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Is Ireland committing genocide?

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  • Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Marengo wrote: »
    Rural Ireland is neglected, planning wise, as schools, post offices etc closing but genocide is a highly inappropriate term to use.

    It's 2019. 2018 taught us that using big words actually works on a lot of people.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭Anthracite


    Realitykeeper wants to live in a world where people are required to stay in the village of their birth and are not allowed leave for better opportunities elsewhere.

    Sounds great. Your thinking would have been very current in the medieval period.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    I hear Irish people with pitch forks and macheties outside help I'm ginger


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,699 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Lone Stone wrote: »
    I hear Irish people with pitch forks and macheties outside help I'm ginger


    Your eyes may be too far apart for realitykeepers comfort.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    The M6 motorway is in Co Roscommon.
    Athlone railways station is 2.8 kms from Co Roscommon

    The railway runs from Athlone through Roscommon town and Castlerea and on to Mayo. Another line runs from Longford through Boyle and into Sligo. The line from Athlone to Galway stops in Ballinasloe which is a few Kms from parts of Roscommon.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    Oh no not another Traveller thread. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    If there was interest from companies in locating there then the facilities would be provided....

    That is not the way to run a country.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    Why would you open a business in Donegal?

    What does Donegal have that Dublin, or Cork or Galway doesn't?

    Theyre having to raffle away houses
    https://m.facebook.com/356581234676034/posts/776786545988832/

    It has less infrastructure. It needs more infrastructure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭BuzzMcdonnell


    It has less infrastructure. It needs more infrastructure.

    You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    batgoat wrote: »
    Nope, still incredibly insulting to those who have been subject to ethnic cleansing. It's more that you have a pretty racist agenda akin to those who actually favour ethnic cleansing. You thanked that massive racist a few pages back who started going on about mixed race children, right?

    Well JusAThought suggested it be called ethnic cleansing and I agree. I do not have a racist agenda and if I thanked the person you are referring to it would have been for something else that he said that had nothing to do with racism.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    A few years ago on the radio, I heard someone explain part of the reason why industry is centered more around Dublin, and not in the West.

    A prospective tech company (for example) is looking for a suitable premises in Ireland, contacts the department for trade and enterprises who refers them to commercial estate agents in Dublin.

    The tech company sends a couple of representatives to Dublin where they are me by the guys from the estate agents who brings them to a site not far off the M50 where there are several large units ready for action.

    They have a look around, grab lunch and are back up at the airport for an afternoon flight home. No fuss, job done.

    So to repeat, the northwest needs infrastructure such as airports, motorways, zoning/planning and support services, serviced industrial sites and so on.

    What I am saying is they should get these things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭BuzzMcdonnell


    So to repeat, the northwest needs infrastructure such as airports, motorways, zoning/planning and support services, serviced industrial sites and so on.

    What I am saying is they should get these things.

    In an ideal world, preferably one where five hundred euro notes grew on trees.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Prince William


    Marengo wrote: »
    Rural Ireland is neglected, planning wise, as schools, post offices etc closing but genocide is a highly inappropriate term to use.

    It's very rare for a school to close unless the pupil numbers drop to below 5, Some post offices are closing because it's not 1979 and more and more oaps every year are choosing direct deposit as the payment method for their pension and bills are being paid by direct debit, Standing order, online, over the phone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    Collie D wrote: »
    To be fair to Athenry the main objector to Apple lived on the other side of the country. Think he was hoping to set it up on his own land.

    Complete manipulation of the process.

    Wasn`t there some spurious objection to a Vodofone mast in Dublin recently and they only found out by accident that the objector did not live where he claimed? It caused a 6 month delay.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭BuzzMcdonnell


    It's very rare for a school to close unless the pupil numbers drop to below 5, Some post offices are closing because it's not 1979 and more and more oaps every year are choosing direct deposit as the payment method for their pension and bills are being paid by direct debit, Standing order, online, over the phone.

    School 5 minutes up the road from me has about 10 pupils. Another one 30 second down the road from me has about 100. Never understood how they don’t just close the smaller school and move the 10 students to the larger school.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    fxotoole wrote: »
    Fair enough. The point is that maybe if the people of Western Ireland stopped objecting to things that might improve their infrastructure, they might actually get some development and stimulus of their local economy

    ... and as just pointed out (two posts back), this happens in Dublin also. Nice try but no cigar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭BuzzMcdonnell


    ... and as just pointed out, this happens in Dublin also. Nice try but no cigar.

    Nobody said it doesn’t happen in Dublin, but it seems to happen a whole lot more rurally.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    The OP has a concerted agenda, for us to participate in his warped game and extend the lifespan of this redundant thread interminably. The cretinous premise that rural malaise is akin to genocide was all he needed to fan the flames of derision.

    Now now, temper temper. Let us remain couth. Foot stamping is for two year olds.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,427 ✭✭✭Twenty Grand


    So to repeat, the northwest needs infrastructure such as airports, motorways, zoning/planning and support services, serviced industrial sites and so on.

    What I am saying is they should get these things.

