Protest outside Roderick O' Gormans home - read OP before posting

So you would have no problem getting elected with all the trimmings it comes with

I don't like O'Gorman and have a problem with the way we've handled immigration and asylum seekers. I believe in the right to protest but that should never be outside anybody's house. This is the second unsavoury incident I know of in recent days. Earlier this week, somebody wielding a phone came up to Eoin O'Broin and screamed a torrent of foul-mouthed abuse at him. This is common practice for these people - they love their phones and their live-streaming.

If you've been following Twitter accounts which highlight the antics of the far-right in Ireland, the protests outside O'Gorman's house will come as no surprise to you. You can trace the lineage of this sort of thuggery right back to the Covid lockdown and the protests which took place at the time. The gardai took a very hands-off approach then, and that has continued. It's no surprise they're just sitting in a car looking at all of this when that's all they've been doing for the past couple of years. They didn't do anything when agitators were harassing people working in vaccination centres and pharmacies. They didn't do anything when they started storming into libraries and bookshops, live streaming their abuse of staff in there. They let them block roads in Dublin, then elsewhere. They've never prosecuted them even though there is video evidence of them physically assaulting people who opposed them. Questions need to be properly asked about why the Gardai continue to sit on their hands and let these people run riot. Also, there is money to be made from this sort of agitation. Why aren't the authorities looking at this more closely? How many of these people work and if not, where is their funding coming from?

If you are unhappy with the current crop of TD's, why not stand yourself ?

Protesting outside his home isn’t appropriate under any circumstances.

However, he needs to made fully aware, in an entirely unambiguous manner, that he is inept and not fit for purpose. As it stands, the electorate needs to wait for almost another year to terminate his political career.

There needs to be a mechanism in place to expedite the departure of an incompetent minister, who has not only presided over, but actually intensified the crisis this country is currently dealing with, in relation to the asylum process.

It goes back to pre-Covid. The same scumbags embedded themselves into the anti-austerity protests, and then into the water protests.

The scumbaggery they engaged in then was downplayed because they’d aligned themselves with the hard-left groups for that time.

Remember the likes of Tom D’Arcy and Ben Gilroy telling us how “Contant Markievicz ” gave “his” life to eradicate taxation, or the gangs of thugs harassing Irish Water workers; or the sit-down “protests” blocking O’Connell bridge.
Same scumbags who have now pivoted to the anti-immigration protests.
The Paul Murphy’s of the world have a hell of lot to answer for in how they facilitated the growth of these elements

Good post… but it’s all the ‘far right’ we have to worry about apparently 😬 never mind what’s becoming of this country and our democracy and wellbeing.

ROG will end up sacrificed and thrown under the bus getting all the flack about immigration when everything he does gets the say so agreement from our FFG government, they are all to blame so lets hope at the next GE, all taken out, lose their seats but then to whom

**** scum of the lowest order

Oh for forks sake is right.

And tell me, why do you think I would make it up?

I think Dustin the Turkey would be better than the current lot in

Honestly no idea as independents seem the only few listening to the people imho

We need a government who acts in the best interest of the country and listens to the people first

That's a fair point and to be honest, I don't care whether the protestors are aligned to the left or the right. This sort of scumbaggery should've been nipped in the bud years ago.

tbh I don’t think these protestors are representative of the wider public view at the moment but given a more obviously dividing issue hypothetically that may be causing an issue such as rights to vote amongst a particular demographic as seen in the past isn’t it inevitable that protests if ignored long enough eventually turn to civil disobedience and eventually all out conflict. I don’t think this issue is one that deserves such action as seen in these protests but to say it’s not possible that it could ever be justified for any issues surely isn’t true?

There’s a general problem of condoning or making excuses for scumbaggery once it aligns to “my side”

The country would be in a much better place if people called out scumbag behaviour regardless