Last week not the first time Fine Gael played the “sinister fringe” card – from their 1930s incarnation #irishwater pic.twitter.com/7LdQABS26E
— Conor McCabe (@Thouxic) November 10, 2014
Jaykers.
Previously: Making It Up As They Go Along
Prime Time’s Mark Coughlan – The water protests in north Dublin (RTE)
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Niall O’Loughlin’s subtle reinterpretation:
https://twitter.com/nialloloughlin/status/531744786953555968
Anyone else see the video of ARMED Garda down at a protest in Clonmel…. what the fupp like?
There’s nothing much to be seen in the video, just the fact there is an armed response unit at a housing estate in Clonmel, and they are there to ‘protect’ IW contracted meter installers…. armed like?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3j0I53ucIM
Christ above. Nothing good can come from that. Was there any reason given for the show of force? Do they expect to have to shoot the local dissidents?
Putting the gun back in Irish politics, what?
They should have brought snooker cues instead, which they could snap in half using their knees.
Hardly a show of force. The lads didn’t even take their hands out of their pockets. The protesters seemed fine and reasonable too. My guess is they were the closest unit when the call went out.
Sorry, that read a bit dramatic. That said, if things escalated, as it has potential to do, having guns involved is an unnecessary risk.
Precisely !
I dunno Mikeyfex….. you don’t send out the danger boys willy nilly. That’s why they are the armed response unit, they’re last call.
Or has the govt reduced our Gardaí to so few numbers we’ll see these guys out saving cats in trees next?
I know everything was nice and courteous in the video, but why have them there at all, and in FULL KIT. The only answer I can think of is simply…. intimidation. And I’ll believe that until I hear otherwise.
Ya, ye’re both right of course. It’s risky sending those boys along. There’s a lot of assumptions being made between us though so contrary to broadsheet fashion we’ll leave it at that until we become more informed.
That is a seriously unsettling situation. Any GRA/politician rushing to explain? No, thought not.
Pretty ironic considering Cumann na nGaedheal ran an assasination squad from Oriel House.
Does it come as a surprise that when there is a lot of anger, and people are getting organised about it that there are groups in this country who try to take advantage of the situation?
Its a vanguard infiltration, classic tactic – get a crowd, preferably all stirred up, infiltrate and then try to lead them where you want to go.
Its why we haven’t had many protest up til now, its so off putting for people who want a peaceful protest. For many people, its about a water protest, for a small group its about the revolution. They are just tend to be a bit hazy on what comes next.
It happens with every protest in this country. We’d have a much more active civic body if they clowns would sod off back to the nineteenth century.