Why are the Irish so uninterested in protesting, and would it do any good?

[Ruff says Flaherty]

Just watching the 9 o'clock news here. A couple of seconds airtime was given to people protesting outside the Dail about the budget. "a small but colourful protest" was how they described it. This budget is brutal. Fair play to those who went out. Now a few questions, id really like to hear everybodies view.

Why don't more of us do it? Dublin too far, weather too cold?? Something ingrained in our psyches?
Would it do any good? Violent v non violent

Thanks

[dustin]

Just watching the 9 o'clock news here. A couple of seconds airtime was given to people protesting outside the Dail about the budget. "a small but colourful protest" was how they described it. This budget is brutal. Fair play to those who went out. Now a few questions, id really like to hear everybodies view.

Why don't more of us do it? Dublin too far, weather too cold?? Something ingrained in our psyches?
Would it do any good? Violent v non violent

Thanks

Its probably because the Goverment have most on board, Public workers/Pensioners/Farmers/The Well paid Private Sector

[kittykat]

To Q1 Rain
To Q2 No

[deepness]

Personally, i'd like to protest but there are too many groups representing people/the march that I dont want to stand shoulder to shoulder with...mainly the unions.
I'd like to see a march of the people not of the unions or Sinn Fein or the association of slovakian flutists of ireland, no tiddlywinks players of Blarney... or whatever.

Just the people , no organisations, no logos, no union banners....just the people.

I'd go on that protest

[Ex celt]

Just watching the 9 o'clock news here. A couple of seconds airtime was given to people protesting outside the Dail about the budget. "a small but colourful protest" was how they described it. This budget is brutal. Fair play to those who went out. Now a few questions, id really like to hear everybodies view.

Why don't more of us do it? Dublin too far, weather too cold?? Something ingrained in our psyches?
Would it do any good? Violent v non violent

Thanks

Budget is brutal as is the economy.Despite all that we are still living in an extremely affluent society.This is not Cairo,Kabul,Tripoli or Moscow.Undoubtedly,there are people on the margins who need more assistance but th rest of us are not going to go hungry or die of hypothermia.We are also deeply conservative.

[jmcc]

Culturally, we are survivors. Protesting generally achieves little and tends to be the refuge of the workshy and dossers.

Regards...jmcc

[guano jim]

unless the protests are 50.000 ppl running screaming through the streets and burning ministerial mercs then, no, there is little point to this. gentile & polite protests like we do in ireland are pretty pointless if the aim is regime change. if the aim is to assuage your sense of outrage before returning to your (slightly less) comfortable existence, then go right ahead.

[Ruff says Flaherty]

Culturally, we are survivors. Protesting generally achieves little and tends to be the refuge of the workshy and dossers.

Regards...jmcc

Do the workshy and dossers not keep their protesting for Facebook? They'd be the last ones I'd imagine out protesting in the cold.

[hiding behind a poster]

Just watching the 9 o'clock news here. A couple of seconds airtime was given to people protesting outside the Dail about the budget. "a small but colourful protest" was how they described it. This budget is brutal. Fair play to those who went out. Now a few questions, id really like to hear everybodies view.

Why don't more of us do it? Dublin too far, weather too cold?? Something ingrained in our psyches?
Would it do any good? Violent v non violent

Thanks

Maybe an understanding that firstly the Budget isn't actually "brutal", and that secondly you can't close an €18billion annual deficit without making some cuts.

[Twin Towers]

Just watching the 9 o'clock news here. A couple of seconds airtime was given to people protesting outside the Dail about the budget. "a small but colourful protest" was how they described it. This budget is brutal. Fair play to those who went out. Now a few questions, id really like to hear everybodies view.

Why don't more of us do it? Dublin too far, weather too cold?? Something ingrained in our psyches?
Would it do any good? Violent v non violent

Thanks