There were hundreds of people at an anti-water charges demonstration outside Irish Water headquarters on Talbot street in Dublin today.

Is it not highly significant that in all of the media comments on the registration of septic tanks, very few commentators explained why a huge number of people, almost half, refused to register?

One of the reasons I attended the demonstration last Saturday at the Labour Party conference, along with many others from Glór na Tuaithe, was to protest against the closing of Garda stations in rural Ireland.