76 thoughts on “Meanwhile, Outside The Department Of Finance”

    • +1 Seems like only people on the dole smoke cigarettes any more.. I’m lucky if I can buy a packet of filters every time I get rollies!

    • Yeah seriously – mistaking Merrion Row for Limerick WTF?

      Also nobody should tell them there are a variety of ways out of those buildings, so all will achieve is that the staff will have to walk slightly further to get their roll at lunch.

  5. Saw them on the way to work this morning. The group on the Stephen’s Green side of the Spar had the ubiquitous shiny new laptop which two or three of them were crowding around – poor devils, on the bones of their arses.

    • The pricks, having things. Obviously if you have things you can’t protest. Because having a laptop is the same as giving away over a billion euro to bondholders, they’re really equatable

  7. I couldn’t give f***king shit what they’re wearing or where they come from, I’m grateful. Good for them.

  8. At least they are doing something, while the rest of us sit and watch while 1.2 billion gets shipped to bondholders with no right to a refund. Ireland: The best casino in Europe.

      • I’m working and paying a tax and a household charge to keep this country running. They’re doing nothing only disrupting the running of it. They should be arrested. Filth.

        • Hey Moron,

          The running of the country involves handing truck loads of ill gotten cash to speculators, bondholders and fat cat millionaires.

          Why don’t you just go back to paying your taxes to the banks and leave the them alone to stand for the rights of the people who have no voice and have to wit-stand insults from people like you who have probably had the same job for years, get well paid and generally are less than productive.

          • You Sir are an affront to those who lay down their lives for this country. Nobody wants these filthy ingrates blocking up our streets as we go about our daily business. As we try to set this country back on the correct path. As we attempt to give our children a future. These people are layabouts. They are the scum on the toilet bowl of Irish society and they should crawl back into their holes and allow us real people, us Irish patriots, get about saving this country from the danger it was put in.

            We will survive, we will thrive, we are Ireland.

          • I forgive you IrelandGuy. Good to know you’ve seen sense following your red mist.

        • Yknow Paul, that hurts. My opinion is no less valid than anyones. My username no less relevant or irrelevant. I thought we were mates, I thought we had made a connection.

          This saddens me.

  9. Moan moan they have Converse boo hoo. Oh they have smokes boo hoo. If they’re protesting than obviously they can’t have anything, should they even be able to have clothes? Christ if buying something means you lose your right to protest than this is a more f*cked up country than I thought.

  10. This ‘look at them with their shiny new laptops and converse’ crap is so childish. Would it take destitute homeless people with no shoes doing this for ya to not disregard them? Typical dismissive smart arse begrudging Irish (and broadsheet reader, looking for Internet cool points with your ‘wit’ as opposed to content). They have the balls (and yes, the time) to do this protest but fair play to them. I cheer them on, they are the ones standing up for this country when no one else is.

  11. Yep, as expected, the usual young Fine Gaelers and IBEC intern whores, trawling the net for posts about protests so they can slag off and ridicule people who have the balls to make a stand against injustice and corruption.

    • Didn’t agree with the ngative comments about the protestors but I have no idea where the, ‘Fine Gaelers and IBEC intern whores’ comes from. Is there any truth to that whatsoever? Have you any proof?

      It was Fine Fail that got us into this mess, with (unfortunately) widespread support from the population.

      • Well FG arent really trying to get us out of it. Do I need to post the Leo Varadkar “not another cent” clip or are we all clear that FG are as bad as FF. Labour are worse because they pretend to be on the left, but have followed policy lines that would make Michael McDowell look like a reasonable person.

  12. Fair play to them.
    The Greek protesters have done more for this country than the people of Ireland since this depression started.
    Most people care about the government selling off all our national assets and wish they could do something about it.
    I don’t think sitting around on the street is going to do much but at least it’s a message.
    If the country keeps getting raped then I can see there being a lot of violence to regain workers’ and citizens’ rights.
    That’s how our great granddaddies etc. got them in the first place.
    Stupid puppet politicians.

  13. But what is this “protest” *doing*? That is the reason for the narky comments about Converse and laptops. ODS and protests like this have done little but give photo ops to the Presidential candidates and other opportunists.

    • they at least have gotten people talking about the problems, there is no forum for debate in this country apart from this. The media, private and state is deliberately avoiding framing the debate. We don’t have a society of town-hall-debating or public meetings.

      The powers that be, whether you believe that to be enda and his buddies or those really in charge – the financial system, need a broken society to continue with this program of driving the populace into debt-slavery. give us entertainment tv, the odd soccer match and just enough money for food.

