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kustomkarkommando posted:FF seem to be on course to pass the agreement and Ossian Smyth tweeted a smiley face so big political brains reading this that the greens are on track to pass it also, confirmation at 8pm pending recounts if it's tight I was messin', cos this hellhole could be the country or this website. Been feeling bad about my SF votes lately, not only cos of Mr MMA bigot being welcomed back into the fold, not only cos they pissed about up North over abortion (  ) but particularly because my local SF TD decided to try and drag Leo for liking girly music. poo poo boils my blood, you could go after him for so much already and it's always him being part Indian or him being gay. I'm a voter with a long memory though, I'll remember this next time and vote for.. uh the Greens and whatever name the Worker's Party have decided on that week I guess.
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Apparently the sf thing was a local group not overseen by the main org. It’s only composed of counselllors
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The nomination was definitely councilors being councilors but i think people seem actually surprised the fella was only suspended for a couple of months
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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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From what I gather, the amalgamation of so many differing polices means that the next government is going to be an absolute mess.
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The Rainbow Coalition was one of the better Dálaí in recent Irish history. Not saying much, but at least we got divorce and porn out of it.
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I have given green candidates my first preference twice in my life and both times they've won a seat and we've gotten a Fianna Fail Taoiseach. I'm starting to see a pattern.
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I wonder how much of their election success was from #votelefttransferleft. Them giving us a Fianna Fail Taoiseach is a fairly big betrayal of that movement.
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I'm interested to see what the left wing of the greens does now. Could trash the whole party.
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Jun 27, 2020 17:38
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75% of them want this though so gently caress them. They haven't done anything with the council seats they won either. loving wasters all.
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Arquinsiel posted:I'm interested to see what the left wing of the greens does now. Could trash the whole party. That radical minority youth/left wing of the Greens are a bit of an odd one. The Green Party in Ireland have always been somewhere between Fine Gael on bikes and Labour on bikes - ie never particularly radical or left wing, just slightly left of center - but with a big environmental focus obviously. Three quarters+ of their members voting in favour of this coalition backs that up too. Saoirse McHugh and co would be far more politically aligned with PBP or the SocDems. I'd imagine a good chunk of her 'wing' of the party, probably anywhere from 10-20% of the Green members, might move to PBP or the SocDems. But thats unlikely to make any difference to the party - they're into government for the next 5 years now. And its a government with quite a healthy majority - the 93 votes in favour of Martin today show how the rural independents are sown up as well - so it should last.
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I feel like that's a common thread with green parties in this day and age, historically encompassing the whole weird run from "keep the village green (and white)" rural tories, outright blood and soil with emphasis on the soil psychopaths, to hippy dippy quinoa yoghurt types, but with the advent of the climate crisis being a huge generational issue there's a lot of firebrand eco-lefties looking for a home.
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Ohhh great, Barry Cowen as Head of Agriculture and Marine... Say goodbye to that 7% reduction. Edit, that was a dumb mix up, but Cowen is so tied to local farmers, he'll do anything to keep them from reducing their impact. PowerBeard fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Jun 27, 2020 |
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I admit I was fooled into giving Neasa Hourigan for the Greens my 3rd or 4th pref. Never again, if you wanna go Green, go Red.
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Yeah, our Green last year was way too young and inexperienced and fell apart towards the end. The PBP and SocDem were way better. Even Labour had a decent shot, but he didn't get in, but he got into the Seanad.
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The west is madWestern People posted:For the first time in the history of the State, the electorate west of the Shannon does not have a vote at the Cabinet table... https://westernpeople.ie/2020/06/28/a-cabinet-fit-for-cromwell/#.XvjDcR7TU0N For the record the cabinet 
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In other news... https://mobile.twitter.com/dearnhx/status/1276981371097907200
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I grew up with The Den, and this segment was brilliant. I miss their random chaos and humor. Look, they now have TVs in Donegal! And gently caress Ted. And Podge too.
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The only thing I didn’t like was Dustin appearing and it triggering the memory that we sent it to the Eurovision, marking arguably our lowest point since becoming a republic.
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happyhippy posted:And gently caress Ted. And Podge too. 
