Budget Protest outside Leinster House

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday December 04, 2002 15:02 by Justin Moran - Sinn Fein maigh_nuad at yahoo dot com

Was only there for five minutes and it might still be going on but there was a small enough turnout for the budget protest march outside Leinster House.

Was only there for five minutes and it might still be going on but there was a small enough turnout for the budget protest march outside Leinster House.

A crowd of 150 (Absolute no question maximum) heard speakers including Martin Ferris, Joe Higgins, Seamus Healy, the President of the CPSU and a rep from the Monaghan Hospital Action Group (Who are practically permanently encamped outside Leinster House these days and dead sound people to have a chat with if you ever pass by).

There were two or three SF banners, an SP banner and a lot of SP placards and some people selling Socialist Worker so those groups were represented as well.

Couldn't stay for any of the speeches so some-one else will have to inform as to what was said but turnout was disappointing. Obviously the fact that it was a workday, close to Xmas and didn't get a great deal of publicity beforehand didn't help but still, disappointing.