Socialist Clare Daly will protest against Obama and Queen visits

In the new issue of Hot Press (out today), Socialist Party TD Clare Daly tells us that she will protest against the forthcoming State visits by both Queen Elizabeth and Barack Obama: “I’d imagine we’ll probably be protesting. People can’t meet their mortgages, people on social welfare, and we’re spending millions on this visit. Also from the point of view of the role of the British army, and she is head of the British Army in Afghanistan, in Iraq and so on. Yeah, we would be opposed to the visit on that basis.”

On Burning the Bond-holders in Irish Banks, Daly declares, "There’s no way the Irish population can pay this money. You wonder whether the strategy is just to get as much money as possible back into the hands of the German, French and to a lesser extent, British banks and bondholders, who loaned recklessly… We’re going to be asked to sell off everything.”

The Socialist TD also offers herself as a champion of fathers' rights, saying, “I have met many men who I believe have been seriously hard done by, by the courts and by the system. I think there are people in the campaigns for fathers’ rights who maybe don’t help the cause because of the way in which they conduct themselves, but I do think there is a problem there, absolutely, that needs to be articulated…

Read the full interview in the new issue (Villagers cover), in shops now.