Saturday.

Grafton Street, Dublin 2.

A loose collection of anti-vax and anti-covid response protestors – many under the banner of  Concerned Citizens of Ireland, gathered for a ‘Jam for Freedom’. A protestor (above) argued with members of An Garda Siochana after purchasing hurleys at Elvery’s, just off Grafton street.

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41 thoughts on “A Day Out”

    1. Mr.T

      The discrepancy comes from the HSPC’s definition of “vaccinated” – if you have had 2 jabs but are deemed immunocompromised, you are still classified as unvaccinated until you have a full course of 3 jabs. Its a footnote in their covid surveillance reports, but explains why we have things like 40% unvaccinated but also <30% less than 2 jabs.

      1. Kim Cardassian

        Pretty certain yer wan holding the sign didn’t read the HSE footnote and pulled that figure out of her unvaccinated bum

  2. Spider

    Why does yer’man have three cameras all pointing in the same direction? Seems like backup overkill or am I missing something?

  6. ian-oG

    2nd last picture, lad in a red coat with a hurley – is he the one who called the government ‘benevolent’?

    Does he even know what he is protesting, can he play hurling, is he a sovereign citizen.

    I guess we’ll probably never care.

  7. chimpy

    I’m not even annoyed, just disappointed now Bodger. Always came to Broadsheet for a laugh and a decent perspective on all things. I’m tending not to come to broadsheet any more because of this kind of post. Are you just trying to lose readers at this point?

    3. ANO

      This paricular blog post seems fairly mundane, a bit more homework could have been done on the hurley aspect but this isn’t a hard news site so wouldn’t hold it to similar editorial standards.

      1. V aka Frilly Keane

        well if you want
        I could probably locate where the Garda was from by how he pronounced Hurl / Hurley

        and by how he handled it – his club

        don’t see anything wrong with the post
        other than it needs more Christmas jumpers and silly hats to be a real Monday’Sheet rash

        1. ANO

          I was talking more to elements online hinting at hurley related shenanigans in the lead up to this particular protest.

          Again this isn’t a news site so I’m not faulting them for not having a full view of the picture.

          2. ANO

            There’s no reply option under your post to me below Bodger but yes, I’m familiar with the term – are you suggesting that the arrested parties were plants of some kind ?

            Edit – I’m not very familiar with how the commenting section works here, sorry

    1. U N M U T U A L

      …meh, the jaguar has more switches than the covid narrative…
      Give me a tele any time, every time… it’s the AK-47 of guitars. ;-)

        1. U N M U T U A L

          …spend half your time tuning it and the the other half playing out of tune.
          the jag-stang…, designed by cobain no less,
          is it any wonder he took up the chrome-moly clarinet in the end!

        2. Hank

          Jaguars and Mustangs are so damn beautiful though!
          If you have them set up correctly, Jags don’t go out of tune as much as a lot of people think.

    1. ANO

      Some of the online chatter related to this protest, along with related promotional material, had a sinister undertone revolving around hurls so the gardai absolutely made the right call here.

  10. redzer

    Antivax sheet aka Bodger strikes again. The only place giving attention to these idiots is this site. Site admin needs to have a serious think about its pandemic coverage.

  11. K. Cavan

    Mediocre pearl-clutching from some of the usual suspects here. Kim opens proceedings with the bombshell accusation that some protesters are carrying statistically anomalous signs. It’s shocking, usually, people as anal as that get a bum rap but Mr. T actually treats the comment as if it’s not a bizarre mix of mundanity & madness, bless.
    It goes downhill after that, as amateur film directors crawl out of the woodwork to critique the way the cameras are pointing, ce & Skeptik show they’ve been paying attention in propaganda class, even if their brains haven’t been fully engaged, before Micko rescues things with the first sensible comment. Back of the net!
    Poor John is lost, deep in the haze of his temper-tantrum & simply does a poo in his nappy, right in front of everybody. We’ve all lost a little bit of respect for you right there, John. Shitferbrains, well, some people are just TOO honest, right? ANO then swoops in at the end, to take all the biscuits with “sinister talk revolving around hurls”, a phrase you don’t hear every day.
    All in all, not the finest hour for the Loyal Supporters of Covid-related Authoritarianism Brigade. Lock me down harder, Daddy & demands for self-censorship are old tin hat, at this stage, stale & smelling of musty old Blueshirts.
    While there is crawthumping aplenty, the attempts at wit fall flat & we trudge home with our hurls over our shoulders talking sinisterly about the longest lockdown in Europe.
    You lads are gonna be back filling out forms if you don’t raise your game. Tell your bosses that when people have nothing to say & they say it, the taxpayer is left listening to the sound of nothing being said & probably feels like a Buddhist monk, contemplating the sound of one hand clapping itself on the back.
    You could be demoted to Clerical Officer or maybe hailed as a genius, who knows?

  12. ANO

    Ha, a fair cop- felt a bit silly typing that sinister line but couldn’t think of a better way to put it.

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