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Opportunist fool. I pray he doesn't get a seat. He'll do nothing in Europe. Chambers will be along soon to say the borders should be closed.
Barry Cowen, slack-jawed and running away to the mainland,
where has he been hiding?
FFG seem to be waving the white flag for the next election, they are allowing way too many sitting TDs to run for Europe.
If they get elected to Europe, they are essentially forfeiting that constituency, they don’t seem to have high profile second strings that I can see
???
Write that again in English and I might read it
80% of the voters disagreed with mary lou and sinn feins take on the referendums, you know the ones she said she would run again.
Nobody bar the die hard shinners are believing the cr** out of sinn fein anymore.
That is not right wing goosestepping or Brits.
Barry Cowen the latest FF TD to pipe up now on immigration, about deportations, you'd never think elections are coming up
https://www.fiannafail.ie/news/cowen-demands-enforcement-of-immigration-laws
I'd say Dublin will get a Metrolink when Galway gets the ring road. Never.
Fianna Fáil TD Paul McAuliffe said €150m was lost on the Metro North project, largely due the project having been being stopped when an alternative route was chosen.
FF TD Paul McAuliffe is talking nonsense. That is not why the project was stopped.
No idea what you think you are saying here. €150m was spent on Metro North but the project was cancelled because of the GFC. No one saw that coming and there was essentially nothing they could do about it. Now €150m has been spent on the new Metrolink project - it was either spend the money or not have a metro.
It's on top of the 150 million already wasted.
Asked if the NTA accepted this figure, Deputy CEO Hugh Creegan said that they did.
Mr McAuliffe asked for details of the business case that justified "a Government agency to lose or set aside €150m" which will add to the eventual cost of MetroLink which is expected to reach "€10 billion".
The NTA's Garrett Doocey responded that the decision to cancel the Metro North project was taken by the Government.
"They're separate projects, deputy," he said.
"But they're not. They're separate routes," Mr McAuliffe responded, but insisted that they are effectively the same project.
Sure it's just lines on a page 😂
That is an utterly tiny amount of money for such a large project. You think planning and consultations for 3 years are free?
Do you honestly think people are "party plants" on boards? 😂
What exactly would any of the government parties gain from having people on boards?
It seems to be daily now the accusation of been paid or a party plant etc etc.
The same people seem incapable of understanding that someone has a different opinion to them
Those webcam videos she does hardly help her either.
They don’t seem to have the high production values of their party’s twitter page when they are propagating those anti-Shinner videos
“Their borders and immigration policy is now laughably referred to as "Brits out, everyone else in".”
Yeah, invented by British soldier Rowan Croft - never saw him concerned about foreign men of military age in the North funnily enough yet he speaks of “sovereignty”.
He is a British loyalist.
Rest of your nonsense is not shared by anyone outside of your far right goosesteppers.
Your policy is Brits in, Irish out
I just read that the Metro project has already cost 150m Euro. I'll post a link later.
Definitely another FFG style Children's Hospital project on the cards there. Cui bono?
Ahh FFS you are as bad as the undoubted government party plants around here defending in no small way fg, ff and the cabbage heads.
sinn fein have done absolutely nothing to help ordinary people.
They have and are continously labeling ordinary people concerned about their communities as far right racists.
So much for sinn fein and their community work.
Added to that they backed the failed referendums wasting peoples time and money.
Then they tried to spin they didn't agree with them in the first place even though they voted for them.
Even worse their leader said they would run them again.
HELLO MARY LOU you absolute tool, can you not read the room yet.
Added to that they have been vociferous supporters of hate speech legislation and have actually said it doesn't go far enough.
sinn fein have shown their true colours showing they care shag all about Irish people.
Their borders and immigration policy is now laughably referred to as "Brits out, everyone else in".
And before mods crawl all over this because this thread is about government parties, but the complete lack of opposition from the main opposition party has to be highlighted continously for some folks it seems.
Suspect such things will become more common as the government reaches its inexorable end.
Another deflection post with no substance. Great work 😉 Do you ever reply to the actual post content?
