Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

This is a stunning defeat for the political establishment. A Government Minister gave evidence for the prosecution in this case. The former Tánaiste was the star witness for the State. To the crimes of the Labour Party of heaping austerity on working class voters down through the years we can now add a shabby attempt to frame socialists and working class activists for standing up for their communities and against austerity.

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