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LAST UPDATE | 29 Dec 2018
DUBLIN’S PORT TUNNEL was closed in both directions earlier by a protest.
Demonstrators stood on the road, blocking access to the tunnel.
The Port Tunnel has since fully reopened.
The action was part of a protest and march earlier this afternoon in Dublin city centre. The protest began at Custom House Quay, and protesters moved on to briefly block the the East-Link bridge.
The majority were yellow high visibility vests, similar to the French gilets jaunes movement.
The Yellow Vest Ireland movement describes itself as a “protest against the disproportionate burden of the government’s tax and reforms that are failing the working and middle class citizens of Ireland”.
In a Facebook live video streamed by a page calling itself the Irish Citizen Army, protesters could be seen walking through the Port Tunnel.
They then stood at one entrance, where protesters could be seen holding a “Yellow Vest movement Ireland” banner, an Irish flag, and a banner with details of ClimateChangeAgenda.com, a website with promotes chemtrail conspiracy theories.
There was a garda presence at the protest, with officers on bikes following the protest.
Meanwhile in France, police fired tear gas at demonstrators in Paris but the turnout for round seven of the popular protests that have rocked France appeared low.
Several hundred people wearing the symbolic vests had gathered near the offices of France Televisions and the BFM TV channel in the centre of the capital shouting “Fake news” and calling for the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron.
Protesters spilled on to tram lines and lobbed projectiles at police who replied with tear gas grenades and detained several people.
Tear gas was also fired in Nantes, western France, and protests were expected in Lyon, Bordeaux and Toulouse.
In the southern city of Marseille, police said 900 protesters turned out, amid cries of “Macron out”.
The official turnout numbers have plunged with the passing weeks. The government recorded 38,600 demonstrators on December 22 compared to 282,000 for the first major demonstrations on November 17.
But leading figures within the movement that has flourished outside of trade union and political groups, say the low numbers are due to the holiday season and January will bring a resurgence of the street protests.
The focus of the protests has morphed from anger over fuel taxes to a broad rebuke of Macron, accused by critics of neglecting the rising costs of living for many in rural and small-town France.
Additional reporting by AFP.
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Leo wont be happy about this lads.
@Terry Dactyl: and the Gardaí just let them?
@Henry Porter: gardai let a lot of things go on, letting guys dressed in black drag elderly couple out of house. So same difference allowing guts with yellow vests block main road out of city. They do have difficulty understanding their job spdc
@Austin Rock: *guys
@Terry Dactyl: joke of a health system. Housing. Children’s hospital farce. Economy booming again and things are getting worse for many. Living standards dropping for many!
@Terry Dactyl: I’d say he’s quaking in his fancy socks alright.
@Austin Rock: What elderly couple were dragged from a house? What age were they?
@Austin Rock: freedom to protest and having a valid court order. Yup guess the guards were doing their jobs. Let’s follow your logic, guards deny right to protest and refuse to allow court orders, don’t think any of us want to live in that country.
@Austin Rock: What qualifies a person as elderly?
@Austin Rock:
Educate yourself about our legal system, court orders and the long established right to peaceful protest before you come on a forum spouting rubbish. Otherwise you sound like a clown.
@Alan Watts: typo *off was good aul one party FFG
@Shane Murphy: Wake up. The FG/FF Booming Economy is a mirage……to make you submissive.
The Irish Gov. earns approx.$43,000,000,000 in Tax income per year (9 Zeros, 43 BILLION), but Forks out $20,500,000,000, 20.5 BILLION, in interest on that IMF loan, ……so almost 50% ! is used to SERVICE the DEBT, WITHOUT even Touching the actual bailout loan. The Highest anywhere. ….There goes the Nurses wages…., forced to emigrate to save for a house, while we import cheaper labour. All by design.
@Fionn_Oisín: Ireland does not owe ANY money to the IMF. The IMF loan was paid off in December 2017.
@Fionn_Oisín: Also the cost of servicing our FULL national debt is approximately €6 billion, €6,000,000,000 per annum
@Fionn_Oisín: Oh and tax take in 2017 was €50,620,000,000 nearly €51 BILLION… gonna be higher in 2018.
So you have an approx €8 BILLION mistake on exchequer income AND a €14.5 BILLION mistake in expenditure both in Ireland’s favour meaning we are approx €22,500,000,000 or €22.5 BILLION better off PER YEAR than you are trying to make out.
Whose arse are you pulling the figures out of?
@Chemical Brothers: Those figures were clearly coming from where the sun don’t shine
Surprised the journal reported this considering Leo has the journal in his back pocket.
@JesusMoreBullshit: Jesus, more bullshit.
@JesusMoreBullshit: considering that the journal reported on all their previoys protests, I’m surprised that you’re still surprised
@Orla Smith: Ireland…, Currently Littered with little Subversives……. Undermining from ‘Within’.
@JesusMoreBullshit: Watch the comments rearrange to support the FfG Line,
@JesusMoreBullshit: nonsense again.
