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Men in balaclavas "protesting" outside Roderick O'Gorman's gaff. The same week that John McGuirk was on newstalk proclaiming that the Irish government were waging a war on their own people. Things sure are ugly these days

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0419/14445 ... man-house/

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Where's this latest poll? Haven't seen it reported anywhere at all

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https://www.thejournal.ie/simon-harris-ard-fheis-speech-2-6346917-Apr2024/ Amazing! Sounds like FG might be the party of the people after all. But wait a minute.. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/varadkar-pledges-to-increase-threshold-for-top-tax-rate-to-50-000-1.3701632 50,000 ne...

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CM11 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:40 pm How is Law and Order, small business and farming anti-woke or not centrist?

Wtaf?

"Law and Order" is code for killing the hate speech bill, "farming" is code for piss off Greens and I'm not sure what "small business" refers to but I'm pretty sure it will see next to nothing actually being done.

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Monk Zombie wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:20 am a new Tom Ripley series starts on Netflix today.

the reviews are glowing.

I watched two episodes and didn't really care for it. It's a bit sterile. Couldn't help but compare it with the film and I'm not sure it stacks up too well there. It probably doesn't need an extra six hours

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Lowry has supported every FG government since he was a minister. Nothing new in that.

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Was it pints of Guinness? You don't really get bad pints of Guinness anymore, especially not in busy city centre places like that

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An incredibly difficult job that pays a pittance and where receiving vile abuse is standard. Plenty of talented people in Ireland but who on earth would bother with being a politician? Coveney would be on €200000 a year as a minister with another €30000 of a mileage allowance. It's definitely a tou...

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Always likely, sadly. Better than decent operator. Decent fella. FG headed towards dangerous times. Wouldn't be the first centre party to be swung right by personal ambition chasing the populist support. I think it's more at risk of being swung to the shite. Talk of Neale Richmond, Peter Burke and ...

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Always likely, sadly. Better than decent operator. Decent fella. FG headed towards dangerous times. Wouldn't be the first centre party to be swung right by personal ambition chasing the populist support. I think it's more at risk of being swung to the shite. Talk of Neale Richmond, Peter Burke and ...

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Always likely, sadly. Better than decent operator. Decent fella. FG headed towards dangerous times. Wouldn't be the first centre party to be swung right by personal ambition chasing the populist support. I think it's more at risk of being swung to the shite. Talk of Neale Richmond, Peter Burke and ...

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Personally I'd start with John ford... He's really the GOAT when it comes to westerns. 'The Searchers' and 'the man who shot liberty valance' are probably his masterpieces but are better enjoyed having seen his earlier (more traditional) stuff like 'stage coach', 'fort Apache', 'she wore a yellow r...

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If you expose yourself to enough shit children's television then you can start reading far too much into it. During COVID I watched a lot of Thomas and got very bummed out by the idea of sentient trains doomed to perform menial tasks for eternity at the whim of the fat controller who periodically th...

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Damn, the inevetable attempt at criticising it for some not woke enough angle, has become lazy and poorly reserached and edited: https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1772715148471423256 This sort of bollocks seems to be dying out slowly, finally. It’s so boring now It slowly is, but they are still tr...

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I dunno, I feel like FG are in for a bit of a kicking between established TDs retiring and then the usual stuff. Needless to say, a huge amount depends on what happens between now and the GE. A big bad news story, "scandal" etc, and it's goodnight Irene. If things get consistently better and SF don...

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They should run one of them instead of Madigan. Fine Gael not having a seat in the DBS constituency is mental and splitting their vote is not smart. That would split their vote in Dublin Rathdown though. Are they more likely to return two there than in DBS? 2020 they got 2/3 seats off 31% in DR and...

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Simon bring sexy back :thumbup: https://m.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/kate-oconnell-invited-to-return-and-paschal-donohoe-has-choice-to-make-simon-harris-era-has-begun/a2052430416.html Oh that's interesting. Nice little shoot out with Geoghegan in Dublin Bay South or a spot in the Seanad? They ...

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JoeyFantastic wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:58 am
CM11 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:48 am Deegan would play 7 for Munster.
Guy has literally zero international ambition - he'd probably flounder out of his comfort zone.

