Protest @ FF think-in, Ardilaun Hotel, Taylors hill, Galway from 11am Mon!!

Elevator

I for one cannot wait to let them all have a piece of my mind!!

whos with me!?!


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056029787

sgthighway

Thank God I will be working. No interest in protesting. I will wait until the election.
I hate Politics been discussed in this part of Boards

Arnold Layne

sgthighway wrote: »

Thank God I will be working. No interest in protesting. I will wait until the election.
I hate Politics been discussed in this part of Boards

And you'll probably give Fahey 4th pref. so he gets elected again.

I can;t attend OP, but all the best in giving the traitors an earful. It'll fall on deaf ears though.

Dunjohn

Ardilaun House? That was clever of them. A good long distance between the building and the road, they won't hear a thing....

I might drop by, but good luck either way.

sgthighway

Arnold Layne wrote: »

And you'll probably give Fahey 4th pref. so he gets elected again.

I can;t attend OP, but all the best in giving the traitors an earful. It'll fall on deaf ears though.

The only thing I would give him is the steam of my piss!

galwayrush

sgthighway wrote: »

The only thing I would give him is the steam of my piss!

They ain't getting mine, it cost a lot to make my steam after a hard weekends drinking. They ain't getting any more from me.

eamon234

Ah leave them alone they're trying to think!

dilallio

They have gardai and security there since 3pm today - not letting any unauthorised persons in.

Mike...

Gym members can still get in....

I have a strange feeling a fair few people will want to work out tomorrow

thelongfellow

Guards all over the place there this evening. Not a chance of getting near them. I've heard there will be proper(organised) protests around there though from early morning-disrupting traffic and the likes.

You could always try heading up to Easons and moving around a few books or something!

dolphin city

bloody cheek of them.

who do you think is footing the bill for the hotel - WE ARE

why can't they do their fiddling in the dail - is not not plush enough for them.

dolphin city

dolphin city wrote: »

who do you think is footing the bill for the hotel - WE ARE

Do you know that? It is a FF meeting rather than a government one it seems.

c_man

I reckon the weather would put a dampener on the protests.

who do you think is footing the bill for the hotel - WE ARE

I hope not.

snubbleste

FF got €5,245,294 in 2009 from the taxpayer under the Electoral Acts as did other parties on a sliding scale.

Plus all the TDs get expenses not to do their job over the next few days but for a love-fest of the party. These expenses are paid by a magic leprauchan pot called the taxpayer
Do you think they'll crash in one of Forty Gaffs' palaces - do you think ministers will actually pay for their stay out of their own pocket when the taxpayer can fund it ??

All the security is provided by the State, where are all these Garda staying, who is paying their overtime?

thelongfellow

snubbleste wrote: »

FF got €5,245,294 in 2009 from the taxpayer under the Electoral Acts as did other parties on a sliding scale.

Plus all the TDs get expenses not to do their job over the next few days but for a love-fest of the party. These expenses are paid by a magic leprauchan pot called the taxpayer
Do you think they'll crash in one of Forty Gaffs' palaces - do you think ministers will actually pay for their stay out of their own pocket when the taxpayer can fund it ??

All the security is provided by the State, where are all these Garda staying, who is paying their overtime?

Ah boo-hoo. We allowed them to get away with these expenses. We should be outraged. We should be up there protesting...

Along with the 8 or so people up there huddled together in the rain with the worst placards ever. Writing is way too small to make out what they are protesting at.

Fine Gael love-ins have the same sort of security measures. Labour on a smaller scale. And WE foot the bill for Gardai overtime and the like there too.

Are we too posh to protest?

_Whimsical_

dolphin city wrote: »

bloody cheek of them.

who do you think is footing the bill for the hotel - WE ARE

why can't they do their fiddling in the dail - is not not plush enough for them.

We'll also be footing the bill for policing any protests unfortunately even though it's the only way to have our voices heard right now.

I agree that it's an utter disgrace that they need their little love-in "think in" in a fancy hotel when the country is in such dire circumstances.

snubbleste

snubbleste wrote: »

Plus all the TDs get expenses not to do their job over the next few days but for a love-fest of the party.

What is a TD's job?

Is it to debate and decide policy or say to sit in a constituency office and sort out medical cards?

For the record I have never voted FF, I just dislike the cynicism that seems to be associated with politics in this country.

Back on topic: is there anyone protesting? It isn't actually raining that much it just looks gray out.

_Whimsical_

thelongfellow wrote: »

Ah boo-hoo. We allowed them to get away with these expenses. We should be outraged. We should be up there protesting...

Along with the 8 or so people up there huddled together in the rain with the worst placards ever. Writing is way too small to make out what they are protesting at.

Fine Gael love-ins have the same sort of security measures. Labour on a smaller scale. And WE foot the bill for Gardai overtime and the like there too.

Are we too posh to protest?

I actually wonder what is about Galway that has the population too laid back to ever stand up en masse on any issue.

We had no water for months and there was no fuss or complaint made, most of us have degree of lead contamination in our water supply because FF were too busy fuelling the property bubble to follow the EU lead and instigate a lead pipe replacement scheme. Now our hospital services are being seriously threatened and a protest at the weekend attracted a meagre turnout.

