The one thing protest.

It won't work, because there will always be some absolute scumbags (Eirigí I'm looking at ye :mad:) who will try to hijack any protest and (a) broaden its scope to the point of incomprehension, and even worse (b) break off from the main organised protest in order to blockade the junctions North and South of O'Connell bridge and therefore piss the entire city off while robbing the genuine protesters of the publicity they deserve for organising their march.

What the solution is, I'm honestly not sure. It's like clockwork that these f*ckers screw up every single large protest anyone tries to hold in Dublin City. I was a member of Save Our Seafront in Sandycove-Dun Laoghaire throughout my teen years and I honestly believe that one of the reasons we were successful in garnering local support and ultimately killing the council's high rise privatisation plans was because our protests were always civilised - we agreed a route beforehand with the Gardaí, they closed particular roads for the duration of the march, and then we finished up in a public green space or the pavement outside the town hall, away from traffic, to have our speeches and megaphone rally.

Not once did any scumbags decide that the proper way to protest was to, for example, sit down on the crossroads between Marine Road and Crofton Road, thereby blocking the 46A bus route for literally the entirety of Dublin. That element simply wasn't involved. If it had been, I have little doubt that the movement would have petered out because more people were pissed off about being late for college or work on account of Dublin's largest bus route being shut down for the day than were pissed off about the actual subject of the protest.

If one were to be entirely cynical, it wouldn't be a huge stretch to imagine that some of these Eirigí scumbags are paid off by the establishment to deliberately destroy protest movements and prevent them from gaining any traction. It's happened multiple times in the past right across Western society with various different protest movements - the truly militant and unpleasant element was "planted" there with the explicit intention of damaging the movement's brand. However, there are enough genuine scumbags in Dublin that Occam's Razor would lean towards these people just being out and out pr!cks.

Either way, this is sadly why I don't see a protest like this working out.

Bring back square t-bags and/or Bear in the Big Blue House bacon snacks.

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Its only a matter of time before some angry rural peasant brings travellers into a thread.

Obviously not a reference to me considering I',m neither angry not rural. The peasant thing is open to debate, admittedly.

Anyway. question was asked, question as answered. If you can't contrubute anything worthwhile, I'd suggest you don't.

Patww79 wrote: »

Because I'll be long gone before it's an issue, and all the rubbish around environment now is inconvenient to me.

Charming.

Self centered and entitled.