Debt activists Mark Malone, top and below right, and Lisa Patten, above, outside the Central Bank, Dame Street, Dublin celebrating Not Our Debt Week, a jubilee-style global movement to coincide with annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF being held in Washington, October 8-15.

Nessa Ni Chasaide from Debt and Development Coalition Ireland said

“We join with campaigners across the World this week and say to the lenders meeting in Washington it’s time to stop, illegitimate debts are not our debts “.

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(Sam Boal/Photocal Ireland)