@JesusMoreBullshit: I’m gonna join up be a bitta craic sure country being ran to the ground so why not.
Ha, blocking the port tunnel in the name of chemtrails and ehhhh…. vests and stuff, yeah that’s it! Seem like a credible bunch.
@JC: did you miss the bit at the start that said they were fighting for the working and middle class that seems to be the ones who are footing the bill for everything??? Or are you just going to focus on the chem trails part of the report that, IMO, seems to have been thrown into the story for the simple reason to discredit all the protesters and make them all seem like lunatics??
@Gordon Larney: agreed total disinformation to deflect attention from real reason of protest and the sheeple always fall for it, case u replied to in point
@Gordon Larney: But there was a chemtrail banner there so more like they discredited themselves?
@Dougal67: yes,, Orla seems to have taken the bait as well…..
@JC: Follow The Money………….., Check HAARP & Nikola Tesla while yr at it, ………….& OPEN YR MIND……….. U Pawns.
@Fionn_Oisín: Ha ha! Quality trolling, best so far in 2019. 10/10 pal ;)
@JC: fair enough JC, I’m not here to argue with anyone, if the Chem trail part of the story is what you want to focus on,, that’s fine, maybe everyone at that protest today was a lunatic,,, and not one person was doing it trying to represent hard working people who have it hard paying high taxes and high interest rates on mortgages or extortionate rent rates,, because they must not exist in this country
@Orla Smith: Yr the Troll Orla…….. Deflecting Others from the Truth.
@Fionn_Oisín: Yeah, the ‘pro-life’, Soros conspiracy, anti-immigration type of truth no doubt.
@Gordon Larney: There is No Focus on Only Chem trails, if you want to know what they represent, they will tell you on u tube, or facebook. They represent All those hard working Middle Class & Working Class People, who are being Used & Abused, & Fleeced, in the Real Subversion of Ireland as a ‘NATION STATE’. Turn Off Rté Propaganda TV who are Not Reporting the Real News. It’s Urgent.
@Orla Smith: it’ still 2018, take it easy on the sherry, sounds like you blacked out after the din dins and are just guessing what day it is now
@Orla Smith: Just PRO Truth……. yeah, there is Nothing wrong with being Pro-Life, ….Especially when u know it’s a SOROS Grass Roots RIGGED Referendum !! more like Anti-EU-UN Plantation of NATION STATES. Would u like to tell the Irish People about the UN Migration Pact ??? Hidden from View from the Public………..or the 41 Migrant Hotels, in 18 Counties, Funded by the Middle Class. or that the Majority in Direct Provision are from Pakistan !! What a lot of little Subversives we have in IRL, …Trolling to undermine the Truth.
@Fionn_Oisín: anyone that says the truth and then just barfs up a load of one liners and Soros is clearly a gobsh##te or a paid misinformation spreader. Judging from your content your the former
@Fionn_Oisín: do you have any stats or proof to back up your assertion that the majority in Direct Provision are from Pakistan? And as of mid December there were 38 DP centres in Ireland, (not all of them hotels). Where are you getting the figure of 41 from?
@Orla Smith: Ah Orla…you’re out from under the duvet so….with your stupid comments!!
@Gordon Larney: this crowd would run a mile from work.
@John Mulligan: But they’re only concerned with the rights of people who work, and are members of a certain class? A bit confusing, this report.
@JustOneScoop: You obviously haven’t a Clue of how well Soros has infiltrated this Country, & Europe in general. I can back it all Up, send me a message, as media controllers will delete the links.
@John Mulligan: some proof please.
@James Wallace: I have proof… also some tampered with the evidence. FG/FF via controlled media, are Not Reporting the NEW Plantation of Ireland. Rté Propaganda TV left out the new Migrant Hotels……it was 38., now it’s 41.., in 18 Counties, & another 200 new arrivals in the last few days, over Christmas while people were distracted. U will find the real news on social media, you tube, & can compare reality, with fiction, or altered stats. a lot of ‘Lying via Omission’, on Rté. or send me a message. The number of Migrant Hotels has gone Up, All funded by the Middle Class, 2 undermine ‘Nation States.’ We are funding the NEW Plantation, Ethnocide, Culturcide of our Country, with Subversives in Gov. following orders. http://www.ria.gov.ie/en/RIA/RIA%20Monthly%20Report%2001-2017.pdf/Files/RIA%20Monthly%20Report%2001-2017.pdf
@James Wallace: James, for you, Parse The Noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1131&v=NYSWn_0WYTw
We may have to face the fact that some folk just love protesting.
@Páid Ó Donnchú: Indeed they do, just as some others just love governing the country for their corrupt paymasters.
In the 70′s a three-bed semi cost 3-4 times the average industrial wage, today it costs 10-12 times. If you consider that progress I’m guessing you’re on the side of the government.
@Of a break. Of a Kitkat.: the average industrial wage is around €40,000. The average 3 bed semi does not cost 400-480k. That’s simply untrue.
@Padraig Bateman: Where are you getting 40000 the average wage.?
