Tánaiste Moany Burton: IW protesters 'seem to have extremely expensive phones'

DEFTLEFTHAND · 09-10-2014 4:30pm

Meathlass wrote: »

My cousin is working for them. He's been working in the family business for the last number of years on a 3 day week so delighted to get the job. Very long days though. I don't know how long his contract is.

So, no, he's not foreign and he's not a scab.

I heard pay is pretty decent, has he had any hassle from the public while working? We'd a situation with an old codger verbally assaulting workmen, I was kind of half hoping one of them would floor him.

Young Blood · 09-10-2014 4:31pm

Meathlass wrote: »

My cousin is working for them. He's been working in the family business for the last number of years on a 3 day week so delighted to get the job. Very long days though. I don't know how long his contract is.

So, no, he's not foreign and he's not a scab.

Were your ancestors also gombeen men during the famine?

Anyone with a conscience wouldn' t take a job like that.

Drug dealing is probably a more honest profession. At lest they provide a service.

BoJack Horseman · 09-10-2014 4:32pm

Young Blood wrote: »

Were your ancestors also gombeen men during the famine?

Anyone with a conscience wouldn' t take a job like that.

Drug dealing is probably a more honest profession. At lest they provide a service.

This thread is taking a turn!

TheDoctor · 09-10-2014 4:32pm

Young Blood wrote: »

Were your ancestors also gombeen men during the famine?

Anyone with a conscience wouldn' t take a job like that.

Drug dealing is probably a more honest profession. At lest they provide a service.

No words

daveyeh · 09-10-2014 4:32pm

rusty cole wrote: »

just to make a point here, redundant I know but anyway.
I remember in the boom hearing on my car radio while driving into town near easter (April) that the government had expected "X" billion from joe taxpayer in that year. It turned out they had exceeded that figure on that particular day!! that was exceeding the annual take within the first quarter!!
I couldn't believe my ears. So really everything thereafter was a bonus, and at that rate in the billions!! So really all that extra revenue could have fixed the water and everything else in between! the government at that time misappropriated, squandered, blew, pet projected our money!!
So realistically, people do have a right to be angry over water, Them fianna fail bast*rds took us for a ride and now fianna gael/labour are doing the same, TAXING us all over again for something we paid for already. and on it goes!!
depressing, no matter who ya put in. F*ckwits the lotta them!!
It's like someone taking your money to buy new lifelong shoes you badly need, spending it on a dress "they" like and then giving you old worn out yokes that last two weeks!! then their brother comes along and asks you to give em another 100.00 for the same new shoes you were promised in the first place!! ah but we need a port tunnel!!!

Best post I've read on boards in ages.

Fianna Fail = Cute hoor irresponsible politics
Fine Gael = Fianna Fail Lite
Sinn Fein = Angry morons
Labour = Too small to be effective so go along with the bigger party & look like hyprocrites.
Greens = See labour
Socialists = Indealistic lunatics
Independants = Mixed bag, (see all of the above).

Celly Smunt · 09-10-2014 4:33pm

Young Blood wrote: »

Were your ancestors also gombeen men during the famine?

Anyone with a conscience wouldn' t take a job like that.

Drug dealing is probably a more honest profession. At lest they provide a service.

Brought to you by people before profit.

Meathlass · 09-10-2014 4:33pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I heard pay is pretty decent, has he had any hassle from the public while working? We'd a situation with an old codger verbally assaulting workmen, I was kind of half hoping one of them would floor him.

Don't know what he's on, but he leaves home around 6.30 and they could be in Athlone etc for the day so it's long hours.

Yeah, they've had hassle. Don't think they've had any organized protests, it's more people deliberately parking cars so they can't get to the footpaths or occasionally shouting and screaming at them and threatening to call the guards as they're interfering with private property.

They just move on to the next house; doesn't make any difference to them.

Tubbins · 09-10-2014 4:33pm

Young Blood wrote: »

I don't see whats funny about it. Poles and Romanians are likely to have less solidarity with the Irish people.

It's hard to have solidarity for a nation (Ireland) where even the unemployed (can) make more money that you do.

Let's not begrudge anybody decent work and wages working for Sierra etc, especially not people from countries where there are a lot more poor people worse off than even the lowest economic strata in Ireland.

I also find what JB said to be completely and utterly hilarious because although it's satire it cuts pretty much to the point, we need to have a better smarter system of welfare.

suicide_circus · 09-10-2014 4:34pm

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

That we all paid for.

Yeah, except we didnt pay for it. We borrowed for it. Like we borrow for every nurse, teacher, garda snd dole payment in this country. And that all has to be repaid. Hence water charges.

CaptainInsano · 09-10-2014 4:34pm

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

They are breaking the rule of their jobseekers allowance. Instead of dicking around harassing ordinary people and workers they are suppose to be looking for work. Simple.

You realise that you're not expected to spend every waking moment of your existence posting off CVs while on the dole right? Maybe they had interviews or dropped off Cv's earlier on in the day.

Young Blood · 09-10-2014 4:34pm

Celly Smunt wrote: »

Any polish person i know has integrated heavily into Irish society.They work in irish companies,live in housing estate/apartments with Irish, pay tax,send their children to Irish schools where they even learn as gaelige.

I think the polish attutude to the current problem is the truth, we have a grand time in ireland in the grand scheme of things.

The polish,a great bunch of lads.

Essentially cheap labour imported from eastern europe to undercut the Irish working classes

Meathlass · 09-10-2014 4:34pm

Young Blood wrote: »

Were your ancestors also gombeen men during the famine?

Anyone with a conscience wouldn' t take a job like that.

