This is a challenge to the entire trade union movement in Ireland - a declaration of war on the wages and working conditions of all workers. - Joe Higgins

We want to see measures to implement taxation justice for ordinary working people. We want an end to the policy of many years now, of huge tax concessions for big corporations and a plethora of stealth taxes on ordinary families and ordinary working people.

Higgins: Is [assassination] only justified if the target is a reactionary, anti-democratic, anti-human rights obscurantist like bin Laden?
Enda Kenny: I know you are a good Christian man who has your job to do in here from a political point of view. Many of his victims in the twin towers in New York were of Irish descent or directly Irish.

I only wanted to ask the Tanaiste if he now officially endorses cronyism and patronage in Irish politics.