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Public representatives including TDs Paul Murphy and Ruth Coppinger and activists outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin to count down the non payment networks Bin your Bill Campaign, ahead of this Saturdays Water charges protest in Dublin.

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16 thoughts on “For Your Diary

  1. Mister Mister

    So it’s now the Non Payment Network ?

    Aren’t they at risk of running out of names for themselves ?

      1. Lorcan Nagle

        Yes we do. The government just don’t spend the money they collect to maintain the water network on what they say they will.

  2. rugbyfan

    These lads must have lots of spare time to be heading off for walks around the city shouting and generally disrupting city life!

  3. Dubloony

    Can we be a bit scientific about the crowd estimation in advance of the predictable row about turnout

    “March to the Dail”
    Assume: Kildare st or Molesworh street as assembly points (or both if enough people)
    What are the dimensions of those streets?
    Definitions*:
    A loose crowd, one where each person is an arm’s length from the body of his or her nearest neighbors, needs 10 square feet / 0.9m sq per person.
    Tightly packed crowd fills 4.5/0.4m sq square feet per person.
    Mosh-pit density would get about 2.5 /0.2m sq square feet per person.

    To figure out the max. crowd that can be occupying the space, divide area of street by each of the density figures.
    So if we have a max size of say 10,000 tightly packed in the space and its claimed there were 500,000, we’ll know porkies are being told.

    *source
    http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/93627/how-to-calculate-crowd-size-at-big-events-like-the-inauguration/

    Who’s with me?!

  4. TheMightyOne

    where’s Richie Boyd Barrett these days, he seems to have lost interest in being a professional protester?

    bet he’s jealous of Paul Murphy

  5. Dubloony

    There’s a website for that too:
    http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-area-calculator-tool.htm

    Area of Kildare st to just past junction with Molesworth st. = 2395.96 m²

    loose crowd 2395.96 m² /0.9 = 2,662
    tightly packed 2395.96 m² / 0.4m sq =5990
    mosh pit = 2395.96 m² /0.2m =11,980

    Area of Molseworth st, assuming whole street, including paths and barriers in place in front of Dail = 1077.81 m²
    loose crowd 1077.81/0.9 = 1196
    tightly packed 1077.81/ 0.4m sq =2692
    mosh pit = 1077.81 /0.2m =5385

    All we need now is a high res arial photo to work out the density on the day and hey presto, job done.

    1. Frilly Keane

      Right
      You’re in charge of the count Dudloonie

      Returning Officer for the constituency of Broadsheet

  6. Quint

    Gotta hand it to them – they never give up. There must be very little else going on in their lives.

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