Sunday, October 12, 2014
Water charges protest draws massive crowd to the streets
Standing in front of Dublin's iconic GPO building, tens of thousands of anti-water charges protesters roared as one
: "You say cut back - we say fight back!" With a Garda helicopter flying over head, tens of thousands of people from all corners of the country marched from Parnell Square to Leinster House and back to O'Connell Street where Independent TD Clare Daly and People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett led a series of speeches. "This day will go down in history as the day that the people decided to roar," said Clare Daly. "We are here in our tens of thousands to say water is a human right, based on need, not an ability to pay." Waving placards saying 'Water tax will sink households', the crowds spent more than three hours marching around the city centre, chanting such lines as: "Kenny in your ivory tower, this is called people power!"
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