Saturday.

A full sweep of protestors marching to Government Buildings against covid restrictions and passports. RTÉ and other mainstream outlets estimated the number of protestors attending at approximately 1,500.

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33 thoughts on “How Many?

  1. Tony

    15 or 16 hundred seems about right. That’s nearly as much as half the current prison population. About 0.0003% of Irish people

    Big racket for a smallish crowd though! Couple of lovely guttural howls in there. Fair play

  2. Elk

    This happened on Saturday.Today is Monday.Is this a topical current affairs site or Reeling in the Years ?

    1. Fred

      The cheek of you posting Gil Scott, he would be spinning in his grave at the likes of your misguided tripe.

      1. Cui Bono?

        Nothing wrong with positive PCR “cases” if people are healthy and not seriously sick and dying.

  3. Bitnboxy

    Grift Media are offering their “pro-life vigil counter” tool as a way to accurately count attendees. While there is no “zero” in this tool, the base setting or reset is 10K which is the ” pro-life vigil” zero if you wish. I mean it’s accurate in that kinda, sorta, Trumpy way: “it was HUGE, like WAY more HUGE than you could ever imagine”.

    Meanwhile, Ireland has one of the lowest rates of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in the EU and for what it is worth, I support SOQ, Bodger, E’Matty at al’s choice not to be vaccinated.

    1. MR.Bezos

      Funny how you assume everyone against vaccine passports is against vaccines.

      Would it surprise you to know that many are vaccinated – but opposed to discriminatory legislation on its own merits?

        1. Daisy Chainsaw

          But der are no ringleaders. Dis is a grassroots campaign, no leaders no organisers!! It said so on de poster on de Twither and the Telegram.

          The 5g must just summon them all to the one place to yell “Pedo” at each other.

      1. SOQ

        Because if they acknowledge that many vaxed people do not agree with this discrimination, it becomes a civil rights issue, and some on the left are very uncomfortable with that.

        1. Bitnboxy

          I have sympathy for this view SOQ although with a large mass of the population vaccinated, the issue may be moot.

          My problem is how these protests are hijacked by the dregs of society who are not remotely interested in “discrimination”, far from it and have a very dank real agenda.

          One needs the right people to make this case, otherwise the message is simply obliterated in one fell swoop by the likes of Gilroy, GOD and the usual brigade. The only person worth listening to is Liam Herrick who is genuine.

        2. Nigel

          But there is no coherent or compelling civil rights argument being made to set against a temporary public health measure that LESSEN restrictions to allow for partial reopening while vaccines are being made available to the entire population. Even arguments for negative tests to count for entry tacitly concede that restrictions are necessary, they simply propose a logistical solution to reducing the restrictions further. It’s still one more piece of paper or QR code you’re being asked for at doorways.

    2. Daisy Chainsaw

      I see the Grifter posse out with their godbotherer signs. Why aren’t they angry with god for giving the world covid in the first place?

  4. Fearganainm

    It’s trickier than guessing how many marbles are in a jar at a church fête, and usually the parish priest will have tipped off some leading light in Opus Dei anyway. The Yellow Vest guys wandering around rattling buckets will, individually, have a rough idea of how much they lifted but even Ben ‘Jailbird’ Gilroy couldn’t be sure that some or all of them didn’t skim something off the top of the collection so the ‘take’ mightn’t provide enough clues. It’s too early on a Monday for the assorted stool pigeons in the various factions in attendance to have handed names over to the gardaí so that’s another source of information that remains vague for now. And of course the 5-euro touts among them won’t be coughing any names until the next time they’re arrested.

    Unlike Cork, with a much smaller attendance but where the organisers made a mighty effort to collect the names and contact details of everyone in the crowd and thus made ‘leaks’ a racing certainty, the Dublin organisers were more concerned with bucket rattling and dissipating the energy of the protestors by walking the legs off them in the heat. Providing speakers that made staying awake while listening to them difficult was another masterstroke and must have robbed not a few tired marchers of the will to live. Looking at the clip I’d estimate that there were between 5,500 to 6,000 tops. I wouldn’t be so sure that they’d all turn out for another meander around the town though. Between the dullness of the speeches and the in-fighting amongst the organisers there can’t be many who really thought that anything significant was achieved.

    1. Bitnboxy

      The dullness of the speeches: Ben Gilroy effectively claimed he had the gift of “Pedodar”. Riveting.

      If one’s protest is attracting the dregs of society: criminals, crooks and charlatans (that we are all likely subsidising), it does make one wonder. Obviously those creeps don’t speak for all but still, we are they attracted by these “protests”?

      1. millie bobby brownie

        My own guess would be around half that? Between 2500-3000 but I’m admittedly crap at that kind of thing

        It looked a decent crowd, in fairness to them, especially compared to other similar protests in recent months.

        It reminds me of the water protesters;
        “There were at least A MILLION IRISH CITIZENS marching today! A MILLION!”

  5. b

    at least 25,850 there

    sorry, my bad

    that’s the number of patriots who protested in favour of vaccines by turning up on Saturday for their jabs

  6. Eoineyo

    This is the first I heard about a “freedom” protest, I guess I was too busy enjoying my freedom the weekend to be noticing what those that live in constant fear of the boogeyman are doing.
    Ah well I will just keep living I guess.

  7. stephen moran

    It’s funny how many of these so called Ayn Rand Libertarians have some pretty clearly defined ideas on the restrictions they’d like to put on other peoples freedoms

  8. Peter

    Nothing new about the cops and the media downplaying attendences at marches. It’s policy to gloss over schisms in society.
    The only march rte would big up would be one demanding an immediate increase in the licence fee.

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