A protest against a proposed trade agreement between the EU and the USA is taking place in Dublin city this afternoon.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) aims to remove trade barriers between Europe and the United States and Canada.
Demonstrators are meeting at Central Bank on Dame Street from 1pm.
Opponents of the deal argue that the agreement between EU states, the US and Cananda will lower environmental, food safety and employment standards, and have opposed the secretive nature of negotiations surrounding it.
Yesterday, Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy called on the European Commission to make public all documents relating to ongoing trade negotiations with the United States.
An estimated 250,000 attended an anti-TTIP rally in Berlin last week.
Barry Finnegan is a researcher with the Irish branch of the civil society group Attac. He says the Dublin protest will coincide with other demonstrations around Europe today:
