Dublin dail protests - read OP before posting

Why is it that the likes of these "Ireland for the Irish" types (often sporting their Celtic or English soccer jerseys) never actually do anything productive or add anything to the country?

The right to travel unimpeded to and from the Houses of the Oireachtas is enshrined in the Constitution for a reason. It is expressed in terms of being arrested, but it is there for a reason.

Why are you trying to excuse violence, intimidation and calls for murder?

Ok, thanks for that PJ.

Yes, It’s one of the few perks of my job that I get to talk to everyone and anyone throughout each working day.

This on top of my voluntary work with the GAA and other groups I’m involved in.

Where was this poll done? What were the demographics of the participants?

All the groups.

Of course not.

Only in fantasy is tripe like that happening.

All elements of protest you're willing to condone when the topic is one you agree with though (See your support of the abuse leveled at a public talk this weekend by trans activists).

These type of gatherings, which are a kind of nebulous collection of the vaguely disenfranchised, to the foaming at the mouth types brought out by the very real injustices of modern Irish society are in turn informed by the type of action taken by groups such as those mentioned above.

Once society reaches a place where shouting down anyone you disagree with, you can't claim to be shocked when these type of gatherings occur and poor behaviour ends up erupting at them as they're being informed by the other protests and disappointing behaviour they observe carried out by others, which you are in favour of when the protest in question is something you agree with.

There's a worrying slide towards intolerance and a lack of empathy for anyone holding a contrasting opinion in his country and we've gotten to this point by aping what we see in other countries like mindless idiots.

So if yore going to stoke the fires of intolerance of differing opinions, could you please spare the rest of us the pearl clutching when there's a group of people you don't agree with acting stupidly on our streets?

Great "patriots", using the flag as clothing and dragging it along the street 🙄

I think anyone from the main media sources would have been a target for abuse.

One the boomer phrase there is actually some correlation as the peak in the 15-25 cohort happened in 1970 in the US, and in Ireland around 1990; so we we have a lot of angry frustrated middle aged people looking for a punch bag.

People have a right to protest (legally), however awkward that may be for certain sections of society.

Great post.

There needs to be balance.

Protests are non negotiable in society.

Constitutional right

They should be policed according to the law.

Politicians cannot run away and hide in a bubble.

So you don't realise we have black friday sales too?

Tbf these protests attract professional English protestors to "fight" as a paytriot of Ireland.

And her work suit was at the dry cleaners.

Clever.

Was that a newstalk poll? Newstalk is the tabloid of the airwaves.

Rent a mob protest it all seems far too organised people accosting a small number of politicians and a mention of the very tragic situation of Jo Cox but not really anything of January 6th in the US or similar attacks on political institutions the mass mobilisation of Garda on any other return day for The Dail probably wouldn't be as large but there would be a presence as so many TD and Senators being in the Chambers and grounds doesn't happen more than a few times a term or even the year.

Tldr: Mountains out of Molehills with opportunistic words by small time politicians.

They always matter. The demographics of the poll respondents needs to match the demographics of the country as a whole or else the results need to be weighted before they can be considered representative of public opinion at large

Why are people calling others traitors these days.

I seen Panti Bliss used the phrase on twitter.

Such divisive language.

"Poll" is the term used for property conducted opinion polls. Radio phone-ins or other exercises where the respondents are self-selected and not stratified would not normally be considered polls, precisely because the demographics matter.

As for the American intern - of course I condemn the phone being stolen. Hopefully that can be resolved.

I don’t know the circumstances of how she ended up working for Healy Rae, was she “assigned” at random or she specifically chose to work with him?

If she was “assigned” to him I would strongly advise her to ask for a transfer out of his office, as yesterday showed, he is nothing but trouble, a loud mouth attention seeker.