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kustomkarkommando posted:Noone effectively subtly given the boot with FG dropping their preference instructions for her constituency I see they learned from Maria Bailey's Swing-gate, not to let members go on-air live to defend their stupidity. Also I've kind of noticed a shift in older people being open about their support for Sinn Fein. I kept quiet in my political leanings last election as I noticed people in my workplace in the older age bracket 35 or 40+, would disparage SF and sagely conclude that FG is the only sensible choice, the only economically responsible party to lead the country. All the jokes about knee-capping's and the IRA. Now I've noticed a lot more of them are talking about voting Sinn Fein. They seem really motivated by their children not being able afford rents or able to buy. That and the worlds most expensive children's hospital seems to have eroded the "truth" that FG are the most economically literate party. Marenghi fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Jan 31, 2020 |
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V. Illych L. posted:i know nothing of the irish greens, but green parties in most of europe are basically urban middle-class educated types with socially liberal attitudes and no fundamental aversion to state action but also no particular commitment to any vision of society - so the seize a lot of less-engaged left-leaning types as well as devouring any old social liberal parties. UBI is a policy which is easy to put out there and hard to properly justify, because it seems to fit well in theory but which needs some hard choices in practice about what to cut or how to restructure society so as to afford it. either of these choices means clarifying some assumptions about how society actually works which really need to be kept fuzzy in order to keep their voting coalition together That’s pretty much same as our greens. Even their commitment to climate issues hinges on how much it will affect middle and upper class people. Their leader was against the new improvements to our public transport by buses because the new routes would have meant some of his constituents losing parts of their massive front gardens to expanded bus lanes.
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V. Illych L. posted:on a somewhat related note, gerry adams definitely ordered some killings back in the day right Possibly. There is rumors he was insulated from that as the SF/public face of the IRA. I wonder how much of him stepping aside as leader helped boost SF. His past was always an easy target for the media. Last election the PSNI arrested him over a Troubles murder which he had said he would come in for questioning if ever requested. The media still tried hit Mary Lou with as much IRA dirt as they could, but the best connection they could link was that she is a puppet of shadowy IRA figures in the background.
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It was risky to run the candidates they had considering a week ago the media was saying they probably won’t do as well as they were polling due to their lower preference and toxicity to transfers. Had they run this many and lost seats as the council elections indicated they would have appeared fools for not running less. Point being I guess, the media shouldn’t be listened to.
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Miftan posted:Out of curiosity, how? Do people not give all their top ranks to the same party? That's wild if you want those guys to get in. If their votes are evenly distributed you can have situations where both are doing well but not enough to get elected, but too well to get eliminated and have their transfers pass to the remaining party candidate. EmmyOk posted:What’s minimum seats to form govt as well actually? 160 seats to fill, I think it's 80 to form a government, or maybe 81.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I wish I shared the optimism, but I can see a bunch of high-density fancydan flats being built in the radius of Silicon Docks and gently caress all elsewhere (and definitely not in the non-Dublin RPZs). Now this obviously takes some of the worst pressure off a certain segment of the housing market, but it's not what you'd call a holistic solution. The new stock seems to be catering to a non-existent customer. Google have taken on developing their own housing for its employees. There’s a lot of high end stuff being built for the big tech companies but seems they started building to serve their own needs already. The IFSC and Grand canal are building lots of high end units when they already have ones available and not yet filled. Even some high end apartments were built in ballsbridge expecting to sell to high earners starting at 600k going up to over a million for 1-4 bedroom apartments. They have shifted a single unit and looks like an Investment fund is going to buy them to rent out at over 3k a month. I don’t think they will take much pressure off, seems like a bubble may have formed where investments saw how local landlords have been ripping off tenants but didn’t realize it’s not sustainable and have now over invested in over specced housing. I saw the same thing when I moved to the Rathmines. Down by Rathgar there was luxury apartments built with concierge, cafe and gym on site. But they didn’t seem to sell and are up as rentals, but last time i passed they didn’t seem occupied.
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Will another confidence and supply really work. Everyone already recognizes it as a coalition in all but name. And it wasn’t risky last time due to SF smaller numbers, now they’d have a real chance of bringing down the government with a vote of no confidence.
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The lighting and decor indicate they are about to don masks and disrobe for an eyes wide shut style party.
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Venomous posted:Were Labour ever socialists or even social democrats at all, or were they always useless centrists? Labor historically have always propped up FG. The first time FG got in was thanks to a FG-Labour coalition.
