Now protest mob target Bruton’s home
A MOB of protesters who targeted Simon Harris’s home earlier this month took their action to Communications Minister Richard Bruton’s home yesterday.
The Fingal Battalion Direct Action Group and the Anti-Eviction Flying Column began their protests at approximately 2pm when a video was posted to the Fingal Battalion’s Facebook page from outside the minister’s home.
Uniformed and plain-clothes gardaí attended the scene of the demonstration in Drumcondra, Dublin, but as it progressed the number of officers dwindled to three. The silent protest of around 12 people took place without incident.
It is not known whether the minister or his family were in their home during the protest and Mr Bruton did not issue a statement on the matter.
The Anti-Eviction Flying Column, the more militant of the two groups, said on its Facebook page yesterday that the demonstration was ‘very successful’ and that the reaction of the media and the ‘Free State police’ to the protest ‘demonstrates the very real fear in Establishment circles of the organised and disciplined working class’.
The group – which was widely condemned by politicians and commentators for protesting outside Health Minister Simon Harris’s family home on Sunday, February 10, as opposed to his office – added that its campaign of protesting at politicians’ doors has shown it ‘has the ability to bring the class struggle directly to the doors of the Free State Elite’.
When approached, the protesters told the Irish Daily Mail they did not want to comment.
Mr Harris, whose wife Caoimhe and their three-week-old baby daughter were in the house at the time of the protest, told the Marian Finucane Show on RTÉ Radio 1 on Saturday that the actions of the protesters ‘felt like a violation’.