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Joan Burton Heckled

totus tuus

Fair play to the people of Dundalk!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMbo2Gwa6WY

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My name is URL

Deleted User wrote: »

What the **** are you talking about?

I mean you're talking a load of shite.

Now, care to clarify your poorly written comment regarding Dundalk people?

[Deleted User]

My name is URL wrote: »

I mean you're talking a load of shite.

Now, care to clarify your poorly written comment regarding Dundalk people?

What's your issue with the content of what I said? Both in terms of its stylistic merit and the point being made? Did I accidentally use some complicated words that made me seem like an elitist and you thought that I must have found them in a thesaurus?

My name is URL

Deleted User wrote: »

What's your issue with the content of what I said? Both in terms of its stylistic merit and the point being made? Did I accidentally use some complicated words that made me seem like an elitist and you thought that I must have found them in a thesaurus?

No, I genuinely thought you were choking on a thesaurus.

The irony of a crowd in Dundalk co-opting the flags protester's "Shame on You" should be pointed out.

The bolded bit doesn't make much sense really. 'the flags protestor's'

So what point were you trying to make about Dundalk people?

Ghost Buster

My name is URL wrote: »

Are you choking on a thesaurus or something?

Seems like a plainly put statement to me. I dont understand the response!?

Ghost Buster

My name is URL wrote: »

No, I genuinely thought you were choking on a thesaurus.

The bolded bit doesn't make much sense really. 'the flags protestor's'

So what point were you trying to make about Dundalk people?

People were recently protesting an issue involving flags. They used the slogan 'shame on you'......

carpejugulum

She should know better and have this when dole is paid.

It's funny though. Without Labour in the gvt., these people would not be able to enjoy welfare rates that challenge oil countries.

Dwork

My name is URL wrote: »

No, I genuinely thought you were choking on a thesaurus.

The bolded bit doesn't make much sense really. 'the flags protestor's'

So what point were you trying to make about Dundalk people?

They're lovely, so they are. Chillax, sure there's no need to be gettin rowdy.:)

ChunkyLover_53

OAPs down the back were shouting "Shave our Ewe"

My name is URL

Dwork wrote: »

They're lovely, so they are. Chillax, sure there's no need to be gettin rowdy.:)

You're right, and sorry if I appeared 'rowdy'!.. just don't like that sort of drive-by post insulting an entire town full of people =p

Sound of Silence

Ghost Buster wrote: »

People were recently protesting an issue involving flags. They used the slogan 'shame on you'......

Can "shame on you" really be considered a slogan?

Seems like a pretty common string of words..

nice_very

hogan recently ran away from some of us here in Waterford too.. is the penny starting to drop?

Anyone

What do you mean heckled???? Thats cheering in Dundalk.

[Deleted User]

My name is URL wrote: »

No, I genuinely thought you were choking on a thesaurus.

What an odd thing to assume.

The bolded bit doesn't make much sense really. 'the flags protestor's'

Oh sorry, I just assumed that you might have watched the news at some point recently. It's hard to know how far back to go when explaining this because you seem to be full of questions. Anyway, the island of Ireland isn't all under the same jurisdiction. In the part known as "Northern Ireland" there's been a bit of a kerfuffle rumbling on for quite a while about whether it should remain under UK rule or be independent or join the rest of the island so the island is part of one country independent of the UK.
So then, I don't know how much you know about how governments operate but many (maybe all) towns and cities and the like have local governments. In the case of Belfast (which is in Northern Ireland) this local government is Belfast City Council. Recently it voted to have the flag of the UK only fly on specific dates rather than year-round. Some people weren't happy about this and have been protesting since the decision was made. These people are commonly known as "flag protesters". The most famous "flag protester" is a lady who was recorded shouting in the door of City Hall early in the protests. Unfortunately the original video is no longer on Youtube, the ones on now cut in after she repeatedly shouted "Shame!" and "Shame on yis!" and only catches when she shouts "No surrender!". The video below, in an attempt at comedy, edits that video to make it seem as though the lady is trying to break down a door with an axe, much as Jack Nicholson's character in the film "The Shining" did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTvFC7QNc0Q

So what point were you trying to make about Dundalk people?

The lady mentioned above, it's probably fair to assume, is what's known as a "Loyalist" or a "Unionist". Now maybe it's only because I've lived in Dundalk all my life but I happen to know that Dundalk in recent history has been something of a "stronghold" of "Republicans" and "Nationalists" who generally are in opposition to "Loyalists" or "Unionists". In what was supposed to be an throw-away and jokey comment I thought it somewhat ironic that a crowd from a town like Dundalk would be unable to come up with a decent chant and instead ended up using a phrase that was memorably used by a "Loyalist" or "Unionist" protester quite recently.

guinnessdrinker

carpejugulum wrote: »

She should know better and have this when dole is paid.

