A Labour senator has claimed that supporters of the water charges have effectively been gagged from expressing their view.

A video has emerged from yesterday's anti-water charge protests which appears to show a vehicle colliding with at least one pedestrian.

Businesses in Dublin are hoping today’s water charges protests will not put a major dent in the profits they were hoping to make in the lucrative pre-Christmas period.

A Dublin Sinn Féin Councillor says he has received a death threat.

Revelations that junior bondholders at Anglo Irish Bank, who are seeking pay-outs of up to €280m, could be given a "bonanza" windfall just as the first water charge bills hit hard-pressed families next spring have provoked uproar.

The Coalition will make a last-ditch attempt to quell public anger over water charges with a massive climb-down which will see bills for an average family slashed by more than a third of what was announced in the summer.

The Cabinet is today expected to agree a short delay in the introduction of water charges as part of a new package of measures to be announced tomorrow.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said the Fine Gael/Labour coalition government has lost its mandate.

It may yet prove to be a watershed moment for the Government.

Up to 150,000 people are out on streets up and down the country in protest against water charges.

Anti-water charges campaigners predict more than 100,000 protesters will be on the streets at 70 demonstrations around the country this Saturday.

Some of the country’s most vulnerable households will miss out on help with their water charges despite a range of payment concessions announced which include tax breaks for the wealthiest earners.

The Right2Water campaign has said that the Government’s "failed Budget attempt to ameliorate the impact of water charges" shows that the water tax cannot be reformed and must be scrapped.