Republican protestors attack car of Tanaiste Gilmore and Frances Fitzgerald

DipStick McSwindler · 05-10-2012 04:39PM

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donalg1 · 05-10-2012 04:43PM

Just saw this too, its a disgrace that people behave in such a way, yes they have a right to protest but to do so peacefully, throwing eggs, shouting expletives and spitting on cars is no way to behave and all involved should be ashamed of themselves.

They may have been protesting about something worthwhile but that message was lost as soon as they started to behave in such a manner.

Dravokivich · 05-10-2012 04:46PM

I really should invest in chickens...

fishy fishy · 05-10-2012 04:48PM

dsmythy wrote: »

Morons with no concept of democracy.

a hilariously contradictory statement there - you DO KNOW that its the very democracy we have that allows people to protest ?? :rolleyes:

Simian! · 05-10-2012 04:49PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Not even that. It's a blatant fake iirc. They just pasted a message from another placard on to the photo of the guy in a Celtic tracksuit.

You do remember correctly:
http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/feb2007/whizz.jpg

I remember Blogorrah.com posted the photoshopped image and took the píss at the time. Someone sent in the original soon after though.

Andy-Pandy · 05-10-2012 04:56PM

washman3 wrote: »

You do realise that the photo was a photographers set-up to sell papers the following day?? or do you? just shows the naievety at which Irish people can be led.
i attended that particular game and as a diehard GAA fan was delighted it was played in Croker. but even the genuine protesters(yes they are entitled to their opinions) just laughed at this tool. (well paid tool BTW)

I did not know that, thanks.

Johro · 05-10-2012 04:58PM

Personally I think that if they want to be taken seriously they should get rid of the egg throwing morons, that kinda thing just leaves you and your organisation open to ridicule, which, let's face it, you'd deserve.

Far better to get the guns out

BigBrownBear · 05-10-2012 05:01PM

Would have loved to see the' Leavee Irr Ouhh' Lady appearing in video to calm the situation

washman3 · 05-10-2012 05:06PM

Andy-Pandy wrote: »

I did not know that, thanks.

No problem.
but often wondered why this was'nt cleared up and shown for what it was.
shows the power of the media when not a single person in power was willing to challenge this and demand an explanation.

P.S. that picture was once shown on the Late Late Show, with the host having the full knowledge that it was a set-up. sickening and damaging.

Ellis Dee · 05-10-2012 05:22PM

Egging a minister's car is silly, pointless and probably counter-productive from the point of view of whatever cause one is trying to advance. The damage is minor and the target gains sympathy and popularity.:rolleyes:

What intrigues me is how this is national news, but the media haven't made any mention of last night's fire-bombing of a house and car in Portarlington, surely a much more significant and worrying event. I heard about it from two different sources this afternoon.:)

The house is in the Kilnacourt Woods estate, where the first gangland killing in Laois took place less than a fortnight ago. The victim's ashes are being bpought to the town tonight and a lot of publican's have said they will close or admit regulars only.

That's the kind of thing the media and gardai should be warning us about rather than making a fuss about someone with problems who throws an egg at the car of a minister whom he rightly or wrongly blames for his woes.:cool:

ScumLord · 05-10-2012 05:46PM

"Ou, ou, ou" It's pronounced "out"

I'm not against the protesting but they did come off as rather scummy.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 05-10-2012 05:53PM

whatdoicare wrote: »

So, is this going to be it? We did nothing for all the other cutbacks but it's child allowance that's going to push people over the edge?

Of course....these scumbags rely on the children's allowance each month to buy fags and booze and top up their social calendars. God love them (although probably can't stand too them like the rest of us)

Nodin · 05-10-2012 05:56PM

ScumLord wrote: »

"Ou, ou, ou" It's pronounced "out"

I'm not against the protesting but they did come off as rather scummy.

...wait till they start flash tea-bagging.

Fenian Army · 05-10-2012 08:10PM

super_furry wrote: »

Also love how the ultra-Republican, 32-county, Brits out movement are wearing Liverpool FC high viz tops.

I'm against Americas wars, I hate their foreign policy but I enjoy American films and tv shows. I'm sure many others are the same. SHould everyone who is against Guantanamo bay, the yanks hi-jinks in the middle east boycott every aspect of American culture? If they don't are they somehow gobsh!tes, hypocrites et al?

This "english soccer club jerseys" argument only makes those who make it look foolish. They don't hate British people, or culture but their foreign policy - ie the situation in the north.

I read Shatters etc hysterics earlier and you would think the car was flipped over on top of a pile of kids and then set on fire. Not a bit of shouting and some eggs.

Fenian Army · 05-10-2012 08:21PM

There's a lot of class hatred in this thread.

delad · 05-10-2012 08:25PM

I think its absolutely shameful that ministers are being driven around in €120k BMW's when the rest of us have been forced to live in poverty in order to keep labours cronies in the public sector on obscene salaries.

Il Trap · 05-10-2012 08:44PM

Fenian Army wrote: »

There's a lot of cretin hatred in this thread.

