€14.5m spent on garda resources at Corrib site

d1975

From RTE.ie

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0209/corrib.html


that annoys me, not giving out at the garda but the bloody protesters they cost this fecking twits.

uch

I've a can of worms, anyone got an opener ?

Fromthetrees

I have a belly button.

Yonge Street

These career protesters are a cancer on the Irish nation. Protesting for the sake of it. Yet they are all on the dole and happy to leech off the state that they're protesting against. Whether it's Occupy Dame St, storming the gates at the Dail or the Corrib gas field, these morons are sure to be there with their megaphones and beards. Send in the army as security at the Corrib site instead and let them practice with live rounds.

Saddest part is that they've tainted protesting for the rest of the country, so any hard-working citizen who has a genuine reason to march or picket will be discouraged from doing so for fear of being associated with these degenerates. These wasters are a drain on our taxes at a time we need the money more than ever. So if your child is in an over-crowded class room or you're waiting several hours to get seen at the hospital, you can blame the beards.

ejmaztec

Yonge Street wrote: »

These career protesters are a cancer on the Irish nation. Protesting for the sake of it. Yet they are all on the dole and happy to leech off the state that they're protesting against. Whether it's Occupy Dame St, storming the gates at the Dail or the Corrib gas field, these morons are sure to be there with their megaphones and beards. Send in the army as security at the Corrib site instead and let them practice with live rounds.

Saddest part is that they've tainted protesting for the rest of the country, so any hard-working citizen who has a genuine reason to march or picket will be discouraged from doing so for fear of being associated with these degenerates. These wasters are a drain on our taxes at a time we need the money more than ever. So if your child is in an over-crowded class room or you're waiting several hours to get seen at the hospital, you can blame the beards.

Did a man with a beard frighten you in your formative years?

Sindri

It's moustaches that are to blame for everything wrong in this world.

Yonge Street

ejmaztec wrote: »

Did a man with a beard frighten you in your formative years?

They all have beards (including the women) because they are too lazy to shave. Laziness is one of their defining traits. It's scruffy, dirty and unhygienic. No wonder they can't get a job. Can you imagine a man with a beard being elected president of the USA in these modern times? Or prime minister of the UK? Wouldn't happen. Scrub up and join civilized society, hippy.

ejmaztec

Sindri wrote: »

It's moustaches that are to blame for everything wrong in this world.

Even worse if it's snot-covered nose-hair posing as a moustache.

Yonge Street

Look at this failed abortion. He looks like he belongs in a neo-nazi gang. Why can't he wear a suit like most others in the Dail. Foreigners are shocked and disgusted to hear he is a member of our national parliament. How is anyone going to take his crazy rants serious? This moron will never amount to anything.

http://www.cannabisni.com/images/stories/luke%20ming%20flanagan.jpg

Sindri

Yonge Street wrote: »

They all have beards (including the women) because they are too lazy to shave. Laziness is one of their defining traits. It's scruffy, dirty and unhygienic. No wonder they can't get a job. Can you imagine a man with a beard being elected president of the USA in these modern times? Or prime minister of the UK? Wouldn't happen. Scrub up and join civilized society, hippy.

My uncle has a beard and he's a vet. So does my penis.

shedweller

Is that 14.5m before or after tax is deducted from the garda wages?

Yonge Street

shedweller wrote: »

Is that 14.5m before or after tax is deducted from the garda wages?

That figure doesn't include garda wages, my friend. It's the cost of EXTRA garda resources. From the article:

These figures do not include the basic garda salaries which the State would have paid during this period.

Makes you sick, doesn't it.

Peetrik

Yonge Street wrote: »

These career protesters are a cancer on the Irish nation.

Yes that right, it wasn't the bankers or our corrupt politicans that caused our debt, it was protestors.
The problem isn't that we're giving away a 45bn euro resource for free, its the people who are actually getting up off their arses to protest against it that are the problem. How dare they.

I know AH is exactly the sort of place for brainless ideas but I'm actually embarrassed on your behalf because its clear your too stupid to be.

mikom

Yonge Street wrote: »

They all have beards (including the women) because they are too lazy to shave. Laziness is one of their defining traits. It's scruffy, dirty and unhygienic. No wonder they can't get a job. Can you imagine a man with a beard being elected president of the USA in these modern times? Or prime minister of the UK? Wouldn't happen. Scrub up and join civilized society, hippy.

