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FF/FG/Green Government - part 2

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    #7592
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,599 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    James Brown wrote: »
    TBF Harris wasn't much use, neither was Varadkar.

    Gino Kenny for the next one, for me.


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    #7593
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Gino Kenny for the next one, for me.

    Give Simon another go. he played a blinder on Covid 18 and they got rid.


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    #7594
    Finty Lemon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,542 ✭✭✭Finty Lemon


    Pissing off the ASTI is the mark of a good education minister


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    #7595
    Floppybits
    Registered Users Posts: 7,672 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    No one should engage with government while that vile thing is in their employment

    Are the schools ever going to reopen at this rate? Starting to get really p**d off at the teachers and their unions.


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    #7596
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,000 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    James Brown wrote: »
    I'm not offended. What Adams thinks of it doesn't matter to me. It's like partitionist IMO. You use 'good republican' regularly. Was just pointing out your hypocrisy.

    No hypocrisy there. Gerry Adams introduced the phrase as a reference to people on his side that he wanted to praise. Anyone of that ilk should be glad to be referred to in such terms.

    Partitionist was introduced on these boards as an insult.


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    #7597
    [Deleted User]
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    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Gino Kenny for the next one, for me.

    Totally agree. He’s got all the answers.


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    #7598
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,000 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Gino Kenny for the next one, for me.

    No better man, shure we'll all be high on cannabis so we won't know how bad things are.


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    #7599
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    blanch152 wrote: »
    No hypocrisy there. Gerry Adams introduced the phrase as a reference to people on his side that he wanted to praise. Anyone of that ilk should be glad to be referred to in such terms.

    Partitionist was introduced on these boards as an insult.

    You claimed using 'partitionist' was an effort to dehumanise people. What's you calling every shinner you've issue with a 'good republican'? Are you comparing them to Michael Collins or showing respect? You use it as a slur. As I said, hypocrisy.


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    #7600
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users Posts: 16,613 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Unlike a lot of the hard left TDs who had a privileged backround and went to fee paying schools Gino is the real deal and worked as a carer in a few different hospitals, in fact he is probably more clued in about the health service than Donnelly ever will be.

    I despise the likes of Coppinger and Murphy who are just populists but Gino is a decent skin IMO.


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    #7601
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    blanch152 wrote: »
    No better man, shure we'll all be high on cannabis so we won't know how bad things are.

    Oh we know how bad things are. Only you running distraction for them.
    Is that how Eamon Ryan sleeps at night, (and various other times)?


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    #7602
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 69,338 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    blanch152 wrote: »
    No better man, shure we'll all be high on cannabis so we won't know how bad things are.

    Another lovely example of stereotyping. Somebody who smokes a joint is always high in the same way as some who likes a whiskey is always drunk. That what you mean?


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    #7603
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Another lovely example of stereotyping. Somebody who smokes a joint is always high in the same way as some who likes a whiskey is always drunk. That what you mean?

    Didn't Varadkar admit to getting stoned on occasion?


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    #7604
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Unlike a lot of the hard left TDs who had a privileged backround and went to fee paying schools Gino is the real deal and worked as a carer in a few different hospitals, in fact he is probably more clued in about the health service than Donnelly ever will be.

    I despise the likes of Coppinger and Murphy who are just populists but Gino is a decent skin IMO.

    They way they spin it if you come from a middle class background you're a fraud, (unless in FG, then it's okay) and if you are working class you're a joke. Stereotyping and ignorant.


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    #7605
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Didn't Varadkar admit to getting stoned on occasion?

    Yes, Fine Gael the hypocrisy and selfie party.
    Taoiseach says he hasn't taken any illegal drugs other than cannabis
    When quizzed if he had ever smoked cannabis, he added: "I did a bit in my college years, yeah.

    The kind of people finance the criminal drug gangs and then look down on the people have to live in the same neighbourhoods as them. Especially if they run for office.


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    #7606
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 69,338 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Didn't Varadkar admit to getting stoned on occasion?

    Was it a popular 'down with the kids' thing to say at the time? He probably did. He'd say anything to be popular. :)


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    #7607
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Was it a popular 'down with the kids' thing to say at the time? He probably did. He'd say anything to be popular. :)

    Totally off topic. Back in 1985 I was pregnant on my second child and suffered horrendous morning sickness. One song that takes me right back is “Hey, Frankie”. I think of it whenever I see your name. To this day it makes me want to upchuck.


