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[Setanta]

From the gutter woke mouthpiece article ...

"The hate speech legislation, intended to penalise abusive or threatening communication that targeted a person due to their race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, disability, religion or sexual orientation, has been the subject of protest by far-right agitators and conspiracy theorists."

Yeah everything not in tune with their woke crapology is far right and conspiracies.

Always suspected,and was discussing this with mates at a stag a few weeks ago,it was played in large part by establishment to stop people from singing republican ballads,with establishment leveraging culture wars,to try silence them

Quite how SF walked emselves into an obvious trap was beyond me

[jmayo]

Always suspected,and was discussing this with mates at a stag a few weeks ago,it was played in large part by establishment to stop people from singing republican ballads,with establishment leveraging culture wars,to try silence them

Quite how SF walked emselves into an obvious trap was beyond me

SF were always idiots.
It used to be their economic policies, but laterally it has turned out that is the least of their problems.

There social contract with most of their voters in the Republic, the working classes and some rural, has been torn to shreds in the way they have not alone abandoned them in favour of foreigners, but also actually shown their utter contempt for them.

And the fact that they even complained and promised to rerun failed referenda only just copper fastened their poor standing amongst the communities they claimed to serve.

The leadership and most if not all of their representatives just can't seem to read the room.
Anyone that can has left and the loss of someone like Carol Nolan is criminal.

They have shot themselves in both feet without any prompting from the established parties.

[Setanta]

SF were always idiots.
It used to be their economic policies, but laterally it has turned out that is the least of their problems.

There social contract with most of their voters in the Republic, the working classes and some rural, has been torn to shreds in the way they have not alone abandoned them in favour of foreigners, but also actually shown their utter contempt for them.

And the fact that they even complained and promised to rerun failed referenda only just copper fastened their poor standing amongst the communities they claimed to serve.

The leadership and most if not all of their representatives just can't seem to read the room.
Anyone that can has left and the loss of someone like Carol Nolan is criminal.

They have shot themselves in both feet without any prompting from the established parties.

I think there good to speak out for the ordinary person,even at deepest part of last recession,they were only people to speak out for poor and unemployed,and even used their retired wing to help some people struck down in terrible situations (likes of alan ryan etc have been a huge loss to this country).....and only party that openly aspires to bring home our own, emigrants,who've been forced out by establishment mismanagement and ruinous corrupt policies


I would think they've gone forever too left,and establishment in meeting with mega corporation's in recent times,we need people to stand up to them and for ordinary people,not another free stater,big shot only party

[Setanta]

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/cou ... 11129.html


The gaurds are unable to tackle serious crime,so the Garda commissioner and minister for justice,throws towel in against it and decide instead to devote resources to searching people's cars and homes for turf

[knownunknown]

Over yonder there seems to be a bug whereby private conversations from private forums are being displayed in search results. Search for mod and check what is the top answer and see what I’m talking about.

One in particular is describing a recent thread complaining about mod actions as a “whinge fest”. Finally an insight into the mod selection process. If the text trails off just copy the end of the text into search again and you’ll get the entire conversations.

[Setanta]

Over yonder there seems to be a bug whereby private conversations from private forums are being displayed in search results. Search for mod and check what is the top answer and see what I’m talking about.

One in particular is describing a recent thread complaining about mod actions as a “whinge fest”. Finally an insight into the mod selection process. If the text trails off just copy the end of the text into search again and you’ll get the entire conversations.

Ha ha ha.....makes a difference from mods reading people's PMs

Let them away at it,a dying forum for bigots and corporate dry shites

[Setanta]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.c ... t-13274114



Israel leaves Ireland..... really shows up how fecking useless the government here is,in not throwing out it's ambassador months ago


Now to put in place laws to target any attempts to blackmail and canvass/influence politicians here into the future,Irish friends of Israel needs to brought before a tribunal and made account for their actions and funding particularly,since it's for a country known to try influence against us in European capitals

[knownunknown]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.c ... t-13274114



Israel leaves Ireland..... really shows up how fecking useless the government here is,in not throwing out it's ambassador months ago


Now to put in place laws to target any attempts to blackmail and canvass/influence politicians here into the future,Irish friends of Israel needs to brought before a tribunal and made account for their actions and funding particularly,since it's for a country known to try influence against us in European capitals

We recognized a bunch of terrorists as legitimate after they committed the atrocities of October 7th(not before) now we are pushing the ICC to redefine genocide so that Israel can be accused of genocide, in the new sense, removing the part concerning intent.

Two children under the age of 5 are still being held captive by Hamas over 400 days later. What would you do if it were your child?

We are a bunch of fecking virtue signalling jokers. Neutrality my ass. The same idiots that told us we couldn’t leave our houses for fear of hurting others rewarded a bunch of savages in the desert for kidnapping, raping, torturing and mutilating seniors and children alike.

