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Protesting ***ts

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    #62
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    davo2001 wrote: »
    Yeah, it's pretty funny actually, makes them look fairly pathetic! bumper234 is a prime candidate.

    Not in the least i just know how easy it is to wind country folk up. Pylons??? Not in our fields and then the first to whinge when there is no electricity after storms :D


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    #63
    The Hill Billy
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    No more name-calling in this thread.

    tHB


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    #64
    Aard
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    wobbles-grogan wrote: »
    Why not some of them? In areas where they need to be buried? (Natural beauty, people living nearby, etc etc)

    "Need to" is entirely subjective. There are pylons in urban areas where tens of thousands manage to live along side them. Beauty is also in the eye of the beholder, and there is no protection of "beautiful" areas, other than areas that are otherwise protected as SPA, SAC, or NHA.


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    #65
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,685 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    The whole thing is a disastrous vicious circle. The country is littered with one off housing, they are everywhere, every boreen and bog has them.

    So, no matter where you put a turbine or pylon, it's going to affect someone - protests.

    Tax the arse off them for acreage - protests.

    But, if we clamp down on planning, stop the spread of costly environmentally unfriendly housing - protests.

    Unfortunately, we have to suck it up along with our exorbitant property tax AKA the Dublin tax which is now being used to fund facilities outside the city.


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    #66
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    Protesting about pylons is a little bit petty.

    The folk down the country need the electricity and pylons are the most cost-effective way of providing it.

    It's not like the ESB are asking the rural types to erect the pylons themselves and it's not as if the feckin things are a pollution hazard.

    I wish there were more protests everytime a careless farmer poisons a trout river,for example.


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    #67
    Lovely Bloke
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    They are giving them electricity now?

    Welcome to the future lads.


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    #68
    Worksforyou
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Worksforyou


    How come all the Dubs are so bitter towards us rural people? We've had to suffer badly trying to save the state after all your bankers destroyed the place.


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    #69
    R P McMurphy
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    NIMBYISM is terrible ... except if it is in relation to a few 1 direction and garth brooks concerts in croke park, then its righteous


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    #70
    Dyr
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    Worksforyou wrote: »
    How come all the Dubs are so bitter towards us rural people? We've had to suffer badly trying to save the state after all your bankers destroyed the place.



    Least the subventions and headage payments are still flowing freely, tanksbetagod


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    #71
    Worksforyou
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Worksforyou


    Bambi wrote: »
    Least the subventions and headage payments are still flowing freely, tanksbetagod

    Ah yeah, just about. :D

    How many decades will we be paying for Dublin's bankers? :(


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    #72
    Tabnabs
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    Worksforyou wrote: »
    Ah yeah, just about. :D

    How many decades will we be paying for Dublin's bankers? :(

    Added to that Cavan insurance scam tariff, the tax payers are being bled for many years to come...


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    #73
    RobbieTheRobber
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    Worksforyou wrote: »
    How come all the Dubs are so bitter towards us rural people? We've had to suffer badly trying to save the state after all your bankers destroyed the place.
    Worksforyou wrote: »
    Ah yeah, just about. :D

    How many decades will we be paying for Dublin's bankers? :(

    Which ones were dublin bankers?
    The former head of anglo Sean Fitzpatrick was born in Wicklow!
    Dermot Gleeson who was head of AIB during the crash was born in cork


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    #74
    Worksforyou
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Worksforyou


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    Added to that Cavan insurance scam tariff, the tax payers are being bled for many years to come...


    Yeah, who knew Cavan and Dublin would have so much in common. Robbing from the rest of us.


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    #75
    longhalloween
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    Worksforyou wrote: »
    Ah yeah, just about. :D

    How many decades will we be paying for Dublin's bankers? :(

    Michael Fingleton from Sligo
    Sean Fitzpatrick from Wicklow
    Sean Quinn from Fermanagh


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    #76
    Tabnabs
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    Worksforyou wrote: »
    Yeah, who knew Cavan and Dublin would have so much in common. Robbing from the rest of us.

    Dermot Ahern, Louth, Biffo, Offaly, Haughy, Mayo. Plenty of crooks candidates around the whole island


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    #77
    Worksforyou
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Worksforyou


    RobbieTheRobber wrote: »
    Which ones were dublin bankers?
    The former head of anglo Sean Fitzpatrick was born in Wicklow!
    Dermot Gleeson who was head of AIB during the crash was born in cork

    Where are Whelan and McAteer from? Both Fitzpatrick and Gleeson learned their ways in Dublin through their education!


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    #78
    John_Rambo
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    Worksforyou wrote: »
    Both Fitzpatrick and Gleeson learned their ways in Dublin through their education!

    Snared rapid and clutching at straws. Back in your box now.


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    #79
    PictureFrame
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    every county is as shíte and corrupt as each-other. Don't be fooling yourselves :rolleyes:


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    #80
    Worksforyou
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    Tabnabs wrote: »
    Dermot Ahern, Louth, Biffo, Offaly, Haughy, Mayo. Plenty of crooks candidates around the whole island

    Bertie? Lenihans? Haughey was basically a Dub.


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    #81
    Worksforyou
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Worksforyou


    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Snared rapid and clutching at straws. Back in your box now.

    So where are Whelan and McAteer from? Gleeson went to Blackrock college and Fitzpatrick to UCD, they were fine before that.


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    #82
    longhalloween
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    Worksforyou wrote: »
    So where are Whelan and McAteer from? Gleeson went to Blackrock college and Fitzpatrick to UCD, they were fine before that.

    Most famous Irish went through a Dublin institution at one stage. Are you saying that no matter where they're from, they're Dubs now?

    Is Willie O'Dea a Dub? *shudder*


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    #83
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,685 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Worksforyou wrote: »
    they were fine before that.

    Grow up.


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    #84
    Worksforyou
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Worksforyou


    Most of the main players in our downfall were Dubs. David Drumm can be added to the list. Maybe we should be protesting more in Dublin for all the trouble you've caused us.


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    #85
    RobbieTheRobber
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    Worksforyou wrote: »
    Most of the main players in our downfall were Dubs. David Drumm can be added to the list. Maybe we should be protesting more in Dublin for all the trouble you've caused us.

    Your right and we as a collective group apologise, I guess the issues all started when Dublin had a rising in 1916 and lead the rest of the country through all the troubles we have had since.

    :rolleyes:


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    #86
    tricky D
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    Thread gone to the dogs, closed.


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