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I'm mixed race and I see absolutely nothing wrong with that statement considering it's about his character and behaviour rather than anything racially.

Try harder.

Liberal elite has to be the oxymoron phrase that I have ever heard. If anyone is a member of the "elite", they certainly would not subscribe to anything that was "liberal".

What issue?

The irish electorate have consistently for the past 2-3 decades passed rather socially liberal referenda, prime examples are obviously divorce, same sex marriage, repealing the 8th etc, which were proposed by parties that while nationally are viewed as centre-right in a global view would be much closer to centre left.

We are absolutely a socially liberal society despite our rather conservative history and attempts like yours to lazily conflate irish popular liberalism with communism is simply a whinging cop out attempt to try paint everyone who disagrees with you as some sort of manical villain.

Indeed they are, but Irish liberals are not always socialists and communists which is the conflation I am disagreeing with.

You are absolutely are trying to paint that picture i wont continue discussing this with someone who refuses to acknowledge their veil of vague accusations has been pierced.

Binned my TV licence fee last year and am a bronze subscriber to Gript. Don't agree with a lot of the stuff they do but find it a refreshing insight into the world we live in and the various viewpoints are welcome for me anyway. Hope they keep providing good content going forward.

Not too get dragged unduly into this, but you did state in an earlier post:

"The most prominent far left people in this country subscribe to a socialist ideology (which we're oft reminded is the pursuit of communism)"

I find it hard to interpret exactly what you mean by this statement.

Are you saying that people with a socialist point of view ultimately view communism as the ultimate end goal? Or that to be "socialist" is to actually be a communist? Or that socialism and communism are interchangable?

What's liberal about outlawing private property?

Every time someone comes out with the line "wasn't covered by mainstream media", you can safely chalk it up as bollocks.

I wouldn't share the view that socialism is the pursuit of communism and I don't think many out there currently in Ireland would share that view either. Maybe a few people have posted it here on boards, but I don't think that's a representative opinion.

I think you are using pretty broad definitions of socialism, communism and liberalism, so broad that the definitions are almost meaningless.

Why? The guards are supposed to have searched the septic tank early on in the investigation and if they missed something then that is a big mistake and haven't heard anything about suspects or the color of their skin.

They discuss parts of the case on this week's excellent podcast amongst other news worthy items in this week's news

Absolutely and really happy with it.