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It was a week of protest in Ireland. Students took time out from shopping in Dundrum and donned their best Dubes, A&F gear and Ugg boots to protest against the reintroduction of tuition fees. Little did mainstream media know that lazy shoites were only really tempted to get off their bebo riddled arses for some cheap drink in Temple Bar.

Not that any of the students in the above photograph (owned by Neil Dorgan and used here under the terms of a CC license) are Dube, Ugg, A&F gear wearing or Dundrum mall rats. Neither are any of them lazy shoites with bebo riddled arses and nor were they tempted into town for the free drink – it was all the others

At the other end of the age spectrum, the pensioners arrived en masse to protest about the free medical card being taken away. The sympathy of the nation was with the pensioners, and rightly so. Although I have to say that certain political parties have whipped it up a bit more than needed, causing more confusion and worry for our senior citizens.

Teachers are next up for protesting to keep that old post budget convoy of discontent rumbling.

It’s all crunchalicious stuff. Pass us the popcorn there will ye and spare the fizzy drinks. We’re in for a grand epic that will leave the Lord of the Rings in the shade. The opening titles of the Fellowship of the Ring have only just ended.