Jail sentences for Joe Higgins and Clare Daly

Anti-bin tax campaigners Joe Higgins TD and Councillor Clare Daly have been sentenced today to a month in prison for their part in the protests against refuse charges.

The Socialist Party members told the High Court that they are not in a position to comply with an order restraining them from taking part in blockades of bin collection lorries in large parts of Dublin, and were subsequently held in Contempt of Court.