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Blut posted:I don't think Irish people are particularly racist. Irish people tend to be quite ignorant of race because of the homogeneity, but they lack the virulent racism you find many places elsewhere in the world. The 'racism' of older Irish people is just down to a lack of experience with other races. They wouldn't see anything wrong with making jokes about black people for example because they might have gone their whole life without meeting one I wouldn't say that. Plenty of young people here, who grew up without that homogeneity are virulently racist.
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Danny Healy-Rae spouting bollicks in the Dail today. He's denied man-made climate change and said "God above in charge of the weather and we can't do anything about it". It makes me wonder how many of our politicians are climate change denialists.
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May 4, 2016 21:00
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Cabinet posted:I'm back in Ireland in less than two weeks and I'm regretting my decision now. Why would you return? I couldn't see myself coming back once I have the experience to work abroad.
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May 6, 2016 22:58
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Cabinet posted:I have a sick aunt and I want to help with the family. I'm also taking the opportunity to go back into college. I'm not a Canadian citizen so if I wanted to go into third level here it would cost me way too loving much. Sorry to hear about your aunt. I'm glad I used the recession to get a useful degree. Though the constant cuts to the BTEA and rising cost of living made it a difficult challenge.
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May 6, 2016 23:57
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I guess publicly declaring your desire for power might put off your fellows from letting you near power. Apparently he's reconsidering his position with the labour party, where would he go, will he start a new party, new labour. Also if he does quit the party does that affect their speaking rights. Or is it once you start the dail with the minimum 7 you keep that right until a new dail.
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May 20, 2016 14:27
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Swan Curry posted:We truly are blessed with the expertise that comes from the Seanad. I hate that the electorate allowed it to remain on the basis that it would be reformed by some undefined manner. And now we're stuck with ex-ministers on the government payroll who were parachuted in when they couldn't retain their seat, e.g. James Reilly.
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Jun 29, 2016 17:17
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I thought Tallaght was merging with DIT and Blanch to form Ireland's first University of Technology at Grangegorman. Did that go ahead or did the government never pass the required legislation?
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Aug 17, 2016 22:34
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I don't know off hand what Google were paying. But reports say Apple was paying 1% since 1991 which was reduced to 0.005% in 2007, that's 5000 paid in tax for every million of profit. Good thing there wasn't anything that happened after 07 where we would have needed that tax base. Marenghi fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Aug 30, 2016 |
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Aug 30, 2016 12:59
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happyhippy posted:It's a pity they don't care about the actual Irish workers. Any chance of hearing one of these horror stories.
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Sep 1, 2016 21:18
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Wasn't that Joan Burton? Encouraged young, unemployed people to gently caress off to other countries for work.
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Sep 4, 2016 14:14
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That escalated quickly. Last I read about it was he would play nice and appeal the decision with a second review. I guess that got ruled out.
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Sep 11, 2016 15:41
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Why would they want to solve the rental crisis. The politicians in charge are the upper classes benefiting from the massive transfer of wealth you mentioned.
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Sep 27, 2016 16:58
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Like no on could have imagined, the new 20,000 help to buy scheme caused developers to add at least 20,000 to asking price of eligible homes. http://www.daft.ie/wicklow/new-homes-for-sale/thorndale-delgany-wicklow-61603/ You can see the price difference on the cache of this but the person who updated this ad wasn't smart enough to change the price in the description. So you can see the difference in price since yesterday.
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Oct 13, 2016 21:44
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Sinn Fein leading last I checked but does it matter. They won't share with DUP with Arlene as leader and it doesn't look like the DUP will back down on her.
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Mar 3, 2017 23:39
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kustomkarkommando posted:I think the most it can be is 28/28 - Assuming two SF in East Londonderry (though the SDLP has a sub 100 lead currently). Where?
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Mar 4, 2017 01:56
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I think you are. It's expensive to become an Irish citizen as an immigrant whose resided here long enough to be eligible.
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Mar 12, 2017 22:30
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I was asking my missus and hers is 300 for the year. I remember mates used to complain about it being 200~ so maybe they've been increasing the price over the years.
