Can anyone else feel it?

DeadlyByDesign

Just lately I can sense a genuine anger when walking through the streets of dublin? People just seem genuinely p****d off. I really think that the protest on Saturday is a tinderbox. We have been bullyed too much and something is gonna give.

Johnny Favourite

something has to give....

littlejp

something's gonna give...

Richie860504

Where is the protest on Saturday? Where does it start? Where is it to? Who is organising it? What time?

There really should be some kind of forum or sub-forum here for people trying to organise protests.
I'm up the North and hear nothing about protests till they make the headlines.
This one I want to go to, I wanted to go to some of the other one's aswell but only found out after they've been held.

Sir Oxman

Richie860504 wrote: »

Where is the protest on Saturday? Where does it start? Where is it to? Who is organising it? What time?

There really should be some kind of forum or sub-forum here for people trying to organise protests.
I'm up the North and hear nothing about protests till they make the headlines.
This one I want to go to, I wanted to go to some of the other one's aswell but only found out after they've been held.

Wood Quay @ 12noon to the GPO
ICTU

View

more like someone's got to give...

(That someone being the tax-payer given the hole in our day-to-day government spending)

Mister men

Yes plenty of anger out there. Lot of road rage also people are getting pissed off. It won't end well imo.

neris

Weve been lied to for weeks now and spoken down to like we dont know whats going on. of course people are gona be angry. People can accept the place is bolloxed and the budgets going to be hard but its the lies thats getting at people

T runner

The country is goint o the wall and only a handful of people complained outside Government buildings last night.

Compare this to what happenned in Greece.

Scofflaw

Richie860504 wrote: »

Where is the protest on Saturday? Where does it start? Where is it to? Who is organising it? What time?

There really should be some kind of forum or sub-forum here for people trying to organise protests.
I'm up the North and hear nothing about protests till they make the headlines.
This one I want to go to, I wanted to go to some of the other one's aswell but only found out after they've been held.

This isn't a news/announcements forum. However, there is an "Any protests planned?" thread, which is where news of protests gets swept to as opposed to the traditional policy of deletion.

moderately,
Scofflaw

Jonny7

The french are always out in the streets and good on them

When on earth have we protested anything ever? the only one (which was impressive) was the anti-war matches around the Iraq war. Our politicians can seriously lie and smarm their way and a big chunk of stupid somewhere in the country seems to keep voting them in. Hark the age of ultra-apathy.

Denerick

Some people are incapable of thinking in the long term. We now have an election to look forward, vote your troubles away by installing pretty much the same politicians, with pretty much the same worldview, pursuing pretty much the same policy. (Labour/Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil, whatever)

Also, you should expect FF to do surprisingly well in January. Most Irish people are complete morons, despite what they say about how much they hate this party they will still vote for it 'ah sure FF is in my family/my grandfather knew De Valera/jimmy mc gee mc govern promised to fix that pothole up my road/johhny galway isn't really FF, he went to my aunties funeral don't you know!'

This is the kind of ****e we will have to endure. I predict FF will get at least 30% of the vote nationwide.

paulaa

BBC News showing SF protesters getting through the gate and into the courtyard of Dail Eireann. Not a peep on RTE 1 O.clock news about it as usual

DeadlyByDesign

Poster above me is unfortunately right and FF will get in again. Christ when will we ever learn?! What ever happened to our revolutionary spirit? Our national pride? Where are the people that said enough is enough?

Richie860504

Any chance of a link to that "Any protests planned?" thread. Looked all over can't find it.

Yeah, now that the green's have jumped they won't be seen as bringing the country down either and when the next lot go in and can't change anything cos the policies are already in place, people will get angry at them and in 5 years time, FF will be back in government and all this will be forgotten about. Until another Cowen/Leneghan team come along and Irish people will once again sit around complaining about how the government is ruining the country.

ThisRegard

paulaa wrote: »

Not a peep on RTE 1 O.clock news about it as usual

There was.

Faustino

Richie860504 wrote: »

Any chance of a link to that "Any protests planned?" thread. Looked all over can't find it.

Yeah, now that the green's have jumped they won't be seen as bringing the country down either and when the next lot go in and can't change anything cos the policies are already in place, people will get angry at them and in 5 years time, FF will be back in government and all this will be forgotten about. Until another Cowen/Leneghan team come along and Irish people will once again sit around complaining about how the government is ruining the country.

HERE

also there are growing numbers joining this group

The Waltzing Consumer

Faustino wrote: »

HERE

also there are growing numbers joining this group

:eek: My God, 100 members! Growing numbers indeed, it is a pity most fifteen year old girls have more friends than this group.

paulaa

ThisRegard wrote: »

There was.

Not on TV there wasn't. Show me where there is any mention on todays protest on this video
http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1085385

thirtythirty

I dunno. I think there's a more determined sense of solidarity than anger now.


I remember only recently:

Public sector were livid at the cuts and resented the Private Sector's stance on it
Private sector were livid at Public Sector's Strikes
Individual union strikes at aer lingus, farmers, and other institutions were common place
Job loss anger like at Waterford crystal got everyone's blood boiling
Taxis were livid at deregulation, flooding of the market, and hiking of prices.
Anger at developers and bankers, with no discussions except "hang them!"
...and more

I think the main phrase that was bandied about was "charity begins at home". Which harboured a real sense of personal injustice and "fck the world and everyone in it".


Now though, I feel like the mood has shifted to everyone being sympathetic to others' plights. Worries about mid to low income earners and how that demographic will cope is common discussion, worry about education cuts and the generation of students that will suffer. Worry about the health sector, and those relying on benefits.
And anger is almost solely directed at top level government. When was the last time you heard a "well in the public/private sector..." argument. The most you hear there is agreement that perhaps X organisation should flatten, but the difference is now there is also discussion about changing job roles and the preservation of people's jobs.
People have also stopped getting as pissed off by what they read in the papers - everyone's sick of the Times and Independant's tabloid style-poking the flames news reporting.

I dunno, that's how I feel anyway. I even noticed that "taxi men conversations" have changed from "f this and that" while you sit there absorbing their anger, to disbelief about top-level incompetence and chat about other stuff, which I think is a real indicator of (Dublin anyway) sentiment.

Faustino

The Waltzing Consumer wrote: »

:eek: My God, 100 members! Growing numbers indeed, it is a pity most fifteen year old girls have more friends than this group.

108

Perhaps my niece should run it..
For me it's a place where opinions can be shared without any fear of censorship and where hopefully something will be organized over the next few days.

Join if you want, if you don't.. then don't

evolving_doors

DeadlyByDesign wrote: »

Just lately I can sense a genuine anger when walking through the streets of dublin? People just seem genuinely p****d off. I really think that the protest on Saturday is a tinderbox. We have been bullyed too much and something is gonna give.

Naa Lets face it ...we're Irish... always looking for a sugar daddy like the US or Europe ... now that the IMF is here we're probably happier that someone else has taken charge..

What's there to protest over anyhow... we voted for these morons umpteen times even though we knew they were sleveens since as far back as Haughey spending his mates operation money...

Bertie ahern laughing in the cupboard just says it all really.. why is anyone angry... we get who we elected