FYP
Nothing to do with social class. From your username I can take it you are of the republican persuasion. Does it not irk you that pond-life like this misrepresent the concept of republicanism? It p!sses me off no end!

delad · 05-10-2012 08:48PM

Il Trap wrote: »

FYP
Nothing to do with social class. From your username I can take it you are of the republican persuasion. Does it not irk you that pond-life like this misrepresent the concept of republicanism? It p!sses me off no end!

there are about 4 million republicans in Ireland, 2 of them throwing eggs at a car is hardly going to set the movement back

Fenian Army · 05-10-2012 08:52PM

Il Trap wrote: »

FYP
Nothing to do with social class. From your username I can take it you are of the republican persuasion. Does it not irk you that pond-life like this misrepresent the concept of republicanism? It p!sses me off no end!

I don't have much time for eirigi(nor they for me!), but tbf if anyone has misrepresented republicanism its the establishment parties in the south, FF, FG etc

Il Trap · 05-10-2012 09:00PM

delad wrote: »

there are about 4 million republicans in Ireland, 2 of them throwing eggs at a car is hardly going to set the movement back

I never said that this particular smallish gathering of skangers was the problem. I suggested the concept is very often hijacked by the likes of Éirigí, 32CSM, scummy elements in Sinn Féin etc and that is highly regrettable. They become synonymous with republican politics in Ireland, tarnishing the name. Same with 'Republican dissidents'...bullsh!t concept. They are, in the main, just criminals who are hiding behind a veneer of legitimacy.

Anyway, my earlier post was quite clear in terms of what I was insinuating.

Seanchai · 05-10-2012 09:12PM

Independent Newspapers, classy until the end.

The. Greatest. Rags. Ever. I look forward to the complete overthrow of Sir Dr Anthony JF O'Reilly and his debt-ridden egotrip in Middle Abbey Street.

Tony O'Reilly: not even a lord of the English crown, never mind a marquis or duke. Still an obese, heavily-indebted knacker peasant with notions from Santry, in other words.

Red Alert · 05-10-2012 09:14PM

We do not have titles in Ireland, I presume you meant "Eamonn Gilmore"...

delad · 05-10-2012 09:16PM

Il Trap wrote: »

I never said that this particular smallish gathering of skangers was the problem. I suggested the concept is very often hijacked by the likes of Éirigí, 32CSM, scummy elements in Sinn Féin etc and that is highly regrettable. They become synonymous with republican politics in Ireland, tarnishing the name. Same with 'Republican dissidents'...bullsh!t concept. They are, in the main, just criminals who are hiding behind a veneer of legitimacy.

Anyway, my earlier post was quite clear in terms of what I was insinuating.

My point remains, any group that has millions of members is going to have a few scumbags within their ranks. Most rational intelligent people don't define a very large group by how a few of them act.

Precise Pangolin · 05-10-2012 09:25PM

Political violence still has a place in this country, it seems.

Yamanoto · 05-10-2012 09:30PM

Seanchai wrote: »

Independent Newspapers, classy until the end.

The. Greatest. Rags. Ever. I look forward to the complete overthrow of Sir Dr Anthony JF O'Reilly and his debt-ridden egotrip in Middle Abbey Street.

Tony O'Reilly: not even a lord of the English crown, never mind a marquis or duke. Still an obese, heavily-indebted knacker peasant with notions from Santry, in other words.

M'kay there big guy.

Nodin · 05-10-2012 09:37PM

Seanchai wrote: »

Independent Newspapers, classy until the end.

The. Greatest. Rags. Ever. I look forward to the complete overthrow of Sir Dr Anthony JF O'Reilly and his debt-ridden egotrip in Middle Abbey Street.
.

...as hes been replaced by Denis O'Brien, expect no better in future.

Seanchai · 05-10-2012 09:40PM

Precise Pangolin wrote: »

Political violence still has a place in this country, it seems.

Yes, I can imagine having an erudite discussion on John Rawls and his Original Position with the British soccer-following individuals in that clip.

Never mind a disquisition on alternative concepts of civic republicanism and the roles of loyalty and virtue in Machiavelli's republican state and how that could apply to, say, Ó Conaill's and Ó Brádaigh's Éire Nua policy from the 1970s.

This would, of course, all be in the finest Irish where the names of the hunger strikers in 1981 are known, along with Patrick Sarsfield's password and the military tactics of Eoghan Rua in Benburb in 1646.

Only in Independent Newspapers anti-Irish agenda could the people in that clip be described as republican political activists, as if they are up there with Sands, Mac Suibhne, Ó Laoghaire and Ó Donnabháin Rossa.

Seanchai · 05-10-2012 09:43PM

Nodin wrote: »

...as hes been replaced by Denis O'Brien, expect no better in future.

True, but if Ireland is going to have its media controlled by tax exile agenda-driven oligarchs, I'd prefer to rotate the parasitical oligarchs in question.

40 years of the O'Reilly family oligarchy controlling the Irish media is about 30 years too many for me.

Il Trap · 05-10-2012 09:48PM

delad wrote: »

My point remains, any group that has millions of members is going to have a few scumbags within their ranks. Most rational intelligent people don't define a very large group by how a few of them act.

No they don't, but mainstream media labels and highlights these kinds of gurriers as 'republicans'.

I'm not disagreeing with the crux of your point, btw.

dsmythy · 09-10-2012 10:38AM

fishy fishy wrote: »

a hilariously contradictory statement there - you DO KNOW that its the very democracy we have that allows people to protest ?? :rolleyes:

PEACEFULLY. Rolleyes picture.

Republican protestors attack car of Tanaiste Gilmore and Frances Fitzgerald

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