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A stunning 30k minimum at Cork protest march

category national | education | feature author Sunday November 23, 2008 15:24author by Miriam Report this post to the editors

Some say more like 50K

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Marchers Gather for Protest

The weather was good and the march got under way promptly at 12. Traffic into the city had been very heavy so it was obvious there was going to be a good turnout but nobody expected so many to come.

The front of the march caught up with its own tail back at the starting point after marching a mile or so around the city. It started at Grand Parade, proceeded down the South Mall and around by Parnell Place, back up Merchant's Quay then into Patrick Street - where it had to be halted for a while because it had to wait for the last marchers to begin their walk around - and eventually back around to the full length of the Grand Parade to where it began. Stewards and others present say there was easily 30-35K there and some were insisting that it was more like 50K. RTE is wittering about 'between 20-25K' while the poor old Evening Echo in Cork who had obviously taken a gamble with an early edition cheerfully claimed 'More than 5,000 marched in Cork today'.

Good atmosphere but pretty determined and serious too. The speeches said it all with the INTO making a pretty good job of theirs -John Carr in particular making a good fist of it.

The post-march discussion group I attended afterwards were all agreed that the INTO seems to have discovered a bit more courage of late having been the government's pet of unions for a number of years.

The next march is on the 6th in Dublin and it's hoped 100K will turn out. Some folk were talking about posting pictures on Indymedia so hopefully more feedback here soon.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Muted report on Irish Examiner website     Miriam    Sat Nov 22, 2008 18:39 
   Photos from the Cork protest ...     Kevin Doyle    Sat Nov 22, 2008 19:46 
   Photos of the Cork Demo 22.11.08     John Jefferies    Sat Nov 22, 2008 20:06 
   More photos     John Jefferies    Sat Nov 22, 2008 20:10 
   some more pics     Carl    Sat Nov 22, 2008 23:21 
   few more     Carl    Sat Nov 22, 2008 23:25 
   Keep the pressure up     Carl    Sat Nov 22, 2008 23:37 
   Email to RTE     Miriam    Mon Nov 24, 2008 06:37 
   Blackout at the Irish Examiner too     Miriam    Mon Nov 24, 2008 08:10 
 10   Well Done Miriam, Shame on ASTI     Mark C    Mon Nov 24, 2008 09:13 
 11   ASTI     Miriam    Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:17 
 12   Surprised     Mark C    Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:27 
 13   Thank you     YellowHairedLady    Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:35 
 14   inadequate report     tomeile    Mon Nov 24, 2008 18:41 
 15   To Tomeile     Mark C    Mon Nov 24, 2008 19:27 
 16   With what?     Biker    Mon Nov 24, 2008 19:52 
 17   Response from The Irish Examiner     Mark C    Mon Nov 24, 2008 21:02 
 18   Publish And Be Damned     Michael    Mon Nov 24, 2008 22:09 
 19   Images     Hilary    Mon Nov 24, 2008 23:53 
 20   Examiner     Miriam    Tue Nov 25, 2008 00:42 
 21   LCA     Mark C    Tue Nov 25, 2008 07:55 
 22   comment     tomeile    Wed Nov 26, 2008 18:03 
 23   You're missing the point Tomeile     Miriam    Wed Nov 26, 2008 19:20 
 24   Robert Fisk, John Pilger, and Objectivity     Mark C    Wed Nov 26, 2008 23:25 
 25   ASTI Speaker at Rally     Mark C    Wed Nov 26, 2008 23:30 
 26   Be there on Saturday the 6th     Miriam    Thu Dec 04, 2008 13:06 
 27   Good luck to all marchers in Dublin today     Miriam    Sat Dec 06, 2008 13:10 
 28   70K marchers in Dublin?     Miriam    Sat Dec 06, 2008 15:59 


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