Even small country towns manage much more robust attempts at drawing attention to and changing their circumstances. What is about us that we complain to each and no one else really.

baldbear

Did anyone protest today? I heard no one did! Jaysus Galway what happened?

markesmith

That's nuts! No-one protested?

If a Palestinian gets sworn at in Israel, you'll have 100+ people marching down Shop Street, banging their drums.

Priorities...

thelongfellow

baldbear wrote: »

Did anyone protest today? I heard no one did! Jaysus Galway what happened?

There was around 8 people protesting across the road from it around 11 this morning. Well they were standing across the road from it anyway...

yeehaw

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

We'll also be footing the bill for policing any protests unfortunately even though it's the only way to have our voices heard right now.

I agree that it's an utter disgrace that they need their little love-in "think in" in a fancy hotel when the country is in such dire circumstances.

Why would anyone think that this would be funded from the public purse? It is a private function.

Surely snubbleste, pope buckfast, dolphin city, mcdougal or whatever his name is and the rest of the Galway City forum red brigade were out in force to register their disgust at this gathering?

Dunjohn

I drove by at around two, nobody there but a couple of gardai.

PopeBuckfastXVI

yeehaw wrote: »

Surely snubbleste, pope buckfast, dolphin city, mcdougal or whatever his name is and the rest of the Galway City forum red brigade were out in force to register their disgust at this gathering?

I work for a living, but if I thought protest actually achieved anything I might take the day off and go.

PopeBuckfastXVI

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

I work for a living, but if I thought protest actually achieved anything I might take the day off and go.

Also, you know you're doing something right when socialists are calling you a neo-liberal and capitalists are calling you a communist!

PopeBuckfastXVI

yeehaw wrote: »

Surely snubbleste, pope buckfast, dolphin city, mcdougal or whatever his name is and the rest of the Galway City forum red brigade were out in force to register their disgust at this gathering?

Just an FYI, as you're new here, cross thread posting and goading is very much frowned upon around here. Neither I, nor McDougal had posted in this thread before your post here goading us. I mightn't even have seen this reference to me if I hadn't popped into this thread to see if anything had happened. It's not very fair to refer to posters and previous discussions in other threads like this, as along with being thread derailing and just plain rude, it robs people of a right to reply, by hiding remarks in a thread which may not even show up on their radar.

/moderation

thelongfellow

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You done yet?

Getting back to the the point of this thread....

I think popie above typifies the Galwegian/Irish attitude to protesting when he said if he thought the protest would achieve anything he might take the day off and go have a gawk. It's all well and good coming on here and bitching and moaning about various bits and bobs but credit is due to those who actually got up off their lazy ar$e, took the day off work (if they have any) and went down to protest. It's another black mark against the everyday Irish man who is getting rode senseless by the government, the banks, the EU and is just lying there and taking it.

As an aside-so what if Cowen had a late night? The country is screwed anyway. May as well have a few drinks as the ship goes down.

McDougal

thelongfellow wrote: »

There was around 8 people protesting across the road from it around 11 this morning. Well they were standing across the road from it anyway...

I was there


one lad was arrested for throwing an egg at frank fahey, not that I condone that type of behaviour!

tonyhiggins

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/taoiseach-denies-radio-interview-impaired-by-alcohol-2336985.html

Taoiseach Brian Cowen denied today giving a live radio interview while drunk or hungover.

Mr Cowen was challenged over his handling of an RTE morning broadcast from his Fianna Fail party's annual get together ahead of the new Dail term.

The opposition claimed the interview came on the back of a late night and prompted concerns over Mr Cowen's ability to lead the country.

Questioned on his way into the second day of parliamentary party meetings in Galway, the Taoiseach denied alcohol was a factor in the heavily criticised performance.

"I'm sorry, absolutely not. I mean, that's ridiculous," the Taoiseach said.

"It's not true at all, please."

I live in Prague now so I didn't hear this, did anyone hear it?

PopeBuckfastXVI

tonyhiggins wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/taoiseach-denies-radio-interview-impaired-by-alcohol-2336985.html



I live in Prague now so I didn't hear this, did anyone hear it?

There's a link here:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0914/fiannafail.html

cranky bollix

McDougal wrote: »

I was there


one lad was arrested for throwing an egg at frank fahey, not that I condone that type of behaviour!

ffs - if i had known there was gonna be egg throwing i would of went

magentas

tonyhiggins wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/taoiseach-denies-radio-interview-impaired-by-alcohol-2336985.html



I live in Prague now so I didn't hear this, did anyone hear it?

In fairness I listened to it and it's been blown way out of proportion.
The interview was nearly 10mins long and he didn't slur of mumble (anymore than usual!)

I'm definately not a fan of FF or BC but people are just clutching at straws saying he was drunk/hungover. He was hoarse it was an early morning interview. BC is an incompetant leader and FF are a shower of baxtards but this is silly and petty:rolleyes:

tonyhiggins

Someone sent me on a link and it worked (sometimes they don't outside Ireland) and I agree. He just sounded sleepy

Discodog

He was up until 3 am entertaining the FF's with his impressions. Clearly being one of the lads is far more important than an early night ready for some serious discussion the next day.