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The 2010 student protest in Dublin was a demonstration that took place in the centre of the city on 3 November 2010 in opposition to a proposed increase in university registration fees, further cuts to the student maintenance grant and increasing graduate unemployment and emigration levels caused by the 28th Government of Ireland. Organized by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) and students unions nationwide, it saw between 25,000 and 40,000 protesters on the streets of central Dublin during what ''The Irish Times'' described as "the largest student protest for a generation". The protestors came from all over Ireland – students from most third-level colleges featured, as did some protestors from Queen's University Belfast〔 – with many travelling to the city by coach.〔 It took more than an hour and a half for all the protestors to walk from Parnell Square to Government Buildings in Merrion Street, a short distance.〔 Some protestors and gardaí engaged in clashes following the protest, with an unidentified number of people being wounded and three gardaí sustaining minor injuries; two arrests were made. The two men who were arrested were in their twenties and charged with criminal damage and a breach of the peace respectively.〔 The Department of Finance was occupied by protestors for a time, and 36 complaints of police brutality were made of which just over half were admitted;〔http://www.gardaombudsman.ie/GSOC/121110-Complaints-arising-from-incidents-associated-with-the-student-protest-in-Dublin-on-3rd-November-2010.pdf〕 these led to a further march by students seven days later with the intention to "end garda brutality".〔 Presseurop wondered the day after thousands of students marched on the streets of Dublin: "Has Ireland awoken?" and said the protest had "Giv() the lie to general opinion that the economically stricken nation has taken swingeing austerity measures with passive resignation". "Scenes bizarrely similar" occurred in London one week later. ==Background== The BBC's Ireland Correspondent Mark Simpson noted that most demonstrations in Ireland had been "angry rather than violent".〔 One example he alluded to occurred two days before students demonstrated when Minister for Health and Children Mary Harney was successfully pelted with red paint by an opposition politician in a protest intended to highlight the "blood budget" which "will result in the unnecessary and avoidable deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of people over the coming years"; this incident occurred while she was attempting to open a mental healthcare facility in Dublin.〔 But Simpson also wrote that "It is unlikely that their () demonstration will make any difference. () They (Irish government ) will be hoping that young people will eventually accept (Ireland has no money ). After all, most students know what it feels like to be broke".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2010 student protest in Dublin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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