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Exit poll: The post referendum thread. No electioneering.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,542 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    alaimacerc wrote: »
    I'm not repeating myself on a tangent I've more than covered already.



    You didn't so much offer your opinion as to what they'd do, as slag them off in advance for backing down. While covering yourself by simultaneously slagging them off if they stick to "NEVER NEVER".

    As I already pointed out, I'm not at all critical of SF on this -- other than being slow reproductive rights learners, but not as slow as the other three main single-community parties. I mention them only in the light of the hilarity of how you would gloss SF "quietly backing down", or sticking to their "NEVER NEVER redlines".

    It's pretty much your single transferable post.

    Where did I do anything only tell the facts.
    The DUP have a habit of quietly backing down on their NEVER NEVER redlines if it doesn't suit them.

    If you object to the fact above, point out what your objection is please with counter facts.

    The DUP are the ONLY party standing in the way of equal rights on the island.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    "homemaker" Joanna Jordan is going to bring a petition challenging the High Court ruling that the rest of the country can outvote her.

    Why is there no journalist in the country wants to profile this constant agitator, neither her nor Charles Byrne?

    Where do they get their money? Private citizens, homemakers and music teachers, for instance, rarely have high court cash just knocking around.

    Where is the Irish Times piece on the people suing the voters of Ireland at great expense?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,109 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Can we just abort the two of them and bring in the will of the people?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    ELM327 wrote: »
    Can we just abort the two of them and bring in the will of the people?

    id be careful to state that they have a right to make their case and claim under the legitimate means available

    but with that said the mystery around them and their extraordinary resources is......noteworthy. influence in high places in media at the very least the way the the press are just ignoring this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,495 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    ELM327 wrote: »
    Can we just abort the two of them and bring in the will of the people?


    thankfully we can't kill people just because someone doesn't agree with them.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,109 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    id be careful to state that they have a right to make their case and claim under the legitimate means available

    but with that said the mystery around them and their extraordinary resources is......noteworthy. influence in high places in media at the very least the way the the press are just ignoring this.
    Generally yes


    However, these are two frivolous cases based on nothing but bias and bunkum. In order to be successful they need to not only prove their claims, but also prove that it materially affected the result.


    And the best case scenario for them is a rerun of the election. Which will result in a similar result anyway!


    EDIT: If the post above mine is directed at me, I cannot see it as "This message is hidden because end of the road is on your ignore list. "


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,815 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    thankfully we can't kill people just because someone doesn't agree with them.

    To quote Morrissey in a similar context: "I'm sure there was a certain flippancy to that remark. I wasn't banging a mallet on the table."


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    judge recommends pursuing her for full 200k cost

    she'll find that down the back of her sofa, but who will have left it there?

    yerman had only a piano to his name. funny, its a name that shows up long enough ago if you google it in its various translations. state pursuing him against judge recommendation.

    good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/03c8a114-9059-11e8-8c1a-b63727488402

    So with a few Catholic run hospitals saying they will refuse to perform abortions, may now lose control over those hospitals.

    Great news, and glorious to see them shoot themselves in the foot, again, and again, and again.
    A report outlining a plan to separate church and state in healthcare is due before the government next month. It has examined a code of ethics from the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference that suggests banning abortion in hospitals with a religious ethos.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,109 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Gintonious wrote: »
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/03c8a114-9059-11e8-8c1a-b63727488402

    So with a few Catholic run hospitals saying they will refuse to perform abortions, may now lose control over those hospitals.

    Great news, and glorious to see them shoot themselves in the foot, again, and again, and again.
    Only right to be fair, why should some ridiculous paedophile organisation be in charge of the maternity hospitals - or hospitals in general.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,063 ✭✭✭uptherebels


    Gintonious wrote: »
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/03c8a114-9059-11e8-8c1a-b63727488402

    So with a few Catholic run hospitals saying they will refuse to perform abortions, may now lose control over those hospitals.

    Great news, and glorious to see them shoot themselves in the foot, again, and again, and again.

    This is the final straw that will finally push the government into action about removing church influence in health care. The only sad thing is that it takes the church refusing to do something first


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Gintonious wrote: »
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/03c8a114-9059-11e8-8c1a-b63727488402

    So with a few Catholic run hospitals saying they will refuse to perform abortions, may now lose control over those hospitals.

    Great news, and glorious to see them shoot themselves in the foot, again, and again, and again.

    Meh! Sure, if the Government want to pay for the use of the buildings all these years, not to mention wages for all the nuns who set the hospitals up.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,597 ✭✭✭gctest50


    Meh! Sure, if the Government want to pay for the use of the buildings all these years, not to mention wages for all the nuns who set the hospitals up.....


    Can be taken in part payment for settling all the abuse cases and the 700+ dead babies in the septic tanks in Tuam etc


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    ah now, they were hardly all thrown in the septic tank... I mean, I know it makes for an eye-catching headline, but..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    ah now, they were hardly all thrown in the septic tank... I mean, I know it makes for an eye-catching headline, but..

    If only one was, that’s too many.

    Your post reminds me of those people who downplay how many Jews were murdered during WWII. Oh, only a million, you say? Like, even if they were right, it would still be so wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,855 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    ah now, they were hardly all thrown in the septic tank... I mean, I know it makes for an eye-catching headline, but..

    So that makes it ok? :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,223 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    SF don't routinely block rights though, as far as I can see.

    They kinda blocked the 1967 Act being extended for about 50 years though.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Meh! Sure, if the Government want to pay for the use of the buildings all these years, not to mention wages for all the nuns who set the hospitals up.....

    The church owes the state well over a billion euros not accounting for interest. It is long, long, long past time that they were stripped of assets to the value of what they owe. Those hospitals and the vast majority of schools are the rightful property of the state.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,542 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    They kinda blocked the 1967 Act being extended for about 50 years though.

    I am not for a minute defending any party but like all but one party on this island they have changed their view and have gotten behind liberalising policy on these matters.

    The focus really should be on removing the last bastion of bigoted religious fundamentalists influencing social laws and policy governing everyone.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    gctest50 wrote: »
    Can be taken in part payment for settling all the abuse cases and the 700+ dead babies in the septic tanks in Tuam etc


    Part payment? I think you might want to do a bit of a valuation....
    Add in voluntary health and teaching personnel, and I think you might find the State would have a fairly substantial deficit - especially since the State itself - shamefully - was culpable in passing draconian laws, condemning these women and their children to a hellish life, and failing completely in their duty of care to the poor unfortunates their actions condemned as surely as those so-called "igious" who carried out the abuse.

    iguana wrote: »
    The church owes the state well over a billion euros not accounting for interest. It is long, long, long past time that they were stripped of assets to the value of what they owe. Those hospitals and the vast majority of schools are the rightful property of the state.


    The vast majority of schools are the property of the Catholic Community - not the hierarchy.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Part payment? I think you might want to do a bit of a valuation...


    OK - pay up or else.


    1 billion will do for starters.

    And because we all know why the church owes the money, they are on the back foot. I say go for a million trillion euros and f@ck them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,597 ✭✭✭gctest50


    Part payment? I think you might want to do a bit of a valuation....


    Add in voluntary health and teaching personnel,

    except they were being paid by the people ( or the same people be would living under the threat of being ostracised from the pulpit by the local Roman Terrorist if they didn't pay up )





    and I think you might find the State would have a fairly substantial deficit - especially since the State itself - shamefully - was culpable in passing draconian laws, condemning these women and their children to a hellish life, and failing completely in their duty of care to the poor unfortunates their actions condemned as surely as those so-called "igious" who carried out the abuse.
    Originally Posted by iguana
    The church owes the state well over a billion euros not accounting for interest. It is long, long, long past time that they were stripped of assets to the value of what they owe. Those hospitals and the vast majority of schools are the rightful property of the state.




    The vast majority of schools are the property of the Catholic Community - not the hierarchy.


    The vast majority of schools are the property of the Catholic Community - not the hierarchy.


    Property of the people, same as things and property taken over by the Nazi scum was returned to the people.







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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    gctest50 wrote: »
    except they were being paid by the people ( or the same people be would living under the threat of being ostracised from the pulpit by the local Roman Terrorist if they didn't pay up )


    Property of the people, same as things and property taken over by the Nazi scum was returned to the people.


    DpwG52n.jpg

    Was it the responsibility of "the people", or the Government, to pay the staff in Government institutions?
    Or did the Government not collect tax?

    Nice word choice. Does "the people" mean those who have no connection whatsoever with those who contributed to the building and upkeep of those buildings over the years - or are you suggesting that they're effectively state owned?

    I think you may find that property rights are fairly securely enshrined in Irish legislation.

    And, by the way, this is way off-topic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,223 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    I am not for a minute defending any party but like all but one party on this island they have changed their view and have gotten behind liberalising policy on these matters.

    The focus really should be on removing the last bastion of bigoted religious fundamentalists influencing social laws and policy governing everyone.

    You just argued they dont routinely rights. They were completely happy to block abortion rights for about 50 years so you were wrong.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,597 ✭✭✭gctest50


    ............

    And, by the way, this is way off-topic.

    Yes mod

    Anything you say mod


    Yer not on the side of the gaa pitch now




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,542 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    You just argued they dont routinely rights. They were completely happy to block abortion rights for about 50 years so you were wrong.

    Everybody did Joey.

    But if it helps you, carry on with the rather pathetic attempt to characterise them as the current problem with regards to equal rights for all. I fancy nothing I could say or do will change that mindset.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    gctest50 wrote: »
    Yes mod

    Anything you say mod


    Yer not on the side of the gaa pitch now




    Reported.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Reported.

    Leave the modding to us, thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,637 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Looks like the appeals court will be hearing Joanna Jordan's appeal on August 17th, submissions due by the 7th.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/abortion-referendum-appeal-to-be-heard-in-august-1.3578370

    I had thought the appeals court would've thrown out the request to appeal, apparently not.

    Also, someone from Leitrim wants to get in on action (same article) but the Judges are denying it, saying 'you can't bring your appeal as a substitution for one already ruled on, just because you want to.'


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,355 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    I'd love to know just who's funding these appeals.


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