Lorry Protest tomorrow over Quinn Insurance

IrishTonyO

Hope this is appropriate here in this section.
Up to 300 lorries will stage a protest tomorrow in favour of Quinn Insurance, so traffic chaos will result.
Have to say find it strange that they are protesting in favour of Quinn Insurance, would it not be more appropriate to protest against Sean Quinn who led his companies into this situation because of his gambling in shares?

"Up to 300 lorries, representing 170 companies – all customers and suppliers of the insurance firm – will begin their protest on the M7 at 8.30am tomorrow morning.
The cavalcade will then travel towards the Red Cow roundabout, follow the N4 to Wolfe Tone Quay and up to the Customs House.
They will then cross the River Liffey and proceed down the parallel side of the quay’s returning to Wolfe Tone Quay, where the journey will be repeated."


http://www.newstalk.ie/news/news-headlines/customers-and-suppliers-of-quinn-set-to-protest/

IrishTonyO

Just realised, thought HGV's were banned from city centre, wonder what will happen, will The Gardai stop them or fine them?

bijapos

HGV ban is for trucks with 5 or more axles, i.e articulated trucks. If Quinns are 4 or less ( i.e "rigids") then they should be OK.

Surprising how far a bit of spin can go if done properly. What next? Security van drivers protest in favour of Anglo Irish. :rolleyes:

Can't wait to hear the wailing of the taxi drivers on Liveline!

sceptre

I suspect that Sean Quinn has personally been phoning a lot of haulage companies, perhaps implying that their insurance costs will increase dramatically if he's not back at the helm of business as usual and they have to insure their lorries in this country.

After all, 170 lorry companies don't coincidentally all decide to go for a nice day out in the trucks without someone organising it. I'd have assumed that the Irish Road Hauliers people were ultimately behind it but it's "customers and suppliers of the insurance firm" which leads me elsewhere. Follow the ultimate beneficiary, as one might say.

BlaasForRafa

sceptre wrote: »

I suspect that Sean Quinn has personally been phoning a lot of haulage companies, perhaps implying that their insurance costs will increase dramatically if he's not back at the helm of business as usual and they have to insure their lorries in this country.

After all, 170 lorry companies don't coincidentally all decide to go for a nice day out in the trucks without someone organising it. I'd have assumed that the Irish Road Hauliers people were ultimately behind it but it's "customers and suppliers of the insurance firm" which leads me elsewhere. Follow the ultimate beneficiary, as one might say.

Absolutely, this is Sean Quinn trying to strongarm the government into pressuring the regulator to leave Quinn Insurance alone. They better not fold "for the good of irish business" or whatever claptrap Quinn tells them.

Quinn got himself and his group into this problem through greed, now he'll have to take his medicine, like it or not.

Benny_Cake

Quite disturbing to see how people are so easily manipulated sometimes. The gripe should be with Quinn, not with the regulator.

silverharp

Quinn is in a regulated business. The easiest way to make money in the insurance business is to write policies ans syphon off the cash leaving no reserves for when the claims come in, the protest is idiotic imo

seamus

The irony here is that when the Government actually manage to screw up, nobody bats an eyelid.

But when some mullah runs his company in a questionable way and puts thousands of jobs and insurance policies at risk, suddenly people are inspired to protest against a government body doing exactly the right thing, instead wanting to put the dodgy businessman back in charge.

We really do deserve our politicians.

jimmycrackcorm

Nobody protested when we had poor regulation and now they are all out against a proper regulation regime

DarkJager

It seems these days that if you have a gripe with the government, the best recourse to show everyone how angry you are is to cause the general public as much stress and unneccesary suffering as you can.

I really, really, really wish some people in this country would just grow the **** up and stop acting like spoilt little brats.

OhNoYouDidn't

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Nobody protested when we had poor regulation and now they are all out against a proper regulation regime

Ahh, now. These people want regulation. Just not regulation that effects them or their mates.

This whole Quinn protest movement is the worst type of parochial gombeenism. 'Leave him alone, he is from our county'.