Drug dealing is probably a more honest profession. At lest they provide a service.

So, you'd rather be a drug dealer than an Irish Water employee?

I suppose drugs are a more socially cohesive product than water alright :rolleyes:

TheDoctor · 09-10-2014 4:35pm

Young Blood wrote: »

Essentially cheap labour imported from eastern europe to undercut the Irish working classes

Imported? Its called freedom of movement, and it's for all European countries.

Celly Smunt · 09-10-2014 4:35pm

Young Blood wrote: »

Essentially cheap labour imported from eastern europe to undercut the Irish working classes

Yep thats exactly what happened...

jebus.

Chips Lovell · 09-10-2014 4:36pm

Young Blood wrote: »

Were your ancestors also gombeen men during the famine?

Anyone with a conscience wouldn' t take a job like that.

Drug dealing is probably a more honest profession. At lest they provide a service.

Well played. I tip my hat.

Ash.J.Williams · 09-10-2014 4:36pm

Young Blood wrote: »

Were your ancestors also gombeen men during the famine?

Anyone with a conscience wouldn' t take a job like that.

Drug dealing is probably a more honest profession. At lest they provide a service.

mine were planters...so we were fine!!

Tubbins · 09-10-2014 4:36pm

Young Blood wrote: »

Essentially cheap labour imported from eastern europe to undercut the Irish working classes

Poland is in Central Europe, but then you appear to care little for reality anyway...

Kermit.de.frog · 09-10-2014 4:36pm

CaptainInsano wrote: »

You realise that you're not expected to spend every waking moment of your existence posting off CVs while on the dole right? Maybe they had interviews or dropped off Cv's earlier on in the day.

Or maybe they are just unemployable scrounging troublemakers.

Young Blood · 09-10-2014 4:37pm

Tubbins wrote: »

I also find what JB said to be completely and utterly hilarious because although it's satire it cuts pretty much to the point, we need to have a better smarter system of welfare.

You can get a lot of smart phones for free if you take them out on billpay. Hardly the issue though.

Young Blood · 09-10-2014 4:37pm

Tubbins wrote: »

Poland is in Central Europe, but then you appear to care little for reality anyway...

Anyone beyond the 'Iron Curtain' is eastern to me.

09-10-2014 4:38pm

daveyeh wrote: »

Best post I've read on boards in ages.

Fianna Fail = Cute hoor irresponsible politics
Fine Gael = Fianna Fail Lite
Sinn Fein = Angry morons
Labour = Too small to be effective so go along with the bigger party & look like hyprocrites.
Greens = See labour
Socialists = Indealistic lunatics
Independants = Mixed bag, (see all of the above).

cheers pal

TheDoctor · 09-10-2014 4:39pm

Young Blood wrote: »

Anyone beyond the 'Iron Curtain' is eastern to me.

The 1980s called and want their international references back

chupacabra · 09-10-2014 4:39pm

If these "protestors" saw what life was like on this side of the European Union (the baltics) they would wise up fairly sharpish. Hopefully these new water charges will lead to reduced waste of water and hopefully go a long way to reducing the 41% of unaccounted for water in the system.

Celly Smunt · 09-10-2014 4:39pm

Young Blood wrote: »

Anyone beyond the 'Iron Curtain' is eastern to me.

Yet you'd align youself with socialists.Clever.

Idbatterim · 09-10-2014 4:40pm

I couldn't believe my ears. So really everything thereafter was a bonus, and at that rate in the billions!! So really all that extra revenue could have fixed the water and everything else in between! the government at that time misappropriated, squandered, blew, pet projected our money!!
So realistically, people do have a right to be angry over water, Them fianna fail bast*rds took us for a ride and now fianna gael/labour are doing the same, TAXING us all over again for something we paid for already. and on it goes!!
depressing, no matter who ya put in. F*ckwits the lotta them!!

I posted similar a week or so ago, how in gods name after the boom to end all booms, do we end up with an appalling water infrastructure, dublin still without a propert intergrated transport system etc! Literally every cent was thrown at vote buying, even looking back and several years later, I have to ask myself was FF recklessness actually that bad or am I imagining it?!

Fianna Fail = Cute hoor irresponsible politics
Fine Gael = Fianna Fail Lite
Sinn Fein = Angry morons
Labour = Too small to be effective so go along with the bigger party & look like hyprocrites.
Greens = See labour
Socialists = Indealistic lunatics
Independants = Mixed bag, (see all of the above).

FF buy off everyone regardless of merit, FG may not be perfect, but they are streets ahead of the rest of them in my opinion.

Young Blood · 09-10-2014 4:41pm

TheDoctor wrote: »

The 1980s called and want their international references back

Must be nice to get paid 24k a year to troll boards.ie Mr 'I'm not Middle Class' Accountant.

Willfarman · 09-10-2014 4:41pm

Young Blood wrote: »

You can get a lot of smart phones for free if you take them out on billpay. Hardly the issue though.

They are "free"? Ah that's ok then.

Young Blood · 09-10-2014 4:42pm

Celly Smunt wrote: »

Yet you'd align youself with socialists.Clever.

National Socialists that is

09-10-2014 4:42pm

It will be interesting to see how many will turn up on Saturday for the protest. The behaviour of some of the "protesters" leaves a very bad taste. Not only are they wasting valuable Garda time, they are damaging their "cause".

Young Blood · 09-10-2014 4:43pm

Willfarman wrote: »

They are "free"? Ah that's ok then.

Unlike water it seems

Tánaiste Moany Burton: IW protesters 'seem to have extremely expensive phones'

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