Let Me Tell You: Episode 2 - I was severely assaulted after IMF bailout, says MEP Billy Kelleher

MEP Billy Kelleher speaking during his recent visit to to St Niocláis NS in Frankfield as part of the Blue Star Programme marking European Day. Picture: Howard Crowdy

Former minister and current Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher has revealed he was “seriously assaulted” by an angry member of the public following the IMF bailout in 2010.

Mr Kelleher, speaking to the Irish Examiner’s Let Me Tell You podcast, says some ministers in Brian Cowen’s government at the time had to take their children out of their schools because of the hostility in response to the surrendering of economic sovereignty and the financial crash.