Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
Community activist Niamh McDonald has been attending the Jobstown trial in the Courts of Criminal Justice (CCJ) and providing reports on Joan Burton's testimony. At this #JobstownNotGuilty demo she shares what she has observed and some insights.
In November 2014 residents of Tallaght, a working class and largely poor area, blocked tánaiste (deputy prime minister) and Labour Party TD Joan Burton who had visited a community centre in Jobstown for a photo opportunity. Labour had presided over severe a austerity policy including introducing with Fine Gael the infamous water charges, a plan to make people pay twice for water and ultimately privatise it. Jobstown and Tallaght broadly had suffered particularly badly.
Burton and her assistant were delayed for about 2 hours in a sit-down protest. Later the state arrested two dozen people involved by arriving with large numbers of gardaí to their homes at 5 and 6 in the morning ('dawn raids'). Now 7 people face charges of false imprisonment for delaying this politician, which carries a maximum sentence of life in jail. And many more on other charges.
See more at:
www.wsm.ie/jobstownnotguilty
Community activist Niamh McDonald has been attending the Jobstown trial in the Courts of Criminal Justice (CCJ) and providing reports on Joan Burton's testimony. At this #JobstownNotGuilty demo she shares what she has observed and some insights.
In November 2014 residents of Tallaght, a working class and largely poor area, blocked tánaiste (deputy prime minister) and Labour Party TD Joan Burton who had visited a community centre in Jobstown for a photo opportunity. Labour had presided over severe a austerity policy including introducing with Fine Gael the infamous water charges, a plan to make people pay twice for water and ultimately privatise it. Jobstown and Tallaght broadly had suffered particularly badly.
Burton and her assistant were delayed for about 2 hours in a sit-down protest. Later the state arrested two dozen people involved by arriving with large numbers of gardaí to their homes at 5 and 6 in the morning ('dawn raids'). Now 7 people face charges of false imprisonment for delaying this politician, which carries a maximum sentence of life in jail. And many more on other charges.
See more at:
www.wsm.ie/jobstownnotguilty
