Annie West tweetz:
I could draw what 50,000 Right2Water protestors looks like, but erm *cough* I ran out of paper…
Alternatively…
The Workers Solidarity Movement writes:
“The worst example of figure fudging appeared on the Irish Times website on Wednesday night, when journalist, Ronan McGreevy attempted to coroborate the Garda figure by using an app called CrowdSize. His estimate came to 32,000. It all looked very plausable, if you weren’t there. The problem with McCreevy’s use of the app, was that he only filled a fraction of the ground that was covered by protesters, the area around Merrion Square west, where the stage was. It is possible that he didn’t move from that area…overall, the estimate I got from running CrowdSize on the areas I covered was around 65,000, and given what others have told me about numbers in areas I didn’t cover, the attendance had to have been in excess of 80,000 at the very least.”
FIGHT!
Dec 10 water charge protest in Dublin (WSM, Facebook)
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