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General Election TV debates

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  • #812
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,525 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    I wouldn't have seen a problem with a change, Brexit is in autopilot from the EU, we have no say in it.

    This.

    The Irish position was always the same regardless of who was in power. Them claiming credit for avoiding a no deal is a joke.


  • #813
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,712 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    You can tell one of the left parties engineered a crowd, im betting its RBB’s doing

    Just in time for the closing of the student bar.


  • #814
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,705 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Yep. We're going to tax everyone to emulate policies in nice places elsewhere, destroy rural communities and ultimately deliver nothing as climate change isn't just hanging on what virtue-signalling Ireland does!

    On a global level we barely make a drop in the ocean of difference. But we have awful air quality In many of our towns and city. That is caused primarily by disgusting diesel. That needs to be addressed


  • #815
    CtevenSrowder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭CtevenSrowder


    leahyl wrote: »
    Thought Roisin Shortall and Brendan Howlin came across the best to be honest. Wasn’t overly impressed with Mary Lou and was considering giving my number one to Sinn Fein....don’t know now.

    She didn't do too bad. I thought all the leaders did quite all right tbh. RBB with the usual populist guff however.

    Good debate overall in my opinion.


  • #816
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    emerfan wrote: »
    In extremely wrinkled clothing.

    RBB has always gone for the ‘I dressed in the dark behind a skip’ look. Shows solidarity with the common man or something.


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  • #817
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,525 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Increasing the carbon tax what will it actually do other than take money out of taxpayers pockets? On an individual level we can only do so much to clean up our act, industry needs to be tackled at a global level to create real change.


  • #818
    charlie14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,582 ✭✭✭✭charlie14


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    I wouldn't have seen a problem with a change, Brexit is in autopilot from the EU, we have no say in it.


    What change do you believe we would have had with a second election in 2016 due to there being no confidence and supply agreement :confused:


  • #819
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,791 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    On a global level we barely make a drop in the ocean of difference. But we have awful air quality In many of our towns and city. That is caused primarily by disgusting diesel. That needs to be addressed

    Are you forgetting who led the charge towards diesel in the first place? (and created the two tier motor tax system that instantly devalued "older" cars and led us to where the take has been steadily dropping for years)

    Letting a bunch like Ryan's tax obsessed Greens at the controls again isn't the answer to our local climate challenges.


  • #820
    emerfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭emerfan


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    On a global level we barely make a drop in the ocean of difference. But we have awful air quality In many of our towns and city. That is caused primarily by disgusting diesel. That needs to be addressed

    Disgusting diesel is often the only economically viable mode of transport if you live in rural Ireland. When you live 20 miles down a potholey bog road with no broadband, there isn't a whole lot of public transport available.


  • #821
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,705 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    rob316 wrote: »
    Housing is the big thing for me and FG in 9 years have built nothing. The first affordable housing project in as long in the entire country was announced for Cork a few months back. It's pathetic.

    Thought Mary Lou did well but should drop the childish remarks there is enough to hammer them on.

    Jesus Ryan is mad please don't let them near power.

    I just can't stand that elitist snob Leo. Martin then just reminds me too much of Ahern.
    Progress has been glacial. But Is ramping up now. What type of housing do you mean specifically?


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  • #822
    CtevenSrowder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭CtevenSrowder


    SeamusFX wrote: »
    That’s the BIG Problem, Claire thought she was part of the debate team, not the moderator she was supposed to be. What’s really sad, is instead of being a moderator, she was a cheerleader for Fine Gael. Very biased and pathetic!

    She moderated it perfectly.


  • #823
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    leahyl wrote: »
    Thought Roisin Shortall and Brendan Howlin came across the best to be honest. Wasn’t overly impressed with Mary Lou and was considering giving my number one to Sinn Fein....don’t know now.

    You could always give your no1 to Tweedledum or Tweedledee so. After all they''ve both been in Govt for the last 5 years and just look at the great job they've done for the country.


  • #824
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,705 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    CtevenSrowder wrote: »
    She moderated it perfectly.

    They’ve just handed rte a ten million euro bailout !


