Irish campaigners demand halt to repayment of Anglo Irish Bank debts

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Irish campaigners demand halt to repayment of Anglo Irish Bank debts

• €3.1bn bond payout in March ‘could fund primary schools’• Rescuing bailed-out lender will ultimately cost €47bn• ‘Ruining whole societies to pay illegitimate debts is wrong’Anti-debt campaigners gathered in Dublin on Wednesday to call on the Irish government to suspend repayments on the bonds of bailed-out lender Anglo Irish Bank. A coalition of trades unionists, faith groups and international debt relief campaigners called Debt Justice Action is highlighting the social costs of keeping up repayments on the bonds of Ireland’s bailed-out banking sector.