Trump - The positives - (see Mod note in OP)

Trump didn’t use Martin

Martin was a guest whilst Trump spoke his usual lines which he speaks at all possible occasions

Nothing unique

My question to you is So?

Martin did good today,you and your lot would have had our ship in the rocks

I said he did well

Which is not the same as your position ‘he did well in what he set out to do’

Your statement as indicated in your other posts means he should have set us onto the rocks instead

Stupid position

What is even stupider about a boycott is that the person you were boycotting didn't even know you were boycotting them and didn't know who you were.

If ever a political stunt completely backfired, it was MLMD's "boycott".

I have no idea what SF are saying.

So the old inferiority complex is alive and well. Little old Ireland, sure we just have to take the soup.

Contrary to the rubbish talked here, I have praised FF and FG when they stood up for this country in the Brexit **** show.
They did that with no fear of the consequences and in spite of threats from a country arguably as rogue as the US is under Trump.
i cannot praise MM for his performance. It was sycophantic and weak.

Exactly.
And Ireland as represented by MM allowed Trump to use it to threaten and demean the EU today. Some payback.

I fully grasp Trump.

Should Zellenskyy have done what MM did?
Shoukd Macron have allowed him to diss the EU?

Shoukd Stammer have corrected him when he talked about Doonbeg being in the UK?

Maybe Trump is an issue because people defer to him in fear of a bollicking?

That was some posters advice to MM after all - the cringe ‘don’t poke the bear’ subservient stuff.
The metaphorical aircraft carrier rocking up to your coast bearing gifts.

Not a world I want to live in and I don’t give a damn what SF, FF, FG, PBP or anyone else thinks. I can think for myself.

Oh well, talking about stopping demonizing data centres and how we need more of them not to be left out on AI isn't exactly protecting the welfare of the Irish people. Mainly when we consider that we do have one of the most expensive rates for electricity and also considering crazy idea of feeding them new ones with new solar and wind energy dream plan.

So you're in favour of a President disobeying the law of the land?

You realise that is dictatorial, don't you?

Lol that's complete rubbish. The only investment from tech companies coming in is because of Ireland's tax policies.

We do not have location or workforce attractive enough for them to invest heavily or even meaningfully. We are way too expensive from wages to accommodation to living standard just to mention a few. Running existing data centers is way too expensive and we can pretty much forget about building new as we do not have infrastructure to support them anyway.

All correct however you fail to realize size of our country. There is not enough of "well educated workforce" to meet the demand the point that we are told that we need to import more of these. Which is in turn creating problems of its own with everything from housing, health, education just to name a few.

Investment is fine but government is not investing where they need to invest to attract meaningful investment from businesses. Our grid for example is at full capacity so any new power hungry investments like data centers are not feasible without improving and expanding what we currently have available. Solar and wind fantasy isn't going to cut it we need constant reliable power production and not weather dependent one.

That statment reads like the majority of the comments you see on sites such as the daily torygraph under any articles related to Ireland - mainly all bitter reform, edl and britain first people with a major chip on their shoulder over anything remotely related to Ireland.