Most people no work eighter 0zero hours contracts or agencies.
Or other services so they can con the truth.
@Padraig Bateman: Where are you getting 40000 the average wage.?
Most people no work either 0zero hours contracts or agencies.
Or other services so they can con the truth.
@Padraig Bateman: Where are you getting 40000 the average wage.?
Most people work either 0zero hours contracts or agencies.
Or other services so they can con the truth.
@Padraig Bateman: Where are you getting 40000 the average wage.?
Most people work either zero hours contracts or agencies.
Or other services so they can con the truth.
@Padraig Bateman: The average industrial wage is nowhere near 40,000. Stop listening to Leo and do your own research.
@Of a break. Of a Kitkat.: what do you have the average wage as and average price of a 3 bed semi as?
@Páid Ó Donnchú: Better than lubing up all the time Paid
@Tommy Potter: Most people do not work 0 hour contracts or agencies, that’s also untrue.
@Padraig Bateman: the mean wage is approx 32k
@john: Where is that figure taken from? Even with that lower figure, the average 3 bed isn’t 320k – 380k.
@Of a break. Of a Kitkat , we are tired
of picking up the tab for the licensed
crooks
@Padraig Bateman: what planner are you on most people working in retail small business. are lucky to be on €10an hour
@Geraldine Fenton: The minimum wage is 9.55, the absolute legal minimum. That’s usually reserved for people in their first year in a job, working in retail the salary generally increases year on year. I also didn’t comment on specific industries, retail would be lower paid than other professions. Its not representive of the entire population.
@Padraig Bateman: Is that in Longford? Dunnes dont guarantee hours for a lot of staff, so you could up working way less than the normal week.
@Barra O Brien: & Barra, those Zero Hour Contracts will Only get Worse, as FG/FF Subversives Flood IRL with immigrants via the UN Migration Pact.
Same crowd of crusties just with a different colour
@Toomasu Sumitsu: Crusty Sumitsu Wake UP.
@Toomasu Sumitsu: What do you mean when you call someone “a crusty”? I don’t know anyone who uses the word.
@Toomasu Sumitsu: You mean because they do not ware suits …like the bankers whose gangsterism facilitated by politicians brought this country to it’s knees.
@Donal Desmond: I wouldn’t mind but who pays for the politicians’ suits? The same overtaxed people who paid for Haughey’s designer shirts.
@Donal Desmond: Parse the Noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1131&v=NYSWn_0WYTw
Eirigi on a day out?
Must be early closing time at the local boozers/betting shops….
@Dotty Dunleary: please explain this idiotic comment.
@anthony byrne: My apt comment speaks for itself…!
The cream of the country, a quick perusal of their Facebook page is like conspiracy theory bingo. Let’s hope they don’t try to burn down any buildings with people in them like last week.
@Orla Smith: what would you change about Ireland if you could?
@Bluey: I’d ensure that people received proper access to education, learn how to research, & were more discerning about the information they consume, i.e. conspiracy theories on 4Chan, YouTube and Reddit are not facts, but merely serve to dumb-down gullible populists who crave a tribe like these protestors. I would like to see a vastly slimmed down civil & non-essential public service. I would like complete separation of Church & State. I would also like to see an increase in state building of homes, & wishful thinking, I would like to see an end to the hegemony of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael in power as well as term limits for TD’s. What I don’t want to see is goons who think they are ‘woke’ running amok and breaking the law, playing army & pretending they are part of some revolution.
@Orla Smith: I agree with most of what you said but not all of it. All media is biased one way or another. What suits your views may not suit someone else’s. What gives any of us the right to dictate what the next person should think.
How do we realistically go about bringing change to our society if you are against protest?
@Bluey: I am not against protest, I’ve been on many. These ‘yellow vests’ are not protesting, they are wreaking havoc on hard-working Irish people. Republican Sinn Féin and Éirigí members. As has been mentioned elsewhere here, we live in a democracy, people vote, government is formed. I am very unhappy with the government and have been for a long time, I’m still not going to support this type of childish carry-on, read some of the comments here in support of them, Jesus Christ.
@Orla Smith: Pardon me for calling a spade a spade.
@Orla Smith: Irish people in general would not protest. It’s in our genes to be submissive. The fighting Irish is an oxymoron. There won’t ever be real change in this country as there is no appetite for it. So you might as well get used to crappy healthcare, no infrastructure outside the capital and anything else you are unhappy with because nothing will change. Best to just look out for yourself and don’t give a crap about anyone else. That’s how we do things here
@Orla Smith: Oh well if it was in the News…. It must be the Truth ! Show us the proof…….. more like Subversives wearing yellow vests to Hijack & Undermine.
@Bluey: Get a Grip, the Irish have fought 8 X Times already,
1641, 1798, 1803, 1848, 1867, 1878, &1916, 1920, Revise yr diet & Flouride Water intake, making u Despondent & Passionless by design.
