FF/FG/Green Government - Part 3

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, 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

Paul Murphy should lead next government. The most confident and experienced TD ever

Ministers turn on each other over migrants as crisis grows

Civil war broke out in the Cabinet last night with ministers lining up to lambast Taoiseach Simon Harris and his Justice Minister Helen McEntee over their handling of the migrant crisis.

Mr Harris was blasted as being ‘naive’, ‘confrontational’, ‘juvenile and bombastic’ by colleagues for his role in a row with the UK government over deportations and the border.

Things don't sound good for our government? Not predicting anything by the way.

Only last week they where congratulating Simon on moving Mount Street Shanty Town, only for a new one to be setup on Dublin's Grand Canal.

Not a bit surprised to be honest. He's had an awful start. Bad decisions and made a fool of himself with the British.

What would Gardaí at the open border do though,escort them back to Newry ?

Impossible as they'd be back 5 seconds later

Its incredible the thick crap politicians come out with so as to be seen to mar dhea care

What needs to be done in the first place is to restore the pre brexit agreement between GB and France to deport them

Its an EU wide problem Firstly and thats where entry has to be processed and the vast bulk of these exposed as the economic migrant chancers that they are

The EU can fund the mass deportation

Is ROG in hiding, new tent town, record number weekly IPAs and not a hum from the Integration minister who promised keys to new homes and jobs for all

Had a Limerick councillor (randomly as I'm not from Lim) come up as an advert scrolling Instagram last night ("paid for by Fine Gael" and all on it) with an MTV Cribs theme of this is my house and garden etc. Good editing, exactly like the show used to do 20-odd years ago.

Just thought to myself however, if I was FG, the last way to garner votes is "look at the big lovely house I own". Had to laugh really

ROG out of hiding

Mr O’Gorman said the Government “will be in a position to say with confidence that everybody who requires an offer of accommodation can get one” in the next few months. 

Helen McEmpty needs to be gone along with Roger O Gormless

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41393395.html

What is Micheal Martin's beef with social media?

Tánaiste warns over impact of fake online ads

• "Various political people could be undermined in the course of an election campaign with very little recourse during the campaign," he warned.
• Micheál Martin said social media firms should not be allowed 'to require citizens to go to the courts'

Has he ever heard of ad-block software?

Has anyone come across false political ads on social media, or do you automatically filter out obvious ads when you see them. The ads I seem to get until I muted them on twitter where from 'Fun Games 2024'! Anyone else getting them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

• Data scandal. In March 2018, media outlets broke news of Cambridge Analytica's business practices. The New York Times and The Observer reported that the company had acquired and used personal data about Facebook users from an external researcher who had told Facebook he was collecting it for academic purposes.
• Cambridge Analytica claimed to be able to use Facebook data for its clients to better target political messages to people that could be influenced, also known as “microtargeting.” Facebook shut down access for new apps to this API in 2014, and the API access was fully shut down in 2015.

@Podge_irl Is that old news or is something still like it happening now?

@Podge_irl The problem is not with "ads".

So the article is deceptive in describing the problem. It is more to do with disinformation and slanderous posts on social media. As you say botfarms etc targeting politicians. Not individual targeting of ads to user's.

Thanks for that, looks like after they where taken down by google, then surfaced again on Social Media in March.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-41369857.html

Hence his beef with Social Media. Horrible for him to be used in that way. But it is not like the average Mr Joe Public would be used in these scams, so wouldn't need to go to the courts to the extant he is.

As it is still a matter for the courts? Better to not go deeper into discussion here?

CASE WIN Major legal victory for Micheal Martin as High Court compel Google to hand over fake ad cryptocurrency scam details