VIDEO - IMF Bailout Protests Break Out In Ireland

Gardai push protesters, including Sinn Fein TD Aengus O Snodaigh (right), back after they pushed through the gates of Government Buildings in Dublin this afternoon.  Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins, Dublin.

• Read about today's protests at the Irish Times...

4 short protest clips - one of which is very funny.

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Video - This is my favorite of the clips as a woman decides to stand behind the reporter on the street and make her feelings known about the IMF bailout of billionaire bondholders, while he's doing a live broadcast.  Hilarious.

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Video - General mayhem and chaos - BBC News show Garda kicking a protestor

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Video - Happening today in Ireland - Sinn Féin and Ógra Shinn Féin members including Aengus Ó Snodaigh were assaulted by police after they attempted to carry out a peaceful sit down protest inside government buildings...

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[DailyBail]

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[st louis, misery]

i like that girl's attitude. "get off me, don't touch me. i've had enough and i am going to say something." she's be a tea partier if she was in the states.

[Bill Jones]

The Irish people are right to be outraged.
Why should they be reduced to debt peonage to bail out the bankers?
The big two Irish banks should collapse and the fools who own their bonds should suffer the consequences of their malinvestments.

It would be a good time to start to put together a database of
1. The politicians, where they live. What their spouses do. Where their kids go to school etc
2. The Jackbooted who will be beating the people into the ground.

A simple website in a place like Iceland should do the job nicely.

The Fascists will certainly know this about the protesters.

[DailyBail]

The big two Irish banks should collapse and the fools who own their bonds should suffer the consequences of their malinvestments.

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