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23/03/2015
Tens Of Thousands Join Anti-Water Charge Protest
Campaign group Right2Water have lead an anti-water charge protest in Dublin.
Right2Water, a coalition of community groups, political parties and trade unions, claim that up to 80,000 people joined Saturday's protest. Other reports put the number of attendees between 30,000 and 40,000.
Three individual groups are understood to have gathered at Connolly Station, Heuston Station and Merrion Square for this year's first anti-water charge protest. The groups then marched to O'Connell Bridge before congregating on O'Connell Street.
Speakers at the events are understood to have called on protesters not to pay their water bills, the first of which are due to issued next month.
(MH/CD)
Right2Water, a coalition of community groups, political parties and trade unions, claim that up to 80,000 people joined Saturday's protest. Other reports put the number of attendees between 30,000 and 40,000.
Three individual groups are understood to have gathered at Connolly Station, Heuston Station and Merrion Square for this year's first anti-water charge protest. The groups then marched to O'Connell Bridge before congregating on O'Connell Street.
Speakers at the events are understood to have called on protesters not to pay their water bills, the first of which are due to issued next month.
(MH/CD)
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