24 years living in Carlow and we are finally a city :) yay!! When did that happen :) genuinely pleased me to read that :)

Mr Phil Hogan:
Refused solidarity wage cut of €4k

Treathened every citizen in the Nation with a criminal act of stealing there data from ESB.

Household Charge is a ultra right wing tax which goes against the Irish peoples wishes of being taxed for income or consumption

Under his administration of the household charge the public badly informed. Were given very few avenues to pay. Recieved no invoice and treated with contempt.

Didn’t pay service charges in Spain himself.

Crude sexual insults of fellow female members of the house.

Enda this guys 15 minutes are up time to put him out of our and his misery. This guy lacks the qualties needed to minister of this country.

A new museum in the city???

“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve… But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn’t belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish that law without delay – No legal plunder; this is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

Hogan should count himself lucky all he has had to endure is someone swearing at him. He’s lucky he hasn’t been dragged kicking and screaming out of office along with the rest of his cronies. These politicians hold the citizens of this country in such contempt and people are quick to condone swearing. Let’s get real here people it’s time to start playing fire with fire and lets start standing up to these bullies and show them they have no place in public office. We want people to represent us, to stand up for us, not to bully us and treat us like dirt. Come on a bit of realism is required here.

Should have thought about that when you asked the traitor to open your museum, Samantha Brick would have been a better option.

Politicians try to mis-direct our attention on the reactions of people, painting them as wrongdoers and thus avoiding the underlying cause which is where our attention needs to be.

Seriously what does Hogan expect? A brass band? He should know by now everywhere he goes he’s going to be heckled! He should have thought about protesters when he agreed to open the bloody museum after what he’s done to the Irish complying tax paying people of this country! Enough nails in our coffins thank you!!

Oh poor Phil Hogan, better get used to being spoken to by angry people, expressing their frustration, at HIS FAILURES. Another inept gombeen, thankfully identified as useless by the Irish people and soon to be discarded and forgotten.

delighted hogan got a nice and appropriate welcome home to carlow.

FG Councillor Michael Abbey would want to cop himself on and turn his attention to his own party for their flagrant disregard of the Irish people. More than 50% of Irish homes refused to pay this charge! They have no mandate to carry on with this fiasco.

You bet there were people from outside the county ready to voice their destain towards Phil Hogan.

I’ll have to see some bruises before I believe Phil Hogan was attacked. The way the FG delegate walk through the protesters at the FG Árd Fheis was covered by the media was pure spin and lies! If we ever needed evidence that RTE is a mouthpiece for government propaganda we saw it on film. Talk about staged. Several FGers decide to walk through us the protesters? Followed by a TV crew? Do they think we’re stupid?

Your answer!

Does no one think it problematic that the FG cllr’s opinion took up half the article while the only person from the anti-hhc side interviewed was Joan Collins who said she wasn’t even there? It would have been great to hear both sides of the story.

While I don’t agree with swearing or insults even though we all get frustrated and about sometimes, I don’t know if half of these people understand what a protest is! It’s supposed to disrupt! If all protests were to be scheduled to cause minimum hassle, what’s the point? People are desperate to illicit a response because so far, they’ve been ignored.

Yes yes, thats right blueshirts. It’s not the education cuts, increase in classroom numbers, increased poverty, austerity and new taxes thats hurting our children, its protestors using bad language. I don’t recall any of the people on here doing the whole ‘will somebody please think of the children’ act when inda and noonan handed our money to wealthy gamblers.

