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1,400 litres of wine, 76 litres of spirits and 7,780 cigarettes seized at Dublin Port

Officers made the discovery when they stopped and searched a foreign registered bus and a van.

REVENUE HAS SEIZED 1,400 litres of wine, 76 litres of spirits and 7,780 cigarettes during routine operations this morning at Dublin Port. 

Officers discovered the cigarettes and alcohol when they stopped and searched a foreign registered bus and a van that had disembarked a ferry from Holyhead. 

The seized items were concealed within numerous unaccompanied packages being transported in the bus and van.

Revenue officers estimate that the seized alcohol and cigarettes have a street value of €28,440. 

These seizures are part of Revenue’s ongoing operations targeting the supply and sale of illegal alcohol and tobacco products in the shadow economy.

Anyone with information regarding the smuggling can contact Revenue in confidence on its confidential line 1800 295 295.

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    Mute Andrew Behan
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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:43 PM

    It’s a good job that Covid 19 disappeared just before this mass gathering…

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:44 PM

    @Andrew Behan: no lives matter to them obviously

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:45 PM

    @Andrew Behan: exactly! Healthcare workers lives matter.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:48 PM

    @Pete mc pete: well now that’s just not fair. I mean it’s crappy timing for sure but people are angry and fed up. If people of colour were treated the same as white folk then we wouldn’t be having these issues.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:49 PM

    @Pete mc pete: should they not be arrested?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:51 PM

    @Jen: You’re right but don’t tell all the others because otherwise they have nothing to complain about.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:51 PM

    @Jen: people are also angry and fed up about being locked away for months because of a virus that has killed thousands of people but the people protesting don’t seem to care that they might have caused the virus to spread again. Do they care about all the people who might lose their lives if the virus starts rapidly spreading? Or the people who will take their own lives or lose their jobs because the restrictions have to be put back in place?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:56 PM

    @Andrew Behan: we can’t stay locked up forever hiding from Covid. It looks like the majority of people attending the protest wore masks anyway. And this is probably the most important social movement of our lives, we can’t just stay silent and ignore it.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:02 PM

    @Andrew Behan: was waiting for the negative comments, you didn’t let me down.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:20 PM

    @Daniel O Sullivan: covid 19 is the most significant pandemic to hit the world in centuries. This is just poxy bored people jumping on a tragedy. They didn’t bother protesting before the virus happened…it’s not like black people have only started being maltreated in the last couple of weeks. It’s not like they won’t be maltreated when the lockdown is lifted, but I can assure you half this crowd will be nowhere to be seen then.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:25 PM

    @Andrew Behan: This is from the 19th of May:

    “WE HAVE EFFECTIVELY” extinguished Covid-19 from the community, according to Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:25 PM

    @Andrew Behan: not really, virus

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:30 PM

    @Joe Healy: it’s negative is it to remark on hundreds of people marching, not observing social distancing whilst our elderly die in care homes because of Covid19. Obviously no one you love or care for has died from it. Is that negative too Joe?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:49 PM

    @Jen: what’s not fair Jen is people dying in nursing homes without loved ones to comfort them,I don’t think this protest is going to fix Americas racism problems

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:54 PM

    @Anthony Ryan Dunne: What an ignorant comment.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:27 PM

    @Sam Harms: I know people are fed up, so am I. I’m a frontline worker with the HSE and I’m saddened to see this but I understand. But being fed up of being in lockdown is a lot different to being fed up about being treated as less due to the colour of your skin. I don’t blame them for feeling like they have no other choice, nothing else has worked so far.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:31 PM

    @mar: doesn’t mean can’t be started again also effectively also doesn’t mean it’s gone. Not saying people shouldn’t protest but could’ve done it safely ALL wearing masks, keeping safe distance etc

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:42 PM

    @Pete mc pete: I don’t think they’re protesting simply with America in mind, racism also exists in Ireland ya know?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:49 PM

    @mar: ““WE HAVE EFFECTIVELY” extinguished Covid-19 from the community”

    That could easily change to ““WE *HAD* EFFECTIVELY” extinguished Covid-19 from the community”

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:04 PM

    @Crispy Brown: do you think people falling within a largely safe demographic marching on the streets are responsible for the elderly in care homes falling ill? I hardly think so.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:30 PM

    @Jen: racist

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:34 PM

    @Pat Joffre: I apologize Jen was not calling u rascist big fingers pressed submit by mistake, was going to say racism exists everywhere not just white countries but during a pandemic in a country still in lockdown is a ridiculous time to protest it

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:38 PM

    @Shazam37: Jesus where were you when they were introducing the lockdown. So if we’re in a safe demographic the lockdown rules don’t apply to us? Or does that only count for people engaging in protests of which you approve? Try pick a principle and see if you can stick to it for one whole month. Absolute moron.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:40 PM

    @Jen: can we stop being so melodramatic. It didn’t happen here. We don’t stop and frisk black people or follow them around or harras them in any way. This happened in the USA. Not here. Why do people feel the need to gather here and defy the ban on mass gatherings and also feel they will be immune from any official sanction or interference. Because they love to hide behind an agenda. The ironic thing is that no minister, no politician or political party will come out saying that to gather this way was wrong…because they can’t separate the action from the politics. However if it was a group advocating something that was not so sensitive or was against the prevailing politics of the day, then as soon as you could blink it would be disbanded. But the law and its application must be blind, otherwise it leads to one rule for me and another for you. That politicians and the Gardai lack the backbone and any conviction belies just how distorted the whole state of affairs is. I can bet no one in the media will ask the Leo or Simon do they condemn this??? And even if they do somehow manage to find their balls and ask the question, it will be batted away and handed off. That’s the entire problem with the state of politics and the people making decisions today. They are beholden to this sort of anarchic activism. And I’m not saying Black Lives don’t matter…of course they do. But we as a society here actually don’t discriminate against people of colour. We aren’t yahoo’s from the deep south…so this parade has zero warrant or purpose here. None whatsoever other than to virtue signal.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:43 PM

    @Daniel O Sullivan: also less chance of catching it outdoors

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:57 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: straw man troll. Straw man.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:00 PM

    @Kevin Tyrrell: well said Kevin

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:05 PM

    @Shazam37: haha one click on your twitter profile and first link is you ranting about how Troy Deeney doesn’t want to risk his family by playing during the outbreak. Troy is approaching the autumn of his early 20s I suppose, so high risk. It’s not a strawman when I attribute your own nonsense to you. That story was from 20 May, so a little over a week you managed to maintain that deeply held principle. Would you like to pick a new principle and see if you could hold on to that one for a fortnight perhaps, you hypocritical moron?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:11 PM

    @Crispy Brown: nicely said there!

