Petrol attack on meter van NOT connected to water protests
Apparently this evening someone threw a petrol bomb at a water meter installer’s van in the Ballsgrove estate in Drogheda. No one was harmed and the van was not badly damaged as the bottle missed. However this incident has nothing to do with the water protests.
The government and media will undoubtedly try to use this to demonise the water protest and come in heavy handed with public order units. So we will get this information out there first as our Party Secretary Anthony Connor, a Drogheda man, has already made inquiries locally.
It must be made known that there were no water meter protests in Ballsgrove today. The installers had an uninterrupted work day. So this was nothing to do with water protesters.
This was an isolated event by an unconnected person. The locals in the estate believe they know who the perpetrator was and that person has nothing to do with the protests.
Now this information is out there, and the press subscribe to this site, we will see the standard of journalism that follows and which newspapers are fair and which are compromised.
The water protest is a peaceful one and will always remain so.
3 Comments
Paul Kelly
This report is a blatant attempt by DDI, Anthony Connor, his side kick Chris Faulkner and their fellow protestors to disassociate themselves from what actually happened. Both men were in Ballsgrove all day trying to rally up protestors amongst the residents and failed. There is no ‘apparently’ here. AC knows full well that a petrol bomb was thrown and the damage it caused to an installation vehicle not to mention the fact that what happened was the best possible outcome i.e. that the bomb did not hit a worker (lucky) and that the workers reacted so quickly to extinguish the flames. DDI doesnt seem too concerned in the report above with the mental scarring this event (and other protests you condone) has caused the workers and the residents (of this and other peaceful estates). DDI should face facts and treat any journalism related to this attack as unbiased compared to their own view above. Lets see how long this comment stays on the page and how ‘democratic’ you really are !!!
Admin D
As we said Paul, the men had an uninterupted day of work, only two people in the vicinity were available to say they did not want a water meter. I cannot tell you if that was respected by the installers or not, but there was no protest as you agree. Hence, and you also agree, it was not the protest that did carried out the attack. What else is there to say. That is the whole point of the short article.