Protest 27/11/2010

dazftw

Anybody going to this tomorrow? Starting around 12.. I'm tempted to drive up in the morning! Can anyone give me a google maps location of somewhere just outside the city handy to park at? In case I decide to head up in the morning!

hoganpoly

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nilhg

dazftw wrote: »

Anybody going to this tomorrow? Starting around 12.. I'm tempted to drive up in the morning! Can anyone give me a google maps location of somewhere just outside the city handy to park at? In case I decide to head up in the morning!

Red cow park and ride? Luas in to the city.

Keep in the left lane after Newlands cross and watch for the signs.

dazftw

nilhg wrote: »

Red cow park and ride? Luas in to the city.

Keep in the left lane after Newlands cross and watch for the signs.

Perfect! Thanks!

Heebie

After Newlands Cross inbound you do keep to the left (but not the bus lane on the far left) and watch the signs. You'll get to a point where the road is "blocked" by orange sticks in the middle lane.. you have to take a very hard left here, then a left at the roundabout.. then a left at the next roundabout, and then a left at the next to get into the car park... it can be confusing. It amounts to that you'll get off the N7 on the North side, then take a series of lefts that'll bring you back over the N7 to the South side, where the car park is.

dazftw wrote: »

Perfect! Thanks!

sNarah

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Thanks!

dazftw

Heebie wrote: »

After Newlands Cross inbound you do keep to the left (but not the bus lane on the far left) and watch the signs. You'll get to a point where the road is "blocked" by orange sticks in the middle lane.. you have to take a very hard left here, then a left at the roundabout.. then a left at the next roundabout, and then a left at the next to get into the car park... it can be confusing. It amounts to that you'll get off the N7 on the North side, then take a series of lefts that'll bring you back over the N7 to the South side, where the car park is.

Yeah that motorway is the job. Just using street view there and can see the left I need to take. That's literally the only left I take from Waterford.

Jim

Gonna head in myself, try and get there early. Hopefully there's good light tomorrow.

Just to throw in, thi sis organised for both 11 and 12 on different sites, so you may want to get in a little earlier than you were planning.

I hope to get on the Matthews 9.30 Drogheda bus, to be there for 10.30. Should give me plenty of time to mooch around the place.

dazftw

Any of ye want to meet up maybe? I plan on getting to gunn's around 11ish?

Dunno where that is. I plan to just hang around the GPO for a little while to be one of the first few there (and hopefully, if there's a big group, get some shots of them coming down the street together).

If ye see me feel free to say hello. I'll be wearing headphones, but they'll most likely be off. I'll be the obese bloke in blue camo pants and a hoodie with a cap on backwards, with two cameras hanging out of me. I'm sure ye won't miss me.

dazftw

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Dunno where that is. I plan to just hang around the GPO for a little while to be one of the first few there (and hopefully, if there's a big group, get some shots of them coming down the street together).

If ye see me feel free to say hello. I'll be wearing headphones, but they'll most likely be off. I'll be the obese bloke in blue camo pants and a hoodie with a cap on backwards, with two cameras hanging out of me. I'm sure ye won't miss me.

haha no problem gunn's is on Wexford street. I need to go buy some film. I chose the right time to sell my digicam

the_monkey

I'm really looking forward to see the pics of this !!!

Diabhal_Glas

ill be in and about with a 400d and a nifty fifty bring on the madness, ha hailstones, thunder and lightning at the moment brilliant

Thecageyone

Snowing here in navan, best of look all who brave it. Wear yer woolies, for the cold and as body armour to get into the thick of it Look forward to all your shots.

Yeah there's a layer of snow here, too.

I'm gonna get the 10.30 bus to have me there for 11.30. Not arriving at 10.30 when the protestors don't even know what time it's starting at. I've been hearing 11 for ages, but now it apparently is certainly 12.

I'm not freezing my balls off for an hour and a half for nothing.

So anyway... anyone got any protest tips? Are there any places in or around the GPO where one can stand on something to get a bit of height (aside from doing a Stallone job and going up the Spire, of course)?

