Waterford Politics MEGATHREAD

Smiley Burnett wrote: »

is that the best you can come up with??? really??? i'll take it from this response that you don't know what you're talking about

Yawn................... Reminds me of Blackadder bemoaning the first world war and its endless poetry..your endless defence of the indefensible is so boring it is mind numbing stuff......I would rather adopt a challenging stance than your constant party line .....Kim jong Il would love non questioning political pygmies of your ilk persistently toeing the party line in the face of indisputable evidence of a corrupt government riddled with self interest and shady practise.....;)

revisionist wrote: »

Yawn................... Reminds me of Blackadder bemoaning the first world war and its endless poetry..your endless defence of the indefensible is so boring it is mind numbing stuff......I would rather adopt a challenging stance than your constant party line .....Kim jong Il would love non questioning political pygmies of your ilk persistently toeing the party line in the face of indisputable evidence of a corrupt government riddled with self interest and shady practise.....;)

:D

It's currently before the courts and allow public comments on active cases can get Boards.ie in trouble, especially when they involve Fine Gael politicians .

No harm in sending them to me by PM though

*NEWSFLASH*

John Deasy spoke at the PAC today, who were meeting about the Rehab Group.

I was getting worried about his welfare recently, having not heard of him in so long!

KOTSC wrote: »

Regarding the sit in at the park inn pub, its thing to support the bar staff holding the sit in Id support the bsr staff as would some others, I do however take issue with political parties using a picture of the staff in a party poster with a text number to join their party in a self promotion effort, I will not be voting for any swp candidate in the local elections.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152226249022929&set=a.449276072928.212542.132633832928&type=1&theater

and in the picture on the poster is a sitting sinn fein councillor!!

#facepalm

john hearne is the waterford equivalent of jackie healy rae..... gombeen

Gardner wrote: »

john hearne is the waterford equivalent of jackie healy rae..... gombeen

I wouldn't agree. He is obviously a chap who cares very much about his community. A pity the other "politicians" don't take a leaf from his book.

Hi everyone, I'm a journalist living and working in Waterford. I'd like to find out more information regarding the sit in and I was just wondering if any of yee knew anyone personally who I could speak to??

deisegal1 wrote: »

Hi everyone, I'm a journalist living and working in Waterford. I'd like to find out more information regarding the sit in and I was just wondering if any of yee knew anyone personally who I could speak to??

they have a page set up on facebook, you could contact them through it

https://www.facebook.com/thelittlepubthatfoughtback?ref=ts&fref=ts

5400 likes in 24 hours, wow they have a lot of support!!

revisionist wrote: »

Hijpo wrote: »

Anyone who gets there car petrol bombed is obviously doing something effective thats effecting the scum bags negatively in the area. not only that he has vowed to continue what hes doing after the attack.

Its hard to criticise a man for that.[/

Some of the crowd here comfortable in their nimby middle class surroundings devoid of all the misery associated with an area deprived of social and economic benefit such as the area represented by John Cummins , find it easy to critize. I have to hand it to Cummins who is a hero in my eyes . Someone who puts himself second to the welfare of his people.

any chance you'd tell us what you think these people are "deprived" of??

revisionist wrote: »

Smiley Burnett wrote: »

This is actually a serious question?????????

You actually want to know how a poorer deprived area is at a disadvantage to their counterparts in a wealthy well disposed area. In terms of socio -economics the difficulty for someone from one of these areas to aspire to a bright future is immense. This is the story the world over and particularly in this country with a government that has polarised the population with divisive,insidious practises ( something you have failed to respond to) . You should be in politics....

any chance you'd answer the question and tell me what the people in this area are deprived of?? I await your answer with interest....very predictable stuff from you to be honest....

AdMMM wrote: »

Why not just have a look here Smiley?

http://airomaps.nuim.ie/flexviewer/?config=AIDepIndex.xml

It's based on research for the 2011 Derprivation Index. That area scores quite poorly in the following three categories:
Demographic Profile
Social Class Composition
Labour Market Situation

I asked what they are deprived of?? I want details about what facilities (educational, sporting, recreational, leisure etc) they are lacking in that part of Waterford (I'm really interested in the response, especially when you consider that waterford is a relatively-small place anyway!!)

Smiley Burnett wrote: »

I asked what they are deprived of?? I want details about what facilities (educational, sporting, recreational, leisure etc) they are lacking in that part of Waterford (I'm really interested in the response, especially when you consider that waterford is a relatively-small place anyway!!)

The problem doesn't lie with the amount of facilities available, it runs much deeper than that. Revisionist was actually spot on, in my opinion.

If an area has high unemployment, high levels of crime and low levels of education, then that area is going to rapidly fall behind areas that don't have those problems. You can't just solve it overnight with a few recreational facilities and youth programme funding that's only available to a small number of people.

You may correctly point out that there's no shortcoming of educational opportunities and recreational facilities nearby, but that's of little comfort to the families that either can't afford to keep their children in school, or have become disenfranchised with the Government and don't realise the value of education.

[EDIT]Before you think I'm attacking your mothership, I don't just mean this FG/Lab Government, I mean successive governments have failed the area.[/EDIT]