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Polish street signs vs 30% unemployment

  • 03-07-2012 6:40pm
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭


    This is his excellency the Mayor calling for Polish street signs:

    http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local/mayor-of-limerick-wants-polish-street-signs-1-4011509

    And this is an article stating the official unemployment rate for Limerick is nearly 30%:

    http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/limerick-estates-are-unemployment-blackspots-1-4010085

    A few points:
    This is the biggest load of codswallop I have ever heard in my LIFE!
    I have no problem with our Eastern European friends who are living here and I am a foreigner myself, being a German.
    But the idea that we need to spend money on street signs when taking nearly 30% unemployment into account is not only stupid, but offensive.
    Who elected this yoghurt to be Mayor? There are bits of lemon peel floating down the Shannon that would do a better job.
    I am so angry about this stupid, daft idea I can hardly type, what hope do we have in Limerick for the future?
    None, if this is the way we're going.
    This ape needs to go!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83 ✭✭Sure it will be grand


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    Apple Strudel v The Rolling Stones

    The Connection Please?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Maybe unemployment is so high cause all the Polish fella's are getting lost on the way to work.....???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭Jofspring


    To be honest lads anyone that listens to what any mayor in Limerick has to say about anything and take it serious is the bigger fool. Everybody was waiting for him to come out with his first stupid story to get in the papers and it seems it came quicker than most would have thought.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Apple Strudel v The Rolling Stones

    The Connection Please?

    Money spent on putting up street signs in Polish vs money spent tackling the unemployment rate.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Apple Strudel v The Rolling Stones

    The Connection Please?

    The connection is the fact that in the eyes of the Mayor the installation of new street signs in various languages seems to be a more urgent and pressing problem than a near 30% unemployment rate in Limerick.
    I'm amazed I even have to explain this. Is that you Gerry?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,158 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    What Language is "African" exactly? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    The connection is the fact that in the eyes of the Mayor the installation of new street signs in various languages seems to be a more urgent and pressing problem than a near 30% unemployment rate in Limerick.
    I'm amazed I even have to explain this. Is that you Gerry?

    This is just the local media trying to sell newspapers by talking up a comment made by the mayor.

    Besides, the mayor doesn't have any role when it comes to tackling unemployment.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Beer Baron wrote: »
    What Language is "African" exactly? :confused:

    They speak that in Africaland.;)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    first thing they should do is get rid of fas and jobbridge and create actual jobs,as jobbridge and fas hog up and job block what could be paid jobs advertised..its a scandal and a scam..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    zulutango wrote: »
    This is just the local media trying to sell newspapers by talking up a comment made by the mayor.

    Besides, the mayor doesn't have any role when it comes to tackling unemployment.

    it appears he doesn't have a usefull role......endv of.....poor man...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Is this what the property tax is going to be spent on .... no money to fix the bloody potholes but money for the mayors personal ego trips :mad:

    Anyway what about the Chinese ... there here a lot longer than the Poles and presumably they are still getting lost. :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭the_blackstuff


    You really must have to be a muppet to become mayor of limerick! 4 in a row and probably more if i was bothered to look.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭celticcrash


