No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

alot of arguing and over and back by a few posters since i last looked at this thread… posters getting very excited… id ask all to calm down a little.. there was a funeral in my area the other night of a 19yr old girl who this day last week didnt know that she had less than 12hours to live.. she was found dead in bed by her dad after he finished milking last friday morning… the silence in the funeral home the other evening was unnerving… usually if its the funeral of a person in 70s/80s/90s.. there will be a bit of chat, talk of a life well lived and a few funny stories and so on… the other night was just silence… total total silence… poor family..

A young man was killed in a tractor accident on Tuesday in Leitrim. We would know of both families involved. My God help them.

We could do a deal with the French - we will be importing a significant amount of their nuclear anyways via that new interconnector to Cork Harbour from Brittany. They already have the cheapest and lowest Carbon energy in the EU

By far the biggest threat to EU farming long term is trade deals like CETA, Mercosur etc. Its the so called left thats opposing these at EU level. In contrast its FFG's pals in the EU(EPP) and those on the Far Right that are pushing such destruction - with the latter even trying to push a vote in Brussels a few weeks ago to restrict anybody lobbying the Commission or MEP's to oppose the measure as is their democratic right. Also Peter Burke the relevant Minister here recently said the government are determined to get the last (and most controversial) elements of CETA passed b4 the summer recess. This includes the so called "Investor Courts" measure that will hand over vast amounts of power to foreign corporations to halt/stop any legislation in the Irish Parliament they deem to interfere with their potential profits - shure what could go wrong with that…🙄

would u ever give the conspiracy theories a rest. If u feel so strongly about it. Get off your arse and run as a politician and see what support u get for your views and u can make the country better all on your own. Such a load of tripe out of u every day

There are a few families that we know that have lost babies, children/teenagers to health issues, accidents or suicide in the last few years. They are surviving but not living iykwim.

They say that time heals and maybe it does for some.

I'd safely say you know nothing about me 😂 It's easy bash a keyboard.

What age is that bull, looks massive

We have a skilled visa system for economic migrants.

If people are coming here illegally they should be absolutely thrown out.

Calling others out for simplistic lines and then conflating people going on skilled visas to Aus as some sort of rebuke is tired nonsense.

We don't set the immigration rules of Australia.

The vast majority of Irish who go there do so on skilled visas.

Those Irish staying there illegally should be thrown out and we should support the Australians in doing it.

We have to move past these silly arguments, if you think we need more people working minimum wage, say that and argue for increased visas. At least with that we can set criteria and select who we want, currently we get those with the least respect for our laws and sovereignty coming here economically abusing us.

The Irish people should decide who comes and live here.

not being brave here. I’d say the same to your face or anyone else if I was having the same conversation in person. Hurlers on the Ditch about politicians. Hi stand in the local elections and see how popular u opinions are with your own community.

I'm sure you would but we'llnever know for sure. I'll express my opinion as i see it and you can get over it.

as for "my own community "you make it sound like I'm some sort of redneck. you need to come off your high horse

Some game on now with united v lyon in europa league

I'm not an Arsenal supporter but I was happy to see them beat Real Madrid. Was hoping Villa could manage to get through as well.

I'll wade in here...

It's not so simple. Realisticly and unfortunatly , you probably need to go with a party to have a chance.

It's name recognition and nepotism, so bad that for example... the main qualification that Barry Cowen had was that his brother Brien bankrupted the country, and his in turn main qualification was that his father died on the the job (as a TD).

And Helen McEntee's main qualification was that her father also died on the job - by his own hand.

her father also died on the job - by his own hand.

Really wasn't needed.