Well said.

And he’s an “anti capitalist”, u know. They make ya laugh & puke at the same time.

He’s an – wait for it – wait – “anti capitalist”, u know. Make ya laugh & puke at the same time.

Took the words out of my mouth there.

Wait – protestor has a job, works hard, is prudent, saves up money, buys things.

Are you gonna give out about how he obviously doesnt disagree with capitalism enough to not buy socks next, or is it just that this particular cheap shot was the best you could come up with?

There will be an endangered snail in dire trouble at the next construction of a road/site soon, they’ll be down there chaining them selves to a tree, or in fact just hugging one. There’s a saying for socialites that they would be at the opening of an envelope, applies to these crusties regarding a plastic protest

i think it shows were the gard’s priorities lie dosnt it?? the gards were there on the banks orders wernt they?? yet you blame the protestors….astounding…

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Totally agree, Rossa. These so-called “anti capitalists” have never refused a benefit of a capitalist society – social welfare. Their beliefs never stopped them taking the capitalist Euro. I have great pride in my national flag – green, white & orange. These pics show our national flag being treated disrespectfully. Many of our ancestors, Catholic & Protestant, fought for independence & these louts drag it about the place with no respect at all.

What? Because you can’t protest if you’re on social welfare?

How long would they have to wait to see Social Welfare officials?

Excuse my ignorance but whilst on social welfare are you not meant to be looking for a job and have a fixed abode. Doubt those scruffy clowns actively sought employment over past 5 months.

Arrest them for social welfare fraud of deport them to dreamland

@ Declan Carroll. I take it you interviewed each and everyone who was out protesting to establish that? Otherwise you might need to ask for your comment to be removed from this forum.

Brilliant! Well said Rossa!!

Nobody cares

yeah.. some great photos.

Or a shower???

I did my part, I occupied Quality Street over the Christmas

Is that an invitation,big boy?

oh you’d like that Andy

i think you have already occupied your own hole. is there actually any more room up there?

- while claiming Social Welfare

A man on the ball, well said

Because the 99% want to be livestock under the ownership of the banks.

From what I hear he & his buddies are the reason why a lot of people have left the camp
They’ve a very broad sense of what a “peaceful protest ” is too.
You won’t hear that in the ODS dispatches though…

If you look closely in the pictures most the fellas are wearing their adidas tracksuits with pride and sparkling white reebok classics….amazing the amount of scum that gets involved in protests against gardai. “Here Devo are ya goin to the boozer or wha.” “Did ya not hear whacker those smelly bastards from inside town are goin ta the cop shop in Pearce st to wreck the gaff.” “Nice one pal let’s go!!!!”

They will be all off to Rossport when the weather gets better in a few weeks.

I hope not, I wish I had their courage!

The absolute hack of them no wonder they can’t get jobs! At least the back up from mayo arrived! Pure waste of garda time which could be spend in protecting the people of Ireland

@ Derek Turner. Why should they?

Give up? Like the rest of ye?

I work but I’ll never let anyone tell me I’m lucky to have a job. I’ve worked hard all my life and I’ve always been a model employee. We need solidarity in this country. The government are trying to cause a division between the employed & unemployed. If I lost my job I’d like to think I’d be out protesting and not sitting on my ass judging people. There’s not enough protesting if u ask me.

Y U NO CITE UR SOURCES PETER? :(

What language are you speaking? I don’t need sources, just look at them, nobody would hire them.

you are not doing your side (right wingers) any favours with idiotic comments like that. are you saying the hundreds of thousands of unemployed are in that situation because they are “unemployable”?

The protesters, the gardai or just all concerned?

Is that you in your photo? Glasshouses, bricks ….

They should camp nearer Leinster house or the IFSC(while collar crook hang-out). Im quire amazed at the hostility shown towards these people, but i suppose it reflects just how small this country is. People like to think we save our protest for the ballot paper yet there is this feeling that Fie same mistakesanna Fail will fight back in the next election and the same mistakes will be made. Instead of hating these people remember Bertie, Charlie et al.

Bourgeois brat. Really appalling the amount of upvotes this stuck up twit got for that comment.

@ jimmy
the whole general tone of comment on this topic is nauseatingly reactionary.
genuinely depressing!

Ugly like you Mr Lee?

The communal grooming in pic 8 shows the complex social hierarchy amongst this diverse group.

Picture 8 is being checked for nits pmsl

That’s a fine head of hair you have there Derek.

@Higgins: Funny, I thought all Trinity students were as cynical as that comment is.

