Things Eamon Ryan wants us to do...

veryangryman

Is anyone else sick of seeing comments on SM pages about how "Eamon Ryan wants us all to... " and so forth

Notable example: Eamon Ryan wants us to cycle from Cork to Limerick

Whoever stated this trend needs punching but i like to see the fun side of things. What on your feed today have you seen Eamon Ryan wanting you to do?

EmmetSpiceland

Not to destroy the planet.

veryangryman

Eamon Ryan wants Bobson to be guest of honour at his next party

Liam O

He's become like the president in the US. Given flak or credit depending on the side for things that have little to do with him.

"Trump did this"

"Biden is doing this"

Public Transport costs have been reduced significantly and numerous new infrastructure developments that were stuck in development hell have gotten rolling under his watch. I don't think most of the other things people give out about are even under his jurisdiction but he's made a good lightening rod for uneducated fools.

HerrKapitan

In fairness to Ryan these are not his ideas, he is only following guidance from Davos. There is not.much he can do about it.

Astartes

He believes we are on a war footing. How long until emergency war powers legislation will be drafted?

Traffic wardens executing people who take 10 minute showers, climate denier's mulched to make food for livestock (cockroaches and other crunchy insect delectables)

Threads needed the nuke but we have Eamon.

dxhound2005

I expect Eamon wants our SM feeds to be vegan.

silliussoddius

Own nothing and be happy.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121639235#Comment_121639235

they don't! we actually pollute more than chinese people. also they're a factory for the west, if you have a problem with their pollution you should make sure not to buy any chinese products.

ednwireland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121639941#Comment_121639941

I love this BS China has 477 million rural dewellers out of 933 million people so what you will find is those people rural dwellers have tiny carbon footprints. bet that's where the per capita low carbon footprint comes from.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121639959#Comment_121639959

no BS about it, people moan about china but ireland/EU pollute far more per capita, EU is 500 million people nearly and china's biggest customer

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058332166/things-eamon-ryan-wants-us-to-do

...ah its childish stuff now, but the political green movement is in serious trouble, its very likely we ll start reversing what they have achieved, and they have made achievements.....

Cheddar Bob

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121639205#Comment_121639205

What infrastructure?

Under this absolute goon's watch the day of the bypass or the motorway is, as of the future, effectively over.

BagofWeed

To think that we can be both neo-liberalist and environmentally conscious.

Baba Yaga

i dont really care about eamon ryan one way or the other but id be a good bit environmentally conscious ...can anyone tell me why,with all the environmental worry and all oil/plastics are bad...is near everyfookinthing you buy covered in industrial strength plastic....?

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121640622#Comment_121640622

...plastic sales are good, so thats good for the economy....

Baba Yaga

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121640646#Comment_121640646

aye maybe so but...i thought all plastics were bad cause its killing off all the baby seals and sea turtles...?

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121640622#Comment_121640622

An excellent question.....

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121640646#Comment_121640646

I wonder would glass containers that can be recycled, paper from sustainably managed forests etc be good for it too (in terms of the businesses/jobs created in manufacturing and recycling etc) and help with the environment/reduce all kinds of waste/pollution

Or at least be neutral and just replace the plastic jobs...it is revolting how much plastic packaging and single use crap at that we produce as a species

Pwindedd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121640622#Comment_121640622

I shop once a week and bring 3 or 4 bags in the door. Yet every week I’m filling a wheelie bin ? Where is it coming from. Is it breeding in my recycling bin ?

Its genuinely puzzling me at this stage.

Ubbquittious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121641285#Comment_121641285

There has to be a way to melt all this plastic into bricks and make houses out of it. The bricks could even be bulked up with ashes, rubble or other waste products. If you can turn waste plastic into houses you solve 2 massive problems.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121639648#Comment_121639648

I find that to be the most brainless comment on the internet! Every time I see it I conclude that it is comes from someone incapable of doing the most basic independent reasoning or expression of ideas and demonstrating a guilty for believe and repeat whatever crap they are fed on social media.

Pwindedd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121642396#Comment_121642396

It seems so simple doesn’t it. Maybe we need to get over ourselves on the appearance of things. If you melt it all down I imagine it looks rather grey/brown ‘en masse’ but surely it has some use.

Bus shelters. Credit cards. Laundry baskets. Rubbish bins. I could go on.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121642421#Comment_121642421

do sum research 4 urself, the WEF, Blackrock, Blackstone, vanguard and the jooze are tryin' to force jabs on us agin our will

KaneToad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121642421#Comment_121642421

I agree. I also believe the childish lampooning of Ryan comes from similar people.

silliussoddius

My main memory of Ryan is from 2008 when the economy was turning to scutter and he was beaming ear to ear about the new kind of light bulbs that were being implemented.

_Kaiser_

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121646150#Comment_121646150

Don't forget their two-tier motor tax system which devalued otherwise perfectly good cars overnight and encouraged the massive shift to diesel that this time round they've complained about so much and pushed people to buy EVs instead - hardly cheap or an environmentally sound option either considering the manufacturing/mining processes involved and again, scrapping/devaluing otherwise perfectly good cars!

Oh and he and his bunch of zealots are again propping up an unpopular Government while the fabric of the country crumbles around them because of problems they have proactively made worse - housing, immigration etc. Oh and Ryan has reduced our energy independence as well with the farce over the proposed LNG terminal. Let's not forget that these idiots only got 7% of the vote from those who bothered to turn out in the first place either.

None of this was a a suprise really after their performance last time!

Carlito Brigantes Tale

People like Ryan make me care less about the environment to be honest.

gossamerfabric

try to care about the environment but that doesn't mean you or I have to vote for the Green Party. Find your own way to your God without being steered by pseudo-science dogma dictated to you by the Green Party and the local Archbishop Ryan.

Mr. teddywinkles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121642421#Comment_121642421

Criticism without explanation. 👍

Burt Renaults

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121638886#Comment_121638886

What a bastard.

He's useful because he makes it easy to immediately identify idiots. By which, I mean the tedious right-wing c*nts who moan about him all the time and massively exaggerate his influence over policy. It's a shame the Green Party are so eager to prop FF/FG governments up, thus making themselves toxic every few years. I've no doubt that Ryan is a decent human being, but I wish his party would look at the bigger picture and concentrate on growing as a movement, rather than diving into government at every opportunity to act as a mudguard for people who are much better at politics.

Most of the stuff that stupid people "blame" the Green Party for would be happening anyway.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121646462#Comment_121646462

There’s not much to explain, that slogan gets trotted out without any knowledge of it’s origin as if it were the mission statement of the WEF.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121645935#Comment_121645935

Nothing to do with research whatsoever. When someone’s only contribution to a discussion is to repeat a sentence they heard somewhere else without any attempt to make it relevant to the discussion shows a lack of intellect. Kinda like background noise really.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121646396#Comment_121646396

I think he's done more damage to the green movement by coming out with inane brain farts like wolves and window boxes that are immediately latched onto and roundy made fun of.

He's done everything to solidify the image of the greens as being a party for the smug, affluent EV owning suburbanites.

esker72

Manufacturing thousands of massive can recycling machines running on electricity and asking people to fill their cars with cans and plastic bottles, drive to these machines, hope there's no queue and the machine is working so they can get their money back. I may be missing something but how is that better than me walking to my recycle bin in the garden and throwing the cans and bottles in?

I realise this may not be him but for the purposes of this thread I'm going with the "sounds like something he'd do" logic and it is his area

animalinside

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121638886#Comment_121638886

Those greenies and their crazy outlandish suggestions.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121639941#Comment_121639941

Did you just say Ireland pollutes more than China!