Brilliant piece by Colm Keena on water protest

An excellent article in Saturday's 'Irish Times' by Colm Keena titled Water charge movement about protest, not water.

He points out how the anti-bin campaign was worse than just a failure.

Work that had been done by men who had permanent, reasonably well-paid jobs, public service pensions and good employment conditions became the work of people whose pay and conditions are markedly different, and for the worse.

In fact, and perhaps perversely, the working conditions of th epeople who now collect household rubbish, can be seen as a microcosm of the kind of economic and societal change that is driving the popularity of political actors such as the PBP-AAA.