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Water meter protests

[Deleted User] · 2014-06-12 10:07:49

I've been kinda following the story about the water meter protests on & off for a few weeks now via the Dublin says no facebook page (looks like there's trouble in Raheny today with the Gardaí there). I can't say I'm a big fan of another bill but it's very clear that we are going to be paying for water next year no matter…

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#1152 17-11-2014 7:49pm

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I can't help but feel that the vitriol some people here have towards the protestors in Tallaght is in part fed by the disdain they have for the working class in general.

If this happened in Foxrock I think people would have not condemned it with quite the same attitude, on the basis that when you have hundreds of thousands of people across the country protesting for weeks on end, the law of averages says that eventually there will be a tiny minority who will overstep the mark. It doesn't detract from the wider cause the protestors have and it certainly shouldn't detract from the undemocratic shambles that is Irish Water.

Even so, the extent of the violence is very limited in comparison to what happens in nearly every other part of the world. For example, there was an ice hockey final in North America recently that ended in a mass riot of "celebration". Far more violent and lawless than anything that has happened here with the water protests.

Disdain for the working class my foot.. Would you ever get a grip.

There is no justification for thuggery. How much did the protesters think about the peoplewwho got back to education, we're getting honoured for it and had their day ruined my thugs.
I suppose Murphy will say the bomb threat to Alan Kelly and his staff was justified.

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