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I beleve they should, murder victims dont get moments of happiness like mass murderers do. Its not savagery when its done to an evil piece of sh*t rather than a person. If a savage murder was ever done in the name of justice it would be a court that would decide not me. That paragraph i mentioned is about as factual as saying the earth is flat. Violence towards innocent people and feeling angry about what criminals do are two completely different things.

Its not a crime to want criminals to suffer more and genocide is the worst crime that exists.. they are about as far away from each other as throwing a stone v dropping a nuclear bomb.. you comparing them is dragons, unicorns and santa claus stuff.

If evil people didnt rape and murder children i wouldnt want a harsher punishment

You are completely wrong, my mindset says no. You are mixing up 2 different subjects as usual.

You mean spectacular lights and video show to take your attention away from the mediocre music?

What about a known paedo who was seen clearly on camera kidnapping a child, and has hidden it somewhere before being caught, and is now refusing to cooperate?

Science is not stupid. Some fly to space for the craic while some others starve to death and yet that's how humanity pushes forward. Otherwise, it's a deadly mediocrity where we're all equal in misery. Also, americans didn't sabotage themselves by banning or moving away from fracking, and because of that they are very unlikely to suffer any shortages.

Honestly, I'd never object to such initiatives. Plenty of innovations that are used in day to day life including medical technology originated from space travel. Plus it's currently a legitimately peaceful endeavor focused on science.

The State doesn’t have that kind of money.

It’d be the religious orders that own the land in any case, but there’s nothing to prevent the State from establishing and maintaining new schools which would be governed by local ETBs.

That’d be a costly exercise too, seeing as schools are currently managed by a board of volunteers, whereas the State would have to employ staff to manage the school, and cover their pensions and other costs.

The State are barely providing for education as it is, so while CPOs would legally be possible, the cost would be prohibitive as the local authority would have to pay fair market value for the land or property. Cheaper to build new, but not by much, and then the ongoing costs would cancel out any future financial benefits, but the State would own the schools at least.

Unsurprisingly, it’s only minority opposition parties that support the idea. They’re even more flippant with ideas for spending public funds than the current Government.

Controversial opinion? Leave current schools as they are, build new schools, and give parents more alternatives than simply Catholic school A, or Catholic school B. State school A, or State school B. I’m not sure it’s actually considered controversial, no idea how controversial really the idea is or isn’t tbh.

"Haemorrhoids in the first place" I can handle. Haemorrhoids in the second place are a pain in the hole.

Defo against the tide on this one but I think we are making a mistake on fully removing religion from schools. I know it's the consensus now to secularise everything. But there are definite benefits of rites of passage for children along the journey up to confirmation age. Community element of it. It should be voluntary at all levels of course but I just wonder if we might regret it down the line.

Church of Ireland schools are important for people from that tradition.

What business has religion in schools? If it’s ok to have religion in schools why not have it in sports clubs, planning departments etc etc. 

Why don’t we have it in our universities? We don’t have it there because it’s all nonsense. 

If you want to play “woo” then do it at home.

It’s part of education provided by the religious organisations that own the schools. We absolutely DO have it in sports clubs, planning departments, and universities. People’s right not to be limited to playing woo in their home, is protected by the Irish Constitution. Children’s right to receive an education in a school receiving public funds, without being expected to play woo, is also protected by the Constitution.

We, the taxpayers, currently pay teachers to teach this nonsense. The state should cut this immediately and let the different religions pay the teachers wages for the portion of the day that they spend teaching this

We, the taxpayers, don’t pay teachers. They’re paid by the Department of Education.