@Fionn_Oisín: submissive to the English for 800 years. Nothing will change. The public don’t support change or this protest in particular. I’m alright Jack. F everyone else. Put more effort into your career and try and improve your income. Anything else is a waste of time
@Orla Smith: The Only Information you should be wary of consuming is via Mass Media, Rté Propaganda TV, & Denis O’Brien Bilderberger Media, designed by Globalists to Enslave the masses into submission. The only reason Zappone & other Subversives in Government want to Separate ‘Church & State’, & will Rig a Referendum to do so, is to infuse IRL with Cultural Marxism…., soon she & her Overlords will be drooling at the mouth at the thought of ‘Grooming’ yr children with gender neutrality, & gaining control of schools & hospitals for Abortion, & brainwashing. They will then insist IRL ‘Abort & Import’, to dilute Nation States, claiming ‘Rights’ Equality, Diversity. You sound like a regular Open Border Marxist, Communist. but Ireland Serves Neither King Nor Kaiser.
@Fionn_Oisín: you and your like are the reason protests are laughed at
@Fionn_Oisín: the concept of nation states that you seem so fond of is nothing more, along with organised religion than an archaic concept used to convince their subjects into fighting and dying for. Because the reality that war involves convincing someone with less of a vested interest, to die to keep the wealthy and powerful in place, doesn’t really recruit as many soldiers as “do it for God and country”.
Protecting your country really means protecting the wealthy of your country. Its an outdated concept that doesnt serve the poor well.
@Bluey: Those paying attention do support it. The British Gov. is submissive to their Overlords, thru the private Ownership of the Bank of England & City of London, both ‘Sovereign’ & Not part of the UK. The Irish were Not Submissive for 800 years, They fought Back ! Even impoverished & starved by design. People have the Power if they seize that power. If you sit back.. & do not do yr own research into Who Owns What, u will see your Country disappear before yr eyes, in degrees, hidden, via the control of media, as the EU/UN Plant IRL, & replace Europe’s ‘Christian’ core Culture & society with the goals from the Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism. Eventually, the Middle class who fund everything….. will collapse, to create a Low wage society, under Globalist control & thereafter Socialism/Communism. Packed & Stacked into apartments, no property rights etc. See America: Freedom to Fascism, on u tube, 2 expand knowledge.
@Bluey: are u laughing at the French ? or do u side with Macron the Traitor? What’s to laugh at ? They make the effort, if yr laughing…. yr brains are closed.
@john doe: If yr not willing to defend a Nation’s core Cultural identity, Heritage, Customs, Language, & it’s ‘Christian’ Heritage, you are willing to hand it all over to an Elite 1% to Loot, control, dilute & replace it with All Cultures & Religions. The NEW UN Plantation is simply to disenfranchise Nation States & create a Low wage, Mixed race Federation of No identity. (‘Diversity’ for White ‘Christian’ Nations ONLY). If All the People in Ireland were replaced with Pakistani’s, would it still be Ireland ? No… it would be Pakistan ‘displaced’. FG/FF have signed IRL up to PESCO already, & the Elite 1% can use their Media to convince you to go to war, ……because u believe them !!
@Fionn_Oisín: no im not laughing at the French. They had the vast majority of the population behind them and shut down the country. We were only showed the violence in Paris in attempt to discredit the movement . The version we have in Ireland is not the same
@Bluey: The French have always protested, it’s in their history & culture to Remind the Elite WHO pays them, & Who they Work for. The Irish people are good-natured overall, (but this is being used against them by FG/FF Subversives), they may be slow to anger but when they get Angry they go off like a Firecracker !
@Orla Smith: who would you like to see in government ?
@Orla Smith: who would you like to see in government and why?
Forget it. I was going to point out that the supposed education system only churns out ill-informed fools like yourself but I’m wasting my breath. To all the gombeens out there who believe vaccines are actually trying to help, chemtrails are a myth, fluoride is safe, the food we eat is safe, etc. Give it about 20years and you’ll all be eating your words, but you probably wont remember because you’ll have Alzheimer’s, and if not that, then cancer and your stupidity won’t matter anymore. All the information used to support these “conspiracy theories” comes from highly credible sources. Sources who don’t have a vested interest. When all you dummies wake up it’ll be too late. And what’s really amusing is you have people on here commenting that the protesters are unemployed wasters. Well you’re all a pack of tv watching wasters. Which is worse. Go watch the x-factor or whatever empty-head, irrelevant crap is poular this week.
@Philip Mulhern: dude, it’s 5 in the morning! Go to bed and stop been so paranoid!
It looks like one conspiracy theory turns out to be correct: mobile phone use does seem to have a detrimental effect on people’s brains.
@ウィリアム はげ: and social media
@ウィリアム はげ: Only ‘Lying via Omission’ thru Mass Media… has a detrimental effect on people’s brains.
I’ve never bothered with FB, so not defending it, but in fairness it got them out of the house and exercising their lungs.
Yes blocking the Port Tunnel stopping Ordinary People from going about their normal business and social engagement and paying their toll fees to use the infrastructure already in situ at a great cost to the taxpayer.
What a load of Yellow Bellies!
