After 15,000 pensioners protest the budget cutbacks similar numbers of students demonstrate from Parnell Square to the Dáil.
Gardaí blocked off Kildare Street in fear of student radicalism and occupation after the previous events in UCD, with horses and wagons.
Placards declare students' talents at political irony just minutes after the silver protestors depart the environs of the Dáil. images (c)