    African Dialects

    • Adangme (Ghana )
    • Afrikaans (Southern Africa )
    • Akan: Asante (Ashanti) dialect (Ghana )
    • Akan: Fante dialect (Ghana )
    • Akan: Twi (Akwapem) dialect (Ghana )
    • Amharic (Amarigna; Amarinya) (Ethiopia )
    • Awing (Cameroon )
    • Bakuba (Busoong, Kuba, Bushong) (Congo )
    • Bambara (Mali; Senegal; Burkina )
    • Bamoun (Cameroons )
    • Bargu (Bariba) (Benin; Nigeria; Togo )
    • Bassa (Gbasa) (Liberia )
    • ici-Bemba (Wemba) (Congo; Zambia )
    • Berba (Benin )
    • Bihari: Mauritian Bhojpuri dialect - Latin Script (Mauritius )
    • Bobo (Bwamou) (Burkina )
    • Bulu (Boulou) (Cameroons )
    • Chirpon-Lete-Anum (Cherepong; Guan) (Ghana )
    • Ciokwe (Chokwe) (Angola; Congo )
    • Creole, Indian Ocean: Mauritian dialect (Mauritius )
    • Creole, Indian Ocean: Seychelles dialect (Kreol) (Seychelles )
    • Dagbani (Dagbane; Dagomba) (Ghana; Togo )
    • Diola (Jola) (Upper West Africa )
    • Diola (Jola): Fogny (Jóola Fóoñi) dialect (The Gambia; Guinea; Senegal )
    • Duala (Douala) (Cameroons )
    • Dyula (Jula) (Burkina )
    • Efik (Nigeria )
    • Ekoi: Ejagham dialect (Cameroons; Nigeria )
    • Ewe (Benin; Ghana; Togo )
    • Ewe: Ge (Mina) dialect (Benin; Togo )
    • Ewe: Watyi (Ouatchi, Waci) dialect (Benin; Togo )
    • Ewondo (Cameroons )
    • Fang (Equitorial Guinea )
    • Fõ (Fon; Dahoméen) (Benin )
    • Frafra (Ghana )
    • Ful (Fula; Fulani; Fulfulde; Peul; Toucouleur) (West Africa )
    • Ful: Torado dialect (Senegal )
    • Gã: Accra dialect (Ghana; Togo )
    • Gambai (Ngambai; Ngambaye) (Chad )
    • olu-Ganda (Luganda) (Uganda )
    • Gbaya (Baya) (Central African Republic; Cameroons; Congo )
    • Gben (Ben) (Togo )
    • Goun (Benin )
    • Gurma (Gourma; Gourmantche) (Burkina )
    • Gurma (Gourma; Gourmantche) (Togo )
    • G||wi (!kwi) (Botswana )
    • Hausa (Arabic script) (West Central Africa )
    • Hausa: unidentified Nigerian dialect (Nigeria )
    • Herero (Namibia )
    • # Hûâ, Eastern (# Hòã) (Botswana )
    • # Hua (!xo) (Botswana )
    • Igbo (Ibo; Igho) (Nigeria )
    • Kaba (Sara Kaba) (Central African Republic; Chad )
    • Kabre (Kabye) (Togo )
    • Kanuri (Chad; Niger; Nigeria )
    • Kasem (Kassem; Kasena) (Ghana; Burkina )
    • e-Kele (Lokele) (Congo )
    • Kikuyu (Gikuyu) (Kenya )
    • Kimpin (Kipindi) (Congo )
    • Kinande (Congo )
    • Komoro (Comorian) (Comoros Islands )
    • Kongo (Kicongo): ki-Tuba (Kituba) dialect (Angola; Rep. of Congo; Congo )
    • Kongo: ki-Ntaandu (Kintandu) dialect (Congo )
    • Kongo: ki-Zombo (Kizombo) dialect (Angola; Congo )
    • Kongo: Kimanianga dialect (Congo )
    • Kpelle (Guinea; Liberia )
    • Krio (West Africa )
    • Kusal (Kusaal) (Ghana; Burkina )
    • Kwakum (Bakoum) (Cameroons )
    • oci-Kwanyama (Kuanjama; Kuanyama) (Angola; Namibia )
    • Logo (Logoti) (Sudan; Congo )
    • Losengo: Mangala (Lingala) dialect (Congo )
    • si-Lozi (Zambia )
    • ki-Luba-Katanga (Kiluba) (Congo )
    • Luba-Lulua (Tshiluba, Ciluba) (Congo )
    • Luhya: lu-Tiriki dialect (Kenya )
    • ci-Lunda (Angola, Congo, Zambia )
    • ci-Lunda : Ndembo dialect (Congo )
    • Luo (Kenya; Tanzania )
    • ki-Luuwa (Kiluwa) (Congo )
    • Lwo (Uganda )
    • Lyele (Lélé) (Burkina )
    • ci-Makonde (Shimakonde) (Mozambique; Tanzania )