Next they will be taking on the Gardai on the strret.
@Irish big fellow: isn’t that the idea of protest? To disrupt. Not much point in sitting at home in your sitting room protesting is there?
Thankgod..the working class have woken up ..
@Marianne: “Working” yea right…
@Marianne: this is, I think,the third yellow vest protest in Ireland, it doesn’t seem to be gaining much popular support.
@Marianne: Yeah if only they were waking up to go to work, and not waking up to protest conspiracy theories.
To be fair, we don’t enough of this, the government tells us whats what and we roll over and accept it, albeit do it somwehere else and don’t be annoying people trying to get around.
@Ruairí Bulger: Is that not the point of a Government? We vote them in and they make decisions, with some of the bigger ones going to a referendum?
@Ruairí Bulger: I agree. We don’t put up enough of a fight but I have to say I’ve no intetest in jumping on a ‘yellow vest’ bandwagon. Now if someone organised a proper and systematic protest. Say the 1st Saturday of every month or the 1st Monday of every second month (because the Dail doesn’t sit weekends) then I’d be there. But for me the yellow vest is France’s thing and it doesn’t represent an proper coherent purpose here (so I feel anyway)
@Padraig Bateman: the people didn’t vote Leo in , but I do understand what your saying , parties should not be allowed put up a new head of state , if one dies, leaves etc , there should be an automatic election by the people for the people
@Padraig Bateman: They don’t Work for the Irish People, They’re Subversive, & Bribed, isn’t that Obvious at this stage… Hello ??
@Ruairí Bulger: if you dont like the government go block them in in leinster house. Don’t be targeting the normal joe soap with these protests. You’ll never ever get public support with such idiotic protests.
Fair play to them.
@Robert Treston: Why?
The thugs and gurriers won’t be far behind
@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin: They’re on holidays and wont be back to work until mid-January.
Comments to be closed before 5pm.
@Yorkie1892: nope
@Yorkie1892: how embarrassing for you
@Bill Brown: sure they usually do. apologies apple man
@Yorkie1892: no worries, ain’t no thang.
Oh God, it’s the Murphy eejits!
@Fionn_Oisín: I know exactly who they are from Edenmore Coolock and Donaghmede wasters all of them… never worked a day in their fking life… typical wanna be’s jumping on protests because everyone their own age has got in with their lives and they’re still acting life kids… they don’t represent anything except what’s wrong with the country…
The government bots are out in force on the journal. Bland, boring worker ants.
Have a look at the website listed in the article, their header is ‘Our Weather Is Controlled’. For the love of God, have a day off lads, we’ve enough problems in the country, there’s no need to be protesting for problems that don’t exist.
@Padraig Bateman: The Media can tell you Anything they choose, if it’s Privately OWNED……….& You will believe them…, won’t you ? without question. That is called being a Pawn.
@Fionn_Oisín: No, I won’t believe anything without question. But I certainly won’t believe a washed up tin foil hat crew telling me that Leo Varadkar is controlling the weather.
@Padraig Bateman: not often I agree with you but you are spot on.
Why would all governments be in on a massive conspiracy to secretly control the weather? What do they get from it? How do they keep the 1000s of people involved quiet. And more importantly. Why dont they just make the irish weather good and make lots of €€€ from tourism. Seems easier than keeping a huge silly secret.
@john doe: I can’t believe this is even a discussion. Might aswell say that Leo shot 2Pac and has Shergar in his back garden. I didn’t stick around on the website but I might go back for a look to see how they think the weather is controlled.
@john doe: “Global Warming Provides a Wonderful Excuse for Global Socialism”, Margaret Thatcher
To Pack & Stack u into apartments in a Low wage Federation,
Goals of Marxism:
1. Destroy the Family
2. Destroy Private Property
3. Destroy Religion
4. Destroy The Nation
Centralized Government, Remove Sovereignty of Nation States, Communism, dressed as Globalism.
research HAARP, Nikola Tesla, Agenda 21, Agenda 2030.
@Padraig Bateman: Not Leo dear, His Overlords……..
Margaret Thatcher: “Global Warming Provides a Wonderful Excuse for Global Socialism”. To Pack & Stack u into apartments in a Low wage Federation, see below.
@Padraig Bateman: Not Leo dear… His Overlords….. see above
GOOD ON THEM LET’S SEE MORE OF THIS
@Pauline Fedigan: and down with punctuation!
I don’t get it. Weeks ago, at the height of the French Yellow Vest protests, comments here were along the lines of ‘fair play to the French’, ‘that’s how you get things done’ & ‘we need some of that over here.’ Now we get it and the protagonists are branded everything from ‘clowns’ to ‘racists’ to ‘conspiracy theorists’. What gives?
@David M:
Check out the Facebook pages, full of anti vax and anti immigrant nonsense.
@David M: Government fanboys, that’s what gives. The usual slander and smear.
@David M: The header for their website is ‘Our Weather Is Controlled’. I think it’s fair to call them conspiracy theorists, could be calling them a lot worse
@David M: because the Subversives are out to control the narrative….. Propaganda to control the Sheeple.
