Lawyer doing his bit to combat climate change | Human Rights Officer with @edu_equal | Contributing author of ‘The Sundered Children’ | Views are my own.
“What kind of species, knowing that it is destroying its only home, knowing how to prevent this and possessing the means to do so, continues on its path of destruction? Homo sapiens – the “wise man”, apparently.” My letter In today’s @IrishTimes https://t.co/GILH2UQeLk
No. I can’t picket your house or impede your access to it as a protest. There is a constitutional right to peaceful assembly subject to public order. That does not include preventing other persons from exercising their rights or being disorderly in a manner that interferes with the rights of others to go to work, to move freely across the state or to conduct their lawful business.
This is the reality of the blockade.
Healthcare put at risk.
Businesses damaged.
The vulnerable made more vulnerable.
Ordinary people prevented from going about their daily lives.
And with no mandate to do so.
It has gone too far - it has to end.
Since you ask, it is a criminal offence to obstruct the highway. More important, it is a serious common law offence to organise or agree with others to obstruct the highway or to blockade access to ports and depots. It is the offence of conspiracy. An indictable offence at common law. There is no constitutional right to do so. The State and the Gardai are entitled to clear the highway. Obstructing them is also a criminal offence. Check it out if you doubt me.
Morning, @IrishTimes@IrishTimesOpEd article today is on the monumental waste of public money that plagues Ireland. The State is pissing billions away every year. The figures are startling. No one is accountable.
https://t.co/NyvbKIhqIY
Protestors' leader John Dallon has convictions for drunk driving and refusing to give breath sample:
"While waiting to give a breath sample Dallon attempted to put his fingers down his throat as if he was trying to make himself sick".
https://t.co/rHJk6FfXQf
We are calling on Sinn Féin Ard Fheis delegates to back a ban on cruel fox hunting by rejecting Motion 28 and supporting Motion 29. Most people in Ireland want this cruel, colonial bloodsport BANNED https://t.co/vrodzL9s3f #Ireland#BanFoxHunting 🦊
@RMcGreevy1301 I’ve been thinking precisely the same, Ronan. Will the next generation get to experience the likes of those golden, halcyon days of Euro ‘88, Italia ‘90, USA ‘94, and Japan & South Korea ‘02? They brought such delirious joy and excitement to the entire country!
“A North Macedonian coming-of-age drama that won the World Cinema audience prize at Sundance?” you say. No thanks. I’ve already chewed all the healthy raw vegetables I need today.’
😂 @DonaldClarke63
https://t.co/MBH3Y9Rtka