O’ Connell Street, Dublin
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Good God – it is a warzone down there. An absolute disaster.
The Upper end has been destroyed – all of the construction railings are chucked in a massive pile outside the Gresham, and there is smashed glass and mortar covering what seems to be the entire Upper street like a blanket. Even burning wood and other rubbish beside the Spire.
On the Lower end there’s more missiles and glass everywhere outside Easons and a couple of Shinners were trashing one of the new bins there – I can only imagine the damage done to the trees and other furniture. Reports of looting from some premises, and there was a burning car with billowing smoke on Nassau St.
Most businesses on prinicpal streets have closed.Far from previous concerns over Unionists causing trouble, it appears to be 300 or so ‘breakway’ Shinners who see fit to trash their own city. Nice.
The place really is like a warzone – how embarrassing given the level of tourist couples who flood Dublin at the weekends.
Extended Six One tonight.
http://static.flickr.com/38/104192110_00afef8924.jpg?v=0
What is this going to do for Dublin’s image abroad?
A complete and utter disgrace! I’m horrified, shocked and appalled at this animalistic pathetic behaviour. I hope justice is served and comeupance is duly dispensed.
Maybe it my monitor but that image doesn’t look too bad; the one on RTE with the pink smoke looks much worse. In fact Harcourt Street looked worse than that during the Luas works as did O’Connell St during after last years Patricks Night incidents.
The building site works were aptly described as an ‘amunitions dump’ this evening – nearly every missile-throwing picture you see is that of thugs with blocks of granite in their hands. Similarly the fires were fuelled by their timber pallets, and the railings and other materials acted as ideal window-smashing implements.
This from one photographer – not credited:
(with tourists looking on)And the fire near the Spire:
I mean how did the situation arise that Garda
I’d say that Beleek would be a little high end for these Celts but I doubt that too many celtic jerseys are left in Footlocker a little different from the scene in The Plough in the Stars which describes the Piano being stolen from Clery’s.
The security gaurd downstairs thinks the whole thing is just typical of the Irish, this will take quite a while to live down.
I felt sick as news filtered through about this. How many of these Irish scumbags have no pride in their capital city? Looking at it on the News I felt embarrassed and resigned that so many fools, so many troublemakers walk amongst us. Thicks. No political knowledge, no interest in the city, no interest in anything. All they know is how to smash things, break things, burn things, rob things. Brainless scum makes me embarassed to be Irish. I hate them. 😡
@The Denouncer wrote:
I felt sick as news filtered through about this. How many of these Irish scumbags have no pride in their capital city? Looking at it on the News I felt embarrassed and resigned that so many fools, so many troublemakers walk amongst us. Thicks. No political knowledge, no interest in the city, no interest in anything. All they know is how to smash things, break things, burn things, rob things. Brainless scum makes me embarassed to be Irish. I hate them. 😡
😡 Scumbags from both sides… let them love Ulster up in East and West Belfast where those RETARDS belong….F**k our do gooder Government for letting those Nazis to come here to give “our” dopes a reason for destroying Dublin. Im Fuck**g mad as hell.
@Morlan wrote:
They’ve fucking trashed the place. Where the hell has all the fencing gone? 😡
I was sad to see the trees go on Upper O’Connell Street, but I have found it much easier to “see” the whole street now as you walk along it, e.g., to see the buildings on the opposite side of the street. That picture above sums it up. I know it was dreadful what happened today, but on the plus side, if you said to someone that that picture was of a major street in Paris after their recent riots, they might well believe you.:p
@kite wrote:
😡 Scumbags from both sides… let them love Ulster up in East and West Belfast where those RETARDS belong….F**k our do gooder Government for letting those Nazis to come here to give “our” dopes a reason for destroying Dublin. Im Fuck**g mad as hell.
Without taking it political, a democracy guarantees freedom of speech and expression. I don’t agree with the marches, I find them antiquated and gloating, however I am not willing to see our values of democracy eroded by the actions of utter scum. We should be above this. Furthermore, controls should have been established in advance to contain and manage such potential outbursts – we should anticipate nothing more for people like these (unfortunately). The Gardai were in a tough position today, but they need to be equiped with rapid response capacities in order to deal with such scenarios rapidly and effectively. I don’t think they did a poor job by any means but it could have very easily turned the other way. True Republicans would have shown a little more respect for their capital city and supporters of the march should consider the impacts of their petty actions. Undoubtedly, another 50% of the hooliganism on display today was run of the mill gougers looking to stir up a little crap and take advantage of a vulnerable situation. All in all, as my father would say, a shower of gombeens.