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:17 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: Trolls must get out more.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:21 PM

    @Shazam37: really doesn’t get any weaker than that. Did you think you’d achieve something by making that comment, that it would mount a valid defence against your obvious hypocrisy? Honestly, if I could only come up something so pathetic I reckon I’d just hold my tongue.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:26 PM

    @Kevin Tyrrell: I assume you can stop being so melodramatic Kevin, not sure why you’re asking me. So you genuinely don’t think there is racism in Ireland? I doubt many people of colour would agree with you to be honest.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:29 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: Troll upset. Types faster. Types harder.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:49 PM

    @Jen: Yea, true. Living as a white person, especially a man, is so easy. Everthing I ever got was handed to me for free. I can do and say everything I want. Life is great. Writing this from my yacht (which I also got for free) sailing around Ireland.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:51 PM

    @Jen: Racism is a 2 way street

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:54 PM

    @Jen:
    1) Ireland is one of the best places in the world for people of colour to live, according to friends, esp when compared with UK.
    2) Of course there is racism in Ireland. There is racism everywhere, directed from all colours to all colours. If I walked around Lagos long enough, Id be guaranteed to experience racism. There are good/bad people amoung all races/colours/nationalities.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:02 PM

    @Jen: really Jen. Point to any racist occurances in Ireland. If there are any they are very few and far between. We don’t have any real history of abuse or slavery or degradation of black people in this country. Nothing that warrants a march in the streets in any case…now especially so.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:26 PM

    @Kevin Tyrrell: Really. I’m white so I haven’t experienced racism. Please ask any traveller or person of colour, I’m sure they’ll have plenty to tell you about. I see a lot of people’s experiences posted on Twitter, look there.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:28 PM

    @Jen: of course they are different I’m not trying to compare the two I’m making the point that the people protesting are saying they care about people’s lives yet they are doing something that could cause so many people to lose their lives. Where was their support and protests during all of the other murders of innocent people? Maybe if people had actually showed their support after those murders we wouldn’t be here now but people didn’t care, and unfortunately most of them will go back to not caring again when this dies down.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:29 PM

    @Jen: there’s a lot of white privilege on show in this comment thread but I’m sure someone will come along now and inform me that white privilege isn’t a thing.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:38 PM

    @Kevin Tyrrell: Kevin you probably write for work , as your use of words are perfect. Thank you for your comments.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:41 PM

    @Sam Harms: I know people who were at this protest today and these people have stuck to the guidelines. I’ve seen a lot of footage and most were socially distancing. I’m far from delighted about anyone protesting during this time but I understand it. I think this was the straw the broke the camel’s back to be honest.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:43 PM

    @Daniel O Sullivan: How many lives is this going to cost idiot!

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:01 PM

    @Jen: did you think gemma o dohertys gathering at the four courts was okay?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:15 PM

    @Jen: Only a tiny minority of people are racist. It is less prevalent in Ireland. Ethnic people who are granted residency have the same opportunities, avail of the same services, have the same rights. The minority of people who are racist, who have deep rooted negative feelings of prejudice, all the protests in the world arent going to change them. Protests of this nature mattered in the 50s and 60s because the laws needed to change. I think everyone knows that a police officer murdering an unarmed man without provocation is against the law. What needs to change is the recruitment process in the United States. They need to stop recruiting redneck bigots.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:23 PM

    @Kevin Tyrrell: Bravo!!

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:26 PM

    @JackSimpson:

    Yip. And this action today helps racism. Probably it’s intent from those that organised it.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:27 PM

    @Jen:

    MASS GATHERING

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:31 PM

    @Daniel O Sullivan: I sure the medical company you work for, would love to know how blaise about safety and social distancing all the way in Toronto.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:34 PM

    @Seamus Mac: did I say anywhere that I agreed with this gathering? I said I understood, there’s a difference. But since you asked, I agree with nothing that O’Doherty or Waters do but I’m sure you knew that already.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:35 PM

    @Andrew Behan:

    Black votes matter… just most of the Floyds are too lazy to register

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:38 PM

    @Jen: Are our own “white “ elderly being treated fairly here? I think not.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:40 PM

    @Daniel O Sullivan: What about our very own elderly??

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:41 PM

    @Pauline Gallagher: even if it’s a tiny minority, that is too much. Racism is definitely way more prevalent than you think and it’s tiresome having white people tell me I’m overreacting. Like we, as white people, could understand. As long as people of colour lose their lives because of their skin colour, protests are necessary. Crap timing but that’s about it.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:42 PM

    @Seamus McSpud: Voter suppression works. Apathy is a tool that the oppressor uses.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:42 PM

    @Marian Mahon: get out and protest if you feel so strongly about it. Don’t just sit behind a keyboard moaning about it.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 11:09 PM

    @Jen: This officer was a ticking timebomb. He should have lost his job over previous incidents, and not all of them were racially motivated. We dont even know for certain that this was. This is a man who clearly has a rage issue, who was on a permanent power trip, and abused his position of power numerous times. Its more complex than racism, there is a problem with police brutality in the united states and that needs to be addressed. It doesnt matter if a tiny minority is too much, thats the reality and even black people know this.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 11:16 PM

    @Kevin Tyrrell: this is the most sensible post of this entire piece. This is not America.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 12:15 AM

    @Jen: I’m a indegious white man who was racially abused by two black men while walking through Cork city one night with my girlfriend. But apparently I can’t say that cause I’m white. Hence cannot be a victim of racism.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 8:26 AM

    @Hatchjaw: I’m sorry to hear that, it’s not acceptable in any way, shape or form. I hope you reported it.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 9:26 AM

    @Pauline Gallagher: It just sounds, to me, that you’re excusing racism. How many more black people need to die at the hands of the police before we can say this is a racially motivated issue?

