Six more bin protesters have been jailed by the High Court this morning for failing to comply with an order preventing them from interfering with bin collections by South Dublin County Council.
In passing a jail sentence of three weeks on six of the nine people who appeared this morning, Mr Justice Finnegan said society did not function if the law was not obeyed.
The six are also liable to costs of €1,500 each.
Two of the people who appeared this morning gave undertakings to comply with the order, while a third, Mr Mick Murphy of the Campaign Against Refuse Charges, will appear again next Monday on the same charges.
However, Mr Murphy, who is also the spokesman for the campaign told ireland.comthis morning's sentences would not prevent protests against the charges, although he said a decision on what further action would be taken would be made this evening at a meeting of protesters from across South County Dublin.
He said that at the moment, according to South Dublin County Coucil's figures, €111 million has been collected in bin charges so far, which if divided by €1,380 - the annual bin charge in the area - means 29,000 people have paid so far.
Even allowing for 10 per cent who have waivers it still leaves 58 per cent of people not paying, he said.
"Its clear from this," he said, "that there is a huge number of people right across the area who are supporting the campaign. We are not giving up on this . . . we will fight it to the bitter end.
"People are sick of the double standards in this country. We have the various scandals including people admitting in public that they have bribed politicians and council officials and nothing is been done to them, yet we are carted off for fighting this new tax," Mr Murphy said. "It is people like us who pay the bulk of the taxes."
There was no one available to comment from the South Dublin County Council earlier this morning.
Yesterday, eight bin-charge protesters were ordered yesterday by the High Court to pay €200 each towards the legal costs of proceedings taken by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
All eight undertook to obey court orders restraining such obstruction in the future.