@David M: bunch of muppets achieving nothing the French actually did it right not like them with their free TUS hi viz and stand in a tunnel as if they were welcoming home The Irish sheep shearing team from and international with Cambodia
@BGXRP-DECODER: Well i suggest they start going the French way about it.
I want to protest over the price of gargle, any one want to join me? Instead of yellow vests just wear a normal white one, thanks for the support
@The Debater:
My white vest is now grey …… will that do?
@The Debater:
gargle?
wtf you on about?
Can’t take serial protestors seriously.
@BAKKT-MAN XRP: The Usual Subversives, Shills, & Bribed Pawns, You certainly Don’t Represent the Irish People…..! back yr claims up with Proof so we have a laugh…
plenty of keyboard Warriors here I see
Lock them all up I say.
Maybe roll over a few…..
@Jonnie Joy:
Might burst a tyre and I can’t afford a new one.
@Fionn_Oisín: this is exactly everyone’s point this the level of mentality of a wanna be protester paranoid conspiracy theorist thinking the whole country is after his freedom – wake up call… your not that fking important son. BTW what absolute asrehole thought about blocking a tunnel with 2 open ends and nowhere to run the guards actually felt sorry for yas and the real founders of the Irish state would have been laughing in their graves with the organization and planning of the farcical if you meant business you would have taken on town like the Parisians. You’d are just a bunch of board #fangirls with nothing to do over Xmas and your dole running out thick and fast…..
Well done. When’s the next one?
@BGXRP-DECODER: U know them all personally ? WOW ! They are from everywhere, & they’re just getting started… Unlike u, One Third are Awake to the current Subversive Government in Office, FG/FF, Soros Féin, PBP, Labour, Greens, filled to the Brim with bribed pawns, Undermining IRL from ‘Within’, via Cultural Marxism, & Media Control. The sooner u cop on, the better off IRL will be, as much of the real news goes Unreported. They have Rigged more than one Referendum, & are drafting a raft of legislation to undermine Ireland, as a ‘Nation State’, whether thru immigration by Stealth, Cultural Marxism, Education, & via Propaganda.
The average wage may be €40,000 per annum. That figure is not relevant as high earners wages make this figure a lot higher than what the ordinary worker takes home. The median would be a better figure to usr which I would presume is around €30,000.
The whole yellow vests thing seems to tie in very neatly with the oil companies objectives – a gesture toward lower taxes but no discussion about the eroding tax base caused by the super rich living tax free – an effort to demonize climate change science to keep the profits high and olitical interference low – and a concerted effort to shrink government peer and budgets to eleiminate environmental legislation. Yellow jackets really means lackeys of the oil companies.
@mmz: dammed reductive text….
@mmz: They have nothing to do with Oil Companies…….. show us yr Proof brainbox………
Why was my top comment removed?
@Joe Jackson: because you had too many likes so the crusties, snowflakes & shinnerbots who post on this site probably all reported your post as offensive. Even though it was just stating a fact.
@Joe Jackson: probably because it was stupid and ill-informed, like most of the ignorant nonsense posted on here by supposedly intelligent people. Chemtrails are real, fluoride reducing intelligence is real, artificial sweeteners, ASPARTAME et al, cause decreases in intelligence and an increase in violent behaviour, vaccines are dangerous. All true. Harvard universities Dr. David Keith in conjunction with Mr. EUGENICS, Bill Gates, have announced that from this spring they will spray the sky to reflect sunlight back into space. And yes they’re going to use chemicals. So when this “starts” in spring all you ignorant people will be able look up and see the similarities to the we’ve been seeing for years now. Increases in cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s etc show that something is wrong. Research, research, research. Get your heads out of the TV AND READ. And stop commenting on things you obviously know f-all about.
@Philip Mulhern: someone please call the nurse
@Neville Bartos: I would but I’m too busy laughing at his weird rant. Someone remind him to top up his medication before he has a stroke.
@Neville Bartos: Like it or lump it my friend everyword stated is true, and it is all happening in the spring of this year. The mad scientists from the climate change brigade are stating that by pumping billions of tons of chemicals into our atmosphere they will slow down the warming of the planet . Of course one has to wonder if their real agenda is not the reduction in population on the planet due to the inevitable crop failures that will happen due to the poisioning of the eco system.
@Fionn_Oisín: I though at first you were trying to be funny, but maybe you’re just on another planet altogether and you actually believe all this garbage.
Here’s some advice. Get a job, pay your own way, but a house, pay taxes to support those who can’t support themselves, and enjoy the fruits of living in a democracy as a free person, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world where everybody has the same chances.
Grow up, in other words.
