Mica protest moves to its own drumbeat

Some estimates put the size of the protest at 10,000. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins Photos

Mike McSweeney was never on a protest before. He can remember the tax marches in the 1980s, and he didn’t even turn out then. But he was on the protest on Friday along with four fellow members of the Limerick Pyrite Action Group. 

They were completely outnumbered by their kindred spirits from Donegal, but they stood in the shadow of the Custom House in Dublin’s city centre, foretelling that things are going to get a lot worse.