Another day, another protest

IvaBigWun

A student fees protest today, a JobBridge protest this Saturday. angry scenes outside an Athlone Gardai station in recent days, ructions outside the Dail, sitdowns and more

By year's end will we have seen most sectors of the Irish population take to the streets?

Wacker The Attacker

Protest are only useful if they help achieve some sort of end.

Have any of these?

Students are revolting.

Celly Smunt

In fairness,if i got to third year of college and found that i couldn't continue through no fault of my own i'd be very very very pissed off.

Banjo String

In fairness the jobbridge yoke isn't far removed from slavery.

What the utter fcuk were they thinking with that one?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

The slashing of budgets and the rising of charges is starting to effect more and more people. We may reach a tipping point by the next budget where we may get mass protest.

Probably won't achieve anything though. The damage has been done.

UCDVet

When I hear about another protest all I can think of is, 'Great - my commute will be longer'.

Fair play to the protesters and all, but I really don't think they are doing any good. The people in power, who decide these things, aren't impacted and don't much care. I've yet to see a newspaper headline that read, 'XYZ Overturned After Large Protester Turnout!'

Banjo String

UCDVet wrote: »

When I hear about another protest all I can think of is, 'Great - my commute will be longer'.

Fair play to the protesters and all, but I really don't think they are doing any good. The people in power, who decide these things, aren't impacted and don't much care. I've yet to see a newspaper headline that read, 'XYZ Overturned After Large Protester Turnout!'

Pensioners and disabled people???

gobnaitolunacy

Banjo String wrote: »

Pensioners and disabled people???

They daren't touch the pensioners cos they actually vote; unlike most students and taking money from the disabled makes them look like heartless pr*cks. Athlone is a lynch mob, pretty much... and the ones outside the Dail were hi-jacked by the usual tricolour waving suspects.

dxhound2005

http://icampaigned.com/blog/the-case-for-cutting-the-old-age-pension/#more-158

Firstly, let’s start in 1997 which many see as a particularly good benchmark given that it was the year that Fianna Fáil came into Government and also it was at a time when the economy really started to grow and public expenditure started to increase dramatically.

In 1997, the weekly pension payment was IR£ 78.00, or €99.06. The pension was increased each and every year until 2009 by rates far in excess of inflation. For instance, the pension in 1998 was increased by 6.41%. The biggest increase was in 2001 which saw pensioners take home an extra 10.42%, while in the same year inflation was running at 4.9%. The last increase was in the 2009 budget, and the 2010 budget left it unchanged at €230.30 per week.

Since 1997, the weekly pension has increased in total by 132.5%. That’s an average annual increase of 6.74%. Over the same period the average annual rate of inflation was 2.81%. If we took the pension in 1997 and increased it each year at the annual rate of inflation, the pension in 2010 would be only €141.41. Therefore there has been a real increase in the weekly pension of nearly €90 per week. To put it another way, after factoring in inflation, the weekly pension is now 1.63 times better than it was in 1997.


The above is from 2010. And with all the other madness such as SSIA, Section 23 and bogus decentralisation it led us into the disaster which befell the country. But nobody protested when it was happening. I wonder why?

One of the student that was protesting was interviewed on the news, and said he only ate twice yesterday and had only eaten once today because he had no money I found that sort of upsetting we are not a poor country.

AnonoBoy

IvaBigWun wrote: »

A student fees protest today, a JobBridge protest this Saturday. angry scenes outside an Athlone Gardai station in recent days, ructions outside the Dail, sitdowns and more

By year's end will we have seen most sectors of the Irish population take to the streets?

The good thing about all these protests is that they'll shut up all the moaners on here that say things like, "Look at what's happening in [INSERT OTHER COUNTRY] - would the Irish ever protest? NO! We're too lazy and docile. Etc. Etc."

Thank f*ck for that anyways.

Zebra3

Banjo String wrote: »

In fairness the jobbridge yoke isn't far removed from slavery.

What the utter fcuk were they thinking with that one?

Duping desperate people into cheap labour.

C*nts.

Banjo String

Zebra3 wrote: »

Duping desperate people into cheap labour.

C*nts.

And in oxygen's case, (workers subcontracted to them) take on job bridge workers, get their existing staff to train them up.

Once trained, no need for the staff who trained them. (No need to pay them anymore either)

This happened at a recycling facility in Ballyogan.
Oxygen run the recycling centre on behalf of Rathdown/ Dun Laoghaire council btw.;)

Doc Ruby

Banjo String wrote: »

In fairness the jobbridge yoke isn't far removed from slavery.

What the utter fcuk were they thinking with that one?

That's an IBEC idea. IBEC were flying a kite for that long before the government made it law.

ElizaT33

Celly Smunt wrote: »

In fairness,if i got to third year of college and found that i couldn't continue through no fault of my own i'd be very very very pissed off.

I know someone that this has happened to - his family fell on hard times, as so many are, and his college grant didn't even cover his transport costs to college last year - and this year no chance his parents could supplement him the cost. In 3rd year, very,very clever guy - has deferred and now looking for jobs in every shop around the town?? Doubt it if he'll ever get chance/opportunity to go back - and this is the result of AUSTERITY ....! Nice one, Enda ........!

Archeron

What do we want?
A cure for obesity.
When do we want it?
After lunch.

IvaBigWun

mariaalice wrote: »

One of the student that was protesting was interviewed on the news, and said he only ate twice yesterday and had only eaten once today because he had no money I found that sort of upsetting we are not a poor country.

Who's taking the piss, you or him?

He *only* ate twice in a day?

IvaBigWun

179 people attend today's Million Mask March in Dublin

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2013/11/05/million-mask-march-attended-by-179-people/

Gamayun

IvaBigWun wrote: »

179 people attend today's Million Mask March in Dublin

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2013/11/05/million-mask-march-attended-by-179-people/

Thats's 5586.6 masks each! Very face heavy!

My Dad was in protesting with other pensioners in Cork today relating to cuts.
Independant.ie reported 500 though he reckons there was a few hundred more at least, it didn't make the RTÉ news as far as I know.

Jonny Blaze

mariaalice wrote: »

One of the student that was protesting was interviewed on the news, and said he only ate twice yesterday and had only eaten once today because he had no money I found that sort of upsetting we are not a poor country.

That was me in college!

Only ate breakfast and dinner as I couldn't afford lunch.

On an internship now so nothing much as changed actually!

goose2005

Jonny Blaze wrote: »

That was me in college!

Only ate breakfast and dinner as I couldn't afford lunch.

On an internship now so nothing much as changed actually!

Sure some days I had only lunch and dinner because I slept through breakfast. Shackin altogether.

Jonny Blaze

I love the way that although we have 'a right to protest' we don't actually have the 'right to see any action taken' over said protests!

The guys in power must be all "Sure go ahead and protest all ye want! I don't give a toss!"