Over 100,000 people are expected to attend the Right2Water demonstrations this Saturday, 1st November.

Sinn Féin Cllr Daithi Doolan said this Saturday marks the next level of the party's campaign.

He said: "Right2Water urged people to organise a day of action in their cities; towns and villages. We are delighted at the response. We aim to put maximum pressure on government TDs in their own constituencies. We are confident we will have a total of over 100,000 people at these events. So far we have nearly 60 events happening from Donegal to Cork, Ballinasloe to Ballyfermot. Numbers will be from thousands to 10,000 at these different events. But one thing is for sure we are a lot nearer to scraping the water charges today than when we started the Right2Water campaign in August."

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"Sinn Féin is happy to play a central and active role in this genuine, broad, citizen-based campaign. We will continue to work with others until this government sees sense and rubbishes this outrageous charge. If Fine Gael and the Labour Party refuse to yield then we will make water charges the number one issue in the forthcoming general election."

(CD/IT)