Protests in Ireland are pathetic

mcwhirter · 17-10-2011 12:15PM #1

After the protests in Dublin I was expecting at least some international press coverage.
There was not one mention on sky news of it, plenty of footage of Italian protests.

The protests here are really patheic, what is wrong with people, do they enjoy bending over and taking it all in??

IrishZeus · 17-10-2011 12:16PM

Italian one got more coverage because it turned violent.

Immaculate Pasta · 17-10-2011 12:16PM

Down with this sort of thing!

smash · 17-10-2011 12:17PM

No, we're working to pay our bills. Can't all decide to just go protesting.

FetchTheGin · 17-10-2011 12:18PM

I passed the "tent town" they have beside the foggy dew pub in Dublin on Saturday, they all had tea and scones and some 5 foot 4 lad doing security.

They don't do protests like they used to.

sensibleken · 17-10-2011 12:18PM

smash wrote: »

No, we're working to pay our bills. Can't all decide to just go protesting.

plus a hefty amount of other peoples bills. hence the protesting

Lord TSC · 17-10-2011 12:20PM

My problem wth protests is that I always agree with the idea of protesting but rarely agree with the ideas being protested for. People tend to protest abstract ideas, or protests get taken over by socialist groups who I cannot side with, and in the process, I find myself wanting to be a part of something that doesn't really exist...

zie · 17-10-2011 12:21PM

What is this even about? all you hear is 99%, but what, 1% of people own 99% of the wealth, is that it? And yeah,so? Sorry but surely this is the one thing in the world that protesting will do nothing about. I'm all for protesting by the way. It is unbalanced, but hardly anyone's fault.

Wertz · 17-10-2011 12:22PM

OP, even RTÉ aren't giving them coverage as far as I can see, even though they've mentioned the international protests several times over the weekend....apart from boards and the journal ie I haven't seen Dame St ones mentioned.

Im Only 71Kg · 17-10-2011 12:22PM

irish protest = going to the pub to get pissed and sing a few songs. Roy Orbison usually..

spider guardian · 17-10-2011 12:22PM

Sure we can't all protest on a small island

Lady Chuckles · 17-10-2011 12:24PM

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

Down with this sort of thing!

Careful now! :pac:

drdeadlift · 17-10-2011 12:25PM

Cycled by there last sat around 6ish,loads of music blaring out was cool!

ejmaztec · 17-10-2011 12:26PM

It normally takes 800 years for people here to get angry enough to do anything.

seamus · 17-10-2011 12:28PM

I support people's right to protest, but I don't support protesting for the sake of protesting.

The problem is that as far as I can tell, the theme of the majority of recent anti-austerity protests is, "I don't like what you're doing, but I can't think of any reasonable, workable alternatives, so I'm just going to protest in the hope that you come up with a better idea".

Anyone · 17-10-2011 12:28PM

Yeah lets wreck the place, that will show them......:rolleyes:

We protested the most effective way, using the ballot box.

4leto · 17-10-2011 12:31PM

Because we are smarter and we know they do more harm then good and they are utterly pointless.

We could all take to the streets turn over some cars, burn a mcDonalds and get baton charged.

Then what??? we will still be in a recession and running up a massive fiscal deficit. that is unsustainable. But only now the international community will have less confidence in Ireland reducing forward inward investment and we the taxpayer will have to pay for the cleaning up.

hondasam · 17-10-2011 12:32PM

mcwhirter wrote: »

After the protests in Dublin I was expecting at least some international press coverage.
There was not one mention on sky news of it, plenty of footage of Italian protests.

The protests here are really patheic, what is wrong with people, do they enjoy bending over and taking it all in??

What do protests achieve in the long run, can they really change anything?
At this stage I cannot see any big protest happening here.

paddyandy · 17-10-2011 12:42PM

Full of Protest and short on practical solutions.Something to do bitta craic.??Hate capitalism love their cell phones .Socialism would never bring in a mobile phone that would wait a very long time in the future.Left to socialism computers would still be the size of Buses.

old hippy · 17-10-2011 12:45PM

paddyandy wrote: »

Full of Protest and short on practical solutions.Something to do bitta craic.??Hate capitalism love their cell phones .Socialism would never bring in a mobile phone that would wait a very long time in the future.Left to socialism computers would still be the size of Buses.

^ And yet another example of how screwed Ireland is.

Wertz · 17-10-2011 12:45PM

Wertz wrote: »

OP, even RTÉ aren't giving them coverage as far as I can see, even though they've mentioned the international protests several times over the weekend....apart from boards and the journal ie I haven't seen Dame St ones mentioned.

