Folks are in cranky mood Minister!

Darragh29

Was watching Questions & Answers on Monday night and I don't know if anyone saw the man in the audience who lost it with Willie O' Dea and was roaring at him, ended up crumpling up two sheets of paper/leaflets he had received through his letterbox from Mary Harney & Mary Hanifin, regarding new school facilities in the area, and firing the crumpled up ball of paper at Will O' Dea!

Yesterday the AOP's gave Junior Health Minister a scare when he must have thought that we was going to be chased out of St. Andrews Church and down Westland Row by over a thousand fired up OAP's...

I think it's great to see people finally getting animated and fired up against small people in big offices who make stupid decisions.

But I'm surprised at how all of a sudden, there seems to be a new cult springing up which involves screaming and roaring at a government minister. It looked to me in both situations above, that all it would take would be a thin line to be crossed before someone loses their temper and physically attacks the person they are challenging!

Has anyone else noticed this???

Gone West

Yup senseless old people screaming at a government minister who came to speak to their rally.
Scream at him enough and he will píss off(which he did), and no ministers (junior or otherwise) will bother coming down next time.
You'd expect it from hippys, vagrants, college kids, people from the northside, foreigners and other undesirables, but not old people!

Covey

Yep, could see that happening and thats not to be welcomed.

I think though it reflects the depth of ineptitute of the Government and the reaction if anything is going to get worse.

The Budget is the catalist, but lurking behind are the plethora of other problems. You've now got Donegal women hiring buses to go to Belfast for breast scans and kids will be the next to march on our politicans.

As someone who remembers the 70's and 80's well, I think if anything we're in a worse situation now and a populace that will simply not take it lying down.

Bad days ahead, I fear.

Prof.Badass

the whole medical card thing was (and still is) pretty dumb on their part.

Old people are their niche in the political market, their target audience if you will.

Covey

FuzzyLogic wrote: »

Yup senseless old people screaming at a government minister who came to speak to their rally.
Scream at him enough and he will píss off(which he did), and no ministers (junior or otherwise) will bother coming down next time.
You'd expect it from hippys, vagrants, college kids, people from the northside, foreigners and other undesirables, but not old people!

I really think you should remove your racist comments.

SEPT 23 1989

People really have had enough,god only knows what its going to be like in a couple of years time well done to the oaps,students and that bloke throwing paper at mr marx seems the irish people are beginning to grow a pair.

thelordofcheese

Darragh29 wrote: »

Was watching Questions & Answers on Monday night and I don't know if anyone saw the man in the audience who lost it with Willie O' Dea and was roaring at him, ended up crumpling up two sheets of paper/leaflets he had received through his letterbox from Mary Harney & Mary Hanifin, regarding new school facilities in the area, and firing the crumpled up ball of paper at Will O' Dea!

Yesterday the AOP's gave Junior Health Minister a scare when he must have thought that we was going to be chased out of St. Andrews Church and down Westland Row by over a thousand fired up OAP's...

I think it's great to see people finally getting animated and fired up against small people in big offices who make stupid decisions.

But I'm surprised at how all of a sudden, there seems to be a new cult springing up which involves screaming and roaring at a government minister. It looked to me in both situations above, that all it would take would be a thin line to be crossed before someone loses their temper and physically attacks the person they are challenging!

Has anyone else noticed this???

That people think saying their point louder makes it more right? Have you not been on the internet, it's the IRL equivalent of hitting caps lock and unleashing the fury.

M14

Was just looking through some old pay slips from the early 80s and I was paying 52 pence in the pound !!!!

No wonder people are p1ssed off!! Muppets in government who have never contributed one thing to the country except their own opinion and self importance!!

Fair play to the OAPs!! Can't wait till they burn the Dail to the ground.

Darragh29

I've been mulling over this recently and I think it is partially because unlike what happened in the 80's, we had it quite good in recent times. In like a nanosecond, the folks we elected to run the place for the last ten years have blown it. It's like we've fallen down the stairs, except when we fell off the landing, we discovered that the stairs had dissappeared and we went straight from the landing to the hallway!

I think this is what has people exceptionally cranky, I do think it is only a matter of time before we see a government minister lying on his back with his shirt in tatters having been ripped off him and a full scale melee in an RTE studio or at some official opening or ministerial appearance.

It is not at all unexpected, I reckon soon enough someone with a special needs child or someone who has a sick child who has to be brough form Galway to Dublin every week for chemo, is going to see an opportunity to make an example of someone in government and throw restraint out the window.

Raiser

Darragh29 wrote: »

Was watching Questions & Answers on Monday night and I don't know if anyone saw the man in the audience who lost it with Willie O' Dea and was roaring at him, ended up crumpling up two sheets of paper/leaflets he had received through his letterbox from Mary Harney & Mary Hanifin, regarding new school facilities in the area, and firing the crumpled up ball of paper at Will O' Dea!

Yesterday the AOP's gave Junior Health Minister a scare when he must have thought that we was going to be chased out of St. Andrews Church and down Westland Row by over a thousand fired up OAP's...

I think it's great to see people finally getting animated and fired up against small people in big offices who make stupid decisions.

But I'm surprised at how all of a sudden, there seems to be a new cult springing up which involves screaming and roaring at a government minister. It looked to me in both situations above, that all it would take would be a thin line to be crossed before someone loses their temper and physically attacks the person they are challenging!

Has anyone else noticed this???

Although it would be wrong to condone, applaud or encourage people to verbally or physically abuse our elected political representatives on the basis of cynical thievery and grossly stupid incompetence......