It's funny though. Without Labour in the gvt., these people would not be able to enjoy welfare rates that challenge oil countries.

These people?

dxhound2005

totus tuus wrote: »

Fair play to the people of Dundalk!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMbo2Gwa6WY

The people of Dundalk?

Chinasea

Has there been a complete media block out up there in Dundalk. Where the f do they think the money is all coming from to pay for the multitude of fairly generous benefits that they claim??

Never heard a decent answer to this yet?

The welfare cuts have been very tame imo and goes toward propagating dysfunctional lifestyles amongst many of these morons that were there behaving like savages.

[Deleted User]

dxhound2005 wrote: »

The people of Dundalk?

Yeah I could've sworn there were at least a few hundred more people living here than shown in that video.

My name is URL

dxhound2005 wrote: »

The people of Dundalk?

Burton herself has said that the hecklers have shone Dundalk in a bad light. It's a good job there's never any heckling in the Dail which might shine it in a bad light!

frankosw

Chinasea wrote: »

Has there been a complete media block out up there in Dundalk. Where the f do they think the money is all coming from to pay for the multitude of fairly generous benefits that they claim??

Never heard a decent answer to this yet?

The welfare cuts have been very tame imo and goes toward propagating dysfunctional lifestyles amongst many of these morons that were there behaving like savages.

Its an easy option for many people..either they dont want to work at all or they're expecting a 50k per year job to drop into thier laps whilst they sit at home watching television.

Meanwhile we have thousands of foreigners working thier arse off in jobs that irish peopl feel is "beneath them".

Best username ever

Ireland is a land of idiots, governed by idiots.

People here are stupid, thick and love a good rodgering by the government.

The typical response in Ireland when the ruling party bring in a new 'rodgering' tax is;

" it's right, we should all do this"

Fuhrer

frankosw wrote: »

Its an easy option for many people..either they dont want to work at all or they're expecting a 50k per year job to drop into thier laps whilst they sit at home watching television.

Meanwhile we have thousands of foreigners working thier arse off in jobs that irish peopl feel is "beneath them".

Right, so everyone who was at the protest is just some lazy unemployed layabout.

Fantastic, and people wonder how terrible politicians keep getting reelected.

Because of people like Frank here.

tayto lover

Fair play to the Dundalk people for protesting. Many of them shouting at her to emigrate as their children have had to do.

Zebra3

frankosw wrote: »

The only politician willing to do anything about the dole scroungers and benefit frauds.

But happy enough to be on the gravy train of entitlements herself. :rolleyes:

mikom

That's the stuff for the fuckers.
If my friends lie to my face on multiple occasions, then they would get the bums rush as well.
No shame........... I don't know how they sleep at night.

I know, probably on a mattress made out of tenners.

frankosw

Fuhrer wrote: »

Right, so everyone who was at the protest is just some lazy unemployed layabout.

Fantastic, and people wonder how terrible politicians keep getting reelected.

Because of people like Frank here.

On the dole are we poppet?

Fuhrer

frankosw wrote: »

On the dole are we poppet?

Employed and making massive amounts of money

Probably more than I can say about you I suppose

maringo

TBH I think Joan Burton is reforming the welfare system and bringing in schemes to help people get back to work. Unfortunately some employers will exploit any avenue to get workers for free if they can get away with it. But if the schemes help some people to get work thats good. Heard on radio 1 business programme this morning that 60% of people who went on the Jobbridge scheme got jobs out of it so I don't knock it although it mightn't be perfect. I think JB is doing her best in the circumstances. My daughter is availing of one of the schemes and I'm hoping it will open opportunities for her and get her off benefits which she hates having to take.

King of Kings

i hate Eigiri , they are like the dregs of society that the shinners didn't even want.

John.Icy

Bunch of uneducated, unemployable fools doing the heckling, not all present, just the hecklers.

"TAXXX DEEE RICHZ, INCREASE MEEE DOLE SO I CAN BUY MOREZ FOODZ AND BE EVEN FATTER THAN ME ALREADY ARE"

Gah, if so many Irish people weren't so thick, we'd be much further out of this mess. Buckle up Ireland, you are all acting like we're the only country struggling. Fools.

*cue loads of people telling me Ireland is a 4th world country and its a disgrace how the poor are always tackled and the dole isn't good enough blah blah blah I won't care stop complaining.

Nodin

....where are we all getting the "eirigi" notion from?