Beards.
Confucius,
Sigmund Freud,
Ulysses S. Grant,
Ernest Hemingway,
Jesus (lol),
Abraham Lincoln,
Che Guevara,
Sophocles,
William Shakespeare,
George Bernard Shaw,
David Bellamy.
Richard Branson

Without beards.
Enda Kenny
Ryan Tubridy
George Bush
Most bankers
You?

Maximus Alexander

Yonge Street wrote: »

They all have beards (including the women) because they are too lazy to shave. Laziness is one of their defining traits. It's scruffy, dirty and unhygienic. No wonder they can't get a job. Can you imagine a man with a beard being elected president of the USA in these modern times? Or prime minister of the UK? Wouldn't happen. Scrub up and join civilized society, hippy.

Strange. I've met some rather successful people with beards.

Where To

Protesting has never achieved anything in the whole history of the whole world.

Shoot them all.

dlofnep

Yonge Street wrote: »

Laziness is one of their defining traits. It's scruffy, dirty and unhygienic. No wonder they can't get a job.

Surely, if they were lazy - they'd be protesting from the comfort of their living room, on their computer - calling people scruffy bastards on boards.ie - rather than out in the pissing rain, protesting for what they believe is right?

I don't care what the cost is to the state. Freedom of speech and freedom of expression, freedom of association and freedom to protest - these are priceless. You don't just pick and choose who has the right to protest.

Moreover - I know many people who went to those protests, and all of them are hard-working. Attacking their character is a piss-poor form of debate, and doesn't really address the issue. Challenge them on why they are protesting - but attacking how people look, or making assumptions about their employment is something I'd expect from two 12 year olds slinging insults at each other across a classroom.

shedweller

Peetrik wrote: »

Yonge Street wrote: »

These career protesters are a cancer on the Irish nation.

Yes that right, it wasn't the bankers or our corrupt politicans that caused our debt, it was protestors.
The problem isn't that we're giving away a 45bn euro resource for free, its the people who are actually getting up off their arses to protest against it that are the problem. How dare they.

I know AH is exactly the sort of place for brainless ideas but I'm actually embarrassed on your behalf because its clear your too stupid to be.

+1
This seems to happen a lot. And apparently there are no hydrocarbons off our shores!

My name is URL

Yonge Street wrote: »

Look at this failed abortion. He looks like he belongs in a neo-nazi gang. Why can't he wear a suit like most others in the Dail. Foreigners are shocked and disgusted to hear he is a member of our national parliament. How is anyone going to take his crazy rants serious? This moron will never amount to anything.

http://www.cannabisni.com/images/stories/luke%20ming%20flanagan.jpg

lol.. I bet he's achieved a hell of a lot more than you

Yonge Street

@ mikon: I said nobody with a beard will ever amount to anything in MODERN times. List fail.

mikom

Yonge Street wrote: »

@ mikon: I said nobody with a beard will ever amount to anything in MODERN times. List fail.

Mikom!
Reply fail.

David Bellamy.
Richard Branson.

Last two are modern.
Your move Gillette

Yonge Street wrote: »

Look at this failed abortion. He looks like he belongs in a neo-nazi gang. Why can't he wear a suit like most others in the Dail. Foreigners are shocked and disgusted to hear he is a member of our national parliament.

The Dutch especially.........

Ellis Dee

Yonge Street wrote: »

These career protesters are a cancer on the Irish nation. Protesting for the sake of it. Yet they are all on the dole and happy to leech off the state that they're protesting against. Whether it's Occupy Dame St, storming the gates at the Dail or the Corrib gas field, these morons are sure to be there with their megaphones and beards. Send in the army as security at the Corrib site instead and let them practice with live rounds.

Saddest part is that they've tainted protesting for the rest of the country, so any hard-working citizen who has a genuine reason to march or picket will be discouraged from doing so for fear of being associated with these degenerates. These wasters are a drain on our taxes at a time we need the money more than ever. So if your child is in an over-crowded class room or you're waiting several hours to get seen at the hospital, you can blame the beards.

