Irish General Election - Friday, November 29th *Read OP for Mod Warnings*

How do they have 'higher entitlements ' then Irish workers?

Clare Daly and Mick Wallace are apologists for Putin, among the most pro-Russian politicians in western Europe at a time when Russia is committing war crimes almost daily in Ukraine, constantly targeting civilians.

Then you have Gerry Hutch, one of the most notorious figures in organised crime in Ireland.

These are my top three, but there may be other candidates.

Now we're talking, time for some wild, uncosted promises. 🙄

Carrick-on-Shannon to Carrick-on-Shannon, via Carrick-on-Shannon, thing would be about 300m long

Ah now, surely you would run it the 20km out to Arigna mines to encourage the tourism.

Down in Kerry, a Luas for the Ring of Kerry would be on the cards, but it would have to give way to the Healy-Rae horse-drawn carraiges.

This reminds me of America and why they voted back Trump, the American people kept being told their economy is guns blazing but you're average man on the street saw no difference and in fact they were in a worse state now compared to 4-5 years ago.

It's the same in Ireland, most people don't see the benefits of "budget surplus or "record employment" because cost of living is destroying those benefits. Many young people want to settle down and raise a family but they look at the costs involved and the shambolic housing crisis and they ask themselves why am I in this country that doesn't care about working class people and end up emigrating.

God help if you're seriously sick because you'll be on a trolley waiting to be seen and this doesn't include the GPs retiring and doctors getting qualified in Ireland end up leaving, our health is at breaking point

Illegal Immigration, spending billions on people who are benefit tourists and have no right to be here. Wouldn't it nice to spend this money on making the Irish peoples lives better instead of spending near 500k on a modular home?

It's a melting pot of issues and could fall like a deck of cards if one of the big multi nationals leave because of Trump

I dont know about you, but I look back 4-5 years and ask myself am I better off now and for me the answer is certainly no and would suspect it's the same for a lot of citizens.

So i'll be standing by my post, this country is a mess

Aren't they a far-right party?

The Honourable Deputy For Lanzarote.

I am better off than I was 4-5 years ago.

I have also seen my children's generation start buying houses en masse. Yes, there are a few of them out there, on cruises, out every weekend, enjoying their money, and complaining about no house, but they are the exception, even though they are the loudest. If you are 17, go to college, work hard, put your head down, save hard, then you will get a home, just like everyone did in the past.

Spending billions on benefit tourists is just a racist lie, by the way.

You beat me to that question.

It has to be wilful ignorance, it has to be

I'm afraid, billions is the correct figure. All that money is going to pay for hotels, purchase sites, build modular homes, benefits etc etc you think that monopoly money pays for this?

You know the state spent €2.63m per day in 2024 to accommodate International Protection applicants, it's absolute mad money.

So what percentage of those who are living in hotels, modular homes, on benefits etc. fall into the category of benefit tourists?

Vast majority of them because most of them come from safe countries.

Yeah they just need to stop buying those cappuccinos and avocado on toasts right?