Very interesting Joe Duffy show today.
According to Joe ,the Irish Times and the Observer both go with the marchers totalling 100,000 - a figure agreed by most marchers as being approximately correct.
Joe interviewed Jack O'Connor who confirmed that he had voluntarily taken a 10% pay cut last year and a 20% reduction to his pension.
Jack further confirmed that he never had nor ever would accept a seat on the board of any other company or organisation and indeed he pointed out that members of SIPTU under their constitution were precluded from accepting salaries for such service - either they were'nt paid or their salary was added to union funds , in any event no individual benefited.
Jack further went on to say that he had no problem with Union officials serving on such boards as the more worker representation the better - it just was'nt for him.
Jack confirmed that he was booed - by people who were seeking a general one day strike - which Jack as a sensible man did'nt think was warranted at this stage - this I can attest to as I was there.
One of the good things about the march was the general consensus that the anger was most directed where it belonged - the current government and the banks.