Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Dublin today to protest the Covid-19 lockdown and the introduction of domestic vaccine certs.
The protest march, which started at the Customs House Quay and finished at Merrion Square outside Leinster House, was organised in solidarity with similar anti-lockdown protest marches happening in cities around the world such as Sydney, Australia.
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While crowd estimates varied, videos and photos of the crowd showed the event was sizeable and diverse. Organisers claimed that the numbers attending throughout the day was in the tens of thousands.
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Signs and sentiments expressed a variety of anti-authority slogans, such as “The only thing making me sick is this government,” “Leave Our Kids Alone” and “No to vaccine passport; undemocratic and unconstitutional.”
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