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FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,870 ✭✭✭✭road_high




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    You continue with this one dimensional view on what is going on in the real world , you pick a particular point , twist and turn and obsess about it , hoping desperately if you run with it, eventually it will make sense , it doesn't nor will continously ignoring reality.

    This utterly bizzare use of an example of someone rather sensibly, Flying to a different country to see a concert to avoid blatant gouging and actually save money seems to perplex you, it's called, common sense and actually says more about the outrageous gouging going on in Ireland. Perhaps you've also missed the point and reason why people choose to Holiday abroad , surely I don't need to explain the reasons for that. Even when the Irish Hospitality sector had the golden opportunity of tapping into the staycationing market during Covid , they couldn't help rubbing their grubby hands, take the absolute PEE and rip off Irish people, they'll not get that opportunity ever again.

    I'd wager few if anyone who booked a holiday months ago knew what was coming in terms of cost of living crisis, you seem to think people struggling just booked holidays on a whim, if you honestly believe this , I've really no response but if you think people who had paid for holidays already should just not bother to see it through and loose the cost of what they've paid for, months ago , then that's just silly, Ironically they are likely to spend much less for the duration of time they are out of Ireland. Even before this crisis, I know many retirees who deliberately move to places like the canary Islands for winter months and literally save thousands, even accounting for the rent of an apartment and flights (albeit cheap flights might be a thing of the past)

    Anyway , know you'll be back with some more bizzare notions later 🙄

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Sexist? Sure. 🙄 That's a leap as big as Leo's for calling out Michael Healy Rae for saying "away with the fairies". Well done, you must be so proud of yourself for the mental gymnastics it's taken you to arrive at that conclusion.

    This is what I said:

    "I'm glad to see she's at least done something with her time in politics. 🙄

    And sadly for me I'm in her constituency."

    If McEntee was a man I'd say the exact same thing if he and his wife were expecting their second child. Let's look at that statement then with the genders replaced:

    "I'm glad to see he's at least done something with his time in politics. 🙄

    And sadly for me I'm in his constituency."

    Is that statement sexist?

    The simple fact is "the person" we are referring to has done SFA since appointed to a role they simply are not qualified for. The person in question is in way above their intellectual ability and it's plain to see for anyone with even the slightest interest in politics and current events. It was tokenism to put the person in a role they were neither suitable for nor capable of doing, and to continue to attempt to deflect any criticism of their performance on the grounds of their gender is actually damaging to other capable and more intelligent female candidates - but I'm guessing you of course fail to see this?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Actually at this stage with all the trans talk I wouldn't be surprised if she announced she's now non-binary, gender fluid, or even decides to change genders to get a few likes on Instagram.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 648 ✭✭✭Irelandsnumberone




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Yep , Josepha has been struggling of late , bad enough her incompetence but then causing offence via Twitter, remarkably inept individual 🙄

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,056 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    ...only that this has always been the case, long before covid and the war turned up! these have just made the situation far worse, and it probably wont ever change!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,699 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Is there no decent advisors to this government? Every time he tries to excuse the shambles he created with this, he gets destroyed. Correction: is there no FG TD's astute enough to see the damage he has done and continues to do? When will they stop the runaway train?




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    😳 Leo standing up against Bulliies, is that how he describes his unhinged, Vicious, Vindictive , underhanded and pre mediated attack , Gosh , if his performance wasn't a perfect example of Bullying, what is 🤔

    Just extraordinary given his close monitoring of Twitter, he's not noticed he's made a fool of himself (again) 😏

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭nigeldaniel


    Well, I happen to think the Government is doing a very commendable job considering all the trouble in the world right now. As for all the things that are not exactly super at home these days, they are doing all they can. If they could make everything hunkey dory with the wave of a wand they would, think off all the votes it would bring in, alas in the real world things are tricky and not easy to do. They are making decisions to keep things going. Can we imagine the fuss the farmers would kick up if they stopped the Russian-flagged ships and their animal feed and the dsl from Russia too? It would be the correct thing to ban them but they are allowing them in as they know the country is in a tight spot. Decisions been made are sometimes hard and difficult but they are making them regardless.

    Dan.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    I'm truly inspired, thank you.

    But have you missed the Hunky, Dory magic wand they actually have been waving in certain directions, none of which helping Irish people 🤔

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    May I be so bold and add, insufferable and intolerable 😉

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    Yes because the Dail is not the Cabinet.

    This shouldn't be so hard for you to grasp.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    Ireland also has the second-highest min wage in the EU, so there is a correlation.

    Not sure what question you want to be answered because they were buried in the word salad of rants.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    Gutter talk you made up. It was FG refused to sanction Putin when the Crimea was invaded.

    This is actually not true.

    But we know FF and FG are happy to turn a blind eye and help cover up institutional rape, selling babies and leaving a mass burial ground of infants to lie fallow.

    Also not true, but anyway..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    2nd highest min wage doesn't really account for much when you are the joint most expensive country. It's already too expensive for many of those on the average wage.

    So still no answers. Never have I ever heard such bs. You can't answer because there were too many words. Incapable of having a discussion, like I said. Just quoting posts and trolling.

    I'm surprised anyone bothers to reply to you at all, I won't be anymore.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Before you go off Marko, just be aware I could educate you on a few facts about this government and more so last governments appalling lack of action and dithering re what went on in the past, particularly in children's Homes alledgedy supervised by government agencies.

    I agree whole heartedly with @Brucie Bonus sentiments because I've direct knowledge and experience of what went on, having spent 16 years in state care.

    Very emotive subject and not particularly appropriate for me to be discussing here so I won't but don't say its not true when you've clearly not an iota of understanding on the particular points made.

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,699 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Colm Brophy got caught at the same thing on Claire Byrne this morning. Went on a rant and then when challenged had nothing to back it up. Saved by Claire ending the conversation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    I for one welcomed Leo standing up to the blowhard that is Pearse Doherty. The guy is a sham, whose only talent is hectoring people. You could see the colour drain from his face when Leo told the world about his own run-in with the law. And for the record, it was Pearse that started it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,699 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    And for the record, it was Pearse that started it.

    It was the Dáil, not a schoolyard.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    You are welcome. I am glad you now know the difference between the Dail and the Cabinet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    If you spent 16 years in state care and you are now well older, then this is not the topic of the current government, is it now? Unless you are 18....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    So why did Pearse bring it up for debate, as it had nothing to do with the Dail questions at the time?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,699 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Doherty diodn't bring something from 25 years ago, that was Leo'sd own doing. Leo's 'present' predicament is entirely relevant.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,313 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    How is it relevant to a question about the cost of living?

    Its a clear case of well, because Pearse did it, it was OK..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,699 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    He was addressing Varadkar's smug, evasive replies. Abundantly pointed out in commentary on social media, where, despite your undying support and pat on the head, Varadkar is getting destroyed for it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    Damn, missed that, always enjoy colm Brophy getting his bottom handed to him 😁

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,111 ✭✭✭✭Dempo1


    I addressed your absurd response and comment "That's not true , but anyways " which was both petulant and inaccurate.

    I'm 54 actually, not that it is relevant and I'm afraid the point is absolutely alot to this current government, most notably Roderic O'Gorman, who's completely and utterly out of his depth.

    I'm very, very happy to share by PM reams of documentation I've received from the state agency dealing with with my time in state care and indeed correspondence from the religious order involved after years of requests if you are in doubt about my experience and trustworthyness on the matter.

    I'd request if it's not too much to ask, to show even slightest bit of respect and perhaps stick to matters you have some basic understanding off.

    Is maith an scáthán súil charad.




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