Some Trinity students caused a riot when world war 2 ended by waving a union jack out the window.
This is just a tradition

You mean you thought we were too snobby for that? ;)

Here here

What, They shouldve had a mass self-crucifiction or something?

Gobshite.

Because everyone else seems to be busy bitching and moaning about the government on the journal and doing naff all protesting because you’re all talk and when it comes to actually going on a protest, be it on a weekend or not, you’d rather sit at home playing xbox than go out and voice you dissent at the bad decisions the government take on your behalf. But just keep your head in the sand. Keep taking the medicine. But whatever you do do t cause a fuss. The “fighting Irish” what a joke. A hard few fought for what freedom we gained, the rest of us were hiding under our beds.

@ scarr, no, we live in the real world and have jobs and responsibilities, never play xbox, but you probably live in that virtual world. This has nothing to do with patriotism, and no I do not bitch and moan about the goverment. What would you know about the fighting Irish, by the sounds of it just out of nappies

Go on Scarr, tell us about the chem trails & flouride thats dumbing is down.

Because everybody else has given up – see above for examples.

Scarr I agree with you 100% fair play.

Rick do you know all these people personally? How do you know they are on the dole let alone be on it for 10 -20 yrs? Love the way you all seem to be well informed about each and everyone of the protesters and their circumstances. If they were the so called lay about yous seem to think they are, they wouldn’t be out in dreadful weather trying to save your sorry asses.

Protestor has no job – Should not be allowed protest, should get job, dole scrounger etc….

Protestor has job – has money to buy shit, malcontent, hypocrite, should not be allowed protest, etc etc….

Well said.

Not sure what’s really eating these people. Attack the protestors, not the problem.

Great comment Fergus.
Looking at these comments has really been a eye opener for me.
As you say Fergus about the 2nd bailout,there will be a lot more people then Occupy dame street marching the streets.
Most of the people here don’t seem to understand that the worse is yet to come,few more billion to be taken out of our budget,we won’t get money from the bond market next year meaning bailout number 2,meaning more cuts and more austerity.
Cuts on the Old,The disabled,the poor and the mentality ill while ex minsters and advisors get 100k in pensions or in pay.
I would love to hear what our forefathers that fought and died for our country would say about the mess were in and the greed that still exists in our country.

The only eyesores on our streets are the scum swanning around on their big fat pensions as if nothing had happened.€200k for developers, huge playoffs for failed regulators and bank CEOs. People like you make me vomit.

@ fergus lynch here’s a bucket pal….

So Daniel maybe you mean they don’t represent you and are you really really sure you represent the majority?

well said

Well said Paul. a very well written, informative and most important true statement.

a voice of reason

Like …. you?

Ireland 2012: You should only protest about a) feral cats b) turf c) septic tanks. Nothing else would occur to you.

@ skeolawn where you there??????

arsehole comment to make

Well said David, Looked like a mix of
Scottish alcoholics and their professional protesting friends who alternate between the Israeli Embassy and Rossport

The Occupy people didn’t speak either.

Stefanovich…yeah sure give out about the people who are raising important issues…if your looking for real welfare ‘Spongers’ just check out the Banks, the IMF, ECB, Unsecured bond holders…sucking the life out of Ireland…whilst cancer patients die due to lack of services….its amazing how short peoples memories are….and how easy people suck up the corporate media witch hunt against the 240,000 people who lost there jobs through no fault of their own….wake up man and smell the coffee man

Well said Ibhar, I just don’t get most of these comments. These protesters got out there and tried to do something for their fellow man/woman and all they are getting is abuse, I’m totally gobsmacked by the whole thing. They all seem to have a gripe about people being on the dole and not for the reasons they should have a gripe about which is thousand upon thousands of people have lost their jobs through no fault of their own but through the bad management of this and previous governments. Yet they sit smugly in their jobs and think everyone that is unfortunate enough to have lost their jobs are lazy scrounging lay abouts, I really hope for their sakes that their jobs are as secure as they seem to think they are ( and I really do) because some day someone like themselves could be calling them the same thing and then they will see how hurtful and upsetting it is to be called something you are not. Either way it doesn’t come into it if the protesters have jobs or not they are out there doing something about the dreadful state our country is in.

Well Said Stefanovich with all their hippy rubbish. Pepper spray should be deployed like a fire extinguisher.

I do not understand why more of the unemployed are not protesting everyday . These people did no harm to any one , they were peaceful and they were doing something.

Brendan,I agree with public protest and civil disobedience,if necessary. But these Occupy people were in the wrong place.their message incoherent, apathetic and didn’t resonate or gain the support of the general populace. They concentrated on tactics and ignored the strategy.

