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24/7 Frontline Alliance protest march in 2009. Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

Emergency workers set for national rally on pay cuts

The 24/7 Frontline Alliance represents gardaí, healthcare workers, prison officers, firefighters and paramedics.

THE 24/7 FRONTLINE Services Alliance, representing members of the emergency services from five organisations across the country, will hold a rally tomorrow over proposed pay cuts.

The 24/7 Alliance is made up of the Garda Representative Association, the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, the Prison Officers Association and the Psychiatric Nurses Association.

The group aims to highlight its opposition to government proposals to cut the pay of frontline workers at the rally in the National Basketball Arena, Tallaght, Dublin at 6pm tomorrow.

The meeting will see over 2,500 members come together in the latest stage in the Alliance’s campaign to protect the income of its members.

This national rally will agree further initiatives, in the campaign, including a nationwide lobby of all back bench TDs and Senators which the Alliance said will commence immediately.

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    Mute Uncle Monty
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    Dec 18th 2015, 5:50 PM

    The Hoverboard Scandal of 2015 will be talked about for generations to come. “So did they really go on fire Grandad?” “Yes, Tommy they did, and the worst thing was they didn’t even hover.”

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    Mute Joe MacCarthaigh
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    Dec 18th 2015, 5:46 PM

    How can something with wheels be a hoverboard??

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    Mute Conor Graham
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    Dec 18th 2015, 6:08 PM

    Morons call them hoverboards. So they’re not really hoverboards – some people are actually just thick morons.

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    Mute Andrew Corcoran
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    Dec 18th 2015, 5:42 PM

    Segways with no handlebars are NOT hoverboards.

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    Mute Siobhan Ryan
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    Dec 19th 2015, 12:37 AM

    Yes, finally someone has cracked it!

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    Mute Todd Hebert
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    Dec 18th 2015, 6:08 PM

    THEY ARE ********** N O T ********** HOVERBOARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Mute J
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    Dec 18th 2015, 6:22 PM

    Hoverboard

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    Mute Life in no motion
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    Dec 18th 2015, 6:23 PM

    Next time someone calls them hoverboards I’m gonna slap ‘em across the face. When they ask “what was that for?” I’m going to tell them my hand was just ‘hovering’ over their face

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    Mute Toirdhealbhach Ó Ceallaigh
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    Dec 18th 2015, 5:40 PM

    I have yet to see one of them actually hoover.

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    Mute Life in no motion
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    Dec 18th 2015, 6:25 PM

    You haven’t seen the Dyson ones…

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    Mute Liam Byrne
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    Dec 18th 2015, 6:02 PM

    STOP. CALLING. THEM. HOVERBOARDS!

    Apart from the fact that they don’t hover in any way, you’re meant to be journalists and shouldn’t be using slang in your reports?!

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    Mute onlybuzzinwitcha
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    Dec 18th 2015, 6:54 PM

    Emphasis on “meant to be”.

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    Mute Chief
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    Dec 18th 2015, 6:27 PM

    The Journal isn’t a Journal either. What’s going on!!! Everyone is gone nuts!

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    Mute RTibe
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    Dec 18th 2015, 7:15 PM

    If that’s a hoverboard, I’m a vermicious kinit

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    Mute Toirdhealbhach Ó Ceallaigh
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    Dec 18th 2015, 5:40 PM

    I have yet to see one of them actually hoover.

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    Mute Codology
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    Dec 18th 2015, 5:41 PM

    Why sell hoverboards that don’t actually hover when they already sell other forms of transport like horses?

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    Mute Del Haven
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    Dec 18th 2015, 6:21 PM

    Hoverhorse? I’m off to the drawing board…

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    Mute Darragh DB O'Neill
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    Dec 18th 2015, 7:14 PM

    Nothing ‘hoovers’ as Hoover is a brand name. They vacuum, and Dyson’s do it rather well.

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    Mute Dave Meagher
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    Dec 18th 2015, 7:40 PM

    What ????? You mean we put the brick and on the accelator??????…

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    Mute @bebobaby73
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    Dec 18th 2015, 10:16 PM

    Pmsl at your comments .take a bow folks .very funny lol.

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    Mute OCallaghan TP
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    Dec 18th 2015, 6:00 PM

    And yes there will be morons texting while on one and cause serious accident. . But that probably isn’t important

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    Mute Uncle Monty
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    Dec 18th 2015, 6:03 PM

    Hopefully they take a few selfies while they’re at it. let natural selection take care of them.

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    Mute Niall Cassidy
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    Dec 20th 2015, 7:07 AM

    A lot of Bover and it don’t even hover.

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    Mute PhotographybyMeAB
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    Dec 20th 2015, 1:29 AM

    They’re called self balance scooters, not hoverboard’s

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