UP TO 50 people demonstrated in Greystones, Co Wicklow, on Saturday in a protest against the banking sector.
The protest, organised by the Right to Work campaign, began in the town centre and demonstrators marched to the family home of Seán FitzPatrick, former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank.
The demonstration was themed by organisers as the “jail the bankers” march. They carried placards that read, “make the wealthy pay” and chanted “seize the assets of the wealthy”. Demonstrators stopped outside Mr FitzPatrick’s home in Greystones for about 10 minutes.
They whistled and chanted outside the house, which was protected by gardaí who stood between protesters and the gates of the property. There was no recognition of the protest from any person within the property.
The demonstrators returned to the town centre where a number of speakers addressed them including James O’Toole of the Right to Work campaign.
He said: “The assets of people who caused the current financial difficulties should be seized by Nama. The people accused of causing the present problems are still in possession of personal property portfolios.”
Mr FitzPatrick and his wife are joint owners of their family home, as well as two investment properties, and apartments in Smithfield and Killiney in Dublin and in Marbella, Spain, he said.