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Water protest discussion and demos

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    #152
    Aerohead
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    Jim Corr :D Now that says it all.


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    #153
    WallyGUFC
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    Hilarious. That seals it for me anyway. Any drop of credibility that you may have had left has disappeared with the mention of Jim Corr. As per usual, a protest movement in Galway has descended into farce. Well done.


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    #154
    ben.schlomo
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    Aerohead wrote: »
    Jim Corr :D Now that says it all.

    Do tinfoil hats stop the chem trails does anyone know?


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    #155
    Robbo
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    Aerohead wrote: »
    Jim Corr :D Now that says it all.
    Topaz petrol doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel. The Corrib Great Southern was a controlled demolition.


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    #156
    Aerohead
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    ben.schlomo wrote: »
    Do tinfoil hats stop the chem trails does anyone know?

    Jim Corr created a lot of his own chem trails flying with the Corrs, never heard him mentioning anything about that ??


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    #157
    Bobeagleburger
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    Time to unfollow thread when it's mentioned that 98‰ of what he said has come to pass!

    When it starts going down that route surely this is better in the conspiracy forum?


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    #158
    dloob
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    Just to note it's not clear that siemens ever put in an official tender to install the meters.
    There was talk of them providing a loan to buy and install their meters but nothing came of that, although some how providing a loan that would have to be paid back has since become siemens offering free meters, because logic!

    Anyway it's J Murphy & Sons that have the contract for installing meters in the Galway area.


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    #159
    antoobrien
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    dloob wrote: »
    Just to note it's not clear that siemens ever put in an official tender to install the meters.

    From the looks of it the Siemens offer was a PR stunt. They were offering a loan to install up to 1.1m meters (1.3m needed), but it wasn't limited to just water. They were trying to bundle it with other energy saving initiatives across the public sector.

    It would have certainly been open to tender and the government would have been open to serious questioning to lock itself into a single supplier across the public sector to the detriment of local businesses that may have been able to compete for parts of it, but not the whole.


    Also if the protesters are looking for somebody to hang over water charges, it would be remiss not to point out the original architect of the water metering program was former minister for the environment, John Gormley.


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    #160
    pleasant Co.
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    le sigh...

    Closing this thread for now, PM me when there's a water protest on in Galway and I will reopen.


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