National Irish protest for Health and Education

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday May 19, 2003 14:33 by Mary Keller

Opposition parties, unions, community groups, citizens UNITED!

I am listening to Joe Duffy on RTE radio as I write this. There is caller after caller (of all walks of life) speaking of the government's sickening attitude towards its citizens. In particular there is outrage at the state of the education and health systems and calls for national protests, government dismissals and one caller even suggested some form of uprising! In light of Bertie's Brothers, Minister Noel Ahern, remarks at the weekend (saying the Govt. needs to spin more) the ground is fertile to expose this rotten rotten government and there drastic politics of power, priviledge and corruption. This time their arrogance has gone too far and the ordinary people of Ireland need an outlet for their demands and voices. Let's do it now and not wait to become another privitised America.