Don't worry about it
Who cares about the HSE or housing
National issues is not the responsibility of all voter or politicians
Better off voting for someone who has no intention to fix anything and then spend 5 years slagging off anyone who tries to fix it
Seems like a better plan to me doesn't it? 😂
"electioneering"…. 😂
I know from Gript so probably labelled as far right antagonists fake spoofers etc., but MM is really throwing Entee under the bus lately
I'd agree
Micheál martin bossed this,with his experienced old head de escalating the reaction in GB to both the Taoiseach's unnecessary first comments picked up by the UK media (later nuanced better) and McEntee's
Sometimes its the auld dog for the hard road and the pup for the path
Oh dear
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41386576.html
Bit rich since they own the Housing and Health portfolios.
I guess FF are electioneering too?
What are said migrants going to do when their applications are rejected? They get no money as little as it is now even and no accomadation then,just their own make shift cold wet tents
Hardly nirvana or an incentive to come here
Thats what the law is more supposed to do
It reinstates the UK as Safe
And remember only UK rejected applicants risk going to Rwanda
If they cannot prove a need for protection in the UK,they wont here either
Ergo they're fùcked and the flow will eventually get back to normal
There seems to be no accountability these days in Irish politics. For example, Minister Martin was in the same position as McEntee a few weeks ago re RTE- Inept, inaction, uninformed, rash judgement etc. We all thought she would resign before being pushed. However some other news story came along and she went back into hiding and the 'progress' on RTE stalled yet again. Notice how nobody in govt brave enough to mention the license fees. They'd rather bail out RTE. Muppets. McEntee seems to make a fool of herself on a regular basis but another news story often takes the focus off her. That's the way of the news world these days I guess. McEntee and Harris (equally to blame) will be hoping that a news story comes around soon to push the immigration mess off the front page.
However the local elections are in 6 weeks. The electorate aren't that forgetful. Worth waiting for.
Looks like the legislation they are pushing through won't be worth the paper its written on.
Sunak made it quite clear today in the Commons no migrants will be going back.
If she was working for a private company McEntee would be fired by now.
Of course, consistent FFG government policies of having :
a legal gravy train to prolong this
no police to defend locals from British organised PAYtriot thugs
no accommodation (despite virtue signalling)
funding hypocritical NGOs and their employees
And now, bending the knee to their “colleagues” in the nefarious and untrustworthy British Tories to take in their British commonwealth subjects from Nigeria
…. This is all Sinn Féin’s fault, all of it 🙄
Must see is it on the player.
Great to see her put on the spot.
She is like a screeching banshee in the Dail most days.
I think there's a Sinn Fein thread somewhere on here
She never did
Well Mary Lou when asked on 6 one just now about how do you find out where these cross border migrants originally came from ...she says 'you interview them and Glean that information from them'
Lol,Mary Lou,I dont think the IPO are proffecient in or legally allowed to do the type of interogations,some of the legacy members of your party might have been good at 🤣🤣
Worst interview I've ever seen her do
She had no answer anyway
Because they were refugees due to fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion
This is very specifically not a general term. I can read English is mostly why I'm struggling with your idea that the convention was supposed to govern those fleeing warzones. The reason certain people of German ethnicity couldn't return to Poland after the war is not because Poland was a warzone and not because Poland was not a "safe country" but because they uniquely would be at risk there due to their ethnicity. The war refugees could not return home because of singular characteristics, not because they had to flee cause of the war in general. A German who fled West Germany due to the war almost certainly would not have qualified for asylum had they applied under the convention.
Georgia is not at war (at least yet, god knows what is going to happen there) but someone could very justifiably claim asylum if they are Georgian because there is a significant crackdown on anti-government protests. Hence they are at risk due to their political opinion.
Ukrainians are not in Ireland as refugees and while I am no expert on the Irish refugee process, I do know that in many countries they would not even qualify as refugees because they can rely on their government to aid and protect them. Simply being from a country at war is not sufficient for refugee status and was never the intention of it.
Why on earth do you think they delineated the specifics about persecution based on race, religion etc? It is an incredibly basic point. They could have simply claimed the Convention was focused on those displaced due to war but they did not do that.
