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SOCIAL PROTECTION MINISTER Joan Burton says fellow Minister Pat Rabbitte is not the only one to have been the target of an angry mob of protesters.
Burton told George Hook on Newstalk this evening that she has also been “subjected to it [abuse from protesters] about four times now”, similar to the attack on the communications minister in a Dublin pub yesterday evening.
People from the same sort of organisations have come outside my home, which I think is not fair to the other people who live in the house – your family.
The minister also outlined a time, which she described as a “bad incident”, when she was on government business in Dundalk. She said she was speaking to employers at the new shopping centre and she “was getting a great reception” but “some people didn’t behave very well”.
She said another incident happened when she along with other Labour Party politicians were riding the gay pride bus through Dublin and “some people got very agitated”.
Her revelations come after a video emerged of Minister Rabbitte sitting at the bar at Doheny and Nesbitt’s in Dublin yesterday evening getting heckled and surrounded by anti-austerity protesters.
Minister Burton acknowledged that people have a right to protest but says some of these incidents have been very “regrettable” and that “decency runs very deep in the Irish psyche and in Irish society”.
Presenter Hook had this advice for Burton, “You need a strapping former rugby like me to go walking with you when you’re going out”, to which she just laughed.
Click here to listen to the whole interview on The Right Hook.
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And who’s vetting the people who are going to stay there
@John O Mahony: yeah….loadsa criminals among those women, the elderly and especially those dastardly children fleeing a war zone.
@Graham Manning: u are a funny guy mate. You watch too much western news. mate I work in Dublin Airport and I am telling you that 40 percent are adult men.
@Stephen Murphy: : I am. I don’t. You don’t. BS.
@Graham Manning: is everyone innocent or is that just wishful thinking do you know all these people’s backgrounds, if not your statement is pointless
@Graham Manning: one is enough, so now we let anyone in without vetting, we have seen how that worked with the common travel area
these kids would be better off bungee jumping off a bridge on the M50 than having anything to do with Tusla
@Chris Mc: You’re right, I wouldn’t trust Tusla to organise a piss-up in a brewery.
@Chris Mc: Which bridge?
Lucky Tulsa and other Government agencies have so much spare capacity to take on this extra workload.
Name and shame the creep
@Peter Willekens: my sentiments exactly
He should followed his answer to the question if he would be taking in any refuges with if his family do decide to support a family as a family, we would need to go through the vetting process like everyone else. That would be leading by example and not further practicing one rule for one and not for government officials.
You can bet the lad who listed the ad is an obeese fella with a face like the back of a bus who sits in his chair playing computer games and spewing vitriol on Discord servers. Probably has a load of empty Doritos packets and takeaway pizza boxes strewn around his gaming chair.
@Quiet Goer: It is necessary to make abusive comments about overweight people.
I expect the lad thought his listing was funny too just like you thought your comment is funny.
There’s a lad who belongs on a list.
have your say