@BGXRP-DECODER: U’d better look closer at Who Owns the Central Banks & Media, as currently yr Brains are Rinsed…….. I feel sorry for Yas too, & for Ireland. The current bunch of Real Subversives in Government, couldn’t give a Damn about those who fought to the death for IRL, for Yr Freedom, as they are Chipping away at it daily, & handing it over Piece by Piece to an Elite 1%, the end intended Result is to destroy IRL as a ‘Nation State’, & create a Low wage, mixed race Federation, under Centralized Government, Cultural Marxism from the Frankfurt School too, only it goes UnReported. It’s being done by Stealth, hidden from view………
Not sure if a mixed bag of issues makes for an effective protest. There’s some nutjob demands thrown on with the genuine concerns.
If they’re determined to bring about change the should boil it down to just one or two broad guiding principles.
Like overall tax reform or rolling back the state or the democratic deficit.
@Greg Blake: Biggest problem with our income tax system is that 900,000 don’t pay any but yet are entitled to everything.
The inequality is at both the top & the bottom.
@Greg Blake: Maybe proper reporting from Rté on the very important international Agreement ….but hidden from the Irish People……., The UN Pact for ‘Regular’ Migration from Africa /Asia, into Ireland, i.e. The NEW Plantation, signed on December 10, 2018, in Morocco, by Subversive Agent Minister Flanagan, which makes Migration, a ‘Human Right’, & any objection a ‘criminal offence’.
Ah sure it gets them out of the house and gives us something to talk about when we get bored. Will they do any good? Of course not. Their actions just cause annoyance and do nothing for their cause. Still, if it makes them seem heroic or revolutionary in their own minds or keeps them off the drink, then I suppose we should humour them a little.
@Tom Milligan: Aren’t we Condescending.. do some research, Start with Who Owns the Central Banks.
Can’t even come up with an original name…….
The usual rent a mob with nothing better to do on a Saturday afternoon!
@Paul Shepherd: What did you do Paul? Criticise people who actually stand for something. Next time one of your friends gets a cancer, Alzheimer’s, autism, allergy or diabetes diagnosis maybe instead of just saying they were unlucky, why don’t you actually do some research and you’ll find luck has nothing to do with it. Your ignorance is obvious.
@Philip Mulhern: apologies if I came across as ignorant. Of course blocking the port tunnel and disrupting the lives and weekend enjoyment of those who actually do a day’s work and pay their taxes is going to lead to profound social change. Silly me!!
Ar$eholes
@Michael Duffy: Brainwashed, get on you tube now, & look at America: Freedom to Fascism.
Would somebody please Pull the Chain and FLUSH, the Yellow Pong is drawing Crap.
@James Keogh: Would prefer to Flush FG/FF, Soros Féin, Pawns, out.
Shower of useless wasters
@Fionn_Oisín: kettle, pot, black. You post the most outrageous theories on here, I’ve yet to see you back them up with any proof
Great day to do it, Saturday afternoon, think it would be wiser to do it at let’s say 07:30 on a weekday maximum carnage, this is what happens when there is to much political involvement in these protests.
This should have been done on a week day.about time.
This should have been done on a week day, about time.
Bloody clowns.put them all on a ship to nowhere with the vegans.
Fupping head cases. They can take their Donal trump ideology and stick it up their holes.
@the-baldie-lad: Get off the coke, maybe Hillary would be better ?
@James Wallace: James, u will have to research Who Owns the Central Banks, or start with u tube America: Freedom to Fascism, I tried to post links with proof, names, but the subversives controlling the media at have removed them.
@BGXRP-DECODER: Why should I ? Yr the one who needs to move to North Korea, or Get Off EastEnder TRASH TV, & google The Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism.
@Fionn_Oisín: what is wrong with a mixed race country (or federation as you put it)??
@James Wallace: I wish……, do u really think the Greek Bailout was for real ? Think again…, they were Set Up by the Elite 1%, to gut & Loot & Remove Sovereignty from ‘Within’. a Debt Slave Nation.
Any articles on Cooper’s today ?
@MitchConnor:
I doubt the yellow vests would fill it.
Idiots like closing down the port tunnel will make a blind bit of a difference but major dislike from all the people they caused problems for. I am still trying to figure out what they actually stand for. They hate loads of things, chemtrails and conspiracy theories abound with them as well. It seem like a rag tag bunch of professional complainers got together and joined forces
@Gary Kearney: Ah the old conspiracy theory label, thought up and used by the cia to discredit people. You’ll find, that is if you bother to read and research things for yourself, that alot of supposed conspiracy theories were actually true. Just keep watching the tv while society is marched into further enslavement. If anyone on here thinks they live in a free, democratic society then I have sympathy for your stupidity and ignorance. Go watch the x-factor or post your dinner on Fakebook, while vaccines cause illness, flouride in the water is a neurtoxin which makes you stupid, ASPARTAME in the drinks causes a decrease in intelligence and an increase in violent behaviour, wi-fi causes genetic damage along with cancer, diabetes etc but it’s all a conspiracy theory. Don’t the mind the thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles that provide evidence for everything I’ve just said. Unfortunately you have to actually read and research this for yourself but I’m a celebrity is on the tv and that’s far more important.
