Now it's official: "Ireland needs a new right wing party".

Privatisation of just about every national asset. A refusal to seriously address the need for public health services.

We just need a common sense party.

Sensible immigration policy, get rid of the stupid hate speech bill, build more houses ( or allow more to be built as it seems impossible to build houses in Ireland due to endless objections and planning delays caused by cranks), a new prison, harsher sentences for violent crime, get rid of waste in health service and other government departments.

Problem is I think the poor calbire of our elected representatives means we'll never get any of these fairly sensible policies implemented in the near future.

"right-wing policies are great ………. well the shortsighted ones that directly benefit me now are anyway …….. I'll come back and complain when the ones that don't, start to affect me"

Please do explain it.

Surely the issue is this across the world ( inc Ireland? ) .. we have POLARISATION created by Politics being Far Left and Far right ( significantly assisted by that part of the Internet called Social Media ). No one really in the centre / Centre left or Right anymore?

Then regardless of whether far left or far right or wherever you are on the political spectrum, we no longer engage with the opposite, have a good argument and then go down to the pub after for a few pints together. In other words, agree to disagree and respect each others POV.

Oh and everything now is about MY Truth, not THE Truth

Mmm .. I would see the current gov made up of parties who think they are centre but in actual fact are pretty farther to the left policy wise? And spending alot of time dealing with Social issues vs bread and butter issues like housing, health etc etc. My view, maybe Im wrong or seeing it wrong?

For the record my politics would be centre .. part of the silent majority as @awec mentioned

It shouldn't be an either/or decision.

We're quite capable of thinking of for example gay rights and inviting foreign investment at the same time. It's the reason we have different government departments. The idea that minority rights should come second to the economy is a bit silly.

And if there was a clash, say Saudi will only invest billions if we make homosexuality illegal, then I'd say that the FDI comes second. We can always look for other investors.

'The Wokerati'.

Anybody who uses that term should be shot with balls of their own shite, as should anybody who thinks we need more of anything right wing.

Yes and no. There's still some hate crime. We should still be campaigning against it. And educating against it. Homophobia will only disappear over time as more people become accepting of LGBT+ people.

The problem is that if you add on some stuff about inclusion to a school curriculum, then there's massive pushback.

And yes, we should have priorities. I'd say housing is the biggest single issue at the moment. It affects everyone who isn't loaded. After that would be the health service. I'm sure some people would say they should be swapped, and I won't argue with them. Either way, they'd still be the two more important issues. However, even if we assume we know what the solutions to both are, it will still take billions to solve both.

Now do I believe we should be trying to fix the housing crises and combat homophobia? yes. Do I think we should invest the same amount of money in both? No. :)

critical issues such as housing and health care needed to be tackled equally together, as both issues are causing significant social problems, truly focusing on one over the other for sometime will simply allow the other to keep spiraling out of control, resulting in even far more complex issues in the future, to the point, it maybe impossible to resolve

…and again, more thick as sh1t bullsh1t, why would anyone bother engaging in this type of fcuking ignorance!

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This is true, but of course there does need to be a party for people to vote for, even with PR.

The interesting development in irish politics is the rise of the independent.

Indie candidates are now the 2nd or 3rd largest group in terms of voter support (based on polls) and their support is increasing, where the big 3 parties are either stable at best or even losing support.

If that trend continues and we have an election in March 25, it is quite possible that the largest party in the country will be independents.

How many of those indie candidates are "right wing", i dont know. But i do suspect most of them represent right wing values.

What a mess we will be in if a band of independents outflanks every other political party in the country. But we are not far away from that circumstance, if polls are to be believed.

We have a government made up primarily of two traditionally centre right parties who in recent years have moved more and more to the left in every way possible.

The opposition are the same as well, so even if you got a Sinn Fein led government the only difference would be that they would implement their wing nut policies and bankrupt the country, but yeah we need more left wing stuff in Ireland, God knows we're not drowning in it already.