Call for ‘militant’ water charges protests

An anti-water charge TD has pledged to break legal injunctions against demonstrations as he called for "militant" protests.

Anti-Austerity Alliance deputy Paul Murphy insis-ted he would ignore a High Court order declaring a 20m exclusion zone around water meter installers as they felt intimidated by pickets.

Calling for “militant but peaceful” mass resistance, Mr Murphy said: “If they jailed someone for protesting against water meters, look at the political crisis that would develop and that’s the problem facing the Government,” the TD told RTÉ.