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Knowing my secondary school we would have been banned by name from several resorts by the time my year came around. Much like with our debs. Got into work today and found my boss has been sleeping here because her LL has gone plague prepper crazy and wont let her back in if she's gonna be doing mad shite like go to the gym, or to work. You know, with all the corona virus obviously floating about. But its ok by her because he isnt charging her rent while she isnt there????
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What in tarnation... I'd be on to the PRTB, Threshold, and the Gardaí in that order.
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Mar 3, 2020 12:01
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Yeah that poo poo is illegal as gently caress.
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Mar 3, 2020 12:06
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It would be great to have a boss with so little self-assurance though. Just tell them to hand over their wallet, and that you're gonna go on paid holidays for 6 months
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Failed Imagineer posted:It would be great to have a boss with so little self-assurance though. Just tell them to hand over their wallet, and that you're gonna go on paid holidays for 6 months Without saying anything specific about her...yes. And also it's my job to tell people "no" a lot and I relish it. The news over the weekend seems to have sent himself over the edge, and the worst part is there's no real way to know when he's going to calm down about it
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Marenghi posted:Interesting her kids go to public schools. During the election saw a lot of the young blueshirts calling her a salmon socialist with all her kids in private schools with high fees. In Ireland are "public" schools the ones that are taxpayer funded and most people go to, or is like England where a "public" school is what would be called a "private" school in America?
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SimonCat posted:In Ireland are "public" schools the ones that are taxpayer funded and most people go to, or is like England where a "public" school is what would be called a "private" school in America? The former
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SimonCat posted:In Ireland are "public" schools the ones that are taxpayer funded and most people go to, or is like England where a "public" school is what would be called a "private" school in America? Public means taxpayer funded with no fees but it's quite complex with about half being voluntary, privately owned but publically financed to cover salaries and expenses, and rest being directly state owned and funded. Private usually means fee paying, though fee paying schools also get government funding for teachers salaries while charging fees to cover other operational expenses (stuff like boarding). The school in question isn't a comprehensive so it's technically privately owned but the fact it doesn't charge fees means people would consider it a public school
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kustomkarkommando posted:Public means taxpayer funded with no fees but it's quite complex with about half being voluntary, privately owned but publically financed to cover salaries and expenses, and rest being directly state owned and funded. Its worth noting fully private schools along the UK/US line are starting to spread into Ireland now too. Nord Anglia in Sandyford is the highest profile one to date: https://www.nordangliaeducation.com/schools/dublin/international/admissions/our-fees-2019-20 They're not taking any state funding at all, so have complete control over their own administration. Their fees are also an order of magnitude higher than the traditional private schools like Blackrock college, Clongowes etc to make up for that. They're very much aimed at the new international, tech/finance executive class children rather than the traditional Irish upper-middle class.
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I knew a German girl in college who apparently attended some random boarding school for just Germans hidden up in the Wicklow mountains. She may have been lying, but I like to think we've got a Little Bavaria hidden up there.
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Isn’t there a grave to Luftwaffe pilots who crashed in Ireland also in Wicklow. Did they start a little colony up there that’s survived undetected?
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Arquinsiel posted:I knew a German girl in college who apparently attended some random boarding school for just Germans hidden up in the Wicklow mountains. She may have been lying, but I like to think we've got a Little Bavaria hidden up there. St. Kilian's? https://www.kilians.com/ For a large chunk of my life I've had to correct people who assume I went to a German\English speaking school when in fact I went to a much, much dodgier Community School in Bray that just happens to have the same name.
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I came across this article. It's fascinating seeing a politician's rise and fall. https://gript.ie/profile-kate-o-connell-fine-gael/
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The Question IRL posted:I came across this article. PROFILE: The inside story of Kate O’Connell’s fall Posted by John McGuirk McGuirk is one of the more vocal, more insane, super conservative Catholic mouthpieces in Ireland these days. I'd take anything he writes with an absolutely massive grain of salt. Edit: not that I'm defending O'Connell in any way mind you. Just that its absolutely not worth anyone reading a 1000+ word hit piece written by this nutter. Blut fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Mar 3, 2020 |
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Yeah. Gript is McGuirk's catholic conservative media site. Wouldn't rate anything on there in the slightest. Look at the choice of image used for the article. Just so happens to be related to the Repeal movement. I'm sure that was chosen completely at random!
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Oh yeah, it's a hit piece. But it involves a whole bunch of FG infighting. Basically I can read it as a whole punch of Blueshirts fighting with each other. There are no winners.
