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Protest at Dail to maintain universal Medical Card for over 70's

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Wednesday October 22, 2008 23:31author by Paula Geraghtyauthor email mspgeraghty at yahoo dot ieauthor phone 0876101340 Report this post to the editors

Over 15,000 took part in today's historic march of predominantly pensioners outside the Dail to keep the universal Medical Card for the over 70's.
Because of their action, solidarity, resiliance, anger and refusal to give in everything will be much different in Ireland. Photoessay from this protest below.
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Worth fighting for!
Worth fighting for!

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Photo story continues     Paula Geraghty    Wed Oct 22, 2008 23:39 
   End of photo story     Paula Geraghty    Wed Oct 22, 2008 23:53 
   great grey turnout     lulu    Thu Oct 23, 2008 09:05 
   Government incompetence.     Sam    Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:39 
   Over 70 medical cards     margaret    Thu Oct 23, 2008 18:40 
   The fight against Education Cuts is next     G    Thu Oct 23, 2008 19:00 
   Great work Paula     M. Ni Bhrolchain    Thu Oct 23, 2008 23:17 
   Cowangate And Watergate     Ms Whiplash    Fri Oct 24, 2008 02:17 


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