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General Election TV debates

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  • #842
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭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.


  • #843
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,447 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    CtevenSrowder wrote: »
    She moderated it perfectly.

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


  • #844
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭✭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.

    ??


  • #845
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,174 ✭✭✭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.


  • #846
    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.


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  • #847
    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.


  • #848
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭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.


  • #849
    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.


  • #850
    CtevenSrowder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭CtevenSrowder


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

    So what?


  • #851
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,324 ✭✭✭✭_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.


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  • #852
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,174 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Okay Leo.

    Brilliant.


  • #853
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,447 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    CtevenSrowder wrote: »
    So what?

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


  • #854
    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.


  • #855
    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.


  • #856
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,340 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #857
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,763 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #858
    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.


  • #859
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,193 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    A little light relief

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


  • #860
    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.


  • #861
    Jinglejangle69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,174 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    rob316 wrote: »
    Affordable housing. Rents should of been frozen and capped. They have done absolutely nothing to stem the homeless crisis.

    Homeless crisis my hoop.

    People who never bothered in school or to better themselves now waiting on handouts and a free gaff.

    You want something in life, then work hard for it.

    Don't expect anyone to hand it to you.


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  • #862
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,324 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    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.

    This argument is nonsense.

    Yes we don't live in some failed state with corrupt militia running it like a dictatorship and living in our own filth with running water or indoor plumbing considered to be a luxury.

    But by the standards of a modern first world Western society (which is where we ACTUALLY live!), things could be a LOT better!


  • #863
    emerfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭emerfan


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

    She did a good job. It was highly entertaining. What more could you want? Maybe one of those chairs Graham Norton has actually.


  • #864
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,447 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    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.

    What other country on this planet taxes even their working poor at a fifty percent marginal rate over 35k ? And we have a very high cost of living. Looking forward to the reply !


  • #865
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I like Roisin Shorthall.


  • #866
    CtevenSrowder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭CtevenSrowder


    emerfan wrote: »
    She did a good job. It was highly entertaining. What more could you want? Maybe one of those chairs Graham Norton has actually.

    I don't know, I thought she did a good job aswell.


  • #867
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,447 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    Jinglejangle69 wrote: »
    Homeless crisis my hoop.

    People who never bothered in school or to better themselves now waiting on handouts and a free gaff.

    You want something in life, then work hard for it.

    Don't expect anyone to hand it to you.
    That’s it though , the less you do here , the more those in government want to throw free stuff at you !


  • #868
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    A little light relief

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

    This one did it for me

    https://twitter.com/JustineStafford/status/1221931007332536325?s=09


  • #869
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    This argument is nonsense.

    Yes we don't live in some failed state with corrupt militia running it like a dictatorship and living in our own filth with running water or indoor plumbing considered to be a luxury.

    But by the standards of a modern first world Western society (which is where we ACTUALLY live!), things could be a LOT better!

    3rd in the UN Human Development index behind only Norway and Switzerland. Of course it isn’t perfect, but many of the issues we face aren’t unique to Ireland. We never acknowledge what is working - our redistribution tax policies, our leading cancer survival rates, our excellent primary and secondary education systems.

    All the cribbing and moaning just gets really tiresome after a while.


  • #870
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,763 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    9 years and the best FG can say is we got a brexit deal done. Health, housing, crime as bad as when they started.

    Get out.


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  • #871
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    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.
    j

    You don't have a problem with working people not being able to buy a home?


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