Journalists in Ireland are demonstrating tomorrow against the government’s handling of the economic crisis.

NUJ members are uniting with trade unionists from across Ireland under the slogan ‘There is a better, fairer way’ to campaign for employment rights, pay, and job protection.

The national protest has been called by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and will set off from Parnell Square in Dublin at 2pm on Saturday 21 February.

The NUJ website quotes Seamus Dooley, NUJ Irish secretary, as saying: “While there will be an understandable focus on the public sector this is not just about public sector workers.”

“A slogan we are using now is that we are all public sector workers,” NUJ Left activist Paula Geraghty says.

The mood of many union members is captured well in a video of a day of action against savage pay cuts organised by Ireland’s Civil and Public Services Union in the run-up to tomorrow’s demo.

One of the speakers at the rally was CPSU deputy general secretary Eoin Ronayne, former NUJ Irish secretary.

NUJ members are meeting outside the Writer’s Museum on Parnell Square at 1.45pm. The march will travel along O’Connell Street, D’Olier Street, College Green, Nassau Street, Clare Street and on to Merrion Square.

Posted by NUJ Left