      The Occupy movement might only have attracted a few dozen at a time but I think it’s changing attitudes towards political involvement. You can see that now in the monster rallies that are building around the Household Tax boycott.
      Conor McCabe, yesterday outside the old Anglo headquarters facilitated by Occupy, spoke about Anglo and the massive fraud perpetuated by the law firm and the bank involved with the allocation of loans into NAMA. Here’s a taste of what he spoke about, very illuminating, http://comeheretome.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/roots-of-the-crisis-conor-mccabe/

  14. One thread complains about one group of protesters having no jobs. Another complains they’ve too much money to be protesting.

    Arseholes.

    So in order to be allowed to protest you must have a job but no money or nice things.

  15. Happy Burns Day! Thats the Scots poet Rabbie and sadly not the bondholders! 25th January Robert Burns Day.

  16. Most people who mock protestors don’t realise they have been successfully won over by autocratic capitalists who want to reduce the rights of individuals and control governments from behind the scenes.

    • Another ridiculous comment. Some of them may well have been, ‘successfully won over by autocratic capitalists…’. Some of them may just have a different viewpoint to yours. You seem to have a desire to be be pretty autocratic yourself.

    • Here here

      Or is it hear hear
      (no need now for the smart arses with the hair hair)

      BTW anyone who buys 20 smokes, a laptop, even a newspaper across an Irish counter makes them a tax payer.
      So less of the Fine Gael Snippyness, yere like call centre team leaders and shift supervisors with this display of massively unfounded superiority. All 100k plus PAYE workers are ye? ….

      Thought so.

  17. The country had a chance to protest during the last election but instead everyone believed the FG / Labour riding in on their horses to save the country line. Also it must be said that none of the above mentioned parties said they wouldn’t honour these debts, so why in the name of God is anyone surprised?
    It’s Wednesday morning at 11, why aren’t these people at work? If they are unemployed I feel sorry for them but sitting on your arse outside the Dept of Finance isn’t exactly ‘seeking a job’. So if this is their ‘Job Seeking’ then tax payers like you and I are footing the bill. Also the extra Gardai who are on duty marshaling this protest, who pays for that? Yep the same sucker who pays for these people ‘seeking a job’ while sitting on their arses outside the Dept of Finance. This protest will achieve nothing.
    We live in a democracy, protest at the ballot box.

    • So we can’t protest during business hours, or outside the ballot box?

      I know everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but yours is so staggeringly wrong-headed that it manages to defeat itself without any counter-argument.

    • Wow !

      Did you learn that in civics class when you were 13 years old……

      Don’t need an election to know who rules this country……

      What vote and then f**k off for another 5 years ?

    • There are many possible answers.

      They feel strongly about the issue and so took a day off work.

      They are self employed and decide what hours they work.

      They work for a business that is open on the weekend and so sometimes have days off during the week.

      They work nights in bars or restaurants.

      If they are amongst the large groups of people who are unemployed through no fault of their own they can certainly spend a few hours protesting. It is very difficult to apply for work 40 hours a week as there are so few opportunities out there.

      Anyway you don’t know if any of these explanations apply here and you don’t want to know you’re just a dick.

  19. I see the occupy crowd are wearing brand name clthes and supporting corporate behemoths like Adidas.

    They used to be cool man, now their just gone too commercial.

  20. Is it just me or is that guy with the long hair and beard EVERYWHERE?

    For some reason I see him anytime I’m around Galway and Dublin, or reading a paper (print or online). That or he has many doppelgangers.

  22. When you’re on the dole you must be seeking and be available for full time work. How can you do that when you’re having a sit in at the Dept. of Finance? How are you seeking work when you’re sitting on yer arse? Take away thier dole.

    • Here Dan. You should go down there and take names n stuff.
      Hey maybe you could organise a leaflet with available jobs and employer details. And like hand them out.

      • The Gardí should take their names; if they aren’t looking for work then why are they on the dole? They aren’t disabled, clearly.

        As far this leaflet, are you telling me they are so lazy they can’t go to http://www.jobs.ie and apply for some jobs? I see they have laptops. Currently there are 2342 jobs from 880 companies on jobs.ie. Get cracking crusties.

        If you’re taking the dole and you’re not looking for work or are available for work that’s called social welfare fraud.

    • At every hour of every day of the week? They might have jobs that allow them to take a day off or maybe they’ve just got loads of money.

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    • A site of trolls would be full of the most boring insignificant little chicken sucker remarks going.

      Why would anyone bother engaging with them?

      I think it is better to urge them to do something more useful to society like start a collection of the smelly crusty cheese flakes that gather in the edges of bad people’s knickers.

      *Cough* :)