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Are you going to back that up with anything, or should we just take you at your word?
I was talking to an electrician friend of mine recently and asked him why he didn't give up his maintenance job and go out contracting where he'd earn a lot more right now. His answer, job security.
It seems to me a lot of tradesmen value job security, especially having been burned so bad during the last recession.
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That defies logic!
Maybe Ryan’s alarm clock failed to waken him? Well he is the minister of transport 😎
Hiya,
Ive attached the rates below for plumbers...electricians are about the same...
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The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed it has paid $12 million dollars for a property in Washington D.C., for the Irish Ambassador, why oh why spend that amount of money
The US govt plan to spend 700 million dollars on the new Dublin Embassy.
12 million is small beer.
there is a big difference in the equipment used by the u.s and the irish
Does the ambassadors really need big stately homes in any country?
Indeed. But 12 million is still small beer.
That's $700m on an embassy, not the ambassadors residents. In saying that the Ambassador residents still needs to be of a significant size as they host parties and events etc.
Well if you're gping to do justice to those 'excellente' receptions...
Is this out of the norm for ambassadorial residences in DC?
Between TD Cathal Crowe's support for the roadblocks in Clare earlier in the year, and their councillor out justifying the burning of Asylum seeker accommodation this morning, FF really need to get their act together on domestic terrorism.
Because make no mistake, that's what this is.
For all MM likes to throw dirt at SF's history he seems quite happy to turn a blind eye when it suits.
Doesn't read to me like they are "justifying the burning of asylum seekers accommodation"
from the article
"Both councillors have condemned the fire at the hotel. "
Explaining is not justifying. Not sure what relevance Sinn Fein have to this?
https://www.thejournal.ie/galway-hotel-fire-asylum-seekers-6252746-Dec2023/
The property was up for 18.5m and they paid 12m. Seemed they had already been renting it. from an article it seems like it's the area for the embassys
Neighbouring properties include the Embassy of South Africa, the Embassy of Brazil, the British embassy to Washington DC and the Embassy of New Zealand.
https://www.businesspost.ie/article/pictured-the-e11m-nine-bed-washington-mansion-bought-to-house-irish-ambassador/
Reads like a bit of a phoney condemnation tbh.
To paraphrase, "I condemn this, but absolutely see where they were coming from, and it wasn't their fault"
At best, it's very, very weak on domestic terrorism.
FF should be ashamed of themselves, allowing this carry on within their ranks.
That's not paraphrasing, that is making up your own version of what they said and passing it off.
None of the councillors said it wasn't their fault and none of them are condoning the burning of a hotel. They are explaining the situation.
Let's hope the people who burned it down are caught
Fianna Fáil Councillor Séamus Walsh told Galway Bay FM: “If it was a criminal act, what made that criminal act happen? It’s the senseless policy of the Government.”
He added that the local area has “taken their fair share of immigrants”, adding that “we cannot be scapegoated, we cannot be used as a holding tank, it’s just not right”.
“If it was done maliciously, it was absolutely the fear for the safety and wellbeing of their families that drove people to this.”
I'm sorry, but that is not a condemnation of the act. I don't care if he said the words "I condemn the fire" because he clearly doesn't mean it.
No one was "driven" to this act, they freely chose to do it cause they're terrible people.
I should add, all parties have utterly cretinous councillors unfortunately, and the national level politicians seem to all be saying the right things so I don't think this really matters for FF as a party.
FF TD Cathal Crowe was out earlier in the summer offering to act as spokesperson for the 'decent' people setting up road blocks in Clare.
I understand people in rural Ireland are concerned about safety. It's understandable when there's a lot of people arriving and effectively no police force.
“No one could condone criminal damage, but we have to stand back and look at it and if it was a criminal act, what made that criminal act happen, and it is the senseless policy of the Government,” he said.
See the bit in bold you left out of the comments you included.
No one could condone criminal damage but it wasn't their fault is the gist of his point.
Also I didn't leave it out, the Journal left it out.
Probably a better article to read.
He said he had been at the barricade mounted by locals about 400m from the hotel when he saw the flames. He said that, contrary to reports that the blaze broke out at 11.35pm, he saw the building burning about 11pm.
“It had to have been burning the minimum of an hour at that stage with the damage that had been done,” he said.
“There was no sense among the people protesting that something like this was coming. I was back there [at the protest]the last two days with them and we were sitting around a barrel with a fire and everyone was just having a chat. You couldn’t have met a nicer bunch of people.
“The hotel is an iconic building that means a lot to local people. I got married myself there.”
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/government-bears-a-huge-responsibility-for-fire-at-galway-hotel-due-to-house-asylum-seekers-says-local-fianna-fail-councillor/a1131685553.html
You can cherry pick comments all you like but it's pretty clear there's tacit support from an element within FF for these domestic terrorists.
All well and good to cry outrage and talk about sc**mbags and thugs when it suits...
Different story altogether when the perpetrators have demands that resonate with FFGs rural vote.
"here's tacit support from an element within FF for these domestic terrorists."
😂
Maybe you can provide some information to back up this claim that FF support domestic terrorists.
In terms of cherry pick, I think you will find you didn't even cherry pick and just made up a story based on nothing. But I will wait for you to back up the claim above.
Well it's not just me who see's this element of far-right sympathisers within government ranks...
As for the tacit support, what else would you call it when there's a FF TD out offering to act as spokesperson for one of these road block, vigilante groups?
Im looking for proof of the statement you made above "but it's pretty clear there's tacit support from an element within FF for these domestic terrorists."
The article you shared doesn't provide that so can you please provide it.
I wouldn't accuse Crowe of tacit support for arson but this certainloy sounds like it to me
“If it was a criminal act; what made that criminal act happen? It was the senseless policy of the government,” Séamus Walsh told Galway Bay FM. “If it was done maliciously, it was absolutely the fear for the safety and wellbeing of their families that drove people to this.”
Soyou are trying to claim FF supports domestic terrorists?
Not as a party obviously, that's why Martin seemingly intends to discipline these councillors.
I wouldn't use a melodramatic phrase like 'domestic terrorists' in this context either. But if we are asking was the quoted councillor expressing 'tacit support' to whoever burned down down the hotel, well, 'tacit support' is a slippery phrase but I think he crosses the line...
That's the accusation that was made, you backed it up.
