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General Election TV debates

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  • #2372
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,614 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Belfast.

    who runs the show up there? maybe we should get them in down here....


  • #2373
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Embarassing to think Micheal Martin will be Taoiseach


  • #2374
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,177 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Vin B should have been given a debate to chair.


  • #2375
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,050 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    people travelling to WHERE to get cataracts removed??

    You know that little statelet up da road, where SF are in govt and which Leo states is in a worse position than the HSE.
    That place!


  • #2376
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,614 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mary Lou just said it.

    Why the flip are 500 beds closed?


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  • #2377
    REBELSAFC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭REBELSAFC


    McMurphy wrote: »
    Leo is clearly, clearly stumbling/faltering here trying to get a dig in about the North.

    McDonald in fairness to her stayed calm, let him go off on his incomprehensible rant, and calmly reminded him that the purse strings to the north are held by the UK govt, and challenged him to make sure take it up with the UK govt. :D

    And the North is by far the most highly subsidised region of the UK

    https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2017-40248345


  • #2378
    gooch2k9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭gooch2k9


    Hurrache wrote: »
    They're an all Ireland party, MLMcD is the president of the party island wide. They're the one party. Don't take it from me, take it from themselves, like I already said.

    They have pushed austerity up here, whilst being populist in Ireland and promising everything to everyone.

    I'm no fan of theirs but that's the craic. They're like Tesco with their separate divisions in ROI and UK.


  • #2379
    Lackey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Lackey


    Hurrache wrote: »
    Oh yeah, and she was probably better off never having getting an invite, easily could play it to their advantage. But appearing in the debate, based on the latest polls, can only i believe have them drop in popularity.

    Wouldn't be so sure of that
    people are rightly pissed off
    They want change ….it happens to be SF.


  • #2380
    Trizo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭Trizo


    Akrasia wrote: »
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thejournal.ie/ge16-fact-check-election-2016-ireland-northern-ireland-sinn-fein-homelessness-child-poverty-2610158-Feb2016/%3Famp%3D1

    Yeah we’re in 2020 now , welcome to the new decade lol

    Nice try though ...


  • #2381
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,973 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Vin B should have been given a debate to chair.

    There’d be skin and hair flying If that was the case.


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  • #2382
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    Leo bears no responsibility for the state of the health service whatsoever. The people of Ireland are to blame for that. They want jobs, they want inefficiency, they want crummy hospitals in every corner of the country. Until they face up to this fact, there is no point critiising the politicians for not being able to improve it.


    This is one of the worst posts I've seen in awhile.


  • #2383
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Sleety_Rain wrote: »
    Embarassing to think Micheal Martin will be Taoiseach
    He;s deffo in 3rd place tonight


  • #2384
    Wombatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,347 ✭✭✭Wombatman


    th?id=OIP.xSx31ePL8Ti89NNFDhJdxQHaKY&pid=Api


  • #2385
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,231 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    Leo bears no responsibility for the state of the health service whatsoever. The people of Ireland are to blame for that. They want jobs, they want inefficiency, they want crummy hospitals in every corner of the country. Until they face up to this fact, there is no point critiising the politicians for not being able to improve it.

    Oh yeah, we all want these Centre’s of excellence that are great if you can actually get into them, which you can’t because they’re jammed to capacity

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #2386
    Granny15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,129 ✭✭✭Granny15


    MM coming through very strong there.


  • #2387
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    Leo is full of it, talking of homelessness in UK, WTF

    It's relevant as they have a similar society to us but per head of capita they are far worse than we are when it comes to homelessness. There are 90 rough sleepers in Dublin vs 9000 in london


  • #2388
    TheRiverman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    Hands Leo.


  • #2389
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,393 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    REBELSAFC wrote: »
    And the North is by far the most highly subsidised region of the UK

    https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2017-40248345
    Yep...and people still want a United Ireland...if you want the financial drain...and the unionists work away!


  • #2390
    It wasnt me123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭It wasnt me123


    I can solve the nurse/dr/teacher problem.

    Make them work here for 2 years before they get their practising certs to move on. That way we always have new drs/nurses/teachers coming into the system - their 3rd level education is subsidised here so let them work in the system that supported them.


  • #2391
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Leo rattled.


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  • #2392
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Clown shoes doesn’t know where to keep his hands.hes like Ricky Bobby


  • #2393
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,973 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Either it’s six hundred or it’s not.


  • #2394
    piplip87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭piplip87


    Good point by Leo. Marylou wants extra consultants but wants to tax them at 57%


  • #2395
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    History Queen wrote: »
    MM health answer much stronger than Leo's . Treatment purchase fund is hugely effective to be fair and will immediately help waiting lists.

    Must cost a fortune though.

    Reminds me of schools renting prefab classrooms for 30 years instead of building a new school.


  • #2396
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,591 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    Suckit wrote: »
    Her party is polling highest.

    Polls my hole, to quote Mattie McGragth. The polls said Hillary would win the polls said brexit referendum would be defeated so bang on Mattie!


  • #2397
    Oscar Bravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,422 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Ouch ,Leo nailed there


  • #2398
    piplip87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭piplip87


    easypazz wrote: »
    Must cost a fortune though.

    Reminds me of schools renting prefab classrooms for 30 years instead of building a new school.

    Yes but if you have 100,000 people getting medical care they need who cares what it costs


  • #2399
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,231 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Trizo wrote: »
    Yeah we’re in 2020 now , welcome to the new decade lol

    Nice try though ...

    Lol. We’re a month into the new decade so all facts from 4 years ago are all automatically wrong.
    Got it

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



  • #2400
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,373 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    gooch2k9 wrote: »
    They have pushed austerity up here, whilst being populist in Ireland and promising everything to everyone.

    I'm no fan of theirs but that's the craic. They're like Tesco with their separate divisions in ROI and UK.

    Yes, but Tesco don't claim to be the one company across the two countries. They legally are different and differentiate themselves as Tesco and Tesco Ireland.

    SF do the opposite


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  • #2401
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    talking about the HSE is utterly pointless


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