This afternoon.
Department of Agriculture , Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Members of the Irish Farmers Association on day six of their protest involving an auld New Holland over the crop loss scheme for tillage farmers who suffered heavy financial losses during last year’s harvest.
In other news.
Strawman FIGHT!
Last Friday: Oh The Haymanity
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Need one really state the obvious? Imagine the furore if Water Protesters had occupied IW headquarters?
Apparently there are no “sinister elements” among the farmers, what with them being FF/FG voters.
Exhibit B: Peaceful protest. Notice the way that the protesters aren’t hurling abuse at the Gardaí, nor threatening anyone.
It’s a photo. How do you know nobody was threatened? the IFA lied in a press release about an invasion of Johnstown Castle in Wexford. It was only when staff started leaving comments on news websites stating that people were injured and being threatened that the statement was withdrawn. If the IFA told me was Monday 10 July, I’d consult at least 2 calendars to be sure.
You’ve had plenty of bad experiences with them before, if I remember right, haven’t you?
A couple. Not pleasant interactions at all and the fuppers left reception in an awful state when they eventually left and the gardai did SFA because “it’s a public office.”.
I like the second photo. There was no bad harvest. That gentleman in the pale blue jumper ate it all. Also, lovely doggie.
That’s a belly full o’ schpudz an’ stout….
A true culchie if ever i seen one.
Your man in the blue jumper..
Ben Dunne should really use his own gyms
With his three belly buttons….
His belly is up very high. Weird.
It’s the lack of any wrist that’s fascinating me.
The ned kelly is just a casing for his real arms to play his Nintendo DS, or something.
And I initially scrolled down ready to get uppity about people commenting on people’s appearance and then close the tab.
TO HELL OR TO CONNAUGHT!
How did they manage to get away with parking a large tractor and trailer on double yellow lines for so long without being clamped or ticketed?
Surely it’s illegal to drive farm machinery up onto a public footpath.
Again, if this was student’s/water protesters, the full iron fist would reign down hard and fast but law breaking gets a light touch when it’s farmers up in Dublin for the day.
Gotta love double standards Ireland and the contempt of this government for the urban poor.
The same double standards that accept fat shaming for farmers….
Farmers are plump bar stewards.
it appears to me that there is a healthy culture of complaint in ireland, and an equally healthy culture of “ye can fepp off” from the positionally-superior. it is my theory that the supercilious arrogance of the roman hierarchy towards the laity, with a smidge of ascendancy arrogance towards the natives, has established a pattern which is now exploited by the native lay positionally-superior.
Terry? Is that you?
Perhaps it might be possible to establish what was the Single Payment provided to some of these
IFA protesters, how come there was no sight of them when the Water Tax marches took place, only
silence