on the cost of technology used by protesters objecting to the installation of Irish Water meters.

"All of the protesters that I have seen before seem to have extremely expensive phones, tablets, video cameras," she said.

"There has been the most extensive filming in relation to any of these actions that I have ever seen anywhere.