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Shoehead posted:He was a fairly unpopular Minister for Health and is.. I don't know what he's working at atm because they change every few months thanks to the coalition, is he Housing now? Higher Education. Was talking to my mother earlier and she doesn't like him because of his time as health minister (she works in healthcare). Isn't particularly excited for him.
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Shoehead posted:He was a fairly unpopular Minister for Health and is.. I don't know what he's working at atm because they change every few months thanks to the coalition, is he Housing now? Higher Ed, likely 1) because he backed SC over Leo, and 2) to make it harder to plot a coup. Though he covered for McEntee at justice during her maternity leave.
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Failed Imagineer posted:It's fairly stupid alright, he's a massive dickhead who has failed upwards his whole career. I guess Coveney and Donohue have agreed that he's the right guy to absorb the boot to the balls from the electorate next year and they'll get in there the next swing around. I'd say this is exactly it. The smarter candidates know they'll be leading FG into wipe-outs and have more opportunities in Europe. Harris would never have another chance of securing a Taoiseach's pension or even a higher job in the EU. He can go in, bear the brunt and walk away with his triple pension; TD, Minister and Taoiseach.
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Mar 24, 2024 21:00
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are we sure this is not a vampire? he really has the look of a vampire about him :/
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Every time I see a pic I think budget Josh Hawley.
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that's some bullshit about the pensions, i'd make it so they only get the median of all pensioner's incomes 
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Mar 24, 2024 22:15
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They should supersede the previous one, yes.
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crispix posted:that's some bullshit about the pensions, i'd make it so they only get the median of all pensioner's incomes There should be a minimum time to qualify. And if they ever share the role of Taoiseach during a term then they should have to share the pension for it. Monica Bellucci posted:They should supersede the previous one, yes. This too.
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Mar 24, 2024 22:23
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There is (was?) a minimum time to pension if you are in government. Biffo Cowan tried it with his lot. Remember his weird declaration of an election a noticeably odd bunch of days away from his declaration of same that just so happened to be the first day after those he appointed to cabinet qualified.
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Or that time near the end of the Cowen government where some TD's held like three plus Ministerships? I don't know if they got multiple pensions out of it, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did. ( If Brian Lenihan was one of the ones I'm thinking of, the multiple pensions point would be moot.)
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Note to self, update my address for my polling card
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Shoehead posted:Note to self, update my address for my polling card In the time you made this post you could have done that on checktheregister.ie
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https://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1771532557902889033
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Some lad for the cause
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A lot of British have taken to calling the Republic "Southern Ireland", so maybe he has a point.
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PowerBeard posted:A lot of British have taken to calling the Republic "Southern Ireland", so maybe he has a point. Are we sending them food packages or no, this year?
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PowerBeard posted:A lot of British have taken to calling the Republic "Southern Ireland", so maybe he has a point. Angry Donegal noises ensue. 
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Imagine wee Daniel angry at you, Majella'd be sick of your name.
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I officially don't give a shite what you call either country as long as it's not done in a posh British accent. If you call it Southern Ireland/South of Ireland, some oval office'll be mad about Donegal. If you call it the Republic of Ireland, some oval office'll be mad cause that's the football team. If you call it Ireland, some oval office'll be mad cause that's the name for the whole island and you're being separatist. If you call it Éire, some gaelcunt'll be mad because you're speaking English and  it should be "Éireann" because of the Tuiseal Guinideach. Everybody just gently caress up.Save your moaning for when someone says "British Isles" or tries to claim that British athlete Conor McGregor is Irish.
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They can have the rapist oval office.
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My point exactly!
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Yeah, saw that after I posted and debated doing an E: nm but I will let it stand as a monument to my hubris or idiocy. In related news, I know a fella hates both McGregor and the Kinahan gang with a fiery passion. He claims (I genuinely don't have a reason to disbelieve him) to have had one-sided run ins with both. McGregor shat himself apparently.
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Monica Bellucci posted:Yeah, saw that after I posted and debated doing an E: nm but I will let it stand as a monument to my hubris or idiocy. Is your mate a 250lb bare-knuckling champion or something? Or a Regulator?
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Retired Commandant. I thought he was making that up initially, turns out nope, he really is. He is also responsible for more than a few of the more famous things he and his got up to. Voracious reader, taught himself Italian so he could read Il Princip in the original Italian.
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Sounds like either an accomplished liar or else maybe the Irish version of Col. John Matrix, who's to say?
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Like I said, I thought he was a bullshit artist the first time I met him but some quiet asking around turns out he's the genuine article. Dunno about the McGregor/Kinahan stuff exactly but there really isn't a reason to lie about it and he absolutely loathes them, especially McGregor. He also projects "Old Man with whom you do not gently caress" energy.
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Fair enough, although tbh I don't gently caress with most old men. Seems cruel.
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He's been officially making a bunch of claims since 2017 and telling the press to gently caress right off when they want more than his name. There's some videos on youtube and the like although his voice is so loving raspy now I only get about 10% of what he is saying in the flesh.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I officially don't give a shite what you call either country as long as it's not done in a posh British accent. If you call it Southern Ireland/South of Ireland, some oval office'll be mad about Donegal. If you call it the Republic of Ireland, some oval office'll be mad cause that's the football team. If you call it Ireland, some oval office'll be mad cause that's the name for the whole island and you're being separatist. If you call it Éire, some gaelcunt'll be mad because you're speaking English and When it comes to the English/Scottish/Welsh, I think the beat you can hope for is that they say nothing or as little as possible. Since that way they aren't saying anything offensive. The more that they talk about Angelo-Irish affairs, the more likely you are to get a Michael Gove writing an article about how they could have beaten the IRA and won the Troubles if only they didn't bow to political pressure and give up.
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i'd an aunt through marriage who was a bit of a wazzock and she asked a waiter in all seriousness for an ulster fry while on holiday in cornwall 
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Was very funny seeing my Tory parents visit me here in tipp and spot a memorial to some IRA lads from the village who died in the war in 1920.
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Lyn, these are RA people!!!
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My partner is English and it's fun taking them to places like that. Good egg politically, just have to keep reminding.
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When I first moved here I was in Clane and they have a lot of plaques all over the village about its role in the 1798 rebellion.
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Posted this a few times already, but when I moved to Cork City from the north, we used a local taxi cab a lot. One the drivers decided to let me know he was ex-RA, spent time in Maze prison in the 80s. And on various trips he would take a street or two detour to show me places of 'interest'. Like where the brits shot up the mayor in his house, where some man would attack the then brit controlled army base every day for weeks, small plaques everywhere.
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did he charge you for the detour?
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It sounds like those Ghost Bus tours of Dublin but in a taxi. A Black and Tan Cab ride?
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they have taxi tours in belfast that show you all troubles stuff titanic and troubles are the two big tourist money spinners round them parts
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crispix posted:they have taxi tours in belfast that show you all troubles stuff I've done that - my American father-in-law was quoting Parnell and Collins to our driver while he got more and more red and awkward lol
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crispix posted:did he charge you for the detour? Nah, cork has a lovely motorway system, its sometimes better to take the back streets at certain parts of the day as its packed.
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