Truck incident at Leinster House

dr.bollocko

OK guys. We've lost our way a bit with the personal stuff and insults. Some posters banned and infractions issued. Lets get back to attacking posts and not posters. PM for clarification.

M.J.M.C

furtzy wrote: »

The "Truck crashes Dail" makes better hreadlines than "Truck parks up at Dail entrance"

Yeah exactly, Makes you wonder how true some of the stuff on the news / internet is.

Renn

M.J.M.C wrote: »

Yeah exactly, Makes you wonder how true some of the stuff on the news / internet is.

Very little I'd imagine. Best waiting five years before reading up on any incident.

Gunsfortoys

Mark200 wrote: »

You clearly didn't read my post properly. My suggestion:

"try to come up with actual suggestions to what the Government should do." as opposed to all this moaning without providing any alternatives to the Government's current actions.

I repeated that idea again in my post:

"How about we say what we are FOR instead of just blanketly knocking every idea the current Government comes up with?"

You have been outlining how people on this thread are moaning, how they should come up with solutions to problems etc, yet you haven't put ideas down yourself.

So I will ask a third time. What solution do you have for our economic mess? (I have highlighted the statement to which I'm referring to above, to make it as simple as possible).

irish1967

Seems the driver may not have been acting alone !!!

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8683/cement.jpg

nobby grande

Viva the start of the revolution. *(sarcasm) Well done to the guy i say though. Peaceful, yet sending a clear message. If it gets more people thinking about real solutions it has 100% worked in my book. This country is full of people who spend all day whinging and very few actually thinking about how we can improve this situation.
The government should be called into a general election, not that i see any really great solution in FG or Labour. However the mess we are in is down to FF and i'm glad this cement truck driver has embarrassed them if only slightly. The fact that our government took a break for the last few months is sickening. Surely there should be a dedicated team of people trying to think of radical incentives to create new economic plans for this country. They need to get some radical new ideas quickly, and some of the finest business brains in the country should be involved. The sooner that happens the better.

libs

fair play to him thats action louder than words!!

Sonnenblumen

libs wrote: »

fair play to him thats action louder than words!!

Oh yeah, and what's parking a stupid truck in front of a building going to achieve? Sorry no local hero.

flash1080

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

Oh yeah, and what's parking a stupid truck in front of a building going to achieve? Sorry no local hero.

Protesting never achieves anything.

Snakeblood

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

Oh yeah, and what's parking a stupid truck in front of a building going to achieve? Sorry no local hero.

Rosa Parks wouldn't move to the back of the bus. No one really knows what will happen when civil disobedience starts.

nobby grande

flash1080 wrote: »

Protesting never achieves anything.

Wow - great idea, lets all stay at home and wait for sopmebody else to do something. Look the guy has a grievance, he has now aired it. I'm sure he feels better having done something. He has also embarrassed Fianna Fail. granted not a huge amount but he has shown he is unhappy and that Anglo should have been left to rot.

Liam Byrne

Mark200 wrote: »

You clearly didn't read my post properly. My suggestion:

"try to come up with actual suggestions to what the Government should do." as opposed to all this moaning without providing any alternatives to the Government's current actions.

I repeated that idea again in my post:

"How about we say what we are FOR instead of just blanketly knocking every idea the current Government comes up with?"

They should resign because of their involvement in the crisis and their making it worse every time they claim we've turned a corner.

What I am FOR is people taking responsibility for their own choices and gambling, and that INCLUDES the public, bankers, investors, bondholders and Government.

No bailout for anyone = everyone having responsibility for their own choices, and that responsibility being precisely related to the amount that they gambled.

Zebra3

Mark200 wrote: »

You clearly didn't read my post properly. My suggestion:

"try to come up with actual suggestions to what the Government should do." as opposed to all this moaning without providing any alternatives to the Government's current actions.

I repeated that idea again in my post:

"How about we say what we are FOR instead of just blanketly knocking every idea the current Government comes up with?"

That's my suggestion as to how the country should be reacting to this mess... it was in response to the suggestion that parking a truck outside Leinster Parliament was helping.

