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  • #122
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Daxton Scrawny Plow wrote: »
    Cleaning the beach is great community minded stuff. I did a couple of things like that with conservation volunteers ireland when I was young. I guess it would prevent some level of harm to wildlife including sea creatures. But I don't see how it affects greenhouse emissions or global warming.

    I hear in the UK at least they want rid of 38million cars, all heating boilers, gas and oil. To be replaced with what? They want meat banned as well. Veganism might be grand for layabout trustifarian crusties who never did a solid days work in their lives most of them, the rest of us won't get by on lentil soup.


  • #123
    RHJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 925 ✭✭✭RHJ


    I know new taxes are unpopular but I believe they are necessary one-way the government could get more people on board with the idea would be to ring-fence any further carbon tax increases for use on only green projects, for example, expanding Dublin's cycling infrastructure hopefully does something more akin to the Netherlands and also expand and Electrify public transport. One further idea that I would like to see that would lower carbon emissions while employing people is retrofitting old houses and trying to get them as energy efficient as possible.

    I just read today that Germany aims to ban the sale of all internal combustion powered vehicles by the year 2030 we should follow suit.


  • #124
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Daxton Scrawny Plow wrote: »
    ER Ireland wants a declaration of emergency, zero emissions by 2030 and consideration for poor people. ER UK wants a state of emergency, zero emissions by 2025 and a citizens assembly.

    Clear focused demands are good. The yellow jacket movement in France demonstrate why consideration for poor people is probably necessary, though I reckon the motivation for that point might be more idealistic and less pragmatic than that angle.

    Apparently the 2025 target is criticized as fanciful. So maybe the 2030 one is more credible.To not be a hypocrite, in the next few years I need to ditch my cars and disconnect my boiler, not fly, not eat goods transported by plane, not eat beef. I guess few goods are transported by plane anyway.

    The Yellow Vest protest movement in France initially arose to fight the issue of a governmental increase in fuel taxes, particularly on diesel fuel.

    The movement have sought the following concessions amonst others ...

    •Announcement that price of Électricité de France blue tariffs would not increase before March 2019

    • Cancellation of fuel tax and six-month moratorium on diesel and petrol price changes

    • Decrease of fuel and motor taxes

    Seem to be going in the opposite direction to 'Extinction Rebellion" tbh ...


  • #125
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    Kirby wrote: »
    Don't worry, you weren't cute. Just ignorant.

    You have little idea of my political leanings and even less of an idea of what I would ask a politician seeking my vote. How you could begin to think you have any idea of such is ludicrous.



    Only two options, huh? How very black and white of you. How very, "If you're not with me you're against me".

    Here's an option 3 for you. Climate change is the second biggest hurdle we will face over the next hundred years as a species and is more important than virtually everything else. However what these "crusties" as you call them are doing......is of absolutely ZERO consequence to this and this so-called protest will achieve nothing. This is, without a doubt, one of the worst ways of going about what they claim they wish to achieve.

    Having read that, I'm going to double-down on what I said. You don't give a hoot. Deriding a climate change protest that is asking governments to do more, and then claiming you care about the issue at hand. Pull the other one.

    It's not a "so-called protest," it's an actual protest - the text-book definition of one. That's what I think of your so-called post and so-called opinion.

    Oh sage of sages, how does one protest effectively? I beseech you to bestow your wisdom upon us ignorant.


  • #126
    Sweetemotion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭Sweetemotion


    RHJ wrote: »
    I know new taxes are unpopular but I believe they are necessary one-way the government could get more people on board with the idea would be to ring-fence any further carbon tax increases for use on only green projects, for example, expanding Dublin's cycling infrastructure hopefully does something more akin to the Netherlands and also expand and Electrify public transport. One further idea that I would like to see that would lower carbon emissions while employing people is retrofitting old houses and trying to get them as energy efficient as possible.

    I just read today that Germany aims to ban the sale of all internal combustion powered vehicles by the year 2030 we should follow suit.


    The taxes you believe are necessary. Would do more damage to the population than anything climate change could ever do.


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  • #127
    Austria!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,436 ✭✭✭Austria!


    Given that the solutions to global warming are largely political, it seems obvious that protesting is better than doing nothing.



    We've had plenty of naysayers in this thread, but they were so upset a protest could be disruptive or so amused by their funny descriptions of vegans that they forgot to provide a superior alternative.


  • #128
    RHJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 925 ✭✭✭RHJ


    Sweetemotion wrote: »
    The taxes you believe are necessary. Would do more damage to the population than anything climate change could ever do.

    If you've ever looked at a map, you will notice we are at the same latitude as parts of Canada the only thing that stops us from having long harsh winter's is the Gulf Stream now imagine what would happen if the vast amounts of ice in Greenland were to melt and weaken the gulf stream.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/opinion/gulf-stream-slowing-down-is-bad-news-for-ireland-1.3476747%3fmode=amp

    I assure you the effects on the Irish people would be far worse than any carbon taxes.


  • #129
    Sweetemotion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭Sweetemotion


    RHJ wrote: »
    If you've ever looked at a map, you will notice we are at the same latitude as parts of Canada the only thing that stops us from having long harsh winter's is the Gulf Stream now imagine what would happen if the vast amounts of ice in Greenland were to melt and weaken the gulf stream.

    I assure you the effects on the Irish people would be far worse than any carbon taxes.


    You can imagine all you want and assure me of what ever.

    I'm not advocating taking more money from people who already pay enough in taxes to take it either from their heat, food or health care. You are.


  • #130
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Austria! wrote: »
    Given that the solutions to global warming are largely political, it seems obvious that protesting is better than doing nothing. We've had plenty of naysayers in this thread, but they were so upset a protest could be disruptive or so amused by their funny descriptions of vegans that they forgot to provide a superior alternative.


    Do you seriously believe that individuals have no role to play in the reduction of fossil fuel use or consumption? Is it solely governments who should inflict 'political solutions' on the masses? or is it time for people get up off their collective asses and put their hand where their mouth is?

    As for 'naysayers' as you refer to them - there has been plenty of detailed reasons given in the thread why these protests are little more than a load of rubbish. And if you had bothered to read the thread- you will find that just one poster made a reference to 'vegans' (sic).

    But hey let's not let anyone else have an opinion if they don't toe the revolutionary line and restrict freedom of expression to those who scream the loudest :rolleyes:


  • #131
    RHJ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 925 ✭✭✭RHJ


    Sweetemotion wrote: »
    You can imagine all you want and assure me of what ever.

    I'm not advocating taking more money from people who already pay enough in taxes to take it either from their heat, food or health care. You are.

    Despite popular opinion Ireland doesn’t have a high tax rate most of the working population don’t pay that much when compared to other countries in Europe in fact one source I have read puts our tax rate as quite low.