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Not to doxx myself but I work in the telecoms industry and we had an interesting meeting with two Americans recently. Trying to convince us Huawei equipment for 5g is a very bad idea. Not only will it open our networks to Chinese state hackers, but American multinationals won’t want their data transmitted across insecure Chinese infrastructure. Was almost a threat that going with Huawei could lead to the pull out of American multinationals like Apple etc. I expect our government will ban Huawei from certain sectors in the near future.
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Guavanaut posted:American multinationals only want their data transmitted across networks that can be hacked by the NSA. Is it really hacking when you tell the companies to install your own backdoors?
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It was awkward. A strange dichotomy between two very ordinary men and the powerful state behind them and the politics at play. They were both the kind of personalities you’d imagine of a red neck, just dressed in a suit. One of them actually grew up a farm in Virginia, where both of them were from.
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Not in the rest of Europe, but we are small enough and dependent on American investment. I could see Huawei not getting contracts if the government leaned hard on it.
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I've noticed a lot of west brits complaining about ISF being too lefty. Is this attempt to depoliticize to get the tans back on board?
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If the blueshirts on twitter and reddit are to be believed, ISF was a front by SF to brainwash the youth of Ireland (everyone under 65 from the vote results).
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Latest homeless figures show a jump greater than the record breaking dip we had last year. Homelessness still on an upward trajectory and back above the ten thousand mark. You’d nearly think the government fudged last months figures to give good news coinciding with the election. I had seen a YFG member posting during the election on twitter that the record drop shows FG policy is working, new apartments being constructed were cutting the homeless numbers. I wanted to reply on that to ask him what he thought of this months numbers but that tweet has mysteriously vanished.
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kustomkarkommando posted:Apparently Mary Lou's kids attend the affected school? 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.
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Mar 2, 2020 21:50
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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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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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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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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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I’m just concerned by the fact there were cases in central bank and google. If it’s in the Docklands, given the amount of people who work there and the limited options for lunch that are always jammed packed with the workers from around. I kind of feel like it’s highly likely is spreading around the offices, of which I work in one. My ma isn’t that long out of a major surgery and I’ve kids and a pregnant wife. I’m more concerned about being an accidental carrier to them than what it will do to me. Have a few alcohol hand sanitizers I’ve been using fairly regularly but still, I’d worry. Dunno why they haven’t let us work from home. Did that during the beast from the east and it didn’t interrupt getting stuff done. I have a feeling it may be due to ITs recent upgrade from windows 7. Remoting in through the VDI seems noticeably slower since Windows 10 Marenghi fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Pointing to china is a strange one. They shutdown whole regions at the expense of their economy, something our government has so far refused to consider. Denmark just announced a 2 week shutdown of schools, college and preschools, as well as having government workers work from home or take leave. They did this so their health system won't be overwhelmed. If they expect there's to be overwhelmed I shudder to think how ours will cope. We shouldn't have let Italians come last weekend, we shouldn't have let people go Chelthenham, and we should have been considering closing schools and colleges before it got out of hand.
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Should have shut the pubs on Friday. The same people who'd ignore the problem and go Cheltenham are the same people who'd go pub Friday and Saturday night. I'd say all those people in Temple Bar last night brought home an infection. And not the usual one you'd pick up after a night out in Temple Bar.
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Anyone had a look on daft lately? Thousands of properties available to rent across Dublin city at the moment. Whole blocks in the docklands with hundreds of units each up for rent by American Real Estate companies. Hundreds of nice studios across D8 and D6 available now, studios in those areas used to be rarer than hens teeth. The landlords are so desperate some of the ads are offering the first month or even two months rent free.
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Does it mean people were evicted or they were just being used for short term or what? I'm guessing based off the locations and photos of the apartments, is that they were being used full time on Airbnb. But with all the travel restrictions and drop in tourists they are trying to get in tenants rather than lose out on a month or two of tourist income.
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The regulation was completely ineffective. Judging by the number of units in Capital Docks offered by one company, they had more Airbnbs in that building alone than there was applications for short term lettings in the entire of Dublin.
