Bertie's Boot Boys

A huge garda presence was in Shannon on Saturday, their number almost dwarfing that of the protestors amid cries of "This is what overtime looks like!" and "Bertie's Boot Boys".

They carried on their hugely expensive operation with horses, dogs, water cannons, rooftop video surveillance, helicopters, lines of ordinary gardai and the still-numberless Darth-Vader-like stormtroopers known as the riot squad. All of this paid for by us, the ordinary citizens. The gardai have become the henchmen of the US military, and the crushing boot upon democracy at the behest of our government. It's a travesty and I'm ashamed to be an Irish citizen.