50,000 Irish take to streets over cuts to seal bailout
About 50,000 Irish people took to the streets on Saturday to oppose savage cutbacks needed to secure an international bailout, police said, piling pressure on the debt-laden nation's embattled government.
Waving placards reading "Eire not for sale, not to the IMF" and "there is a better, fairer way", the crowd marched through Dublin in a mass protest against the austerity package announced Wednesday by Prime Minister Brian Cowen. (AFP)
