About 200 people turned out for a “pre-budget” protest in Waterford city at the weekend.

Last Saturday, Nov 24, over 20,000 people turned up to a magnificent pre-budget anti-austerity demonstration in Dublin.

Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of central Dublin at the weekend in a mass protest against austerity measures.

Up to 10,000 people are expected to take to the streets of Dublin in a weekend protest march against Government austerity measures.

A demonstration will be held in Dublin later to protest against the handing over of a further €1bn to unsecured AIB bondholders today.

The Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes is calling on the Social Protection Minister to clarify whether people trying to claim social welfare will have to prove they have paid the household charge first.

The Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes has pledged to step up its campaign in the coming weeks as concern grows that those who have not paid the household charge may get a court summons.

The board of directors at a community centre in a Cork harbour town has reversed a decision preventing an anti-household charge group from holding meetings at their property.

A row has broken out in a Cork harbour town after an anti-household charge group was told it was no longer allowed to hold meetings in their local community centre.

Campaigners opposed to water charges have said any attempt to introduce water and property taxes on households would be met with mass opposition and a widespread boycott.

The Campaign Against Household and Water Taxes (CAHWT) has pledged to oppose the Government's plan to introduce water taxes in 2014.

Mistakes were made in the rollout of the household tax, ministers admitted as the scale of the mass boycott continued to embarrass the Government.

The latest figures on the Household Charge show that 770,980 people have registered to pay the €100 fee.

The Government is being accused of "failing miserably" when it comes to convincing the public to pay the Household Charge.

Thousands of demonstrators have attended a protest rally in Dublin against the government's controversial household charge.

Thousands of people from around the country have turned out for an anti-household charge rally in Dublin.

Staff from city and town councils are to call to households that are refusing to pay the €100.

Opposers to the household tax received a major boost when the country’s biggest trade union demanded a rethink on the levy yesterday.

People who are on the brink and can pay no more are “willing and ready to stand together” against the household charge, campaigners have claimed.

Nine TDs joined forces with campaigners against the new household tax today.

A rally is to take place in Limerick tonight against household and water taxes.

Demonstrations outside government departments and the bank formally known as Anglo Irish took place yesterday to mark the controversial handover of €1.25 billion to unsecured bondholders.

A NATIONWIDE campaign against household and water charges was launched yesterday amid confusion over methods for paying the new property tax.

ALMOST 6,000 home-owners have rushed to pay the controversial household charge, despite claims from those opposed to it that as many as half of all people liable will refuse to pay up.

A MASS revolt against looming property and water taxes was demanded by left-wing TDs last night.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has today moved to re-assure people that the planned property tax will be fair and affordable.

HOMEOWNERS who refuse to pay the €100 property tax risk having a fine of up to €2,500 deducted from their wages or welfare payments.