I trust that you will arrest every single one of these twats for Aggravated Traffic Disruption or Grevious Motorly Harm if they block Dublin’s roads tomorrow.
Or, like taxi drivers, will they be allowed engage in behaviour which would see the rest of us nicked in a heartbeat?
yours etc
Twenty
Update: Just heard on the radio that the convoy will hit Dublin city centre around 9am and will be given ‘Garda support’. What a fucking joke.
Twenty, this is Quinn we are talking about. They’ll have a Garda escort like the employee coaches did with the earlier protests.
These people are stupid, but then this is not a surprise to me.
If your insurance company isn’t trading, get your fucking insurance somewhere else, you cunts.
They must be being paid for this.
Dear Twenty,
Quinn is a cunt,
yours sincerely
maggot
banana republics get banana cops. bent.
It’ll be choreographed and strategised to within an inch of its life.
I can see it now- Seanie with the wind in his hair and him strapped naked to the radiator of a Renault artic and his arms akimbo in an effort to appeal both to catholics and Kate Winslet fans.
You’ll not bate FF for PR.
Haulage firms spending all that expensive fuel for Seanie.
Nice to know his credit is still good somewhere.
Of course the greens will protest about such an environmentally unfriendly protest.
Will they be haulin` ass? Will there be a bear in the air? Will they be travellin` through the night? Will it be a beautiful sight?
I support their measure if Sean Quinn is lying across the road in their path.
Ruthless pennyless cunt fucked up his own company. He should be getting raped by his employees instead of supported.
Captain Con Says:
April 26th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Haulage firms spending all that expensive fuel for Seanie.
Nice to know his credit is still good somewhere
I have a feeling the fuel colour in them there trucks could be worth an inspection by customes and excise
costumes, customs. whatever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4W_edUYJyY
a start
why does it have to be haphazardly linked to 1916?
Dont give out to me Im knackered
yeah Ibanez I get your drift. I wouldn’t be bringing 1916 into it myself but at least they’re stepping it up.
It amazes me how a few non-violent protestors at a bank – who probably cost the state a few hundred quid for new barriers – can encourage a boatload of cops to arrive in a jiffy when it takes years for the same cops to get around to questioning the chairman of the bank who cost the state 22 billion and counting.
something is fucked-up and we’ll find out tomorrow, again, that it’s the even-handed application of the law by the cops which is fucked-up.
we should get SuperCops.. you heard it here first. You dont even get into Temple Mor without a masters in Finance
Stop every lorry, check it for tax, DOE, insurance, tacho, green diesel, tyre tread depth, the whole lot… it’ll take them a long while to get anywhere.
As for Quinn, he’s like any eejit who puts his shirt on a losing horse does – he should fuck off and stop moaning like he’s a victim.
How many of the trucks will be owned by quinn group companies and their contractors? It will be interesting to see
éirígí make FF look kosher.
fianna fail make enron look kosher
true, eirigi politics are not something to aspire to but their protest today has to be applauded
I don’t mind their politics as much as that it is a haven for disaffected terrorists itchy. Still, at least they were not planting car bombs – yet.
As bad as the “Paddies” can be, this beats the band…
Independent.ie
British family tells US hotel they ‘do not want to deal with black staff’
By Andrew Hough
Monday April 26 2010
A British family is at the centre of a legal case in America after they allegedly told a luxury hotel they did not want to be served by black staff.
The family, whose principal member has only been named as Rodney Morgan, were said to have asked management at the Ritz Carlton in Naples, Florida, they did not want to deal with “people of colour” or staff with “foreign accents”.
Legal papers state their request was then entered into the computer system at the five star hotel before a black waiter was then stopped from serving them.
The race row came after lawyers acting for the waiter, Haitian-born Wadner Tranchant, sued the hotel.
The 40 year-old black waiter claims he was stopped serving the family during their stay in February to avoid upsetting them.
The rest of the family, who were British, were not identified.
The Morgans had a daughter with them and ate stone crabs and dover sole.
Further details about the family were not disclosed.
According to the lawsuit filed against the hotel, managers breached the Civil Rights Act by stopping Mr Tranchant serving the couple. One of his duties was to fillet the sole at the table.
Mr Tranchant, a US citizen, was so offended he has sought medical and psychological help, according to the court papers. He is claiming compensation.
“On or about February 28, 2010, the Rodney Morgan family arrives as guests of (the) Ritz and specified… their preference to not be served by ‘people of colour’ or with ‘foreign accents’,” said the claim lodged at the Florida District Court.