Just to mention everyone is invited to the protest at the labour convention at the weekend in Galway by the way. Could be small amount of bad language and some anger, but its all in good spirits and directed at the source, really nice people at these protest and great banter – Don’t let these liars and heartless people bring you down!! ‘All hail then to the mob, the incarnation of progress’ as James Connolly said. Join the Campaign Against the Household & Water Taxes protest march from Eyre Square (Galway) to the Labour Party Conference in NUIG. Assemble at 1pm, in Eyre Square this Saturday, April 14th. And just to mention the campaign against the household tax is a boycott and as such any protests by the campaign are peaceful and friendly..although we are all individuals and some are more ‘passionate’. No-one at any protest has caused any trouble. And this rubbish is only out there to split people, stick together and do what is right. Enda Kenny said once ‘ it is morally wrong, unjust and unfair to tax a person’s home’…Morality hasn’t changed and I would agree with that statement if people are going to have to pay for service then they should get those services and everyone who receives those services should pay!! A lot of changes need to take place in this country. Starting with the removal of these dead political heads, with the same ideas, business as usual for the same cronies – if you want change, you’ll have to go and make it happen, don’t expect others to do it for you. Don’t complain – Campaign!

I was there and I called them, them being the FG cllrs. Pat Deering and Phil Hogan Scum and that is what they are..scum of the earth! There was no shortage of Gardai yesterday I can tell you that – where are these Gardai when actual people, not mere shells need them. I’ve no time for lap-dogs and party puppies. What they are doing is contrary to the interest and the will of the Irish people. And they are – pure SCUM!

Never mind jeering, get the eggs out.

What If the Money that is being poured into Failed banks and shipped to foreign bondholders was instead used to invest in Our economy and so create jobs (preferably export driven) instead of the financial services parasite sector. Maybe then the people who have been rendered unemployed with no hope of finding work ,as there is none, could be removed from your list. That would only leave an Inefficient black hole health service, Overstaffed inefficient government departments and the massive pension and wages bill attached to them, Education, pensions and overpaid politicians to deal with. You make it look as if social welfare is a major factor, it is indeed significant but only trails behind the others I have Listed.

P.S. Might be worth looking at the reason we need to borrow from foreign banks in the first place to have accumulated this debt. We are awash with resources (which have been given away) and land etc. We should be one of the wealthiest countries in Europe but of course that would mean we would need to create a real economy which benefits all the people and not a financial services sector economy which will only ever benefit a few. FF FG LAB are no different from each-other, same people different label.The political party may change at election time but the Genius Civil Servant Advisers and their Banker Bosses Don’t ,neither does the fact that these people have forgotten who they really should be working for.

Heavens, wouldn’t somebody, anybody, save the children (insert emotional ‘sob’ here), our little ones, from the flagrant evil of this out-of-control, blood-thirsty lynch-mob?

Get used to it Phil, in fact, expect for it to get worse.
A politician upset by unparliamentary language?
In other countries there is barricades and barbed wire outside their parliaments because the citizens have had enough and are protesting strongly.
I just can’t understand why us Irish have allowed ourselves to be destroyed by our own politicians and by foreign powers such as the Troika and there has been no serious civil disturbance.
Anybody in this country who does get involved in demonstrations are quickly demonised by the media and other commentators as left wing loonies, thugs, rowdies, Shinners etc.

Ha Hogan you deserve it.lol…..

The protestors are the real patriots.

i am wondering if the event organisers were after planning so well and putting so much effort into it as claimed, then how on earth did they think of asking hogan to open it for them!?? also… where did all these politicians arrive out of giving out in the news about the use of language…. where the hell were they yesterday giving out about the 1.5 billion that was stolen from the Irish people by the robbers in Lenster house to pay a debt we don’t owe?!????

It’s good to hear some form of protest taking place , scurrilous behavior , they have some nerve to call it that . I’ve been in oz for the last 4 yrs and gone from irl for over 5 got out before it went bang luckily , but every time I talk to anyone back home all I get is a sure what can you do sure you know what their like , it sickens me and when my ozzy friends ask me about the situation in Ireland and I tell them they can’t believe there’s not big protests . Every week there’s plane loads of Irish landing here and heading str8 to bondi junction on the piss , I guarantee there would be a protest in bondi junction if all the pissheads couldn’t get into the tea gardens where most of them leave their wages every week . We’re the joke of the world .