    “According to figures from the OECD, Ireland, with a tax burden of just 23.6 per cent in 2015, was behind only Mexico (17.4 per cent) and Chile (20.7 per cent), and was far lower than the OECD average (34.3 per cent)”

    Source: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/personal-finance/ireland-v-the-rest-of-the-world-do-we-pay-too-much-tax-1.3230432


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  • #132
    [Deleted User]
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    sk8erboii wrote: »
    People under 35: *does anything*

    Afterhours: NO THEY CANT DO THIS. CALL THE POLICE

    tantwum much?

    youve been on quite the rampage this week with school off huh


  • #133
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    gozunda wrote: »
    Do you seriously believe that individuals have no role to play in the reduction of fossil fuel use or consumption? Is it solely governments who should inflict 'political solutions' on the masses? or is it time for people get up off their collective asses and put their hand where their mouth is?

    As for 'naysayers' as you refer to them - there has been plenty of detailed reasons given in the thread why these protests are little more than a load of rubbish. And if you had bothered to read the thread- you will find that just one poster made a reference to 'vegans' (sic).

    But hey let's not let anyone else have an opinion if they who don't toe the revolutionary line and restrict freedom of expression to those who scream the loudest :rolleyes:

    He/she said the solutions are largely political, not wholly. In that he/she is correct.

    I've seen next to nothing from those running-down the protests. Most of it is the usual 'trustafarians' / 'lazy left wingers' / 'baton charge them' palaver.

    And then we have the likes of yourself feeling sorry for yourself implying that somehow you're having your freedom of speech impinged? Get up the yard.

    "I take climate change seriously. I just don't like anything highlighting it, any of the tabled political solutions, and any degree of personal responsibility placed on myself. I have nothing further to add other than I don't like protests."


  • #134
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    gozunda wrote: »
    The Yellow Vest protest movement in France initially arose to fight the issue of a governmental increase in fuel taxes, particularly on diesel fuel.

    The movement have sought the following concessions amonst others ...

    •Announcement that price of Électricité de France blue tariffs would not increase before March 2019

    • Cancellation of fuel tax and six-month moratorium on diesel and petrol price changes

    • Decrease of fuel and motor taxes

    Yellow vest protesters have criticised the government for making individuals liable for the bulk of the cost of the carbon tax.

    Seem to be going in the opposite direction to 'Extinction Rebellion" tbh ...
    Yeah that was my point. You consider poor people to avoid such reflexive anti-green protesters.


  • #135
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    I hear in the UK at least they want rid of 38million cars, all heating boilers, gas and oil. To be replaced with what? They want meat banned as well. Veganism might be grand for layabout trustifarian crusties who never did a solid days work in their lives most of them, the rest of us won't get by on lentil soup.
    They've been criticized for not promoting veganism. What I read was those were the steps required to meet the ambitious target of zero emissions by 2025. The Irish movement targets 2030 which seems more realistic.

    Boilers can be replaced by heat pumps. The cost of retrofitting houses to be suitable for them can be very high though. ICE cars can be replaced by electric cars and public transport. Lentil soup can be tasty and nutritious and veganism is entirely viable for most people. Air travel would have to be ditched as well.


  • #136
    Sawduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,714 ✭✭✭Sawduck


    ThomasFlynn wrote: »
    The protesters aren't going anywhere, they'll be here for as long as it takes, all summer probably.

    The millennial generation see this as the civil rights of their era.

    In fairness they see everything as the civil rights of their generation


  • #137
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Yurt! wrote: »
    He/she said the solutions are largely political, not wholly. In that he/she is correct.I've seen next to nothing from those running-down the protests. Most of it is the usual 'trustafarians' / 'lazy left wingers' / 'baton charge them' palaver.And then we have the likes of yourself feeling sorry for yourself implying that somehow you're having your freedom of speech impinged? Get up the yard.
    "I take climate change seriously. I just don't like anything highlighting it, any of the tabled political solutions, and any degree of personal responsibility placed on myself. I have nothing further to add other than I don't like protests."

    Less of the rampant inaccuracies addressing the issue discussed where possible would be useful.

    Btw it is clear that was referring to the sentiment expressed that - Protesting was "better than doing nothing" type of stupidity.

    I see plenty of detail as to the issue at hand but some seem so caught up in accusing others of calling people names etc - they cant be arsed even reading the thread to see what has been said. You managed to post a spectacularly foot in mouth comment on that very topic lol.

    Again if you wish to personalise - take it outside. The gist was that anyone not toeing the rebellion ideology is supposed to shut up. Away and fek with that.

    And as to the bs quote you included btw - not mine. So you can put it back in that same box of tricks. Thanks all the same.

    Before I go heres another easily ascribed quote " you're all calling protestors names wah! I think you're all nasty and I'm not going to play nice Wahh"


  • #138
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Daxton Scrawny Plow wrote: »
    Yeah that was my point. You consider poor people to avoid such reflexive anti-green protesters.

    I consider who to do what now?


  • #139
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    [/quote="gozunda;109983994"]Less of the rampant inaccuracies addressing the issue discussed where possible would be useful.

    Btw it is clear that was referring to the sentiment expressed by the previous poster that Protesting was "better than doing nothing" stupidity.

    [/quote]

    On the sliding scale on the potential political utility of protest to generate a momentum to solve a political problem as compared to sneering from the sidelines, I'm afraid your stance is less than useless. Sub-useless, it's meta-useless. You've dropped off the scale of usefulness and into angry middle-aged barstool territory. Nothing will happen with climate policy in this country or any other one without political will. It's not coming from above so it will have to come from below. And, as is obvious, that political pressure is more likely to come from 'useless protestors.'

    If you genuinely think that doing nothing is preferable to a nascent protest movement - well, I'd advise checking your own stance for signs of stupidity yourself.

    It's a favoured tactic (particularly of the right) to deride political protest. They do it not because it's actually useless, but because it has the potential to achieve it's stated goals. Protest brought American troops home from Vietnam, undermined Communism in Poland, toppled Charles De Gaulle. You can trace a direct line from the Occupy movement to Bernie Sanders (a movement constantly called useless, even though the moral underpinnings of modern capitalism were in crisis at the time).

    Sneer on lads, fair enough- just accept that you're more useless than the protestors you claim to be better than.


  • #140
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Yurt wrote:
    On the sliding scale on the potential political utility of protest to generate a momentum to solve a political problem as compared to sneering from the sidelines,[

    I'm afraid your stance is less than useless. Sub-useless, it's meta-useless. You've dropped off the scale of usefulness and into angry middle-aged barstool territory.
    Nothing will happen with climate policy in this country or any other one without political will. It's not coming from above so it will have to come from below. And, as is obvious, that political pressure is more likely to come from 'useless protestors.'