I can just imagine the rant you'd write if those protesters were immigrants, or Muslim, or gay or --- I'm sure you'd set a new industry standard for the kind of tut-tuttery that is the Daily Hatemail's stock in trade, and also a staple of the Indo.:)

Those figures certainly include the Gardais' salaries and other payroll costs, which the taxpayer would have to fork out for even if our cops weren't standing in as the multinational exploiter's Pinkertons. If they weren't doing that, they'd probably be out on the golf course - you'll find our local fellows out at the Heath in strength most any time - and their salaries and other costs would still be getting clocked up.:rolleyes: You'd really have to be very naive to think they'd be doing something like patrolling our estates on foot and trying to keep the scumbags and their anti-social behaviour in check.:mad:

The whole point of publishing tweaked figures like them is to try and undermine the rights of the protesters, who are exercising a democratic right to protest at both the shameful surrender of our national wealth to multinationals and the highly questionable tactics that our politicians and media, who have their own axes to grind and whose own interests are often interlinked with those of Shell et all, employ in an effort to silence dissent.:eek:

It's not too many protesters we have, but far too few.:rolleyes:

Yonge Street

dlofnep wrote: »

.... out in the pissing rain, protesting for what they believe is right

I don't care what the cost is to the state....

1. They aren't protesting "out in the rain". As proven at the Occupy Dame st camp, most protesters went home at the end of the day (a bit like a 9-5 day job of protesting) to their lush D4 mansions. They never stayed over night in the tents. Same at the Corrib gas site. The gang of unemployables get on the train with their free travel passes and have a nice day out throwing rocks at the gardai, before going home for their dinner of tofu and broccoli.

2. If you actually had a job you would care what your taxes were being spent on. Says more about your character more than anything really. Give these scruff-bags priority over sick kids in Temple St hospital....

mikom

Yonge Street wrote: »

Give these scruff-bags priority over sick kids in Temple St hospital....

They would be a bit big for the beds, to be fair.

SuperGrover

Yonge Street wrote: »

These career protesters are a cancer on the Irish nation. Protesting for the sake of it. Yet they are all on the dole and happy to leech off the state that they're protesting against. Whether it's Occupy Dame St, storming the gates at the Dail or the Corrib gas field, these morons are sure to be there with their megaphones and beards. Send in the army as security at the Corrib site instead and let them practice with live rounds.

Saddest part is that they've tainted protesting for the rest of the country, so any hard-working citizen who has a genuine reason to march or picket will be discouraged from doing so for fear of being associated with these degenerates. These wasters are a drain on our taxes at a time we need the money more than ever. So if your child is in an over-crowded class room or you're waiting several hours to get seen at the hospital, you can blame the beards.

This is almost perfectly, exactly wrong.
Also, this entire diatribe is some of the worst rubbish I've encountered on boards.

Crann na Beatha

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dlofnep

Yonge Street wrote: »

1. They aren't protesting "out in the rain".

Yeah because Ireland is a subtropical paradise, that never gets cold or rains, right?

Yonge Street wrote: »

As proven at the Occupy Dame st camp, most protesters went home at the end of the day (a bit like a 9-5 day job of protesting) to their lush D4 mansions.

Sorry, are we discussing Corrib or Occupy Dame Street? Pick a topic, and stick to it. One minute they are scruffy, unemployed, bearded wasters - the next minute, they have lush D4 mansions. A bit of consistency would be nice.

Yonge Street wrote: »

Same at the Corrib gas site. The gang of unemployables get on the train with their free travel passes and have a nice day out throwing rocks at the gardai, before going home for their dinner of tofu and broccoli.

I'm pretty sure they are not protesting to just throw rocks at Gardaí - but are protesting in opposition of the Corrib site. Ah but sure - so long as you can attack their character, you don't have to attack their reasons for protesting. A convenient and time-saving exercise on your behalf.

Yonge Street wrote: »

2. If you actually had a job you would care what your taxes were being spent on. Says more about your character more than anything really. Give these scruff-bags priority over sick kids in Temple St hospital....

I'm impressed at your ability to conclude that by my support of freedom to protest, I have somehow overlooked sick kids in hospital. A truly epic conclusion. Any other logical fallacies you'd like to cover? I'm going to use you as an example in future on how NOT to debate.

Maximus Alexander

Yonge Street wrote: »

1. They aren't protesting "out in the rain". As proven at the Occupy Dame st camp, most protesters went home at the end of the day (a bit like a 9-5 day job of protesting) to their lush D4 mansions. They never stayed over night in the tents. Same at the Corrib gas site. The gang of unemployables get on the train with their free travel passes and have a nice day out throwing rocks at the gardai, before going home for their dinner of tofu and broccoli.