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She essentially backed the wrong horse in the leadership race, she backed Coveney to get it. Now she didn’t even get the consolation prize of a Seanad seat. She was quite the shrewd operator but didn’t seem to make her many friends, and she ditched the ones she had if they became a liability. I remember the swing gate incident and how quick she was to remove all photos of the two of them together. I think this is the only article to make mention of that, don’t remember it being picked up by the media at the time. Marenghi fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Mar 3, 2020 |
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I got to call McGuirk a oval office on Twitter last week and I know he read it, very satisfying. Would rather read more Jordan Peterson than a McGuirk article tho
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Marenghi posted:Isn’t there a grave to Luftwaffe pilots who crashed in Ireland also in Wicklow. It's in Glencree up on the road to the Sally gap, visited there a few weeks ago while I was on a spin over the gap. Not just luftwaffe pilots there, there's German war dead from ww1 and 2 but mostly 2 I think. A lot of unamed graves and if remember correctly there's a good few graves of Germans living in Britain at the outbreak of the war who were interned by the British and sent to Canada. Their ship was sunk by a German uboat and a lot of their bodies were washed up in Ireland and those who could be identified were eventually buried there. SomeDrunkenMick fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Mar 4, 2020 |
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Shoehead posted:St. Kilian's? Skull Servant posted:Yeah. Gript is McGuirk's catholic conservative media site. Wouldn't rate anything on there in the slightest. Look at the choice of image used for the article. Just so happens to be related to the Repeal movement. I'm sure that was chosen completely at random!
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Arquinsiel posted:It actually belongs to Snackbox Tim, the man who took lunch breaks while on hunger strike. McGuirk is most famous for getting booted out of Young Fine Gael and Ógra Fianna Fáil at the same time for pulling the same old "anonymous concernd member" bullshit emails that he tries to this day. Except... both parties noticed he was a member of the other. McGuirk has had a number of hilarious (slash awful) moments. This was a good one too: He was spokesman for Save the 8th, which campaigned against the thirty-sixth amendment of the constitution of Ireland. During the campaign, McGuirk stated "If Dublin Central is 75% yes on the day, I will never take a political job again".Turnout was 64.1% and the amendment was approved by a 66.4% majority nationally, with 76.5% approving in Dublin Central.
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I'm picturing the coach from Home Movies.
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I wish I could find the video where he's on Vincent Browne and gives someone poo poo for being sexist, says "I would never talk about someone like this", gets interrupted by Vincent who quotes him saying literally that about a woman in his own party, and then has to backtrack furiously. And let us not forget his "nurse" Noel Pattern, who had photoshopped a City and Guilds fire safety cert as his "credentials", or the time he claimed to have a "loyal mole" in the Repeal campaign HQ, who fed him... the pamphlets being handed out at the GPO.
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Martin beginning to publicly inch open the door to coalition with FG seems to have provoked some reaction https://twitter.com/TomCattle1/status/1235533328507441152?s=19 That fella being the president of ógra Fianna fail If this gets shot down at ard fheis this is gonna be super spicy
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kustomkarkommando posted:Martin beginning to publicly inch open the door to coalition with FG seems to have provoked some reaction How long did Belgium have no government for? Reckon we could beat that if we tried
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Failed Imagineer posted:How long did Belgium have no government for? Reckon we could beat that if we tried Northern Ireland already beat Belgium
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mehall posted:Northern Ireland already beat Belgium Yeah but NI is an even faker country than Belgium
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah but NI is an even faker country than Belgium That's true, but you don't have to say it to their faces. Anyway, Belgium heard they were beat, so currently don't have a government again, so you're about 9 months behind them on starting a new record run.
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Belgium has delicious waffles and powerful beers, but NI has farls and Buckfast, so it's impossible to say which is better
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Anyone else think the HSE is mismanaging the coronavirus response? I’m not surprised by it. My mother had to get an operation I’ve seen first hand how under resourced they are.
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kustomkarkommando posted:Martin beginning to publicly inch open the door to coalition with FG seems to have provoked some reaction Fingers crossed they. Both for the entertainment value, and to do us all a favour by keeping FG out of government.
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Is ard fheis like a Party's conference?
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Miftan posted:Is ard fheis like a Party's conference? Yep
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Definately something weird going on at FF HQ https://twitter.com/rtetwip/status/1236636373802762241?s=19 https://twitter.com/JohnLahart/status/1236665465977679872?s=19 O Callaghan being front bench Justice spokesman and Lahart being front bench Dublin spokesman - perhaps best read with this rumour from the Times today? quote:Jim O’Callaghan, the Fianna Fail justice spokesman, has come under pressure from a few parliamentary party colleagues to move against Micheál Martin’s leadership, but lack of support means no challenger is expected to emerge. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jim-ocallaghan-urged-to-oust-fianna-fail-leader-micheal-martin-xtcwm8799
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Very interesting. A rushed national government to fight corona would be a great cover for FF&FG bringing SF in "against their word". Better to have SF inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in and all that, it would in theory prevent SF from growing their support base as the main opposition party nicely. Rumours are that the Greens are playing hardball in negotiations, because they're pretty worried about getting enough of their members on board to vote for an FF/FG/Green coalition of no change. The Indo this week reported that the Greens were demanding no tax cuts at all, that all those funds be used for green initiatives. So maybe SF mightn't be much worse in the eyes of FF/FG, SF are at least in favour of crowd pleasing tax cuts...
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https://twitter.com/oconnellhugh/status/1237428869889744897 Looks like we might have an FF&FG government by the end of the week according to leaks coming from all over the place today.
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LMAO. Might aswell let everybody know that they represent the same thing.
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Anyone worried about this coronavirus? I’ve mates booked to go Cheltenham and they’ll be going anyway. My manager was out Monday with flu, was in today but looked and sounded worse for wear. And supposed to have a department wide meeting with him for a couple hours tomorrow. Everyone seems blaze about the risks to this and it spreading.
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