    That's truely the funniest thing I've read here in years. And yes sireee we're straight baack with the personalisations again Lol. Jeez could you argue the point just once instead of the smartarse replies and soundbites. Thanks. Unfortunately the rest is hyperbole and pure bull****e.
    yurt wrote:
    If you genuinely think that doing nothing is preferable to a nascent protest movement - well, I'd advise checking your own stance for signs of stupidity yourself.

    Lol and exactly where the fuk do I say that? And yes indeedy here we have it folks - instead of discussion - its getting in the personal style digs again. Man this is some ripe rubbish even for AH.
    yurt wrote:
    It's a favoured tactic (particularly of the right) to deride political protest. They do it not because it's actually useless, but because it has the potential to achieve it's stated goals. Protest brought American troops home from Vietnam, undermined Communism in Poland, toppled Charles De Gaulle. You can trace a direct line from the Occupy movement to Bernie Sanders (a movement constantly called useless, even though the moral underpinnings of modern capitalism were in crisis at the time).

    Ahahahaha that's brilliant. Attempting to dismiss any and all criticism as being of the 'right' and aligning this particular lot of wasters with some of the great socio-political movements of previous generations is risable. As per the meme posted - this lot couldn't start a lawnmower - never mind a 'rebellion' (sic)

    I'd suggest taking up some other hobby 'cos whatever you're good at discussion or 'nascent protest' (sic) evidently ain't part of it.


  • #141
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    gozunda wrote: »
    Lol and exactly where the fuk do I say that? And yes indeedy here we have it folks - instead of discussion - its getting in the personal style digs again. Man this is some ripe rubbish even for AH.




    Post #137 you said: "Btw it is clear that was referring to the sentiment expressed by the previous poster that Protesting was "better than doing nothing" stupidity."


    So yes, that's exactly the inference you were making. You're in knots - you might have to go back to the vegan forum where you spend half your time starting arguments to save some face. Friend of the earth indeed.

    Edit: And by the way, it was precisely people like you calling anti-Vietnam war protesters wasters and commies. Face it, you just hate protest, and you can't quite articulate why.


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  • #142
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Yurt! wrote: »
    Post #137 you said: "Btw it is clear that was referring to the sentiment expressed by the previous poster that Protesting was "better than doing nothing" stupidity."

    The previous poster said not me! Understand!!!!
    And this is what I said - If you can't understand it - I cant help you.
    Do you seriously believe that individuals have no role to play in the reduction of fossil fuel use or consumption? Is it solely governments who should inflict 'political solutions' on the masses? or is it time for people get up off their collective asses and put their hand where their mouth is?

    As to the rest - yet more puerile personal digs and whataboutery from our little man on the left lol. If you ever care to read what I've posted- you will see what is discussed there is food production and agriculture - something that is regularly derided by your ilk. But then that's not a surprise is it? You seem to be quoting someone else again btw. Here's one in return :D

    "Wahhhhhhhh!"


  • #143
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    gozunda wrote: »
    The previous poster said not me! Understand!!!!

    This is what I said. If you can't understand it - I cant help you.

    [Quoute]Do you seriously believe that individuals have no role to play in the reduction of fossil fuel use or consumption? Is it solely governments who should inflict 'political solutions' on the masses? or is it time for people get up off their collective asses and put their hand where their mouth is?



    Ahahahshah yet more personal digs and whataboutery from our little man on the left lol. If you ever care to read what I've posted- you will see what is discussed there is food production and agriculture - something that is regularly derided by your ilk. IBut then that's not a surprise is it? You seem to be quoting someone else again btw. He's one in return :D

    "Wahhhhhhhh!"[/QUOTE]


    Post #137. My point stands and gets more correct every time you post.



    I'm not vegan by the way. Just find it funny you're presenting yourself as some sort of detached observer when you spend half your days trying to get a rise out of vegans.


    And yes, you blatantly harbour right-wing views, your posting history gives you away. Not sure why you'd object to that characterization.


  • #144
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Yurt wrote:
    Post #137. My point stands and gets more correct every time you post.

    Nope - it doesn't. Either you're being deliberatly thick claiming that or I'm really not sure ... ;)

    Btw I dont give a proverbial ****e if you eat rabbit droppings or whatever - I couldnt give a fuk one way or the other. If you want to report what many posters are discussing regarding agriculture and food in another forum. THEN DO SO or get the fuk out of kindergarten.
    And yes, you blatantly harbour right-wing views, your posting history gives you away. Not sure why you'd object to that characterization.

    And let's examine your rabid and frankly disgusting style of postings and posting history as you believe that kinda thing is obviously particularly relevant - shall we? :D

    Or would you like to continue with the puerile and stupid personal digs which appear to be your stock in trade response lol.

    "Waaahhhhh" you've lost any kudos you ever had in actually trying to discuss the issue - but then I'm really not surprised at that.

    Ls. Could you sort out your quotes - there all over the shop. Thanks.


  • #145
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    You're foaming at the mouth.

    Thanks for your balanced and centerist perspective throughout the thread.

    Edit: Post #137


  • #146
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    For people talking about population levels (and they are right), the single most important aspect of this is birth rate, and the single biggest determining factor in relation to birth rate is female education (you can look it up if you don't believe me).

    Any solution to overpopulation which does not address the lack of female education in the third world is not a solution.

    For people talking about pollution currently being produced (and they are right), the single most important aspect of this is the pollution produced by China, which dwarfs every other country on Earth (it is more than Russia, United States and India combined).

    Any solution to carbon emissions which does not mention China is not a solution.


  • #147
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Yurt! wrote: »
    You're foaming at the mouth. Thanks for your balanced and centerist perspective throughout the thread.
    Edit: Post #137

    Indeed :D:D:D even more digs from you!

    As you appear not to understand - here's my post again lol.
    Do you seriously believe that individuals have no role to play in the reduction of fossil fuel use or consumption? Is it solely governments who should inflict 'political solutions' on the masses? or is it time for people get up off their collective asses and put their hand where their mouth is?


  • #148
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,360 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    I fail to see how annoying ordinary people trying to get from A to B is going to change anything.

    Let them go to the Dail and protest if they want but i'd be well pissed off if a shower of scruffy crusties held me up trying to get home after a days work.


  • #149
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    gozunda wrote: »
    Indeed :D:D:D even more digs from you!

    As you appear not to understand - here's my post again lol.

    You get digs because you deserve them. You call people wasters and offer up fanny all yourself.

    Post 137. You said that the notion of "protesting was better than nothing" was stupidity. (Something that more than resembles an insult to another poster). You can't wriggle out of it.