Palestine will never be free until they free themselves of Hamas especially while countries like ours that don’t even understand what’s happening.

[Setanta]

We recognized a bunch of terrorists as legitimate after they committed the atrocities of October 7th(not before) now we are pushing the ICC to redefine genocide so that Israel can be accused of genocide, in the new sense, removing the part concerning intent.

Two children under the age of 5 are still being held captive by Hamas over 400 days later. What would you do if it were your child?

We are a bunch of fecking virtue signalling jokers. Neutrality my ass. The same idiots that told us we couldn’t leave our houses for fear of hurting others rewarded a bunch of savages in the desert for kidnapping, raping, torturing and mutilating seniors and children alike.

Palestine will never be free until they free themselves of Hamas especially while countries like ours that don’t even understand what’s happening.

We recognized a bunch of terrorists as legitimate after they committed the atrocities of October

When?

now we are pushing the ICC to redefine genocide so that Israel can be accused of genocide, in the new sense, removing the part concerning intent

Collective punishment,is already a war crime

Two children under the age of 5 are still being held captive by Hamas over 400 days later. What would you do if it were your child?

Wouldn't launch a genocide or capet bomb a captive civilan population tbh

Neutrality my ass.

If we weren't neutral,I'd support sending Irish troops to defend civilians.... actually,while on this, is Israel still parking tanks in the Lebanon and pointi g their guns at Irish peacekeeping bases?

The same idiots that told us we couldn’t leave our houses for fear of hurting others rewarded a bunch of savages in the desert for kidnapping, raping, torturing and mutilating seniors and children alike.

Again when was this?

Palestine will never be free until they free themselves of Hamas especially while countries like ours that don’t even understand what’s happening.

If countries like Ireland don't step up internationally.israel will leave no palestinians alive,having carpet bombed half a million homes in search of few hundred hamas members they claim are hiding in tunnels.....it was never about hamas or hostages,it was only looking for a licence to slaughter women and children they were looking for....have they still the torture and rape concentration camps in Gaza?

[jmayo]

We recognized a bunch of terrorists as legitimate after they committed the atrocities of October 7th(not before) now we are pushing the ICC to redefine genocide so that Israel can be accused of genocide, in the new sense, removing the part concerning intent.

Two children under the age of 5 are still being held captive by Hamas over 400 days later. What would you do if it were your child?

We are a bunch of fecking virtue signalling jokers. Neutrality my ass. The same idiots that told us we couldn’t leave our houses for fear of hurting others rewarded a bunch of savages in the desert for kidnapping, raping, torturing and mutilating seniors and children alike.

Palestine will never be free until they free themselves of Hamas especially while countries like ours that don’t even understand what’s happening.

The fact that we had Biden, a very proud Irish descendant, in the White House and the fact that European countries took our side during Brexit, together with the largesse from laundering multi-nationals profits appears to have gone to some peoples heads.

That and the clowns in parliament and the clown in chief in residence in the Park.

Ireland actually thinks they have some standing.
We get this eternal drone that we are neutral and thus people round the world actually listen to us.
We were never neutral, but it plays well to the eejits who think it is a reason why we should have a military that is shyte simple because they are treated like shyte.
We are in no way neutral, we always have to rely on Americans and Brits to protect us.
Of course to the lefties amongst us that is heresy.

On the other hand Israel can nuke all their neighbours if push ever came to shove.

Oh and they have a real tech industry, not like our pretend one which is basically yanks and others, with sometimes as little as postboxes in the country.

The best thing that could come out of this is everyone in the dail, bar maybe 5 or 6, gets a free pager for Christmas.

[Setanta]

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl ... velopment/


This is well on its way to being as big a disaster as the children's hospital and the media cover it up..... another complete and utter farce brought to Ireland by establishment policies,which have never worked effectively and will never work effectively here.....like our sports teams,we reward repeated failure for social clout

[kadman]

The Dublin development is a bigger farce than the childrens hospital. When builders can sign off their own work as compliant, even though they know its not, well this shit will just go on and on, and on. I have spent most of my working career complaining about the standard of workmanship across most of the construction industry , going down the pan. I knew it was a futile gesture when i saw so called " building professionals" coming out of regional training centres with " qualifications" after only 6 months.

I remember doing a 5 year craft apprenticeship, under qualified instruction, plus ongoing professional achievements in my craft. All of this now reduced to a 6 month stint in a local tech. Its a complete joke, the writing was on the wall for sub standard work many decades ago. Tax payer will be footing another bill. Wont be long before we will all be sleeping in tents , as it will be the only form of decent shelter.

Next super gravy train is getting ready to pull out from platform 6.