  • #825
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,549 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    You could always give your no1 to Tweedledum or Tweedledee so. After all they''ve both been in Govt for the last 5 years and just look at the great job they've done for the country.

    ??


  • #826
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,498 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    You could always give your no1 to Tweedledum or Tweedledee so. After all they''ve both been in Govt for the last 5 years and just look at the great job they've done for the country.

    The country is fine.

    Stop with the hyperbole.

    Nowhere is some magical land of bliss and every country has problems, most worst than Ireland.


  • #827
    deisedevil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,252 ✭✭✭deisedevil


    Does anyone feel SF are going to do far far better than expected? I keep seeing signs that they are far more popular than even the polls seem to suggest.


  • #828
    SaintLeibowitz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭SaintLeibowitz


    Have to laugh at the right wingers giving out at about RBB. He was dead right about the vulture funds.


  • #829
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    The country is fine.

    Stop with the hyperbole.

    Nowhere is some magical land of bliss and every country has problems, most worst than Ireland.

    Okay Leo.


  • #830
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    deisedevil wrote: »
    Does anyone feel SF are going to do far far better than expected? I keep seeing signs that they are far more popular than even the polls seem to suggest.

    FF, SF and Greens in coalition. It’s what the people of Ireland want.


  • #831
    CtevenSrowder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭CtevenSrowder


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    They’ve just handed rte a ten million euro bailout !

    So what?


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  • #832
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,791 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    SaintLeibowitz wrote: »
    Have to laugh at the right wingers giving out at about RBB. He was dead right about the vulture funds.

    Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.


  • #833
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,498 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Okay Leo.

    Brilliant.


  • #834
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,705 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    CtevenSrowder wrote: »
    So what?

    Certainly no one more deserving of it than rte ...


  • #835
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    You could always give your no1 to Tweedledum or Tweedledee so. After all they''ve both been in Govt for the last 5 years and just look at the great job they've done for the country.

    You live in one of the wealthiest, safest, and most equal societies on the planet. About 7 billion people would give their left hand to have half the opportunity you do. The lack of context these days is extraordinary.


  • #836
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    deisedevil wrote: »
    Does anyone feel SF are going to do far far better than expected? I keep seeing signs that they are far more popular than even the polls seem to suggest.

    They have gaps though. Limerick county, Clare, Galway, Mayo and Sligo look barren for them.


  • #837
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,717 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Darc19 wrote: »
    Mary Lou not good at all and possibly an error finishing off as gaelige. Reminds people of their murderous past connections
    gmisk wrote: »
    Huh? I am not sure what speaking Irish has to do with murderous past connections...I think more of an issue that lot of people would have no clue what she is saying.

    I think Darc19's comment is fairly pathetic regardless of what party you support or vote for. It just shows what a joke of a nation Ireland has become.
    A nation more influenced by America to the west and the UK to the east - all to the detriment of Ireland's culture. It just shows what a plastic nation we have become. Soon it will become the norm for for politicians to use the word 'like' in the manner of over excitable teenage girls (even in formal speech). An intonation which originated in the USA and spread like a virus through the mediums of American entertainment TV, then followed on the internet.

    Furthermore many Irish people identify with and also try to ape Britain in terms of taste past-times and pop culture etc - just to add to the confusion. The invisible invasion has definitely reached its nadir with comments like Darc19. Yet I assume he/she considers themselves to be a proud citizen of Ireland. It's pathetic.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #838
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,525 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    Progress has been glacial. But Is ramping up now. What type of housing do you mean specifically?

    Affordable housing. Rents should of been frozen and capped. They have done absolutely nothing to stem the homeless crisis.

    It's the one thing I'll give FF they have a record of the party that builds.


  • #839
    CtevenSrowder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭CtevenSrowder


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    Certainly no one more deserving of it than rte ...

    But we are talking about how Claire moderated the debate, not whether RTE deserves that money or not.


  • #840
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79,480 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    A little light relief

    https://twitter.com/JustineStafford/status/1221930182853955584


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  • #841
    thequarefellow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭thequarefellow


    Typical how the audience member’s face lit up when Leo told her he was gonna give her a tax break. Hollow election promises work.


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