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Mar 13, 2017 16:02
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Aren't the current ministers not eligible for their pensions until the two year mark. Can expect Fianna Fail to pull the rug out next Spring when that's happened.
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Jun 2, 2017 18:45
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Bedshaped posted:Today I discovered our constitution has a special provision for "social justice" in the constitution article 43 dealing with private property. They haven't fixed the homeless crisis by now. How many years was it since the man froze on the steps of the dail. That should have been the kick up the arse but they let more Christmases pass unaltered. Now we've thousands of homeless families when the norm was less than a hundred. The government have no interest in fixing it. They promised to get people out of emergency accommodations and the solution to that was to rename the hostels to family hubs, and even with that half arsed fix they still missed the target of July. The ruling party will continue to set deadlines so as to be seen doing something, and then let them slip. Homeless families come from the class that doesn't vote for them. Like the Tories in England said, “I don’t understand why you keep going on about the need for more social housing – it just creates Labour voters."
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Jun 24, 2017 00:16
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They are ideologically opposed to it. The spending on temporary solutions is massive and would dwarf the cost to build social housing. Though I was once told the reason for funnelling tax money to private solutions regarding hotels and hostels is because of EU rules on government spending. Much like Irish Water was to take water infrastructure spending off the government books, emergency accommodation spending is off the books where social housing wouldn't be. Not sure how true that is I never verified it.
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Jan 6, 2018 23:22
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Anyone got suggestions where to emmigrate to? I make what I would have considered a very decent salary as an electronic engineer. But when half it gets eaten by rent and a chunk to car insurance and its running costs; I'm left with sweet gently caress all to spend on myself. And the traffic/public transport in Dublin seems to be getting worse. I could afford more luxuries 8 years ago when I was living at my parents gaff on the dole and I didn't have to deal with the stress of a lovely commute.
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Feb 14, 2018 00:55
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No they don't but it's a role that I could easily step into something similarly in most places. I was thinking France or Germany, but I heard Germany is having its own issues with a rent crisis. And my grasp of both languages is currently limited. quote:Don't go work in the States anyway, you'll have plenty more to complain about between rent and healthcare costs, and the lovely work conditions. Though both types seem to depend on the companies culture, it's a top down work culture. Marenghi fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Feb 14, 2018 |
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Feb 14, 2018 01:40
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School Nickname posted:He had to go to a Garda station (5 mins away from work) to get it stamped, then drop it off at Ennis. I don't recall it requiring attending a garda station before. I tried update my address on the registry and decided against it when I found out I'd have to go get a Garda stamp. I'll just pop into my old polling station as it is in the city.
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May 15, 2018 14:41
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Taking the guts of two hours out of his day was too much. I imagine a lot of younger people are like this.
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That debate was a poo poo show. RTE have really done the yes side no favours. They let the no side spout off nonsense and untruths without challenge, and allowed them to shout down the yes response.
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May 15, 2018 22:32
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Given the circumstances I'm not sure if in the same position I'd see a killer with a blade and recognise it's not a proper knife and only a stanley blade.
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May 22, 2018 20:00
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Paddy cosgrove is a dope and the web summit is a scam.
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Aug 15, 2018 15:06
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I would consider Sinn Fein left wing, especially considering their Marxist leanings pre troubles. Though I guess that element ended up in the workers party. Still they are fairly progressive on many matters today. Sorry misread thought you said we have no left parties. It’s a bit shocking but not really when you consider we were under the thumb of the church, and when we broke away from them we cow towed to the almighty dollar and US multinationals. And with a history of emigration and even an encouragement of it during bad times, the demographics that might be interested in having a left government end up leaving for greener pastures. Marenghi fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Aug 21, 2018 |
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Aug 21, 2018 22:19
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Who can be trusted to stick to their guns economically. It seems any left wing party anywhere gets into power suddenly see the neoliberal light.
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Aug 22, 2018 13:41
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100% mortgage relief. Time to buy a rental property and have the tenants pay the principal and the tax payer pay the interest.
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Oct 9, 2018 13:30
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