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Ireland wins security council seat over Canada

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  • 17-06-2020 9:11pm
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    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,761 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Fair play, not sure it means much given it's the UN but well done all the same :)


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    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,800 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Saudi Arabia had it a while back. I'm sure it means something.


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    Gatling
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    How much did it cost us taxpayers ?
    360_F_102352090_ie3kLjDIvgrT1sxVDknWCUh8PxgMYzM7.jpg




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    PokeHerKing
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    Up there with qualifying for the Eurovision imo. Fair play lads!


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    TheW1zard
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    Gatling wrote: »
    How much did it cost us taxpayers ?

    840 grand apparently


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    Murphy14
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    Gatling wrote: »
    How much did it cost us taxpayers ?

    840k !


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    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,761 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Gatling wrote: »
    How much did it cost us taxpayers ?

    800, 000.

    Canada spent millions trying to get it though, were quite cocky in advance too.

    Bit surprising.


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    vicwatson
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    Do we get free money from the UN now?


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    buried
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    Security council seat is kind of like a useless bouncer at the door of a Irish nightclub at 1.30am saying to lads "Not tonight lads" but the lads have already done it already that night, are currently doing it and going to do it again later.

    "You have disgraced yourselves again" - W. B. Yeats



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    Odhinn
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    vicwatson wrote: »
    Do we get free money from the UN now?


    Hopefully. That and a few flagons for the lads.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Hopefully this will result in a lot more UN missions for Irish military & police.


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    smurgen
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    Hopefully it's put to use and they raise the issue of the occupied territories. Hopefully it's not just another talking shop.


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    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,800 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    smurgen wrote: »
    Hopefully it's put to use and they raise the issue of the occupied territories. Hopefully it's not just another talking shop.

    Considering the Irish govt are reluctant to enact the Occupied Territories Bill, I wouldn't hold out on them raising any similar issues at UN level.


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    Jizique
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    smurgen wrote: »
    Hopefully it's put to use and they raise the issue of the occupied territories. Hopefully it's not just another talking shop.

    Northern Ireland?


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    ACitizenErased
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    We were always going to get on it with how well we get on with the UN to be honest


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    Rodney Bathgate
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    Jizique wrote: »
    Northern Ireland?

    No, he means Iranian involvement in Syria.


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    odyssey06
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    The Canadians ask too many questions.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    Beechwoodspark
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    All a bit pointless really


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    BluePlanet
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    American Lackies: Dwiddle-Dee, or Dwiddle-Dum
    /shrug


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    Rodney Bathgate
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    The Canadians ask too many questions.

    I suspect it was the Trudeau blackface controversy that cost Canada the seat.


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    alchemist33
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    The Canadians ask too many questions.

    Eh?


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    #22
    suicide_circus
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    Launch the nukes


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    Darc19
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    U2 - 1

    Celine Dion - 0


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    Evalyn Brave Suspicion
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    This'll be the first, and last, that we'll hear of it.


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    Kermit.de.frog
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    Anyone else think Coveney is the most impressive politician in the Dail at the moment?

    Seems to get things done.


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    ohnonotgmail
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Anyone else think Coveney is the most impressive politician in the Dail at the moment?

    Seems to get things done.

    that is a very low bar


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    odyssey06
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Anyone else think Coveney is the most impressive politician in the Dail at the moment? Seems to get things done.

    Foreign minister the last time Ireland got a UN Security Council seat... Brian Cowen.

    Really seems a pointless exercise except as a back slapping goal for those involved.
    https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/ireland-s-un-security-council-seat-campaign-an-exercise-in-vanity-1.3033769

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    dundalkfc10
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    https://www.iccl.ie/news/un-expert-criticises-special-criminal-court/


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    Seamai
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    Darc19 wrote: »
    U2 - 1

    Celine Dion - 0

    Some can never forgive Dion for that theme song from Titanic.


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    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,666 ✭✭✭golfball37


    All the sucking up to the corrupt WHO obviously paid off.


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    whisky_galore
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    bubblypop wrote: »
    Hopefully this will result in a lot more UN missions for Irish military & police.

    Yeah let's send a resource starved bunch of our lads into some tinderbox that's none of our making.


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