Anti-bin charge campaigners have continued protesting today despite a High Court injunction preventing them from obstructing refuse collectors.
Yesterday Fingal County Council won its injunction against 15 campaigners, including Socialist Party TD Mr Joe Higgins and Socialist Party councillors Ruth Coppinger and Clare Daly, after a second day of protests left thousands of Dublin residents with unemptied bins.
Cllr Clare Daly said today that she still had not received notice of the injunction from the High Court and insisted that she would "carry on [protesting] regardless" of the injunction. She said that she did not know "six or seven" of the people who had the injunction taken against them.
Protesting in Santry today, Cllr Daly said the protests had caused massive disruption to the bin collecting service there despite a "large garda presence".
"Drivers aren't going into estates where they know there is massive opposition to the bin taxes. They're operating a kind of smash-and-grab strategy in some areas," Cllr Daly said.
She added that claims made by Fingal Co Council that abandoned trucks were a danger to the public because of methane produced by waste was "an old trick".
"They [Fingal Co Council] used that argument before when bin workers went on strike. There is not enough waste in the trucks to produce dangerous levels of methane. The drivers know that," added Cllr Daly.
A spokeswoman for Fingal Co Council told ireland.comthat the bin collection service had been "fairly OK" today and that the council was doing its best to deliver the service. She said that bin protesters had resorted to cutting off the tags - which show if the bin tax has been paid - on bins at night time in the Dublin 15 area.
She also denied that there were hundreds of protesters campaigning against the bin charges.
"There are 20 to 30 people moving from estate to estate blockading trucks. Someone will follow a truck in a car to see where the truck it is going and then they ring rent-a-crowd to come along and protest," she said.
A driver, who had his truck blockaded by a car in Santry yesterday, abandoned his vehicle which was still there at lunch time today.