PROTEST:ABOUT 40 people staged a silent lunchtime protest outside the Dáil yesterday urging the Government to resign.
Organised by Dublin-based actor and satirist Morgan C Jones, the protest was arranged through the social media site Twitter.
Protesters stood silently outside the gates of Leinster House for over an hour from midday holding placards bearing the messages “You’re FFired”, “BuFFoon” and “The parish pump is rusty”.
Jones said the idea of the protest was to get the citizens on to the streets in a “non-tribal” way. He said while it was admirable to see people on other protests, there was “always an axe to grind. . . somebody’s in a political party, somebody’s in unions, it’s quite tribal. This goes beyond being in a tribe because we are all in the same club, we are all citizens.”
He said: “We need a general election now, no matter what they say and we need it before the budget because letting the people who crashed the bus drive us home doesn’t make sense.”
The actor also said he will organise future campaigns to keep an eye on “dynastic politics” and “dodgy double-dealings”.
