Galway Green Party Bye-Election candidate claims fuel protesters ‘held country to ransom’
https://www.connachttribune.ie/news/politics/galway-green-party-bye-election-candidate-claims-fuel-protesters-held-country-to-ransom-8501833
Posted by DaCor_ie
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I mean the fuel protestors should proudly agree, they were pretty happy to have had “the country by the bollocks” at the time
Fairly accurate assessment.
Is stating the obvious a news worthy thing now?
And?
Good for him. 100% correct.
Thats because they did.
It’s not a claim, it’s a fact.
“Claims”, more like “observes”
i mean yes
Yep.
Possibly the first time I agree with the Green Party in a wee while but bang on there bro.
Just went way up in my estimation
Did they not?
Did they not literally hold the country to ransom?
Correct
I know a good few posts have pointed out the obvious, but yeah, he’s 100% accurate in that statement. How could what they did be interpreted any other way.
That was literally their aim!?
With all their talk of “We’re doing this for the people of ireland” it kind of felt like a kidnapper holding a gun to their victims head and shouting “ITS OKAY! IM DOING THIS FOR YOU!”
Fair play to him at least there will be a politician that will have balls to say how the things are
An honest politician!
Isn’t that the point of the protest? Any group or trade union wish that they command that level of power when they call a protest. Even the Green Party.
He’s 100% correct. And it should be said louder.
Government dithered and Gardaí should have moved on them much sooner than 5 days later.
They made a mockery of justice in this country. Blocking O’Connell Street for 5 days, fuel depots, Motorways. All while politicians pandered to them.
Protest is not the same as all-out blockade.
My friend’s little sister missed her chemotherapy appointment (they slot her in again ASAP obviously). But it was a case of “If the army don’t go in, I’M going in.”
I don’t know how it appeared to people outside Dublin, or what message was projected, but here they had obviously been hijacked by assholes and looked like demented lunatics.
Not wrong