RTE 1: 'Today' with Claire Byrne

^ the equivalent of the unskilled mullarker whos sent on near the end of a junior b match with instructions to "make a nuisance of himself and leave the fancy stuff to the stylish lads" 🤔

What is going on here.

Premier current affairs programme ‘Today’ giving free advertisement to a promoter of concerts.

A concert not even given approval yet.

Washed out auld chancer got the smell of Pats money and said ‘I’ll have a bit of that’

Hopefully this thing will be quickly squashed, and we don’t have to listen to this rubbish for the next

few weeks

Another Mica puff issue with people who used the cheapest builder and the cheapest material now demanding the taxpayer pay them 100% compensation for their penny pinching stupidity. I've yet to hear anyone explain why this is my fault and why I, as a taxpayer, should pay for the Mica issue. I'll bet if we paid for the 100% rebuild they are demanding the same builders and suppliers would be used and would make a fortune off the taxpayer. If they put half as much effort into a legal cases against the builders and suppliers as they have into demanding free compo from the government then they would have had their homes fixed years ago.

The two posts above show that there is a lot of misunderstanding about the details of the mica and pyrite issue.

The homeowners are innocent victims in this sorry saga.

Just a modicum of research online will help you to understand the mica and pyrite issue.

Some people really don't have a clue do they, it has nothing to do with the people that build the houses, it has to do with the blocks that built the houses being contaminated with mica, the best builder in the country would have no way knowing that as it takes years to show up in the block.

The would if they tested the rock and gravel in the quarries before they made the blocks, but seeing that there was no enforcement and checks by councils on them, sure why bother.

So I would blame the quarries and councils for this, not bob the builder who buys the blocks in good faith, it's not a builders job to test blocks, if he had to do that where do you draw the line on tests, test the timber, roof tiles, windows, doors, bathroom suite, the list is endless.

rebrand Radio 1 to Misery Porn FM

DUP et al whinging that President Higgins won’t go north to celebrate partition. I wonder if the Germans had invaded England in the 40s would all the Brits turn up to celebrate the fact in the 2040s. ?..

Is that Regina of FG praising the President of Ireland to heights unimaginable yet calling this country the Republic of Ireland?

LOL

My understanding is that mica occurs naturally in all concrete blocks and is permitted under regulations but only if it makes up 1% or less of the block which is a safe level. However these quarries in Donegal (who were self regulating) were selling concrete blocks with up to 15% mica in them, hence all the problems now. They were supposed to be testing them but obviiously were not thus showing the absolute folly of the government allowing self regulation.

Ultimately the problem goes back to the Celtic Tiger days and the FF fondness for mixing self regulation with a bunch of cowboys, many of them FF donors in the Galway tent. It was the same with the fire safety regulations in Priory Hall, there developers were allowed to self regulate and say they had installed all the proper fire walls, doors, fire retardant insulation. Years later it gets discovered they didnt, developer is out of business or legged it and the taxpayer is left on the hook.

This all goes back to the culture of self regulation that FF ran during the Celitc Tiger years, if the industry was properly regulated the mica, pyrite and fire safety issues would never have happened Plus remember our banks were pretty much self regulated as well and look at where that ended up. If FF had of recognised that self regulation never works then this country would have saved billions. Other countries arent stupid enough to run self regulatory systems becasue they know some shams will always take advantage when there is no oversight. Whereas here in Ireland Bertie Ahern who loved self regulation and allowed the building industry to do what they pleased is now thinking of running for President.