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Exit poll: The post referendum thread. No electioneering.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,185 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right



    This is akin to arriving at the local vegetarian restaurant, figuring the steak wasn't an option, then asking for a recommendation for a good steak and then being obliged to follow that recommendation. It is likely not going to be a good result and we know why, vegetarians know nothing about steak!
    Or similarly asking a teetotaler for a recommendation to a good off-licence.

    If the restaurant advertises that they are vegetarian then no one would go there looking for steak. Much like if the doctor lets be known they are a CO then people won't go there looking for an abortion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 nooples


    perhaps access to a referral could be granted by requiring the woman to solve a series of riddles? that way it wouldn't be too easy, but would still be technically available


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


    nooples wrote: »
    perhaps access to a referral could be granted by requiring the woman to solve a series of riddles?

    "If an abortionist you wish to see,
    answer for me these riddles three!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 nooples


    "where is a doctor not a doctor? where is the law, not the law? where is a right, not a right?"

    "is it...em...ireland?"

    "sh*te..how did you know that one"


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,564 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Today outside the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street

    No compaigners still busy invading people's privacy (they have gopro's) and generally trying to upset people while they go to have medical procedures carried out.
    all they seem interested in doing is trying to intimidate people.

    453672.jpg


    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2018/06/18/meanwhile-outside-the-national-maternity-hospital/


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Nettle Soup


    Cabaal wrote: »
    Today outside the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street

    No compaingers still busy invading people's privacy (they have gopro's) and generally trying to upset people while they go to have medical procedures carried out.

    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2018/06/18/meanwhile-outside-the-national-maternity-hospital/

    Idiots and sore losers. Let them off. Only making fools of themselves.


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,564 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    "If an abortionist you wish to see,
    answer for me these riddles three!"

    what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,564 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Idiots and sore losers. Let them off. Only making fools of themselves.

    Problem is its a little more then that, its mindless zealots and they are a danger to themselves and others. They are only starting with intimidation now, but given time they'll escalate to something else.

    Many pro life groups in the USA saw nothing wrong with a doctor being murdered in-front of his family while he went to church, they thought nothing of burning another doctors stables down and burning several horses alive.

    They also thought nothing of bank rolling the legal defence fund for the guy who murdered the doctor.

    These zealots have links to US pro-life groups, to them the ends justify the means and this is why they see zero issue with the graphic images.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Cabaal wrote: »
    Today outside the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street

    No compaigners still busy invading people's privacy (they have gopro's) and generally trying to upset people while they go to have medical procedures carried out.
    all they seem interested in doing is trying to intimidate people.




    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2018/06/18/meanwhile-outside-the-national-maternity-hospital/


    I don't get the logic here. I don't think people are going in there to get abortions. They're making fools of themselves but I wish they would do it without harassing and intimidating women who are going through what can be a worrying time.


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,564 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    I don't get the logic here. I don't think people are going in there to get abortions. They're making fools of themselves but I wish they would do it without harassing and intimidating women who are going through what can be a worrying time.

    What they are doing is the norm in the USA and in some parts of the UK,
    the group in question has US foundation so they are just copying what they do in the states.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 726 ✭✭✭The Legend Of Kira


    Cabaal wrote: »
    Today outside the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street

    No compaigners still busy invading people's privacy (they have gopro's) and generally trying to upset people while they go to have medical procedures carried out.
    all they seem interested in doing is trying to intimidate people.

    453672.jpg


    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2018/06/18/meanwhile-outside-the-national-maternity-hospital/

    I don,t agree with them picketing hospitals nor do i see the point/purpose of it. I think its a bit of a stretch to use the intimidation accusation against them, the reason why i say that it from various online videos of their various protests I don,t see them chanting any slogans at any of their protests nor have I seen them trying to physically block or obstruct anyone going about their business, in most the videos I ve watched they re just standing on a footpath somewhere with their banners.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    It's intimation, no doubt. They are a horrible bunch of people.


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


    I don,t agree with them picketing hospitals nor do i see the point/purpose of it. I think its a bit of a stretch to use the intimidation accusation against them, the reason why i say that it from various online videos of their various protests I don,t see them chanting any slogans at any of their protests nor have I seen them trying to physically block or obstruct anyone going about their business, in most the videos I ve watched they re just standing on a footpath somewhere with their banners.

