Claire Byrne Live (RTE1)

Lapin

Lunch ?

It's 19.12 in New York at the moment.

That's some lunch break !

Pinch Flat

Fair play to that man painting his face green.

silly_fred

cant stand nial o dowd , especially how he loves to tell anyone who will listen how chummy he is with the clintons

dirkmeister

The "undocumented" Irish...oh, you mean the "illegal aliens"


Edit: Un Croissant quite correctly correcting me! *Try saying that 3 times!*

Un Croissant

dirkmeister wrote: »

The "undocumented" Irish...oh, you mean the "illegal immigrants"

Illegal aliens.

Roger_007

dirkmeister wrote: »

The "undocumented" Irish...oh, you mean the "illegal immigrants"

Shhhh!.......that term only applies to people who are in IRELAND illegally...!

Lapin

Remember when there was talk of building a couple of high rise towers in the Dublin docklands.

People were complaining that the place would be turned into Manhattan.

Look at the scene behind him and think of what idiots they were.

Atlantic Dawn

There was no famine, plenty of food exported from the country to feed everyone who died at the time.

Un Croissant

Three million left? Oh Christ above.

silly_fred

looks like brendan o carroll is playing the role of dunphy tonight

JONJO THE MISER

Shut up Brendan, havent a clue what your on about.

technocrat

Brendan should stick to the comedy totally out of his depth here

Un Croissant

Nobody mentions the famine of the 18thC.

Same stats involved there. Minus the politics.

Mr.Nice Guy

RobertKK wrote: »

I do implement austerity for myself if I can't afford something. If money not there one can borrow, but one can only borrow so much before you can't borrow anymore. Ireland reached that position.
You need austerity to get things back on track.
The alternative was far worse.

Except economies are a bit more complex than that.

Check out Mark Blyth of Brown University's arguments on why austerity is a nonsense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE

I'd recommend checking out more of his thoughts (for those with an open mind).

Lapin

Microphones to Waterloo Bridge please !

RobertKK

The parallel: Irish terrorists and Islamic terrorists???

silly_fred

Lapin wrote: »

Remember when there was talk of building a couple of high rise towers in the Dublin docklands.

People were complaining that the place would be turned into Manhattan.

Look at the scene behind him and think of what idiots they were.

perhaps a new city in the midlands should be created , the idea isnt as mad as it sounds , the idea has been floated in the uk for a new city in the north of england and the uk is less london centric than ireland is dublin centric

we have a pretty excellent motorway network in this country right now and as the recent apple investment in athenry has shown , business is prepared to spend outside the capital

silly_fred

technocrat wrote: »

Brendan should stick to the comedy totally out of his depth here

o carroll is a smart man , what he is playing at tonight is cynical populism

RobertKK

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Except economies are a bit more complex than that.

Check out Mark Blyth of Brown University's arguments on why austerity is a nonsense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE

I'd recommend checking out more of his thoughts (for those with an open mind).

If it is a nonsense why is our economy growing at 4.8% and taxes coming into revenue ahead of predictions?
No austerity and there would have been no money for social welfare, health or education.

Un Croissant

Hyup ya boyo!!

silly_fred

surreal

dirkmeister

A sheikh singing sean nós.


F**k me pink

Roger_007

Sean-nos singing on a current affairs programme..........wtf?

RobertKK

Such a weird program.

Un Croissant

Who the **** is this one?

RayM

RobertKK wrote: »

The parallel: Irish terrorists and Islamic terrorists???

The prejudice and discrimination faced by British Muslims is very similar to the experiences of Irish people in the UK in the 1970s.

Irish terrorists were a better class of terrorist altogether, what with their perfunctory warning calls and everything. None of this 'blowing yourself up' nonsense. Except for that guy whose bomb accidentally went off prematurely on a bus in Aldwych.

Lapin

silly_fred wrote: »

perhaps a new city in the midlands should be created , the idea isnt as mad as it sounds , the idea has been floated in the uk for a new city in the north of england and the uk is less london centric than ireland is dublin centric

we have a pretty excellent motorway network in this country right now and as the recent apple investment in athenry has shown , business is prepared to spend outside the capital

I'm all in favour and have often advocated such a plan in the past. Although I would suggest a new city in the north west as a counterweight to the critical mass dependence on Dublin, while simultaneously creating viable transport channels linking large towns and cities along the west.

Un Croissant

More singing.

Roger_007

Un Croissant wrote: »

More singing.

This is getting weirder. I think the message is: " shure never mind the auld economy, let's have an auld sing-song".

United Chester Men

in fairness, this young girl is brilliant. Best irish female singer in a long time