Is the level of anger in Ireland growing? Is the apathy turning to anger?

[YouKnowWhatIMeanLike]

It will destroy the middle class eventually.

It depends on what you classify as middle class of course. But the real divide will be even more pronounced between generations, people under 40 in Ireland are the ones that will or already feel the full pain of the adjustments and have to learn to live with their destroyed expectations. It's one of the few themes David McWilliams worked on that I still find very relevant to the current discussion in Ireland: The Generation War.

[Sangreel]

I have seen a change..... May the Irish people of our beautiful republic wake and claw back what should be and what our forefathers fought and died for.

[chriskavo]

It depends on what you classify as middle class of course. But the real divide will be even more pronounced between generations, people under 40 in Ireland are the ones that will or already feel the full pain of the adjustments and have to learn to live with their destroyed expectations. It's one of the few themes David McWilliams worked on that I still find very relevant to current discussion in Ireland: The Generation War.

It is hard to define isn't it?... I am guessing that they are just one tier above the working poor.

When that tier crumbles then it will be just us and them or them and us ..whichever way one sees it.

Exactly how they want it to be played out.

Divide and conquer and all that jazz.

Meanwhile...nobody notices troika anymore.

[chriskavo]

I have seen a change..... May the Irish people of our beautiful republic wake and claw back what should be and what our forefathers fought and died for.

So do I, God bless you!

[chriskavo]

It will. Perhaps not just financially, depending how it goes.

But I don't believe that any change will be the result of anybody's plan. This is Irelad.

It will be amoks who get sh1t going, when and if....

And when the sh1t gets going - they are guaranteed to run amok!

[antiestablishmentarian]

It says alot for the state of the country and the Irish people, that they are willing to take action over the broadcast charge while fewer than 80,000 turned out to protest the handing over of the state to the ECB/IMF at the ICTU protest in November 2010.

[chriskavo]

It says alot for the state of the country and the Irish people, that they are willing to take action over the broadcast charge while fewer than 80,000 turned out to protest the handing over of the state to the ECB/IMF at the ICTU protest in November 2010.

Kill Your Television!!!!!! and you antiestablishmentarian kill thy computer!

[controller]

It says alot for the state of the country and the Irish people, that they are willing to take action over the broadcast charge while fewer than 80,000 turned out to protest the handing over of the state to the ECB/IMF at the ICTU protest in November 2010.

I remember someone commenting that the only thing that would bring people out onto the streets would be an increase in the cost of their Sky package. I still believe that to be true

[hiding behind a poster]

It says alot for the state of the country and the Irish people, that they are willing to take action over the broadcast charge while fewer than 80,000 turned out to protest the handing over of the state to the ECB/IMF at the ICTU protest in November 2010.

No-one's gonna take action over the broadcast charge, though. It'll just be the TV Licence under a different name, and it won't be any dearer.

[chriskavo]

I remember someone commenting that the only thing that would bring people out onto the streets would be an increase in the cost of their Sky package. I still believe that to be true

So true - must watch: