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Thu 10 Oct 2008Thousands march in day of anti-Budget protests
THE GOVERNMENT defeated an Opposition motion on the medical card issue last night but any sense of relief among Coalition TDs was diminished by the scale of street protests earlier in the day outside the gates of Leinster House.
The protest by the elderly was organised by the Senior Citizens' Parliament in advance of the vote on a Fine Gael motion calling for a reversal of the decision to end automatic entitlement of the over-70s to a medical card.
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