Seasonally-attired protestors at yesterday’s anti-Irish Water demonstration
PE Power rhymes:
People thronged till Dublin felt
Alive as downtown Delhi
Your heart couldn’t help but swell with pride
(Unless you’re Alan Kelly)Placards, blackguards, taps on hats
Young and old and middle
Oh how your soul would sing for joy
(While D*n*s joined in on the fiddle)Some say 100,000 marched
Chanting for our deliverance
RTE’s stooge saw a thousand or two.
Or should we split the difference?United in a common cause –
No bond so great as unjust laws –
Government trembling, war declared…
Enda Kenny wakes up pale and scared
Reaches for his Times, smiles as he reads –
“Sinn Fein took over.” Exactly what he needs.
(Pic: Barbara McCarthy)
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Here, anyone… any legs to the rumoured story that Siteserv provided the barriers to yesterdays march?
Just curious….
They were provided by EventServ apparently:
http://www.eventserv.com/
Thanks Karl… that’s a Siteserv company…..
So, Denis O’Brien made money off of the protest march, and was paid with tax dollars from Joe Public…. Oh my…..
I don’t have a private interest in barriers but I can say that they weren’t your bog standard open runged type but a sort of metal hoarding – very anti-riot-fashioned. A lot of ordinary pedestrians yesterday evening (not protesters) were really annoyed at the fact that they couldn’t walk down Kildare or Merrion street. The ivory towers were well protected.
Aye, I paused the TV to have a better look when they were filmed rocking them on the nooz, not your ordinary barriers at all… so even more pricey… me thinks.
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I think if it were known, if true, that Denis was profiting from the march the lads at the front would have chucked those babies aside !
They were the standard sort of barriers you’d find at any large concert.
“anti-riot fashioned” my tinfoil-hatted hole.
You seriously couldn’t make this up if you tried – it’s almost surreal. It’s like Wild. E. Coyote and ACME products. Can’t believe they outsourced the barrier supply to a subsidiary of SiteServ. What’s next? MediaServ? FuelCompanyServ?
Oh.
Poetry doesn’t excuse people from using good statistical techniques to measure crowds instead of wishful thinking and plucking of figures from the air.
What do you suggest? Clock in cards?
+100,000 at least
if you use the fg/irish water method:
count people as households then use the total as people, so:
30,000 marchers becomes 30,000 households. allow an average of 6 per caravan and you have a grand total of 180,000 feet. multiply this by 1.8 ( to factor in war veterans) and you are left with a reliable total of 324,000.
This guy must be a Dub. Only a Dublin accent could rhyme deliverance with difference.
That or he’s having a stroke.
as opposed to rhyming millon with billon?
or hay with tae, or putting “hai” at the end of every sentenc? so so wrong.
They’re from a different place that you’re from buh.
What does it matter to you and all in anyways?
i will definitely memorise tony’s post!
I think that was a lovely summing up of yesterday’s turn out
I must give this poetry lark a go
At least she is consistent in her dislike of imposing a meter.
*claps*
Such an angry crowd, yet lighthearted placards. Weird.