Bricklayers jailed over site picket
Friday, 10 February 2006 23:02
Three bricklayers from Ballybrack in south Dublin have been jailed after refusing to undertake to obey a court order to stop picketing a building site in Ballybrack.
The men, all from the Ballybrack/Sallynoggin area, were part of a group who placed a picket on the Collen Construction Limited building site where 77 local authority houses are being built.
Today the three men, Andrew Clarke of Cromlech Fields, Keith Kelly of Ashlawn Park, Ballybrack and William McClurg, Sallynoggin, told the High Court they would not obey the court order.
They were then jailed by Ms Justice Mary Laffoy, who told them they could come back to court and purge their contempt at any time.
Supporters in the courtroom gave the men a round of applause and some shouted that it was a disgrace, these are three family men.
The men had claimed that they live in the community where the construction is going on and are unable to obtain employment at the site.
- News At One: Mary Wilson, Legal Affairs Editor, reports on three bricklayers who have been jailed after refusing to stop picketing a building site
- Nine News: Mary Wilson Legal Affairs Editor, reports as three bricklayers are jailed for contempt of a High Court order
- Six One News: Mary Wilson, Legal Affairs Editor, reports as three men are sent to prison for refusing to lift a picket at a building site
- One News: Mary Wilson, Legal Affairs Editor, reports that the men refused to obey an order banning the picket
