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Strokestown **Mod Note in Post #4461**

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    #2852
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,772 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    klaaaz wrote: »
    Local journo for the Democrat regional newspaper. The Stasi would be proud of that arrest.
    Mr. Corcoran issued a joint press statement with former councillor Tom Crosby, saying he was opting out of running in the next local elections, and would instead by endorsing Mr. Crosby. Meanwhile, the Democrat has slightly grandiosely proclaimed that it will not be accepting political advertisements (mind you, it does carry an ad for local election candidate Mr. Crosby…in his capacity as a businessman).
    review of the paper from the Roscommon people http://www.roscommonpeople.ie/news/48-news/democratic-revolution-in-strokestown


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    #2853
    Billcarson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭Billcarson


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Billcarson wrote: »
    Firstly I know ulster has 3 counties in this " wonderful " republic. So don't get smart with me mate.

    I'm not your buddy, guy.

    Oh that you are not. I can tell you that much MATE. You make speak down your nose to others but not to me.


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    #2854
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,772 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    wheres Anthony's wife living ? https://extra.ie/2018/12/18/news/irish-news/repossessed-farm-owner-anthony-mcgann


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    #2855
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    klaaaz wrote: »
    Local journo for the Democrat regional newspaper. The Stasi would be proud of that arrest.

    Is that a proper published periodical or a made up online one like The Liberal?


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    #2856
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    What is this nonsense?

    If they're actively serving in the British army, they're loyal to the crown, whether they describe themselves as such is neither here nor there, nor is it derogatory in describing them as such either.

    Might just be making a stable wage. Plenty of lads from this country have joined the BA for that reason. Many are as apolitical as ya like. That goes back decades.


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    #2857
    Sycamore Tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Sycamore Tree


    I think it's time to declare a state of martial law in the county of Roscommon. Mobilise the barracks in Athlone immediately. Curfew from 4pm to 8am. Shoot to kill.


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    #2858
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Billcarson wrote: »
    Oh that you are not. I can tell you that much MATE

    I'm not you pal, friend.


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    #2859
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    simongurnick wrote: »
    Depends. The farmers have a concern over the eviction notice and believe it not to be legal. From what I read they have engaged their solicitors in that regard.
    Always two sides to everything and so far mainstream media has only presented one.

    You missed or avoided the first question. Regardless of if you think there were assaults or not, people from the UK have a right to work in this country as EU Members. Do you accept that?


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    #2860
    klaaaz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭klaaaz


    gandalf wrote: »
    Is that a proper published periodical or a made up online one like The Liberal?

    It furthers my point that if you show dissent against FFG in power, you're liable to be arrested under any excuse to intimidate and stop the truth coming out.


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    #2861
    simongurnick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭simongurnick


    Omackeral wrote: »
    You missed or avoided the first question. Regardless of if you think there were assaults or not, people from the UK have a right to work in this country as EU Members. Do you accept that?

    no I didnt. The quote thing kept it under it my man. I said 100%. My problem is they came down and assaulted people. The other issue is simply the optics. What the hell were they thinking? Reminds me of when George Foreman was parading around with german shepherds in Zaire. Bad PR move dudes.


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    #2862
    realitykeeper
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    P_1 wrote: »
    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=521998308280272&id=433698377110266

    Context. KBC are trying to evict people from a property in Strokestown. On Tuesday a gang of people from north of the border who identify as British moved in on the property, assaulting people ( there are videos floating about online about this). Last night a large group of people seemingly took the property back, 2 dogs are dead and several northern registered vans have been burnt out.

    Several questions. Main one is what on earth were KBC thinking going down this road? Have they no idea of the historical context of doing this? Second question is how this is going to be framed by the national media.

    If they are occupying the property illegally, should the Irish army surround it, ghetto-blast the place with sean nos songs as Gaeilge around the clock, and stink bombs, turn off the water and electricity and starve them out? I would say no, but only because we cannot hope nationalists in the North will make a great effort to be nice to unionists if we are not seen to do so when they come the South.


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    #2863
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,039 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I'm not your buddy, guy.

    Touché! :)

    Great guitarist.

    Not your ornery onager



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    #2864
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    klaaaz wrote: »
    It furthers my point that if you show dissent against FFG in power, you're liable to be arrested under any excuse to intimidate and stop the truth coming out.

    Has he been arrested though. He's handed over his laptop and phone without any fight at all it seems. A real journalist wouldn't give up their sources? I hope none of the "heroes" were in touch with him..


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    #2865
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    gandalf wrote: »
    Is that a proper published periodical or a made up online one like The Liberal?

    If their twitter posts are to believed yes they do print papers.
    It's a publication that's available free in shops in Roscommon, Longford, and Leitrim


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    #2866
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I'm not you pal, friend.


    Allright Bud


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    #2867
    mynamejeff
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭mynamejeff


    klaaaz wrote: »
    It furthers my point that if you show dissent against FFG in power, you're liable to be arrested under any excuse to intimidate and stop the truth coming out.

    according to a full on nut jub like gemma o doherty he wasn't arrested but he is being questioned , seems like he is there of his own accord

    and whats more he brought his phone and laptop to them .......