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 12:29 PM

    @Pauline Gallagher: Completely agree but three of the officers stood back and watched a murder. They should also be tried.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 1:14 PM

    @Jen: they do have affirmative action on There side.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 1:36 PM

    @Ccia: In most states they do, some have revoked it, but it hasn’t stopped black people dying because of the colour of their skin.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 5:01 PM

    @Jen: I am not excusing racism. Dont try to twist my words and imply that im racist, im far from it. I am stating facts. There is a problem with the way the police handle petty crime in the US, they get a little gun happy or baton happy or use excessive physical force. That needs to be addressed. Are you saying that it doesnt? Nothing i said was incorrect. But yes, tell me im giving racists a free pass, by all means.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 5:02 PM

    @Fiona Fitzgerald: They can and should be tried, absolutely.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 5:06 PM

    @Jen: and by the way, statistically speaking, roughly the same amount of unarmed white people have been killed by the police in the United States as black people. The problem is the police overreacting in an often fatal way to minor altercations.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 6:37 PM

    @Pauline Gallagher: Like I said, it sounds to me that you’re excusing it. It doesn’t mean I’m right and it doesn’t mean you are racist. Can I have a link for the statistics where the same amount of whites and blacks are killed please? Genuinely interested and would be happy to be wrong here.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 8:27 PM

    @Jen: Google is your frend. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/29/heres-why-we-dont-see-protests-when-police-unjustly-kill-white-people/ but here you go. And just because it ‘sounds to you’ doesnt mean youre right.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 10:13 PM

    @Pauline Gallagher: yeah that’s exactly what I just said, good one. Daniel Shaver had a pellet gun in his hand, no reason to die but then we are talking about Americans, some of which are a tad hysterical. Trayvon Martin had a packet of skittles in his hand. See the difference there?

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 10:18 PM

    @Pauline Gallagher: also I noticed you missed the part in the article where it states that black people were proportionately more likely to be shot by cops. But thanks for reinforcing what I already knew.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 11:00 PM

    @Jen: Well im not going to recite the whole article to you, am i? it does say that more white people are shot at, but yes, disproportionately black Im just (repeatedly) trying to point out that the police in America needs a major overhaul in the type of people they recruit. But you are hellbent on accusing me of racism.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 11:17 PM

    @Jen: also, i wonder did you even know or care who Trayvon Martin was before this highly publicized case? did #Blacklivesmatter before all this to you, or did you just live your life oblivious like most people? I am not a racist, but there is a major difference between passionate, serious activism and bandwagon of the week during a pandemic. There have been many racial injustices in the past decade alone, but most people will not have been too bothered because it wasnt a hashtag. And, before i sign off, to quote father ted, I AM NOT A RACIST!

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    Jun 3rd 2020, 9:52 AM

    @Pauline Gallagher: Like I’ve said numerous times now, I didn’t call you a racist. Yeah I’ve known about Trayvon Martin for years now, since it happened. I still think it’s shocking that his murderer got away with it, he wasn’t even a cop. Not going to lie and pretend I remember the ins and outs of the case. Timing was poor on this, I’ll agree, but it doesn’t mean it didn’t need to happen, that’s all I’m saying.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:54 PM

    Can I go see my family that I haven’t seen in 3 months seeing as everyone is going whatever they feel like ?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:54 PM

    @Peter Denham: doing*

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:19 PM

    @Peter Denham: I think we are actually on the verge of that Peter. Looks like it’s ending for now. If people there observe the rules, there’ll be no spread. Thousands visit loads of
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    @Eric Foley: Might be a good time to lose the Antifa Flag or you’ll never get to Disneyland.

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    @Peter Denham: Stop moaning and go and see your family.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:59 PM

    @Peter Denham: think this movement is of more importance than you or anyone seeing their families at the moment. Needs to be some historic change immediately that puts humanity of a different course.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:01 PM

    @Peter Denham: where ever!

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:04 PM

    @Gerard Corcoran: no it’s not. Pandemic is paramount and people broke rules regarding it. I’m like peter and I haven’t seen my parents since this began. Smith should resign. Like all of you lot wanted Cummings to last week. At least he had an excuse

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:10 PM

    @Gerard Corcoran: OK, is it more important than dealing with a pandemic?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:20 PM

    @Gerard Corcoran: No words other than SMH with a very big exaggerated eye roll.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:37 PM

    @Olivia Smith: yeah point taking. Guess we should not be breaking WHO guidelines during a pandemic. But it’s a movement that needs to happen. I guess the timing is super unfortunate

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:53 PM

    @Gerard Corcoran: Why did this not happen when the other lad Aubrey don’t know his last name was shot point blank dead by 2 hillbilly’s in feb? A father and son, the father was a retired cop. Iv a feeling this about more than protesting about black men being murdered In America. Just my opinion though.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:36 PM

    @Gerard Corcoran: so you think this movement is more important Than saving what could possibly be thousands of lives

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:49 PM

    @Peter Denham: nope. Apparently not for another week. I live 10km from the nearest shop and I was stopped by the Garda today (I’m on a bicycle). That gathering should not of happened. Disgusting behaviour. Yet people travelling 10km to go to a beech, mass gathering in parks and city centre. Omg, everyone will blame the government even when it is done to the stupidity of idiots breaking the 5km guidance.

    With such a rally… how many of them can afford accommodation in the city?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:29 PM

    @Peter Denham:

    If all the dumb assess visit their families and the smart ones stay at home I guess it’s a way of weeding out the inferior amoung is and hence making us stronger.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 11:01 PM

    @Peter Denham: i hear ya, haven’t seen mine either & its killing me

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:50 PM

    People before Profit TD Brid Smith was there. Anything for publicity. Maybe she should have set an example and stayed at home.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:57 PM

    @Just Some Guy: hush down, she’s old enough, might pick up the dose while she’s out and about. Gwan ya mad yoke Brid!

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:05 PM

    @Just Some Guy: I admire Brid Smiths courage; she is such stunning and brave a person of true virtue and integrity. Thank you all for your service to the betterment of humankind we are all genuinely humbled before your show of such courage and bravery. Now go away and annoy someone else.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:17 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: That’s just nasty

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:21 PM

    @JusticeForJoe: why? She’s been given clear instructions on how to keep herself and those around her safe. She’s decided her opinions are more important and so has put herself, those around her, and those would might possibly have to care for her should she fall ill at risk. I wouldn’t have the tiniest shred of sympathy if she’s in an ICU a fortnight from now.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:35 PM

    @Just Some Guy: Did it ever occur to you Brid Smith is entitled to attend a protest.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:38 PM

    @JusticeForJoe: So is her nasty habit of roaring through megaphones into peoples faces.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:22 PM

    @Donal Desmond: If Brid Smith and her mob could cease from preventing others from freely expressing their opinions you might have a case.
    She her Antifa comrades constantly attacked and intimated people during the last two referendums.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:06 PM

    @JusticeForJoe: com stock is a right wing troll. I Would pay zero attention

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:17 PM

    @Shazam37: PBP – BOT

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:21 PM

    @Just Some Guy: The looney left like to protest about everything and the rules don’t apply to them. Anything for attention.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:31 PM

    @Pat Coyne: im a bot?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:51 PM

    @tom brennan: as opposed to the right Like Dominic Cummins and Trump and the cop who killed that poor guy. They’re very rule abiding right wingers aren’t they?

