Not all students were willing to listen to the speakers however. One group broke off from the rest, marched against traffic down Leinster St., turn on to Kildare St. and staged a sit-in in front of the Daíl. The group was lead by Free Education for Everyone (FEE), who have been present at USI and Student Union rallies across the country. Armed with a megaphone and a sound system on wheels pumping electro music, FEE lead about 100 students to the Daíl, where they chanted slogans, demanded, at one point, for Brian Cowen to come out and speak to them, and gave speeches through the megaphone to the crowd. The gates of the Daíl were protected by at least a dozen Gardaí on foot, and two on horseback. The student halted traffic from Kildare and Molesworth St.
Aiden Beatty, a fourth-year Law student at Trinity, is one of the co-organisers of FEE in Trinity, and one of the two delegates from Trinity on FEE’s national council. He explained that the group had decided that the break-off march had been planned in the event that “there was a sufficient mood to go a little further than USI.” In regards to FEE’s relationship with the USI, Mr. Beatty said: “We’ve met with Dave Curren a number of times, there’s definitely a difference of opinion, we are all members of USI and our position is to push USI in a more activist direction.”
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