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New proclamation - what should be in it?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Dem deutschen Volke.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    Article 1.

    -- To clarify, water is not free. --


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,370 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    donvito99 wrote: »
    Article 1.

    -- To clarify, water is not free. --



    --To (further) clarify, water collected in a bucket is free (except the bucket), having it cleaned, treated and piped to your house is not. --


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    That we would walk five hundred miles
    And we would walk five hundred more
    Just to be the people who walked a thousand miles
    To fall down at your door


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Jesus, how fecking cluless are these eejits. First they launch their 1916 comemerations with a video that mentions apple and microsoft but not a mention of a single signatory of the proclamation, now they want to turn the proclaimation into a FG election stunt?
    I suggest instead that each TD irrespective of party should have to stand outside the bloody GPO over easter and read it out a thousand times so that they might reflect best on how utterly they managed to fail to live up to it's ideals.


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,673 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    And who are we proclaiming independence from this time? The EU?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭FISMA



    The leader Enda is to have the government draft a new proclamation for 2016.

    So what should be in it?

    A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    FISMA wrote: »
    A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
    Doesn't seem to have been necessary for us over the last hundred years, so no. Next.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,091 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    We should proclaim our independence from the RC church and remove all references to the 'special relationship' from our constitution

    The Catholic church did more harm to Ireland than the British ever did.

    Ban billionaires



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 369 ✭✭walkingshadow


    No fat chicks.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Dem deutschen Volke.

    Our 'gallant allies in Europe' :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    The leader Enda Angela is to have the government draft a new proclamation for 2016.

    Fixed the obvious typo there.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭sabat


    Have any of the bright sparks in the administration checked on the legality of this? Could the army round up all Fine Gael and Labour TDs and put them before a firing squad?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    arbeit macht frei


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Seems to be the way modern society is going -

    Don't aim for anything greater, just set the bar lower.

    They couldn't live up to what was set down in the 1916 Proclamation, so they decide to re-write it and lower their standards this time round. It's broken, so fix it, rather than rewrite the manual and tell people that a broken country is supposed to work that way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,107 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    The sheer arrogance of the man. Neither he nor his flunkies have the right to lick the mud off the boots of the publishers of the original proclamation. We don't need a new one, the old one hasnt yet been fullfilled.

    Someone please tell him to stop meddling and keep his greasy election focussed paws out of a solemn non-partisan event.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    So we'll have a 1803 proclamation, a 1916 proclamation, a 1919 declaration of Independence, a 1949 proclamation & 2016 proclamation. We really love proclaiming & declaring things.

    And FG hate anything Republican anyway.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    Akrasia wrote: »
    We should proclaim our independence from the RC church and remove all references to the 'special relationship' from our constitution

    The Catholic church did more harm to Ireland than the British ever did.


    It's about 60/40 against the British. The Protestant church's did a lot of ham as well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    He might as well put the plot synopses of Fair City and Neighbours in it for all I care.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭_Puma_


    Did Enda Jump the gun on the Governments april fools?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭NomadicGray


    Abortions for all


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭Albertofrog


    We pledge to release the Fennelly report as soon as possible.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/taoiseach-reveals-government-to-draft-new-proclamation-for-1916-commemorations-31108094.html

    The leader Enda is to have the government draft a new proclamation for 2016.

    Not before time in my opinion. We can get rid of the old communist and pie in the sky guff in the old one.

    So what should be in it?

    Glad you asked.
    Irishmen and Irishwomen. In the name of socialism everywhere, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag which is the Starry Plough and strikes for her freedom!
    Having trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary armies, the Irish Volunteer Force and the Irish Citizen Front, having patiently perfected her discipline, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, and, supported by her comrades in communist circles worldwide, but relying first on her own socialist strength, strikes now in full confidence of victory.
    We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of the means of production, and to the unfettered control of destinies in the hands of Irish labour. The long usurpation of that right by Irish and foreign capitalists has not extinguished that right, nor can it ever be extinguished, save for the destruction of the Irish proletariat . In every generation, the Irish people have asserted this right by political or revolutionary means, only to have it frustrated by counter-revolutionaries. Standing on that fundamental right, and asserting it in revolution in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a soviet socialist state, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom (and the Kremlin), to its welfare, and its exaltation among the nations.
    The Irish Soviet Socialist Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every worker within its territory. The reserves of the Republic have been seized and kept in trust for the people. Vital means of production have been seized, and workers councils shall be formed alongside them.
    Until our arms or workers have brought the opportune moment for the establishment of communist government in office, the Provisional Republican Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the people.
    Signed on behalf of the Provisional Republican Government,
    Brian Boru's spirit
    Enda Kenny
    Mary Lou
    Ming
    Katie Taylor
    The Balcome Street Four
    and eh some other bloke


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭falan


    donvito99 wrote: »
    Article 1.

    -- To clarify, water is not free. --

    Who said water is free? It never was and never will be free.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    FISMA wrote: »
    A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

    That's worked so well for the united statesians in the 21st century....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Abortions for all

    Boooooo


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    That's worked so well for the united statesians in the 21st century....

    Sarah Palin seems to think so. Although she doesn't know the name of a newspaper & thinks that you can see Russia from Alaska so ya know 50/50.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    iDave wrote: »
    Boooooo
    Abortions for none?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Abortions for none?

    Booooo


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    iDave wrote: »
    Booooo
    Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!


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