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    #2868
    4theVoiceless
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭4theVoiceless


    ...and on and on and.....


    https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-people-threw-boiling-water-cow-dung-at-police-who-came-to-evict-them-in-the-land-war


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    #2869
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    4theVoiceless wrote: »
    ...and on and on and.....


    https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-people-threw-boiling-water-cow-dung-at-police-who-came-to-evict-them-in-the-land-war

    Looks like the tactics the thugs used on Sunday Morning.


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    #2870
    Topgear on Dave
    Registered Users Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Topgear on Dave


    klaaaz wrote: »
    It furthers my point that if you show dissent against FFG in power, you're liable to be arrested under any excuse to intimidate and stop the truth coming out.

    Weren't you here last week confidently telling us that the taxation in this country is far too low and we all need to pay more.

    This week your here defending some dumbass who owes the revenue a couple of hundred grand in a serious fraud that they likely will not collect.


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    #2871
    4theVoiceless
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭4theVoiceless


    gandalf wrote: »
    Has he been arrested though. He's handed over his laptop and phone without any fight at all it seems. A real journalist wouldn't give up their sources? I hope none of the "heroes" were in touch with him..


    And a hurler on the ditch isn't a real hurler.


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    #2872
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    mynamejeff wrote: »
    according to a full on nut jub like gemma o doherty he wasn't arrested but he is being questioned , seems like he is there of his own accord

    and whats more he brought his phone and laptop to them .......
    15 minutes of fame then back reporting on cattle marts and the fodder shortage


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    #2873
    theguzman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭theguzman


    I have spoken to alot of rural and country people over the last few days since this broke and almost every single person was 100% behind the family in Roscommon and actions of the Mob. Leo Varadkar to come out yesterday with his statement was practically the biggest own goal he could have done.

    Sectarian divisions will always exist whilst the British occupy Northern Ireland and this has really reopened old wounds, Land is incredibly important and those without it will never understand it. The beauty of the land, farmers are the stewards, they got it from their fore-fathers, their grand father fought and died for it, their great grandfathers were tortured over it. John B. Keane captured it beautifully in the field.


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    #2874
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    mynamejeff wrote: »
    according to a full on nut jub like gemma o doherty he wasn't arrested but he is being questioned , seems like he is there of his own accord

    and whats more he brought his phone and laptop to them .......

    Now tbh taking GoD's word for anything is like believing the town drunks stories as fact.

    If he has handed over his phone and laptop like that he can forget a career as a journalist.


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    #2875
    Topgear on Dave
    Registered Users Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Topgear on Dave


    theguzman wrote: »
    The beauty of the land, farmers are the stewards, they got it from their fore-fathers, their grand father fought and died for it, their great grandfathers were tortured over it. John B. Keane captured it beautifully in the field.


    Stop with the romamce would ya. Brothers will shoot brothers over it.

    My own family has had fierce fights over it. Look at the story of the field.

    The land is a curse.


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    #2876
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,503 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    simongurnick wrote: »
    Depends. The farmers have a concern over the eviction notice and believe it not to be legal. From what I read they have engaged their solicitors in that regard.
    Always two sides to everything and so far mainstream media has only presented one.

    Concern? Or just Ben Gilroy and his ilk spouting Freeman nonsense?


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    #2877
    Naos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,728 ✭✭✭Naos


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    If they're actively serving in the British army, they're loyal to the crown, whether they describe themselves as such is neither here nor there, nor is it derogatory in describing them as such either.

    It is however fact.

    Just because you say it is fact, does not make it fact.

    If I work in Tesco does that mean I am loyal to Tesco and will only shop there?


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    #2878
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,772 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    so was Anthony McGann into development or was all his business farming related?


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    #2879
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Naos wrote: »
    Just because you say it is fact, does not make it fact.

    If I work in Tesco does that mean I am loyal to Tesco and will only shop there?

    Do you have to swear an oath of allegiance to Tesco when you are hired?


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    #2880
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Might just be making a stable wage. Plenty of lads from this country have joined the BA for that reason. Many are as apolitical as ya like. That goes back decades.

    Swearing an oath of allegiance to the crown is a requirement of the British Army.

    Swearing the oath with your fingers crossed behind doesn't quite absolve one from it.

    So once again, a serving member of the British Army makes them loyal to the crown so long as they're doing the job.

    Nothing wrong with that either by the way, but it is factual.


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    #2881
    theguzman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭theguzman


    Topgear on Dave wrote: »
    Stop with the romamce would ya. Brothers will shoot brothers over it.

    My own family has had fierce fights over it. Look at the story of the field.

    The land is a curse.

    Without land you are cursed, no farmer need ever go hungry. With taxation at over 70% avoiding tax is a personal responsibility and not something to be criticised but rather it should be applauded.


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