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It's strange how far things have progressed in a few weeks. How lackadaisical some people and the government were about it. No one would hold cheltenham now but back then thousands of people were still going to it. I've been very worried about it for my pregnant wife and kids. Was making excuses to work from home the few days before my office made that policy. Despite all that we had to travel to Immigration to renew my wives visa. The appointment was on Friday the 13th. I had a bad feeling about it but wasn't going to cancel over a superstition. Especially as I rang the department the day before and asked if appointments were still going on, they said they were and failure to renew could lead to the loss of child benefit and other supplemental welfare payments in her name. Went down anyway and it was a waste of time, the person processing the claim said we were missing a document even though it wasn't on the list of required documents in the email. They told us to come back in two weeks with that new document. I asked what about Coronavirus, they said as far as they know it's business as usual until told otherwise. The week after that a very mild cold went through the family, didn't get tested but I've been wondering if it was corona virus or just a unfortunately timed cold. The appointment was the following Monday, went down to find a sign on the door saying they are closed for the virus. Received no email notice that our appointment was cancelled. Checked the website and they only updated in the Saturday two days previous. Leaving the city and my wife had terrible stomach pains, she said she had some in the morning too but didn't want to mention until after the appointment. Went back to Rotunda and she was waiting a few hours to be checked out which confirmed the worst. It could have just been that unlucky low percentage of births that miscarry in the first trimester. But I'm guilt ridden after taking all those precautions that I didn't also cancel the appointment. I was looking forward to the memories we'd make in the year ahead. The announcement, the picking of a name, the birth. Instead whenever I think of my unborn I'll be left with memories of the mundane, disinterested malice I experience from immigration whenever I have the misfortune of having to deal with them.
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Thanks, it’s a hard one to process. Not even sure if it’s something to talk about or just one of those things you carry to your grave. Thanks for those resources Question IRL, I’ll have a look at that. Might help the wife with it too, she’s really depressed since.
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Mary Lou McDonald had coronavirus. She just got the results back from a test she did 2 and a half weeks ago. Wonder how Blueshirts can say we are testing on par with South Korea, when their turnaround on results is 6 hours from the samples arriving at a lab.
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Are long term leases a better alternative to social housing? I saw on twitter a FF TD dunking on Eoin OBroin because he was calling out proposed 100 year leases as a waste of money. The FF guy pulled out NPV to explain why paying private landlords for a century adjusted to market rates is much better than building social homes.
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As bad as it was to use that word, at least it was ignorance not malice. I’m pretty shocked how Kenny never had his gaffe harm his career. Didn’t he call the first leader of independent Congo who got murdered and replaced by an American backed dictactor; “some n word who was killed”.
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The Question IRL posted:This isn't because cannabis causes such issues. Rather it's something that the person likely already was genetically predisposed towards being activated earlier and more severely due to increased THC levels in cannabis. That problem will get better when prohibition is over. The tendency towards strength is entirely due to the arbitrary valuing of cannabis. A plant has the same value whether its a seedling or ready for harvest. An ounce has the same sentencing value whether its 5% THC or 25%. May as well carry the strongest stuff because you'll need less weight for the same amount of active ingredient. It was same as alcohol prohibition, everything was strong spirits and people getting alcohol poisoning from it. I've heard in the States "dad" weed is becoming popular. Weaker strains closer to the strength middle aged men would have been used to when they stopped smoking as teens/young adults.
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There’s also reddit/Ireland. For those who don’t believe trans people should exist, that Fine Gael are awesome, and that the real racists in Ireland are black people.
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Eighties ZomCom posted:I haven't been to r/Ireland or boards.ie in years. Sounds like it was the right decision to avoid them. R/Ireland wasn’t always entirely bad. But it’s been shifting to the right over the last couple years. Took a hard shift when coronavirus started. They had a terminator Leo as the banner image for couple months, you couldn’t say anything critical of our virus response without being dog piled. And when BLM started the mods banned any discussion of race relations as they don’t want to “Americanize” the sub. Though they did take steps to stop obvious brigading by foreign fascists who were spamming racist shite during American day time hours.
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EmmyOk posted:I'm in tow minds to be honest. If it doesn't go through and we end up with another election FG will do far far better whereas if they end up in the FFG unity gov when the covid bounce is over and people hate them again we 've a much better shot at a true left coalition after It’s not a unity government though. If the deal passes we're almost guaranteed a full term of the 3 of them. Momentum and the promise of an extra pension can usually keep coalitions together.
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RIP my future here. Not wasting another decade seeing living costs increase and conditions decrease with more FG.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Where you gonna go? Not being snarky - everywhere is shite The one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yMy7JuGpJM EmmyOk posted:Apparently the sf thing was a local group not overseen by the main org. It’s only composed of counselllors Sinn Fein have problems within the organization they really should look to fixing before the next election, get rid of the head the balls and that. And they hosed up big time in Offaly, had two good councilors who spent a decade building up the grass roots. When it came time for an election they parachuted in a woman so they could point to their gender quota. Those two councilors quit and the person they put forth left the party over her anti-abortion stance. I don't think they had anyone to run in Offaly this year, I don't live there anymore but as far as I know they only put forward a Laois candidate due to what happened in Offaly. Marenghi fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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