    • i-Makua (Makhuwa) (Mozambique; Malawi )
    • Malagasy (Malagasy Rep. )
    • Mandinka (Mandingo) (Upper West Africa )
    • Masa (Massa) (Chad; Cameroons )
    • Masaba: ulu-Bukusu (Lubukusu) dialect (Kenya; Uganda )
    • Mashi (Congo; Zambia )
    • Mbai (Chad; Central African Republic )
    • Mbaka (Central African Republic )
    • Mbati (Issongo, Lissongo) (Central African Republic )
    • ki-Mbundu (Kimbundu) (Angola )
    • i-Mbuti : Batua (Lutua-Bambote) dialect (Congo )
    • Mbuun (Embun, Kibunda) (Congo )
    • Mende: Kpa dialect (Liberia; Sierra Leone )
    • Moré (Mossi) (Burkina; Ghana; Togo )
    • Nama (Namibia )
    • Nama: Damara dialect (Namibia )
    • Nankanse (Nankani): Burkina dialect (Burkina )
    • Nankanse (Nankani): Ghanaian dialect (Ghana )
    • oru-Ndandi (Kinande) (Congo )
    • isi-Ndebele (Sindebele) (Zimbabwe )
    • ci-Ndonde (Kimawanda, Konde) (Tanzania )
    • oci-Ndonga (Ambo; Ochindonga) (Namibia )
    • Nguni: isi-Swati (Siswati, Swazi) dialect (Swaziland; South Africa )
    • Nguni: isi-Xhosa (!Xhosa) dialect (Botswana; South Africa )
    • Nguni: Zulu dialect (Southern Africa )
    • eke-Nyakyusa: Ngonde (Konde) dialect (Malawi; Tanzania )
    • ki-Nyamwesi (Nyamwezi) (Tanzania )
    • Nyang (Kenyang) (Cameroons )
    • ci-Nyanja (Chinyanja) (Malawi; Zambia )
    • ci-Nyanja: ci-Cewa (Chichewa) dialect (Malawi; Zambia )
    • oru-Nyoro (Runyoru-Rutoro) (Uganda )
    • Oromigna (Galla) (Ethiopia; Kenya )
    • Riff (Tarifit) (Algeria; Morocco
    • shi-Ronga (Shironga) (Mozambique; South Africa )
    • Ruanda (Kinyarwanda; Runyarwanda) (Rwanda )
    • iki-Rundi (Kirundi) (Burundi )
    • Sango (Sangho) (Central African Republic; Chad; Rep. of Congo )
    • Sara: Sara Ngama dialect (Central African Republic; Chad )
    • Sara: Sara-Majingai (Madingaye) dialect (Central African Republic; Chad )
    • Sérère (Serer) (The Gambia; Senegal )
    • Shona (Mozambique; Zimbabwe )
    • Shona: Kalanga dialect (Botswana; Zimbabwe )
    • Shua (Botswana )
    • Sidamo (Sidamigna) (Ethiopia )
    • Somali (Somalia; Djibouti; Kenya; Ethiopia )
    • lu-Songe (Kisonge) (Congo )
    • Songhai: Zarma (Djerma) dialect (Niger; Nigeria )
    • Sotho, Northern (se-Pedi) (South Africa )
    • Sotho, Southern (se-Sotho, Sesotho) (Lesotho; South Africa )
    • ki-Sukuma (Tanzania )
    • Swahili (Kiswahili) (Central and Eastern Africa )
    • Swahili: Mashingoli dialect (Somalia )
    • Temen (Temne, Themne) (Guinea; Sierra Leone )
    • Teso (Ateso) (Kenya; Uganda )
    • Tigrinya (Eritrea; Ethiopia )
    • Tiv (Nigeria )
    • Tobote (Busari, Bassar) (Ghana; Togo )
    • ci-Tonga, Malawian (Kitonga, Siska) (Malawi )
    • ci-Tonga, Zambian (Plateau Tonga) (Zambia )
    • shi-Tswa (Phikahni) (Mozambique; Zimbabwe )
    • se-Tswana (Chuana; Setswana) (Botswana; South Africa; Zimbabwe )
    • ki-Tuba: Monokutuba dialect (Kikongo Monokutuba) (Congo )
    • Tumbuku (Timbuka; Chitumbuka) (Malawi; Tanzania; Zambia )
    • ce-Venda (South Africa )
    • Wolof (jolof; Oulof) (The Gambia; Mauritania; Senegal )
    • ci-Yao (Chiyao) (Malawi; Mozambique; Tanzania )
    • Yaoure (Yahore) (Ivory Coast )
    • Yoruba (Benin; Nigeria )
    • Zande (Central African Republic; Congo; Rep. of Congo; Sudan )
    • olu-Ziba (olu-Haya) (Tanzania )

