Campaigners have warned today that if a property tax is introduced in today's Budget, it will be boycotted in the same way that hundreds of thousands of people boycotted the Household Charge.

More than 4,000 Fine Gael grassroots members will gather in Dublin from this evening for the party's first ard fheis since last year's election win.

Demonstrations have taken place across the country today against the Government's proposed Household Charge.