#occupyTroika Ireland stands with Greece, 12 of us inside the European Parliament office in Dublin
— Harry Browne (@harrybrowne) June 25, 2015
#occupytroika now in Dublin. pic.twitter.com/a9wjAiEjLu
— Ronan Burtenshaw (@ronanburtenshaw) June 25, 2015
At the European Parliament office on Molesworth Street in Dublin this afternoon.
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UPDATE:
Thanks Julien Mercille, Ronan Burtenshaw and Niamh Puirseil
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wow a whole 12 unelected loons claiming to represent a country. Ha they should be arrested
Thats what they said about the leaders of the rising too.. See what happened there!
It completely failed and nearly all of them were killed.
and participant jeered by locals!
another mindless trolling bollocks
get a life FFS!
And nothing happened after that, you dimwit? Jesus
Comparing protesters to 1916 is the Irish equivalent of Godwin.
o’godwin?
Begorrahwin
Ní’Godwindh
“Loons”
No. Just people protesting at the bullying of a nation of people by a tiny group of money lenders.
A bankrupt, economically dysfunctional nation unwilling to take its medicine.
If Greece wants to live in an economic fantasy land, so be it. That doesn’t mean it can do so on other people’s money.
The EU has been living in an economic fantasy land since the common currency, why shouldnt Greece take a leaf out of Brussels cook book.
if by ‘medicine’ you mean strangling any prospect of growth, then we won’t be looking to you for financial advice any time soon.
I think Greece should wait until the gamblers who invested and lost take their medicine first…oh wait we bailed them out
That type of thing worked when it was ‘Greece Vs. the banks’
Now, it’s ‘Greece Vs. the all the other Eurozone countries, many of whom have financial troubles of their own without subsidising a country where many people retire at 58’
how many of the troika were elected?
all of the EC leaders are democratically elected, the ECB heads are appointed by the elected governments, the IMF are not elected but then again you don’t have to take their money
so neither the central bank heads nor the imf – the ‘creditors’ in this story, have any accountability to those citizens who they are squeezing money from.
K.
European Parliament is democratically elected, and isn’t part of the troika, which makes the choice of venue for the protest quite an odd one.
there is that.
numbnuts!
must be all that rugby you play.
don’t knock it til you try it!
as a cyclist, i’m no stranger to numbnuts..
You like a bit of Max Mosley too?
who?
The European Parliament isn’t part of the Troika. The Troika is the EC the ECB and the IMF. The Parliament is elected directly by the people whereas the Commission and the ECB members are in fact appointments made basically by national governments.
The Commission were right next door but I think they are or have moved to Mount Street?
I really wish the austerity protesters would take some basic lessons in poster making.
But all the poster -making pros have emigrated
yeh, ‘ireland scaves with greece’? i’ll have you know i have never scaved with anyone, thank you very much.
Scottser you swine!
*flees in tears*
End poster austerity now. Crayons for all!
Pepper spray the morons! Oh and Ireland does not stand with Greece. Greece is a corrupt third world country. It’s more sick than Ireland ever was. Idiots.
+ 1.5BN
don’t fool yourself into thinking that we’re not just as corrupt as our Greek cousins. They may be financially but they’re certainly not as morally corrupt as the parasites sitting in Dail Eireann punishing their own people. We were the whipping boys not so long ago but Noonan seems to have forgotten that as he screws over the Greeks to appease the Germans who have never done us any favours that didn’t benefit them more. Doesn’t do our image any good in the EU. Ireland – someone to sign for your dirty work and take the blame.
hmm, interesting analogy there, noonan plays reek in this particular game of thrones.
it rhymes with shit-creek
Agree with Digs.
TWELVE!! OH MY GOD
When does the “union” part of the EU kick in?
Chap in the second photo looks like Prionsias De Rossa starring in a Wes Anderson movie.
Noonan has not forgotten we were once the whipping boy. Fine Gael can not stand behind the Greeks request for a write down on debt for that simple reason that it would make them look like fools for not getting one themselves and taking whatever crap was shovelled at the time. And the line that Greece has “not taken its medicine” (as naive and childish and all as it is), is bullshit. Greece has undergone massive cuts due to Austerity they are at a stage now whereby if they accept further cuts it will result in civil unrest and if they dont, the government will collapse anyway.
There were clear warning about letting Greece in the EU but or honest hard working politicians still ploughed ahead with it.
Ronan Burtenshaw who’s father is a Blackrock (Clery’s) bigshot financier and Harry Browne who worked for Microsoft.
Credibility #fail.
Probably the most stupid comment I’ve ever read.
Stick around, they do occasionally get stupider
Are these Greeks who retired early with big pensions?
More self-appointed spokespeople of arrogance. Historians, lecturers, occasional commentators. Angry liberals one and all.
Interesting about Burtenshaw’s father. Nearly all of these type of people are middle class.
tell me more- a lot of work has gone into silencing me, a new working class voice struggling to be heard and be involved in what Ronan is doing…but its easier to steal my quotes, what am i gonna do?
we didnt have a choice austerity was forced on us
“Neddy” Noonan propping up Germany, that Hitler in 1933 stopped war
reperateration payments and then the mid 1950;s had their debts wrote
off again, and then all the Marshall aid they got from the US from 1946
onwards and the the security protection they got from 1946 to 1990
and then they want Greece to prop up their ill conceived euro and use
them as proxies to borrow money from IMF to bale out their bankrupt
banks, while they now print money to provide liquidity as a sort of a sticking
plaster solution…..it all looks like tottering decline of Brezhnev in the USSR
dosen’t Angela Merkel fit the role perfectly.
That took a while TITN
From this bar stool
Angela is the bossy interfering neighbour
On every committee going
Residents Ass t’ the School t’the Credit Union ‘t the Tidy Towns
Always telling everyone
What to do with their children
How to maintain their gardens
What t’do with their money
How they’re supposed to drive their cars
The one that’s always banging on the window at someone and who doesn’t let the kids in to get their balls back
And all the while
Their own gaff is a shambles
They’re hand t’mouth
And haven’t spoken to a relative in years
The Germans need to be told to ûck right off
And EU HQ needs to get its act together
Let’s actually have the Common Market we were all promised 50 years ago.
Why do I pay 50% more for an Audi
Why do I pay 60% more to ensure it
Why does a prescription here cost twice as much as 50 miles away
And 5 sometimes 6 times more in Mojacar, where I can by a case of my preferred Rose for less than the Supermarket price here
(I won’t mention the fags ’cause they’re bould)
Why am I paying USC and VRT?
Why was I made pay stamp duty on a family home?
The whole thing is a failure IMO. Currency n’all.
We got suckered into it and the only winners are the lads with the handy gigs there. Jobs For The Boys on tour.
This is partly correct but mostly racist drivel
The results of a private education “…activists are occupied EU buildings”.