Dublin dail protests - read OP before posting

Silly conversation , talking about non existent blackouts that never happened .

You can't even admit you never read the out-of-date-by-a-year link before you posted it , or maybe you don't understand how inane that is , so in that case I can absolutely see you would be a supporter of the crowd that thought they were" storming the Dáil " on Wednesday .

I'm pretty sure you knew I never said that there was "nothing to see here" in relation to the incident two days ago (for the record the people involved in the same are cretins who deserve precisely the same amount of respect they show to others themselves), but you posted a long winded personal attack stating that I did regardless (was it cathartic?).

So you can take your moral grandstanding elsewhere because until you display a basic level of respect to me I won't extend anything but polite indignation to you.

Throwing anything at somebody is assault and assault isn't par for the course for politicians to deal with and never should be.

I wouldn't choose steaming bottles of hot frothy piss as a hill to die on in defence of the right to protest.

Dignified respectful differences of opinion do not and never should extend to dousing people in bodily waste so let's just get beyond that once and for all.

Another poster talking about an "ever growing number" but yet unable to quantify the number. Can we look forward to 0.000041% of the population at the next gathering of the rabble?

If I had a fool proof solution, I'd probably go into politics myself and get it done (although would likely get called loads of slurs by the left when I started talking about restricting immigration).

Like I'm not anti LGBT/gay rights, abortion, ban library crazy like some of the lot at the Dail protest, but I do think we should have tighter border control (both in regards refugees and how fast we turn around their applications but also the English language school stuff and skilled immigration visas (plenty of countries will only grant visas for certain skills there).

I know some people will point to the pension situation and why we need immigration but that's really just kicking the can down the road, it doesn't solve the issue (unless you're hoping all the immigrants head home before looking for pensions here). Ideally we need to make it affordable for people already here to have a family and make peoples lives actually better. Like I think a lot of people want to have kids, they just are being responsible as can't afford them due to childcare costs in particular. We obviously need more Gardai and better enforcement and sentencing (if that means build a new prison, build one). There needs to be far better engagement from politicians in actually addressing citizens' concerns cos whilst they can point to GDP and jobs, this country has gotten worse in the last 15 years in most metrics.

Thankfully we have a system here that allows individuals to voice concerns. And pretty much everyone will have concerns if a prison isnprobosed next door to them!

Mad how the “system” is able to be paused for asylum accommodation, but couldn’t be for a prison, which is vital state infrastructure.

I dont like the idea of these dregs affecting sane protests in future.

Just prosecute/fine/ban from all social media all the dregs and dont change things for the normal folk.

They're not the only three parties in the world. And if you don't like any of the options on the menu you need to be getting into the kitchen and rustling up yourself. You may retort that you personally that you personally don't have time or capacity to get involved in establishing a new political party, but if a substantial body of opinion out there shared your political views somebody would be doing. So the system does function, it's self-correcting...

Doesn’t seem to be a very friendly or child safe message from the side who claim to care about children.

It’s like turning up to a female rights protest in the 70/80s as a man with a sign saying “give me a bj”

I don't think it was meant to be taken literally, but then what message does throwing a bag of piss at a democratically elected individual send to a child?

The fact that many of the protesters thought it was a good idea to take bottles of piss to a protest says everything. It states their mentality, level of IQ and understanding of an issue. How they even found their way to the Dail seems to have been a major achievement for many of them.