What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

And there will be an even greater burden for the ‘haves’ to provide for the ‘have nots’ .Of course completely ignoring the facts that the ‘haves’ in the main are comfortable because they worked hard to enable themselves with money, house, car etc…

Very little positive in this life comes to people by accident…. You have to earn it…. But this scummy attitude of people having their pockets and wellbeing dipped to facilitate everyone else is an absolute joke,

I don’t know if this is controversial or not but often gets people’s nose out of joint .

There is a huge opening or opportunity for a political party that runs with policies of law and order . Build more prisons , put more police on the streets and re open the stations in all the towns and villages in Ireland. People are being intimidated up and down the country on the streets by little toe rags , scum , gangs that travel the rural areas and rob elderly people .

There is simply no deterrent when we have people with over 100 convictions walking the streets because we have no space in our prisons and people are turned around every day from the doors . A party that says it will stand up to the legal money merry go round which is happy for legal aid to run and run forever .

A party that tells the normal citizens that they come first and they will make the country feel safe and owned by the decent people and take the scum off the streets . That’s who I’d vote for . The misfortunates can get all the hugs they want behind bars while they are learning they will have to act a certain way if they ever want to be part of Irish society again.

At the moment the bleeding hearts are all carrot and no stick and the country is being ruined because the guards are being openly laughed at by the scrotes

I believe that child support should be doubled for the first child and halved for the second and after that if you want to have more kids pay for them yourself. (With exceptions for the cases of multiple births obviously) Contraception measures should be free, including the surgical options. And if you don't have any kids that should be reflected in any "green" taxes paid.

Right now we punish people who have fewer kids and our taxes are used to throw money at those who are adding to an already well bloated world population.

Subsidising people to breed like rabbits while patting ourselves on the back for buying new electric cars and using straws that go soggy after a few seconds in your cup of coke is not how the planet is going to be saved.

The associated issue is that with a lower proportion of the population involved in private industry, income raised by taxation is lower, which in turn means in a United Ireland, the people in the South would have to pay more to replace the funding from the UK. This allied to leaving the EU and it’s free movement of goods, along with rejecting MNC investment would seem a uniquely stupid economic policy to have.

There’s far far too many GAA clubs in certain areas, Can think of 1 area near me that has about 5 and all about 2 or 3 miles from each other

all want floodlights, Astro turf pitches, club houses gyms etc

all have the hand out every year and wondering why there always struggling

I think he's right. Arsene Wenger and Alex Ferguson both spent 12 years managing and winning many trophies before they got jobs at Arsenal and Man Utd. The former in France and Japan, the latter in Scotland. So it's not a like-for-like comparison. It's the same with all the sudden reporting of women's Champions League and Premier League games - I'm sure there are a few, probably a very small number, but I don't know a single person who really cares!

GAA also, IMO, gets a hugely disproportionate amount of year-round coverage relative to the genuine interest in it.

I was at a place recently where there was an open field by the sea with "no camping" signs for us ordinary folk so we'd have to pay 80 quid for a BNB or camp somewhere way out of town. Directly across the road from it is an enclosed area with a bunch of mobile homes permanently installed for the travelers. Normal folks are also expected to take out a 30 year mortgage at some stage in their lives to pay for an overpriced concrete box

The Taiwan China situation is not the same as Ireland and Palestine. Ireland would be wise not to get involved. Best to be 100% neutral both People Republic of China and the Republic of China, Taiwan are powerful economies. This isn't black and white. See it as black and white with other nations, not Taiwan and China. Since 1945 and previously Taiwan has been a part of China

luckily that is an opinion and not a fact. Taiwan is not China. Also before it was occupied by the ROC army it was occupied by the Japanese army not China and never by Communists. And one way or the other Ireland will be affected by conflict. Good to see Taiwan open a language institute in Ireland now. Bye bye Confucious.

I've seen it in the UK with some ethnic minorities but also then their second generation integrating more, but think that is common.