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    #7608
    markodaly
    Registered Users Posts: 14,719 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    James Brown wrote: »
    Like 'good republican'?
    Are you an extremist?

    The term 'good republican' was first used by Gerry Adams. :p


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    #7609
    markodaly
    Registered Users Posts: 14,719 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    blanch152 wrote: »
    I think it gives an interesting insight into the type of corruption that Sinn Fein would bring to government. Independent agencies are tasked with regulatory jobs to do, politicians shouldn't be interfering with that.

    The stand out moment for me is when he admits in the Dail he met with the Central Bank privately...

    WTF? Is there any minutes to this meeting?
    If SF gets into power, their abuse of power and corruption will make Haughy look like a school Chaplin.


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    #7610
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    markodaly wrote: »
    The term 'good republican' was first used by Gerry Adams. :p

    So what?
    I find it highly unlikely he was the first to refer to someone as a 'good republican'.


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    #7611
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 69,338 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    markodaly wrote: »
    The stand out moment for me is when he admits in the Dail he met with the Central Bank privately...

    WTF? Is there any minutes to this meeting?
    If SF gets into power, their abuse of power and corruption will make Haughy look like a school Chaplin.

    :D:D:D FF FG and the Greens rounding the wagons to protect somebody who confessed to sharing state documents with vested interests versus a meeting with the central bank????

    :D:D:D


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    #7612
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,599 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Totally off topic. Back in 1985 I was pregnant on my second child and suffered horrendous morning sickness. One song that takes me right back is “Hey, Frankie”. I think of it whenever I see your name. To this day it makes me want to upchuck.

    Not the only one.


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    #7613
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    markodaly wrote: »
    The stand out moment for me is when he admits in the Dail he met with the Central Bank privately...

    WTF? Is there any minutes to this meeting?
    If SF gets into power, their abuse of power and corruption will make Haughy look like a school Chaplin.

    Hahaha ah alex jones type stuff. Tell me where does it say that meeting with a state body is illegal?


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    #7614
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,000 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Another lovely example of stereotyping. Somebody who smokes a joint is always high in the same way as some who likes a whiskey is always drunk. That what you mean?

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2016/76/

    Really, you don't know that Gino Kenny has published a Bill to deregulate cannabis?

    Hardly stereotyping. Keep up.


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    #7615
    [Deleted User]
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    blanch152 wrote: »
    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2016/76/

    Really, you don't know that Gino Kenny has published a Bill to deregulate cannabis?

    Hardly stereotyping. Keep up.

    Maybe you should use this opportunity to educate yourself about it!


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    #7616
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 69,338 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    blanch152 wrote: »
    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2016/76/

    Really, you don't know that Gino Kenny has published a Bill to deregulate cannabis?

    Hardly stereotyping. Keep up.

    So what?
    Plenty of people deal with legislation around alcohol...can they be accused of being drunks/stereotyped in the trite, intentionally demeaning way you did?


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    #7617
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,000 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    So what?
    Plenty of people deal with legislation around alcohol...can they be accused of being drunks/stereotyped in the trite, intentionally demeaning way you did?

    You need to climb down off your high horse and go back and read my post again.


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    #7618
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 69,338 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    blanch152 wrote: »
    You need to climb down off your high horse and go back and read my post again.

    Ok, done that. Still think you are engaging with simplistic, demeaning stereotyping.
    blanch152 wrote:
    No better man, shure we'll all be high on cannabis so we won't know how bad things are.


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    #7619
    Floppybits
    Registered Users Posts: 7,672 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    blanch152 wrote: »
    You need to climb down off your high horse and go back and read my post again.

    Maybe you should open your mind and eyes and look at alternatives rather than pontification endlessly.


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    #7620
    Cluedo Monopoly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,457 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Wow. Great to see the government have learned the lessons from last years Leaving Cert confusion.
    Utter chaos again. Hard to fathom.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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    #7621
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Well this is awkward. After all the fighting.

    https://twitter.com/Independent_ie/status/1360277884691169286?s=19


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