"state visits by Windsor and Obama nothing more than an attempt to foster subservience to the political and economic establishment"
éirígí chairperson Brian Leeson has accused the Dublin government of treating the Irish people as fools after revelations about the massive costs of recent controversial state visits. Twenty-Six County justice minister Alan Shatter has been forced to concede that the cost to the tax-payer for the state visits by Elizabeth Windsor and Barak Obama in May will now be nearly twice the original estimate.

The Irish Anti-war Movement is to hold a black balloon protest at the GPO in Dublin' O'Connell Street next Tuesday evening at 6.30pm, as a reminder of the thousands killed in Afghanistan and Iraq at the hands of western troops. This includes the deaths of young British troops, many of who joined the army purely to improve their economic circumstances—only to be killed or maimed in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The socialist republican party éirígí have revealed further details of their planned protests against the upcoming Elizabeth Windsor visit later this month.