    Imagine seeing those banners if you are experiencing problems with your pregnancy? Where’s this great compassion that these people are apparently lousy with? And remember that some of the pro-life campaigning groups distanced themselves from the placing of those banners outside maternity hospitals in the lead up to the referendum? They do indeed have the right to stand there with those banners. And I have the right to consider them to be complete cuntbags for doing so. :cool:


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  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,564 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    I don,t agree with them picketing hospitals nor do i see the point/purpose of it. I think its a bit of a stretch to use the intimidation accusation against them, the reason why i say that it from various online videos of their various protests I don,t see them chanting any slogans at any of their protests nor have I seen them trying to physically block or obstruct anyone going about their business, in most the videos I ve watched they re just standing on a footpath somewhere with their banners.


    I know somebody that recently went through a miscarriage, thankfully they weren't attending this particular hospital in Dublin but had they been this would have been deeply distressing to them. As it was they are in a very fragile place right now (understandably) and these people are just aiming to upset her more

    Not only that but these scumbags also have video camera's strapped to themselves so they are videoing women and couples as they attend hospital, this is messed up

    They don't care about the woman they claim to care about at all,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 726 ✭✭✭The Legend Of Kira


    Cabaal wrote: »
    I know somebody that recently went through a miscarriage, thankfully they weren't attending this particular hospital in Dublin but had they been this would have been deeply distressing to them. As it was they are in a very fragile place right now (understandably) and these people are just aiming to upset her more

    Not only that but these scumbags also have video camera's strapped to themselves so they are videoing women and couples as they attend hospital, this is messed up

    They don't care about the woman they claim to care about at all,

    On the issue of them with the body cameras they said themselves in past FB posts the reason why they wear them is to protect them from accusations/harassment etc. When they gather outside a hospital they shouldn,t be allowed film people with body cameras as patient privacy/confidentiality has to be taken into consideration.


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


    Cabaal wrote: »
    ..........

    They also thought nothing of bank rolling the legal defence fund for the guy who murdered the doctor.

    These zealots have links to US pro-life groups, to them the ends justify the means and this is why they see zero issue with the graphic images.


    They're like people that have been roped into a dodgy MLM scheme

    "Wave a banner outside all 5 hospitals and reach the next level"


    Has all the signs - almost rabid followers, lot of money there somewhere, will cr@p on anyone to push whatever they've bought into


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


    Cabaal wrote: »
    I know somebody that recently went through a miscarriage, thankfully they weren't attending this particular hospital in Dublin but had they been this would have been deeply distressing to them. As it was they are in a very fragile place right now (understandably) and these people are just aiming to upset her more

    That's the thing. Odds are there are women who went into Holles St today and received bad news. And all these absolute pricks did was make one of the hardest days those women have ever had to endure, worse.:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Cabaal wrote: »
    Today outside the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street
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    Is that two gardai wasting their time standing around looking after them?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    On the issue of them with the body cameras they said themselves in past FB posts the reason why they wear them is to protect them from accusations/harassment etc. When they gather outside a hospital they shouldn,t be allowed film people with body cameras as patient privacy/confidentiality has to be taken into consideration.

    Data protection issue there filming people without permission. Its not some photographer doing street photography where it's part of a scene or just random people walking down some street.
    This is people with bodycams protesting outside a hospital filming people going in and out of a it. Anyone has a right to go over and ask them to delete the footage and also to ask where and what the footage is being used for. Remember the order of hibernians going through footage from protests and trying to ID people from the images so they could get names and addresses.


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


    Seems they had 6 bodycams

    https://mobile.twitter.com/marksugruek/status/1008692593792880641


    He pasted same here to make it easier :

    https://pastebin.com/176KQeqn



    To: info@icbr.ie

    Subject: GDPR Video Request

    Dear Sir/Madam,

    I request that you provide any and all CCTV/bodyworn video you have recorded of me. I was recorded by your staff outside [Holles Street Maternity Hospital/Rotunda/etc] on [18/06/2018] between [1 HOUR TIME SLOT] on 6 of your cameras.

    Note that this is a request under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You must comply within 30 days, you must redact/blur out all faces and vehicle registration plates you may have captured of other members of the public. Non compliance will result in a formal complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner and fines of up to €20 million Euro.

    I further request that, on completion of this work and supply of the video, you then delete all details you hold on me, including this email.