[Setanta]

The Dublin development is a bigger farce than the childrens hospital. When builders can sign off their own work as compliant, even though they know its not, well this shit will just go on and on, and on. I have spent most of my working career complaining about the standard of workmanship across most of the construction industry , going down the pan. I knew it was a futile gesture when i saw so called " building professionals" coming out of regional training centres with " qualifications" after only 6 months.

I remember doing a 5 year craft apprenticeship, under qualified instruction, plus ongoing professional achievements in my craft. All of this now reduced to a 6 month stint in a local tech. Its a complete joke, the writing was on the wall for sub standard work many decades ago. Tax payer will be footing another bill. Wont be long before we will all be sleeping in tents , as it will be the only form of decent shelter.

Next super gravy train is getting ready to pull out from platform 6.

It's a corrupt scam,another avenue to funnel taxpayer money to private sector....... who'll (reasonable in circumstances) end up funding the remedial work and repairs on affordable houses of those stretched to the limit in years to come.

The establishment will see to it,appointed contractors who just happen to be connected to the establishment will get the contract to fleece the state on remedial repairs......an endless cash cow free of accountability and essentially theft of public resources....

we pay a charge on concrete products for MICA,despite VAT already previously been collected on mica products,....and noone has been held accountable for oversight failures

[Setanta]

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/ins ... 17303.html

That Doherty was right, we're being gouged by insurance companies while the left sit on its hands and deos nothing to curtail iyt

[Setanta]

Commonsense at last

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2025/012 ... al-crotty/



Healy-raes and Lowry might bring a bit of sense to way country is being run

[PureIsle]

Commonsense at last

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2025/012 ... al-crotty/

At two years he got off light IMO.

[Setanta]

https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern ... DZEGBX5O4/


This nearly slipped through unseen.....SAS executed 4 young fellows and told outright lies to coverup their slaughter


A complete slaughter of 4 young fellows,the oldest being 22,a heavy loss for any community to take,and then been lied to about....these lies were known with years and years and completely ignored by establishment here,as this campaign began to take off,a police crime scene video of its aftermath was left on a market stall in a local market to try and scare people into submission......but woe and abuse betide anyone who dare and critise security forces

[Return of the Mac]

4 members of the IRA on active service after attacking the RUC get shot by the SAS. Shock horror.

[Setanta]

4 members of the IRA on active service after attacking the RUC get shot by the SAS. Shock horror.

Aye...3 of em get executed lying on the ground,while the sas waited until all harm was gone,before firing 500 plus rounds at em.....lied and lied about circumstances to avoid public inquiry (I mean the initial report is available) and blaggarded their funerals

All young fellows under the age of 22,such a waste of life ....but the violent left glorifies violence and happy to explain away summery executions of our own.....for the crime of attacking an empty watchtower in coalisland.....make it make sense

[Return of the Mac]

They were a bunch or terrorists who got what they deserved. I wont be shedding any tears

[Setanta]

They were a bunch or terrorists who got what they deserved. I wont be shedding any tears

Who else deserves to be summerly executed when incapicatated and injured on the ground?

Or is it just nationlists you solely preserve your murderous lust for?

[Return of the Mac]

If you're a terrorist you're fair game, regardless of the cause you fight for

[Setanta]

https://www.thejournal.ie/rent-pressure ... 7-Feb2025/


The government have decided to force out remaining renters and push our youth out of the country,drive homelessness further out of control,to enrich themselves and landlords


Never ever vote leftists ever again

[knownunknown]

Maybe we’ll have our own wake up call soon enough, perhaps it’ll take the election of a trump type figure.

What we uncovered shocked us. The bottom line is that, for 20 years or more, including the months prior to the election, voter perception was more reflective of reality than the incumbent statistics. Our research revealed that the data collected by the various agencies is largely accurate. Moreover, the people staffing those agencies are talented and well-intentioned. But the filters used to compute the headline statistics are flawed. As a result, they paint a much rosier picture of reality than bears out on the ground.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... y-00203464

[Setanta]

Maybe we’ll have our own wake up call soon enough, perhaps it’ll take the election of a trump type figure.


https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/ ... y-00203464

8/10 brilliant article....it's what the left do,set spurious parameters and berate anyone who points out people's lived experience is awful.....(See here when anyone pointed out the rampant corruption in Ireland)


But this is a an horrendous statistic:

If you filter the statistic to include as unemployed people who can’t find anything but part-time work or who make a poverty wage (roughly $25,000), the percentage is actually 23.7 percent. In other words, nearly one of every four workers is functionally unemployed in America today

You see the same type carry on here,where average wage is cited as X,when noone knows anyone employed in domestic economy on anything approaching these wages.....but they've left prices get out of control and point at an inflated average wage to try and silence people,

I dispise those who have run this country into the ground and dismiss anyone speaking out