    I responded in kind. I think your attitude is less than useless and I stand by it.

    Take a walk in the fresh air for yourself.


  • #150
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Yurt! wrote: »
    You get digs because you deserve them. You call people wasters and offer up fanny all yourself. Post 137. You said that the notion of "protesting was better than nothing" was stupidity. (Something that more than resembles an insult to another poster). You can't wriggle out of it.I responded in kind. I think your attitude is less than useless and I stand by it.Take a walk in the fresh air for yourself.

    "You deserve them" ahahahahaha. Thanks Mammy!

    Look you can give over now - you have spectacularly failed to understand what was said and are now attempting to dig your way out lol! Drop the shovel and walk away before you fall into that hole...

    And btw there's a difference in an argument being akin to stupidity and 'someone''being stupid. And referering to a bunch of protestors as wasters remains valid. But then you know that already :D

    As you like bringing up ****e elsewhere - thanks for derailing another thread btw. The Airbnb thread was quite spectacular lol. Did the poster there 'deserve' your digs as well before you got caught for the same ****e?

    Over and out.


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    Students love a cause. Especially in good weather. They are young and innocent of real life and easily swayed by idealism. They will live and learn to make their own minds up.
    Others are querying the validity of their case.

    “One of the most talked-about programmes of the past week – a primetime documentary on BBC1 – featured two people many seem to regard as living saints.

    One was the presenter, Sir David Attenborough, the other Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenage activist inspiring climate change ‘school strikes’ in several countries, including Britain.

    The film’s title was Climate Change: The Facts, and these, Sir David claimed, are now ‘incontrovertible’. The film’s message was so bleak it could have been made by Extinction Rebellion, the eco-anarchist protest group which has brought Central London to a standstill.

    No one has done more to convey the marvels of the natural world than Attenborough, and his long career has rightly earned him public acclaim.

    Sadly, on this occasion, I believe he has presented an alarmist argument derived from a questionable use of evidence, whose nuances he has ignored.”U

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6943475/What-Attenborough-told-BBC-viewers-orangutan-fighting-digger-truth.html


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Anyone aged 16 years or older can register as a user of boards.ie.


4.2 Persons aged between 13 and 16

You are permitted to register as a user of boards.ie and post comments if you are aged 16 or over. If you are aged 13 years or over but under the age of 16 you must obtain the consent of a parent or legal guardian before registering as a user of boards.ie.

If you are aged 13 or over but under the age of 16 you must obtain the consent of a parent or legal guardian each time you post Material on boards.ie.

Any person who registers as a user of boards.ie represents that either they are 16 years of age or older or that they are 13 years or over and have obtained the consent of a parent or legal guardian. Boards.ie cannot and is not required to verify the age of users of the site. Boards.ie hereby notifies you that by posting any material on the website or sending any information about yourself you hereby undertake that you are either over the age of 16 or that you are 13 years or over and have obtained the consent of a parent or legal guardian to do so. We cannot guarantee that all content on the site will be suitable for persons under the age of 16.


4.3 People under 13:

Boards.ie is not directed at children younger than 13 years of age and is offered only to users who are 13 or older. Children under 13 may not register with boards.ie. We do not knowingly collect information from or about children under the age of 13. If we discover that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 we will delete that information as soon as possible. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at hello@boards.ie. We cannot guarantee that all content on the site will be suitable for persons under the age of 16.


4.4 Representing a company or other entity

If you are using boards.ie as a representative of a company or other entity (including, but not limited to Charity or Volunteer organisations, Student’s Unions, Trade Unions, Academic Institutions, Chambers of Commerce, Departments of Government) you represent that you have the authority to enter into these Terms of Use on behalf of that company or entity, and agree that the terms “you” and “your” in this agreement refers to your company or other entity. You may not post on boards.ie other than in your individual capacity unless you have permission from Boards.ie. Contact hello@boards.ie for more details.


4.5 Exceptions

You must not use boards.ie if:

  • You have been previously site banned for any reason (unless this site ban has been subsequently rescinded upon appeal)
  • You are joining solely to seek to engage in market research
  • You are joining solely to look for support for your, or another person’s participation in any competition or publicly voted event
  • You are a convicted sex offender
  • You intend to breach any other of the terms and conditions listed below

  1. What you agree to when joining boards.ie

Boards.ie is made available for your personal, non-commercial use only, except where otherwise authorised by Boards Software Limited. It is your responsibility, bearing in mind the global nature of the Internet, to comply with all applicable laws which may apply to your use of boards.ie and to the material you post, including but not limited to those regarding acceptable content and online conduct. You agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the country in which you reside.

Failure to comply with all applicable laws or these Terms of Use may result in deletion of posts, suspension of posting privileges, and/or complete banning.

Boards.ie is committed to providing an open forum for discussion and debate. Please note that you are liable for the content of any Material you post on boards.ie. Boards Softwareaccepts no liability of any nature whatsoever for any Material posted on boards.ie by users. Any views or comments expressed in user posts are not necessarily the views of Boards Software, any entity associated with it or any of its employees or agents. Boards SoftwareLimited requires that you read these Terms of Use and our separate Boards.ie Guidelines before posting any Material on Boards.ie

Boards.ie is not responsible for and does not endorse the contents of user’s posts or warrant the accuracy, truthfulness, legality or reliability of user’s posts. You are entirely responsible for material which you post. You agree to fully indemnify Boards SoftwareLimited against all damages, claims, expenses, liabilities, claims and costs (including legal costs) which Boards Software may suffer or incur in the event of any legal proceedings being brought against Boards SoftwareLimited, in consequence of your posting Material. For the avoidance of doubt, the indemnity you give to Boards SoftwareLimited is effective in respect of any and all legal proceedings including any and all possible causes of action that may result from any breach of these Terms of Use and/or applicable law.

