Donegal: Fight the Education Cuts

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Thursday November 13, 2008 20:32

by Gregor Kerr - Dublin City North INTO & WSM - pers cap

Part of a series of regional demos against the cuts

Organised by the Irish National Teachers Organisation
Protest against Education Cuts
Donegal
Saturday 29th November
Details on www.into.ie as they become available

Comments (4 of 4)

Details

by G

Fri Nov 21, 2008 17:59

from www.into.ie
The Donegal Town Rally will take place on Saturday, 29th November. Parents, teachers and members of school communities are invited to attend the rally which will assemble at the District Hospital in Donegal Town, which is on the Letterkenny approach road at 1.45pm.

Update on this

by Mark C - ASTI (pers. caps.)

Sun Nov 30, 2008 14:27

Is there any update on this? How many attended? Who spoke? What networking came out of it?

I can find nothing on it on the websites of The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, The Irish Examiner. RTE.ie have a link to it from Six-One but it's not opening for me (reporting that "thousands" took to the streets).

Mark.

Donegal Town

by Frank - none

Sun Nov 30, 2008 17:34

I'm not very good at gauging numbers at marches, but RTÉ said there were 8,000. I'd say they weren't far off the mark. Great turnout for the location. There would have been more if it had been in Sligo or Letterkenny but Donegal was chosen because it's the heartland of Tánaiste Mary Coughlan's constituency.
There should be a huge turnout in Dublin next weekend.

Dublin Turnout

by Mark C - ASTI (pers. caps.)

Sun Nov 30, 2008 18:59

Hopefully there'll be a huge turnout in Dublin next weekend. I've heard mention that about 100,000 are expected.