Dublin dail protests - read OP before posting

The irony of dismissing something is stirring and then calling them agitators. But alas you've also fallen into the trap of putting labels on the protesters. The crowd on Wednesday may have been small but there are many many others who share their views and are angry about the direction and policies that are being forced on communities up and down the country. And it is niave to think there isn't.

How can a protest be undemocratic? Are you suggesting you can only protest if you have an elected representative with you?

Bullshìt

This wasnt normal protest. Protests in Ireland are rarely this violent and intimidating and abusive. I've never heard of bottles of piss been thrown as missiles befoe either.

Water protests, love ulster protests etc.

We probably don't have enough violent protests. As I said you arrest the people breaking the law and you move on.

Very slippery slope listening to some politicians and RTE. Plenty of people are murdered, raped, robbed on their way to work and we don't close streets or put army on the streets. Politicians should be no different.

Exactly this, not one of them was a net tax contributer but seemed to demand that yet more taxes be spent on them.

That's a weird way of looking at it.

Just allow criminality because we can arrest them afterwards, and- look- it's happening already in other areas so nothing to see here.

They should absolutely be doing something proactively to prevent these sort of so called protests in the future.

Was that the ploughing championship you're on about?

If RTÉ did cover it in more detail, people might start to realise that a serious overhaul in how mental health services are being run here is required. Now that isn't to say that there wasn't just cradle to the grave scrotes there, such as the organisers, that some have to automatically defend or claim aren't a threat for some reason, but if RTE did cover them in more detail then people would start to realise that along with general garda investment, the public order and dog units need serious investment to deal with them.

With respect, a direct provision centre back when you were a kid geared towards families fleeing conflict is a totally different kettle of fish to what's popping up now. Buildings in working class areas are being taken over by the government and stuffed with male migrants from Africa and the Middle East, at a rate of knots. None of the buildings being used for this purpose are located in D4, D6 or any of the leafy burbs further south. It is quite simply a daft policy of creating ghettos in already deprived areas and that's how these people can get support from a crowd.

It’s quite revealing to contrast the relatively muted “sweep it under the carpet quick” response to that genuinely nightmare incident at dublin airport where a random man (sympathies to him) was stabbed repeatedly by an absolute scumbag,

with politicians losing their minds over the pathetic rabble outside LH the other day....

People will draw their own conclusions to this.

“In a sign of how far the rise of the nativist, authoritarian far right has shifted Europe’s politics rightwards, the researchers considered classifying several of the continent’s better-known centre-right parties as borderline far-right.

“We talked a lot about reclassifying the UK’s Conservatives, Mark Rutte’s VVD in the Netherlands, Les Républicains in France and the ÖVP in Austria,” Rooduijn said. “In the end we didn’t because nativism was not their core focus. But we may in future.””

That makes the research absolutely useless. They are pretty much saying they have moved the bar. Have these parties actually changed or have the opinions of the researchers? The Democrats in the US were very pro boarder control, anti mass immigration and against gay marriage under Clinton, that has changed so the party shifted its stance further left but that doesn’t shift the whole spectrum of politics.

If its breaking the law then they'll be arrested. Outside of that it's a open/shut case.

We do not and should not create laws for fringe minority behaviour.