Anti-water charge campaigner labels cone throwing incident as 'indefensible'

A leading member of the "We won't pay campaign" has described an incident in which a Garda was injured during yesterday's anti-water charges protest in Dublin, as "indefensible".

Thu, 02 Jul, 2015 - 18:10

A leading member of the "We won't pay campaign" has described an incident in which a Garda was injured during yesterday's anti-water charges protest in Dublin, as "indefensible".

Michael O'Brien was speaking in the light of yesterday's protest outside Leinster House, during which a cone was thrown at a Senator's car and a Garda was hospitalised.

The anti-austerity Councillor however accused the media of not focussing on the important issues.

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"A narrow focus is put on an indefensible act by somebody that was at the protest, like last night's action where somebody threw a cone, whereas in fact we need to abstract that from what is taking place within the Dáil," said Cllr O'Brien.

"Last night the Government perverted Dáil procedures to ram through, at a report stage, a rake of irrelevant amendments to further their agenda of force water charge payments."