@chelseajoe The general populace do fuck all in the way of protesting, itts the majority who are apathetic. and while I would not have went with their approach its better than the rest of us who appeared to have rolled over.. and I mean appeared.. as this Gov is not listening to us and still seems to think that outside the walls of Leinster house we are incapable of any constructive feedback that they should take on board. regardless of the fact the people giving the feedback are probably out of work and have a degree in the field they are talking about. Rather than a former teacher or some cunt who used to own a garage in the sticks but is seen to be affable.

Brendan I agree with you on all but one point, people who are working can be out their protesting as well, people who are lucky enough to have jobs can be out on days of for a couple of hours assisting those who are are unfortunate enough to have more time on their hands. We have to stop this business of them and us we are all in this together.

At least the taxpayer is getting something out of funding trinity – not like everything else that’s state ‘funded’.

Actually some of us “crusties and shinners” have to work during the day and don’t have time to post comments on-line.

Yet you’re doing it right now Paul.

@Eoin O’Duffy. If you look at the time, you’ll see that I posted that comment around midnight, after a long day’s work during which I hadn’t the time to post on-line comments.

Read more books.

i went out to work to provide for my family, i do not have a choice to fart about the place and do nothing, sorry protest!

paddy arnt you lucky you have a job? will it take you losing ur job for you to realise they are protesting against the state of the country that means many cant get jobs, or are you one of those idiots who believe 450, 000 people are just lazy rather than a much smaller number are greedy?

They didn’t stand up for me. I welcome protests that makes sense, I might well join some of them. I don’t support ODS as they don’t have any alternative and they are asking for things that don’t make sense or are not even happening.

@ Paddy: For every one of those people there how many more do you think would like to be there but cant because theyre in exactly your position? They cant be there, but would like to be.

3.8 million people go out to work every day in Ireland. And if they contnu to do so without challenging how they work, where their taxes go to, or where the profits from their labour go then NOTHING WILL GET BETTER.

Someone has to shout stop first.

@Eoghan, There is only 2.2 million in Irelands labour force and 14% are unemployed, If you cant get that right throws the credibility of your argument out the window

Stats wrong, mea culpa.

When one replaces 3.8 with 1.8 the argument is still as strong as ever. Nothing will change, unless people begin to down tools and argue for a better way forward. Which in the view of the occupiers, was a far less capital dominated economy.

as above

You’re so right,Julian. They’ve made such a difference to our current financial situation. Keep it up,guys. One more sit-in and I’ll have a job and my mortgage arrears will be cleared!

These people would protest in paradise.

What they do is counter-productive. We have a democracy. Start a party or join one and get the ball rolling!

@ David Higgins is not part of democracy the right to protest?

@Kerry; if you have something sensible to say while protesting or a valid point to make certainly. Sitting around on your arse outside a bank for 6 months with a few posters is not a valid protest.

@ thomas walsh what have you done to protest about what has been done our country? You might have noticed at some stage that the banks fucked up our country and as far as I can see those sitting around outside a bank are at least high lighting that. I’d be really interested in what you consider a valid protest. Does it have to have the agreement of FF, FG, Lab or other any party to be a valid protest?

It made them feel better for drawing the dole from such a bad capitalist goverment..lol

Olivia, I too disagree with their tactics but personal invective is unnecessary.

I think I love you Olivia.

Yea they did. And it didnt work out. So what.

what have you done to try to fix things?

What do you suggest we all do?

Thats the flag upside down. As in the state is in a state of emergency.

Symbolic of there grasp on reality

Excellent, Michael.

Yeah, very easy to moan and criticize isn’t it? much easier than sleeping on the street in a tent in the cold…

Their camp was shambolic…

@ Rory,and that’s wher they were at 3:30 am this morning when camp dismantled…oh no they were at home in bed….move on

@Declan , Ciao

So if it were a bunch of pedo’s from NAMBLA for Fred Phelps from Westboro Baptist standing up for what they believe as is their rights to do so, out there in the wind and the rain for 6 months on Dame st …. We should admire and commend them according to your logic

Your logic does not compute….just like the ODS

Well said Rory,
but don’t let the likes of these people let you be ashamed of being Irish, leave that to themselves when they look in the mirror as it is them who should feel shame, because I have no doubt they do not represent the best part of the Irish people.

Smart alecky comments about NAMBLA would be better made in an Ireland without NAMA

Did you go down and join them at any stage young man????

