GARDAI DISPERSE PROTEST AT FORMER OCCUPY GALWAY SITE IN EYRE SQUARE

Date Published: 15-Oct-2012

A lightening protest in Eyre Square at the former Occupy Galway site has been dispersed by Galway Gardai

6 protestors chalked slogans and comments about the city council on the walls which propped up the Occupy Galway camp for 6 months to March this year

As the slogans were being chalked the orange coloured city council water tanker was used by council staff to hose down the chalkings

The demonstration comes on the one year anniversary of the worldwide Occupy movement

Galway Gardai were on the scene quickly and neg with the protestors who after less than an hour then dispersed

A Garda spokesperson confirmed to FYI Galway no arrests were made