When has a move to another province actually benefitted the player? I can't think of many beyond Conway but I'm sure there are more.

Edit: Beirne of course too.

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This on TV anywhere?

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HighKingLeinster wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:18 am Simon bring sexy back

https://m.independent.ie/opinion/analys ... 30416.html

Oh that's interesting. Nice little shoot out with Geoghegan in Dublin Bay South or a spot in the Seanad?

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You are correct regarding the health service. Why is it that we cannot seem to produce enough doctors, nurses and other health professionals to meet our own requirements given that those should be relatively attractive jobs? They're hard jobs, aren't they? Pay is internationally very competitive bu...

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I've no time for Trump but then I've none for Biden either. I'm also unconvinced that immigration is a net good. Countries tend to get large scale immigration once they are already successful. The total pie may get bigger with immigration but there are a lot more mouths wanting a piece. I recall no...

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Josepha Madigan the next one to announce she wont seek re-election. Although could be a hissy over not getting the European nod He'll be doing a reshuffle and will be giving all the leavers the boot. Should see another couple go over the next two weeks. Will they make it to half the party, I wonder?

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I've noticed Varadkar being given credit for marriage equality a few times. That happened entirely under Enda Kenny.

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Is it? Still it was a very impressive race to get as far away from the leadership position as possible. Is it harder to hate Harris? Yes. There's hardly any controversy in his career. He even managed to get out of health without being considered car crash. I don't rate him very highly as a leader b...

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I think the point is that it won't. Negatively. Harder to hate Harris than any of the other options. Is it? Still it was a very impressive race to get as far away from the leadership position as possible. Is it harder to hate Harris? Yes. There's hardly any controversy in his career. He even manage...

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CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:26 pm
cfm93 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:23 pm
CM11 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:18 pm Pascal pulls out.

Harris it is.
That’ll energise voters
I think the point is that it won't. Negatively. Harder to hate Harris than any of the other options.

Is it?

Still it was a very impressive race to get as far away from the leadership position as possible.

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Patrick O'Donovan goes for Harris. That's pretty significant. He's not a Simon Harris kind of guy. He's rural and conservative. It might actually be done. Ugh.

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Sorry, Donohoe not Coveney

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Harris secures his nomination through the twitter wing of FG. Neale Richmond, Maria Walsh and the identikit senators. How inspiring. He was always going to be nominated. Wouldn't surprise me if he ended up running unopposed. He's got some ducks in a row to be fair to him. They're not great ducks bu...

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Harris secures his nomination through the twitter wing of FG. Neale Richmond, Maria Walsh and the identikit senators. How inspiring.

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If there is going to be a contest within FG then we'll have a situation where, because of the rules around weighting, the parliamentary party are basically able to choose the next leader even though roughly 1/3 of them have no intention of running for office again.

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Coveney rules himself out. Probably peeved that Varadkar got his retirement announcement in ahead of him. He is leaving the party in pretty bad shape for whoever comes next.

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What has he got against poor Ciaran Cannon to go upstaging him like that?

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I love seeing Grant Gilchrist on Scottish teams. He's like a big, old, reliable hazel tree, providing valuable nutrition to hungry Irish forwards every year for god knows how long.

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Over looking Schoeman is amiss. He was dominant in 4 of 5. Certainly would have him as my tight head. Porter too many penalties to make that list and that's not counting the 4 or 5 more he should have been given. Lowe doesn't make the list. He was average in some games this 6N. Not his usual. Garbi...

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Happy St Patrick's Day - Ireland's favorite Welshman! Quick question lads. I have American style corned beef in the crockpot and was going to do mash, but just read about Colcannon. Is that eaten much in Ireland or is it another US invention? If genuine, any decent recipes? Cheers - and congrats on...

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How did people feel Larmour did? I thought he played as expected. He's 5th(?) choice in the back three, and is not a FB. Even Leinster only select him there as a break glass option in lower profile games. He was drafted in to start at FB in a 6N decider, having not been in the frame for a serious I...

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Don't know about you lads but I'm happy that tournament is over. Every year i get excited about the 6 Nations and it's a great competition especially when your team is winning. That game was tense yesterday and not enjoyable at all. That England game whether they will admit it or not affected them ...

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