    Yes I agree with our mayor. lets add our African neighbours langauges to our signs;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭Louche Lad


    I've noticed that a number of Africans in Limerick City, if they're not speaking English, are actually speaking French. So add French to the list.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    there should be signs in polish saying please do not use your friends dole card to claim benefits from social welfare if your friend is gone back to Poland and if you do at least practice his hand writing , ( social welfare service worker told me this last week )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭EMTFlynn


    New Electronic system was introduced to the Limerick social welfare office yesterday.

    Records your signiture each time you sign on the new keypad

    You will be asked for ID or to meet the supervisor if your signiture doesn't match each time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Icky Thump


    “I am passionate about bringing everyone together. I was an immigrant myself: I have family abroad still in Wales and Australia so I understand what it is like. We have thousands of Poles and other foreign nationals here,” he explained, “I would like to see some Polish and African signs going up,” he said in an interview with the Limerick Leader.


    is he saying his family cant understand the signs in wales and australia????

    how this tool could have ever been elected is a joke let alone the curruption that allows him to be mayor.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    "African"!!!
    Jesus wept, how does he managed to get dressed in the mornings?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 256 ✭✭ciarang85


    give limerick back to the limerickians:pac:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Vanolder


    I have no problem with anyone coming to or working in this country but they embrace, or assimilate, to our culture and way of life, not the other way around. This ding bat has been well flagged as not being the brightest pupil so it's not really his fault, but rather the blame lies with the process, or those, that put him in power.

    In short - He can f**k right off with his Polish street signs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 Spook58


    We need signs in Chineseland. The previous mayor has secured thousands of new jobs when he and Kevin(Healy Rae) Kiely visited China. Maybe thats's why they wanted all the Polish to be sent home to make space for all the new business coming into Limerick. Well done I say


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭xsiborg


    they're talking about this now on 4FM, having a right good laugh about it! :rolleyes:

    well done gerry. clown! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    While in theory it was a nice gesture to make, what happens when the polish speaking population dwindles when all that's left here is 3rd and 4th generation Polish emigrants.

    Useless signs. Streets have names, if we're all describing the names differently how the fuck is anyone supposed to know where to go.

