Council uses Bullyboy Tactics on Bin Tax Protestors

Bin Tax campaigners were angered at the garda presence at the Suir Road depot this morning for the weekly protest.

Every saturday morning 11am, people come out from Drimnagh, Crumlin, Inchicore and Rialto to the Suir Road DCC depot to dispose of their rubbish as the Council refuses to collect on the normal bin day. This morning was different. Council officials, who were present today, told protesters that anyone who left their rubbish at the depot would have their names and addresses taken.

Locals were outraged. People commented on how the bullyboy tactics of using the Gardai to push through government policy was now being imported from Erris in Mayo. People had seen the police brutality on the telly from yesterday in Mayo and were very resentful that Dublin City Council were bringing the police back to intimidate people into paying the bin tax.

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