No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

There was a far higher proportion of peadophiles as priests back in the day as they had power and access to children. Obviously not all priests but a much higher proportion than say the gardaí at the time. That has changed now as priests no longer have power or access to children. The peadophiles now flock to Tusla and NGO's with access to children.

Politics has always attracted the worst power-hungry corrupt scum out there so despite some decent politicians the scene is rampant with horrible narcissists. What makes it worse is corruption breeds cronyism as corrupt politicians will help their fellow corrupt to succeed so an honest person doesn't get in and expose the scams.

Do you have any opinion on the content of the article? I don't think it's far right to call out the IFA's culpability in this. I think some interesting points are made that I've not heard articulated on RTE or the Irish times anyway.

I remember the arguments over Lisbon and the discussions about giving up our veto power, are we not seeing the outcome of that now? Why does the government funded RTE not mention any of this?

Who are the crowd you think fund Gript? I'm an ordinary farmer and I don't pay the TV licence fee, I give the money I used to pay to RTE to Gript because I want media to hold the government and those in powerful positions to account.

I think it's very relevent that the IFA/current government parties (including our current leader Mr M Martin) campaigned in a referendum for a position that removed our veto on trade while telling us that it was not happening/was inconsequential. Now we see the consequences we should ignore it, not call it out? Good media should have institutional memory and be able to point out how we got where we are and hopefully by highlighting past fake news get people to not automatically believe what they are being told today by those in authority.

I was in school during the Lisbon referendums so won't be taking any responsibility either way.

I'm not trying to get into a big argument about the IFA - I had family members that went to jail for protests with the IFA back in the 70s and was reared on stories about the organisation. That being said, it's interesting that the IFA are now today campaigning against a deal enabled by a referendum they campaigned for while saying it couldn't happen? That the current head of government also campaigned for the referendum but he won't be grilled by the media about his past decisions? We should ignore it and move on? Learn nothing and believe what we are told next time again?

Do you wrangler think the trade agreement is good for us?

Do you think it was a good idea to give up our trade veto?

Do you have any proof to back up your conspiracy theories about Trump and Russia? I'd imagine his many enemies would be delighted to produce the videos of these golden showers etc?

So that's a no then, you have no proof for your conspiracy theories.

But a few posts up you were calling American Maga supporters dumb fools because they incorrectly believed EU VAT was acting as a tariff on their exports but are now throwing around conspiracy theories that the US president gets pissed on by russian prostitues and is controlled by Russia.

You like much of the tin foil hat brigade are just annoyed somebody is asking you to backup your bs and can't.