Cork Workers’
Party councillor Ted Tynan has condemned the arrest of Socialist Party deputy
Paul Murphy and a number of other citizens in Dublin in relation to last
November’s protest against Tánaiste and Labour Party leader Joan Burton, describing
the arrests as a political act aimed at intimidating the anti-water charges
campaign as a whole.
Cllr. Tynan
said that the arrests were in sharp contrast to the state’s failure to jail the
bankers and property speculators who had destroyed the Irish economy and driven a large section of the population into
deep and long-term poverty.
The Workers’
Party councillor said that sections of the media, especially newspapers
controlled by the Denis O’Brien group, had deliberately whipped up a frenzy of
hate and gross exaggeration against those engaged in protest against the Troika’s
water charges. “Having failed to damage
the anti-water charges campaign with a torrent of abuse and lies, the state is
now seeking to intimidate people engaged in legitimate protest. I predict now that this intimidation will not
only fail but it will massively backfire against the government”, said Cllr.
Tynan
