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

But you always do this whataboutery to deflect from far right violence as if you want to minimise it, pretend it isn't a problem, find something else to look at instead. Always. You claim you condemn but only when you have tried hard to deflect with whataboutery.

Can't believe that this even needs a discussion tbh.

Showing up outside a persons home in a menacing and coordinated way, with faces hidden; is not a protest. It's harassment.

Doesn't matter what the cause is, or what side you happen to be on. It's not 'fair game'

I've never said any of that.

You've built me up in your own mind as some far right apologist. Everything in your world is binary, which has a certain irony to it.

You’re strawmanning here, and trying to rebut things I never claimed.

The point is that these tactics were happily employed by SF and PBP previously.
It was unacceptable then, and it’s unacceptable now - but the likes of SF and PBP and the rest of the Irish hard left pioneered “direct action” style of “peaceful protest” over the past decade and a half - and the path from that to the disgusting stuff we see now isn’t exactly hard to see

Except for those of us who believe In democracy, and would obviously be concerned about such intimidation tactics.

Finglas. Reminds me of Loyalists in the North.

If wearing masks is intimidating and thuggery you might want to take a look at what happened in Newtownmountkennedy last night.

State sponsored intimidation and thuggery, backed up by AGS. Will Helen and Roddy and Simple Simon be front and centre making statements about how terrible this is for the people of the village?? Or is it only terrible when it’s their houses it happens at??

Masked men

Abusive signs

Blocking cars

All thuggery and intimidation. You support intimidating politicians you don't like.

Get off those nationalistic conspiracy theory Facebook groups, you'll be a happier person.

Most communities wouldn't need for workers to have Garda protection, they would just let them work in peace

And here's the far left Antifa masked up. More than likely intimidating locals with the support of Gardai all whilst trying to forcibly insert unwanted men into said locality

There's a massive difference between 'Gardai being undercover' and 'Gardai being undercover agitators'

Which one is it?

And if it's the second, do you have any proof of this? Other than '**** the Gardai!' type yobbo nonsense?

The "far left antifa". Looks more like they have been hired in by the owner. The source is Fatima Gunning a totally unbiased source from Gript. She wouldn't be into a bit of subterfuge herself would she by any chance...

It's also a building site, not someone's home a bit of a difference.

"More than likely intimidating locals" lol zero evidence of that nonsense either.

I spent a bit of time reading the comments on Gript.ie's Facebook posts and it was full of that sort of nonsense. Absolutely everything was a 'leftist' conspiracy.

To hilarious levels. Just think of the mental gymnastics of 1800_ladladlad's post.

Rather than following the principle of Occam's razor, that the explanation with the fewest assumptions is probably correct, ie - in this case:

'Right wing nutters spraypaint right wing shite on a house.'

They have to go:

'Well actually, there's a leftist conspiracy through the whole government, including the Garda and Antifa, and in cases like this, Antifa are actually trying to stir up anti right sentiment by committing acts of vandalism… therefore allowing the Gardai to go in and arrest right wingers'.

Seriously. Which is more logical and likely?

Agreement between who? Is the owner of the site beholden to a few shouty people?

She works for Gript so it's in her interest to spin these as "Antifa".

Most likely scenario is they're normal workers involved in work around asylum seekers and don't want far-right weirdos plastering their faces all over social media.

What are you even talking about and who are you referring to?

I'm not left at all fyi, just anti people spouting conspiratorial bollocks.

Do people speak like this in real life or just online?

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