......If it ever happens I will buy the book, DVD, t-shirt, bumper sticker and mug

dsmythy

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

People really have had enough,god only knows what its going to be like in a couple of years time well done to the oaps,students and that bloke throwing paper at mr marx seems the irish people are beginning to grow a pair.

The paper thrower was a shinner probably looking to get elected.

dsmythy

Covey wrote: »

I really think you should remove your racist comments.

Easily offended alert! Easily offended alert!

No problem with him taking a dig at evil Northsiders though it seems?

He was joking.

Darragh29

Your man yesterday in the church, Junior Minister for Health John Maloney I thought was lucky to get out of there with the shirt on his back, as the man said on Fr. Ted after he won the Eurovision, that's a nasty crowd out there!

I reckon it'll be student's, they'll see the success that the OAP's had yesterday and they'll reckon that if they up the pressure a few notches, they'll get the same result...

K-9

M14 wrote: »

Was just looking through some old pay slips from the early 80s and I was paying 52 pence in the pound !!!!

No wonder people are p1ssed off!! Muppets in government who have never contributed one thing to the country except their own opinion and self importance!!

Fair play to the OAPs!! Can't wait till they burn the Dail to the ground.

Where the Govt. the ones who cut the taxes?

Covey

dsmythy wrote: »

Easily offended alert! Easily offended alert!

No problem with him taking a dig at evil Northsiders though it seems?

He was joking.

Not at all easily offended.

A smilie or some kind of reverse humour doesn't make it any more paletable though.

I find the whole statement crass, especially the Northsider bit. I happen to be one

dsmythy

Covey wrote: »

Not at all easily offended.

A smilie or some kind of reverse humour doesn't make it any more paletable though.

I find the whole statement crass, especially the Northsider bit. I happen to be one

I take how he said it as a parody of some people who have misconceptions that all foreigners and northsiders are bad. It's not laugh out loud funny but i get it.

IronMan

I'd feel much better about paying the licence fee if there was a regular show where people shouted and threw things at Willie O'Dea. Hell, I'd buy the boxset.

holly1

The French people have protested in this way for years with results,its about time we followed in their footsteps and stand up for ourselfs,for years we have just taken what the government have laid down for us,not anymore I hope.Shout,roar,protest,have sit inn at Leinster house and let them hear we wont be dictated to anymore.Come on the OAP!!!!!

SEPT 23 1989

holly1 wrote: »

The French people have protested in this way for years with results,its about time we followed in their footsteps and stand up for ourselfs,for years we have just taken what the government have laid down for us,not anymore I hope.Shout,roar,protest,have sit inn at Leinster house and let them hear we wont be dictated to anymore.Come on the OAP!!!!![/QUOT

BRAVO!!!:)

AnonoBoy

thelordofcheese wrote: »

That people think saying their point louder makes it more right?

Course it does. That's how I communicate with Johnny Foreigner when I'm on holidays too.

"Can I have steak and chips please?

Que?

Can I Have Steak and Chips Please?

Que?

CAN I HAVE STEAK AND CHIPS????

Que?

LISTEN I CAME HERE ON A PLANE YOU FACKIN' C*NT!!!! GIVE ME STEAK AND CHIPS!!!!!"

Perfectly acceptable behaviour.

Slow Motion

holly1 wrote: »

The French people have protested in this way for years with results,its about time we followed in their footsteps and stand up for ourselfs,for years we have just taken what the government have laid down for us,not anymore I hope.Shout,roar,protest,have sit inn at Leinster house and let them hear we wont be dictated to anymore.Come on the OAP!!!!!

Yeah, lets block the ports and attack foreign trucks and burn/dump their loads, then we can have a few riots, you know attack some innocent bystanders and burn their cars, loot shops .............................wait.............I've just described holloween in Dublin and shot down my own point!

ninty9er

Even Joe Duffy thought it was in very bad taste and completely inappropriate to shout down a minister who had bothered to come and address the crowd.

I've voiced my dissatisfaction to my local TD and my Ardchomhairle rep about the climbdown. I feel completely betrayed that the government thinks the over 70s are more important than the rest of us, and what's more so that it's a strongly backed up belief across the whole political system.

Can't qualify the same as everyone else, then no card.

4zn76tysfajdxp

We're entering a new era for Ireland, a brand new time, a new, dare I say it? Age?

THIS THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS!!!:

CtrlSource

Poor auld Willie O'Dea. They always seem to push him out to defend the Government on these occasions. Where was Batt O'Keeffe (China!). Where were the 2 Brians?

i think it's great to see that people are really being exorcised by these issues and are protesting and fighting for their interests. The Age Action crowd could teach the younger generation (of which i am part) a thing or two about civic responsibility!

marcsignal

I thought it was great to see the bastards shouted down, and to see the confused dumbstruck look on the ministers faces.
It reminded me of this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU53qv5aA1M

and hopefully it will end the same way for Cowen and all the Fianna Fail(ures), like this..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfDOAP20ASI

The sooner they are gone the better, and i hope they aren't returned to power for at least 10 terms

holly1

COME ON THE IRISH PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!
Dont lets go backwards now,lets keep up with the protests and let these pompus s**t heads know we are not going to take being dictated to anymore.See them squirm,Oh Im loving the moment.Its an uprising,Yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!

It's about f*cking time this country stood up for itself. But the downside is that we wont have as many angry complaining threads in AH. Oh the humanity!

admiralofthefleet

FuzzyLogic wrote: »

Yup senseless old people screaming at a government minister who came to speak to their rally.
Scream at him enough and he will píss off(which he did), and no ministers (junior or otherwise) will bother coming down next time.
You'd expect it from hippys, vagrants, college kids, people from the northside, foreigners and other undesirables, but not old people!

thats probably because people from the northside have been discriminated against and forgotten by successive governments