Protest in Galway yesterday by Galway Unites Against Cuts

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Sunday December 05, 2010 16:00

by DunloT - Galway Unites Against Cuts

"An interest rate above 2% will sink us" (Prof. Morgan Kelly

In bitter, thick fog resembling the miasma hanging over the economic abyss that is now Ireland, some 300-400 protesters, yesterday, marched from the Cathedral through Eglington St and Shop Street to the Spanish Arch plaza voicing their anger, contempt and sense of betrayal for a government that has spectacularly lost the trust of its people but like a stinging, dying wasp is still hell-bent on forcing through a budget of unprecedented savagery that saddles and cripples the Irish people with the private gambling debts of rogue banks and a millstone "bailout" of usurious, ruinous interest rates from the IMF and EU.

If pathetic fallacy captured the dark mood at the start of the march, it reflected it again at the Spanish Arch after the stirring speeches of Ann Irwin (Community Worker Coop), Brendan Gallagher (Galway Says No to Health Cuts), independent Galway City Councillor; Catherine Connolly, Conor Stitt (Free Education for Everyone) and Eamon Walsh (Hope for Disability) when brilliant sunshine bathed the plaza and Galway City - which brought to mind Johhny Nash's lifting song; I Can See Clearly Now.

Once FF and the Greens are flushed into the sewer of history at the forthcoming general election, then, we'll have something to hope for.?

"Gone are the dark clouds that had us blind
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day".

Ooops! Forgot about disgusting FG and weak, weak, Labour.

Now is the time for Joe Higgin's (Socialist Party), Kieran Allan (SWP), Sinn Féin and Independents of strong morality and conviction to lead us.?