    The drivel that comes out of these right wingers is extraordinary.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:10 PM

    @Shazam37: what have Trump and Cummings got to do with people breaking the law in Ireland? Your comments tell alot about your grasp(or lack of it)of the real world and not the one you live in through your social media accounts

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:21 PM

    @Nowa Huta: the comment criticised “lefties” for breaking the rules. I merely pointed to some well known righties that are happy to break the rules.

    Nothing particularly strange there.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:30 PM

    @Just Some Guy:

    I hope she got it. That would be news.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 12:04 AM

    @Just Some Guy: her and the electoral failure Coppinger.. Piggybacking on any cause to promote their sad failed trot ideology.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 12:35 AM

    @Donal Desmond: Brid Smith is not entitled to attend a mass gathering – if there is a spike in cases in a few weeks time – she will have to answer for her actions. Everyone though Cummings should step aside well Brid should too on the same basis.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 6:52 AM

    @Just Some Guy: Smith must resign. Her complete lack of concern for the elderly, and other vulnerable people, who may be exposed to Sars-CoV-2 as a result of her little protest is unforgivable.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 1:16 PM

    @Pat Coyne: for a communist.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:43 PM

    However what about social distencing

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:21 PM

    @Susan O’flaherty: Virtue signalling is more important.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:55 PM

    30 odd people were outside the forecourts protesting matters in this country and everything written about them in this publication was disparaging. Hundreds of people gather to protest matters thousands of miles away with no impact whatsoever on Ireland and they receive this glowing report of their actions. Do you ever feel embarrassed to call yourselves journalists?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:57 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: in fairness those lads outside the courts need to be institutionalised

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:58 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: If you think this has nothing to do with Ireland then you’re the one who should feel ‘embarrassed’.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:02 PM

    @Micheal: na the headcases have a fair point they just put it across very badly.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:19 PM

    @Daniel O Sullivan: enlighten the rest of us as to the relevant connection. You and I have more injustice on our doorstep that requires a little more than our virtue signaling meandering.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:25 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: Hahahaha Hahahaha straight to the point!!!

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:32 PM

    @Daniel O Sullivan: I’m sure life here is absolutely terrible for minorities

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:38 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: it definitely helps your credibility when you have to resort to calling someone an “embarrassing clown”. Great comeback buddy.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:43 PM

    @Daniel O Sullivan: in fairness your comment was moronic.it has nothing to do with us.that protest in Dublin could possibly cause a few deaths.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:45 PM

    @Daniel O Sullivan: you deserve no better. You are an easily programmable moron who can be so easily manipulated by media that it is truly embarrassing. Have you ever heard what the police get up to in Brazil, or Tunisia? Been to any marches to protest against the extreme police brutality in either of those countries lately? Of course not, because TV man hasn’t instructed you to be outraged about what happens in those places. Absolute embarrassment.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:35 PM

    @Stan Kowalskis: But how was anyone saying it was “to do with us”? They protested the American embassy. Is it no longer acceptable to condemn the actions of another nation?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:55 PM

    @Shazam37: Of course it is, just not when the rest of the country is on lockdown.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:59 PM

    @Cliff Burnby: I guess they feel the enormity of this incident out ways that.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:21 PM

    @Shazam37: It’s not up to a mob of brainwashed kids to decide what’s important during a pandemic.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:48 PM

    @Cliff Burnby: and that’s where you lose. you’ve I’ve no idea who was there or why. Who are you to say they’re kids or brainwashed. Brid smith was there and neither epithet suits her.

    And why do young people or get a say? Because you say so?

    So any valid argument you had is completely undermined by that juvenile hogwash.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:40 PM

    @Shazam37: Grow up, it’s nothing to do with my opinion. The country is still in lockdown, you don’t get to decide that the rules don’t apply to you or anyone else.
    You could use this time learning how to write basic English while you’re at it. Uneducated simpletons like you will undo all the effort everyone else has made.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:49 PM

    @Cliff Burnby: hilarious. You tell
    Me to grow up and then come out with all that rubbish. Brainless. I haven’t told anyone anything.

    Progress 250 billion in debt and half the country unemployed!!! Our number 1 hospital
    Is 900th in the world! Universities plummeting now outside the top 100 in the world. On and on.

    Deluded.

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    @Gordon Comstock: Exactly right. Now he’s waiting for TV man to tell him how to reply.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:48 PM

    F:;king madness, how ironic, protest against the unlawful killing of a one Blackman on the other side of the world here in Dublin, during a pandemic….. the same pandemic that has a higher death rate among minorities populations, result > death of many more. #virtue signalling

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:14 PM

    @Micheal: The very same people at that BNM demonstration were having a right go at people protesting and ignoring social distancing outside the Four Courts, a week or so ago.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:17 PM

    @Pat Coyne: yeh true that’s the modern Ireland we are living, young dumb and loud, The lads at the courts are bonkers though.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:53 PM

    @Micheal: They were questioning new regulations and laws.
    We all know the damage that can be done by the dissemination of false facts. But we should begin to consider whether equal damage is not done by those who try to stop people from asking questions that not only should be asked but must be.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:37 PM

    @Pat Coyne: were they? Did you do a head count? A face count? Do you have a list of attendees and commentators and compare them?

    Or did you just make that up because it suits you?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:06 PM

    @Shazam37: Dont mind him.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:03 PM

    Aren’t these the same cohort of the population who couldn’t sit the leaving because #stress #not safe for us to gather

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:48 PM

    @Niamh Hayes: Look at the average age of the crowd and the number that were there.
    There were 62,000 due to sit the leaving cert. and a tiny minority of them may have been at the march but painting them all with the same brush is way off the mark.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:49 PM

    There was an interesting article in the Economist two weeks ago, pointing out that Black Lives Matter was no longer the movement it was. Interestingly, it said that this was effectively down to white middle class people abandoning the movement when other, trendier movements came along. While there was a core black community who still highlighted racist injustices, large swathes of ‘activists’ became disinterested in the long term. Political hobbyists is what the Economist referred to them, and unfortunately these are the same people who suddenly found their voice in Dublin this weekend.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:17 PM

    @Joe Vlogs: That well known journal for social justice.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:27 PM

    @Iain Mullen: it is well known to have objective, well researched articles. At the end of the day they interviewed genuine Black Lives Matters activists BEFORE the murder. They drew attention to the fact attrocities were still being committed, but white yuppies were bored without ‘celebrity’ killings to catch their attention. What did you do?

