All the way.
Glenwood, Edenmore, Baldoyle, Dublin this afternoon.
Baldoyle Anto Water Charges writes:
“Three water meters in, about 10 holes dug….Gardai are relocating to Glenwood in Edenmore after their earlier mix up. Apparently the workers turned up in Glenwood and Gardai went to Greenwood…”
Oh.
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“Anto” water charges?
An Garda Siochana..
When you need them, they’re there?
Isn’t it nice to be able to listen to your i-pod, on the job?
Seems over the top.
Lets take a moment to appreciate what is happening here. The Gardai are now being forced to push through austerity measures. Protesting what is done to public property is the minimum you should be able to do with public property in a democracy.
Why is there such a heavy force required to impose privatisation, water will be more valuable than oil what part of handing our water supply to Denis O’Brian makes sense?
Why? Because anti-democratic thugs won’t let workers install water meters as they are lawfully doing for a State organisation.
It’s one thing to “protest” – it’s quite another to physically interfere with someone else’s work.
Nobody is physically interfering with anones work. The poor Gardai they don’t want to be in that situation and they know how much strain the social contract is under.
As for thuggery this is how we handled Irelands descent into a police state last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLKo8Jztd6c
that’s just a shower of wasters shouting abuse at incredibly restrained and professional Gardai about a Police State as if they knew what they were talking about.
This Flynn guy spends his days up and down estates filming this nonsense. No job or honorable pursuits. Funny to see him come up against a man who is actually doing a days work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFlK6QcqVS0
The anti-democratic thugs are taking care of democracy while we wait for the rest of our people to stop swallowing the proaganda without question.
Divide and rule – page 1 of the Tory handbook.
What happened on Saturday was people saying enough of rising government take from the paycheque. What is happening here are thugs failing to follow Garda instructions as to what is and what is not a peaceful protest. Whilst I agree with water charges becauase you cannot have a sustainable labour market when people earning €32,801 are paying marginal tax of 52%/55% and to lower it you need to stop giving away unlimited quantites of an expensive commodity to move around and treat, I respect the protest on Saturday, the manner it was conducted in and understand that particular groups i.e. the low paid and those starting families over the past 5-6 years with legacy mortgages need to see more for their hard work.
the Garda gave no istructions they don’t speak to us at the moment. You should respect the protest, it is a requirment for a healthy democracy. Everyone is entitled to their opinion that is also democracy. However we are seeing our communities decimated, 20% of Dublin children go to school hungry we have two suicides a day, these things are very visible and the community can only do so much.
You cannot have a sustainable market full stop if there is nobody can buy your products. erhaps raising wages is a better idea than cutting taxes. Que the cult of competitiveness regardless of whether we can possibly drive wages down even more.
Your wages are being cut too, and when wars are being fought for water you’ll thank us.
Mega cringe. Trust me, the gardai are thinking “what a pack of ken ackers. This shift is dragging on”
We’ll make you work in a call centre, Banotti, along with Enda.
You won’t make me do anything. You and your kind have zero power. I have the power and money.
How?
First against the wall is very old style, we’ll just put FG heads in call centres.
You and your kind, power, Money..good emotive poking there Banotti but its not going to work on anyone. That should have been clear after Saturday, three pillars of authority crumbled last week, the government, the Gardai and the media, who failed miserably. The old tools of status and power are all being questioned I’d imagine this is the death knell for party politics. Its open revolt just nobody actually wants society to break down, it is fairy useful so only laws around evictions are being challenged, successfully.
“We’ll make you work in a call centre, Banotti, along with Enda.” Is the kind of thing all the worst revolutionaries say.
Anti-democratic? The right to protest is one of the cornerstones of any healthy democracy.
The right to “PEACEFUL” and “LAWFUL” Protest the two words in bold and commas are very important to that right
What is not peaceful or lawful? The slightest infrgement and they’ll arrest. People lost all respect for the Gardai last week, law and order didn’t break down rather an eviction was stopped and the gardai were shamed.
Nobody wants thuggery when the social contract is under so much pressure people know what happens once violence starts.
+2014
I’d want garda protection with her around in fairness, she looks like some weapon.
Wow, 18 Gardai in that photo. Outrageous waste of resources.
I thought the Guards were woefully under resourced and can’t put many cops on the beat on the streets?! Hmmm.
Edenmore isn’t in Baldoyle. It doesn’t even border it.
Yeah even an estate agent wouldn’t be so brazen!
Always that stance from the gardaí. Arms folded and ignoring the member of the public who is speaking or else sneering at them. Is it a recognised procedure they are taught?
Talking out of your backside is not an acceptable form of protest. The Guards are more laid back than most police internationally
Yeah, pretty much. Even more so when dealing with Dublin folk.
Aren’t there horses somewhere to be impounded?
If there are you better call your local authority…
IW should be footing the bill for the Garda presence just as any other private company would if they needed their “event management” help
nice one idiots.
No Garda overtime for your area when it gets dark and burglars are taking your stuff.
Is that a camera (like a go pro) mounted on the uniform of the Guard in the first photo?
I we don’t pay for water the metered way , we’ll pay for it some other way.
‘If’
That first pic with the sergeant. A miserable man with zero people skills, used to be a sergeant in Santry almost 20 years ago, not liked by one of his colleagues… A miserable man then and by his appearance in that photograph, even more miserable now, although haven’t not been promoted in 20 years no doubt has something to do with it. Put a smile on my face I must admit.