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ESB

ESB2Hundreds of ESB workers gather outside the ESB’s headquarters on Lower Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin.

They’re protesting an approval, made at today’s AGM, to pay a €78.4m dividend to the State/exchequer.

The workers claim the move is unlawful and that it will undermine the semi-State body’s ability to sort out a €1.6billion deficit in the ESB’s pension fund.

ESB workers protest over planned dividend to State (RTÉ)

ESB staff try to halt €500m dividend payments to State over pension dispute (Irish Times)

Pics: Emily

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Rabble writes:

“Approximately 30 Campaign Against Home & Water Tax activists have occupied Revenue office on O’Connell St. Gardaí have arrived on scene. Activists have ‘locked-on'”

Rabble

-1jandsavon Jeremy Irons (with Sinead Cusack) speaking at the ‘Walk in the Woods’ event at Avondale House (Charles Stewart Parnell’s birthplace) near Rathdrum in Wicklow, this afternoon.

Organised by the Woodland League and the Natural Resourses Protection Alliance in protest at the government’s plan to sell off harvesting rights to Ireland’s 1.2 million acres of public forests for the next 80 years to Bertie Ahern’s mates private interests as an especially soulless part of the Troika programme.

(Thanks marsupial)