00:00:00 TITLE 00:04:00 FADE IN: A bright cold morning overlooking the Dublin skyline. 00:08:00 CLOSE UP: Overlooking the Dublin skyline city. 00:12:00 A bright cold morning on Grafton Street, the main shopping street in Dublin. A large banner covers one building that says, “High rents are killing our jobs”. 00:14:12 People walk past the “High rents are killing our jobs” on Grafton Street in Dublin. 00:17:00 A deserted home lies boarded up in the centre of Dublin. NARRATION: “For twelve years the booming Irish economy, the Celtic Tiger, stood as the proud poster pin-up for the Euro zone.” 00:19:13 A man cycles past a row of houses left boarded up and derelict in the centre of Dublin. 00:23:13 A row of shops have been abanodoned and boarded up near Dublin city centre. NARRATION: “Despite the International Monetary Fund bailing out the Irish economy to the sum of 90 billion Euros the country lies on the brink of economic ruin.” 00:28:01 WIDE: Crowds of people swarm along Grafton Street in Dublin. 00:30:00 CLOSE UP: Crowds of people swarm along Grafton Street in Dublin. 00:32:00 A homeless person with their face covered sits begging by a rubbish bin in Dublin city centre. NARRATION: “Ireland is a country of 4.5 million people where one in nine are unemployed.” 00:34:00 A homeless girl with a dog sits begging in Dublin city centre. 00:38:00 CLOSE UP: A homeless girl with a dog sits begging in Dublin city centre. NARRATION: “Homeless shelters have seen the numbers of those requesting help double in the last three years, some 4000 people alone are listed homeless in Dublin.” 00:43:00 A woman with her baby in a push chair walk past a row of empty new homes at Mulingar, near Dublin in Ireland. 00:45:24 New homes and house foundations at Mulingar near Dublin lie abandoned and empty. 00:49:00 A new homes sign has fallen over, in nthe background new homes lie empty and abandoned. NARRATION: “while 300,000 homes built during the economic boom lie empty and rotting all across the country, like 21st century ghost towns.” 00:52:00 A male student stands at the front of a protest with blood pouring from his nose. A police officer (Garda) shouts, “get back”. The student says: “Its garda brutality. Its garda brutality.” 00:56:00 Riot police use long shields to hit students during a sit-down protest in Dublin in November. 01:04:00 A riot police officer strikes out twice at a student protestor with a baton while the student is sat in the road with their hands in the air. NARRATION: “Recent demonstrations saw public outrage increase. As students protested higher tuition fees, occupied government offices and blocked the street, riot police were caught on film beating peaceful protestors while they sat on the floor.” 01:09:00 A police officer carries an unconcious young girl through lines of riot police and drops her on the floor. 01:13:00 Another girl holds the unconcious girl’s head and calls out her name, “Vanessa.” A voice off-camera says, “she needs medical help.” A third voice says, “Roll her on her side. Roll her on her side. Put her on her side.” 01:22:00 In a cold store room a forklift truck removes a crate from a high shelf. 01:25:12 The forklift truck lowers the crate in a cold store room. NARRATION: “But the final outrage for many in Ireland was the announcement that the government would deliver cheese to those in need at Christmas.” 01:29:00 The forklift truck reverses with the crate in a cold store room. 01:32:13 The crate sits in the warehouse cold store room, in front of a full rack of boxed up cheese. 01:36:00 A hand sits on top of the crate of boxed up cheese. A blue EU sign can been seen on one box. NARRATION: “The European Union Aid cheese distribution program has been running since 1986, but this year the government paraded the handouts as an example of their assistance to those most affected by the economic meltdown.” 01:40:00 Joan Kenny is a resident of Dolphin’s Barn estate in Dublin. It is one of the poorest areas in the city and Joan had just lost her job. She says: “They’re very angry over the cheese. Mind you, giving people cheese and they’re in poverty, like, for Christmas. Taking their money away from them.” 01:48:00 The rows of flats of Dolphin House on Dolphin’s Barn estate in Dublin. 01:52:00 People walk along the pavement along the side of the Dolphin’s House flats. NARRATION: “Joan Kenny lives on the Dolphin’s Barn estate, one of the poorest areas in Dublin. She had just recently lost her job.” 01:56:01 CLOSE UP: People walk along the pavement along the side of the Dolphin’s House flats. 01:58:13 A courtyard on Dolphin’s Barn estate with washing hanging out. 02:01:00 CLOSE UP: Washing hanging out to dry on Dolphin’s Barn estate. 02:03:12 A courtyard surounded by flats on the Dolphin’s Barn estate in Dublin. Joan Kenny says: “And the benefit for Christmas, we’re not getting it this year and we didn’t get it last year either.” Interviewer asks: “What’s the reason for that? Why did the government do that?” Joan Kenny says: “They just said they hadn’t got the money. I mean, they have it for themselves.” 02:06:00 Joan Kenny stands on her balcony outside her flat on Dolphin’s Barn estate. She says: “Free cheese. That wouldn’t keep you going for Christmas, do you know what I mean.” 02:10:13 Marie Burn is Dublin resident. She stands on Grafton Street in the city centre. She says: “I think it’s an insult to people’s intelligence. I don’t think it’s neccessary. It’s making the country look worse than it is. Not everybody eats cheese anyway, do you know what I mean. So why didn’t they, instead of giving the cheese, why didn’t they not reduce the social welfare or the children’s allowance?” 