Leo Varadkar resigns as Taoiseach

That's an ironic statement considering it was the media (foreign and domestic) that made the most noise about those 2 points when he became Taoiseach. That and his youth.

(feel free to Google. It's cringe worthy)

The vast majority of people don't give a toss which is a credit really to how far we've come in the past 20/30 years.

However Leo himself had no issue playing it up on national radio during the SSM referendum (something that only a few years earlier he was in the Dail expressing concerns about) when he came out in order to boost his popularity and chances of succeeding Enda.

Fine Gael TD Josepha Madigan has unexpectedly resigned as Junior Minister and announced she will not seek reelection.

Now you're just being rude.

Only one issue with that, from personal experience. The Golden Hour is lost in Ireland, due to lack of investment in the Ambulance system.

Ambulances are taking upwards of an hour to get to patients in emergency (I know from personal experience in the past few weeks)

And people from Clonmel then have to drive to Cork or Waterford because Clonmel is stuffed to the gills with that overflow.

Its not more or spread around specialist services needed, I agree with those posters, but without more beds and step down services in the system for Limerick it just puts pressure on every area around.

People travelling to Galway as well instead of UHL

No answers then. Ignore your posts if they don't mean anything. Pointless

What is clear is that Ireland has become a toxic place, full of pessimism, mistrust, vulgarness, petty point scoring and outright meanness.

History will be kind to Leo I think.

Believe it or not you're not the only person actually reading my posts, perhaps others understand them.

It's really quite stupid of you to assume I am available to answer any sort of vague questions of any random poster here about anything I have written. Are you confusing this with an AMA?

Instead of simply ignoring you I decided to be polite and respond back respectfully that the post stands as-is and if you don't get it there's no need to worry about it. I guess I shouldn't have bothered.

You thanked at least one of my posts before, so I guess you do understand some of them.

I dont think it has really, you just hear more idiots these days with social media and the echo chamber that exists in it

It's the same as ever it's just we have the Internet now

People want to rent, some want to buy, restricting down the rental market overnight will fix things how?

plus the majority of houses are bought by people to live in.

Oh i dont disagree at all, i just feel the idiots didnt previously have access to the instagram/X/etc likes that they get for acting like fuckheads like they do now

My point was they have always been here, its just now they have a platform to show how thick they are

Irish net migration is close to zero.

For every irish person that leaves, another irish person returns.

Broadly speaking, about 30k people migrating and immigrating, annually.

It was big news at the time, especially for a country like Ireland which is seen as a white, catholic country. He was a young, gay, Irish with links to India. Not sure how people wouldn't think it is big news?

WHat has followed from people online can only be describing as a f**king disgrace and a blight on this country

Anyone saying otherwise should also be shamed of themselves.

As I have said many times, I never voted for Leo, never voted for FG, I didn't agree with his decision on children hospital etc etc but I can still point that out

Not sure what the "vast majority" comment is in regards to, yes the vast majority didn't but that doesn't cover up for the carry on across all forums and unfortuneatly boards was also involved in that. Looking back you had people creating account names in his partners name, all sort of crazy stuff going on and it was let go ahead.

Then the best some will come out with, of it wasn't homophobic.

As I said a lot of people should be ashmaed of themselves but they won't, will make up some excuse and continue on. Then they wonder why the government are looking at online hate? if they can do that type of thing to someone they don't know or never have met, what are they doing to people they know and fall out with?

Exactly. This narrative that politicians are been bullied out of office doesn’t cut the mustard with me. Yes they get abuse and it’s completely wrong and shouldn’t happen. For the most part they have a team to help protect them from the worse of it. Leo played the social media game better than anyone. They knew the pitfalls that that comes with that territory.

Id say Leo was pushed and maybe for the first time he had a sense of that it was time to go. History will judge his track record. Personally he was disappointment after Enda Kenny who really had a chance to transform this country and how it does politics. varadker leaves a country deeply divided over housing, health and immigration.

I don’t expect much from Harris. But listening to Frank Flannery today about how is mentored by Phil Hogan who for me represents the worse of Fine Gael arrogance leaves me with the thought that the more things change the more they stay the same.