Protesting is easy, it's coming up with alternative policies that is the problem, and I mean alternative polices that will actually work, not the "why bail out the bankers" type rubbish that keeps getting trotted out without anyone thinking it through
Instead of protesting against withdrawal of special needs teachers, why not protest outside the INTO headquarters over the 31 days uncertifed sick leave a teacher can take in a year with no action taken against them.
Why not protest outside the INO headquarters about the 7 nurses I saw in Kilkenny hospital last weekend standing in a ward discussing their holidays for nearly an hour or the midwife which didn't know what was wrong with an epidural when all it had happened was it had run out or the medical staff who are too lazy to wash their hands and are spreading superbugs all over the place.
Why not protest outside IMPACT headquarters over the unvouched expenses policies in many public sector areas
Why not protest outside the car tax offices which close at lunchtime, the one time working members of the public might be able to go down there and avail of their "services"
I've no arguement that the politicians, bankers and property developers have a lot to answer for, that we could scrap the undemocratically elected Seanad tomorrow and no one would even notice and lots of other things. But there are a lot of other people who are responsible as well