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

Cillian Murphy being nominated for an Oscar should NEVER be the main news story at the top of the hour news.

1st off, it's entertainment news, and secondly its hardly a shock he was nominated.

The fawning over Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan and Paul Mescal is getting very annoying.

Yes, they are good actors (well at least one of them is anyway), but it's not unusual for countries to have good actors. It's hardly ground breaking stuff.

Man stabbed to death in California , he was stabbed dozens of times but killer gets probation and community service as the murderer had "cannabis induced psychosis"

Pathetic that this is an excuse, surely this sort of logic would mean killing someone when drunk driving is not punishable as clearly the person was drunk when it happened and can't have responsibility for what happens when drunk.

Also if cannabis induced psychosis is a thing surely this means that the substance of not safe for consuming and therefore attempts at legalising it should be scaled back.

Small landlords getting out of the rental market is not always a bad thing. Doing so potentially frees up a property for someone to buy and start a family, something that is not really possible when renting from a small landlord.

I guess the issue is that cannabis like all drugs hs potential negative side effects (still the person ingesting it must be responsible for their actions) however it always seems like the pro-cannabis legalisation lobby like to put forward the idea that it's completely harmless with no side effects, when like all drugs that isn't the case.

Although I'd be broadly in favour of legalising all recreational drugs and if people can't handle them it's their own fault but it should never be used as an excuse for bad behaviour or used to help reduce prison sentences.

proper cnut there, and from a family of cnuts to!

https://player.fm/series/in-the-news-2930202/controversial-landlord-marc-godart-tenants-and-employees-speak

I heard the news today talk about a 17yr old being investigated in that Xmas Eve murder in Blanchardstown.

It mentioned children court and how he can't be named as he's a child.

He's 17, involved in a double murder investigation yet society has to treat him as a child.

Let's be honest, most of these types of guys are very dangerous from about 14 onwards. Time to lower the legal age of a 'child' for serious crimes down to 13.

Problem is any investment in improving lives of the impoverished outside of "give them more dole money" would be rejected by the bleeding hearts brigade who seem to want to improve the live of people from poorer background but at the same time don't want to implement any constructive policies that would achieve those results like mandatory education/job training programmes for people on the dole long term or having them do charity/volunteer work.It would actually give people who are imposhivered some sense of purpose and a goal in life and help them improve their lives.

It's true that people suffering from an addiction need help and support but its also true that most addicted people got that way from making their own bad choices

Even when the property market was normal there were people who made no effort at life and were downtrodden because of it, you fix the property market it won't address most poverty at all. It is not lack of support that holds such people back its their parents and their parents before them who don't make a proper effort at life, in that instance you have to entice people to make an effort at life not give them more free stuff.

I hate to break it to you but the vast majority of people have no real interest in their jobs but they do them because they want to have some standard of living.I don't think mandating people learn a trade or attend education is such a bad idea for getting people moving and trying to improve their lives, it's better than doing nothing and just letting them live off the state.Having something to do even if you don't like it is far better than doing nothing.

I think there was a new law - or an idea for one - that they could be named once they reach their 18th birthday, regardless of how old they were when they commited the crime.

Definitely, but there's no 100% solution. There'll always be scumbags who do scumbag things.

I suspect this really isn't that controversial, unless of course you really hate cyclists or you are a major car brain.

The government should consider giving interest-free loans to people to purchase cargo bikes and should also invest in secure on street parking for the said bikes. They should also consider creating schemes in towns and cities where you can rent cargo bikes. They are already investing in cycling infrastructure so would make sense to help people that need to transport large items and option that doesn't involve driving or having to pay for a taxi.

Pro EU zealots are every bit as bad for Europe as Anti EU zealots.The EU although beneficial in some ways is clearly filled with zealots who want to erode any sense of national identity and screw over people who don't fully row in behind the EU project.Planning to screw over a country (and it's citizens) because they don't agree with the country's prime minister is hardly the actions of a reasonable organization.