    Why? As one of the least densely populated counties with little history of industry, with few skilled workers in growth sectors, few large towns, with crappy infrastructure, no port, no airport, no railways, and no one to use them, why would the government invest money in roads and rail to nowhere, at the expense of all the other areas in the country that desperately need infrastructure?

    Donegal is the wild west.
    Well JusAThought suggested it be called ethnic cleansing and I agree.
    Ethnic cleansing is when a strong group forcibly removes a weak group. So what group is performing the ethnic cleansing up near you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    rizzodun wrote: »

    The N4 (Sligo to Dublin) is seeing investment and upgrade from Sligo to Castlebaldwin, the most dangerous stretch of that road.

    Yes I am sure there is investment for the Sligo to Dublin road, the Limerick to Dublin road, the Galway to Dublin road, the Cork to Dublin road, the waterford to Dublin Road yet somehow I feel infrastructure spending is skewed in favour of some places to the detriment of others. I mean, not every county will be getting 1.4 billion for a childrens hospital and then enjoy people from all over the country coming to stay in their hotels in order to remain close to their sick children. Not every county will be getting a 4 billion euro metro and certainly not every county gets the same per square Km as every other. No wonder our country does not have enough housing in some places and not enough people in others.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    Anthracite wrote: »
    Realitykeeper wants to live in a world where people are required to stay in the village of their birth and are not allowed leave for better opportunities elsewhere.

    Sounds great. Your thinking would have been very current in the medieval period.

    I want to live in a world where people have the choice of staying in the village of their birth or going elsewhere for opportunities. As things stand, they have no alternative but to leave.


  • Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Now now, temper temper. Let us remain couth. Foot stamping is for two year olds.

    Jesus wept.

    Intelligent dismissal of your nonsense is neither uncouth or a display of ill temper.

    You’ve nothing to do with keeping things real. You clearly have no grasp at all on reality and if you’re genuinely trying to argue these points based on any genuiely held belief at all, you probably never had in the first place.

    You want full railway services, FDI, an airport and Dog knows what else for a sparsely populated region, indeed one with a shrinking population (they’re leaving, who can blame them, not being killed off, FFS) and you think it’s no way to run a country to not invest in those things anyway?

    Christ on a bike and Dog save us. I hope you get a Darwin Award for your efforts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.

    Without water, the horse can`t drink.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    In an ideal world, preferably one where five hundred euro notes grew on trees.

    There is nothing ideal about hyperinflation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    Nobody said it doesn’t happen in Dublin, but it seems to happen a whole lot more rurally.

    As mentioned already, planning, zoning and related support services are just as necessary in rural areas as they are in Dublin.


  • Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Without water, the horse can`t drink.

    And if the horse is so chock full of crap....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    Why? As one of the least densely populated counties with little history of industry, with few skilled workers in growth sectors, few large towns, with crappy infrastructure, no port, no airport, no railways, and no one to use them, why would the government invest money in roads and rail to nowhere, at the expense of all the other areas in the country that desperately need infrastructure?

    It should make these investments for precisely the reasons you mentioned. The investments were not made in the past so they need to be made now for the benefit of the country as a whole.
    Donegal is the wild west.


    Ethnic cleansing is when a strong group forcibly removes a weak group. So what group is performing the ethnic cleansing up near you?

    The Irish government.


  • Posts: 3,713 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It should make these investments for precisely the reasons you mentioned. The investments were not made in the past so they need to be made now for the benefit of the country as a whole.



    The Irish government.

    How about this then...

    How about all those who moved to Dublin leave and move back to the north-west. They can pack in their jobs, sell their houses to all the Dubs living in Wexford, Kildare, Meath, Louth etc. There will then be affordable housing for all the ‘locals’ in Dublin and a swell in population in the NE region which will justify the investment, right? All their taxes from their salaries and income as landlords there in that region will... Oh, no.... Wait now.

    I think I might have found a little problem there now.

    Get a grip RK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    JayZeus wrote: »
    Jesus wept.

    Intelligent dismissal of your nonsense is neither uncouth or a display of ill temper.

    You’ve nothing to do with keeping things real. You clearly have no grasp at all on reality and if you’re genuinely trying to argue these points based on any genuiely held belief at all, you probably never had in the first place.

    You want full railway services, FDI, an airport and Dog knows what else for a sparsely populated region, indeed one with a shrinking population (they’re leaving, who can blame them, not being killed off, FFS) and you think it’s no way to run a country to not invest in those things anyway?

    Christ on a bike and Dog save us. I hope you get a Darwin Award for your efforts.
    In 2009, the African city of kigali set aside 100 hectares for a special economic zone. Despite, being landlocked, a thousand miles from the nearest seaport, in the middle of Africa with a history of genocide the project was so sucessful they are planning 8 more such zones and as common sense dictates, they are planed for other places in Rwanda, they won`t all be squashed into Kigali. Build it and they will come. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqCD1u6K4aM


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    JayZeus wrote: »
    And if the horse is so chock full of crap....

    The north west is not full of crap. (If you had said that about me I would have reported you.)


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