Tara Group Smoke Out Greens

[Anticoalition]

Tara Group Smoke Out Greens

The Irish Sun - Tuesday, September 9, 2008

DEMONSTRATORS Siobhan Rice, Vincent Salafia and Colm MacNiallais, of the Save Tara Campaign don fat cat suits and smoke cigars to protest at Green Party headquarters in Dublin yesterday. They say the land for road construction at Tara highlights the Greens ’sell-out’ since entering government with Fianna Fail. The fuming trio also slammed the party’s failure to deliver on their pre-election promises. A recent carbon tax call by the Greens as well as their support for budget cuts in spending on public transport, such as the Metro and the Western rail link were raised by protestors.

TaraWatch Acts the Fuel

Irish Daily Mirror - Tuesday, September 9, 2008

TARAWATCH campaigners fire themselves up as they took their campaign to the Green Party HQ yesterday. Siobhan Rice, Vincent Salafia and Colm MacNiallais, members of the anti-M3 motorway group, in County Meath, hand out bags of coal to the public in Dublin. The protest was in response to the Green calls for carbon taxes and cuts on public transport spending.

[David Cochrane]

This is a discussion board, not a notice-board - can to contribute with a comment?

I've removed the picture, it was too big.

[Anticoalition]

I didn't know there was a limit on picture size. Maybe you should prevent people technically from posting pictures above a certain size?

As for it being a 'notice board', the idea is to start a discussion in reaction to the articles, which offer plenty of comment of their own. If you're asking me what I think of them, I think they're great. The money argument against the M3 is very compelling, and the Green Party are really going to find it hard to pull their pants up after Dempsey is done with them. There are going to be cuts to the National Development Plan, and they are going to be to public transport, not to roads. That is the exact opposite of what the Green Party policy is. So, how are they going to justify their existence if they have absolutely no impact on policy and spending, and are simply a friendly front for new taxes and tolls?

[Anticoalition]

This is 700 wide. Is that ok?

[meriwether]

Thats disappointing.

I thought they were going to be dressed in cat suits, but fat cats.

[ibis]

Thats disappointing.

I thought they were going to be dressed in cat suits, but fat cats.

I'd say they look more like journalists...

[myk]

They are protesting against carbon tax? I assumed a group called Tarawatch would have been environmentalist. Am I wrong?

[djdbtd]

I was at Suffolk Street yesterday from 2pm to 8pm. Never knew they were there. They should have rung the buzzer, would have offered them a cup of tea (just the one we don't want to boil the kettle too often). They seem to campaigning on things that we haven't even agreed on. Maybe it's a time warp thing caused by that Swiss experiment.

[Anticoalition]

They are protesting against carbon tax? I assumed a group called Tarawatch would have been environmentalist. Am I wrong?

They were protesting against the Greens preference for carbon taxes and tolls, which address the symthoms of the problem, rather than addressing the causes of the problem, ie changing a transport system that is steadily increasing rather than decreasing carbon emissions.

[Anticoalition]

Thats disappointing.

I thought they were going to be dressed in cat suits, but fat cats.

I'd say they look more like journalists...

I think they look like Green Party members, enjoying their new ill-gotten riches