Virtue signalling gobdaw Michael Higgins puts his foot in it again

mazdamiatamx5

It was obviously too much for him to criticise anything to do with the Religion of Peace so he invented some spurious wittering about climate change.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0613/1304483-higgins-nigeria/

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058250013/virtue-signalling-gobdaw-michael-higgins-puts-his-foot-in-it-again

President Higgins said that such an attack was made in a place of worship "is a source of particular condemnation, as is any attempt to scapegoat pastoral peoples who are among the foremost victims of the consequences of climate change".

What an incredibly stupid statement.

TomTomTim

"Such comments associating banditry, kidnapping and gruesome attacks on innocent and harmless citizens of Nigeria with issues concerning climate change and food securities are deflections from the truth."

The bishop said that it is "the responsibility of every one of us to take case of our earthly home," but added that he appeals to "those who are trying to take advantage of this horrific event to project any form of ideological agenda to desist from such opportunism

Well he's not wrong is he?

Atlantic Dawn

A man talking about the earth's resources being exploited while he lives in a 95 room house is proper taking the piss.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058250013/virtue-signalling-gobdaw-michael-higgins-puts-his-foot-in-it-again

The only thing your post does is demonstrate who little you know on topic, the way government works and your personal agenda regards the President.

The President does not make statements like that without the DOF, the minister for foreign affairs and on occasion even the cabinet signing off on it. What was said reflects government policy.

So off you go and waste another couple of hours trawling net for opportunities to troll.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119195874#Comment_119195874

Except he is not just a man and he does not own the house… and pretending otherwise is taking the piss!

TomTomTim

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196028#Comment_119196028

What was said reflects government policy.

How does that change anything? The state signing off on idiocy doesn't change the fact that it's idiocy. What an odd position to take.

growleaves

A sectarian massacre with a higher body count than the Omagh bombing.

You can't blame that bishop for being angry at foreigners inserting themselves into a domestic matter with pure waffle before the families have had time to grieve.

dorothylives

Ah yes, Higgins, the man who never met a Marxist despot he didn't admire. What was it he called Castro? A giant among men, I think was how he put it. Did the government sign off on that statement?

Donald Trump

Sure he was right.

TomTomTim

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196120#Comment_119196120

In fairness to him, everyone's a giant when you're that small.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196144#Comment_119196144

Not when you have a trusty box to stand on

mazdamiatamx5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196028#Comment_119196028

I don't give a tuppenny happenny damn who did or didn't sign off the statement. It's virtually signalling waffle which risks causing offence to the victims, as the Bishop rightly said.

mazdamiatamx5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196047#Comment_119196047

He is not just a man, lol? Is he identifying as something other than a man these days. Might as well jump on another fashionable bandwagon.

Bobblehats

Fly a couple hueys over and throw them some grain. As a gesture to Goodwill

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196238#Comment_119196238

Perhaps Mickey-D is just a bit more up-to-date with the issues than yourself?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-security-insight-idUSKBN1OI13X

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Fulani_sentiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herder%E2%80%93farmer_conflicts_in_Nigeria

growleaves

"Perhaps Mickey-D is just a bit more up-to-date with the issues than yourself?"

Because a Yankee web encyclopedia has entries on the things he's talking about?

There are mixed ethnic/religious and economic factors to this conflict which it's doubtful foreigners can definitively pronounce on.

Would a Nigerian understand all the nuances of wealthy Scotch-Irish Presbyterians feuding with poorer Catholic Gaels? That's neither wholly religious nor ethnic nor economic, it's a bit of all three.

Michael D./the Irish government have already given offence with sticking their oar in.

Brucie Bonus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119195822#Comment_119195822

He's the best president we've had.

Dyr

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196047#Comment_119196047

He eats enough to feed a entire platoon of civilian murdering jihadists.

A biovating little blowhard who has yet to find a marxist murderer that he wouldnt excuse.

Stovepipe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119195874#Comment_119195874

A man whose Board name is that of a Supertrawler,, asset-stripping the oceans, is proper taking the piss.

Boggles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196471#Comment_119196471

I imagine this guy would be far more clued in than any of us though.

“It’s a competition for limited land, it’s not about ethnicity or religion,” said Baba Othman Ngelzarma, National Secretary of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria.

It's always about money, religion is a guise.

GalwayMark

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196534#Comment_119196534

He's been good but his comments on this and the ukraine crisis have been frankly tone deaf because it seems the man is stuck making statements which seem a bit odd and no research has been done. Even Irish leftists need to realise the damage done by uncessary stunts as explained by the OP.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196047#Comment_119196047

Roughly how many Ukranian refugees could the house that he doesn't own accommodate if he volunteered to move back to one of his other homes? Or even to Farmleigh. You know? walking the walk instead of merely talking the talk.

If you looked up the term 'Champagne Socialist' in a dictionary there should be a picture of Michael D beneath it.

Shoog

Ireland has a socialist president - the horror.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196534#Comment_119196534

In much the same way that you're the best poster on Boards.ie, presumably.

Brucie Bonus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196972#Comment_119196972

Thanks man!

mazdamiatamx5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196889#Comment_119196889

Yep. And I am a leftist. The type of cackhanded virtual signalling Higgins comes out with gives the left a bad name.

dorothylives

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196906#Comment_119196906

Higgins should record some of his dreadful poetry, it would be a great antidote for insomnia. At least then he'd have provided some actual value to the country. Judging by how rotund he's become he's almost round, he probably hasn't got much time left now.

_Kaiser_

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196534#Comment_119196534

He's really not - although I'll grant you the bar isn't very high.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119196028#Comment_119196028

Complete and utter tosh! With an added touch of inflated pomposity.

It used to work like that when Presidents were former political hacks put out to grass in the Aras, but hasn't done so since the days of Mary Robinson. It's true that the DFA and other government departments draft formal speeches for the President when s/he's on official business (e.g. one of their "royal visits" overseas), but they neither draft nor veto nor have an input into the large majority of his press releases which are, generally speaking, all his own work.