Dublin dail protests - read OP before posting

It’s a grand oul country if you have the right connections.

I don’t remember anyone up in arms when Derek Byrne called our president a midget parasite to his face during the water protests, or Paul Murphy and the Jobstown crew being called out.

Seems the pubic cherry pick their moral outrage.

You think the protest last night was just about housing? Was there a unified demand delivered?

What we saw was gallows and chanting about ejecting the public's representatives.

That's coup language.

What anger out there though? This was a relatively tiny number of cranks and hotheads (less than 200 people perhaps), most of whom are probably on social welfare. You could hardly claim they are representative of anyone or anything. It's a similar bunch of eejits shouting all over social media.

Imagine it was a pretty frightening moment for her first day on the job so unwittingly dropping her phone and thinking she might have been mugged isn't an amazing gotcha tbh.

Just dropped her phone while followed by angry protesters. I don't really think it was the standout from the event tbh.

Earlier this evening Richard Boyd Barrett was question about his stance on migration related issues.

https://twitter.com/TheRealGDaBoss/status/1704926081176711272

I have said it before on another thread and I,ll say it again.

East wall and ballybrack where the protests are ongoing the local tds in those areas to call public meetings in both areas and have a garda representative present where the garda representative can give assurances to people that any new people arriving into the area have had their passports checked and that they are valid passports to address people,s concerns and I said locals tds where the tds can be asked questions by locals and if anyone has any grievance towards government policy on migration they want to air they can air it.

Some actual dialogue to local communities because there has been little to none since these protests started.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120937106/#Comment_120937106

The man in the video asking Richard questions obviously has grievances over migration related issues if there was public meetings in that area over migration where tds would be present that man could of aired his grievances there instead of approaching a td in what appears to be a beer garden in that video.

Well, to be fair, hanging effigies of people from a gallows is not exactly good natured peaceful protest. I know personally that if someone is hanging an effigy with my face on it in the context of an angry mob, I'd be inclined to take that as a threat.

Between hanging effigies and physically abusing elected representatives, it seems to me that a marginal public overreaction is preferable and much more understandable than an under-reaction.

These people deserve to be pilloried across all media for what they are: delusional clowns who mistake anger for righteousness.

Conclusion from looking at the videos of the protest.

1. The protesters don't even know what they are protesting about. "Vaccines, Jews, TDs salaries" Anything their little pea brains can think of, I'd post the videos but it's just giving them coverage which is what they want.

2. They think by carrying an Irish flag the 2 to 3 hundred people there are somehow representing the majority of Irish people, which they clearly aren't hence such a small crowd.

3. I'd say 90% of the protestors there are in receipt of some sort of social welfare payment, most are wearing tracksuits

4. Having come across some of these far right loonies before, there is generally no reasoning with them, all of them in the videos couldn't even string a sentence together without curses, they are dregs on society.

5. We all have our problems with the government / TDs etc. But, having seen this shite that they've to put up with now, I completely understand why they want and need increased security, although, I hope there's not too much of an over reaction as these really are the minority of society for now.

6. These people are racist - comments like "this is our f**king country" etc. Go some way towards proving that.

Fair play to guards, tough job not to react...if I was a guard I'd really find it hard to resist the urge to give these loonies a hard smack on the face

There was mention of Jews in one of the guys rambling speechs, he had a megaphone, was spouting some amount of crap

The incident at the airport was heavily reported.

Good point. Very curious juxtaposition in the reporting around both these incidents. An innocent member of the public waiting to catch a flight is repeatedly stabbed, yet the commentary is relatively muted. Contrast that with a few TDs being heckled, and the sky is suddenly falling in.

Personally, I don’t agree that this is the right way to voice frustration with the current woefully incompetent administration. However, I do find it interesting that the usual suspects are quick to brand the protesters as social welfare recipients, when those same commentators clearly aren’t particularly economically active themselves, given their prolific posting patterns!

Might be time for some self-scrutiny..

I bet staff in cork library and book stores are amused to see politicians finally awake to the menace they've had to endure in recent months.

Anyone saying they're ok with that protest should have no problem with the annual burning of posters and effigies of Irish public representatives on the 11th July.

I'm not surprised by the reaction to the protestors. But whether people like it or not, there is something stirring in many areas around the country. The media and government can ignore it or put labels on it, but people are aggrieved and anger is building. Large parts of society are unaffected by it and their smugness is telling, but to ignore it is a risky strategy.