To all the empty-heads out there who seem to think that they’re intelligent and informed, I hate to tell you but you’re not. You’re ignorant, lazy and stupid. All the information you can ever need is on-line. But not for long. In case you haven’t noticed they’ve started to censor social media. Fakebook has removed 58 pages for providing an alternative viewpoint, YouTube has demonetised any channel which does not agree with the mainstream media. Whatever happened to freedom of speech. If we continue to believe the BS the media, which is owned and controlled by the mega rich, spoonfeeds us, then we deserve what we get. Massive increases in cancer, diabetes, alzheimers, autism, allergies(affecting people in their 30s who’ve never had an allergy), and the myriad Add, Adhd etc, can be explained how. Why is nobody asking WHY. Why the increases, why the onset of allergies late in life, well if you all weren’t so lazy you’d know why. Try the Bio-initiative Report for some info. Do something other than watching the TV and crying conspiracy theory.
@Philip Mulhern: yes.., & many have been Duped into Voting Yes in the Blasphemy Referendum, as Subversive Ivana Bacik has been busy drafting up ‘HATE Speech Laws’ to Curb Free Speech…… They were Duped into their Own demise………… Every time FG/FF hold a Referendum, it gives them access to the Irish Constitution to Draft Further Legislation OUT of Yr Control……. you will find the End Result is Not What u Voted for. You Believed the MEDIA.
@Philip Mulhern: Have you considered the fact that medical science has advanced to allow diagnosis of diseases and behavioural issues that would previously not been detected, or were just not understood?
@Dan: Again, Ownership, Who Owns BigPharma ? there are many Dead Doctors who wouldn’t go along with the Agenda…..
@Dan: Yes I have Dan. Have you read the myriad studies I mention exist. Some of this research goes back 20 years. I’m not an idiot Dan. I hate to break this to you Dan, but did you consider that the pharmaceutical industry exists on illness, not prevention, and certainly not cure. Have you considered that there is no physiological cause for mental illness yet it is treated with pills. Cancer is not new, Alzheimer’s is not new, autism is not new, explain the massive increase in cases please. And these “new” illnesses are a fabrication, so they can sell you a new pill. I’m seriously sick of trying to explain what’s obvious to ill-informed people who actually think they know something when it’s obvious all they know is what the “bought and paid for” media spoonfeed them. Whatever happened to critical, logical thought. Whatever happened to healthy scepticism. Whatever to evidence based opinion. Oh yeah that’s right, the news gives you your opinion and you just regurgitate it and think you’re clever. Well I hate to break it to you all but you’re being fooled.
Burn them out. Welfare hoovers the lot of them
@Stuart Quinn: Any proof ?
This chemtrails nonsense is the biggest BS I’ve ever heard of. Governments are dumping barrels of chemicals out of Airplanes…? Really? Is Donald Trump/Putin/May or whoever else getting onto a dozen commercial flights a day and doing it themselves? If not then who is?
@SquideyeMagpie: If you weren’t so busy watching crap on tv you’d know that officially they’re going to start blocking out the sun from this spring. And guess what, they’re going to use chemicals. If you’re too ignorant to notice that they’re doing it already, I don’t know what to say to you.
@Philip Mulhern: LOL! Pissed myself laughing at this one!
@SquideyeMagpie: Check HAARP, Nikola Tesla, DEW (direct energy weapons), & stop looking at X Factor with Krispy Creams. Get Fit & ready for what’s to come.
Who Owns the Central Banks of the World, Media & Overlords Governments.
@James Wallace: James, u will have to research Who Owns the Central Banks, or start with u tube America: Freedom to Fascism, I tried to post links with proof, names, but the subversives controlling the media have removed them.
Herded by the Gardai? Take the vests off.
Come back into the UK and everything will be fine.
@Henry Reilly: Why don’t u ask France or Denmark to be part of the UK ?
The arrogance. The UK has it’s Own Subversives, or haven’t u noticed? ‘breeding out’ the natives, i.e. the White ‘Christians’, some parts have already fallen to Islam.
@Fionn_Oisín: I’m now convinced you’re taking the piss. No one could be that stupid.
@James Wallace:
We are all convinced.
First picture has the first sighting of an Anonymous type in a while.
Well done to all the peaceful protesters this is exactly what’s needed a sit down in all artetys and main roads in and out of the city’s to make the fatcsts listen to us that we have had enough.
Idiots.
What a joke ridiculous to protest here and I’m French. This is country is tax heaven compared to France
@Georges Dessaint: if you bothered to check it out, it’s not just about tax.
Idiots
@Christine Gleeson: Do some research instead of calling people idiots.
@Christine Gleeson: Ignorant jackass
@BAKKT-MAN XRP: Wonder does you comment reflect the taxs levy,s the billions of taxpayers money that was used to bail out the banks and developers facilitated by politicians brought this country to it’s knees..Taxpayers money that will never be repaid by the banks… or the exemption of paying tax on their profits for the next 20 years..I’m sure you were over the moon concerning the hundreds of millions paid, with interest to bondholders last week..If you are happy to ignore the gangsterism of the banks , well you deserve everything this paracetic government inflicts on you.
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