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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.
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Write that again in English and I might read it
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
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.
Paul Murphy should lead next government. The most confident and experienced TD ever
No idea how this story passed me by?!
How is Helen McEntee still in a job!
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.
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.
…eu wide failure, theyre coming, whether we like it or not, we re not gonna stop them, the whole eu needs to sit down and start having adult conversations about this reality, and start dealing with it, it wont happen though, so get ready for an even bigger mess…..
Not a bit surprised to be honest. He's had an awful start. Bad decisions and made a fool of himself with the British.
More FF speaking up
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/government-must-be-stronger-in-dealing-with-asylum-seeker-camps-and-gardai-should-police-the-border-fianna-fail-td-says/a1090677015.html
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
Election 'before the clocks go back' favoured among politiciansOne minister suggested the Government must call an election after October’s budget, as 'anything longer is madness'
Majority of Government politicians favour autumn election — poll
Not surprised at Green's wanting to go full term, they will probably get hammered in election for propping up the Gov?
I am NOT predicting anything here, but some people who have maybe proven correct!
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
ROG was the whipping boy for long enough and clearly wasn't getting cabinet support. So now that the focus has shifted to the Clueless 2, he is being smart and keeping the head down. Time for Simon and Helen to take some flak. Especially with less than 30 days to elections.
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
A lot of these are arrogant assholes to start with and don't forget a lot will be taking their cue from the party hierarchy that now looks down their noses and totally dismisses out of hand the concerns of ordinary people.
You can even see it with undoubted party insiders and supporters on the web, and indeed here, where they still appear to think the Irish voters are going to continue to stupidly vote for them.
And this is not alone FG, but all the major parties.
Granted it does appear FG has an inordinate amount of members/lackies who seem to have totally forgotten the days when they only dreamed of getting anywhere near FF and into power.
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.
"in the next few months" is quite the non specific sentance.
It also completely ignores the fact that the real problem is we need to reduce the number of people arriving and claimng accomodation, not continuously provide more and more accomodation at the expense of the Irish tax payer.
Its incredibly worrying that O'Gorman, who literally tweeted out in multiple languages to asylum seekers the promise that they'd get free accomodation here to encourage them to come, is still influencing government decision making. His agenda is completely at odds with whats very clearly in the country's best interests.
Helen McEmpty needs to be gone along with Roger O Gormless
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41393395.html
Not anymore. We're top of the class.
What is Micheal Martin's beef with social media?
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?
The problem is not with "ads".
As a starting point you could look at the whole Cambridge Analytica debacle, but it has obviously progressed since.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica
@Podge_irl Is that old news or is something still like it happening now?
You think it's stopped? Yes, things like that are still happening. You have botfarms etc pretending to be real people pushing whatever agenda they want.
I highly doubt the government is in any position to properly regulate it, but the problem is not targeted ads marked as such.
@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.
His face was used in crypto-currency scam ads and he had to take legal action to identify those behind the ads. Some other politicians and celebrities were also targeted.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/micheal-martin-initiates-high-court-proceedings-against-google-over-scam-adverts/a1902151621.html
Regards…jmcc
I've seen a lot of 'kate3421578' type named accounts, with nothing in the way of a personality, just guff about immigrants and SF traitors.
I know when posting adverts they are vetted for content, (Facebook won't allow too much text for example). I wonder how or why such obvious fake adverts get through?
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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
The funny thing is that the scammers would have thought that Irish people would have taken the word of an FFer on investments given the whole Celtic Tiger thing. :) This is just background noise to the use of Social Media influence operations. It is helped by "technology journalists" reporting on the issue being quite clueless and being unable to identify such operations.
The 2016 US presidential election and the whingebinge from opinionators about Russian sites was really funny. The vast majority were networks of Made For Adsense sites from Eastern Europe. They were variations on clickbait sites that are promoted via Social Media ads. (The BBC tracked down some of the people behind the sites and interviewed them.)
Influence operations have come a long way since the days of planting stories with a gullible journalist or two. Technology has improved such operations but targeting plays a major part of things now. In Social Networking terms, it is far more important to identify "influencers" who will propagate a message than it is to waste time on press release recyclers that few people will trust. The trust in the legacy media has fallen dramatically in the last few decades. This makes the identification of "influencers" much like the Cambridge Analytica approach important because people are more likely to trust people they know. If you need an insight in to the CA issue, Chris Wiley's "Mindf*ck" book is quite good.
