It was obviously too much for him to criticise anything to do with the Religion of Peace so he invented some spurious wittering about climate change.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0613/1304483-higgins-nigeria/
President Higgins said that such an attack was made in a place of worship "is a source of particular condemnation, as is any attempt to scapegoat pastoral peoples who are among the foremost victims of the consequences of climate change".
What an incredibly stupid statement.
"Such comments associating banditry, kidnapping and gruesome attacks on innocent and harmless citizens of Nigeria with issues concerning climate change and food securities are deflections from the truth."
The bishop said that it is "the responsibility of every one of us to take case of our earthly home," but added that he appeals to "those who are trying to take advantage of this horrific event to project any form of ideological agenda to desist from such opportunism
Well he's not wrong is he?
A man talking about the earth's resources being exploited while he lives in a 95 room house is proper taking the piss.
The only thing your post does is demonstrate who little you know on topic, the way government works and your personal agenda regards the President.
The President does not make statements like that without the DOF, the minister for foreign affairs and on occasion even the cabinet signing off on it. What was said reflects government policy.
So off you go and waste another couple of hours trawling net for opportunities to troll.
Except he is not just a man and he does not own the house… and pretending otherwise is taking the piss!
What was said reflects government policy.
How does that change anything? The state signing off on idiocy doesn't change the fact that it's idiocy. What an odd position to take.
A sectarian massacre with a higher body count than the Omagh bombing.
You can't blame that bishop for being angry at foreigners inserting themselves into a domestic matter with pure waffle before the families have had time to grieve.
Ah yes, Higgins, the man who never met a Marxist despot he didn't admire. What was it he called Castro? A giant among men, I think was how he put it. Did the government sign off on that statement?
Sure he was right.
In fairness to him, everyone's a giant when you're that small.
Not when you have a trusty box to stand on
I don't give a tuppenny happenny damn who did or didn't sign off the statement. It's virtually signalling waffle which risks causing offence to the victims, as the Bishop rightly said.
He is not just a man, lol? Is he identifying as something other than a man these days. Might as well jump on another fashionable bandwagon.
Fly a couple hueys over and throw them some grain. As a gesture to Goodwill
Perhaps Mickey-D is just a bit more up-to-date with the issues than yourself?
"Perhaps Mickey-D is just a bit more up-to-date with the issues than yourself?"
Because a Yankee web encyclopedia has entries on the things he's talking about?
There are mixed ethnic/religious and economic factors to this conflict which it's doubtful foreigners can definitively pronounce on.
Would a Nigerian understand all the nuances of wealthy Scotch-Irish Presbyterians feuding with poorer Catholic Gaels? That's neither wholly religious nor ethnic nor economic, it's a bit of all three.
Michael D./the Irish government have already given offence with sticking their oar in.
He's the best president we've had.
He eats enough to feed a entire platoon of civilian murdering jihadists.
A biovating little blowhard who has yet to find a marxist murderer that he wouldnt excuse.
A man whose Board name is that of a Supertrawler,, asset-stripping the oceans, is proper taking the piss.
I imagine this guy would be far more clued in than any of us though.
“It’s a competition for limited land, it’s not about ethnicity or religion,” said Baba Othman Ngelzarma, National Secretary of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria.
It's always about money, religion is a guise.
He's been good but his comments on this and the ukraine crisis have been frankly tone deaf because it seems the man is stuck making statements which seem a bit odd and no research has been done. Even Irish leftists need to realise the damage done by uncessary stunts as explained by the OP.
Roughly how many Ukranian refugees could the house that he doesn't own accommodate if he volunteered to move back to one of his other homes? Or even to Farmleigh. You know? walking the walk instead of merely talking the talk.
If you looked up the term 'Champagne Socialist' in a dictionary there should be a picture of Michael D beneath it.
Ireland has a socialist president - the horror.
In much the same way that you're the best poster on Boards.ie, presumably.
Thanks man!
Yep. And I am a leftist. The type of cackhanded virtual signalling Higgins comes out with gives the left a bad name.
Higgins should record some of his dreadful poetry, it would be a great antidote for insomnia. At least then he'd have provided some actual value to the country. Judging by how rotund he's become he's almost round, he probably hasn't got much time left now.
He's really not - although I'll grant you the bar isn't very high.
Complete and utter tosh! With an added touch of inflated pomposity.
It used to work like that when Presidents were former political hacks put out to grass in the Aras, but hasn't done so since the days of Mary Robinson. It's true that the DFA and other government departments draft formal speeches for the President when s/he's on official business (e.g. one of their "royal visits" overseas), but they neither draft nor veto nor have an input into the large majority of his press releases which are, generally speaking, all his own work.
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