Those old "why don't the irish ever protest" threads

We aren’t militant enough with it is what is meant by we don’t protest. As in we don’t go out and wreck the place like the French.

Anyone want to have a go at wrecking the place?

We need to be led by trade Unions to protest. None of the Irish trade unions are worth anything and they don't like to upset the establishment. They are in bed with the government so that's why there are no organised protests,only militant ones.

People with free time do: the unemployed/unemployable, students, OAPs.

And they don't see people protesting because they don't put the foot out their door (as you said), and because RTÉ rarely reports on it.

It is not "the French", they are just like anywhere else where sectional interests try to get a bigger slice of the pie for themselves. Also they are not short of Enoch Burke types. This is a report from 2017.

After two years out of the spotlight, anti-gay marriage movement "Manif Pour Tous" (Protest for Everyone) was reactivated on Sunday. According to police figures, between 23,000 and 24,000 people gathered at the Trocadero Plaza in western Paris to protest against France's same-sex marriage laws. Organizers, however, put the turnout at approximately 200,000.

Protesters marched through the streets waving French flags and the movement's blue and pink colors. Some held signs declaring "All together for the family" and "In 2017, I'll vote for the family."

"Even if the gay marriage law has been adopted, we will continue the protest to show that it is not good and we want it to be repealed. We want to influence the political debate that will take place in the coming months," said one protester.

A 29-year-old man told news agency AFP that he was protesting because he wanted a "return to the principles of Christian civilization in terms of family, institutions and work."

When you encounter some of the doses that lead protests here it put puts a lot of average people off.

Also, an education system and society that for generations ensured a compliant population.

Lack of natural resources. Protest outside your factory here and the owner can just relocate it as all the raw materials are imported anyway. Unless it’s related to agriculture, which will generally be well organised by the Union, or like the meat factories completely union free so the staff will be replaced in a whim.

Are you a union member?

There was a protest at UHL hospital in Limerick today.

I just saw it on the nine o'clock news.

Hardly likely to get covered by RTE when they had posters demanding RTE Get Off The Air and "wanted" posters with pictures of RTE presenters.

Well they’re supposed to report on stuff, so they don’t like the story so drop it. Impartial, truth matters isn’t that what their BS add campaign was saying. Goebbels would be proud of them, and they’re one sided spin machine.

It just shows though, RTE only cover stories that serve their own agenda, they are not impartial, and they are not trustworthy.

Would you agree that your own agenda is, to put it kindly, a niche one, thas been debunked and ridiculed over and again and thats why you're upset at RTÉ/ Irish Times/Irish Examiner/Business Post/The Currency/The Journal, as the personification of Irish people who don't listen to your slurry?