Thecageyone

Check your route, heard on the radio Ashbourne/Trim/Navan - Dublin is bad, some buses cancelled.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1127/weather.html

Well Matthews Coaches generally always go anyway. They bought their own road gritter thingy last year to clear their route in the bad weather when the council ran out of grit.

Then the council said they weren't allowed use it

Silly stuff.

Promac

Bring your gloves and scarves - there's a layer of snow in Dublin city centre.

Jim

Yep. Wonder how many people will not bother going due to snow.

Heading into town in about 15 mins

Promac

Yeah me too - even more because of the snow. Snowball protest!

AnCatDubh

N7 through Kildare apparently is very poor. Just spoke to a friend who's travelled to PortLaoise and it was very poor driving conditions.

Take care if travelling.

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Thecageyone

Nice ones there, love that Ireland getting F'd from behind sign

xshayx

Renn

xshayx wrote: »

Think this one is the best in an odd sort of way. Poor kid with a father that puts her in that position.

Kintarō Hattori

(This f*cker kept getting in the way of my shots. All the best ones were ruined!)

Kintarō Hattori

Where the fcuk was all that?! ^


I was standing around the GPO like a tit today hoping to see some Garda action. Where was all that? I didn't see so much as a van (well.. I seen ye old motormocycles, but they were just sitting around).


I'm upset about that.

Kintarō Hattori

That was up outside the Dail on Kildare Street- where some protestors tried to storm a while back.

Telchak

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smelltheglove

Renn wrote: »

Think this one is the best in an odd sort of way. Poor kid with a father that puts her in that position.

Great pic, brutally honest, father hasnt put her int he position, the government has. I marched in the 80's locally when i was around 8, never did me any harm and the constant marches we did eventually got our area the secondary school it needed, glad I took part in them.

Love the editing on that pic too, best of all I have seen so far!

humberklog

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

That was up outside the Dail on Kildare Street- where some protestors tried to storm a while back.

Video? :pac::):o

Renn

I gotta disagree. It's hardly brutally honest if the kid has been told to write xyz and the kid not really having a bloody clue as to why they're out there.

okmqaz42

humberklog wrote: »

Video? :pac::):o

This might be the Vid you are after RTE Extra Link

humberklog

okmqaz42 wrote: »

This might be the Vid you are after RTE Extra Link

Ah no, it was just a joke with KH as he video('?)d me earlier. Sorry for the "in" joke.

Trigger76

I was glad to be a part of it .... this is what I got

Kintarō Hattori

humberklog wrote: »

Ah no, it was just a joke with KH as he video('?)d me earlier. Sorry for the "in" joke.

YouTube has a terribly long verification process. Processing, processing.

Thecageyone

More pics less chitter chatter please :P Some great shots so far. I think the one with the child is maybe a little OTT, but it does make for a great image, and excellently processed IMHO.

Kintarō Hattori

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajyi5pFTeD8

Heh heh heh.

Didn't really get anything worthwhile myself.








































Jim, how'd you manage to end up on the roof of that building?

mr.bovy

Hey guys,
I have made a blog post, I wish someone could comment on...
I'm confused about all this whats happening...
I went to the march and I didn't like it...

here is why...
http://mantratrain.net/2010/11/28/its-aint-pretty/

thanks for your time

mr.bovy

sprinkles

some great shots.

Trigger76

Cheers Spinkles

Jim

Deleted User wrote: »

Jim, how'd you manage to end up on the roof of that building?

I was in the crowd in front of the stage and knew I couldn't get anything useful. I saw the other togs and news cams ontop of the suit shop. Went into the shop, security didn't say anything to me. Went all the way to the top floor to their stock room and climbed the ladder to the roof. Lots of other people up there. Staff didn't seem to care. I think I heard them make the same "We should charge people a tener" joke about 20 times :pac:

bren2002

Trigger76 wrote: »

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iamstop

humberklog wrote: »

Video? :pac::):o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0l-_LrpTfk