Itemised series of Right2Water events across the country.
Via Ronan Burtenshaw
Update:
This morning
The Right2Water march in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin underway at 11a,.
Pics Carol Murphy
Meanwhile, at the Fine Gael Ard Fheis…
He who pays the piper calls the tune. #fgaf16 pic.twitter.com/QQ0MJnFS0Q
— Mike McGrath-Bryan (@mike_mcgb) January 22, 2016
This afternoon.
Right2Water protesters in Dublin city centre.
Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews
Meanwhile…
Right so.
Fine Gael Ard Fheis tonight at Citywest during Enda Kenny’s keynote address.
Sam Boal/Rollingnews
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Is that a joke? Is DOB really sitting beside the Taoiseach this weekend? This isn’t some photo they dug up from before there were findings of corruption in relation to payments he made? Or before he sued the f-ing Dail?
I actually like my local FG TD, but I can’t vote for someone who has Enda Kenny as a boss.
Are these photos really from this weekend, Broadsheet?
It is difficult to believe that even Kenny would be this stupid
Here it is in an article published by the Socialist Worker in April of last year.
http://www.socialistworkeronline.net/the-siteserv-scandal-returns/
jesus christ, that really is a chilling image
But not from this weekend
and the socialist worker online wouldn’t be biased or have an anti-everything agenda at all….
Most members of the SWP are self-loathing middle class outrage merchants.
It’s just broadsheet showing their usual journalistic zeal in persuance of their pet causes.
Never let facts get in the way of good clickbait
Expect ZERO media coverage..
Don’t worry, there will be. Sure I’d estimate there are 400 to 750 thousand people there in Dun Laoghaire alone.
blushirt apologist.
Old photos so no, don’t expect any coverage.
Is @mcGrath taking the piss?
I don’t need a posh right-on socialist like Ronan Burtenshaw telling me how to live my life.
Why doesn’t this guy join his local Chamber of Commerce?
the shinners busy at the old printing presses with the placards anyways, gotta spend those yankee dollars somehow
At least they’re not bought and paid for by a billionaire.
Could have been if Slab was only given half a chance.
The ink is probably paid for courtesy of the taxpayer.
Vote Flying Spaghetti Monster for a brighter, bolder 2016
Ah broadsheet more journal like every day. Using old photos. Naughty
Eh – they displayed a Twitter post that used it.
Yes, their meaning was painfully clear.
Foxnews.,ie
Their goose is well and truly cooked at this stage!
The biggest protest ever! With sweet f all actually there,
Don’t need to be there – ballot box protest way more effective!
You would hardy fit a child in a ballot box let alone the required portly protesters necessary. You should rethink this approach.
I like the bit about ‘my water falls from the sky and I’ll wait for an invoice from God’… can someone please honor the man’s wishes and turn off his water, he seems happy with just rain water anyway.
Every nipple has a tit behind it, ever parade march a bit nippy.
Please translate!
It is pretty clear what that hot young lady was writing. Rain water requires treatment before it is suitable to drink. It also requires an infrastructure to get it from point A to point B. These services needs to be paid for.
Let me say you the bother – “we have already paid for it”.
We are not sure what the boob reference is about. It may be a come on?
Say! Save Save … GOD DAMMIT!
One more typu and I am emigrating.
He’s saying that some of these protesters are in need of basic education.
so 20,000 or 5,000 in Dublin today?
They said 20,000 at the end of the march, which I think is very generous. I do think it was more than 5K though.
Yeah, RTE radio said 20,000 was claimed by the organisers and then said that “other sources” said 5,000. Fairly wide variance.
I mean no disrespect when I say this, but it really is lovely to see many from the older generations make a stand. IW would be thriving were it not for the different groups getting together behind this boycott. Saoirse! x
Seer – sha or Sur – sha?
Like inertia
Interesting how they don’t march for those in direct provision.
Heart-warming indeed.
Turns out that the older generation are still adding ‘the halfpence to the pence’ just like they always did.
Excellent turnout….well done to organizers!
