60,000 protest against Budget cutbacks

Updated: 12:06, Monday, 8 December 2008

Gardaí estimate that up to 60,000 people took part in a protest against education cutbacks in Dublin city centre.

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2 of 3 Declan Kelleher Cutbacks 'act of educational vandalism'
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Cutbacks 'act of educational vandalism'
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Six One News: Emma O Kelly, Education & Science Correspondent, reports that up to 60,000 people have protested in Dublin over education cutbacks
Six One News: Emma O Kelly, Education & Science Correspondent, reports that up to 60,000 people have protested in Dublin over education cutbacks
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Nine News: Emma O Kelly reports that around 60,000 people marched through Dublin to protest over cutbacks in education
Nine News: Emma O Kelly reports that around 60,000 people marched through Dublin to protest over cutbacks in education

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The primary teachers' union has called on the Minister for Education and Science to begin talks on reversing the education cutbacks.

INTO General Secretary John Carr said the presence of so many protesters was a powerful message to the Government that the cutbacks must be reversed.

Meanwhile the organisation's president Declan Kelleher called the education cutbacks an 'act of educational vandalism'.

He said Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe could save money by bring some 'sanity' into the school building programme.

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