Symbollicks

With 2500 laid off today from the banks , my guess is they’d hardly be at the top of the queue. Which ironically enough is kinda their point

No they wouldn’t they hate working. They do love complaining however.

It didn’t work in Greece – your hugely oversimplifying matters.

Our situation is long, long out of our hands. Measly protests like this are pointless, we’re at the mercy of Politics and the Stock Market. Simple as.

Sad but true, Peter O’F.

People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of its people. As far i can see worldwide there is a systematic approach by governments to serve the interests of corporations and elite first and everyone else next. It might be simplified buts its a stone cold fact. U might think that voting every 5 years keeps them on their toes, i disagree as evident through out recent history that the only way there has been meaningful change has been through civil disobedience and protesting. If u want to dismiss history and just go with the flow we will reap what we sow.

As far as I’m aware smashing up your capital city doesn’t get you far. Why don’t we get some guns and call in NATO to oust that tyrant Enda “ghadaffi” Kenny. Stop talking shit

Smashing up the city? Never mentioned anything about that. If ur talking about Greece then the vast majority of the protesters have been peaceful but of course you concetrate on what the media push.

Well said, just listened to the news, Greece just agreed a 74persent write down of their depts, maybe if us Irish had the balls the Greeks have we might have less burden on our childern and grand childern.

Oh Peter I really do hope their are NOT many like you out there.
I for one will not be quitting on my fellow man/woman and on my beautiful country.

Protestors and people with pride wanted. QUITTERS need not apply.

Jesus Peter you really are an ass. Fighting Irish? Now that’s a joke.

Everything

I’m guessing you’re a teenager Joe. You’re full of passion but you do not yet understand the world unfortunately.

@Joe Maybe with a stronger grasp of the English language, you too may come off the dole queue.

Well joe if you don’t like this county you know where the airports are!

Boohoo for you Joe. Unlike you, some of us have responsibilities which we Can’t just abandon at the drop of a hat just so we can sit on our holes all day and do nothing constructive.

First of all, I do not know where to start with your grammar. Secondly, I come from a very, very working class area, so i might know a “Dole” cue when i see one. Do you want my personal opinion on these protesters? They have lost sight of what they are supposed to be doing. Rudderless, like a lost ship in the night.

@Leslie If you’re going to be a grammar Nazi, at least put the effort in yourself. It’s queue not cue.

I agree Joe.. Some of the comments and opinions here would really make you sick..

Joe
I agree with you too . I don’t like those comments either ,but you stick to your beliefs and you will go far.You have your principals.

@Joe, I agree with you. Don’t let the b**tards grind you down.

Some real patronising twerps commenting here. @Jimmy, if anyone needs to find their way to the airport it’s you.

Well said Joe, i hope their are a lot more people out there like you.

Peter I am not a teenager and I think I know the world to some extent and if Joe is a teenager well good for him as he has hit the nail on the head as to what a lot of people on this site are like.

Also how do you all know these protesters are on social welfare ( not that it matters one bit) as every one as far as I know in a democracy has a right to be heard. They also could be people who have been one of the thousands that have lost their jobs in the last few years through no fault of their own.
Yet they are out there protesting for every man/woman of Ireland that is being thrown into desperate poverty by our so called government. I know it is time for them to upgrade their campaign as it did not get the notice they needed but at least they are trying unlike many (not all) Of the coach protestors/whingers that are slagging them of. I, as one of the people of Ireland who they are trying to help want to say a big THANK YOU.

p.s If I was Enda Kenny and was reading all these remarks from a lot of yous, I would be sitting here with my usual smirk of contempt knowing I had a lot of you (mindless drones) in the palm of my hand.

Well said Breda C S >
I enjoyed your post and agreed with every word .

Thanks Breda, my thoughts exactly.

And tell me what exactly have they achieved or will achieve???????

Wellfor a start ,they have achieved 225 comments on this thread . …
They are good people

wah! did i hit a nerve? judging by some of the responses i think i did. peter. im not a teenager i just have principles. i think dictators and corrupt govts the world over would love it if everyone was of the opinion that “grown ups” dont speak out or protest! when skeolawn says “patronising twerps” i imagine he is referring to your comment. care to enlighten me as to how the world works? or does “young grasshopper need to find the answer within himself or some sh*t like that? @Ray D: is that the secret? superior english skills? some well then some clases for me and the other 450,000 are in order id say. problem solved! @Jimmy im gonna keep this simple for you jimmy: I LIKE this country. It is my home. That is why i CARE what happens to it. Why do you think those people are protesting? becasue they hate ireland???? no, becasue they care too. your not that stupid are you? but yes i probably will have to leave as will thousands of others but were all just lazy arnt we so its fine. As for you Tomarse (no fada on my keyboard) i wasnt asking for sympathy i was asking why you turn on people who are not in exactly the same boat as you while the real enemy sit back and laugh at you. Good for you you have a job, that dosnt make you superior to these people, it means your lucky you still have one. and yes you cant drop everything and join em, but why the bitterness towards them? you could always quit ur job and go on the dole if their lives are so easy. Thank you breda and the others nice to know not everone in this country has these opinions

Joe
Take a bow .
Very well said , Good for you .
Several thumbs up !

