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FAS Illegally Recruit for British Army

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    #2
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,475 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Facepalm for someone down there!


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    #3
    conorhal
    Registered Users Posts: 6,986 ✭✭✭conorhal


    OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »
    http://www.irishexaminer.ie/ireland/jobs-centre-funded-by-fas-offers-careers-in-british-army-118290.html

    Apply for a foreign army or we cut your dole? :eek:

    Just when we thought FAS couldn't become more dysfunctional. Whatever about using their cop on, this is clearly illegal. Funded by, you guessed it, the taxpayer

    Sending Limerick chavs to Iraq sounds like a plan to me! Perhaps they could start with the Carthy's and the Dundons? Poor feckin' Taliban won't know what hit then.....


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    goat2
    Registered Users Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    conorhal wrote: »
    Sending Limerick chavs to Iraq sounds like a plan to me! Perhaps they could start with the Carthy's and the Dundons? Poor feckin' Taliban won't know what hit then.....
    brill idea
    they will not need training
    they will wipe out taliban
    or better
    the other way round


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    #5
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Could Fás get any worse at this point? Dlofnep isn't sure.


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    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    dlofnep wrote: »
    Could Fás get any worse at this point? Dlofnep isn't sure.
    Iwasfrozen would rather see people fighting terrorism in Afghanistan then leeching off the dole.


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    gent9662
    Closed Accounts Posts: 697 ✭✭✭gent9662


    Great idea I think. Why are people thinking this is bad?


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    dclane wrote: »
    Great idea I think. Why are people thinking this is bad?

    [outrage]800 YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSS[/outrage]


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    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    "The jobs are actually in the Royal Irish Regiment, which has suffered casualties in Afghanistan"

    made me think of this:

    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1m6jz_southparkoperationhumanshield_fun


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    FTA69
    Registered Users Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Iwasfrozen would rather see people fighting terrorism in Afghanistan then leeching off the dole.

    That's right yeah, send Irish poor people off to fight and die in Britain's wars.

    F*cking scroungers.


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    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Poor Sinn Fein are very upset.


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    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    FTA69 wrote: »
    That's right yeah, send Irish poor people off to fight and die in Britain's wars.

    F*cking scroungers.
    Terrorism is not a British war.


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    ei.sdraob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭ei.sdraob


    conorhal wrote: »
    Sending Limerick chavs to Iraq sounds like a plan to me!

    When they comeback to Limerick they will also be better trained in urban warfare :D

    FTA69 wrote: »
    That's right yeah, send Irish poor people off to fight and die in Britain's wars.

    I know several people who are trying hard to get into UK armed forces


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    FTA69
    Registered Users Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    ei.sdraob wrote: »
    I know several people who are trying hard to get into UK armed forces

    I know one as well, he's an absolute f*cking eejit as is anyone else who would travel half way across the world to shoot some of the poorest people on the planet because of US and British geo-political concerns.

    Similarly fools like the above would be well served in examining how the veterans returning from Afghanistan with no eyes or limbs are treated.


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    wes
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    Nothing short of appalling that my tax money is being wasted on this nonsense. Sending people off to die for a pointless cause, for a foreign army is bloody stupid.


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    owenc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,524 ✭✭✭owenc


    FTA69 wrote: »
    I know one as well, he's an absolute f*cking eejit as is anyone else who would travel half way across the world to shoot some of the poorest people on the planet because of US and British geo-political concerns.

    Similarly fools like the above would be well served in examining how the veterans returning from Afghanistan with no eyes or limbs are treated.

    more like them idiots in iraq who are killing them and how are they innocent!:eek:


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    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    Cadetships in the British army are very viable career choices. There would be some people who wouldn't have any options offering so much to them tbh. Also, while they would still be part of the same organization, I don't know if all the non-combat soldiers would be likely to be shooting people, apart from artillery of course.

    Joining as a regular soldier is a different story of course. But I don't think there's that high a barrier to entry at that level that people would need to "try very hard" to get in - so I would guess it's applicants for cadetships that were being talked about.


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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    This is being discussed in a fair and reasonable fashion on the After Hours forum.


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    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    mike65 wrote: »
    This is being discussed in a fair and reasonable fashion on the After Hours forum.
    I have finally seen someone write "in a fair and reasonable fashion" and "After Hours Forum" in the same sentence without being sarcastic or trailing off to some other meaning.

    I can now die a happy man.


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    Nodin
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    pwd wrote: »
    Cadetships in the British army are very viable career choices. There would be some people who wouldn't have any options offering so much to them tbh. Also, while they would still be part of the same organization, I don't know if all the non-combat soldiers would be likely to be shooting people, apart from artillery of course.

    Joining as a regular soldier is a different story of course. But I don't think there's that high a barrier to entry at that level that people would need to "try very hard" to get in - so I would guess it's applicants for cadetships that were being talked about.

    Thats not really the issue. A foreign Government is actively recruiting apparently through an Irish governmental agency. That compromises neutrality.


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    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    FTA69 wrote: »
    That's right yeah, send Irish poor people off to fight and die in Britain's wars.

    F*cking scroungers.

    'Britains wars for America' is more appropriate these days. If some lad wants to go off and fight for another country, I think he'd be better off working for the organ grinder.


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    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    Oh I agree with you.
    I was responding to a post by fta69 - though that wasn't clear as I didn't quote and there were a couple of posts in between while I had the page open.


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    Mactíre
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭Mactíre


    Gee FAS doing something immoral or illegal who would have thought such a thing could happen !


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    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    Mactíre wrote: »
    Gee FAS doing something immoral or illegal who would have thought such a thing could happen !
    That's a very bright way to start of your stay here. I can see you will fit in just fine !


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    #25
    [Deleted User]
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    http://gradireland.com/emergency/
    Grad Ireland also advertise the British army in their hand books


    as far as Afghanistan goes it has a UN mandate & the Irish defence forces are there too. The UN wanted us to send more to Afghanistan if we pulled out of Chad. We just pulled out of Chad the other day.


    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/irish-troops-may-be-asked-to-serve-in-afghanistan-1849639.html


    http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0330/chad.html

    Interesting!


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    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    pwd wrote: »
    Oh I agree with you.
    I was responding to a post by fta69 - though that wasn't clear as I didn't quote and there were a couple of posts in between while I had the page open.

    Sorry about that then.

    (Friendly fire...theres a thing they don't mention in the brochure...)


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    #27
    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Guys, this isn't an episode of Boston Legal and hence neither the side comments on the gangs on Limerick's northside nor the editorialising on the justification or non-justification of the UK's recent armed campaigns are either entertaining or relevant to the topic. Some of you have realised that, those that haven't please keep it in mind when considering a post.

    /mod


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    #28
    PeakOutput
    Registered Users Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭PeakOutput


    isnt it a third party group that sent around the leaflets?

    isnt it fas that told them to stop once they found out?

    i hav no personal with people wanting to serve in any military(if i could be a pilot in any of the us forces id be there in a second) but how a state funded group thought they would get away with this in limerick of all places isbeyond me


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    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    sure anyone with a brain knows our ruling classes are west brits. their influence is british and any laws made in britain are swiftly copied in bog ireland, the nation with no mind of its own..sure copy the brits..forget about sophisticated western europe..







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    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    charlemont wrote: »
    sure anyone with a brain knows our ruling classes are west brits. their influence is british and any laws made in britain are swiftly copied in bog ireland, the nation with no mind of its own..sure copy the brits..forget about sophisticated western europe..
    Guten hi hi!


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