A number of protests take place tomorrow in Dublin and Galway against government spending cuts already made and further cuts anticipated in the forthcoming Budget.
The largest protest, which is organised by Ictu, will see people gather at the headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank in St Stephen's Green at 12.30pm before marching to the Dáil.
The 'Jobs Not Cuts' march is also being supported by the Labour Party, Sinn Féin, People Before Profit, the Right To Work Campaign and a majority of Dublin City councillors.
"What we will be saying, as TDs return to the Dáil after a twelve-week break, is that while they were away unemployment reached 455,000 while €25 billion was poured into the banks," said an Ictu spokesman.
The action is being organised in response to a call from the European Trade Union Confederation for protests against austerity measures throughout the EU.
Siptu general secretary Jack O'Connor will be among those to address protesters in Dublin while congress president David Begg is travelling to Brussels to take part in a protest.
A smaller protest specifically against cuts to community projects will take place earlier outside Leinster House and is organised by the the Canal Communities Partnership, with the support of Siptu.
John Bisset, a community worker in the Rialto area of Dublin, said community projects providing services to some of the most vulnerable people had been "cut to the bone" and could not bear any further cuts.
"Basically these are services to elderly people, lone parents, kids in trouble, the unemployed. And we need them. It took us twenty years to build them up and it is crazy to dismantle them now when they are most needed. It will take 20 years to build them up again."
In Galway, a collaboration between Siptu and the community and voluntary sector will be announced at 1 pm in Eyre Square. The 'Defending Ireland's Communities' campaign would aim to resist "disproportionate budget cuts to the community and voluntary sector in the Budgets of 2011 and 2012," said Noreen Parker, Siptu organiser for the community sector.
A group called the One Percent Network has said wealth inequality must be made a political priority and is organising a "political walking tour through the heartland of the Golden Circle" on Saturday, October 9th in Dublin.
The group is a coalition of socialist groups which has come together to oppose the "cutback agenda of the government", said spokesman Gregor Kerr.
