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Excellent Grassroots appearance on tonight's Late Late Show

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Saturday April 24, 2004 00:04

by Fintan Lane

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There was an excellent performance on tonight's Late Late Show by Dublin global justice activists countering the government and media spin on the forthcoming May Day events in Dublin. The notion (much promoted in recent weeks) that 'violence' is planned by those protesting was completely discredited.

Aileen O'Carroll (Dublin Grassroots and WSM) was the main guest on Pat Kenny's panel and she was very, very good. She made the journalist from the Star look utterly ridiculous, which is precisely what he was. As Aileen pointed out, he was jabbering on about 'infilitrating' so-called 'secret meetings' of the wombles in England that were in fact open public meetings. The man is clearly a sensationalist.

There were some excellent points also made from the audience. One speaker rightly criticised the media's focus on 'violence' while it doggedly ignored the political and social issues at stake. There has been almost no coverage of the concerns that motivate such protests. Rory Hearne made a very good contribution and drew a link between the government's attitude to this protest and its behaviour towards the anti-war movement.

The only problem with the interview and discussion is that, yet again, the focus tended to be on the possibility of violence from protesters, when the truth is that it is the Gardai (and not the protesters) that will have to be watched and kept on a tight leash. This focus, however, was clearly decided by Pat Kenny, and Aileen and co. put in an extremely credible performance.

Well done! Great stuff. Hopefully it will undermine some of the nonsense that the government and media have uttered in recent weeks.

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Comments (39 of 39)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	indeed, well done aileen	Brian	Sat Apr 24, 2004 00:16
2	Well done	Pat	Sat Apr 24, 2004 00:27
3	Here we go	Swpwatch	Sat Apr 24, 2004 00:37
4	Late late	ABCD	Sat Apr 24, 2004 00:42
5	SWP Watcher	Pat	Sat Apr 24, 2004 00:45
6	.	j26	Sat Apr 24, 2004 01:36
7	Ok so...	Swpwatch	Sat Apr 24, 2004 01:48
8	You must be joking	NeoRepublican	Sat Apr 24, 2004 03:42
9	Re: You must be Joking by neo-republican	Peig Mahone	Sat Apr 24, 2004 04:24
10	Saw the show	Áine Ní Fhearraigh	Sat Apr 24, 2004 04:28
11	Fraud	TT	Sat Apr 24, 2004 04:34
12	cringed at the idea of having to watch the late late show	David	Sat Apr 24, 2004 11:59
13	Congratulations all!	Eoin Dubsky	Sat Apr 24, 2004 13:03
14	well done indeed	hooded idiot	Sat Apr 24, 2004 13:04
15	Aileen condemned 'violent' protesters	Sellout??	Sat Apr 24, 2004 13:06
16	I'm not involved in the Mayday stuff but...	Tim	Sat Apr 24, 2004 13:10
17	preventative arrest.	PJ Stone	Sat Apr 24, 2004 13:14
18	Condenming violent protests..	David	Sat Apr 24, 2004 13:27
19	Just sent an e-mail to his radio show..	David	Sat Apr 24, 2004 13:58
20	No, she was talking about protesters	Sellout??	Sat Apr 24, 2004 14:04
21	Great job	Slarti	Sat Apr 24, 2004 14:45
22	good show	pc	Sat Apr 24, 2004 16:27
23	no fan of FF	paddyboy-x	Sat Apr 24, 2004 18:06
24	Ah!, but maybe it was really clever	David	Sat Apr 24, 2004 21:34
25	AHAHAHAH-TT	NeoRepublican	Sun Apr 25, 2004 00:33
26	700 years of oppression	Deirdre Clancy	Sun Apr 25, 2004 02:34
27	Brilliant perfromance	Chekov	Sun Apr 25, 2004 03:57
28	wow, thats really fucked up	seriously?	Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:52
29	Tell it like it is	J'accuse	Sun Apr 25, 2004 12:11
30	Re: NeoRepublican	TT	Sun Apr 25, 2004 19:17
31	Re: Neo-Republican	Ois	Mon Apr 26, 2004 01:28
32	Positions, positions	Joe	Mon Apr 26, 2004 11:39
33	Obfuscations, obfuscations	Reluctant anarchist	Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:10
34	Yeah when we make them	Joe	Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:46
35	I assure you, I'm an anarchist	Reluctant anarchist	Mon Apr 26, 2004 13:54
36	I'm getting lost here	Joe	Mon Apr 26, 2004 14:21
37	Apologies	Reluctant (and now abashed) anarchist	Mon Apr 26, 2004 15:55
38	see you on the front line!	bakunin	Mon Apr 26, 2004 23:59
39	get your facts right pat kenny	UCD Lefty Type	Tue Apr 27, 2004 19:40

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