Pat Rabbitte: 'Trotskyist left are a destructive breed apart'

Jobstown is a community that does not deserve to carry the can for ugly imported protest politics

Scenes from the Jobstown water protest

The Ladybird version of the Jobstown water protest is selling well. Almost as well as the “We Are All Jobstown” T-shirts. The accused six were not martyred, but they are nonetheless heroes, not least in their own eyes. And spare a thought for Eamon Dunphy having to explain his “We Are All Jobstown” jersey to his French neighbours in Deauville.

The proposition that the people of Jobstown have risen in anger against austerity ...