O’ keefe, you talk some shite!
Anyway I’m against the house charge and all for peaceful protest but there’s a time and place I feel this was not it!

Even after the opening ceremony would have been better if these people wanted to protest. The only ones upset were the young children who attended to play music at the opening and nothing positive was achieved!

Yes people are angry and upset including myself but some self respect dignity and consideration for the children attending wouldn’t go a miss!

A bad call on those who invited that Gob shite in the first place also.

@ John. This is why: http://namawinelake.wordpress.com/category/imf/

The tea gardens posted the most profits of any pub in oz last year thnx to the Irish well done lads keep up the good work while the locals have set up a commitee to follow the Irish around with cameras at the weekend to catch them pissing in gardens and running amoc it was even featured on a 60 minutes programme .

Sadly fine Gaels main promise previous to the election was to not increase income tax so plenty of stealth taxes and cuts to come thanks to that.
It’s the right of people to protest I agree with that even though I might disagree with the reason for the protest, however calling those who paid it or agree with it names such as “spineless” is a bit disrespectful. Politicians are public representatives so
I ain’t too bothered by phil hogan being heckled tbh. The tax is a left Wing tax it will be changed from a flat tax to a proper tax in the next year or two the government has said this. Property is wealth and so they tax it is what the idea is.
The bailout is merely a loan our current cuts and taxes are to balance the books. The reality is that we spend more then we take in, on a note of the protest are ye going to support labour delegates who put forward a motion to introduce a third band of tax for the wealthiest or are good policies and issues going to be ignored now?

Ireland is BUST. Almost one euro in every three is being borrowed to help fund Social Welfare, Health, Education, Infrastructure, OAPs. Putting it in a nutshell we are borrowing €18 billion just to help fund these. Its called the BUDGET DEFICIT. Its ther problem that the protestors are running away from. We are BROKE. Its about time people get it before its too late. Of course the protestors could always move north of the border where the charge is €1500 and where SinnFein is in power.

Their behaviour does not enhance their case one iota, in fact it achieves the opposite effect. Peaceful protest yes – mob law no.

Fianna Fail has left a National Debt of 170 billion euro and a budget deficit of 18 billion. The country is spending 52 billion euro to pay Social Welfare, Health, Education, OAPs etc. and only taking in 34 billion. It is BUST. It is borrowing 18 billion ANNUALLY to fund these. If it were a business it would be liquidated.
The banks were bailed out since 2008 from the Pension Reserve Fund and BORROWING not from taxpayers money. There is simply not enough taxpayers money to even fully fund Social Welfare, Health, Education, OAPs etc. We have a huge BUDGET DEFICIT problem. If it is not cut we will sink. Also remember the IMF/EU brought in by FF will not continue to fund us without tackling the DEFICIT.

It’s so dissapointing that people have personalised this, Phil Hogan was obliged to bring in the charge as per the bailout agreement. Sure, it could have been handled better but it’s not like he woke up one morning and decided that he was going to introduce a charge / tax because it was going to make him popular. You can be sure that if it was a minister from any other party they would be intoducing it as well, SF have done exactly the same thing in NI and are quite happy to hide behind the DUP up there for cover. It you haven’t paid the charge yet grand, you will be paying it eventually.

I am going back to Broadsheet. Prefer the vibe on there, you lot are getting way too virulent and nasty. All this hate you spew is way too personal. You are inciting violence in my opinion.

Protestors shouting bad language infront of children and ruining an occasion that had very little to do with the minister. Just another day for the looney left in Ireland.

Now they are the bullies. Ignore them Phil

I am a civil servant my daughter is a civil servant my wife is a civil servant and my son is going to be a civil servant, we are all dependents of the state for a living (big bucks go into our houses from the taxpayers for no return) and when we look at the people through the glass that protects us from their anger we just laugh and go on a break