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Taxi drivers to protest on March 20th

  Taxi Drivers for Change are to mount another protest in Dublin city this coming Friday, March 20th. Details are sketchy as of yet but members of the group are being instructed to meet at Airside and Liffey Valley with protest action taking place between the hours of 8a.m. and 2p.m.  Last week, Goodbody Economic [...]

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Primary school teachers to strike on March 30th

On the first week of March the members of the teacher unions, the ASTI, INTO and TUI, voted to “take industrial action, up to and including strike action, over the government’s handling of the economic crisis” (see TUI press release). In the past few days, ICTU have begun organising a one-day strike on March 30th, [...]

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More taxi protests for Dublin?

The “Taxi Drivers For Change” (TDFC) campaign took to the streets on wheels on Thursday, finally hitting their city centre destination at government buildings around 1.30pm, about an hour later than originally scheduled. The group claim that some 2,500 taxis made the journey from the three designated starting points around the city for the protest [...]

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