Ireland politics (Part 3)

[Kyle]

I’m not a business owner but if you’ve signed agreements and contracts I’m not sure you can just go and up prices as you wish… i presume with 8 trucks he’s not existing off adhoc business but long standing clients instead…

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

People are missing cancer appointments because of these cunts

They have been treated very lightly

[myboyblue]

@Kyle

You wrote your autobiography for the forum today when your working class credentials were challenged. Frank Mcourt would be envious…

chill out ffs.

Angela’s Ashes < My Neighbour’s crashes

I’m giving this a like just to not let the bully’s win.

[binkybarnes]

@carryharry

IRHA is basically a union for Hauliers with massive fleets of trucks, they got some leverage at last meeting.

IFA stood in the Bord Bia lobby for a month, they’re not a serious organisation.

The vast majority of tractors on display are related to Agri or Plant Hire contractors who possibly farm land also. They’re getting fleeced and can’t pass it all onto the farmers as they can only pay so much also.

The owner driver haulier and bus operator are caught in fixed contracts and getting fleeced with fuel costs and are working basically to depreciate the vehicles.

My only big issue with the protest is lack of spokespersons.
They should have approached like minded Independent TD’s or Senators from the five regions, West, South, East, Midlands & Northern counties to be the face of the protest.
Letting gobshites in the Government & Media call them out as being non negotiable with because of lack of leadership is a major flaw.

Lastly, the leadership of our Government have acted scandalously towards decent hard working tax paying citizens.
To call them despicable, to call upon the Army to intervene against peaceful protests is as ugly as it gets.

For Covid they could close the nation but they refuse to help downtrodden citizens and look on as businesses fail and go under.

You obviously have skin in the game or are close to people who have and thats fair enough. But i don’t see too many ‘downtrodden citizens’ here though im sure there are some. Everyone is struggling with cost of living but they are not stopping people getting to work or hospitals. Finally this is the government you voted for and I’d say a massive percentage of the protestors did too.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

@corner_back

Yeah, the n52 is the bypass. It’s blocked since Monday. Causing heavy traffic in the town but not too bad bar around 5pm

Ended up not going through Tullamore but took a grand scenic route back up. I think about 3hrs45 driving time and a 35 minute stop. Went with the Google maps and up through Borrisokane but continued on the Athlone route then. Only blockade we encountered was Cloghan so we were rerouted by Belmont (?) and then back onto Ferbane. Was tempted to message @Bod95 to stick on the kettle but we avoided going back to the N52 and continued onto Kinnegad where I ticked yet another of big Pat McDonagh’s plazas off the list so I never have to go there again. Back up via Trim/Navan/Slane etc., into Dunleer and back onto M1 to home.

As I said to the Mrs, the only bright side of the thing was I didn’t pay any tolls today as opposed to my usual 3

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Independent ireland who rallied the mob support this Government

[binkybarnes]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Independent ireland who rallied the mob support this Government

Riding 2 horses with the one arse the cunts

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

I see Ciarán Muldoonolly was caught telling porkies over in Brussels

[Mac]

The WhatsApp groups that normally give details on speed cameras and checkpoints have now morphed into live updates on the Diesel status of all the local petrol stations. It’s akin to toilet roll updates at the start of Covid.

[Diabhal]

It’s times like these that you truly find out which petrol stations appreciate your regular cager business. I didn’t need to top-up anyways but the warning phonecall was a lovely gesture.

[TreatyStones]

There was not a single loaf of bread in the supermarket this evening

[Chancer]

Whoa now !

Independent Ireland TD’s O’Donaghue, Collins, Fitzmaurice and O’Flynn do not and never have supported the Government.

There are independents who do but the those wankers I’ve named are part of a party no less.

[Bod95]

@caulifloweredneanderthal

I think about 3hrs45 driving time and a 35 minute stop. Went with the Google maps and up through Borrisokane but continued on the Athlone route then.

Thats some route, one and only time I did that was after the Tipp LK semi final in TUSGG in 2015, oul fella was heading to Athlone for the week for the Business examiners course for Leaving cert corrections, I was in a 15 year old diesel Bora,I knew the route to Borrosokane no bother, but after that it was a mystery tour🤣

[Appendage]

He’s an agricultural contractor ffs.

Fuel surcharges are common in haulage.

The problem is that hauliers tend to be idiots.

[Mac]

The Circle K up the road has no Diesel left yet has queues going into it. The Applegreen down the road has loads of Diesel left and no queues. People are sheep.

[MogwaiC86]

Will there be a Facebook Slogan Party set up?

Should there be?

“People are struggling…”

Has there ever been a time when people weren’t struggling?

“Oh, hadn’t thought of that…”

“People are ON THEIR KNEES…”

That could be too much watching online porn.

[Massey]

Thanks to the current FFG government the answers no.

[binkybarnes]

Madness on the N11

[MogwaiC86]

Abbey Road would have been better.

[glasagusban]

@carryharry

to call upon the Army to intervene against peaceful protests is as ugly as it gets.

I don’t take issue with anything else you said there really but people are going over the top with sensationalism about the army. The army was only to unblock key infrastructure like fuel depots and the oil refinery, this was really clear. That’s entirely reasonable and it’s ridiculous that the lads tried to blockade these in the first place.