02:27:13 Bill Fleming is the owner of Trailercare Holdings, the main distribution point of the EU cheese aid in Dublin. He walks through the warehouse to the cold storage room. A worker says to him: “It’s down the very back.” Bill Fleming says: “Down the very back is it. Okay. If Pat is handy he might show me just where it is.” 02:41:00 Outside the Trailercare Holdings warehouse in Clondalkin, Dublin. NARRATION: “Bill Fleming is the owner and managing director of Trailercare holdings in Clondalkin, the main cheese distribution centre in Dublin.” 02:44:00 Bill Fleming is inside the cold storage room. He says: “Last week we hyad a consignment of almost 19 tons, which is like 26 pallets of 60 boxes per pallet, 12 kilogrammes per box. They’re in specifically for the run in to the Christmas period.” 02:58:00 PAN LEFT TO RIGHT: Racks of cheese fill the cold store room. 03:02:00 A fork lift truck removes a crate of aid cheese from the storage racks. 03:06:00 A fork lift truck lowers a crate of EU Aid cheese to the floor of the storage room. 03:10:00 Bill Fleming places his hand on one box of cheese. The EU flag can be seen on the side of the box. 03:12:13 CLOSE UP: The EU flag on the box of aid cheese. 03:15:00 Bill Fleming explains how the cheese is distributed. He says: “This is the cheese. As you can see it’s labeled, which is the charity cheese through the Irish dairy board. And that will go out to a range of charities. They would apply to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. And they inturn mandate the Irish Dairy Board, who inturn mandate us.” 03:28:13 The EU Aid cheese sits on a pallet in the cold storage room. 03:32:13 Bill Fleming explains why he thinks people are angry about the cheese this year. Interviewer: “Why do you think it’s caused more of an upset this year than any other year?” Bill Fleming: “Well, i think there is little doubt that it’s to do with the current economic climate and the difficulty that people are going through. So any reference to it is more or less very much centred in the fact that more and more people will probably take advantage of it this year.” 03:47:12 Brother Kevin Crawley a day centre for the homeless in Dublin. He stands outside the centre during the lunchtime food handout session. 03:51:13 Staff at the day centre serve up food for homeless people and people in need. Narration: “Brother Kevin Crawley runs the Capuchin Day Centre for the homeless in the centre of Dublin, which has been running for 41 years.” 03:55:12 Brother Kevin Crawley sits in an office at the back of the day care centre. He says: “We’ve been getting the cheese for a number of years and the people love it, it’s fantastic and we are delighted to get it because it is very nourishing.” 04:04:00 Food is served up from the counter in the day centre. 04:06:12 Potatoes are passed to fill plates at the day centre food counter. 04:09:00 Food is served on plates for people in need to choose form at the day centre food counter. 04:11:11 One person takes a plate of food at the day centre. 04:14:00 Brother Kevin Crawley sits in an office at the back of the day care centre. He says: “We get a permit form the department we go and collect it and then we distribute it and cut it up and give it to the families that are in need. In the morning time we have about 200 people for breakfast and we have anything up to 450 to 500 for dinner every day. And as well as that we have about, as I said, between 950 to a thousand for food parcels every Wednesday. All htat has increased in a huge way in the last few years.” 04:32:00 FADE IN: A Homeless man sits outside an expnsive hotel in Dublin begging for money. 04:38:23 The half built new offices of the Anglo Irish bank on north Quay in Dublin. 04:41:00 The half built new offices of the Anglo Irish bank on north Quay in Dublin. 04:43:12 The rear of the half built Anglo Irish bank offices sen through a closed construction gate. 04:45:00 CLOSE UP: The rear of the half built Anglo Irish bank offices sen through a closed construction gate. 04:47:00 People walking along Grafton Street under the Christmas lights at night in Dublin. 04:49:00 The banner “high rents are killing our jobs” at night with Christmas lights on Grafton Street in Dublin. 04:51:00 CLOSE UP: People walking along Grafton Street under the Christmas lights at night in Dublin. 04:55:00 CLOSE UP: People walking along Grafton Street under the Christmas lights at night in Dublin. Narration: “With homelessness and unemployment on the rise, and more families are seeking help as entire industries grind to a halt, the EU cheese aid may come as a small and short lived relief. But the IMF/EU bailout signals further massive cuts, more redundancies and possible regime change.” 04:59:00 Joan Kenny stands on her balcony outside her flat on Dolphin’s Barn estate. She says: “They’re still bailing out them bankers.” Interviewer: “how do people feel about that when they still see the banks taking the bonuses?” Joan Kenny: “i’d say they go mad now. I go mad now, after all, you know what I mean. There is an awful lot of poor people in the country. And they’re bailing out them. People are wondering where they’re going to get their food for Christmas.”