We expect you to act responsibly in posting Material on Boards.ie. You agree, through use of this service, NOT to use boards.ie to:


  • post illegal Material
  • treat others with disrespect
  • defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the rights (such as rights of
  • privacy and publicity) of others
  • identify or speculate as to the identity of any anonymous or pseudonymous user
  • attempt to solicit information from any other user under false pretences, for example by
  • attempting phishing-like attacks
  • attempt to solicit personal information from anyone under 18
  • harm minors in any way
  • solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes
  • collect or store other users\' personal data without their consent
  • attempt to gain unauthorised access to the boards.ie administrative areas or interface, to user accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Boards.ie site, through password mining or any other meanspost irrelevant Material, repeatedly post the same or similar Material or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the boards.ie servers or infrastructure
  • post any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional content, \'junk mail\', \'spam\', \'chain letters\', \'pyramid schemes\', or any other form of commercial publicity
  • post any abusive, harmful, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, indecent, profane, inappropriate, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable Material, except where the content is appropriate to the content of the forum and you have been granted specific permission to do so and subject to our guidelines on said content
  • post Material that contains violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website
  • post Material in respect of any matter that is currently before the courts
  • post Material that could be construed as scandalising the courts
  • post Material that promotes or encourages illegal activity or facilitates or encourages any violation of these Terms of Use
  • post Material that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, rights of privacy or publicity, or other proprietary right or intellectual property right of any party
  • post Material that falsely expresses or implies that such Material is sponsored or endorsed by boards.ie
  • post Material that contains software viruses or harmful programs including but not limited to, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel-bots, computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, disrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment
  • modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of boards.ie, or use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of boards.ie, except as expressly authorised in writing by boards.ie
  • reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of boards.ie


Moderators and Administrators

In order to allow for the proper administration of boards.ie we make use of third party moderators and administrators. And in order for them to properly carry out their functions as moderators and administrators they require access to personal information concerning you, your boards.ie account and your activity on the site. Such data is only permitted to be used by our third party moderators and administrators for the purposes of administering the site and cannot be used by them for any other purpose. If you agree to be a moderator or administrator for boards.ie you agree that any user personal information available to you is to be used solely for the purpose of administering the site and will not be used for any other purpose.


  1. You are responsible for your account and its details

As part of the registration process, you will be asked to select a username and password and you will be responsible for all activities occurring under your username and for keeping your password secure. We strongly recommend you do not reuse a password which you also use elsewhere.


6.1 Usernames

We would recommend you choose a pseudonym and do not use your real name (or a derivative of it) when joining boards.ie. You may not select or use a username that:

  • contains "Boards" or otherwise misrepresents your relationship with boards.ie or any other party
  • contains any profanity, is vulgar or offensive, or promotes an illegal activity
  • violates any trademark or other proprietary right
  • misleadingly impersonates someone else
  • Occasionally users may speculate about the identity of anonymous or pseudonymous users. Such speculation is against our Terms of Use and we delete all such posts which are brought to our attention. However please be aware that we cannot guarantee that other users will not be able to determine your identity. There should be no expectation of complete anonymity anywhere on the internet.
  • We reserve the rights to change usernames at our discretion. You cannot change your username after registration unless you become a subscriber.



6.2 Accounts and passwords

Boards.ie reserves the right to log off or deactivate accounts that are inactive for more than 6 years.

You cannot create more than one personal profile. You may not share your account with anyone. You agree not to provide any false information to Boards.ie or to create an account for anyone other than yourself without the express permission of that other person or entity. You agree not to use the account or password of another user and not to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect any unauthorised use of your account or access to your password.

Boards Software Limited will not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using or accessing your password or account, either with or without your knowledge.

You may be held liable for losses incurred by us or any other party as a result of someone else using or accessing your password or account if you have not taken reasonable steps to keep your password or account secure.

Boards.ie may at its absolute discretion refuse you access to the site, delete posts by you or suspend/terminate your account without prior notice for any reason and you shall not be entitled to any compensation in respect of this. If we disable your account you will not be entitled to create another account without our permission.

These Terms of Use, including, in particular, the indemnities contained herein, shall survive any suspension or termination of your account.


6.3 User status

Please note that your user status will appear in connection with your username. For example, should you receive a warning then a yellow card will appear on the post. Similarly, should you receive an infraction relating to your use of boards.ie, a red card will appear. Should you be banned from using boards.ie, the word \'Banned\' will appear under your username.


6.4 Your interactions with other users

Boards SoftwareLimited has no obligation to verify the identity of any users when they are connected to the site or to monitor Material provided by them.

Your interactions with other users, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and the other user.

As with any web-based interaction, we suggest that you use caution and good judgment. If there is a dispute between you and any third party (including any advertiser), we are under no obligation to become involved.

You are encouraged to exercise discretion when providing personal information about yourself on boards.ie. Any personal information which you volunteer in your public profile or post on the forums will be available worldwide to anyone with access to the website.

We recommend you never post your name, address, telephone number, email address or anything else that may lead someone to identify you if this is something you are uncomfortable with.

Please note that certain information (such as photographs) which you may choose to provide might reveal your gender, ethnic origin, nationality, religion and/or sexual orientation.

If you have an active boards.ie account you can request that your Personal Data be edited or deleted. This can be done by sending a Private Message (PM) to “Boards.ie: GDPR” (if for any reason you are unable to access or send a PM please email datarequests@boards.ie and we will get back to you with further instructions).

For closed accounts, all Personal Data will be deleted. Posts made by users whose accounts were subsequently closed cannot be associated with other information held by Boards.ie that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person and as such are not considered Personal Data.

In specific instances where the content of a post contains sensitive data or data that could be used to identify an individual and where the original poster no longer has an active boards.ie account you can request that we edit or delete the post; these requests will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.


  1. Closing your account and our right to ban accounts or remove user privileges

You can close your user account at any time. This process is irreversible and permanent.

Closing your account means we will delete your password, remove any email subscriptions or notifications you may receive, delete all Personal Data we hold about you and turn off your Private Messages. This process does not remove any posts you have made on the site and does not remove the IP address that is captured when each post is submitted.

The posts are retained as they are an intrinsic part of the thread in which they are posted and removing them may make the thread unreadable or make the other posts difficult to understand or follow. The IP addresses captured with each post are retained for anti-spamming purposes. It should be noted that post IP address cannot be linked with other data to identify the individual who made the post as all other data concerning that individual will have been permanently deleted upon account closure.

Boards.ie may at its absolute discretion refuse you access to the site and/or cancel/terminate your user privileges without prior notice for any reason and you shall not be entitled to any compensation in respect of cancellation/termination of your user privileges. If we disable your account you will not be entitled to create another account without our permission.

These Terms of Use, including our proprietary rights, disclaimer of warranties, indemnities, limitations of liability, choice of law and choice of forum, and miscellaneous provisions shall survive any termination of your user privileges.

Without limiting the foregoing, the following will lead to a suspension of your privileges on boards.ie:


  • breaches or violations of these Terms of Use or other Boards.ie guidelines
  • requests by law enforcement or other government agencies
  • unexpected technical issues or problems or
  • extended periods of inactivity

  1. Posting on boards.ie


8.1 Content posted on boards.ie

You are solely responsible for your conduct and any Material that you submit, post, and/or display on boards.ie. You agree not to post Material contrary to these Terms of Use or any applicable law.

Due to the real-time nature of boards.ie, Boards.ie cannot and is not required to review the contents of posted Material, nor does it confirm the validity of information submitted. Boards SoftwareLimited hereby notifies you that it does not actively monitor Material posted by users and, as such, is not responsible for and gives no warranty or representation in relation to Material posted by users.

