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This morning.

Talbot Street, Dublin.

[Top from left] Anti Austerity Alliance  TD Joe Higgins, United Left Alliance TD Joan Collins TD, People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett and Sinn Fein TD Dessie Ellis TD hold a press conference outside the Irish Water HQ to outline the details of the next National Demonstration on March 21.

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(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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55 thoughts on “One Direction

    1. Mister Mister

      Ah, they’re little Fine Gaelers now, what ever happened to the old reliable of IW Wurkers or Denis’s employees ?

    2. Bacchus

      So anyone who doesn’t agree with their methods or views is a young Fine Gaeler? This just reinforces my belief that most people supporting these protests are, at best, misguided but more likely thick as hobby horse st1te.

  1. Anomanomanom

    Joan(nepotism is awful) Collins, But it’s okay when it’s her giving her family job’s.

        1. Rep

          Yes, but I looked up her staff and not one is related to her. You’re stating a lie. You won’t produce evidence.

          1. Anomanomanom

            I’m not doing donkey work for you. Look it up. It’s morons like you that let the tds get away with it.

          2. ahjayzis

            Anomanomanom kicks his dog.

            What do you mean prove it? I’m not your research department! The NERVE!

            *flounces off insouciantly*

  2. Rob_G

    Thanks Broadsheet for that extra arrow in the last photo, as I may not have grasped the concept otherwise.

  3. Kevin

    The water protests very similar to the Garth Brooks plays ten shows in Croke Park stuff. A moment of Irish hysteria that has now passed.

      1. Bob

        Seriously, every time you decide to just call someone a blueshirt, an IW stooge or anything else instead of actually pointing out where they’re wrong, you’re damaging the point you want to make. Put a little effort in and people won’t dismiss you.

        1. scottser

          in fairness, kevin’s allusion to hysteria and conflating the irish water protests with the garth brooks fiasco isn’t really worthy of a reasoned and well thought out reply. knee-jerk facetiousness is about all it’s worth.

        2. ollie

          seriously, how could I seriously reply to a serious comment that contains the words “garth brooks”?

    1. ollie

      around 50% of those eligible to pay have voluntarily registered. eu to announce that water conservation grant is illegal. data protection commissioner to announce that an post can’t pass address details to iw.
      hysteria? hysterical!

    2. Soundings

      Would you give over.

      No-one in this country expects water charges to remain at €60 for a single person household for more than a year or two. No-one.

      No-one now believes we have to pay for water as if we haven’t been paying all along.

      The government had a net €500m expansionary budget last year. They’ll have more freedom this year, which means that existing taxes are enough to pay for water. And that’s the alternative. Make people pay for water according to their wealth and income, the way we’ve ALWAYS done it.

      IW still desperately clinging to the hope they’ll be in existence and charging people for water in 12 months. 990,000 registered they claim today and that’s two thirds? Really, how many Mickey Mouses and Donald Ducks have registered. And given there are 2m homes in the country, and probably 400,000 who won’t need pay for whatever reason including having their own schemes and septic tanks, it’s probably means that (990,000 minus 400,000 minus the Mickey Mouses)/(2m – 400,000) of those who are required to pay have in fact registered. That’s about 37% before you start to account for the Mickey Mouses. And registration is no guarantee of payment. The water tax is dead.

      Best wishes for the protest on Saturday, pity there aren’t regional demonstrations.

      1. JollyRoger

        yes some by pissing off commuters and generally trying to get a rise out of people. When I saw how they treated an elderly couple and separately a young woman in their cars on O Connell bridge just trying to get home from work while sticking cameras in their faces this was the moment I couldn’t support this kind of movement, in fact it did the opposite. These people on O’Connell bridge are bullies pure and simple.

        1. scottser

          so you’re more annoyed by the behaviours of a few protesters than the 4×4 milling into them. you need a priority check thee lad.

          1. JollyRoger

            I said O’Connell bridge not Butt bridge,
            I said woman and elderly couple not man
            I said cars not 4x4s

            Check yourself buddy. I’d probably do the same thing if I had a 4×4 with the same threatening behavior I saw against these individuals, If anything it proved to me that that video was perfectly edited.

  4. Miko

    Why don’t we pay for electricity and gas through tax then? Why should somebody who works harder then you pay more for the same service then you?

    1. Paolo

      Ireland would be a much better place if, instead of thousands of people protesting about paying for the water that they use, they protested for improvements to the health service. Surely Right2Healthcare > Right2FreeWater.

      1. Keith

        +1 Paolo. That really would be a great idea.

        I guess you can’t pick the thing people go nuts about.

      2. Joe the Lion

        You can’t protest about two unfair things simultaneously can’t you? Too complicated for your peanut sized brain I’d say.

        1. Keith

          Jeebus, that’s a bit unnecessarily harsh Joe! (Unless you are a troll of course, in which case, carry on.)

          Its a fair point, if you could pick the issue that you’d want people to protest in the numbers they have, it wouldn’t of been water. Healthcare would of been a good candidate.

          1. Keith

            Thanks for the clarification, but in truth, I was aware that this post in BS was about Irish Water and not the healthcare system.

      1. Rob_G

        He (or she) makes a very good point – if gas and electricity were paid for through general taxation, sure no-one would bother turning off their lights or turning down their heating – sure why would they when they have to pay the same, anyway?

        Same goes for water.

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