Irish politics discussion thread

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Kneejerk reaction is that it is correct and fair to say rural ireland has been weighed up and reckoned not to be worth bothering with.

Possible that the govt will argue that the regional cities will provide the jobs and facilities and paddy can commute like George has to in Dublin

But idk. Theyre not gonna sell it imo so they've obviously decided FF can have the country.

get out of the road you cunts

Based on the reaction I’m seeing to Peter Casey’s comments, our own particular brand of racism is alive and well

ive been paying zero attention tbh but i just googled this guys comments and now i hate the cunt

isnt there like 3 dragons den presenters in the race or something. MDH in a landslide anyway i reckon

It’s always a shitshow, people who will otherwise think of themselves as progressive are always hideous. And as for those that don’t...

We’re still going to elect Miggeldy though.

blissfully away but i saw polls placing mdh at 66%

which again begs the q why the media are encouraged to give equal consideration to each other moron

I mean it’s the first second term presidential election since 1966, they have to wring any interest from it somehow. Still devastated we didn’t get the McCann/Blair truther instead of one of the dragons.

POLL: Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI #aras18
(October 10-12, MoE 2.8%)

Higgins 66
Gallagher 12
Ní Riada 11
Freeman 5
Duffy 4
Casey 2

— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) October 17, 2018

lol

Still really mad that MDH’s Supreme ripoff merch sold out like minutes after going live.

if only we had a party that we could back with the same trust tho ey

Still devastated we didn’t get the McCann/Blair truther instead of one of the dragons.

Are you referring to Kevin Sharkey?

Nope!

Gemma O’Doherty is anti-life saving vaccines and believes Tony Blair was involved in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann... Notwithstanding the good work that she has done, do we really want a conspiracy theorist as our President? 🙄 #aras18

— Cian (@cianr94) August 19, 2018

I wouldn't rule out that theory until I've read Craig Murray's take on it.

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from his wiki: "Sharkey regularly collaborated with Irish rock band, The Boomtown Rats, and German disco group Boney M., writing lyrics and melodies for both.[10] He wrote the latter group's 1989 single Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker.[11]"

xp when I was searching for that tweet I found that Craig Murray does have a take on it lol

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For Our Future

Idgi

implication of resemblance but idk

is this fuckdog in with a chance or is it internet idiotics

hope no gombeen man gets elected uachtarán

how do folk rate higgins? seems alright to me whenever I've heard him speak or read anything by him, likes dogs.

I don't know what he's like but I have often brought him up as an example when people say, "And if you got rid of the Royal Family and replaced the Queen with a President, you might end up with President Tony Blair, how would you like that?"

hes great, first do no harm and then otherwise nice soft left intelligentsia also dogs

first twitter reports sez huggins round 1 and c.70% to repeal blasphemy

Yeah I saw that, 20% of first prefs is a poor showing for the prick but then again low turnout plus a fair number of the country are pricks so

Is there any way he could win on 2nd prefs, pls forgive my ignorance, I got a C in CSPE.

Michael D wins automatically if he clears 50.00001

Obviously we’ll always have been denied THE REAL CHOICE OF THE PEOPLE, the Blair/McCann truther.

Me and my friends have been working on a list of things that remind us of the boom, and another of things that remind us of those eary recession years. You can have it if you like: pic.twitter.com/NmzbgruGA7

— bat simons 🦇 (@rat_simons_) October 26, 2018

ah low turnout and mdh assured a win, and everyone else had an actual shocker. casey just the beneficiary of a safe protest vote imo

for all the talk of a jump from 1% to 20%, the winning margin is fucking huge.

no matter who came second it would be painted as a warning to the establishment by the vested interests.

i was gonna get involved on boards but fuck the spinning losers and their triumph over casey. its just nice to win and breathe again

Yeah it is. Laughed at reading some twitter cunts saying Peter Casey’s % meant the country was living in a left wing bubble - which meant ignoring the really left wing politician who actually won it.

It was a pretty boring campaign for the most part. Very amused that Sean G got a fraction of what he polled last time.

"ye'll have to listen to us now!"

1/5 of ppl to everyone else

delighted for sean long life to him and the same kicking every sevenyear sez i

anyway i voted duffy

no biters ara fuck ye

ooof

hitch trial collapse is gonna cause waves

The Irish Times article seems to go as far towards saying "this is corrupt as fuck" as they legally can.

Members of the Byrne family stood up and called the situation “disgraceful” and a “farce”. They said there was “no justice in Ireland” and claimed that gardaí could not “solve this case but could solve all the others”

This is actually touching faith in the Gardaí!

ive a mate, referenced itt iirc, and he worked in an oversight (insofar as allowed) capacity over the nnghardaí and its the only item he ever gave me the pokerface on

this sounds dodgy as.

gombeen men afoot

i cant tease out whether they're covering corruption (general or on behalf of either faction) or incompetence (trial apparently majorly compromised due to basic procedural errors) but theyre blatantly covering

cant ask anything about a 'tragic death' im afraid. case closed.

gubu

get that right up ya dob u cunt

we'll talk about it in here so i spose

the statement by SoS for NI made to the house of commons yesterday is not just a resigning matter but should be an international scandal the scale of which should see ambassadors, foreign ministers and idk any human rights, justice or military union either country is involved in involved and investigating as a priority

its not as important as internal labour party intrigue obv but hey this is probably a good reminder that yknow countries really should rule themselves

Cmon deems I did bump The Irish!

But yeah it’s a complete disgrace. I was reading some of the Ballymurphy stuff yesterday and nearly in tears overvit.

sorry ive been off ilx today, my mistake.

new statesman cover is choice

It surely is a thing that exists. NS besides S Bush is largely shite anyway but between this cover & the Guardian cover, supposed liberal UK doesn’t give a fuck about us either.

Enjoyed seeing the shadow defence secretary having to row back yesterday.

What’s the coverage like at home?

about what specifically? brexit is off from what i can tell

The statute of limitations stuff

tbh ive not seen a lot on it rly

well now

dont particularly feel like johnson is capable of actually maintaining a run but rly its no matter itll be some bad cunt in charge of dictating terms to us between now and October.

Think literally all the candidates are either extremely bad or awful on the Irish question, but they’re not going to be any better than May at handling it so