
‘We’ve come a long way to see this’ .. I don’t care
Trinity College students have clashed with tourists as they blockade access to the Book of Kells this morning, as part of a ‘Freeze the Rents’ housing protest. pic.twitter.com/HZ1woviSX9
— NewstalkFM (@NewstalkFM) September 13, 2023
by malsy123
26 comments
Tweet is about trinity students blocking entrance to book of Kells as a protest for housing and rents
It’s mad seeing the knuckle-draggers now upset at people protesting and stopping performing reading a book in a library🤣🤣 But it nice to see the students hitting trinity where it hurts.
Did they even state any demands?
No foreign students in Trinity student housing for example. I can’t see anything else the college could change.
They’re just like the eejits blocking traffic to protest for climate change.
Wait til they find out the long room is empty…
Good, universities are businesses. Hitting their bottom line and their international reputation is the way to go.
Great job!
let people in ya dicks.
It’s mad it will take a load of tourists being pissed off to get some traction. Never mind our own people, we have some rich American tourists to appease for their emerald Isle trip.
Good on them standing up for something they believe in. Protests need to disrupt, otherwise they will be ignored.
Fair play to them.
Nothing will change unless people stand up for themselves.
Good. The only way the governments and universities will care is if it’s affecting the American tourists
Good. Tourism is where it will hurt FFG the most. Last thing they want is America thinking our lovely little island is the fuckin kip it is.
A load of rich pricks from D4 claiming to be impacted by the housing crisis.
You never worked a day in your life. Daddy pays your rent. Your outfit cost about 500euro, You’re wearing RayBans and you got dropped off at the protest in the back of a 2023 BMW X5/Volvo XC90.
Get out of the way and let the tourists look at the book.
Good on them. If you want to complain about the effect of this on tourism move the Book of Kells to where it belongs the National Museum.
What a shower of narcissistic, selfish, wankers.
I love this. A real form of protest. Unsympathetic, disinterested in Irish student plights, selfish and ignorant tourists upset. Awww
Protest works.
“A lot of these people have paid money and come a long way.”
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He says, to Trinity students.
Oh my god can you actually imagine the nerve to come here as a tourist (doesn’t fucking live here) and arguing with students affected by issues in their own country. The fucking gall I’m scarlet for his ma.
Yeah yeah. Freezing rents works.
Just like rental increase caps [worked in Ireland,](https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/report-claims-rent-controls-have-backfired-and-worsened-crisis-1.4881856)
Welcome to more shortages of rental houses.
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The government is fucking things up, ok let’s bother people that has not to do with the problem. Very effective.
Jesus christ the twitter comments. Dog whistles say ing it’s refugees that are the problem with housing supply and demand… fucking twats
They’re dead right to make an embarrassment of the state on this.
Won’t someone please think of the tourists!?!
Good on the students.