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Thu 10 Oct 2008The return of street politics
WHAT an astonishing act of engagement with the political system by the old and the young yesterday, the likes of which has not been seen for many, many years. Some 20,000 voters took to the streets, most of them over 70 years of age, accompanied by their supporters; the others students who have not been energised to protest in such numbers for an age also.
It must be shocking to the Government and its supporters that the Budget has engaged so many angry people. The issue of the over-70s medical card has not died down and the issue of eduction cuts, across all sectors, has yet to raise its own head of steam.
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