This afternoon.
Dublin city centre.
Scenes from The Take back The City Rally highlighting the housing and homeless crisis, which included a sit-down protest which closed traffic on O’Connell Bridge.
Yesterday: Masking The Reality
Meanwhile…
THESE ROTTEN ENGLISH TOURISTS JUST ROARED ABUSE AT US THEN THREW A PIGEON’S HEAD AT US!!! WHAT THE FUCK ! pic.twitter.com/iyEhfLacwB
— butch babe in LA (@bitnch) September 22, 2018
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Good on them. Similar action needed in other cities. No doubt we will be hearing platitudes from official Ireland, including the various quangos who, for reason of job security want nothing to actually change.
You wouldn’t say that if you were sitting on a bus on Westmoreland street on way to the airport to catch a flight which you subsequently missed because of these Morons blocked traffic on the bridge. Protesting is one thing and I’m all for it but blocking the traffic and taking it out on innocent people is a new low for this crowd
How many monocles is that this week?
+1 @dylaad
Fair play, in fairness….
Exactly. Fair play. Would have been there today myself but had an obligatory family occasion. Boo.
https://twitter.com/bitnch/status/1043496116120117248?s=21
Em… English tourists lob a pigeon head at protesters on O’Connell bridge earlier… all blokes, thinking they’re funny…
…. WTF? …..sigh….
https://twitter.com/bitnch/status/1043496116120117248
who the fupp comes across a pigeon head and thinks “that might come in useful… I’ll stick it in my pocket for later”?
Ask Ollie, might be an English Lads on Tour Thing :)
The Pigeon English?
He does look a bit like An Idiot Abroad with sideburns.
+1
Tough Brits, huh. Tubby blokes picking on Irish women. Thank God they’ll be in the “special” passport lane at entry points and away from the rest of us soon.
Where’s the Irish Times podcast on this?
In fairness to Kitty Holland of the IT who stands alone amongst co-workers:
https://twitter.com/KittyHollandIT/status/1043492568649093120
The same Kitty Holland who refuses, time and time again, to criticize her own newspaper and their disgraceful profiteering from the housing bubble in the Celtic Tiger times and now? Yeah, she’s a gem.
Can you really expect her to criticise the newspaper and keep her job? Be realistic.
Yes, she could. Stephen Collins and Peter Murtagh (odious as they are) have both criticized Irish Times editorials and IT colleagues (Murtagh heavily criticized Lorna SIggins’ coverage for the IT of the Shell to Sea campaign). Kitty Holland is someone who gestures to things, makes noises, etc., but when it comes to more than gesturing, good luck. I don’t say this with any satisfaction, I used to think she was one of the good people, until I saw how she consistently let people down. Ask any of the precarious staff at the IT.
Fair point.
As the daughter of Eamon McCann and Mary Holland she would fall into the protected class of the Presbyterian Notes narrative, so she could say what she likes without fear of being reprimanded by the IT. She also has the Phoenix Magazine whingebag FFbot machine covering her back as they criticise Gemma O’Doherty.
Not coo cool.
That man is exactly how one particular Broadsheet commenter presents in my imagination when I read the comments.
This is one of my favorite blogs from old…. It’s where Ollie and his ‘class’ let loose….
http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.com/
Hah!
So there I was enjoying it immensely…
…Until I noticed that, I too,was wearing red britches.
Burn them. It’s your only hope….
Normally, they’re maroon corduroy, or used to be in TCD in my day. Neither come in skinny fit.
Mine do. Well more slim than skinny. Wouldn’t want to rock that Paul Galvin look.
Lovely legs, I have.
Oh dear. The absolute hack of those disgusting neoliberal Brits.
Huge turnout and support from the Silicon Docks MNC brigade I see.
Help me out on the pictures – which ones are Glen Hansard and Hozier again?
The fookin’ state of those 4 tossers, do they all have the same blind wife and she took turns dressing them this morning?
Narrator: Not one new house will be delivered by these sit down protests.
+1 this is the real life equivalent of Facebook likes and shares to cure a kids cancer.
If this lot really wanted to help, they’d get daddy (many of whom are landlords) to invest in an affordable housing project.
Yeah just like the Repeal marches. They were totally useless.
For a while I lived in a couple of former communist countries. One thing they had in common was housing – they had a standard template that people lived in. For example, a multi-storey apartment block had three apartments on each floor. On the left twas a 3 bedroom, on the right a 2 bedroom and in front a 1 bedroom apartment. All were identical, and I occasionally was in identical ones in countries as removed as Russia, Poland, and Serbia (point of film trivia: they filmed one of the Bourne films in Berlin to emulate Moscow, because of this identical architecture).They were not beautiful, but they worked
Does this mean I want to be communist? Or have awful housing? No! But it does mean it can be done, and at scale.
So why don’t we do it?
I was at this for about an hour, scurried away as soon as the acoustic guitar came out. We need rage, not crusty singalongs. But it’s a start anyway.
Apparently the Brits walked through a crowd of lads to get to the young ladies sitting down, in order to throw the pidgeon head at them. Real brave. Whopper weekend for Brits on Parade, really, what with the hen group also spotted roaming around wearing Madeleine McCann masks.