    Somebody please think of the postmen!!:D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 202 ✭✭scully74


    <snip>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭chalkitdown


    I have no problem with informational/community civic signs being in all major languages and think it would be a good idea but street signs? Oh dear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Ridiculous suggestion. Polish people use the English names for streets so this would be a total hindrance! It would lead to Polish people translating the name back into English and being changed in the process.
    Eg. Connolly Way -> Droga Connolly -> Connolly Road


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    Ridiculous suggestion. Polish people use the English names for streets so this would be a total hindrance! It would lead to Polish people translating the name back into English and being changed in the process.
    Eg. Connolly Way -> Droga Connolly -> Connolly Road
    Ná dean dearmad ar Slí Uí Chongaile


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭golden lane


    surely there's a wroclaw street in limerick.......that needs changing to english.....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    surely there's a wroclaw street in limerick.......that needs changing to english.....
    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/bertie-delighted-by-indian-govts-de-valera-honour-240500.html

    If the Indians are naming streets Irish names....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    <snip>


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭ZombieBride


    off-topic


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    Folks,

    A few comments are sneaking in here that could lead to the thread being dragged down ver quickly, can we please try to ensure that when discussing this topic that no libellous comments are made.

    Thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,364 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Beer Baron wrote: »
    What Language is "African" exactly? :confused:

    They probably meant Afrikaan which is South African. My other half would be chuffed alright to see that. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    bazz26 wrote: »
    They probably meant Afrikaan which is South African. My other half would be chuffed alright to see that. :)

    No, I think he actually meant "African".
    Tell your other half "Gaan kak in die mielies" btw!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭NinjaK


    Just another small example that shows our leaders are idiotic and ignorant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    He has responded to the criticism...

    http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local/mayor-of-limerick-defends-proposals-to-introduce-polish-signage-1-4020729
    In a statement released to the Limerick Leader, he wrote: “I am a man of the world, I travel the world. I have an obligation to set out my views and stand up for all groupings within the city. I don’t like to hear people giving out about my views, especially when they are about warm welcomes for all. It is my responsibility as Mayor of Limerick City to acknowledge the input of all nationalities.”

    He said he is happy to see discussions take place on the matter, but “it would be very unhealthy to fear difference”.

    Mayor McLoughlin said it is “naive” not to foster links with different countries. “Jobs are only going to come about by creating links with other countries. Let’s not be naive: lay out the red carpet for other countries to visit and be welcome in Limerick. Our city doesn’t start and end between Caherdavin and Castletroy. We’re a beacon for the whole of Limerick city, county and others,” he added.

    Still doesn't spell out how all the different African languages are gonna fit on the signs.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    We don't fear difference, we just fear idiots at the helm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 RonnieLimerick


    that <mod snip> is either courting the immigrant vote for the local elections or he got way to many blows to the head during his rugby days .


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 24,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭Clareman


    Reminder than name calling can be considered libellous, this will be the last on thread warning I'll be giving, after this it will be cards & bans.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Kev_2012


    I love the Polish! But even they don't want Polish signs!

    And "African Signs"? The sign would be the height of the building with all the different languages! But correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't English an official language of most African countries anyway? Sure the job is already half done so? :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    We don't fear difference, we just fear idiots at the helm.

    You're barking up the wrong tree, Fuzz. The mayor is not the person at the helm. The major decisions that affect the city are made by the executive officers in the local authority. The mayor doesn't have any role.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    zulutango wrote: »
    You're barking up the wrong tree, Fuzz. The mayor is not the person at the helm. The major decisions that affect the city are made by the executive officers in the local authority. The mayor doesn't have any role.

    Well, thank God for that!
    Just as long as the rest concentrate on the real issues, the Mayor can say or do what he wants.
    I just had to write this, because I work in the black hole of Calcutta with an hour long commute for a dodgy company.
    And there's zero chance of finding something else unless I want to work for €20k or become a software engineer.
    And I consider myself lucky to have a job (my mantra when banging my head against the wall), since many others cannot find work, as evident by a 30% rate of unemployment in the area.
    Here's hoping that the real people in charge are smart, forward thinking, daring, think outside the box and are not afraid to take some bold steps to address the issues facing Limerick.
    I live in Clare, but it's worse there, about three factories and the rest is civil servants, farmers and people running their own B&B's, other than that it's nothing but a housing estate and Park'n'Ride serving Galway and Limerick. So I would never expect to find any work there anyway.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Kev_2012 wrote: »
    I love the Polish! But even they don't want Polish signs!

