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".

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".

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.

"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."

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