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Liveline Thread (15/02/2012 to 01/05/2012)

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    #3302
    artful_codger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭artful_codger


    his children will won't be paying for the 'elites' but they will be paying $$$$ for their third level education in Canada i'd say.


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    #3303
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    dvcireland wrote: »
    someone here might know, but is it true that a high percentage of employees at Google's HQ in Dublin, head back to their home countries at weekends. May of been mentioned on Mary Wilson's show.

    I would believe it. A friend of mine has an IT company in Kerry and employs lads living in Spain to work from home and come over once every 6 weeks. He just cant get the staff here.

    The IT sector is severely short of Irish expertise.


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    #3304
    AngryBollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭AngryBollix


    darkman2 wrote: »
    Australia is the last great property bubble in the world. It's going to burst.


    What do irish emigrants do when they realise that they'll have to pay for that too?


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    #3305
    AngryBollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭AngryBollix


    artful_codger wrote: »
    his children will won't be paying for the 'elites' but they will be paying $$$$ for their third level education in Canada i'd say.


    The grass is never greener


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    #3306
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Economic death spiral Joe


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    #3307
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    AngryBollix wrote: »
    What do irish emigrants do when they realise that they'll have to pay for that too?


    Call up a radio station in Oz/Canada/Kazakhstan and get very annoyed and upset with the local Joe about the state of the shlte country they're living in.


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    #3308
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭darkman2


    AngryBollix wrote: »
    What do irish emigrants do when they realise that they'll have to pay for that too?

    That is my point. Australia is like Ireland was 4 years ago. No-one is saying it.


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    #3309
    JonathanAnon
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    Joe is gonna have some job trying to shoehorn the three twins in to RTE..


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    #3310
    AngryBollix
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    europa11 wrote: »
    Call up a radio staion in Oz/Canada/Kazakhstan and get very annoyed and upset about the state of the shlte country they're living in.


    Thats it. They seem to think that Ireland is the only nation in the world that has been affected by economic collapse


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    #3311
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    Canada wants Irish people to populate the arctic boonies. Getting jobs in places that are not -20 degrees in the summer, like Toronto or Montreal, might be tougher than people think...


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    #3312
    ThisRegard
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    telekon wrote: »
    The IT sector is severely short of Irish expertise.

    Very true. And I think this can be blamed on the building boom too. Many people I know back in the early 90s thought you'd be mad to go to college when you can leave school and become an apprentice in the building trade and rake in the money. This attitude amongst many young men followed through right into the last 10 years.

    It was telling that I think everyone interviewed in the Cork jobs fair queue for the News at 1 the other day had previously been working in or around the construction industry.


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    #3313
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    Joe is gonna have some job trying to shoehorn the three twins in to RTE..

    The 3 of them will host a Saturday Night show called "The Duffys":(


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    #3314
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭darkman2


    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/bloodbath-to-hit-australian-real-estate-property-analyst-jordan-wirsz-says/story-fn7x8me2-1226249691558


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    #3315
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    "I don't want to labour a point..."

    This from a man who can spend a fortnight talking non-stop about adoption (for instance).


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    #3316
    patwicklow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭patwicklow


    Who is going to be the last person to turn the lights off in this corrupt country.


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    #3317
    AngryBollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭AngryBollix


    telekon wrote: »
    Canada wants Irish people to populate the arctic boonies. Getting jobs in places that are not -20 degrees in the summer, like Toronto or Montreal, might be tougher than people think...


    They'll all be appearing in the next series of ice road truckers


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    #3318
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Ireland's greatest socialist Joe Duffy pointing out hypocrisy in the political stances that other people adopt... The hypocrisy of THAT !!


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    #3319
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Very true. And I think this can be blamed on the building boom too. Many people I know back in the early 90s thought you'd be mad to go to college when you can leave school and become an apprentice in the building trade and rake in the money. This attitude amongst many young men followed through right into the last 10 years.

    It was telling that I think everyone interviewed in the Cork jobs fair queue for the News at 1 the other day had previously been working in or around the construction industry.

    I know it might sound trite but if people involved within the construction industry (engineers, architects, and the manual workers) were effectively retrained in the IT sector, I think it would make massive inroads for the country. Again, bit of a pipedream...


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    #3320
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    darkman2 wrote: »
    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/bloodbath-to-hit-australian-real-estate-property-analyst-jordan-wirsz-says/story-fn7x8me2-1226249691558

    As someone alluded to earlier, the grass is not always greener...


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    #3321
    AngryBollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭AngryBollix


    Deirdre O'Kanes voice goes through my skull


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    #3322
    JonathanAnon
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    darkman2 wrote: »
    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/bloodbath-to-hit-australian-real-estate-property-analyst-jordan-wirsz-says/story-fn7x8me2-1226249691558
    AUSTRALIA'S love affair with property is about to be tested amid predictions prices will plummet by as much as 60 per cent, with capital cities hardest hit.

    I wont believe a word until I hear from Jim Power..


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    #3323
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Do they have a dole system in Oz?


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    #3324
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    'we absolutely love it' = I am about to break down in tears


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    #3325
    Park Royal
    Registered Users Posts: 724 ✭✭✭Park Royal


    The previous Regulator said the Banks were well capitalised and Bertie said

    were in for a soft landing.....

    now whats the bleeding problem.....

    are we not living in the land of Saints and Scholars .....

    just believe in our leaders , just believe.....:confused:


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    #3326
    darkman2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭darkman2


    telekon wrote: »
    As someone alluded to earlier, the grass is not always greener...


    People have to warn people of the risk. Australian economy is errily similar to Ireland just before the crash.


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    #3327
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    Glebee wrote: »
    I hate when people say there going and never coming back.


    I don't know, it all depends who is leaving.

    I can think of some people I would be very pleased to hear saying they were never coming back

    Bertie_Ahern__451041t.jpg


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    #3328
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Just keep following the booms people


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    #3329
    JonathanAnon
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    pc7 wrote: »
    Do they have a dole system in Oz?

    You can get a boomerang on the medical card and food vouchers for the Summerbay Diner.. a good friend told me that.. hang on, in hindsight he may have been having me on..


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    #3330
    europa11
    Registered Users Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    telekon wrote: »
    Canada wants Irish people to populate the arctic boonies. Getting jobs in places that are not -20 degrees in the summer, like Toronto or Montreal, might be tougher than people think...


    Very true, friend of mine (engaged to a Canadian girl who had to return as her EU visa had expired) wanted to re-join her in Canada.

    No problem if they re-located up to the boonies or go out to the lesser populated areas of Alberta or Saskatchyourownfish, but for him to settle in a city in Ontario.......they put him through a gazillion bureaucratic loops and it took almost 18 months for him to even get two-year residency. Despite gettting married since, no guarantee of permanence either.....unless they "consider" moving to the sticks sometime that sword is still hanging over his head.


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    #3331
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    Skid wrote: »
    I don't know, it all depends who is leaving.

    I can think of some people I would be very pleased to hear saying they were never coming back

    Bertie_Ahern__451041t.jpg

    Looking at buying a house in Bween, Co. Cork, I hear.

    I'd like to see how he gets on with the locals there, especially with no Drumcondra Mafia around to protect him...


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