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Water Protest

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  • 23-01-2016 8:42pm
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    Whereisgalway
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    was their one in the city today? did many attend?
    i rememeber a fairly big one last year


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    Storm 10
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    Whereisgalway wrote: »
    was their one in the city today? did many attend?
    i rememeber a fairly big one last year

    Two hundred according to local news


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    Whereisgalway
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    they have a habbit of over exaggerating these things, prob closer to 100, they would have helped there cause if they let people know when and where they were protesting, i didnt see a thing on social media or any galway forum abt it


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    inisboffin
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    Whereisgalway wrote: »
    they have a habbit of over exaggerating these things, prob closer to 100, they would have helped there cause if they let people know when and where they were protesting, i didnt see a thing on social media or any galway forum abt it

    It's all over my social media feed, I suppose it depends who you associate with!:D

    IMO I prefer first hand info or a photo to media sources (and in some cases of course the organisation itself) as there usually some agenda (Gardaí official figures I have also found way off btw). Just looking at photos now and I would put it well over 200!


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    J.pilkington
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    inisboffin wrote: »
    It's all over my social media feed, I suppose it depends who you associate with!:D

    IMO I prefer first hand info or a photo to media sources (and in some cases of course the organisation itself) as there usually some agenda (Gardaí official figures I have also found way off btw). Just looking at photos now and I would put it well over 200!

    I was there I reckon 800++++


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    inisboffin
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    Any pics?
    Friends I spoke to said 350 ish


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    Whereisgalway
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    inisboffin wrote: »
    Any pics?
    Friends I spoke to said 350 ish

    My mate was there and he said abt 150
    I would have been there myself but I was looking at the whats left of the grass on eyre square


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    thesandeman
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    RTE reported 300.


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    joeKel73
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    inisboffin wrote: »
    Gardaí official figures I have also found way off btw

    The Gardaí don't provide "official figures", it's not part of their role. They do tend to share their own rough estimate, but that's all it is.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/special-reports/2014/1208/665393-water-protest-counting-the-madding-crowd/

    Many of the numbers I've seen reported by the water protesters have been greatly exaggerated when you look at the crowd density they're claiming and compare to photos from the event.

    http://www.gkstill.com/Support/crowd-density/625sm/Density4.html

    http://www.gkstill.com/Support/crowd-flow/MovingDensity.html


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    Baggy Trousers
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    Fair play to them!
    I was at the one in Dublin.
    It is absolutely invigorating protesting against this wasteful superquango.


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    bodhrandude
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    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    GDSGR8
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    There were about 67 of them, I took a photo at 2pm on my way over to the Connacht game.


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    J.pilkington
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    GDSGR8 wrote: »
    There were about 67 of them, I took a photo at 2pm on my way over to the Connacht game.

    You are doing it wrong, you are supposed to count the randomers on the fringe of the photo who are on other business as protestors, adds at least 40%


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