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    @Joe Vlogs: It was founded to advance free trade & globalisation and I am always a little suspicious of Economist articles posted btl, their core tenets have greatly contributed to where we are today socially. Calling out hobby protesters in their article is the clickbait they want shared. Regardless of the strength protesters conviction, those out there should be proud to be seen standing up, even once.
    I have been marching and using my voice for 35yrs, not there yesterday as ironically I have restricted mobility.
    A luta continua.

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    @Iain Mullen: clickbait is not how the economist works. Yes, it has a clear economic viewpoint, but it clearly researches articles and provides accurate analysis, and back up all its assertions empirically. The reference to hobby activists comes directly from black lives activists themselves, who felt left down once their cause was not longer fashionable to liberal middle class people. You haven’t actually denied what they said was truthful, accurate or objective – all you have said is they are not social justice warriors and are clickbait.
    And for your interest, while I’m not a social justice acitivist, I did volunteer heavily with migrant communities in Ireland prior to the lockdown – I prefer to engage in social justice through positive action and not through endangering people’s lives at a time of international crisis.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:05 PM

    Nothing about the thousands of people protesting in Italy yesterday? Or the increasing likely hood of a no deal Brexit that will severely damage our economy? Journal is becoming very selective in it’s reporting.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:24 PM

    @John Egan: or locust famines in Africa. Or China’s roundup of journalists in Wuhan. At least some news outlets, for instance the Financial Times, are covering it. It is important to support good journalism, not lazy opinion pieces.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:19 PM

    @Joe Vlogs: The journal doesn’t make a profit to spend on proper journalism. Students cutting and pasting from selected media outlets mostly CNN is what it offers.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:49 PM

    @John Egan: what a nonsense comment. When Brexit was a more prominent issue every second article on here as about brexit.

    Absurd.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:23 PM

    It’s great to see Gardaí not breaking up this gathering of people. Covid19 must be taking a day off today.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:07 PM

    While I agree with their message, now is not the time for mass gatherings.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:53 PM

    Political hobbyist lives matter

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:22 PM

    Although this is an important protest and I’m pleased to see most are wearing masks, we’re in the middle of a pandemic. People are dying alone In carehomes and hospitais , We haven’t seen our families in months, we are losing our jobs in lockdown, our health appointments and services have been cancelled, our mental health is deteriorating. This was not the time for this demonstration.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:37 PM

    All lives matter.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:31 PM

    @Paul Atreides: The Left don’t agree.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:34 PM

    @Paul Atreides: There were peaceful protests against the police turning a blind eye to the “Asian” rape gangs who deliberately targeted white girls in the UK, but they were shouted down as racists and completely dismissed by the media.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:13 PM

    Over 1000 people dead in nursing homes and yet they protest about something that happened 4000 miles away. It’s sad what happened to that poor man but maybe they need to look a bit closer to home or is that not woke enough for them.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:43 PM

    @james cullen: very strange

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:10 PM

    Rent a crowd. Don’t see any of these lemons protesting about the thousands that die in Africa every week.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:29 PM

    Hi Journal, long time reader, first time commenter. These pictures have pushed me to commenting.

    So gathering are allowed again I guess. I can go see my family again right ?

    I understand the need and want to protest, but now is not the time and if so, do it in a responsible manner !!!! This is outrageous to see such irresponsible gatherings. Adapt to the pandemic and express your view in the new norm. The organisers need to be brought to the courts for their actions.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:06 PM

    Didn’t see these guys protesting outside the US embassy when riots were taking place in Paris or in eastern Germany. This is a bandwagon in this country- all aboard!

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:56 PM

    The difference in rhetoric from the media in relation to protests against this and then say if there was protests in America to open up the thousands of small businesses that are about to go under. It’s almost like they want it to happen.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:49 PM

    What an utter utter bunch of clowns. Marching against police force oppression in a country most of them have never been. They wouldn’t march for all the inequalities in their own country.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:33 PM

    @Sharp Elsi Mate: or for that matter you won’t see such crowds marching against human rights abuses committed by the likes of China, Russia, Saudia Arabia etc – that might require some actual knowledge and guts. The point is basically “like look how like totally un-racist and virtuous and progressive I am”.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:19 PM

    @Sharp Elsi Mate: people march for things that upset them personally. You can’t match for everything – who has the time for that?

    The difference between them and you? They’re out doing something and you’re at home on your computer

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 7:36 AM

    @Shazam37: I was on my phone yesterday in the back garden actually, lovely day for social distancing unlike your friends there. Really looking forward to all the state governors in the US pushing through all their new ways of policing due to the march in the Dublin, Ireland.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 9:14 AM

    @Sharp Elsi Mate: yes you were Doing Nothing while they were doing something.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 10:01 AM

    @Shazam37: IMO they were doing NOTHING also. Nothing that will change anything in the US. You are deluded if you think different. They were doing far more harm than good when mass gatherings are not helpful for the public health system.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:18 PM

    I’m all about expressing solidarity with George Floyd and african-americans who are disproportionately killed by police, but mass gatherings here are dangerous and will cost people their lives, especially the elderly. We can express solidarity online, it will have the same impact. Use your noggin.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:17 PM

    There is at least one poster on one of the pics that is calling for violence in Ireland ….

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:44 PM

    What happened to George Floyd was sickening. No human should be treated that way. Have these protesters forgotten the sacrifices HSE staff have made and the sacrifices other people have made to quarantine from their families? However, it’s a shame the Irish people can’t/ won’t channel their energy towards something closer to home like the outrageous judicial system and weak sentences given to criminals and repeat offenders or protest how social welfare is being drained by some people who have no interest in working and never will attempt bother their asses getting a job and deprive others who genuinely need it.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:05 PM

    @Noel Rice: it’s grand, sure won’t they be out on their doorsteps applauding frontline workers again when the second wave comes. On their doorsteps cos, you know, social distancing.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:05 PM

    @Noel Rice: the country was at full employment. Yet people like you keep bangingon about all these supposed social welfare drainers.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:42 PM

    @Noel Rice: Yes and Nursing Home scandal.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 9:16 AM

    @Shazam37: there is no doubt that since 2014 employment has been steadily increasing up until the pandemic. However, if you don’t agree that there people who take advantage of the dole and social welfare payments then you must live under a rock or be completely oblivious. Ignorance is bliss.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 2:36 PM

    @Noel Rice: it’s a minor problem. The whole country has been working in periods of economic strength in the last 15 years.

    This notion that there are huge numbers of welfare recipients scrounging off the system is pure right wing fantasy.

