The loolah 'I'm not leaving'protestors on Reeling in the Years - where are they now?

veryangryman

For example, the taxi driver protestor in 2001 - "oi've paid 100k for my license and i'm not leaving"

and the N11 Glen woman who would stay "as long as it takes"

Watching the repeats, you do conclude that people talk alot of balls to get on the news/highlights reels. What happened that they changed their mind on this not leaving

L1011

The taxis went back after about ten days. The Glen of the Downs people were mostly removed after an injunction was issued.

BrianD3

I googled the N11 girl before, can't recall what came up but I think she ended up working for an NGO.

I wonder where the "I'm working in McDonalds...with a LAW DEGREE" one got on afterwards. Might not have been named in the programme, 1986?

Probably a senior partner by now, also owns a dozen gaffs on the southside and a holiday home in west Cork.

The one that has me wondering do we really know what is going on at all, reeling in the years 1992 highest unemployment rate every in Ireland yet not too far from where I live they well building a millionaires row in 1992 so there were enough wealthy people in 1992 to buy very expensive houses yet the economy was supported be a basket case.

unless it was the very tentative begins of the Celtic tiger mostly in Dublin and the surrounding areas.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117777984#Comment_117777984

Very much a two economies problem at that stage. Traditional manufacturing was still heavily on the slide - textiles, tyres, car parts - and the new tech and services industries were not growing fast enough to replace them but had already made some people quite rich.

retalivity

You can get rich in a boom. But you get wealthy in a recession.

Cant remember who said it but it seems to hold true. Capital and resources flow to fewer people when there's less of it around.

Hangdogroad

I remember the Glen Of The Downs thing well, that dragged on for at least a year.

Ger Roe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117779440#Comment_117779440

Maybe even more.

I live near it and lived through it (have home video somewhere of a visit to the camp). The end result of the road re-align was far less disruptive than the protestors predicted, although I think that the entrance into the Glen car park (southbound), is still a dangerous disaster. Having to travel on it every day, I always move to the overtaking lane to give any poor sods trying to get out of it, a fighting chance of survival.

The council don't even have the common sense to advance warn drivers of a basically hidden entrance right at the most dangerous part of the bend. I have seen many near misses and a few collisions over the years with people trying to enter and exit that car park.

Maybe like the Kilmacanogue petrol station access issue, they will eventually do something about their day one design flaw.... in about 30 years.

The decline in long term protests must be linked to the decline in the availability of scratchy wool jumpers.

nibtrix

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117779499#Comment_117779499

It's also the case that the protesters did a lot more damage to the woodlands than the road re-alignment. Living in there for well over a year with no facilities, they destroyed the place with rubbish and damaged trees with their temporary constructions/platforms. They were a lot more disruptive to the wildlife than the removal of a sections of trees.

Ger Roe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117779541#Comment_117779541

Or the rise of social media. Much easier to type angrily in caps and save the world that way. I often wondered the same thing watching Reeling in.... people were generally more wiling to get up and go out to fight their corner, in the old days.

Keyboard warrioring has made us lazy.

Hangdogroad

I don't think the protesters did themselves any favours with their interactions with the media. I remember there was a debate on the Late Late Show and out of all the people they choose to represent them they sent a fella and a girl who must have been aged 18 or 19. Both came across as petulant clueless brats.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117777556#Comment_117777556

She now has two stars on her badge. Got employee of the month last September for the first time since she started in 1986 as well. Although, to put that into context, her McDonalds was still closed to the public at the time

Madeoface

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117779604#Comment_117779604

'Swampy' - the English guy? He's still at it.

Up til a few years ago the tree huts were still to be seen - or the carcasses anyway. Would have made a good chippy I always thought - and lo and behold, Mr. Swampy is working for the Forestry Commission in the UK. Presumably chopping down trees.....life, funny innit.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117779663#Comment_117779663

Don't think Swampy himself was involved in this but Swampy types.

crooked cockney villain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117778592#Comment_117778592

Look at the amount of property you could have bought in 2012 and flipped this year.

In 2012 you could buy an ex council house in less salubrious parts of West Dublin for below 100K. Houses in D15 that would have went for 180K in March 2020 are now on the market for 250K. These being the homes worth circa 90K in 2012.

Had you the cash, you could have bought 10 of these for under a million, earned 1500- 2000 a month rent on each of them from 2014 onwards when the rental crisis really kicked in (so that's 15,00 to 20,000 a month, call it 17K average over seven years, call it 17Kx 12 = 204k per year x 7= 1.4 million in rental income, minus what 40% tax leaves 850K odd).

900,000 investment, 850,000 rental profit leaving a loss of 50,000, however resale of 2.5 million euro, profit in under a decade of 2.45 million, before tax.

Absolutely insane. Don't think property in another crash will ever be nearly that cheap now people realise the profits to be made off it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117777556#Comment_117777556

Yeah I was struck by that too. It was 1991. Initially I was thinking "well suck it up buttercup, the world doesn't owe you anything", but then I mulled over it some more, and considered the fact that back then, people were fed the idea that a degree was EVERYTHING. A silver bullet, a magic key. And employers were more impressed by degrees then too. Especially ones which are difficult to get a place on, like law. I suppose you can't really blame someone in their very early 20s who has had this drilled into her brain since before the leaving cert, by people whom they assume know best.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117783735#Comment_117783735

"Had you the cash" - the crux of the problem.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117787632#Comment_117787632

Plenty of the professional class did. Recession only impacted the lower middle class down or the property "emperors" who over leveraged at the heights of the boom

padd b1975

Did everyone who stupidly followed the likes of Murphy and Coppinger manage to clear their property tax arrears/penalties?

I know Murphy paid his when he wanted to move up the property ladder!