I was on the Limerick march as one of a good crowd I’d estimate to be in the several hundred. Given the bitterly cold rainy weather, that was a good turnout I think. Very noticeable was the support from the saturday shoppers and the temporarily inconvenienced motorists. Two young buskers outside
DebenhamsRoches Stores temporarily changed their tune to “No Way, We Won’t Pay” as the group marched past. A good day out, and a clear message sent to the FG/Lab coalition once again.Scrap Irish M… ah feck I’m running out of room.
IW won’t be privatised, not on my watch.
It already has a meter, for depth.
It infuriates me that I’m paying for my water (well, pumps, softening and purifying, all of which require maintenance at ongoing cost) and their water too.
If water is free, disconnect from the mains, tell Irish Water to take a hike, and start taking responsibility for getting a clean reliable water supply into your house. Dig a well, store rainwater, do whatever it takes. You’ll soon be begging for Irish Water to rescue you from your stupidity.
Those who use a municipal water supply should pay for it. The rest of us are already paying for our own water, thanks very much.
Average well require cleaning with white lime (€5-6) once a year, exaggeration only diminishes whatever point you were trying to make.
I just bought a replacement lamp for the UV purifier, €40. That’s an annual cost. A bag of salt for the softener is around €10. I get through seven or eight a year. Another annual cost.
There are other costs. I had to replace a pressure cannister and a pressure switch over Christmas, at a cost of €350. I’m told the tank should last a minimum of ten years.
Even without repairs, that’s €110 in minimum running costs, not including the electricity required to run the pump, the UV purifier and the softener.
The point, which you somehow managed to miss, is that water is far from free. How about I pay for mine and you pay for yours? Sounds fair?
many of the protesters don’t have a problem with paying for the water infrastructure. They do however all have major issue with IW, the way in which it was set up, the disgusting waste of public finances and the planned privatisation.
If that’s the case they need to drop the ‘water is free’ nonsense. Stop protesting against water charges and go and picket Irish Water.
I think FG LAB have screwed up badly in their reading of the level of anger. They’re going to get quite a surprise in a few weeks, as the age group that have been giving them votes is none other than the age group in the photos above.
Labour is going to get a kicking, because, like all junior parties, they take the blame for anything that has gone wrong over the last five years.
FG is not going to get anything like the surprise I’d imagine you are expected them to get. Broadly speaking, people think they have done a pretty good job. And if they didn’t, the mantra about stability, and “why take a chance on those other gombeens” should do the job.
So don’t be too surprised if you wake up at the end of February and not a whole lot has changed.
Sounds to me too, for an even favourite outcome like that is on the cards
Labour down to single figures and FG down 15-20 seats leaves them well short, Don’t be surprised if Lowry is back in cabinet if they run with the right wing independants
FG are in for a huge surprise. The hatred towards them is real & justified
Is somebody actually wearing a tinfoil hat? Finally!
Bernie Sanders looks well in a flat cap
id like to thank everyone who went out and marched across the country. you’ve already managed to reduce the water charges from previous marches, and hopefully will be able to get them abolished entirely. that makes life a lot more financially viable for us all .. even for all the sneery, pass remarking lot who comment negatively about protesters here. the one that really gets me is when they its all jobless people protesting .. (a) if it was.. so what? is somone whos unemployed less of a person? (b) it was on saturday, majority of people dont work on saturdays. (c) if you’re implying theyre lazy, they are showing theyre the exact opposite, theyre gettin out onto the street and doing something for somethign they believe in, something a lot of people wouldnt be bothered doing. so anyway, that you all who came out and marched and had your voice heard.
” if you’re implying theyre lazy, they are showing theyre the exact opposite, theyre gettin out onto the street and doing something for somethign they believe in, something a lot of people wouldnt be bothered doing.”
Also, in Dublin if you stayed to the end of the speeches, it was between 4 and 5 hours on your feet from assembly to finish depending on where you were coming from. Which isn’t exactly lazy (my back was killing me by the end of it)
15cents,
Don’t be distracted by the fools. Each and every one of those citizens marching the streets in the public gaze contribute more to society than a thousand anonymous cowards tapping on keyboards.
Abolish the TV licience too as RTE did not want to mention the protests
and avoided any mention on current affairs programmes, anyone noticed
how Finucance kept clear of the issue, get rid TV licience, her fat fee’s Kauputt
A cull of sacred cows is overdue in Montrose.