They should fuck off and die.

kraggy

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Pity it was not loaded with TNT

The Next Taoiseach?..

starbelgrade

LATEST NEWS, JUST IN;

The driver of the truck who was involved in the incident at Leinster House this morning has been released without charge.










































It appears that there was no concrete evidence.

mikom

starbelgrade wrote: »

LATEST NEWS, JUST IN;

The driver of the truck who was involved in the incident at Leinster House this morning has been released without charge.

To be released at 8.04

arybvtcw0eolkf

TheZohan wrote: »

To get a cement truck at that angle; square with the gates of Leinster House and perfectly aligned would have taken some skill and the driver would have had to driven it at around 5mph.

But you're right, it was a blatant murder attempt.

If you drive straight up Molesworth Street the gates are directly in front of you. Or if you come from the Dept. of Transport side of Kildare St. its a hard left, not very skillful at all.

mikom

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

Oh yeah, and what's parking a stupid truck in front of a building going to achieve? Sorry no local hero.

Spot on...... He's from Galway/Mayo.

Atlantic Dawn

flash1080 wrote: »

Protesting never achieves anything.

Tell that to the pensioners who successfully protested last year and got the cuts reversed

AckwelFoley

meah...

nothing solved by this

amacachi

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Tell that to the pensioners who successfully protested last year and got the cuts reversed

Yeah but they'll be dead soon, see how much of a pension the scabby ****ers are getting then.

flash1080

amacachi wrote: »

Yeah but they'll be dead soon, see how much of a pension the scabby ****ers are getting then.

Middle aged people and the younger generation will be screwed for pensions when they reach that age because they won't protest and didn't pay any attention to those who are older and wiser.

bnt

According to the IrTimes, the Pun Merchants went in to overdrive on Twitter re #cementgate. Lots of stuff about TDs - or Cowen - getting Plastered.

I had to learn a bit about concrete, a subject on which it's possible to get so geeky you lose your audience. Example: on aggregate, I think the only cure is to throw that kind of ASR in the clinker ...

starbelgrade

bnt wrote: »

According to the IrTimes, the Pun Merchants went in to overdrive on Twitter re #cementgate. Lots of stuff about TDs - or Cowen - getting Plastered.

I had to learn a bit about concrete, a subject on which it's possible to get so geeky you lose your audience. Example: on aggregate, I think the only cure is to throw that kind of ASR in the clinker ...

I had a look at that site... there's a very lean mix of puns there.

amacachi

flash1080 wrote: »

Middle aged people and the younger generation will be screwed for pensions when they reach that age because they won't protest and didn't pay any attention to those who are older and wiser.

If only.

Pookah

bnt wrote: »

According to the IrTimes, the Pun Merchants went in to overdrive on Twitter re #cementgate. Lots of stuff about TDs - or Cowen - getting Plastered.

Funny video from that Twitter page

The second interview had me in stitches.

BingoMingo

M.J.M.C wrote: »

Parking a truck in front of the dail? Mindless Violence?

Bar that you've good points.

No harm was done and it's gotten people talking

I was responding in agreement to a post from someone who critiscised some of the comments being put forward. I abbreviated the quote for brevity.

The follwing text preceded the quote I included:

"Yea, about time! Pity he didn't mow down a Minister or one of the Gardai too, that'll show'em! Wouldn't it be awesome, someone getting hit with a truck, going under the wheels and getting squashed or, even better, being on the other side of the gates and being pinned to the ground if they had come down. Loads of pictures in the media too so the families could see, yea brilliant!"

This is suggesting mindless violence - Yes?

Kasabian

If I don't win the lotto tonight I am going to drive my car through the shop that I bought my ticket in. I will however give them the chance to give me back my €4.

Gambles should be reimbursed if they don't come off.

I wonder if this bloke and his truck would be anywhere near the Dail today if he had successfully sold the 22 apratments to people trying to get on the property market with their 100 / 110 % mortgages. Doubt it.

People in this country really need to start being made to take responsibilty for their collective failure, starting at the top.

Iceland has their former Prime Minister under investigation for negligence. We have a couple of TD's in the Green Party, avoiding extintion, and a few independants sucking resourses dry for their local constituency all in the name of proping up a failed Government.

John Gormley owes it to the people of this country to put this Government to bed and let the people decide.

Sonnenblumen

mikom wrote: »

Spot on...... He's from Galway/Mayo.

Make your mind up!:D

SEPT 23 1989

He is appearing in court tomorrow morning

how will the people of this country react if this man is jailed?