HUNDREDS PROTEST AGAINST INIS OIRR FISH FARM

Date Published: 02-Mar-2013

SEVERAL hundred protesters set off on a march from Eyre Square today led by a lone piper to protest at a proposal to locate a Deep sea salmon farm off Inis Oirr.

Gardai on duty at the start of the protest at Eyre Square estimated the crowd setting out at approximately 600 and others joined in along the route to the Spanish Arch for speeches.

A group of those marching carried an Aran islands curragh and those in the march came from different parts of Ireland according to organiser Brian Curran.