Debate over whether there is “An absolute right to protest? How do gardaí weigh that with the rights of those affected?” Replies include “Well they clearly don’t!” Documents reference blocking access (parking across a contractor’s gate), use of tricolours, the tag #Speirgorm, and the phrase “racist rabble.”
Created 5 hours ago • 16 documents • Range: 4/8 6:57pm – 4/8 10:47pm
"We have all learned a lesson here. Any future protests need to have a few tractors and claim to speak for rural Ireland and we will be able to grind the country to a halt with no state pushback"
I'd get my little gay fergie going, but it'll take foreverrrrr to get anywhere with it.
“They tell us they are meeting the farming organisations but they do not represent me. I'm not a member of these organisations or the farm contractors association” www.rte.ie/news/2026/04... So, independents? Lone wolves? Who represents the me of this us?
"So, if I go park my car across the gate of an agricultural contractor's yard they'll just have to accept it and wait for me to move ? That's how it works yeah ? Should I plaster the car with tricolours or just have one flag ? #Speirgorm"
Same for the library attacks - never mentioned that the people involved had criminal records and dubious affiliations. Almost as if there was a fear of being sued. Or a tacit acceptance.
"So, if I go park my car across the gate of an agricultural contractor's yard they'll just have to accept it and wait for me to move ? That's how it works yeah ? Should I plaster the car with tricolours or just have one flag ? #Speirgorm"
Massively frustrating that the anti establishment, racist rabble element to all of this is so so underreported
"The disparity of approach by the state to protest is blatant and staggering. I ask you to consider if this road protest was in the cause of ending genocide in Gaza or the homeless in our midst. Public Order laws would have been invoked and multiple arrests made, possibly including cavity searches."
If I parked my car on O'Connell Street on Tuesday morning, it sure as hell wouldn't still be there on Wednesday evening
Honestly mate some people are drama queens. Was talking to a special events copper at Chelsea I asked whether the met was ok now with multiple matches in London he said it now wasn’t an issue and they’d had 10 London matches in one day. He said it was the far right marches that were the main issue
Thing is, those tractors blocking O'Connell Street ARE a climate change protest, it just so happens the protesters don't believe in climate change and so they are protesting against their perception that too much is being done to mitigate against it (that "too much" being a modest carbon tax).
