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"Hunger strikers" outed as liars

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  • #32
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Letting on to their friends and families out marching in the sleet and rain they're being martyrs for the cause and all along they're in there getting three square meals a day, sky sports and a warm bed.

    Canny Fückers :D.


  • #33
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    What would Bobby Sands make of it?

    Never to trust an unnamed source??


  • #34
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Never to trust an unnamed source??

    Clair Byrnes show on RTE at the moment has it as well.


  • #35
    MadYaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    I am honestly embarrassed at the thought of people from other countries reading stories like his....

    These people must be absolute morons.


  • #36
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Misleading article

    Edenmore is in Raheny not Coolock


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  • #37
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,371 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Never to trust an unnamed source??

    Not unnamed actually. One appeared as I said on RTE radio earlier today adamant that he didn't think there was any hunger strike on. This despite the girlfriend of one of the prisoners saying there was. It kinda all unravelled from there.


  • #38
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    kneemos wrote: »
    Clair Byrnes show on RTE at the moment has it as well.

    Comical by the way.


  • #39
    kingchess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 795 ✭✭✭kingchess


    They must be delighted that they have jobs to go to when they get out and are not sucking on the public tit and..................they do not have jobs ,do they??


  • #40
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Misleading article

    Edenmore is in Raheny not Coolock

    Irish Times as bad as Indo


  • #41
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Misleading article

    Edenmore is in Raheny not Coolock

    My home dot ie gave them the address???


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  • #42
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Rummycollie wrote: »
    The public sector is inefficient and wasteful, our taxes are being wasted.

    Name a country it isn't?


  • #43
    Geuze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,286 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Streetwalker wrote: »
    We already do. I'm not paying twice simple as that.



    Nobody has, or will "pay twice" for water.

    It costs approx 1.2 bn to run the 1000+ water and wastewater treatment plants.

    We have only paid that once in each past year.

    And, in the future, we'll only pay that once, i.e. we'll pay 1.2bn, not 2.4bn.

    What is changing, is that instead of us borrowing plus using taxes to pay the 1.2 bn, we will now finance it with taxes + direct charges.


  • #44
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    efb wrote: »
    Name a country it isn't?


    Monaco


  • #45
    Geuze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,286 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    qt3.14 wrote: »
    The country, as a whole, doesn't pay enough tax to pay for everything. That's why we borrow millions every day just to keep the lights on. People bitched when the government cut services and they birch when they try to raise revenue but the simple reality is that a combination of the two is necessary.

    This is the painful reality.

    We collect less tax than we spend on public services plus welfare.

    I'd love to tell you there's an easier way out than tax increases and public spending cuts.

    Not having to pay interest on the banking debts that we took on would help, yes, but we'd still have to run a tight budget.


  • #46
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Specialun wrote: »
    Monaco

    Not a country


  • #47
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    efb wrote: »
    Not a country

    It is ???


  • #48
    Streetwalker
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    MadYaker wrote: »
    I am honestly embarrassed at the thought of people from other countries reading stories like his....

    These people must be absolute morons.

    IW or the government?


  • #49
    wallywhittle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 140 ✭✭wallywhittle


    Apparently the protesters said today just wasn't the right day to start the hunger strike, but said it would definitely go ahead tomorrow or the next day.


  • #50
    Graham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,642 ✭✭✭✭Graham


    wallywhittle wrote: »
    it would definitely go ahead tomorrow or the next day.

    Starting just after dinner.


  • #51
    ianuss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭ianuss


    Specialun wrote: »
    It is ???


    It isn't.


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  • #52
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,487 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Graham wrote: »
    Starting just after dinner.

    Peaceful Pizza. Peaceful Pizza.


  • #53
    jobeenfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,486 ✭✭✭jobeenfitz


    MadYaker wrote: »
    I am honestly embarrassed at the thought of people from other countries reading stories like his....

    These people must be absolute morons.

    Would you really be embarrassed?


  • #54
    ComfortKid
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭ComfortKid


    ianuss wrote:
    It isn't.


    It is, technically. Diffrent laws to France.


  • #55
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    They can't be expected to go on a hunger strike on Mexican Monday in Prison. They may give it a go for Waffles Wednesday.


  • #56
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    I heard they'd forgone watching Eastenders and The Voice of Ireland the other night. I've a tear in my eye thinking of their patriotism


  • #57
    c montgomery
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭c montgomery


    wallywhittle wrote: »
    Apparently the protesters said today just wasn't the right day to start the hunger strike, but said it would definitely go ahead tomorrow or the next day.

    Today was burgers and chips, tomorrow is pizza, their waiting till liver day before they start it, need to get fattened up 1st :)


  • #58
    ianuss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭ianuss


    ComfortKid wrote: »
    It is, technically. Diffrent laws to France.


    Apologies. A quick look on the google machine confirms you are correct. I'd always assumed as it was a principality that it wasn't an actual country in its own right.


  • #59
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    Can we keep discussion of Irish Water/water charges and everything that goes with them to the dedicated mega thread in Politics Cafe please?

    Bare in mind, it's a different forum, so different charter applies.


  • #60
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    kneemos wrote: »
    Always thought a Petard was a sword,it's actually a shaped bomb for blowing holes in walls or fences.

    Pah, uneducated philistine. Everyone knows It's the captain from star trek.


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  • #61
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    ianuss wrote: »
    Apologies. A quick look on the google machine confirms you are correct. I'd always assumed as it was a principality that it wasn't an actual country in its own right.

    They are a micro country and rely on France for defence.


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