    It happens to a certain extent in every country – including here. But it’s a minor problem in Ireland as the employment stats show.

    And I bet you don’t know a single person like those you describe. You’ve plucked the notion from the clear blue sky.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 3:53 PM

    @Shazam37: you’ve referred to it as a minor problem then tell me I’ve plucked the notion from the sky. Well which one is it?? Bit of a contradiction no?

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 11:31 PM

    @Noel Rice: you’ve plucked the notion that this is a significant issue from the sky.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:30 PM

    If this is happening can I go back to work! Clearly social distancing is over.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:01 PM

    Thousands my arse!!! About a hundred pasty white upper and middle class curtain twitchers whose only experience of brutality is when their local fruit juice bar runs out of avocados.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:18 PM

    @Luke Lee: brilliant and very true.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:27 PM

    @Luke Lee: brilliant

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    Jun 1st 2020, 11:19 PM

    @Luke Lee: brilliant

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:39 PM

    One cop killed a black man and the whole world is protesting against racism this is a joke

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:48 PM

    This is what the final stages of a dying society looks like. Capitalism is finsihed

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:50 PM

    @Rocky Stefan: am no……

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:59 PM

    @Rocky Stefan: because a bunch of clowns think the images on the TV are representative of their lives in Ireland? Lol

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:07 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: Racism is prevalent in Ireland, it’s an Irish issue too.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:08 PM

    @NotMyIreland: it’s a black lives matter march by the looks of things. Have many people been killed by police using their pepper spray in Ireland? Would you not go live in the US rather than just vicariously living there through their media?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:18 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: Black Lives Matter core message is to bring justice, healing and freedom to Black people. So, although thankfully the Gardai aren’t out shooting people in this country, while there is racism prevalent, as it is, in Ireland it is an Irish issue. I consume media from all around the world by the way.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:23 PM

    @NotMyIreland: so what racism needs to be tackled in Ireland? Be specific, and bear in mind pretty much every single black person in this country arrived entirely of their own volition in the past 20 years. Did they come here because where they were previously wasn’t sufficiently racist for them?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:30 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: ALL racism, that’s the point. None can be tolerated. No they came to make a better life for themselves. And certainly shouldn’t have to put up with racism for wanting a better life. That comment is just ridiculous.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:40 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: Oh by the way there are plenty of Black people born and raised here. The racist undertones of your comment is a prime example of why its an Irish issue too.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:41 PM

    @NotMyIreland: so no specifics then, just purposely vague nonsense? How surprising.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:44 PM

    @Rocky Stefan: what device did you use to post this comment out of interest?

    I always love seeing social justice groups who tweet about being anti-capitalist and at the bottom it says “using twitter for iPhone”.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:46 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: It works better for people like that when they don’t have to be specific. They can just be “anti racism” and lazily claim that anyone who even marginally disagrees with them is racist.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:47 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: Why would I be specific about an issue such as racism. There is absolutely no need to be. Even the UN has said Ireland needs to improve on racism. I cant post full links but heres some reading for you. ww.ihrec.ie/un-conclusions-ireland-needs-to-do-more-to-tackle-racism/

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:49 PM

    @NotMyIreland: because vague notions of problems can never be resolved. You need specifics to ever be able to achieve anything. But I don’t think achieving anything is what your “fight” against “insert cause du jour here” is really all about anyway.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:52 PM

    @josephsample: exactly, they never actually want to achieve or resolve anything, they just want everyone to see how virtuous they are through their effortless social media posting or pointless protests like in the article. I think a lot of people use these things to deflect their own attention from their own personal failings – if you’re part of something bigger than yourself that’s good maybe it won’t matter as much that you’ve achieved nothing in life.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:58 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: Actually persecution of any race, sex, colour or creed can be stopped without examples. Its a change in a wider mindset that is needed, not individual action on individual cases. There are plenty of examples, look them up. As I’m a white Irish guy I would rarely encounter racism towards me. However any of the Black, Asian, Romanian or Brazilians I do know would all tell you they have suffered some sort of racism in their lives here.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:20 PM

    @NotMyIreland: Racism used as an attack tool these days is nothing but noise. The less you invest in it the less it will affect you. It seems that the use of the term in attack signals a weak hand and betrays much more discernible racism in the attacker. It’s just another name.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:53 PM

    @Rocky Stefan: what do you suggest to replace it with..??

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:05 PM

    Lazy screenshots of videos from Twitter from the Journal again .

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:43 PM

    This is actually laughable.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:30 PM

    The ironic thing is that no minister, no politician or political party will come out saying that to gather this way was wrong…because they can’t separate the action from the politics. However if it was a group advocating something that was not so sensitive or was against the prevailing politics of the day, then as soon as you could blink it would be disbanded. But the law and its application must be blind, otherwise it leads to one rule for me and another for you. That politicians and the Gardai lack the backbone and any conviction belies just how distorted the whole state of affairs is. I can bet no one in the media will ask the Leo or Simon do they condemn this??? And even if they do somehow manage to find their balls and ask the question, it will be batted away and handed off. That’s the entire problem with the state of politics and the people making decisions today.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:51 PM

    @Kevin Tyrrell: that would be career suicide. Only the financially unencumbered ‘politicians’ such as Trump or Peter Casey dare

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:56 PM

    @Kevin Tyrrell: a) that’s not “irony” b) no one In government will comment because by commenting they invite questions on their opinion “let sleeping Dogs lie” c) your theory on disbanding other Protests is incorrect – there was a protest outside the 4 courts that wasn’t disbanded e) there is no problem with politics today – it is in magnificent health – it has invaded every single facet of public representation

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:38 PM

    @Shazam37: umm…of course its ironic. Politicians afraid to comment on a flagrant abuse of their much lauded regulations just because it would not be politically correct. They aren’t supposed to be partial…they are supposed to stand by the convictions of their regulations. And I was more referring to the Gardai breaking up the protests of the Debenhams workers who were shafted when Debenhams decided to up and leave. Why didn’t they apply the same regulations. Surely the Debenhams workers had much more right to protest on our streets about sonething that affects Irish citizens, rather than this bunch of yahoo activists. As for letting sleeping dogs lie…well if course they will, when it suits them to be so expedient.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:01 PM

    @Kevin Tyrrell: How do you know they’re afraid to comment when they haven’t been asked for a comment?

    And how is that irony? It’s not the least bit ironic.

    As to why the Debenhams workers had their names taken and not these people I don’t know I can’t speak for the Gardai. You’d have to ask them.