Because community standards vary and individuals sometimes may not comply with our policies and guidelines, in the process of using boards.ie, you may be exposed to content that you find offensive or objectionable. Users are encouraged to bring any Material they deem offensive or objectionable to the attention of forum moderators by using the Report Post Feature identifying the specific Material you consider is objectionable. You must be logged in to boards.ie in order to report a post. For material that you consider objectionable you will be asked to give your reasons for wanting the Material removed.

Users are informed that if they deem Material to be defamatory or an infringement of their intellectual property rights they should inform boards.ie by emailing hello@boards.ie.


Do not use the Report Post Feature to report defamatory Material or Material which infringes your intellectual property rights.

You will be asked to give your reasons for wanting the Material removed. Please note that the Boards.ie offices are open for business from 9am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday, excluding national and public holidays in the Republic of Ireland. Any notifications received from users outside of the aforementioned hours will only be addressed upon the re-opening of the Boards.ie offices.

If another user defames, abuses, harasses, stalks, or threatens you or otherwise violates your rights on boards.ie please report the post to Boards.ie by emailing hello@boards.ie or by using the Report Post Feature identifying the specific Material you consider is objectionable.

Whilst we do not monitor Material posted by users, we reserve the right to take down Material that comes to our attention via a complaint or otherwise. Members who repeatedly flout our guidelines or these Terms of Use will be barred from joining discussions on boards.ie. You will not necessarily be notified when Material is removed or when you have been banned. Boards.ie will not enter into any correspondence with or about users who have been banned.

Boards.ie reserves the right to immediately ban a user if there has been a serious breach of our guidelines or these Terms of Use. All decisions in relation to these matters are carried out at the sole discretion of Boards.ie.

Boards.ie may be required to disclose your Personal Data (as such term is defined under the General Data Protection Regulation) when legally obliged to do so or when otherwise compelled to disclose such Personal Data – please see our Privacy Notice for further details.

We may, but are not obliged to, remove or limit access to Material from any user which breaches these Terms of Use.

You own all of the Material you post on Boards.ie and we do not claim ownership of that Material. However, we need your permission to be able to display that Material and in some cases to modify it for best display – for different browsers, for our mobile site, and so on.

Consequently, by posting any Material on or through boards.ie, you grant Boards SoftwareLimited a limited licence to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Material. The licence you grant to Boards SoftwareLimited is non-exclusive, royalty free and fully paid, sub-licensable, and worldwide. This licence applies only to use of the Material for the purpose of providing the Boards.ie service. You also waive to the fullest extent permissible by law any moral rights in such Material. You are responsible for making sure that you have all rights to what you post, including the rights necessary for you to grant the licence above.

By posting any Material on boards.ie you represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Material posted by you or otherwise have the right to grant the licence above, and (ii) the posting of the Material does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, intellectual property rights, confidentiality, contract rights or any other rights of any person. You agree to pay all royalties, fees, or any other monies owing any person by reason of any Material posted by you to or through boards.ie.

From time to time we may seek to use users\' Material for the purpose of advertising or marketing boards.ie.

Please do not post any information you are not happy to have publicly viewable on the site.

In order to ensure that threads and conversations are not disrupted, we do not generally remove Material which is uploaded to us. Consequently, you agree that your Material displayed on boards.ie may continue to appear on boards.ie, even after you have terminated your user privileges, closed your account or have had your user privileges terminated by boards.ie. This provision does not affect your rights under data protection law, as set out in our Privacy Notice.

To have original creative Material deleted, please contact the relevant forum moderator (by using the private messaging system available to all registered users when they are logged onto boards.ie) with a direct link to the relevant item and your request. We will delete it within 30 working days of your request, as far as is reasonably possible.

Please note that deletion of original creative Material applies only to Material you have uploaded to boards.ie. If you have posted a link on boards.ie to Material hosted elsewhere (such as Flickr or YouTube) then, as Boards.ie is not the host, you will have to contact the other site to have that Material deleted.

We cannot guarantee that other users will not use the ideas and information that you share. Therefore, if you have an idea or information that you would like to keep confidential and/or don\'t want others to use, you must not post it on boards.ie. We are not responsible for a user\'s misuse or misappropriation of any content or information you post on boards.ie.


8.2 Defamatory Content

Boards.ie operates on a "notice and takedown" basis. If you believe that any content on boards.ie contains a defamatory statement, please notify Boards.ie immediately by emailing hello@boards.ie. Once this notification has been received, Boards.ie will use all reasonable endeavours to remove the defamatory content complained about within a reasonable period of time.

In the case of a genuine grievance which requires a legal response, Boards.ie can only release personal data about any of our members when requested by an investigating member of An Garda Síochána or on receipt of a court order.

Please note, if you threaten legal action against Boards.ie, by extension against Boards SoftwareLimited, your account will be site-banned by an Administrator until such time as the issue is resolved. This is strict site policy and is enforced by all moderators and Administrators.

Please note also that Boards.ie offices are open for business from 9am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday. Take down requests received outside of the aforementioned hours will only be addressed upon the re-opening of Boards.ie offices.


8.3 Content infringing Intellectual Property Rights.

Boards.ie operates on a "notice and takedown" basis. If you believe that any content on boards.ie infringes your intellectual property rights, please notify Boards.ie immediately by emailing hello@boards.ie. Once this notification has been received, Boards.ie will use all reasonable endeavours to remove the infringing content complained about within a reasonable period of time.


8.4 Nuisance posts

Our first line of defence against nuisance posts is to delete them and to ban the user. Nuisance posts include potentially defamatory material, surreptitious advertising, any other posts which breach the posting guidelines and/or our Terms of Use and any form of messages, posts or emails deemed offensive by the administrators or moderators. In addition, where a user recommends the products or services of their employer, they should state their conflict of interest. Where they do not do so, we reserve the right to point out that the user appears to have a conflict of interest.

Where a nuisance poster persists, we reserve the right to use email addresses and IP addresses to identify the user and halt the nuisance.

Boards.ie does not condone personal abuse or harassment towards any member. Boards.ie does not condone defamatory posts directed at any individual or company. If someone else has posted material about you on boards.ie without your permission and you would like to request that it be removed please contact us at hello@boards.ie.


  1. Feedback, suggestions and submissions about boards.ie

From time to time users contact us with feedback, suggestions and submissions about boards.ie and how to improve the site and services we offer. Boards.ie welcomes the input, and the following terms ensure that we can use your contributions to improve boards.ie.