    And "African Signs"? The sign would be the height of the building with all the different languages! But correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't English an official language of most African countries anyway? Sure the job is already half done so? :pac:

    Actually, on the Polish signs.
    We have some eastern European colleagues in our company, but they are from Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania.
    Polish signs will be of no help to them.
    If they really want to address most Easterners, the signs would have to be Russian.
    Then just add French for our African friends and we have most of it covered.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭gaf1983


    ninty9er wrote: »

    Even the Iranian government renamed Winston Churchill Boulevard, the location of the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Tehran, to Bobby Sands Street in order to make the Irish ex-pat community feel more welcome over there... at least I think that's why they did it!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    ya i dont really get that..


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    gaf1983 wrote: »
    Even the Iranian government renamed Winston Churchill Boulevard, the location of the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Tehran, to Bobby Sands Street in order to make the Irish ex-pat community feel more welcome over there... at least I think that's why they did it!

    Niiiiice!:D
    Those whacky Iranians.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 AndrewFla


    Whatever about the sentiments and the logistics, I simply dont think now is the time to be doing something like this. For people being harrassed to pay the household tax, worrying about their income, worrying about the water tax coming in, for those who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, for those who cant FIND a job in the first place... It's a slap in the face for money to be spent on something i would see as being very much non essential.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 330 ✭✭diddley


    The fact that someone like this can be elected mayor really depresses me... Just makes me more disinterested in Irish politics. The 'unhealthy to fear difference' comment particularly baffles me. How does that kind of viewpoint even develop?!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭DOBBER112


    This is precisely why Ireland is in the state that it's in, one mans crusade is much more important than a decision that would benefit everybody.
    Complete and utter self important and self publicizing morons are the people who have power in this country. Just look at that moron Hogan with his house hold tax crusade and then sends his staff to Harvard for a management course costing over 250k of taxpayers money. I bet anybody who paid that farce of a tax feels right stupid now. People didn't stand together, people fear the government and that's why they walk all over the people. Laughing as they go, back slapping their friendly banker friends and European politicians. Ah shur it'll all be grand lads, we can tax our way out of this economic treason lark ;)

    Meanwhile morons all over the country, mayors, city planners, managers, politicians continue to come up with hair brained ideas on how to piss away tax payers cash, pictures in the papers of them smiling and grinning at each other without a care in their elite world. No accountability breeds this type of moron and shur not to worry aren't we trying to flog the aul electronic voting machines :D Its all scandal folks, these bastards are just helping out their elite friends while the tax payer gets shafted with yet more stealth taxes and now they are actually threatening people with fines and pretty soon jail sentences until they get what they want. Your pension, your kids college money, your small keep the wolves away from the door emergency fund and every spare cent you have as long as the bankers and investors are paid.

    Its a huge big fat ****ing farce, we've all been played like fiddles by the elite while they chink their champagne glasses from wherever country they've decided to run and hide out. Lets call a spade a spade and realize that most politicians don't give a fiddlers fart about any of you, they have a public service job and at the end when they walk away they get a lovely big fat golden handshake and the type of pension and comfort 95% of us can only dream about. We are no longer living in a democracy as the government do not fear the people. The people fear the government and that as I understand it is more of a dictatorship. They promised us change they promised us honesty but in reality they just wanted the power and the perks that are provided to those at the top and long after they are gone from power they will be more than comfortable for their efforts.

    Every single man and woman who gave their life for this country so we could run it ourselves must be turning in their grave at how much of the absolute financial raping or little country has endured and continues to endure. So the rich get richer and the poor get poorer...whats changed? Absolutely nothing, they just figured out a way of getting more money out of you to pay for the mistakes of the unaccountable elite. Economic treason and yet nobody is accountable. Shur it'll all be grand ;)


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