Anti Fianna Fail/Banks March

finton

This country seriously needs a single protest march against the greedy clowns running and ruining this country, ie banks and fianna fail. All we have had so far are sections of society organising protests, the most successful probably being, ironically, pensioners.
I think it would be great if the whole country and its different parts, unions, farmers, teachers, nurses, pensioners, the unemployed etc etc etc all gathered as one and let it be known we have some self respect as a nation.
How often have you heard "ah so and so politician is out of touch with whats really happenng in Ireland". That comment always cracks me up, they know damn well whats going on, and its time to get rid of this excuse.
Could we not all organise a march some saturday, every town, city and show we dont want to be paying off the gambling debts of bankers for the rest of our lives, some pride in our country would be nice to see, at the moment we are the sheep of Europe

Lenny Lovett

Back in the eighties the ITGWU organised 'all out' marches in every town in Ireland. They were usually held on Wednesdays as this was a working day and hence the march was "felt" by more people. This thing of having marches on the Dáil on a Saturday is silly. There's nobody there to see you. It needs to be done on a Dáil day so that the people who are responsible for this mess actually see it. The whole country needs to get behind it. The problem is, though, that private enterprise is battling for survival right now so the likelihood is that those workers will not take time off to march. The Civil Servants will join in though. They don't need much encouragement to down tools.

finton

I know what you mean, but even if it was organised on a saturday, or even if all a load of unemployed do it on a weekday it would be enough, time people got off the armchair and did something. Every week there is a new clampdown/smokescreen on the general public, send teenagers into off-licenses/pubs to trick owners and so on, if they put same effort into regulating the scum in the banks it would be great.

Sorry for the tirade but sick of it, this country is arse now

BehindTheScenes

finton wrote: »

This country seriously needs a single protest march against the greedy clowns running and ruining this country, ie banks and fianna fail. All we have had so far are sections of society organising protests, the most successful probably being, ironically, pensioners.
I think it would be great if the whole country and its different parts, unions, farmers, teachers, nurses, pensioners, the unemployed etc etc etc all gathered as one and let it be known we have some self respect as a nation.
How often have you heard "ah so and so politician is out of touch with whats really happenng in Ireland". That comment always cracks me up, they know damn well whats going on, and its time to get rid of this excuse.
Could we not all organise a march some saturday, every town, city and show we dont want to be paying off the gambling debts of bankers for the rest of our lives, some pride in our country would be nice to see, at the moment we are the sheep of Europe

Why is that ironic? They have plenty of time on their hands and vote in large numbers.

finton

well it was ironic in the sense that they are old, you know, they are not sitting on couches because they are lazy if you know what I mean anyway, this says it all for me, people are willing to do nothing about it, loads of people log onto boards everyday and we get me and you discussing a march, let the country slide, im out of here, not paying the 16,000 grand i supposedly will bestow to our lovely bankers if i stay here, country of oafs, bring back the english

hinault

finton wrote: »

well it was ironic in the sense that they are old, you know, they are not sitting on couches because they are lazy if you know what I mean anyway, this says it all for me, people are willing to do nothing about it, loads of people log onto boards everyday and we get me and you discussing a march, let the country slide, im out of here, not paying the 16,000 grand i supposedly will bestow to our lovely bankers if i stay here, country of oafs, bring back the english

You're correct.
We have become a very complacent nation in that we do not demonstrate even when confronted with this entire fiasco that we're in.

I attended the May 2010 marches and only a couple of 100 people turned up in Dublin to demonstrate each Tuesday night.

Fair dues to the pensioners thats what I say.
At least they made their opposition heard and seen.

Typing endless messages in to a website like this will not register a public protest.

Revolution9

finton wrote: »

well it was ironic in the sense that they are old, you know, they are not sitting on couches because they are lazy if you know what I mean anyway, this says it all for me, people are willing to do nothing about it, loads of people log onto boards everyday and we get me and you discussing a march, let the country slide, im out of here, not paying the 16,000 grand i supposedly will bestow to our lovely bankers if i stay here, country of oafs, bring back the english

Made me chuckle alright.
Their political situation is so great, isn't it? A racist party like the BNP getting over half a million votes. Young men and women sent to war, and sometimes to their death for the past 8 years. Still waste their time and money with a monarchy.

Rasicm, war, medieval monarchy. Give me the Fianna Failures and our bankers anyday. We're bad, but we're not that bad.

digme

GET YOUR FCKING TRUCK AND BLOCK THE ROAD.,
IT'S NOT THAT DIFFICULT FFS !!!!!!!!!
MONEY TALKS BITCHES

Biggins

Dear OP,

There is a protest march coming up on the 29th of Sept.
See this article: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blogs/ireland/as-dil-returns-from-12-week-break-things-are-going-to-get-ugly-p44.html

The main difference is that these protests are no longer just rent-a-mob professional activists seizing on populist issues. Ordinary workers are becoming disaffected and taking to the streets.

Trade Unions have already called for a protest march from Anglo to the Dáil and they will be joined by the Socialist Party, republican group Eirigí and the Community Against Cuts Campaign.

Of course, the Government will continue to ignore such protests, but interestingly next Wednesday's has been given the backing of Dublin City Council. A motion passed earlier this month declared that "the Council supports the public rally on 29 September".

...And I suspect its just one of many to come too.

Frogeye

Go for it. Put your money where your mouth is and set a time and a date. See how far you get. Go on.... Best of luck to ay. See if the "ordinary people" will rise up with you. Somehow I think it would be just you and a mate with a " carefull now" " down with that sort of thing" placard standing outside the dail in the rain while the boys are all inside having a pint together.

The ordinary people are not protesting because they are busy getting on with it. The wingers and moaners are sh*t talking about protests and the government and still fail to do anything but claim they represent ordinary people. How many posts on this forum about protesting have there been? I lost count. I'll save my energy and have my say in the next and not too distant general election. Thats how democracies work, by votes, not mob rule.

As for this country being "arse now".....the economy may be "arse" ( if "arse"is an adjective?) but the country certainly isn't. This country is much more than an economy. I've been around the world a bit and there is no country that can compare to Ireland. I'm damn proud of this country. We're only a few years old and we've come along way. Been through depressions, repressions and now this crisis. And we'll get through this too eventually dispite the piss poor current government.

If you looked outside your fish bowl and reviewed some of the foreign media you would see that almost every country is having the same problems (at varying levels, i will concide) and that in every country the politicans are getting hammered for expenses, cars and pay levels and helping banks. Its not unique to Ireland.

Change-Yes
Protest-Waste of time.

caseyann

finton wrote: »

This country seriously needs a single protest march against the greedy clowns running and ruining this country, ie banks and fianna fail. All we have had so far are sections of society organising protests, the most successful probably being, ironically, pensioners.
I think it would be great if the whole country and its different parts, unions, farmers, teachers, nurses, pensioners, the unemployed etc etc etc all gathered as one and let it be known we have some self respect as a nation.
How often have you heard "ah so and so politician is out of touch with whats really happenng in Ireland". That comment always cracks me up, they know damn well whats going on, and its time to get rid of this excuse.
Could we not all organise a march some saturday, every town, city and show we dont want to be paying off the gambling debts of bankers for the rest of our lives, some pride in our country would be nice to see, at the moment we are the sheep of Europe

Not Ironic at all (True Irish back bone)

I agree they have created segregation among the workers and people to watch out only for themselves and fight amongst themselves(while they live happily without any financial strains or fears).Not very Irish at all.