You do not have to submit anything to Boards.ie about boards.ie, but if you do you acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback, or any other submissions to Boards.ie which may improve our products, services, or offerings shall become the property of Boards SoftwareLimited unless otherwise agreed by Boards SoftwareLimited.

By making a submission to boards.ie about boards.ie, you grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, assignable, sub licensable, fully paid up and royalty-free right to Boards SoftwareLimited to copy, prepare derivative works from, improve, distribute, publish, remove, retain, add, and use and commercialise, in any way now known or in the future discovered, anything that you submit to Boards.ie, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties.

If you do not want to grant Boards SoftwareLimited the rights set out above, please do not make 

submissions to Boards.ie.


  1. Content of advertisements on boards.ie

You acknowledge that Material presented to you by boards.ie, advertisers, or other users may be protected by copyrights, trademarks, patents or other proprietary rights or other intellectual property right and laws. All copyright and other proprietary notices in the Material must be left intact.


  1. Links to and content of third party sites


11.1 Links to other websites

Boards.ie contains links to other websites operated by third parties over whom Boards SoftwareLimited has no control. Such links are provided for your convenience only and Boards Software accepts no responsibility or liability in respect of the content or use of other websites. Such links do not amount to an endorsement or recommendation of these sites by Boards Software. Boards Software Limited does not exercise any control or supervision over the content of these linked sites.

Boards Software Limited is not responsible for the content or accuracy of or for the opinions expressed in these third party websites and these websites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by Boards.ie.

Some of these sites may contain materials that are objectionable, unlawful, or inaccurate. The fact that these links appear does not mean that Boards.ie endorses these third party sites or services.

If you do decide to leave the boards.ie site and access third party sites you do so at your own risk. Third party sites linked via the boards.ie site are not covered by these Terms of Use or the Boards.ie Privacy Notice.


11.2 Links to boards.ie and Associated Websites

Boards.ie and its parent company and associated companies permit third parties to link to boards.ie so long as the link: (a) is not in any way misleading; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party\'s site.

By linking to boards.ie you hereby authorise Boards.ie to link to any website owned or controlled by you.


11.3 Third Party Content

The inclusion of any content from other sites, either quoted directly or linked to ("Third Party Content") on boards.ie does not imply any affiliation or endorsement of such Third Party Content by Boards SoftwareLimited.

You understand that by using boards.ie you may be exposed to Third Party Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable.

Because Boards.ie does not control third party sites, you agree that Boards SoftwareLimited is not responsible for any such Third Party Content and that this is the sole responsibility of the person from which such Third Party Content originated, and Boards.ie has no obligation to monitor such Third Party Content.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Boards Software reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to pre-screen, filter, remove, refuse to accept, post, display or transmit any Third Party Content in whole or part at any time for any reason or no reason with or without notice and with no liability of any kind.


  1. Intellectual property

All intellectual property rights in the website design, text, graphics, the selection and arrangement thereof and all software vest in Boards SoftwareLimited unless otherwise indicated. Boards Software reserves all of its rights.

The above does not include Materials which are the property of advertisers or users.

You acknowledge that all trademarks, trade names, service marks, rights (registered or unregistered) in any designs, applications for any of the foregoing; trade or business names; innovations, inventions whether or not capable of protection by patent or registration, registered design and topography rights; know-how, including data specifications, drawings and instructions; secret formulae and processes; rights protecting goodwill and reputation; database rights and rights under licences and consents in relation to such things, rights in the nature of unfair competition rights, and rights to sue for passing of and all rights or forms of protection of a similar nature to any of the foregoing or having equivalent effect anywhere in the world and all copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property rights in and relating to boards.ie (collectively "Intellectual Property") are solely owned by Boards Software Limited.

You may not reproduce, publish, transmit, distribute, display, modify, create derivative works from, sell or participate in any sale of, or exploit in any way, in whole or in part, the Material at boards.ie without the written permission of Boards SoftwareLimited.


Advertising on boards.ie


  1. Advertising and Verified Representatives.

Boards.ie is a free service offered to our users and, as such, Boards.ie solely relies on revenue generated from advertisements served on the site to be financially sustainable and continue in business. Therefore, in agreeing to these Terms of Use you agree that Boards SoftwareLimited may serve advertisements on site or work with a third party to serve the advertisements, including personalised ads, and may implement anonymised site analytics functionality on the site. Advertisements placed on boards.ie may include but are not limited to banner ads, paid links, pop-up windows, buttons and sponsorships. These advertisements use "non personally identifiable information". They do not use personal data about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. For further information, please see our Cookie Policy.

You agree that Boards SoftwareLimited has the right to run such advertisements and promotions on boards.ie.


13.1 For users:

Boards.ie does not control services which are supplied by third parties and the inclusion of advertising or sponsorship does not imply endorsement or recommendation of the third party by us or any association with that third party. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that Material complies with international and national law. Boards SoftwareLimited does not give any warranty, guarantee nor make any representation regarding any advertisement or any merchandise, product or service offered or provided by third party companies advertising or interacting on boards.ie.

You may report any advertisement or content you feel is unsuitable for boards.ie to us, on the understanding that its removal is at our sole discretion.

You can choose to opt in or opt out of the serving of personalised advertisements on boards.ie, however you cannot opt out of the serving of non-personalised ads. To change your preferences regarding personalised ads please go to http://www.youronlinec...m/ie/your-ad-choices. Please note that these changes will apply not just to boards.ie but to other sites you may also visit.

Your correspondence or business dealing with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers or third parties found on or through boards.ie, including payment for and delivery of related goods or services, and any other representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser or third party.

You agree that Boards SoftwareLimited shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers or third parties on boards.ie.




13.2 Commercial Activity, Verified Representatives and "Talk to..." Forums:

You must seek permission from Boards SoftwareLimited before carrying out any commercial activity on boards.ie. Any person or company attempting to advertise or otherwise promote themselves who has not been authorised by us will have their user accounts banned and their posts deleted. By using boards.ie for any commercial activity you agree to the following additional terms.

Boards.ie provides a platform for commercial representatives ("Verified Representatives") to engage with users on boards.ie. We allow authorised Verified Representatives to post relevant, appropriate content to our forums or blog on the understanding that we make no guarantee of traffic, engagement and/or uptake by Boards.ie users. We reserve the right to choose whom we allow to take part.

All content posted by Verified Representatives must be in compliance with these Terms of Use and our guidelines. The charter of each forum must also be followed in relation to the type of content and level of commercial interaction which is acceptable there. The charter will be displayed prominently in the relevant forum.

We reserve the right to remove any Material that contravenes these Terms of Use, our guidelines, other boards.ie rules or forum charters.