Where does this leave Bertie’s plan to steal a march on the chuckies by running a 1916 commemoration up O’Connell Street? Looks like he was beaten to it. Not just a commemoration but a re-enactment. I’m almost expecting the rebel leaders to be rounded up and executed by Michael McDowell.
@Frank Taylor wrote:
Looks like he was beaten to it. Not just a commemoration but a re-enactment.
Quote of the year 😀
Thomond Park wrote:http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=o%27connell+street+riots&btnG=Google+Search&meta=cr%3DcountryIEsecond from top ]
And the first post is:
Paul Clerkin: “Excellent news….” 😮
@kite wrote:
😡 Scumbags from both sides… let them love Ulster up in East and West Belfast where those RETARDS belong….F**k our do gooder Government for letting those Nazis to come here to give “our” dopes a reason for destroying Dublin. Im Fuck**g mad as hell.
Kite, I would watch what you are saying if I were you and turn up the volume in your t.v. Clearly you didn’t hear on the news that it was the Irish “Nationalists” , Sinn Fein and the like that were the obvious trouble makers. You musn’t have a clue what goes on in the world. You call people Nazis just for having an opinion…. you should be thrown into jail and beaten for saying a thing like that! You definetly got the whole “fu*king mad as hell” thing right, but I trust you were referring to your lack of sanity rather than rage. Don’t be so racist in the future, because it doesn’t suit you, oh and here it comes…. my baby hissy fit, NAH NAH YOU’RE THE RETARD! Also, this Love Ulster thing had no intention of destroying Dublin…. all they did today was sit in a bus while “our” dopes caused the damage. So next time Kite, think before you type, before you get it all wrong again. I hate bragging about all these political things, they really don’t belong in a site like this, but as soon as I saw your post Kite, I just had to reply. Also, nothing to do with your post, but the images on tv….. am I the only person that thinks it is a scene from Baghdad or some other city in Iraq. This cannot be good for tourism and we’ve just set ourself back 20 years.
@A-ha wrote:
Kite, I would watch what you are saying if I were you and turn up the volume in your t.v. Clearly you didn’t hear on the news that it was the Irish “Nationalists” , Sinn Fein and the like that were the obvious trouble makers. You musn’t have a clue what goes on in the world. You call people Nazis just for having an opinion…. you should be thrown into jail and beaten for saying a thing like that! You definetly got the whole “fu*king mad as hell” thing right, but I trust you were referring to your lack of sanity rather than rage. Don’t be so racist in the future, because it doesn’t suit you, oh and here it comes…. my baby hissy fit, NAH NAH YOU’RE THE RETARD! Also, this Love Ulster thing had no intention of destroying Dublin…. all they did today was sit in a bus while “our” dopes caused the damage. So next time Kite, think before you type, before you get it all wrong again. I hate bragging about all these political things, they really don’t belong in a site like this, but as soon as I saw your post Kite, I just had to reply. Also, nothing to do with your post, but the images on tv….. am I the only person that thinks it is a scene from Baghdad or some other city in Iraq. This cannot be good for tourism and we’ve just set ourself back 20 years.
😉 I don’t give a shit for the oranges OR the greens in that shambles that happened in Dublin today, i just wish they and any other BLIND toerag that can’t take free speech (ring any bells A-hol*) would go and drown themselfs in the Liffey
Don’t worry, I’ll call the ambulance when you jump from the Ha’penny. But was there really a need to call them Retarded Nazis? I mean…. you’re being prejudice against like a thousand different cultures just by saying that one word, not just the Orangemen or the families of IRA victims. It’s over the top and totally unacceptable, I hope someone will remove what you said before any more people read it.
@A-ha wrote:
Don’t worry, I’ll call the ambulance when you jump from the Ha’penny. But was there really a need to call them Retarded Nazis? I mean…. you’re being prejudice against like a thousand different cultures just by saying that one word, not just the Orangemen or the families of IRA victims. It’s over the top and totally unacceptable, I hope someone will remove what you said before any more people read it.
Look A-ha a lot of people got a mad rush of blood to the head with what happened in Dublin today… I referred to the retards in EAST (loyalist) and West (Rep) Belfast…I just wish all those “RETARDS” would get a life (excuse the PUN) and let the normal people get on with living in the real world.
@A-ha wrote:
k, i’ll shud up now if you do, lol. just realise that what you said was abit OTT.
😀 Ok, read my first post again when you have time (carefully) until then “Truce” ok?
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