:)

Well who gives a fuck? Not this guy. :-)

What a stupid comment. I Don’t recall Brussels setting up concentration camps throughout the country so as to exterminate as many Irish people as possible. Things are pretty bad at the moment, and this Government is quickly becoming a farce, but such over the top comments are disgusting and an insult to those who lived through an actual Nazi regime. Grow up!

seriously… is that actually equating the Nazi regime with a recession… it’s not just wrong at so many levels, but also just ignorant of how Europe and economics actually work.

I really think this economic crisis has honed our talents at amateur dramatics…

Pretty much on the button with the Nazi/Vichy comments. Petain rolled over less quickly than FG/Lab. And look how quick the French are trying to exploit Greece, trying to force them to spend billions buying French frigates even though the government can’t even look after its own people. The EU imposing puppet leaders on Greece and Italy, yet some people are totally blind to what is happening around them.

To my learned friend, Dr Treacy, do please submit your treatise on European economic theory. Bear in mind history’s remarkable habit of repeating itself and then consider why Frau Merkel and Sarkozy decide in advance the outcome of all multilateral discussions. Expand on why loans funded by German pension deposits in German Banks must be repaid when those same institutions quite obviously failed to adequately price risk into the equation. Expand on why Anglo is repaying bondholders with my tax dollars when those same bondholders purchased at discounts of 30% and more. Both public and private debt has been socialised by order of the ‘Troika’. Is this the culmination of modern macro economic theory: just screw Joe Public for the money.

Go and say that to a world war vet or to a Jewish family who’s relatives suffered at the hands of hitler. Moron!!! Anyway off the point here….

@Rory You’re making me ashamed to be Irish.

@Ray.. whatever ..

They are mainly British protesters, dealt with at home and now leeching of us

@Rory Great comeback. If you want my comeback you’re going to have to get it off your mothers chin.

@ray … my last comment to you.. is … Troll…

and that’s wher they were at 3:30 am this morning when camp dismantled…oh no they were at home in bed….move on

I think you have missed the point entirely Michael.. These Occupy camps are symbolic, they don’t have to be full of people 24/7.. People should try solidarity, we’re all in the same boat…maybe then we would get somewhere… I won’t hold my breath though.. ” Lord of the Flies” comes to mind… We don’t need the IMF and the EU debts to cripple the country when we can all just cannibalize each other until nobody has any hope or faith left….

You miss the point I don’t want to be associated with this, they are the failed, can’t get a job so lets protest….

Ashamed??? Those “protesters” make me ashamed, it gets to a point where yes you’ve been heard but give it up, go home and re plan. They have got absolutely no where in their protest, not one action taken by the country (Germany for that matter) has been influenced by these plastic protesters. What a waste of tax payers money they where, good riddance

Maybe you should have joined them and helped rather than walking pat?

No,mate,in front of the national parliament was the place to protest. The Central Bank was just more convenient. Which just about sums up their protest.

So are the protesters! :P

John, your sense of empathy and compassion is overwhelming. Cannot help but wonder how you would feel if you end up on the dole.

ChelseaJoe

Will you ever cop on you fool.

John Deane
That is a disgraceful comment .

Do you honestly think i care what you call me

John Deane
I just wonder why you seem so angry ! We are all feeling the pinch whether we are working , or unemployed. I hope things improve for you .

You’re still an ignorant wanker,despite the thumbs down.

Chelseajoe

Thanks for the compliment

You’ll find that many Americans of the extreme right wing persuasion make similar comments about Occupy Wall Street.

Roll on a bolivarian style revolution ,,get this country back in order ,,

Intern anyone who isnt pulling their weight starting with scruffs who enjoy annoying people and not paying tax

What a bunch of bullshit.

“joined and helped” are you for real joined and helped what?? what cause what ideas what imagination what change, helped clean up, helped wash their hair, helped bring them a cup of tea, helped tie fences together, helped clean the shit they left behind….. no thanks they did not speak for me if they spoke for you Kerry best o luck to ya….