Anti-Roma protesters branded a lynch mob

Anti-Roma protesters in Waterford have been branded "effectively a lynch mob" by a minister.

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, minister of state for equality and new communities at the Department of Justice, condemned the actions of a 200-strong crowd which gathered at the weekend forcing three families to flee the area.

He said the demonstration, whipped up by a Facebook page called “Get Them Out Of Here” was a “particularly cowardly act of picking on a soft target”.