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The Republic is 70 years old today

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  • #52
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    The fact that we as a progressive modern society are now aggressively trying to address those issues is to be applauded I think.

    .

    "Aggressively trying" Lol. NOT. If it was not so serious it would be funny. They have not even dug up the septic tank or grounds yet in Tuam yet to find how many poor dead kids were dumped there. Will there be an inquiry or anyone prosecuted? Or in the case in Cork discovered last week?


  • #53
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    janfebmar wrote: »
    "Aggressively trying" Lol. NOT. If it was not so serious it would be funny. They have not even dug up the septic tank or grounds yet in Tuam yet to find how many poor dead kids were dumped there. Will there be an inquiry or anyone prosecuted? Or in the case in Cork discovered last week?

    Most probably yes.

    It's not like the state is trying to cover things up here.


  • #54
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Long may it live!


  • #55
    janfebmar
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    Why has nothing at all happened in the Tuam baby deaths so?


  • #56
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    janfebmar wrote: »
    Why has nothing at all happened in the Tuam baby deaths so?

    The public inquiry has actively encouraged those who have more information on the issue to come forward (and there are those who know more believe me) and their findings so far have been pretty damning.

    Whether or not the inquiry is taking too long to deliver it's final report is another matter.


  • #57
    Danzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,133 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    janfebmar wrote: »
    Maybe people are too tired having to commute long distances to dork in vehicles burdened with high vets?

    Are you stoned? :D


  • #58
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I think he meant Cork


  • #59
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    That point was ages ago "Maybe people are too tired having to commute long distances to work in vehicles burdened with high v.r.t. s?"


  • #60
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    In the Tuam babies case, it is a long time since a “significant quantity” of human remains were discovered in underground chambers thought to have been used for the treatment of sewage waste water at the Catholic institution in Tuam, Co Galway. The project to exhume and identify the remains is expected to cost between €6m and €13m, but has still not even started. The Bon Secours Sisters have offered “a voluntary contribution” of €2.5m towards this....does anyone think it will ever be handed over or a proper investigation launched? In what other western country would there be such delay in exhuming the remains of hundreds of unknown children who were dumped in a mass grave, and where no attempt has been made to find out exactly who done it, even though they could still be alive?

    An international Expert Technical Group (ETG) report said the situation in Tuam was unprecedented and that no comparable case could be identified either nationally or internationally.


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  • #61
    Capt'n Midnight
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    10000maniacs wrote: »
    What were they going to do with all those armoured cars? :)
    Loads of American Militias are worried about the King of England and his army showing up in the morning.

    Here some would have considered that kind of thinking to be properly paranoid. And we had enough food to feed all the Prisoners Of War. And the neighbours didn't get atomic bombs until 1952.


  • #62
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Michael D, if this was England, would be the emperor king of the country.

    A thought runs through my mind that The Roman Empire never really went away, it just shifted north.


  • #63
    twinytwo
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    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Most probably yes.

    It's not like the state is trying to cover things up here.

    Its ireland, no one involved will be prosecuted. Jail time is only for scape goats and the plebs.


  • #64
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    Michael D, if this was England, would be the emperor king of the country.

    .

    We have three times more politicians in this country per head of population compared to other countries.
    And how many ex-presidents are we paying 6 figure pensions to them and their handlers?
    As Bob Geldof said, Banana Republic.


  • #65
    Capt'n Midnight
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    janfebmar wrote: »
    As Bob Geldof said, Banana Republic.
    We don't manufacture bananas anymore.

    We are no longer the largest exporter of bananas in Europe.


  • #66
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,975 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    janfebmar wrote: »
    As Bob Geldof said, Banana Republic.

    That'd be Sir Bob, ex freeman of Dublin, but currently still (hypocritically) freeman of London.


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  • #67
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    maryishere wrote: »
    And how many ex-presidents are we paying 6 figure pensions to them and their handlers?
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    maryishere wrote: »
    As Bob Geldof said, Banana Republic.
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  • #68
    [Deleted User]
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    We don't manufacture bananas anymore.

    We are no longer the largest exporter of bananas in Europe.

    Mary will be back to tell us that's because the evil EU said our bananas must be straight...


  • #69
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    janfebmar wrote: »
    We have three times more politicians in this country per head of population compared to other countries.
    And how many ex-presidents are we paying 6 figure pensions to them and their handlers?
    As Bob Geldof said, Banana Republic.

    Possibly, but I'd have more than a few questions to ask Bob Geldof about Bob Geldof.


  • #70
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Mary will be back to tell us that's because the evil EU said our bananas must be straight...
    Feckin' gay bananas , ruined for the rest of us :mad:


  • #71
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    The Republic is not 70 years old. The State has been describing itself as a Republic for 70 years, which is a different thing.


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  • #72
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,507 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Has the seal been turned yet?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #73
    Church on Tuesday
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    4ensic15 wrote: »
    The Republic is not 70 years old. The State has been describing itself as a Republic for 70 years, which is a different thing.

    It's a Republic.

    The fact the 6 counties is not part of the Republic is another matter for another thread.


  • #74
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    It's a Republic.

    The fact the 6 counties is not part of the Republic is another matter for another thread.

    I said nothing about the 6 counties nor is it relevant to my post.


  • #75
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    I said nothing about the 6 counties nor is it relevant to my post.

    What's your point then?


  • #76
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    What's your point then?

    I made a point that the republic is not 70 years old. The state has simply been styling itself as a republic for 70 years. Quite a different thing.


  • #77
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    I made a point that the republic is not 70 years old. The state has simply been styling itself as a republic for 70 years. Quite a different thing.

    How has it been styling itself as a Republic?


  • #78
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    How has it been styling itself as a Republic?

    By calling itself the Republic of ireland.


  • #79
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    By calling itself the Republic of ireland.

    Yeah, which it is.

    It's hardly a misnomer.


  • #80
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Yeah, which it is.

    It's hardly a misnomer.

    I never said it was. I simply said it wasn't 70 years old, which it isn't.


  • #81
    James Brown
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    Can a country be both a Republic and the other part under occupation?


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  • #82
    4ensic15
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Can a country be both a Republic and the other part under occupation?

    A country can't be a Republic.


  • #83
    Church on Tuesday
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    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Can a country be both a Republic and the other part under occupation?

    You're wasting your time lad.


  • #84
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Can a country be both a Republic and the other part under occupation?

    Certainly. 26 counties of the United Kingdom are a republic under occupation by those republican forces, while 6 counties remain unoccupied.


  • #85
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    Certainly. 26 counties of the United Kingdom are a republic under occupation by those republican forces, while 6 counties remain unoccupied.

    :):)

    These would be Irish counties occupied by native Irish? The UK is merely remnants of the Empire spun for the modern palate.


  • #86
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    Certainly. 26 counties of the United Kingdom are a republic under occupation by those republican forces, while 6 counties remain unoccupied.

    Your shtick is getting kinda old now.


  • #87
    [Deleted User]
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    Vive la republique


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