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Presidential Election 2025

jmayo
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Re: Presidential Election 2025

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Quato wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 9:19 pm So tell me this and tell me no more:
Your flavour of politicians is running for years- and is getting continuously nowhere. Why? Because your sort of politics in not wanted anymore.
Why do you continue to try to ride a dead horse?
I presume it is me you were replying to ?

Are you one of these Irish people, assuming you are actually Irish, that thinks we are different to the rest of the so called civilised and perhaps not so civilised world?

I remember people like that not so long ago telling us house prices would never collapse in Ireland simply because they had never collapsed before.
We were different don't you know.

The sweeping changes happening across Western world will not avoid our shores, most especially when the moronic politicians here, the lapping media and the useful dogooder idiots are enacting the same course of action that has failed miserably elsewhere.

Added to that ask yourself a few questions.
Where were the right wing parties in Germany 20 years, hell 10 years ago?
They were no where except perhaps in a few areas in the former East Germany.

Where were the right wing parties in The Netherlands?
They were nowhere near power.

Oh and the most striking of all.
Where were the right wing parties in Sweden, the socialist mecca, the socialist shining light.

The thing is people like you will probably be still telling us we are riding a deadhorse when your donkeys have bitten the dust at Beechers Brooke.
The only thing that worries me is will our Beechers Brook be just the long forecast economic downturn or will be mass terrorist event.
jmayo
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Re: Presidential Election 2025

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Post by jmayo »

Gatsbygirl wrote: Wed Oct 29, 2025 6:33 pm Well, Jimmy Kimmel, who was visiting Ireland with his family during our Presidential election, has nice things to say about us , during his opening monologue on his Tuesday night show:

https://www.thejournal.ie/jimmy-kimmel- ... op-stories

He was especially taken by the mutual warmth displayed by the two rival candidates in Dublin Castle, and he showed a photo of them smiling warmly together and shaking hands

He compared that to the vitriolic atmosphere during recent US Presidential elections.

Also, during his visit, his niece lost her handbag in a pub, and it was returned to her by the honest person who found it, who refused all payment

So, things not so bad here after all, it seems.
Ahh sure everything is alright, a second rate US nightime talk show host had a good time whilst in Ireland and he thinks we are great.

And here was me thinking that we were bad since ...
we now have foreign guests to our shores that should be sent on their way but are left to rape 10 year old children in the care of our state,
we have foreign men who were given right to remain in our country that then go on to knife attack women and children outside primary schools,
we have foreign men given asylum in our country who then chose to decapitate the heads of gay men because of their toxic religious beliefs,
we have our police force investing in water cannons and riot gear because they are now at odds with sizable amounts of our people and the concept of policing by consent is dead,
we have the most expensive childrens hospital building project in the world but children are left to die waiting years for treatment,
we have old people in abject nursing homes and some nursing homes along with huge chunks of our hotels been given over to the accommodation of the dregs of other backward societies from round the world.

Foolish me I should just have listened to Jimmy Kimmel. :roll:
Clanrickard
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Re: Presidential Election 2025

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jmayo wrote: Wed Oct 29, 2025 11:00 pm Ahh sure everything is alright, a second rate US nightime talk show host had a good time whilst in Ireland and he thinks we are great.

And here was me thinking that we were bad since ...
we now have foreign guests to our shores that should be sent on their way but are left to rape 10 year old children in the care of our state,
we have foreign men who were given right to remain in our country that then go on to knife attack women and children outside primary schools,
we have foreign men given asylum in our country who then chose to decapitate the heads of gay men because of their toxic religious beliefs,
we have our police force investing in water cannons and riot gear because they are now at odds with sizable amounts of our people and the concept of policing by consent is dead,
we have the most expensive childrens hospital building project in the world but children are left to die waiting years for treatment,
we have old people in abject nursing homes and some nursing homes along with huge chunks of our hotels been given over to the accommodation of the dregs of other backward societies from round the world.

Foolish me I should just have listened to Jimmy Kimmel. :roll:
If you at any development index regarding this country you will see we are out in the top 10 if not 5 places in the world to live. We have problems but by and large it is a good place to live.
Clanrickard
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Re: Presidential Election 2025

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Post by Clanrickard »

Bubblypop wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 10:05 pm Amazing that they don't vote for the parties that support those ideals then isn't it?
Because those parties don't seem to get any more then a handful of voters
Yet. Yet.
Brabantje
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Re: Presidential Election 2025

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Post by Brabantje »

The absolute disaster that FF made of this, now makes sense. In what what world is getting a blowhard like Yates on board in anyway a good thing, let alone likely to yield results?

https://independent.ie/irish-news/polit ... 94142.html
Yates defended himself by saying he was just speaking hypothetically. “I’m an analyst, I’m a pundit, I’m a commentator – and the nature of that is pretty graphic and explicit,” he said.
What Yates left out, though, was that he was also a spin doctor, a campaign adviser or a candidate coach, whichever term you want to use.
And not for Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys either: Yates was working with Fianna Fáil and Jim Gavin.
The confidential role of Yates in Gavin’s campaign is emerging only now in the ongoing fallout within Fianna Fáil.
Meanwhile, FF apparachiks are busy drawing up lists, Stalinist style.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/pre ... 87033.html
The list of rebels includes TDs who have openly criticised Mr Martin’s handling of the presidential election, including three Cork TDs – James O’Connor, Paudie O’Sullivan and Seamus McGrath.
Those three were supportive of Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher becoming the party’s presidential election candidate.
Dublin South-West TD John Lahart, an ally of Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan, who sparked speculation of a heave at the weekend, is next on the list of rebels, followed by Louth’s Erin McGreehan, who has also been speaking up.
Kilkenny TDs John McGuinness and Peter ‘Chap’ Cleere are on the list.
Mr McGuinness has yet again called for leadership change from the presidential election. Mr Cleere supported Mr Kelleher’s bid to become the candidate.
The only surprise on the list is the inclusion of a prominent party senator.
Lovely stuff.
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