2. If you actually had a job you would care what your taxes were being spent on. Says more about your character more than anything really. Give these scruff-bags priority over sick kids in Temple St hospital....

The things you say sound like the things that an idiot might say.

You're protesting about protesters, who are apparently lazy because they go out and protest, but you do it by sitting at your keyboard. I can't even make an easily readable sentence to describe that. It's ludicrous.

ejmaztec

Yonge Street wrote: »

1. They aren't protesting "out in the rain". As proven at the Occupy Dame st camp, most protesters went home at the end of the day (a bit like a 9-5 day job of protesting) to their lush D4 mansions. They never stayed over night in the tents. Same at the Corrib gas site. The gang of unemployables get on the train with their free travel passes and have a nice day out throwing rocks at the gardai, before going home for their dinner of tofu and broccoli.

2. If you actually had a job you would care what your taxes were being spent on. Says more about your character more than anything really. Give these scruff-bags priority over sick kids in Temple St hospital....

They're probably better than bearded trolls.

sparksfly

2. If you actually had a job you would care what your taxes were being spent on. Says more about your character more than anything really. Give these scruff-bags priority over sick kids in Temple St hospital....[/QUOTE]

If our corrupt brainless fianna fail degenerates had made a better deal with shell for this natural resource I would not be paying as much tax.

Yonge Street

sparksfly wrote: »

If our corrupt brainless fianna fail degenerates had made a better deal with shell for this natural resource I would not be paying as much tax.

The government creating jobs for Irish people..the nerve of them! But sure who would work when you can live a cushy life on the dole, right?

Maximus Alexander

Yonge Street wrote: »

The government creating jobs for Irish people..the nerve of them! But sure who would work when you can live a cushy life on the dole, right?

Yeah totes. The vast majority of people on the dole are just delighted with their situation. :rolleyes:

Son Of A Vidic

OP, transporting Taxis full of doughnuts and burgers from Ballina is an expensive business you know.

Stiffler2

Fair play to those protestors.

If YOU just got a letter from Shell to say:

Apologies but we are taking over your land to build an unsightly large pipe for pumping oil / gas through which is both hazardous & toxic etc... etc...


Well - I know what I'd be doing. But since you don't live down their or aren't in that situation I feel you can't really give out / have a say in this ( nor can I )


But I'm just trying to put myself in their shoes.
It's similiar to the other incident involving ESB wanting to run a cable through some old womans land and she was having none of it.

Obviously if you pay for 70% of your life to pay for a small bit of land which you now cannot even call your own or have no say in is IMO ridiculous.

Q - the nanny brigade, camp irish ppl coming on here now to support Shell / corporations over the ordinary joe soap.

But that's the problem with us Irish isn't it ?

ludermor

Yonge Street wrote: »

1. They aren't protesting "out in the rain". As proven at the Occupy Dame st camp, most protesters went home at the end of the day (a bit like a 9-5 day job of protesting) to their lush D4 mansions. They never stayed over night in the tents. Same at the Corrib gas site. The gang of unemployables get on the train with their free travel passes and have a nice day out throwing rocks at the gardai, before going home for their dinner of tofu and broccoli.

2. If you actually had a job you would care what your taxes were being spent on. Says more about your character more than anything really. Give these scruff-bags priority over sick kids in Temple St hospital....

Do you know how far away the nearest train station is from the Corrib Site? There has been a permanent presence in the campsites for over 7 years.

KeithM89_old

Yonge Street wrote: »

These career protesters are a cancer on the Irish nation. Protesting for the sake of it. Yet they are all on the dole and happy to leech off the state that they're protesting against. Whether it's Occupy Dame St, storming the gates at the Dail or the Corrib gas field, these morons are sure to be there with their megaphones and beards. Send in the army as security at the Corrib site instead and let them practice with live rounds.

Saddest part is that they've tainted protesting for the rest of the country, so any hard-working citizen who has a genuine reason to march or picket will be discouraged from doing so for fear of being associated with these degenerates. These wasters are a drain on our taxes at a time we need the money more than ever. So if your child is in an over-crowded class room or you're waiting several hours to get seen at the hospital, you can blame the beards.

