"Hunger strikers" outed as liars

Kermit.de.frog · 23-02-2015 11:05PM #1

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/jailed-water-charges-protesters-abandon-hunger-strike-1.2114548

Fine specimens indeed by the looks of things. How low can you get?

And to think of those hoodwinked in to protesting their "support".

Sheep Lover · 23-02-2015 11:07PM

They were probably hungry sure, who'd blame them

The_Valeyard · 23-02-2015 11:08PM

This the same group that were going to start refusing water?

What happened to the strike? They just abandoned it?

Specialun · 23-02-2015 11:08PM

Im confused

They quit the hunger strike..are they not allowed to do so

tomwaterford · 23-02-2015 11:08PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/jailed-water-charges-protesters-abandon-hunger-strike-1.2114548

Fine specimens indeed by the looks of things. How low can you get?

And to think of those hoodwinked in to protesting their "support".

So....is there any evidence either way....other than well placed sources saying they got there meals (which legally they have to)

Any proof either way the meals were ate???

Genuinely curious

liam7831 · 23-02-2015 11:09PM

Specialun wrote: »

Im confused

They quit the hunger strike..are they not allowed to do so

LMAO

donvito99 · 23-02-2015 11:10PM

They are going to wreck the legitimacy of opposing IW by protest if other protesters or politicians don't shut them up by publically disowning them.

Spencer Winterbotham · 23-02-2015 11:10PM

What a f*cking circus.

Just pay for the poxy water like every other european country does.

Specialun · 23-02-2015 11:12PM

liam7831 wrote: »

LMAO

Omg rofl

efb · 23-02-2015 11:13PM

Maybe they found out it was free?

Streetwalker · 23-02-2015 11:20PM

Spencer Winterbotham wrote: »

What a f*cking circus.

Just pay for the poxy water like every other european country does.

We already do. I'm not paying twice simple as that.

qt3.14 · 23-02-2015 11:22PM

Water cannon in the door of their cells I say. Give them all the free water they want that way.

StewartGriffin · 23-02-2015 11:23PM

The OP is a Muppet!

efb · 23-02-2015 11:24PM

Streetwalker wrote: »

We already do. I'm not paying twice simple as that.

Not sufficiently to cover the costs.

qt3.14 · 23-02-2015 11:25PM

Streetwalker wrote: »

We already do. I'm not paying twice simple as that.

The country, as a whole, doesn't pay enough tax to pay for everything. That's why we borrow millions every day just to keep the lights on. People bitched when the government cut services and they birch when they try to raise revenue but the simple reality is that a combination of the two is necessary.

My name is URL · 23-02-2015 11:29PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

And to think of those hoodwinked in to protesting their "support".

Protesting their "support" would be what you are doing.. =/

You've somehow managed to hoodwink yourself there. Well done..

There's a phrase for that afaik... 'foisted by one's own retard'

Toots · 23-02-2015 11:30PM

Michael Batty of Edenmore Avenue, Coolock, Co Dublin, had a 28-day sentence imposed. However, a stay was put on his imprisonment after the court heard he was in Lanzarote in Spain as he needs to be in a dry and sunny climate due to chronic asthma.

Oh ffs!!

Richard Hillman · 23-02-2015 11:30PM

Its like some sort of Peter Kay comedy sketch at this stage.

Kermit.de.frog · 23-02-2015 11:30PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

So....is there any evidence either way....other than well placed sources saying they got there meals (which legally they have to)

Any proof either way the meals were ate???

Genuinely curious

They were eating since breakfast and probably before that since a source told RTE radio this afternoon he did not think they were genuinely on any strike despite protests from one of the girlfriends that they were even at that stage.

efb · 23-02-2015 11:32PM

Toots wrote: »

Oh ffs!!

Probably on the disability and the wife on carers

Kermit.de.frog · 23-02-2015 11:33PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Protesting their "support" would be what you are doing.. =/

You've somehow managed to hoodwink yourself there. Well done..

There's a phrase for that afaik... 'foisted by one's own retard'

I know your angry. But don't be angry with me, be angry with them for torpedoing what was left of the support they had with this stunt.

I'm sure people can decide on their own what to make of these people now. I don't have to say anything.

Gatling · 23-02-2015 11:34PM

efb wrote: »

Probably on the disability and the wife on carers

Would you actually be surprised

Richard Hillman · 23-02-2015 11:34PM

They should be allowed to do some work in the Prison like the rest of the inmates. When they get out somebody can just tell them they dont need to pay the Water Charge anymore, their wages paid for it.

efb · 23-02-2015 11:34PM

Gatling wrote: »

Would you actually be surprised

No. That's why they didn't protest USC - doesn't affect them

Aongus Von Bismarck · 23-02-2015 11:37PM

My name is URL wrote: »

There's a phrase for that afaik... 'foisted by one's own retard'

It's 'hoist by one's own petard' actually. From a play called Hamlet by a chap called Shakespeare.

efb · 23-02-2015 11:37PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

It's 'hoist by one's own petard' actually. From a play called Hamlet by a chap called Shakespeare.

I think he was punning dear

Specialun · 23-02-2015 11:39PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I know your angry. But don't be angry with me, be angry with them for torpedoing what was left of the support they had with this stunt.

I'm sure people can decide on their own what to make of these people now. I don't have to say anything.

But you have..

Fine specimens indeed by the looks of things. How low can you get?

And to think of those hoodwinked in to protesting their "support".

kneemos · 23-02-2015 11:40PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

It's 'hoist by one's own petard' actually. From a play called Hamlet by a chap called Shakespeare.

Always thought a Petard was a sword,it's actually a shaped bomb for blowing holes in walls or fences.

Un Croissant · 23-02-2015 11:40PM

Well this is pretty ****ing funny.

Kermit.de.frog · 23-02-2015 11:42PM

What would Bobby Sands make of it?

However, well placed sources said Derek Byrne, Paul Moore and Damien O’Neill had taken full meals in prison on Monday. They had breakfast in the morning, followed by lunch just after midday and a cooked tea in the evening, before being locked in their cells for the night.

myshirt · 23-02-2015 11:44PM

As long as the national currency of this country remains the brown envelope, this type of reform can have no credibility.

The principle is right in broadening the tax base, I agree with it. But there isn't an ounce of sincerity. Not a morsel. They need to refund the monies currently paid for water through general taxation, and then ringfence any future monies collected through water charges, to be spent on water services only.

A lot of the setting up of Irish water was dominated by the banging out of deals for senior council officials in order that a smooth handover and knowledge transfer would happen.

And €80m in consultancy fees? We had a client who stuck €50m into an I.T venture and intellectual property development during the same period, now valued in excess of €1bn. That was considered only an 'acceptable' use of money by the financiers. The €80m these guys spent was just absolutely indefensible.

Who the hell do these people think they are?

"Hunger strikers" outed as liars

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