By becoming a Verified Representative, you agree that:

  1. You are responsible for your presence on boards.ie, for your adherence to the rules and guidelines on boards.ie and for the content you post. Boards SoftwareLimited is not responsible for the content posted by Verified Representatives
  2. You are subject to the rules of boards.ie (including these Terms of Use) as well as the forum charters and boards.ie guidelines. Your presence as an advertiser or Verified Representative does not grant you any privileges to break rules in the forums.
  3. You will use the personal information you receive from boards.ie users only for the purpose of answering a question, resolving an issue or other specified action. Under no circumstances will you use this data for any marketing activity without the express permission of the boards.ie user.
  4. You will make it clear to users what user data you are going to use and how you will use, display, or share that data.
  5. You will delete all user data you received from boards.ie if we disable your account or ask you to do so
  6. You will provide customer support. You will make it easy for users to contact you. You will deal with any questions or issues on thread where appropriate. You will not try to evade answering reasonable queries. We can also share your email address with users if appropriate, and with your prior consent
  7. You will not show ads on your boards.ie presence except with the prior permission of Boards Software Limited
  8. You will not misrepresent your relationship with boards.ie to others.
  9. You may use the logos we make or issue a press release or other public statement relating to your use of boards.ie only with the prior written permission of Boards.ie
  10. Boards SoftwareLimited can issue a press release describing our relationship with you.
  11. Boards SoftwareLimited can measure your content, data and interaction on Boards.ie for any purpose, including commercial (such as for case studies and presentations).
  12. For all enquiries about advertising or commercial activity on boards.ie, please contact hello@boards.ie 


Rights of Boards.ie


Our rights and responsibilities


14.1 Liability and accuracy:

Boards Software Limited does not give any warranty or make any representation as to the accuracy or completeness of the information contained on boards.ie. Material posted on boards.ie is not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. Boards SoftwareLimited therefore disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such Material by any user, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents. Although rigorous protocols are applied to boards.ie we do not make any warranty that boards.ie is free from infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or disruptive properties. Under no circumstances shall we be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond our reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labour disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labour or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of third parties, or loss of or fluctuations in electricity or other utility supply.

  1. Boards SoftwareLimited does not give any warranty or make any representation as to the identity of any user on boards.ie. Any use of, or reliance placed on, any content or Materials posted to boards.ie by any user, or obtained by you through boards.ie, is at your own risk.
  2. Boards.ie may offer Verified Representative Accounts to individuals that represent organisations. We may obtain certain documentation to reasonably establish authenticity and to satisfy ourselves of these individuals\' identity and authority to represent organisations. We do not give any warranty or make any representation that Verified Representatives express the views or opinions of the organisations which they represent. Users who purport to represent organisations, but do not have a Verified Representative account are operating outside of these Terms of Use and have not attempted to establish their authenticity with us.
  3. Users of boards.ie should satisfy themselves as to the accuracy, completeness and reliability of the information contained on boards.ie and, where applicable, as to the identity of other users.
  4. Under no conditions and in no event shall Boards SoftwareLimited be liable for any direct or indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages or loss howsoever arising, (including but not limited to negligence or breach of these Terms of Use or otherwise) or for any loss of data, profit, revenue, goodwill or business howsoever caused even if that loss or damage was foreseeable by us, or the possibility of it was brought to our attention.

  5. 14.2 Users:
  6. Boards SoftwareLimited may at its sole discretion for any reason (i) disable or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of boards.ie, (ii) remove and discard any posts or Material within any thread or anywhere on boards.ie or (iii) shut down a discussion, thread or forum that you are involved in, with or without notice, and with no liability of any kind to you.

  • 14.3 Availability of service:
  • Boards SoftwareLimited may at its sole discretion and at any time, discontinue temporarily or permanently providing boards.ie, or any part thereof, with or without notice.
  • You agree that any termination of access to boards.ie under any provision of these Terms of Use may be effected without notice, and acknowledge and agree that Boards SoftwareLimited may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in your account and/or bar any further access to such files or boards.ie.
  • Boards.ie may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons. We accept no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in transmission, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of user communications.
  • Where possible, we will use reasonable efforts to give users fair notice of technical difficulties or termination or suspension of their access to boards.ie. However you agree that Boards SoftwareLimited shall not be liable to you or any third party for any inability to access boards.ie, termination or suspension of access to boards.ie or modification of the service provided by boards.ie.

  • 14.4 Indemnity and waiver
  • You agree to indemnify, defend (at the request of Boards SoftwareLimited), and hold harmless Boards SoftwareLimited our investors, successors, assigns, subsidiaries, affiliates, co-branders, contractors, employees, servants, moderators, third-party advertisers, technology providers, service providers or other partners, and each of their respective officers, directors, agents, shareholders, employees and representatives, from and against any third party claim, demand, loss, damage, cost, or liability including reasonable legal expenses, made or brought by any third party due to or arising out of:
  • Your use of boards.ie or any part thereof
  • The violation of these Terms of Use, our Privacy Statement, our guidelines by you
  • The infringement or misappropriation by you, or a third party using your computer, of any account or password to access and/or use boards.ie
  • The infringement of any intellectual property rights of any person or entity

You acknowledge that your use of boards.ie including any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through boards.ie is at your own discretion and risk and you agree to waive any right to bring any claim or action against Boards SoftwareLimited, our investors, successors, assignees, subsidiaries, affiliates, co-branders, contractors, employees, servants, third-party advertisers, technology providers, service providers or other partners, and each of their respective officers, directors, agents, shareholders, employees and representatives for any loss, damage, costs or injury arising from such use.


15. Entire agreement

These Terms of Use and our Privacy Notice make up the entire agreement between you and Boards.ie and Boards SoftwareLimited and supersede any prior agreement.


16. No partnerships/joint ventures

Nothing in these Terms of Use, our Privacy Statement and/or our Comments Policy shall be construed as forming a partnership or joint venture with you. No third party shall have the right or ability to create any obligation on our behalf.


17. Governing law

The agreement shall be governed by Irish law and you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish courts in all matters regarding this agreement and your use of boards.ie.


18. Severability

If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be void, invalid or unenforceable the remaining provisions will continue to be of full force and effect.


19. No waiver

Any amendment to or waiver of these Terms of Use must be in writing and signed by an authorised representative of Boards SoftwareLimited. Failure to enforce any provision of these Terms of Use shall not amount to a waiver of such provision.


21. Additional information

These Terms of Use should be read in conjunction with the Boards.ie Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy.


22. Contacting Boards.ie

You can contact us in relation to these Terms of Use in the following ways:

Using our contact page: Contact pageEmail: hello@boards.ie

By post: Boards.ie Limited, 4th Floor, Latin Hall, Golden Lane, Dublin 8

We welcome your feedback on this document and thank you for using Boards.ie!

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