My apologies...they managed to give it one singular line towards the end of this article.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1016/wallstreet.html

A lot of people don't even know the Dame St thing is happening tbh, if it had a bit more coverage it might have more numbers. Nothing in many of the papers either from what I can gather.

seamus · 17-10-2011 12:47PM

Wertz wrote: »

A lot of people don't even know the Dame St thing is happening tbh, if it had a bit more coverage it might have more numbers. Nothing in many of the papers either from what I can gather.

I think most people know there's something happening, but they don't know what.

There's a protest in Dame Street. What do they want? Dunno. Something about complaining about stock markets or something.

If they want support, they need to tell us what they're hoping to achieve, what the aims of the protest are. Otherwise, you know, the rest of us have to go to work, we don't have time to spend just sitting around and camping on Dame Street.

seanbmc · 17-10-2011 12:53PM

All we do is complain that we don't protest enough. And when people actually do protest, people on Boards call them wasters and put them down.

ejmaztec · 17-10-2011 12:54PM

seamus wrote: »

I think most people know there's something happening, but they don't know what.

There's a protest in Dame Street. What do they want? Dunno. Something about complaining about stock markets or something.

If they want support, they need to tell us what they're hoping to achieve, what the aims of the protest are. Otherwise, you know, the rest of us have to go to work, we don't have time to spend just sitting around and camping on Dame Street.

There should be an intern-ship for protesters, where people on benefits can get paid an extra €50 a week, and they then get a Renta-mob Diploma at the end of it.

old hippy · 17-10-2011 12:57PM

seanbmc wrote: »

All we do is complain that we don't protest enough. And when people actually do protest people on Boards call them wasters and put them down.

Don't let the barstewards grind you down. It's a democratic right to protest, you should not be cowed by the politicians, the authorities or a handful of randoms on the internet.

hondasam · 17-10-2011 01:00PM

seanbmc wrote: »

All we do is complain that we don't protest enough. And when people actually do protest people on Boards call them wasters and put them down.

Peaceful protests are one thing but they always bring out the activists who want to cause trouble. I think this puts people of protesting.
The violence overshadows the reason for the protest.

Wertz · 17-10-2011 01:06PM

seamus wrote: »

I think most people know there's something happening, but they don't know what.

There's a protest in Dame Street. What do they want? Dunno. Something about complaining about stock markets or something.

If they want support, they need to tell us what they're hoping to achieve, what the aims of the protest are. Otherwise, you know, the rest of us have to go to work, we don't have time to spend just sitting around and camping on Dame Street.

Most people in central Dublin perhaps... If I hadn't read the threads on here I wouldn't know much about them.
True enough though and from what I can glean, the Dame St protest is a unique twist on the Occupy Wall St one...the list of demands isn't aimed at where the real problems in Ireland lie...way too idealistic and lacking in a true knowledge of what can and can't be changed.

The US protests started out small and faced silence from the press for a period in their early days...they've taken time to swell and many of the people now taking to the streets have no work to go to or decent prospects and high levels of debt, which they blame on the financial sector for...
We have a similar % of people in this country I'd wager, with similar lack of jobs or prospects and high levels of debt...but we have a few hundred to a thousand people (who'd better be sure those tent pegs are well grounded this afternoon)...

There may well be people out there who'd go to these protests, whether they be effective or not...the lack of coverage isn't by accident IMO. Protests are actively discouraged unless it's an official union or political one that is...

StephenHendry · 17-10-2011 01:35PM

a lot of protests here tend to attact the wrong type of people to them. an example would be when the students were protesting a few years back about the reintroduction of college fees. there was supposed to have been trouble caused by people who joined them but were content on causing trouble for the sake of it and were not protesting about the college fees being brought back in.

ejmaztec · 17-10-2011 01:50PM

When a protest is announced here, all of the different groups fight amongst themselves because each of them wants to be at the front, and then most of them start sulking and don't show up on the day.

mikemac · 17-10-2011 01:53PM

mcwhirter wrote: »

The protests here are really patheic, what is wrong with people, do they enjoy bending over and taking it all in??

The Greeks set fire to a bank and three branch staff died
In London a fire extinguisher gets thrown off a building into a crowd below

I'm glad our protests are mild

Mr. CooL ICE · 17-10-2011 01:56PM

I'm protesting against the protesters by not protesting at all

Protests in Ireland are pathetic

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