St. Patrick's Day Protests

riffmongous

Gardaí say they will have a significant policing operation in place to deal with planned protests in Dublin city tomorrow.

Over 2,500 members from regular and specialist units including air support, the dog, mounted and public order units will be on duty at key locations, as well as checkpoints nationwide.

Gardaí say multiple protest events are being planned on social media by disparate groups in different locations, including at the GPO and RTE, which they say will require a significant resources.

So, anyone know what's being planned for tomorrow and by whom? Will we see a repeat of the scenes from the last protest?

I'm assuming if there is something happening at Rte Gemma is involved

celt262

riffmongous wrote: »

So, anyone know what's being planned for tomorrow and by whom? Will we see a repeat of the scenes from the last protest?

I'm assuming if there is something happening at Rte Gemma is involved

Hopefully who ever turns up gets laid into if they start acting the d!ick.

Quantum Erasure

We should have a march, with banners, and all dress in green. Maybe the Gardai could join in, with their own banners...

SEPT 23 1989

The inner city urchins will cause problems as they always do on paddy’s day

suicide_circus

Will the gardai take the knee?

ThunbergsAreGo

riffmongous wrote: »

So, anyone know what's being planned for tomorrow and by whom? Will we see a repeat of the scenes from the last protest?

I'm assuming if there is something happening at Rte Gemma is involved

2,500 is less than 20% of the Gardaí, I would have thought there would be more out tomorrow

PhilOssophy

We should stop giving these imbeciles publicity. Such nobodies crave publicity.
The best thing to do would be let them have their protest and encourage a media black-out about the protests.

BensMixed

The gardai will know exactly what's going to happen in detail. These lads are not the smartest.

"Gardaí say multiple protest events are being planned on social media by disparate groups in different locations, including at the GPO and RTE, which they say will require a significant waste of public resources."

Even the tiniest murmur of unrest among the protestors will have the authoritarian shills salivating with glee, triggering smug remarks like "I hope the Gardaí crack some skulls". A handful of miscreants should take nothing away from the fact that the vast majority are expressing their right to register their displeasure with undemocratic lockdowns in peaceful fashion. Good luck to those standing up for their civil liberties tomorrow, people have been downtrodden long enough.

Mrs OBumble

The snakes are striking back against St Patrick's oppression.

1800_Ladladlad

There's a protest today isnt there.

1800_Ladladlad

suicide_circus wrote: »

Will the gardai take the knee?

They'll have a dance

TheValeyard

There does seem to be a sense in the air that people have just given up when it comes to restrictions. While some may resort to protests or trying to cause trouble tomorrow. I've a strong feeling the restrictions are going to be ignored by a large amounts of people. Lot of frustration out there.

AdrianBalboa

As a person who is concerned about the vulnerable in our society, I hope that this protest doesn't go ahead and become a super-spreader event.

Morons seem to be very easily lead by conspiracy theories on the Internet. Cases are exploding again all over Europe, and it's extremely stupid of people in Ireland to think we can now ease up on restrictions.

Eric Cartman

Cant wait to see the usual faces come in here to condemn this protest who were utterly silent on the george njchenko funeral , the traveller funeral, the ruth coppinger protest and the uk vigil.

Every single one of these protests are moronic and dangerous superspreader events, I dont think anyone can come in to any thread and loudly condemn one without having condemned them all.

ednwireland

i think protest is still a legal form of expression even with coronavirus isnt it

AdrianBalboa

Eric Cartman wrote: »

Cant wait to see the usual faces come in here to condemn this protest who were utterly silent on the george njchenko funeral , the traveller funeral, the ruth coppinger protest and the uk vigil.

Every single one of these protests are moronic and dangerous superspreader events, I dont think anyone can come in to any thread and loudly condemn one without having condemned them all.

Well they're not.

If people can protest in masks while social distancing then they're not superspreader events, but considering that this is a protest in favour of drinking cans with their mates on a Wednesday I imagine that those measures won't be followed.

Oscar Madison

Why are they protesting?

Is it because we're in a pandemic and the safest thing to do is to

shut down a lot of facilities and business outlets for everyones safety?

Maybe I'm just missing the obvious! :mad:

SEPT 23 1989

TheValeyard wrote: »

There does seem to be a sense in the air that people have just given up when it comes to restrictions. While some may resort to protests or trying to cause trouble tomorrow. I've a strong feeling the restrictions are going to be ignored by a large amounts of people. Lot of frustration out there.

The weather is the thing that will change everything

Kermit.de.frog

Deleted User wrote: »

Even the tiniest murmur of unrest among the protestors will have the authoritarian shills salivating with glee, triggering smug remarks like "I hope the Gardaí crack some skulls".

:rolleyes:

uh, we've a live one here

EmmetSpiceland

Eric Cartman wrote: »

Every single one of these protests are moronic and dangerous superspreader events, I dont think anyone can come in to any thread and loudly condemn one without having condemned them all.

Some are more moronic than others.

ednwireland

TheValeyard wrote: »

There does seem to be a sense in the air that people have just given up when it comes to restrictions. While some may resort to protests or trying to cause trouble tomorrow. I've a strong feeling the restrictions are going to be ignored by a large amounts of people. Lot of frustration out there.

walk round the same loop in town most days- struggled to cross the road today with traffic, English reg cars about etc etc

warm and sunny tomorrow don't there will be much adherence to the rules

Amirani

ednwireland wrote: »

i think protest is still a legal form of expression even with coronavirus isnt it

Don't see why vigils seem to have a higher attendance limit than funerals.

At what point can your mother's funeral be classified as a vigil so you can have more than 10 people at it?

riffmongous

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Some are more moronic than others.

Indeed, from a spreading pov anti-restriction protests are inherently more dangerous than any other kind, as the majority of people taking part aren't going to follow the health rules they don't believe in

riffmongous

ednwireland wrote: »

i think protest is still a legal form of expression even with coronavirus isnt it

If it's done right yeah. That's why I'm curious who is organising the ones tomorrow and what form the are planning to take

is_that_so

ThunbergsAreGo wrote: »

2,500 is less than 20% of the Gardaí, I would have thought there would be more out tomorrow

That's all they can manage, the rest are at dancing practice!

.anon.

riffmongous wrote: »

Indeed, from a spreading pov anti-restriction protests are inherently more dangerous than any other kind, as the majority of people taking part aren't going to follow the health rules they don't believe in

Not only that, but they'll make a point of not following the rules. Not just at the protest, but on the way to and from it also.

irishguitarlad

Think tomorrow will be madness with a load of scummers from the city centre pissed and the bad eggs from the protest beating the shíte out of each other with the gards thrown in as well.

EmmetSpiceland

.anon. wrote: »

Not only that, but they'll make a point of not following the rules. Not just at the protest, but on the way to and from it also.

And they’ll be the ones “complaining” loudest when we can’t open back up due to higher cases. Utterly counter-intuitive, not to mention plain stupid.

Ninthlife

Can we get odds on the times at which the first 'shame on you' chant will be started by a group of grey tracksuit clad urban athletes..