    Yours,

    [YOUR NAME]




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


    I'd be delighted if they didn't comply and were fined under GDPR


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,390 ✭✭✭Bredabe


    Uplift has a petition to force the removal of all these images.
    https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/stop-the-icbr-using-graphic-imagery

    "Have you ever wagged your tail so hard you fell over"?-Brod Higgins.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,807 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    Igotadose wrote: »
    The applications to bring judicial review to the challenges filed by Jordan, Tracey, and Byrne will be heard on 26 June. Not sure when the Judges will rule on these applications: https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2018/0611/969737-high-court-referendum-challenge/

    Nothing new here, just a date, 15 days out.


    One of the challenges (Ciaran Tracey, the retired civil servant from Leitrim) has been withdrawn.
    Joanna Jordan is continuing but looks like nonsense to me (she was the one who, amongst other bits of anecdotal rubbish, said a 'foreign' journalist had told her it was within 2 points either way). I don't think this one flies at all.
    The other challenger Charles Byrne is looking for court ordered access to the entire register so he can investigate discrepancies and has set the suggested figure he believes it is wrong by at 500K. This one has the potential to be a delay if the judge sides with him on being entitled to the register.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/referendum-result-challenger-seeks-electoral-registers-1.3534973?mode=amp


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    The other challenger Charles Byrne is looking for court ordered access to the entire register so he can investigate discrepancies and has set the suggested figure he believes it is wrong by at 500K. This one has the potential to be a delay if the judge sides with him on being entitled to the register.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/referendum-result-challenger-seeks-electoral-registers-1.3534973?mode=amp

    Might force the government to do something about the absolute fiasco that is our electoral register.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,817 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    The other challenger Charles Byrne is looking for court ordered access to the entire register so he can investigate discrepancies and has set the suggested figure he believes it is wrong by at 500K. ]

    Here's a picture of Mr. Byrne in clerical garb:
    jox26.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    One of the challenges (Ciaran Tracey, the retired civil servant from Leitrim) has been withdrawn.
    Joanna Jordan is continuing but looks like nonsense to me (she was the one who, amongst other bits of anecdotal rubbish, said a 'foreign' journalist had told her it was within 2 points either way). I don't think this one flies at all.
    The other challenger Charles Byrne is looking for court ordered access to the entire register so he can investigate discrepancies and has set the suggested figure he believes it is wrong by at 500K. This one has the potential to be a delay if the judge sides with him on being entitled to the register.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/referendum-result-challenger-seeks-electoral-registers-1.3534973?mode=amp

    It will never be allowed. That would be handing the personal details over to a private individual. Data protection commissioner should be all over that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,059 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    It will never be allowed. That would be handing the personal details over to a private individual. Data protection commissioner should be all over that.
    Was thinking privacy issue as well. If they do get the go ahead I wonder will someone bring that up and try to have it stopped.


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


    One of the challenges (Ciaran Tracey, the retired civil servant from Leitrim) has been withdrawn.
    Joanna Jordan is continuing but looks like nonsense to me (she was the one who, amongst other bits of anecdotal rubbish, said a 'foreign' journalist had told her it was within 2 points either way). I don't think this one flies at all.
    The other challenger Charles Byrne is looking for court ordered access to the entire register so he can investigate discrepancies and has set the suggested figure he believes it is wrong by at 500K. This one has the potential to be a delay if the judge sides with him on being entitled to the register.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/referendum-result-challenger-seeks-electoral-registers-1.3534973?mode=amp

    Her ‘20-point’ swing angle seems to hinge on the idea that pretty much all the ‘Don’t Know’s in opinion polls were going to vote no. But it seems the opposite was true. That undecideds might vote no in great numbers was an assumption many of us made but that’s all it was - an assumption.

    As for Charles Byrne, I wonder what discrepancies he’ll be looking for? Surely he will need to explain his rationale? Dead people voting? People voting twice? A large number of ineligible home-to-voters? There will certainly be invalid votes falling under the last two categories but 500k worth? Doubtful. That’s nearly a quarter of the votes cast. It seems like he’s asking for a lot. DOBs of voters?

    People do get removed from registers unfortunately. There can indeed be shenanigans there but that can go either way ie. known yes voters being removed. And that’s why people are reminded to make sure that they are on the register. I find vote-rigging cries so very desperate when the result is so decisive.


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