    Not sure why it matters? Both protests could be said to fall roughly On the same ideological spectrum. I see no evidence necessarily of bias. So what point are you trying to make?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 4:51 PM

    Just goes to show people are desperate to escape quarantine

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:21 PM

    @Bryen O Murchu: people are doing whatever they like this weekend. Not just these nieve youngsters.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:15 PM

    Can anyone tell me what this group want to achieve? Saying black lives matter won’t change the fact that some US officers are still incapable of following their basic training. It won’t change accountability and most importantly, it won’t change the fact that if you’re a black man you are more likely to commit a crime than any other demographic group in the US.

    It’s hard to see a solution when you have so much interaction between the black community and police officers. All it takes is one dumb officer. If it wasn’t filmed, nothing would happen and I suspect nothing will change as a result of this anyway. That’s not saying people should stop protesting, but I just don’t see what it achieves, particularly when they are burning down their own cities.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:38 PM

    Can somebody tell me what Irish garda or Ireland have with USA police and brutality???? This is Ireland and Europe not state do you know that? I don’t think so

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:20 PM

    This is evidence that Irish people are getting complacent with social distancing. We need to be more careful or all the good work we have done will be for nothing. Iran eased its restrictions in early May after decreasing it’s cases from 4000 at it’s peak to around 700 in early May. A month later, after getting complacent, the cases have spiraled up to the heights of a peak again at around 3000. Police should be enforcing social distancing here or get them to clear off

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/01/iran-rapid-rise-in-covid-19-cases-stokes-fears-of-second-wave?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1591023553

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:36 PM

    Your one with the ‘burn all police stations’ sign should be arrested for inciting violence.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:05 PM

    Any other time I would have supported this, but this is a pandemic and the public should follow social distancing guidelines. I sound like a nanny but I can guarantee that in 2 weeks we will see an unusual spike in cases just from this. They could at least have done it 2 meters apart and with more PPE.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:57 PM

    @Paul Cunningham: yeah and nothing to say about the thousands of people who flocked to the beaches and parks and mates houses all weekend because of the weather??? Your problem is with just these people who marched against racism – majority of whom are wearing masks?? I didn’t see one person in the parks yesterday with a mask on!

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:09 PM

    @Paul Cunningham: you can’t “guarantee” anything of the sort.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:24 PM

    It was a disgusting murder and needs a reaction but they should have made some attempt at maintaining a 2m distance between each other. Makes a mockery of what the rest of us are trying to do.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:37 PM

    Great to see social distancing no longer applies …maybe since large gatherings are allowed (since no action was taken) we can have a return to matches next weekend…kids can get to visit their grandparents again. I presume everyone can return to work….

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:47 PM

    Why are they protesting against US police brutality in Dublin?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 11:01 PM

    @biggybald: because they want to appear they actually care about people’s rights.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 11:00 PM

    Amazing how the author can’t bring himself to criticise this protest. Not a word about social distancing or Covid.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:20 PM

    Why?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:08 PM

    Our country matter too .. no chance they could protest and keep social distance .. or would that just be too clever for them .. ffs .. great think to protest for .. but do it showing some responsibility to everyone .. and ireland trying to come out of lockdown ..

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:51 PM

    No justice, no peace sounds a bit like a threat ? Are they going to smash up Dublin and loot the shops if there is no perceived justice ? I’m all for justice by the way, the man was clearly murdered.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:51 PM

    I understand US Police brutality figures as good and the next one…

    A US Cop is 99 times more likely to kill a US Citizen(armed or unarmed) than a UK Cop.
    That rate is 240 times if black.
    That rate 71 times if white.
    That rate is 20 times if unarmed.

    So US Cops are killing Unarmed Citizens at 20 times the rate that UK cops are killing (armed and unarmed) citizens… Let’s explain that?

    Now saying that, having a march in Dublin is insane… It shows no regard to life… It is utterly stupid… People are sacrificing a lot and this behaviour is just plain selfish… Who organised this stupidity?
    I am a members of a golf club and we have older members who have played almost regularly and people who live over 5km from the golf course who have not played. It is very hard to spread the virus in golf but they have stuck by all the rules… And then they see this stupidity and wonder why do they bother…

    Someone said arrest them, the Gardai should call to the organisers house and explain the stupidity of there actions…

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:32 PM

    Open pub

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:57 PM

    When they looted the stores in the US. Not one pair of work boots were stolen…mmmmmm..

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:53 PM

    What a joke….spike in cases awaits!

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:21 PM

    Irish lives matter. A yank who broke the law amount 300million yanks isn’t of any concern to me right now

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:05 PM

    In bits laughing at the fools on here commenting about Covid and social distancing. Holier than thou the lot of you. Missing the big picture here for the sake of a few snide remarks when the likelihood is you’ve all broken restrictions at some point or another over the last two months.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:10 PM

    @Philip: virtue signalling about how deeply you’ve been affected by a story you saw on the news is not now, never has been, and never will be part of any bigger picture. Absolutely embarrassing clowns the lot of them.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:18 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: is clowns your word for the day? I’ll refrain from engaging in a conversation with the twitter account set up to troll the Journal. Good day plant.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:34 PM

    @Philip: but a very funny plant….

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:42 PM

    @Philip: it’s a troll account. He’s too much of a coward to make his points without hiding behind his anonymous plant photo.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:01 PM

    @Daniel O Sullivan: I hear you Dan. Keep the faith

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:28 PM

    @Philip: what a pair of bellends..

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:49 PM

    @Gordon Comstock: Total clowns the lot of them. Protesting about somthing in America they’ll have zero impact on and wldnt bother their arse protesting about people dying on hospital trolleys in Ireland.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:53 PM

    These protesters would jump on whatever rage bait is the order of the day, many are there because if you don’t virtue signal these days you may as well be wearing a klansman uniform. The notion that this is about race is more of a problem than racism itself. It’s about class. Certain parties want us all to believe that it’s black vs white, the age old divide and conquer tactic – It’s easier for the powers that be to let people turn this into a race issue than to admit the gulf in class division and the problems it creates. Last thing they want is blue collar white and blue collar black uniting. But this isn’t just a divisive incident. A person, George Floyd, died at the hands of a man who clearly had anger issues and who had no business being a police officer. May he Rest In Peace.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:22 PM

    Let these guys open your eyes YouTube search Jesse Peterson,Mark Dice,Candesse Owns,louder with chowder also Tucker Carlson… Racism me arse the media run by leftist fool have brainwashed the kids of yesterday and now these kids have grown up there lost but we need to fix the kids of today for a better future

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:47 PM

    @Keith Richardson: unbrainwash yourselves by listening to a bunch of other brain washers with a different message?