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I remember being vaguely disturbed when waking up one morning to see zig and zag on UK channel 4's big breakfast. It was definitely no Den.
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Brass Hand posted:The only thing I didn’t like was Dustin appearing and it triggering the memory that we sent it to the Eurovision, marking arguably our lowest point since becoming a republic. We treated the Eurovision that year with exactly the correct amount of respect and decency. Hey while I'm being a poo poo I'd be happy if I never heard about how much of a ride Connel from Ordinary People is. The fuckin head on him
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Shoehead posted:We treated the Eurovision that year with exactly the correct amount of respect and decency. His dad was my teacher in Primary school. The Dad was really cool. He is also called Paul Mescal, which makes the actor Paul Jr.
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kustomkarkommando posted:The west is mad The gombeenism of rural Ireland never ceases to amaze. The whole idea of a cabinet position is its national. Your decisions are for the whole country, not local parish pump politics. Simon Coveney isn't negotiating Brexit on behalf of Cork.
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My missus is an Irish film and TV development person, and without doxxing, Paul Mescal is a definitely good egg and apparently much sounder and put together than I would have been at his age. He's doing amazing things for the international reputation of inarticulate culchie GAA lads. It's devastating that lads won't be able to go on J1s this summer and strike while that iron is hot
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The original story on the den with podge as an evil ventriloquists dummy who would mysteriously move by himself when no one was watching was loving terrifying and definitely traumatized a generation imo
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What ever happened to that Secret Producer fellow in RTE? His tweets were entertaining. I wonder did RTE's crack team of internal affairs IT investigators get to him.
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Mescal was in my sisters class in primary school. Came over for the birthday party every year. Pure fuming when the yank Mates ask if I know him. Say I don’t Allegedly ted was thrown at Darcy when he’s a night in the tiles and didn’t want to present much
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He had Zig and Zag on earlier in the year on his radio show and they were saying they eventually had to give up on Ted because he skulled himself off the desk fighting him
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Zig and Zag are not the most reliable sources to be fair.
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Arquinsiel posted:Zig and Zag are not the most reliable sources to be fair. You're saying I SHOULD eat yellow snow? 
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If you find some then go nuts? Never seemed like relevant advice to me TBH.
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Just passed my local barbershop in Cabra, 2 old lads in their 70s getting clipped, nary a mask to be seen in the whole shop, and the barber was maybe an inch away from one of their faces when I passed. Everyone is stupid except me
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Failed Imagineer posted:Just passed my local barbershop in Cabra, 2 old lads in their 70s getting clipped, nary a mask to be seen in the whole shop, and the barber was maybe an inch away from one of their faces when I passed. Everyone is stupid except me The tattoo shop I work in in Bray is open again tomorrow and we are going all out with our safety poo poo, masks only, limited people in the shop, locked front door ect. Been entirely shut since March. One other shop here never bloody closed and another artist was.. uh active and I think the less I say about them the better. It's mad. I'm not looking forward to yelling through our front door at people to mask up or gently caress off for the next few weeks
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Shoehead posted:The tattoo shop I work in in Bray is open again tomorrow and we are going all out with our safety poo poo, masks only, limited people in the shop, locked front door ect. Been entirely shut since March. One other shop here never bloody closed and another artist was.. uh active and I think the less I say about them the better. It's mad. I'm not looking forward to yelling through our front door at people to mask up or gently caress off for the next few weeks Tbh tattoists should have been one of the first things to open, assuming necessary precautions. PPE is usually equivalent to a dentists office, without the potential for creating aerosols from oral fluid that dentists have. Though I suspect the ones flouting the guidelines are probably pretty lax in general
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Had to post an urgent letter, and nearest post box is in local shopping centre. And holy poo poo there are tons of people out. Barbers was full, don't think I saw anyone under 40 wearing a mask.
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EmmyOk posted:Yeah our mask rate is so so bad. Get ready to surf brothers I was forced by circumstance into actually going to IKEA yesterday (really had no choice due to a delivery fuckup). Maybe 2% of people wearing masks, being generous (myself and the missus being in that percentage because we are cool pro-social dudes)
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