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Turns out net Irish migration was zero last year when you consider the ones leaving and the ones returning. About 30,000 left and about 30,000 returned in 2023

I doubt this will have any impact but here's the evidence.

People who were married for years maybe have a couple of children and then suddenly realise they are gay and decided to go their own way are sleazebags.They've essentially conned someone into a relationship .If a person has even the slightest doubt about their sexuality then they should not get into a long term relationship with another person and essentially lead them along for a significant period of time.

This type of behaviour is deemed very brave and praiseworthy by the media but it isn't, frankly it's a dreadful thing to do to someone else.

I'm sure it's possible to care for the elderly without the need for them to have 37 taxable assets or "grandchildren". Like I said our economic model needs to shift to do so.

We won't have a choice but to do it at some stage the way we're going the last 100 years.

Great to see Chinas population finally start to decline, hopefully the west and Africa will follow in the coming decades.

What if your straight & get married & then decided you just don't love them any more & leave is that ok ?

Is it not possible for someone to realise after they have been married that they like the same sex ?

Its a bit of a mad one really, Is there some specific date you have that people most know what they want in life at ? People grow & change all the time a realise they like new thing & don't like old things ,

What if they go off with someone of the opposite sex? Is that ok?

personally I would prefer if my other half decided they were gay, at least I would know it wasn't anything I did/didn't do/ nothing wrong with me 😊

economist Deirdre McCloskey, born donald, knew from a young age that something wasnt right in regards her gender, largely due to societal norms and expectations, she ignored this and carried on, eventually marrying and having kids. during her marriage, she engaged in cross dressing, while her wife knew, but excepted this behavior, donald eventually realising though, enough is enough, and decided to go the whole hog. this destroyed her family, she didnt speak to her kids for years, and still classes her wife as the love of her life....

...i.e. this sh1t gets really really complicated, and fast....

The super bowl is the American equivalent of the fa cup final

I tried to watch Simon Jordan debate the Premiership V NFL with some American journalist. Simon Jordan has his moments of being insufferable, but the American his was debating with was worse by a country mile.

That says something because Simon Jordan is one insufferable bollox, the shite he comes out with! The Americans have this delusion that the super bowl is the biggest sporting event in the world when most of them just care about the ads and half time show

Children are not a 'voting demographic'. They are not adults therefore cannot bear the responsibility of voting. (Nor should they have to)

Once they reach adulthood they can vote with everyone else.

You're approaching it from the side of the rare few children who might be interested. How about all the children who haven't a bean what's going on who's parents just see it as another vote they can cast? Suddenly you've families getting more votes for their party as they have more children.

Do you agree with any age cut off at all? Will we be seeing 4 year olds being vox popped by journalists after casting their vote to ask their opinions on national issues? The more I think about it, the more absurd it gets.

If you have a child that's really interested in voting, great! Keep their interest alive and perhaps they'll be first in line at the polling booths when they turn 18.

Ah here. Where did you get that it was during covid? Was May 2022-April2023 during covid?

Nobody said it was the same 30,000 irish people emmegrating and immigrating. The definition of emmegrant and immigrant from the report means they can't be the same people. It just said 30,000 Irish people emmegrated, and another irish 30,000 who had emmegrated in previoys years, returned. Net 900 emmegrated

I didn't speculate on the reasons for returning. I responded to @Grayfox who suggested it was a waste of money to pay to educate children to watch them leave. Turns out as many Irish people returned as left last year.

Just for the craic, where exactly did anyone falsify or nake the statistics misleading? It seems you didn't undertake them so why do you think they might be misleading?

The first part is just restating the current position. I know people under 18 can't vote, that's what I'm arguing against. But they are a demographic. I asked how you're comfortable discussion ountung the views of a whole demographic and you didn't address it.

We don't worry about adults voting like their parents, why would we worry about young people doing it?

I don't see a good cut off. As long as they can practically vote, then I wouldn't discriminate. I wouldn't personally expect my 4 year old to vote. But I'd start explaining the process a log younger than if they couldn't actually vote for another 14 years.

We don't have an upper age limit, so there shouldn't be a lower age limit. We don't actually care about capacity to understand the issues, evidenced by the fact that we don't prevent dementia sufferers from voting, we don't prevent people with mental disabilities from voting, but you're dead set against a 15 year old voting. Could you explain that?

Come here, you misunderstand the stat. The definition of emmegrant in the report is someone leaving ireland and not resident in Ireland for at least 12 months. The definition of immigrant is someone coming to ireland and being resident for at least 12 months. The part I quoted looked at a 12 month period..... They couldn't possibly have been the same people. They have to be unique individuals.

The fact that we're still discussing how you misunderstood the meaning should give pause for thought. Does it give pause for thought, at all?

I know that.The same applies, unless they let their heterosexual partner know they are bisexual then it is simply misleading them and they shouldn't do that.Not much to ask for people to be 100% honest with someone they are in a long term relationship with.