Eh, the article I linked to actually criticised Sinn Fein at length and didn't direct any criticism towards the family. Your outrage is misplaced as always and directed to divert and whatabout rather than address the question. Nowhere did I abuse the families of the dead, so withdraw your disgusting unfounded allegation and debate fairly the issue I have put on the table and stop dragging in what others have said to unfairly tar me. It is reprehensible behaviour.
Obsession with a day-long funeral long over that involved politicians in various abuses of Covid regulations and thousands of people involved versus obsession with a small group of 20 or so people having a five-minute drink in an office not involving politicians at an even earlier date?
I think the former is actually a more serious issue than the relatively trivial latter one that Sinn Fein are making a big fuss of in the Dail.
So its not about a funeral happened over a year ago? There are no claims it was staged? You realise Storey is dead right? Do you think using the funeral affects him or his family? SF apologised. You won't move on but expect everyone else to move on from repeated flouting? Hypocritical.
Read the article, and stop making false allegations against other posters.
You are ranting elsewhere about a "champagne party" that happened even earlier than the funeral so you have some neck to accuse others of not moving on.
Sinn Fein never apologised for the funeral, that is another lie. They made a mealy-mouthed apology to those that were upset but never apologised for the funeral.
So what if Storey is dead? Those who broke the Covid regulations and attended the funeral are still alive. You only need to look at the Queen on her own at the funeral of her husband compared to the military parade for Storey to get a sense of how out of touch Sinn Fein are when the British royalty are showing them up for what they are.
No need to rant. I mentioned the champagne party in one short comment in another thread.
Another lie? Stop the dramatics.
They apologised. Now you are setting what you consider a good enough apology. You'll do anything to keep this story trucking.
The queen is the Head of a murderous regime and the monarchy you worship covered for her paedophile son for decades. Another area where you play favourites. I'll let you get back to Garda Horkan's funeral...of wait.
Sure didn't Gerry cover for his paedophile brother. Something that SF don't seem too concerned about.
Yes. And that was reprehensible. Whats your point, whatabout deflection?
Replace the word Queen with Gerry and tell me if you are playing favourites? Both are true.
No I never said Adams was right on that. You are wrong to say playing favourites on that. Putting that queen as an example while whinging about others is playing favourites. I didn't bring the queen or Adams into this.
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To be honest i haven't been following your back and forth on the housing thing. Just seen your criticism of the Queen's handling of Andrew's alleged crime and thought it was a bit rich given SF and Gerry's cover up of Liam's rapes of his daughter.
No worries they aren't connected.
Blanch was banging on about the Storey funeral and he held that queen, of all people, up as the standard we should be following.
Story funeral was a disgrace even if you ignore the type of man he was. No loss to the world. Hopefully he hadn't indoctrinated any of his family into his bigotry but i doubt it.
I still believe going after his family is out of order. SF apologised. Theres no investigation. All thats happening now is going after the family. Storey is dead.
The family didn't have to go along with the charade though. They allowed it to be a political rally so can't really complain when it's pointed out.
No. You're right and it was. Whats the deal today? Is it to be brought back up again and again just because government need a deflection? Imagine it was your father. We've even a FG claiming it was an empty casket. Its bad taste.
Bad taste? Look at the person in question. Doesn't deserve anyone's respect. The family should of kept it private. They chose not to.
That justifies haranguing them? They had a funeral as they saw fit. Outside of the SF covid thing why continue to badger the family of a dead man? I guess I've different standards.
Why are you still pretending it was a funeral? It wasn't,
Who is badgering the family ? No one approached them did they ?
Poor provos thugs couldn't have a political rally in peace, 🙄
Listening to Mary Lou just gets cringier by the week. She hasn’t a breeze what she is talking about 90% of the time
You are. You realise more than SF were there? Your SF obsession aside, it was a family funeral that happened over a year and a half ago. SF apologised and there's no investigation.
Family aren't allowed peace. Talk about living in the past and holding a grudge.
It wasnt funeral though was it ? . It was a political rally organised and encouraged by sfira
I'm pointing out the blatant and obvious lie you are pretending is fact
Doubt snt one went near the family you just trying to use them here. The family had their cremation in peace ,
It was the party that did this to them
OK, the Storey funeral was discussed extensively at the time. Everyone knows what happened, so leave it there
Mary Lou asking about pension age in the dail yesterday, and the government plotting to increase to to 66, 67, ect and if it'd be lowered back to 65.
Micheál played confused then asked about NI and Sinn Fein raising it to 66 up there.
She did not like that.
He's not nearly as confused as the politician whose main contribution to the debate has been to claim that "demographics will take care of themselves". Perhaps not confused but just cynically politicking. As Mick Clifford points out in the linked article:
"The issue was freighted with two elements on which populism thrives — the dismissal of science and the disregard for the long term"
I missed this, must watch it on the player, always enjoyable to see O'Broin have his ass handed to him.
"O’Brien seemed more comfortable with the one-on-one studio setting and got the better of his opposite number in most of the exchanges. Ó Broin’s counterparts complained about the minister’s interjections but that’s political debating, and the Fianna Fáil TD won this round."
"The Fianna Fáil minister predictably brought up Sinn Féin councillors voting against housing developments. He listed off various developments and Ó Broin insisted Sinn Féin were not against new housing but rather oppose local authorities gifting land to developers. O’Brien laughed off these suggestions and insisted his counterpart doesn’t like when the truth about local housing developments is discussed"
Pretty much the same demolition of Sinn Fein housing policy that we have seen on this thread, I suppose we are all FFers now.
I applaud blocking more bad deals for the tax payer that line cuckoo fund pockets.
All Darragh O'Brien did was interupt, but that seems to be political debating and makes for good tv (not!). Not too sure the viewers will agree with O'Brien that 400K is an affordable house or 2000K is an affordable rent for renters which O'Brien avoided addressing with the help of the RTE presenter. Why wasn't Sarah McInerney presenting? She wouldn't have tolerated O'Brien's bluster.
Crash diet is going well.
The lads will be in to call you a misogynist...oh wait its a shinner. They won't.
Do you think SF were right in right in voting against the Oscar Traynor Road development?
Sinn Féin, People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and a number of Independents all voted against the plan, which was supported by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Green Party and most Labour councillors.
A reminder of what the scheme consists of:
A revised scheme put forward by Glenveagh will now see all 853 properties used for State-supported homes – a tenure mix of 40pc social housing, 40pc cost rental and 20pc affordable purchase.
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