Well done folks keep up the protest.Nice to another group in society find their voice.

Well done. At last people are beginning to wake up and resist the endless destruction of peoples rights.

Home Care Help-is not a luxury, it’s an essential service to ensure that vulnerable people receive the basic needs of daily survival.

Well done guys:-)

It is the month of August on the shores of the loch corrib. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town:

* He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one
* The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher.
* The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note , and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower.
* The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note , and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel.
* The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the town’s prostitute that in these hard times, gave her “services” on credit.
* The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there.
* The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.
* The rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 Euro note , after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town.

No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the irish Government is doing business today.

All of these interest groups, admirable as they are, need to come under one anti-austerity banner that is run by the grass roots and in a democratic fashion. Otherwise the government will just buy off each group with false guarantees, lies and promises, and come the budget after next it’ll still be too late because people still won’t be working together.

These cuts are a disgrace to humanity. Invest in life, health, the emergency services and most importantly in the people that need it most.

‘According to the Chief Medical Officer of Ireland, a 30% reduction in alcohol- related harm would result in a cost saving to the Exchequer of €1 billion’

‘If we reduced alcohol-related harms by 30%, we would save 30 lives per month and 600
overnight hospital admissions per day’
Chief Medical Officer of Ireland, Dr. Tony Holohan

http://alcoholireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/aai_pre_budget_submission_2011_and_the_case_for_minimum_pricing1.pdf

A former government adviser on drugs has told MPs that alcohol consumption would fall by as much as 25% if Dutch-style cannabis “coffee shops” were introduced in Britain.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/19/david-nutt-alcohol-cannabis-cafes

Home care packages don’t get reviewed, resulting in some people getting more hours than they need, and some in need getting no hours at all. They need to address that problem urgently for a start

Ah, well, thank God the bondholders are being paid…

At last people are fighting back, this puppet government are giving nothing but hardship to its electorate while blaming the previous govt. they can’t blame them anymore as they are as bad!

The reality is, there should be a vote or election as soon as possible. The destruction of the state is happening. If people are willing to let this generation of old and sick to go under, they are not going to have services themselves. Welcome to survival of the fittest.

If enda kenny wants to make some popular cuts, may I suggest his throat and wrists?

I not usually in favour of these kind of protests, especially when they’ll be highjacked by RBB et al, but best if luck to all involved. Maybe you should protest the public sector union offices who are blocking any real reform in the HSE.

How much does a hospital bed coat? This is where all the people who need and don’t receive home help are going to end up.

6 o’clock, to late folks, government will be all off having their early birds by then.
On you.
Sad world it has become

Oh god, not another SWP/PBP/Right to Work/Enough is Enough/etc etc front group?

besides the odd good skin involved in the above groups most are only out for electoralism. They will hi-jack good causes like this for their own ends and turn people off getting involved in anti-Government and anti-establishment action permanently.

I lost my job last week, due to the Credit Crunch.

Today, the bank (whose chief executives created this mess by lending irresponsibly) foreclosed on my mortgage, so the house I’ve been saving up for and paying into for the last 8 years no longer belongs to me.

I went to the dole office to find out if all that tax I’ve been paying will go any way towards helping me get something to eat next week. They told me to get to the back of the queue, there were ‘priority cases’ just off the boat in front of me.