Dublin dail protests - read OP before posting

The question is why is this happening now, what has changed to trigger it.

I've posted on this before but my guess is that there are communities that are not able to cope with the pace of social change moreso than economic. Anyone that points that out gets labelled as a crank, racist or something-phobe in order to get them to shut up. One only has to look at Miriam Lord's article in the times today - she mocks the man with the placard "I am angry" and "Ballybrack says no" in that it is just undirected anger but she knows well what they are angry about and knows why their placards cannot explicitly state it.

You obviously believe it’s an inaccurate poll due to the absence of irrelevant demographics.

They definitely seem to be the uneducated and the 'left behind'. Those were very flat Dublin accents yesterday, clearly from the inner city or rough areas in the suburbs. I guess they see their 'movement' as being an anti-establishment one....they see the government and the MSM as their outright enemies, peddling lies and working to screw them over and keep them down.

Agree, Ireland has changed a lot over the past 2 decades and with an accelerating rate of change post Covid due to world factors. Only the well off are anyway sheltered from the effects of this change.

I work with some highly educated people who have very “Dublin “ accents, this a very snobbish post

Yesterday goes beyond protest in its violence, intimidations, threats and calls for murder

Go get a job ye bums and contribute. Anyone I know personally that is involved in these right wing mobs are unemployed which in todays economy is actually an achievement.

Losers, the absolute losers of life these people are.

Amazing the over reaction to this in the media.

A poll cant be inaccurate. The results are the results.

However, whether it represents the feeling in Ireland at the moment, I am not so sure.

Completely fair and agreed!

A vocal protest that was abusive, threatening, intimidating, violent and promoted murder of politicians.

Really, it looked like a bunch of low life spongers to me. I have no doubt their various "carers/ disability " benefits will come under fairly close scrutiny now.

And like the far right morons in the USA they would cry like babies if in court and facing jail.

Having worked in the Dail for 5 years (2011-2016), I have seen plenty of protests in my time - usually there are protests outside the Dáil to some degree on specific issues, sometimes individuals, most quite small but sometimes large ones.

Some of the protests I have seen were by complete extremists. A small minority of the anti-choice protestors were really, really out there, throwing salt and holy water around with one or two of the small minority engaging in pushing and shoving.

But what was on display yesterday - bringing a gallows and making threats to politicians of all parties and none, along with ordinary staff (most staff in Leinster House do not actually work for any politician) while throwing bottles of piss around is a whole other level beyond anything that I have ever seen. It is shocking stuff.

I am not sure if I believe exclusion zones are a good idea - I'd suggest arresting, bringing before the court, and denial of bail before eventually granting it, then bringing them quickly to trial would be a better approach for most of them. The ringleaders should be denied leave to apply for bail and treated harshly.

Any more extreme carry on after that outside the Dáil, send in the public order squad to deal with it and carry out a very swift application of the legal system - arrest, denial of bail, leave to get bail, and a trial shortly after.

I have also had my boss (I worked for a TD) with his house plagued by protestors for days and that was nothing short of terrifying, particularly for his family. Colleagues who worked for TDs and held advice clinics for them have been assaulted and threatened with violent acts - beatings, rapes etc.

It's unacceptable to treat elected representatives or their staff like this.

Anyone who thinks that what went on yesterday (or the other things I described) is in any way justifiable or acceptable needs to take a good look at themselves.

And how that fella in the green jumper and peaky blinder cap who has been going around the country threatening female librarians for months hasn't been either locked up or given a hiding is beyond me.

The hate laws would probably protect the haters just as much as the people they hate, as if people are allowed to be verbally abusive a-holes, they're likely to get physically attacked.

I was walking past that protest yesterday and I couldn't understand a word being said, just loads of people screeching and cursing, sounded like a sketch show being recorded where the population has gone feral. And all the ireland flags made it look like a paddys day episode of the walking dead

Though there seems to be considerable overlap between the far right and the conspiracy theory crowd these days. Not just in Ireland : look at GB News for example, where you have Farage and Rees Mogg on with a load of conspiracy theory nuts like Neil Oliver.

It wasn't even an anti immigration protest though, it was just a bored, unemployed mob getting together for a "peaceful protest". If Leo turned around tomorrow and said no more, borders closed, deporting all these lads back to where they came from, they would just move onto something else.

The ring leaders just like the attention and the hanger ons like been in mob and getting in gaurds and politicans faces.

These are just a bunch of angry losers who've fucked up their lives and are projecting their failures onto everyone else. Its garden variety loserville.

Theyre the same few dozen every time. From 5 million people.

Few cans, shout "OUT OUT OUT" at anyone and piss off home to post videos on Facebook.