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Mass Protest outside the Fine Gael Ard Fheis - Dublin

March 31st, 2012 by Michael Debets
Michael Debets
Dublin, Ireland, Europe
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Mass Protest outside the Fine Gael Ard Fheis Dublin
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Thousands of protesters from the anti Household Tax Campaign march down O'Connell Street towards the Finae Gael Ard Fheis.
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A protester gives two fingers to the Fine Gael Ard Fheis.
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A protester tries to climb the barrier that cordons off the Convention Centre, but is pushed back by a Garda officer.
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Gardai, the Irish police, has cordoned off the street leading to the Convention Centre.
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Jamey Harrington (13) from Ballymun in Dublin protests against the Household charge.
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The Convention Centre is cordoned off by a barrier and Gardai, preventing the protesters to gain access to the area.
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A protester is pushed out of the cordoned off area by a Gardai, after he gained access to the area.
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A protester has gained access to the cordoned off area and calls other protesters to join him in breeching the cordon.
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A protester is dressed as a clow.
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A Phil Hogan look-alike member of Fine Gael argues with a protester. He is seconds later chased by the crowd and needed to be taken away in a police car for his safty.
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A protester is pushed back by several Garda officer after several protesters had tried to breach the cordon around the Convention Centre.
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A poster with the slogan 'unjust Taxes' and a stroked-through swastika.
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A Fine Gael member is escorted into the cordoned off area, after she was hassled by the protesters.
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A protester shouts at the Gardai after several protesters had tried to breach the cordon around the Convention Centre.
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A protester argues with a Garda officer, that it is her right to walk down the street to the Fine Gael Ard Fheis.
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A protester confronts a Fine Gael member who is on his way to the Ard Fheis.
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The march went from O'Connell Street along the Quays towards the Convention Centre Dublin.
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A protesters beats a bodhra, a traditional Irish drum, and wears a Sarkozy mask at the famine monument on the river Liffey.
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A poster with a picture of Phil Hogan, Minister for Environment, Community & Local Government, with a Hitler moustache and the slogan 'Heil Hogan'.
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A protester is dressed as death, waving a scythe.
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The march was led by a lone piper and drummer.
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The march was led by Joe Higgins, a TD from the United Left Alliance.
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A protester shouts slogans while marching to the Fine Gael Ard Fheis.
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A poster at the protest march saying ' Fiscal union loved by Ûuro Gimps' and showing a cartoon of Enda Kenny as a lapdog with a European dog collar.
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A Fine Gael member is escorted by a Garda officer to the convention Centre.
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Around 5000 protesters marched to protest against the Fine Gael Ard Fheis, in a march organised by the Anti Household Tax Campaign which was joined by other groups protesting against the government.

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