Fitzmaurice says he did not incite Roscommon violence

Independent TD told Dáil last week that Irish people need to ‘wake up’over evictions

December 16th, 2018: An attack has taken place on a house in Falsk, Co Roscommon, leaving eight security guards injured. A number of people had been evicted from the property earlier in the week. Video: The Democrat Newspaper, Roscommon & Tom Dignam

Independent Roscommon TD Michael Fitzmaurice has denied that comments he made in the Dáil last week had incited violence.

On Wednesday during a Dáil debate on the Anti-Evictions Bill he had warned that “Irish people need to wake up, especially if people are coming from the North. We must take them on and stop what is happening.”

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