100,000 take part in street protests against austerity days after government deal
Union leaders claim Irish taxpayers are paying 42 percent of Euro bank debt
Published Sunday, February 10, 2013, 7:44 AM
Updated Sunday, February 10, 2013, 7:44 AM
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Portia_O'Neill | Feb 12, 2013, 08:51 AM EST
There are people living in Dublin in neighborhoods like Glasnevin who complain endlessly about their taxes going up but would never be seen marching in this parade. The reason of course, is that they have government jobs.
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merefalow | Feb 12, 2013, 08:45 AM EST
its to late to wake up,the damage is fatal,an invasion unparalelled since the planting and ongoing and iriversible,while your children fly to the far corners of the world ,your jobs taken by strangers,and your labour to pay the debts of bankers who gambled the wealth of your labours,
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WoundedKnee | Feb 11, 2013, 04:39 PM EST
Interesting statistic I see from ireland that the Irish media have all but buried, surprise surprise. Seems Nigerians last year sent back some 600 million euros to Nigeria from Ireland. That's not far from a billion bucks. Question is--where did they get that money?
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WoundedKnee | Feb 11, 2013, 04:39 PM EST
Interesting statistic I see from ireland that the Irish media have all but buried, surprise surprise. Seems Nigerians last year sent back some 600 million euros to Nigeria from Ireland. That's not far from a billion bucks. Question is--where did they get that money?
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WoundedKnee | Feb 11, 2013, 04:38 PM EST
Interesting statistic I see from ireland that the Irish media have all but buried, surprise surprise. Seems Nigerians last year sent back some 600 million euros to Nigeria from Ireland. That's not far from a billion bucks. Question is--where did they get that money?
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thetint | Feb 11, 2013, 02:55 AM EST
There would have been more if the speaker wasn't the arch-traitor Begg. My work place voted not to attend when they found out he was speaking. He sat on the board of Bank of Ireland as it drove our country into the gutter.
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Towngate | Feb 10, 2013, 10:38 PM EST
Dissenting commenters below - unite!Stick close together! (So we can tie you all together and drop you off at low tide!) This poster is a member of two (Honest) Irish Unions so I can justly ask: WHERE WERE the gallant worker members of IBOA - the Finance Union - when the country was screwed by their Banker employers? - still grubbing their fat paypackets and bonuses,I bet, while other Union members kept up the demand for top rates from people they knew couldn't afford them. ~~~ As for slaggging the European Union ~ without the billions paid to the so-called ' independant' Republic of Ireland (80% of which goes straight to Farmers and Food "Begor,have yeh seen the shockin' price of Harse-meat? - 'Tis gone awful dear!" ~
Wake up,Ireland! Smash the Union pixie-head crooks or do the decent thing, and choke on your horse-burgers and do us hard-working people of the rest of Europe a favour.
Btw: The Sainted Connolly of fame and renown said the the deluded half-cock Pearse: "Look Pat, all that will happen will that Dublin will be in ruins and we will all be killed!" He was dead right! It's a mercy to his teachings and vision for the people that he didn't live to see the Ruin that the clowns that took over following 'Independance' made of the Whole Tragic Country!
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aloistmartin | Feb 10, 2013, 09:15 PM EST
Where are all our Hollywood Celebrity Comrades when you need them ? Connolly-ist`s Unite !
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warrenpoint00 | Feb 10, 2013, 07:15 PM EST
I agree Seano, it is obvious that some shitbag posters never did work in Ireland under the capitalist regime that existed there.Well done to the workforce in Ireland ,David Begg and the ICTU for sticking blue shirt Kenny,s nose in it.
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seanomelb | Feb 10, 2013, 05:32 PM EST
The Irish are not fooled by Kenny's slight of hand in Brussels. Workers of Ireland unite and rid the country of fools like clowngate.
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WoundedKnee | Feb 10, 2013, 03:37 PM EST
"Wake up Ireland! SMASH Your evil Unions!" Quite right, Towngate. Starting with the European UNION.
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Towngate | Feb 10, 2013, 02:50 PM EST
These pathetic 'pixie-heads' should think about what damage their restrictive practices and closed shops have done to the economy and the ordinary honest Irish people. Wake up Ireland! SMASH Your evil Unions!
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WoundedKnee | Feb 10, 2013, 12:33 PM EST
Pretty good turn-out. But it's hampered by its association with timeservers like Begg, who is about as left-wing as Joe Biden.
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