Martin and Harris are angry with the fuel protestors because they are used to dealing with NGO heads who they control through direct funding, and Trade Union heads who are political insiders.
NGOs and Unions are necessary to keep up the guise of 'public consultation' and suppress real dissent.
What we are seeing this week is a significant tear in the carefully constructed illusion of democracy in Ireland and the reaction - police and army deployed rather than consultation with the real regular people of Ireland - is the government at its most raw and real.
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My wife's boyfriend has a job running an experimental nuclear reactor in Trieste.
Last month the reactor began to overheat. Meltdown was imminent. The explosion would have destroyed half of Italy, Slovenia and Austria.
Just when they were all on the brink of despair, a brown man—likely a refugee—appeared, and quickly performed complex nuclear engineering to bring the reactor under control.
When they tried to award him Italy's highest civilian honour, the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, he refused and simply said, "This is my culture. In my village, we repair nuclear reactors for free."
And yet the working-class right-wing bigots never hear about this type of thing.
RTE's coverage of the Citywest incident obfuscates so many details ("Saggart" v "Citywest"; "Man" v "Asylum Seeker") as to be the perfect demonstration of that organisation's purpose:
To cover the news. With a pillow. Until it stops moving.
Another Gazan killed by Hamas agents in the #Gaza Strip in recent days. #Ireland No point in due process, they only believe in torture, beatings and execution. This is what #Europe endorsed by recognition of a Palestinian state with no leaders. @dfatirl@SimonHarrisTD@rtenews
#Aras25
I'm sensing a lot of Lefties will choke on their weetabix reading this.
It would be Rude Not to remove the Paywall.
#MariaSteen in her own words 👇
https://t.co/IMJP8I5R37
"Are you going to accept that Hamas have committed grotesque crimes?"
"I'm not talking about Hamas."
@NickFerrariLBC terminates his interview with the coordinator of the Irish campaign to boycott Eurovision if Israel competes.
At the European Parliament yesterday 4 Irish MEP’s disgraced themselves.
Lynn Boylan MEP
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin MEP
Kathleen Funchion MEP &
Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan
MEP
Would not stand for a minutes silence for Charlie Kirk
They would not give one minute for a father of two young children and a husband who was murdered while engaging in a free speech Q&A event
Shame Shame Shame Shame
RIP 💔
JOHN MCGUIRK: "Make no mistake: The left tolerates violence. And I do not mean the hard left. I mean the respectable types in the newspapers and on the telly who pretend to be civilised but know exactly to what a blind eye must be turned and when."
https://t.co/LhzTYVmr4b
@LouisOMeara1@KilkennyOf@garrettmullan@EPfestival@electricpicnic What about the innocent Palestinians who spat upon and beat the body of Shani Louk as it was paraded through the streets of Gaza. What about the thousands of innocent Palestinians who followed Hamas over the border to steal and loot the belongings of the murdered.