Fuel protest tomorrow

[Yermon]

Not sure what was worse. The fake Rochestown accent or forgetting the name of the crowd Paschal Donohue works for wrong.

Please don’t heckle me he says only a day after Independent Ireland shouted abuse at every female Government member they could see.

What a detestable politician.

Hilarious the way some here on PROC like to mock CORK TDs over their Cork accents - if it’s not too kom, it’s too polished.

We get that you hate him Dougal, but you’re getting more and more unseemly in your criticism.

Did Ken O’Flynn steal your girlfriend as a youngster or something?

 

[Hallbopping]

Hilarious the way some here on PROC like to mock CORK TDs over their Cork accents - if it’s not too kom, it’s too polished.

We get that you hate him Dougal, but you’re getting more and more unseemly in your criticism.

Did Ken O’Flynn steal your girlfriend as a youngster or something?

now that is funny.

 

[ThatFella]

The more I think of yesterdays court case the more questions I have.

Speeding is an alleged offence. In a tractor? On roads that have a limit of between 50kmh to 80kmh. Said tractor has a top speed of 40kmh but then add the alleged full tank of slurry he’d have been doing very well to speed. So yes I am excusing the alleged speed charge as facts of tractors top speed and limits on named roads it’s physically impossible for it to happen.

Secondly he managed to get through 5 checkpoints, how is it possible to get through 5? I say you’d be pushing it if you got through 2 like.
Quick google maps between roads mention say the distance is 3.2 km. It took them over 3km to box him in? In slow moving traffic?

Due to Garda Checkpoints traffic was also slow in the area.

And not for one second am I excusing driving through a checkpoint or excusing the alleged offence of dangerous driving but this case doesn’t seem to adding up unless there’s Garda incompetence.

The defendant cannot talk about the case online as per his bail conditions and the media only reported basic information. Very strange it’s as if the courts don’t want the full story out there.
The videos of him being yanked out of the tractor have all been removed by social media as well.

What I say will happen is charges will be reduced to careless driving and driving without due care and attention and he’ll get a fine. Also given his job regardless of courts trying to make an example etc there’s enough media attention the judge won’t put him off the road which would risk his lively hood.

Cue to usual mob now to have a go at me more than likely name calling or saying I wasn’t there so so I can’t say anything

 

[peopleluas]

Speeding is an alleged offence. In a tractor? On roads that have a limit of between 50kmh to 80kmh. Said tractor has a top speed of 40kmh but then add the alleged full tank of slurry he’d have been doing very well to speed.

I was very surprised that anybody would think that the only requirement in respect to speed was to stay under the posted speed limit. So I looked it up.

See https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1997/si/182:
"A vehicle shall not be driven at a speed exceeding that which will enable its driver to bring it to a halt within the distance which the driver can see to be clear."

In layman's terms: you can be driving too fast even when under the posted speed limit.

 

[Hallbopping]

What was he doing with a full tank of slurry heading to a blockade anyway?

 

[El Guapo]

What was he doing with a full tank of slurry heading to a blockade anyway?

as a keen son of the soil you should know we're well into slurry spraying season Boppy.

Maybe ask a few of your Neighbours when you're giving a hand on the pit once the summer beds in

 

[Hallbopping]

as a keen son of the soil you should know we're well into slurry spraying season Boppy.

Maybe ask a few of your Neighbours when you're giving a hand on the pit once the summer beds in

Spreading it on a wet day at a blockade 30km from his house. Interesting.

 

[Yermon]

Rumour had it that he was going to spray slurry at people down there. Hard to prove perhaps but disgraceful if true.

Easy enough to drive through 5 checkpoints in a big tractor if the checkpoint is just a halt sign with a Garda standing next to it.

After the Garda near Dundalk was killed by a motorbike its unlikely aGarda is going to stand out in the middle of a road trying to get a big tractor to stop

 

[Clubber_Langer]

its pretty funny so see some of the gang on here trying to maintain the protests werent a success. they achieved the delay in carbon taxes and a further cut in excise to diesel along with other cost saving schemes. the government lost the support of two tds and if the taoiseach doesnt go hes wounded to the point where he will be gone by the years end at best. they had public support and the next polls will show a dramatic fall in government support. fair play to all involved

 

[ThatFella]

What was he doing with a full tank of slurry heading to a blockade anyway?

Is that found to be true and fact? Didn’t see it on court case only saw it here