    You seriously don’t see the irony in the statement you just made.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:39 PM

    @Shazam37: There are multiple perspectives.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT2rlJe9cuU

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:01 PM

    @Damon16: he’s not suggesting listening to multiple Perspectives.

    He’s saying listen to my echo chamber cos it’s better than yours.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:03 PM

    M O R O N S !

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    Jun 1st 2020, 11:05 PM

    “We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” -Ronald Reagan

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    Jun 1st 2020, 11:23 PM

    @Spot the d0g: wise words.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 11:22 PM

    Progressives have natural immunity to covid19 and common sense.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 2:07 AM

    Defund the NGOs

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:37 PM

    A load of nonsense racism me arse

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:53 PM

    These protesters would jump on whatever rage bait is the order of the day, many are there because if you don’t virtue signal these days you may as well be wearing a klansman uniform. The notion that this is about race is more of a problem than racism itself. It’s about class. Certain parties want us all to believe that it’s black vs white, the age old divide and conquer tactic – It’s easier for the powers that be to let people turn this into a race issue than to admit the gulf in class division and the problems it creates. Last thing they want is blue collar white and blue collar black uniting. But this isn’t just a divisive incident. A person, died at the hands of a man who clearly had anger issues and who had no business being a police officer. May he Rest In Peace.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:22 PM

    Waiting for the “wHy aRe ThEy mArChInG hErE wHen ItS aN aMeRiCaN pRoBlEm” usual feeble opinion lot…

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:32 PM

    @Gavin Mckenna: waiting for a rational and valid response to that question..

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:36 PM

    @Gavin Mckenna: We’re battling a virus has killed 1650 people in this country, and a bunch of arseholes thinks this kind of behaviour is ok? People can support issues on whatever they feel like, but what gives them the right to break all of the lockdown rules, because “BlAcK LiVes MaTteR”?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 8:36 PM

    @KL: you’re assuming all the rules were broken.
    Now I admit it’s unlikely they “socially distanced” and were all within 5k to be fair. Whether or not it’s essential activity is debatable too.

    But to start with “theyre all ars@@@@@s” when they’re peacefully protesting police brutality and murder is a bad place to begin.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:46 PM

    @Shazam37:

    Did they all keep 2 meters distance at all times? No.

    Were they in a group larger than 4? Yes.

    Were they outside of their houses for exercise? No.

    Did they all wear masks? No.

    Did they have a license from the Gardai to congregate in a group larger than 100? No.

    Were they all within 5km of their homes? Not sure, but I’m going to say no.

    I watched in horror the clips of George Floyd, just as I’ve been watching the abject mistreatment of and racism against African Americans for decades, but there’s a time and a place for these kinds of protests – and in the middle of a fairly lethal pandemic is not one of them. So in my opinion anyone that was there is a selfish arshole.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 12:00 AM

    @KL: some did, some didnt.

    We’re allowed out for more than exercise now. Redundant.

    Masks – some did. Some didn’t. They were never mandatory.

    License from the Gardai. I doubt it. I also doubt that is required. Notwithstanding that, the Gardai were there – so again, redundant.

    5k. As i said. Unlikely. So. Some were. Some weren’t.

    Time and place. Time – when it happens. What use is it a month late? Place. American embassy.

    All in all it’s a complicated and difficult issue. If Covid stays until the end of the year and a government isn’t formed do we just not protest the undemocratic nature of the current situation?

    At what point do civil liberties such as the right to protest become prohibited?

    Dismissing them all as ars@@@@s is a fairly unintelligent position given the importance of the right to protest in civil society. Especially given some were adhering to the guidelines.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:41 PM

    March against racism in other countries but turn a blind eye in Ireland. That’s the spirit

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    Jun 1st 2020, 7:45 PM

    @Alan: black people aren’t being murdered by state representatives in this jurisdiction.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:24 PM

    Keep the friggin masks on people stop adding trouble to here!!

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 10:34 AM

    Garda Should have stopped this gathering ‘ no Permit & blatant disregard for recent emergency laws & no implication of same
    I for one am sick of the Race card being pulled for people to do what they like
    Not saying what happened in US was right it wasn’t but when others put lives at risk it’s not acceptable

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 3:57 AM

    #americanblacklivesmatter #cozitsontv #blackafricansdont?

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:24 PM

    The guards need to fine every single one of those idiots.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 9:01 PM

    @munsterman1: Brid Smith TD on €96,000 + from the state breaking state laws.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 1:11 PM

    And I can’t even go to a church on Sunday And Irish Media stays silent

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:28 PM

    Americanized Idiots, ship the lot of them over to the states, I will help pay for the boat

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    Jun 1st 2020, 6:38 PM

    Love the bit about Trump.being rushed to the bunker..imagine his subsequent press conference

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 12:48 PM

    The off spring of illegal migrants who came here 20 years ago seeking refugee status, hate to say I warned you all, how predictable this was. Let’s stop letting these people in before they get to brand us racist and unkind.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 12:40 PM

    Leo gave everyone license to do whatever they want once he was caught with his mates in a rental accomodation partying. You can’t expect anyone to take the lockdown seriously if the leader is out there ignoring the rules.

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:39 PM

    All of you brainwashed fools out there please Type this into YouTube “Candace Owns at hearing on confronting white supremacy” and wake up de FOOK! clowns

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:33 PM

    All lives matter we all the bleed the same!! , bet there is some there on the march who were complaining because an African was shouting his shite at the guards in salthill, we weren’t treated so great by the police in London in the early 80s minds do be forgetting

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    Jun 1st 2020, 11:28 PM

    just asking is there actully statistics like real facts on deaths by police on unarmed citizens in USA ON RACE…i was looking on line https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/ staista

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 1:13 PM

    @goaskmehoop: more white people get killed by police

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 1:22 AM

    Watch This https://vm.tiktok.com/EeQNPF/. I believe everyone is Equal but I don’t support what is going on in this video❌❌❌

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    Jun 1st 2020, 10:49 PM

    should we fix the racism in Ireland first?

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 2:09 PM

    I’m saying this as a person of colour. People should want reform. And what happened to GF was absolutely awful and unacceptable. BUT, it is a fact that most of the blacks killed in the US significantly are by other blacks. Look at the stats for Chicago alone. Where is the anger there? Do black lives not matter when they are killed by other blacks?

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 1:09 PM

    No peace

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    Jun 1st 2020, 5:33 PM

    Great. Ruining our chances of having any kind of a summer with mass gatherings like this. Cheers.

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