Banned

AnonoBoy

Quick question - the Rossport Five, weren't they initially protesting because they weren't getting enough money for their land. Once they settled that did they leave the protests?

Are any of them still active in the protests now that they've reached settlements about their land purchase?

[This is all just what I've been told. May or may not be true]

suicide_circus

Yonge Street wrote: »

This moron will never amount to anything.

And what have you amounted to? Trolling the internet and pulling the wire off yourself when someone is taken in by your BS?

Slang_Tang

d1975 wrote: »

From RTE.ie

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0209/corrib.html


that annoys me, not giving out at the garda but the bloody protesters they cost this fecking twits.

Yep, the protesters were the problem, not the protection of big business or overzealous policing.

The Guards made a fortune in overtime, expenses and hotels. I don't blame them, though, I blame whoever managed that mess. And sure, drafting in the navy was definitely needed for a small camp of protesters with inflatable little boats.

At most points, there were more guards back there than protesters.

The rich protect the rich. The poor fight amongst ourselves. Plus ça change!

Robbo

Isn't it usually about this time where we get a link to that video where Norwegians are doorstepped and told that Ray Burke/Bertie Ahern/Lord Vader/Voldemort sold our "enormous" reserves for three shiny pennies and a pint of Bass?

That **** never gets old. Or accurate.

waxon-waxoff

The problem with Rossport and Occupy Dame St is that they have both been there for too long with nothing happening and now its boring. The media and the passing public have seen it before so it makes no impact. I agree with the purpose of Dame St but the camp looks like a dump in the middle of town. Its also in the wrong place, it should be in the IFSC outside the offices of the German and French banks.

RichieC

What did the fat protester do fir christmas?

Occupied Quality street.

swimming in a sea

uncle albert

Run_to_da_hills

€14.5m spent on garda resources at Corrib site.

If that's the case €29m will be needed for Garda resources at the Leitrim Fracking site.

AnonoBoy

Robbo wrote: »

Isn't it usually about this time where we get a link to that video where Norwegians are doorstepped and told that Ray Burke/Bertie Ahern/Lord Vader/Voldemort sold our "enormous" reserves for three shiny pennies and a pint of Bass?

That **** never gets old. Or accurate.

That video has such blatant disregard for facts and context it's laughable.

Paparazzo

Peetrik wrote: »

Yes that right, it wasn't the bankers or our corrupt politicans that caused our debt, it was protestors.
The problem isn't that we're giving away a 45bn euro resource for free, its the people who are actually getting up off their arses to protest against it that are the problem. How dare they.

I know AH is exactly the sort of place for brainless ideas but I'm actually embarrassed on your behalf because its clear your too stupid to be.

The way the industry works is you give companies an incentive to drill when you don't have a clue what's there. If they find stuff, more companies come to drill and we can charge them on what they find. That's what happened to norway. This idea that we gave away 45 billion of oil (or whatever figure is being plucked from Maura Harringtons arse) is rubbish. We sold drilling rights which is completely standard procedure when you don't know whats out there.

Stiffler2 wrote: »

Fair play to those protestors.

If YOU just got a letter from Shell to say:

Apologies but we are taking over your land to build an unsightly large pipe for pumping oil / gas through which is both hazardous & toxic etc... etc...


Well - I know what I'd be doing. But since you don't live down their or aren't in that situation I feel you can't really give out / have a say in this ( nor can I )


But I'm just trying to put myself in their shoes.
It's similiar to the other incident involving ESB wanting to run a cable through some old womans land and she was having none of it.

Obviously if you pay for 70% of your life to pay for a small bit of land which you now cannot even call your own or have no say in is IMO ridiculous.

Q - the nanny brigade, camp irish ppl coming on here now to support Shell / corporations over the ordinary joe soap.

But that's the problem with us Irish isn't it ?

Yes, nothing should be build in Ireland if someones land needs to be bought. Thats the way to progress. Jesus wept :rolleyes:

Daisy M

Shell are a law unto themselves. They will do what they want when they want and there will be no stopping them. This is not the first time shell have flouted conditions and it wont be the last. We see all these films and documentaries on multinational companies behaving unscrupulously in the past. Many of them still do the same but have evolved in coverup methods.

http://www.midwestradio.ie/mwr/news/6537-shell-receives-warning-over-breaches-of-conditions-during-pipeline-construction-in-north-mayo.html