“This preference was entered into the computer system of (the) Ritz at the direction of the (the hotel’s managing director Edward Staros) with the further notation ‘… as per Mr Staros this couple is very very prejudice [sic] and do like like [sic] ppl of colour or foreign accents’.”
Michael McDonnell, the waiter’s lawyer, said that nine other staff members at the hotel have said they were told the British family did not want to be served by blacks or anyone with an accent.
His lawyers have cited the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which was passed a year after blacks were freed from slavery following the end of the American civil war, which makes it illegal to discriminate in jobs and housing on the basis of race.
A spokesman for the Ritz-Carlton refused to comment.
The case is due in court at a later date.
- Andrew Hough
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so, the governement are cunts, right? but then, anyone who protests against the government, they’re cunts too right? what because it inconveniences you? what a load of wank. i knew you’d be bitching about this this morning.
is the only form of acceptable protest moaning on the internet then? it’s going to be a minor inconvenience so wind your neck in.
rapey this isn’t a public protest. This is a ‘businessman’ putting pressure first on his employees to dig him out of a regulatory hole and you can be sure these truck drivers didn’t volunteer to go into bat for Quinn.
Its just another narrow vested interest made up to look like a civil rights issue. Quinn playing an ‘bheal bocjt’ when in fact the man should be charged with criminal offenses for the gambling with company money he undertook.
I wonder how many of those trucks would be protesting if Quinn hadn’t organised it?
How many of those truck drivers are awaiting payment from Quinn & Co of their haulage invoices?
Apparently 50 trucks are being let into the city centre to do a circuit of the quays. The rest are going to do the convoy routine on the M50 (a section that isn’t tolled, of course). Best thing would be for green party cyclists to block the trucks on the quays, and give the guards some real work to do.
rapemachine. Sean Quinn fucked up big-time; he is using a profitable irish company to prop-up an unprofitable english company. that’s all fine and dandy if it’s say The Independent propping up The Tribune. But this is an insurance company, the rules are different for a reason. Sean Quinn shouldn’t be, and isn’t, allowed near the company. He fucked-up. Big time. Rent-a-crowd.
The Quinn spin-machine has been describing this on the radio as a ‘workers protest’: it is in its fuck. The Quinn ‘workers’ spokeswoman is a member of management and to hear some of these tools talking about ‘over regulation’ sweet fuck.
Yep, you stick it up you cunt, Rapey. Why should Dublin motorists be inconvenienced by some Cavan fucker’s hired goons because, at last, the office of the financial regulator has started to the job they should have been doing for years?
Quinn’s PR people have already been busted pretending to be the average Quinn Group worker.
These people all know who the culprit is in this scenario and they are just trying to operate an exemption from the law for someone who puts money in their pocket.
If they are that concerned about jobs and the business let them put together a buy-out package and chase Quinn for the payment of debts off the group themselves.
Bet that suggestion would produce daylight very fast.
The customer is always right Gluaistean…
and then there’s this; saw a ref to it on “Have I got News for You”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100418/ap_on_re_as/as_australia_pasta_and_people
Rapey, anyone (especially politicians) who thinks Quinn should be allowed to carry on milking his insurance cash cow to prop up (1) his other businesses, (2) his personal and family indebtedness, and (3) Anglo Irish Bank needs to wake up.
The tide has gone out. All the pretty sandcastles financed by Seanie Fitzpatrick, Fingleton and their ilk are worthless.
So did the 50 trucks that went into the city center have the permit excepting them from the truck ban (7am-7pm)?
Its a €1500 fine and/or prison sentence IIRC correctly.
Sean Quinn is the ultimate Gombeen man and his workers the ultimate gullible gobshites who fall the “Dem fuckers up in Dublin” routine.
The oldest trick in the book is to get the local halfwits to rally around you against a perceived enemy in order to protect your own interests while in fact it is you who is bleeding everyone dry and causing all the uncertainty and suffering.
Quinn is a farmer’s son done well off the back of others suffering. He used questionable tactics to buy up land and develop quarries on it. You just can’t be that successful in Ireland without being very corrupt. It’s simply not possible.
You always have to pay the man.
Cunt is from Hermanagh – no more need be said.
I reckon I must be off my head anyway.
People whinge and moan but are happy to sit on their holes as long as they gain 5 cents on a pint when the money grabbing fuckers nearly bring down the banking system without anyone calling them on it, but when a regulator pinpoints another institution being run in the same manner and finally squeezes the fuckers, people march on the fucking capital over it.
A nation of clowns.
We’re a nation of double-thinkers.
Absolute drop-kick short- sighted losers that’s what the irish people are. The big business strokers must be laughing their bollix off at the peasents. The joke is on Paddy Fuck-with.