FrancieBrady wrote: » The system has failed and the statelet has failed. These things can falter along until there is a crisis and then those who chose to ignore the failure suddenly appear to point fingers. Nobody can rise above the issues.
Bishop of hope wrote: » Yes they can. It's been done elsewhere. But a funeral procession headed by a, whole political party changed that. Prior to that the north was coping more than admirably. Indeed some posters giving out now used it as a stick against our approach.
blanch152 wrote: » That's what you get when you let Sinn Fein get involved in governing. It is awful for the people up there.
Bishop of hope wrote: » No.
FrancieBrady wrote: » :rolleyes: Nothing to do with a party wishing to follow somebody on a disastrous herd immunity jape? A party trenchantly opposed to an all island strategy?
Bishop of hope wrote: » More than likely that too. But they were getting along well till that funeral and that changed the relationship too. Like the inappropriate tweet and the, apologies afterwards, SF can't help sticking the boot in.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Typical attitude of somebody that only gives a cursory look at the north. It is a failed state, it will not work and has ever worked for ALL of it's people. The Covid mess and the conflict/war are symptoms of it. It's artificial birth means it will ever turn into a normal society. Time to change to some other way.
Brendan Bendar wrote: » Just heard O’Reilly saying on the Late Debate that Stanley’s ‘apology’ was “sincere and heartfelt”. Anything less sincere or heartfelt I have rarely heard. And I heard it several times. Said through clenched teeth.
padd b1975 wrote: » She's getting a bit of a kicking from Regina and Katie about non-apologies.
RandomViewer wrote: » Cases didn't start to rise until the schools went back, North and South, schools carried the second wave,
RandomViewer wrote: » Health minister is UUP, DUP think Covid is God's will and objected to everything, they played the cross community card to hold up restrictions, Edwin Poots claiming only Catholics can catch it(Any selfies with Edwin at the Ard Fheis Blanch?) Yet you blame SF,
blanch152 wrote: » Or meet a girl in a bar in Belfast to be lured to your death. Or go drinking in Birmingham with your mates to be blown to bits. Or to be an innocent 18-year old looking for a bit of adventure and end up a year later vapourised by the IRA.
FrancieBrady wrote: » The 'tolerance of violence' was reduced...did to tell that to the people being beaten off the streets while everyone with responsibility looked on? What a pile of patronising, lie down and wait until democracy ad human decency occurs to those with the power to change things. So what if you found it hard to tolerate? The world doesn't revolve around you and your high moral mountain.
markodaly wrote: » https://progressivebrief.com/sinn-fein-is-not-irelands-progressive-party/?fbclid=IwAR1sSUVIDKcvoPO9cXbHV8I3O9JwpvJDpxTnl9Yj1H0gL9BLYGmmRPgS5XA A good rundown on what SF are and are not. TLDR, progressive they are not. Young people especially will find out the hard way.
blanch152 wrote: » Having met Louise a couple of times, I would guess she is running out of patience with the neantherthals in SF. She was tough but fair to negotiate with as a SIPTU official, she won’t stand for the idiocy of Cullinane, Browne, Brady and Stanley. Then again, who is left that is reasonable?
PearseCork92 wrote: » Did you really just link an article from a no-name blog written by a marketing undergraduate? That's some Google-fu desperation there.
markodaly wrote: » Who is Conor O Driscoll? Andrew Dunne. Is he the new Roman Shorthall, whose every utterance will be copied and parroted here by the usual crew as if they are an authority on something?
markodaly wrote: » An angry posts where the masks slips but men like John Hume prove you wrong. These are the same people who grew up next to their PIRA/SF counterparts but didn't feel the need to murder and kill children to make a political point. That is not even talking about men from the south like Dessie Ellis, who grew up in Dublin, far away from the troubles but decided he wanted a piece of the action. Today, the same Dessie Ellis would be off to Syria to either join or fight ISIS. Some people are just like this. Martin Ferris too is in the same bracket.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Lets ignore all those from Mr Duffy's Blueshirts who flocked off to Spain to fight, not to mention those from the south who stupidly gave themselves to Britain's various war efforts eh? Once again your myopic hypocrisy rings true. John Hume was a failed politician who arguably made the situation worse at times (the violence against the premature and exclusionary Sunningdale shambles. He only achieved success when he responded positively to Alex Reid's suggestion he team up with Adams and the Hume-Adams Initiative was born. He deserves credit for that.
Brendan Bendar wrote: » Let’s stop living in the 70s bhoys How is the sick man of Tipperary....is there another ‘apology’ being stenciled from the insincere list.
FrancieBrady wrote: » John Hume was a failed politician .
FrancieBrady wrote: » Once again your myopic hypocrisy rings true.
McMurphy wrote: » That's comedic writing the Farelly brothers would be proud of.
A frontbench Sinn Féin TD said the State’s defence of the HPV vaccine was “extremely concerning” and backed calls for a review of the vaccination programme in schools. Rose Conway-Walsh, the party’s higher education spokesperson, said in a radio interview in 2017 that there were “girls lying in beds around this country that cannot move” after receiving the vaccine. The Mayo TD said yesterday she was “simply relaying” the concerns of constituents about the Gardasil HPV vaccine. Vaccines against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) have been credited with saving the lives of thousands of Irish women and girls who could have developed cancer without being vaccinated. Repeated scientific studies have shown them to be very safe and potential allergic reactions and possible side effects to be extremely rare.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Rumour mill dried up Brendi?
markodaly wrote: » Haha, fantastic! Arguably the greatest Irishman of the latter half of the 20th century labelled a 'failed' politician.
I think you need a long hard look in the mirror there before you can use those words against anyone else Francie. The last comment alone is a good example on that.
