Massive turnout at the Cost of Living Disaster Protest in Dublin

Massive turnout at the Cost of Living Disaster Protest in Dublin from ireland

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  3. Massive me bollix. I say fair play to anybody that goes and and protests for something they feel strongly about. But there were more people at my daughters gymnastics competition recently. Let’s not kid ourselves. Most people did not take part in this protest because they know the rising cost of living has not been caused by the gubberment, and there is fuck all they can actually do in real terms.

    And to be clear, I do not support the current government, and I am feeling the cost of living as much as the as next person.

  6. Only way of fixing it really is for the ECB to raise interest rates and cause a recession. I wonder how many of these people were pro-lockdown?

  7. This just looks like an opposition party scoring some easy approval points. . . . Its not gonna change whoever is in government.

  9. Mary Lou using worldwide financial circumstances to win votes

    Heard this was going ahead but didn’t know it was gonna be a PR stunt by the Shinners

  10. Said it before and I’ll say it again. We can make a lot of noise as a population. But when it comes to action we fall short. That is not a massive turnout. That might be one or 2 thousand people standing in front of a truck trailer waving flags. Could be a county final trophy presentation.

  11. Cost of living isn’t an Irish problem. The EU have it. The states have it. All complaining about the price of gas.

    Electing far left political parties isn’t the answer. Their excuse is they’ll lower rents, increase hospital needs etc etc etc.

    They will cause more harm than good.

  17. What do they hope to achieve? Do they think the government is unaware of the housing and cost of living crises? These are global problems with no easy fixes

  19. Very nice Mary, but what needs to be done 😂 she sounds lime the old man in the pub talking shite about the government saying changes needed to be made. Let’s hear an actual plan, what to do. What will be done. And calling for an emergency budget now isn’t a plan, it’s the same as saying we need to change something now without saying what needs to change. Populist party and bunch of arse.

  20. These chumps don’t represent Ireland or anything close. Most have them have never done a days real work in their lives. “Massive turnout”.. there’d be more at a junior “B” county final winners reception. We know that the problem is Putin’s invasion and warmongering driving fossil and commodity prices baloobas. Nothing to do with our govt. A cynical attempt to profit politically from poor people’s suffering.

  21. Fantastic! Can we organize action towards amending our legal system next so that Gardai can actually start putting some of the gangs of feral rats running the city into the ground behind bars with meaningful sentences next?!

  23. To be honest I wouldn’t be surprised if Sinn Fein is in government after the next election or at the very least, is the party with the highest number of TD’s. Not that they are particularly worthy or that their policies are well thought out, casted and have captured the hearts and minds of the voting public…… it’s because the Fianna fail, Fine Gael, Green government is absolutely brutal, terrible and at times utterly incompetent.

    Every time Eamon Ryan picks up a microphone to make a speech, the government loses seats😂 they have totally mismanaged health, housing and education and now that limitless demand as been created by their unlimited migrant quotas, there is no chance that things coming gotten under control.

    If Sinn Fein start harping on about wealth taxes or massively increasing tax plans, they will chase most foreign direct investment out of the country. Capital is particularly mobile nowadays and we are expensive country to do business in. Our status as a semi taxi haven is what is keeping a lot of foreign companies here.

    It’s unpopular to say but the greatest inefficiencies lie in the over bloated, inefficient senior ranks of the civil service. Throw in billions in incontinence regarding capital projects, needless quangos and advisers. The list goes on…..

  24. I think Mary Lou speaking at it just turns it in a PR stunt and gives the government the grounds they need to ignore this.

  25. That is a tiny turnout for the size of the issue.

    For comparison, the mica protests had about 20,000, most of who had a 4/5 hour drive from Donegal to attend.

    This protest might be 1,000 people.

  26. If the people complaining would show up at protests than maybe we could be more people? Like, what are you doing to better the circumstances?

  28. Another one of these “protests” which are just thinly disguised adverts for certain political parties – parties which are doing fuck all to help out with the property crisis as they seemingly object to every proposal they see.

    We need less of this sort of shite, and more action. Build houses and apartments. Enough with the talk, it’s time for everyone to get out of the way.

  30. Is there anyone who is NOT feeling much in the way of cost of living ? My transport is Dublin bikes which is maybe €30-35 a year, my utilities are <€700 per year for everything and govt just paid my entire bill for 3 months out of nowhere, my food hasn’t really gone up that much other than a couple things here and there. Or is just me ? Overall I reckon I’m maybe €100 worse off a year than last year

  32. There were more people at the anti man rallies following the murder of the young woman in the midlands. Far more at the BLM ones when floyd died. It’s almost as if these things only gain a crowd when things trend on twitter.

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