Liveline Thread 27/03/14 to date

Dan Jaman

snubbleste wrote: »

You can only claim tax for four years.

Exactly - and they can claim it from you for a longer time, is it seven years?
Inequitable, but at least it's a limit.

sudzs

"keep de faith" is back! :mad:

Lenin Skynard

baldbear wrote: »

Looks like there is no more low hanging fruit.

They'll U-turn on this stuff now like they did with the medical cards seeing as Labour are falling to bits and an election is on the way.

Roger_007

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

I wouldn't mind seeing the likes of Ray Burke getting a letter requesting to pay back a portion of his pension for having been involved in corrupt activity while in office.

Wake up Harry........this is Oireland?:mad:

snubbleste

Dan Jaman wrote: »

Exactly - and they can claim it from you for a longer time, is it seven years? Inequitable, but at least it's a limit.

Sounds like a challenge for the Ombudsman

ThisRegard

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

its scraping the barrel there must be very little left

Around €700 million alone was saved on cracking down on social welfare fraud last year and correcting errors in the like of overpayments etc. Not an insignificant amount.

snubbleste

I have a double barreled name

NickD

Double Barrelled Name - Check
Shocked - Check
Slightly Posh Sounding - Check
This is gonna be good

Roger_007

Why should evidence be destroyed?

SEPT 23 1989

ThisRegard wrote: »

Around €700 million alone was saved on cracking down on social welfare fraud last year. Not an insignificant amount.

not true This Regard

have a look at how they calculate the savings

it was a fraction of that figure saved in real cash

Roger_007

NickD wrote: »

Double Barrelled Name - Check
Shocked - Check
Slightly Posh Sounding - Check
This is gonna be good

She didn't get that accent in an industrial school.

snubbleste

Roger_007 wrote: »

She didn't get that accent in an industrial school.

She married up

NickD

Roger_007 wrote: »

She didn't get that accent in an industrial school.

She went to one of the good ones

snubbleste

She has a fair point though.

snubbleste

"I know that I know that"

NickD

Should it not be kept? It is an important part of history in the country and shouldn't be swept under the carpet. Not to be nasty but in 75 years they aren't going to be alive to know whether it is opened or not

Dan Jaman

Roger_007 wrote: »

She didn't get that accent in an industrial school.

Wouldn't be the first posho in a workhouse...

Roger_007

NickD wrote: »

Should it not be kept? It is an important part of history in the country and shouldn't be swept under the carpet. Not to be nasty but in 75 years they aren't going to be alive to know whether it is opened or not

There is another aspect to this........suppose it was suspected that she made a false claim or lied? If the testimony was destroyed there would be no way of proving it.
Is she afraid of her past being known in the circles that she now inhabits?

Dan Jaman

NickD wrote: »

She went to one of the good ones

I went to a good school - it was Fully Approved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approved_School

snubbleste

Did she breach her confidentiality clause there??
Oh my god

neris

40k wouldnt get her very far in BTs

eviltwin

Roger_007 wrote: »

There is another aspect to this........suppose it was suspected that she made a false claim or lied? If the testimony was destroyed there would be no way of proving it.
Is she afraid of her past being known in the circles that she now inhabits?

Surely the names of the people involved won't be printed on these documents, I thought all these statements were just of a "male aged 50" type without any personal details.

SEPT 23 1989

that mooney promo:pac:

An Claidheamh

The problem in Ireland is that we generally have a "justice" system that favours the perpetrator not the victim.

Lenient sentences to violent attacks, rape, etc were all tolerated by the media, politicians, RTÉ -

this comes back to haunt them when the industrial schools, bankers, etc are the perpetrators.

Suddenly, they realise how the multitude feel to be helpless victims.

Lapin

Brenda visits someone who still has their Christmas decorations up.




RTÉ Radio 1 is about to reach a new low in it's efforts to dumb down.

Dan Jaman

Lapin wrote: »

Brenda visits someone who still has their Christmas decorations up.




RTÉ Radio 1 is about to reach a new low in it's efforts to dumb down.

Sounds utterly riveting. I'll be tuning to WRN on satellite, listening to the joys of Radio Korea or Deutsche Welle, or somesuch.

Lapin

So to speak.

Dan Jaman

A second sitting - is there dessert, too?

An Claidheamh

"little girdle"

Does every school have a Kerry teacher?

Roger_007

Second sitting eh.......more lolly for supervisors?

yop

"one subject I went down on"... and he still repeats the exams, the lucky B@st@rd. Hope she was nice

yop

Lapin wrote: »

So to speak.

So to type in our case.

An Claidheamh

Of course, the majority of students wouldn't have got a proper night's sleep.

Which is a huge disadvantage.

Mike Guide 69

yop wrote: »

"one subject I went down on"... and he still repeats the exams, the lucky B@st@rd. Hope she was nice

Probably did it in the day when you could do the Matric, you could could combine your best results from the 2 sittings!!!! :mad:

Dan Jaman

An Claidheamh wrote: »

Of course, the majority of students wouldn't have got a proper night's sleep.

Which is a huge disadvantage.

Jeez, I recall sitting a maths exam after two hour's kip. The most dire result ensued.

snubbleste

My god dis, my god dat

Lapin

Dan Jaman wrote: »

Jeez, I recall sitting a maths exam after two hour's kip. The most dire result ensued.

Ditto

Mike Guide 69

Ha ha, suck up to Joe, mammy, why dont you!!!!

CountyHurler

I think Joe has broken his records for meaningless platitudes today...

snubbleste

You only have 25 seconds caller!

bottlebrush

Is there no cure for Leaving Certificatitis?

Lenin Skynard

Mooney up next with one of Hitler's henchman followed by a man in Ballinasloe who still has his christmas decorations up.

snubbleste

Finished 15:01:31

CountyHurler

"Tomorrow you will be a day closer to finishing the Leaving Cert"

Has Joe considered baking his own range of fortune cookies??

HeidiHeidi

Systemic, systemic, systemic, systemic, systemic, systemic, systemic.

Word of the day, and nobody told me.

She did have a point, mind you - they were plain lied to, least the authorities could have done was admitted it to them personally.

Hitchens

micraX

what was said about vegetables?

HeidiHeidi

micraX wrote: »

what was said about vegetables?

What do you think?

Couldn't get off the topic of poor little Johnnie and Mary who were feeling a bit peaky in the face of their LC.

Itssoeasy

I'm just listening back to the show from today. I'm eight minutes into the forty four minutes discussion on the leaving cert. Jesus, Enda Kenny surely has enough to be doing without sorting this out. I'd be worried as to how she got a number for him.

Itssoeasy

Jesus it's chicken pox FFS. It's not nice but it's not life threatening and if you've had it you can't get it twice. Joe makes it sound like its the black death.