-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Sinn Féin Wins Most Votes In ROI Election, Overtakes FF/FG In Upset Win
- Thread starter Masquerader
- Start date
This is my hope as well. I fully expect a labour style destruction in a few years.
Sinn Féin in Government equals Spiderman desk meme.
OP
OP
OP
OP
I didn't say you did. But this is what's actually at the core. Not RA songs.
:quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/X2ZZZ3PJGIXJ3Q6VP3JN4RDPEA.jpg)
Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane defends shouting ‘Up the ‘Ra’ after election
Mary Lou McDonald urges TDs not to make comments that distract from party’s agenda
*shrug*
Good. Support Sinn Fein. Support SNP. Support Irish and Scottish independence. Support the end of monarchy.
OP
OP
Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane defends shouting ‘Up the ‘Ra’ after election
Mary Lou McDonald urges TDs not to make comments that distract from party’s agendawww.irishtimes.com
*shrug*
Well, I disagree with him shouting that. But I'm perfectly fine with the right not learning their lessons at the same time and blaming it on the IRA
i'm talking more about getting into government briefly and then absolutely tanking after under-delivering, but I see what you mean.
Honest question, does anyone really care about a United Ireland?
Did you just ask someone who said they are hoping for a United Ireland whether anyone cares about a United Ireland?
OP
OP
Yes, opinion polls have consistently shown very high levels of support for it, albeit with varying degrees of how and when it should happen.
Am I generous or what?
Video of an elected member loudly voicing support for and then doubling down on his support of a group of terrorists - keep winning Ireland.
Voted Soc Dems in my constituency (knew the candidate from school), didn't get in though. Not overly enthused about a Sinn Fein government considering my line of work and the potential for tax increases in their manifesto when I'm trying to save for a mortgage but I'll give them a shot.
I've sat here for five minutes trying to think of a proper response, so if nothing else I admire that.
I think the other posters summed it up well enough.
No, in that bizarre conflation of topics in that post I really didn't. There is a non-trivial chance that poster thinks Ireland is not independent if they're talking about the monarchy and Scotland in this thread.
OP
OP
Massive increase in homelessness, Dublin becoming costlier to live in than London, multinational corporations stealing money, healthcare in the shitter: I sleep
Slight tax increase, verbal reference to historical violence: Real Shit
Slight tax increase, verbal reference to historical violence: Real Shit
I understand you hate Fine Gael, I'm not fond of them eithier but I can't get over how people think Shin Fein will actually lift a finger to help them. The rent I pay for what I get is criminal and I can't see anything they going to do to help me. I think landlords would rather let rooms stay empty than not get the price they want.
OP
OP
Rent freezes for starters. They will also build more houses (which helps indirectly reduce rental rates) and not, say, white water rafting facilities instead, because who would possibly think of THAT ridiculous idea?
But really, I'm curious how it will be done too. But SF will TRY, FG were more than happy with the situation escalating and had all the power to stop it and they didn't. If at first you don't succeed, admit it and try again, but above all else, try something. Actively wishing SF to crash and burn is petty when they actively suggest changes to the way the country's ran.
Rent freezes won't apply to house shares which is what a lot of people are in. Supply only matters to an extent. You also have convince landlords to take what they can get and not hold out. I don't see why you can think SF will try any harder. There's nothing to support that.
How about 7 of the 8 Sinn Fein councillors on DCC who voted in favour of it?
Your posts are absolutely littered with statements that go from hyberbole to outright rubbish.
Was a great election here. Did you watch the Clare Champion coverage. They do a surprisingly good stream. That's 2 elections I've watched on it now.
Only sad Garvey didn't get in.
OP
OP
All part of a plan. There's no single cure to a systemic problem. You can't just slap a rent freeze on and call it a day, definitely. And there's everything to support that. Though I see I'm not convincing you with words.
I disagree with those 7 councillors. What, expect me to defend their decision? It was shortsighted and ignorant.
Besides, you haven't actually suggested any alternatives or promoted any party, just attacked another, and only the luckily comfortable are able to just attack and forever be beyond reproach from criticism. Who do you actually suggest would be the best party?
Besides, to both of you... Give it a year or two and I'd gladly stand corrected and profess that SF should be better if we fail to achieve meaningful progress and goals. I can assure you, it's not dogma, I'd eat humble pie gladly if you were correct, because failure has to be learned from. I simply believe and hope that we succeed.
You can't disagree with every decision a party makes and then think they'll suddenly start making the right ones just because they're in the Dail now.
They'll build houses and NOT white water rafting centres, except for that one white water rafting centre they tried to get built.
OP
OP
Local Councillors vs National TDs. Who takes precedence, I wonder? Time will tell anyways, and I for one am all for it.
Let's have a look at their housing policy actually. They'll get 100,000 houses built over years.
Completions in 2019 - tracking to hit slightly over 20k.
20k * 5 =...
Oh my god its 100k.
Completions in 2019 - tracking to hit slightly over 20k.
20k * 5 =...
Oh my god its 100k.
If FF get back in power we can get that up to 100k per year! But they'll all be in rural longford.
Tara Farrell on Twitter
“Very powerful open letter from Teresa Hand-Campbell about her brother Garda Frank Hand in @RoscommonPeople”
twitter.com
Here's a story about how the IRA murdered a Gard in cold blood to steal a bit of cash. One of many such stories about these animals.
Imagine that up-the-RA scumbag, or a colleague with the same proclivity, being minister for justice? Or minister for defence?
I'm not Irish but the sooner the British rule is gone the better.
Ireland shouldn't be split and no part should be ruled by us in Britian.
I can't belive how expensive Dublin is to live. A colleague from work was sent there for 2 months and once back in London said it was insane how expensive to rent property in Dublin was.
User warned: whataboutism
I could link the Dublin Monaghan bombings but then we'd be tit for tatting all day.
Dublin is not more expensive than London to rent in no matter how many anecdotes we have to tell. You can't believe how expensive it is? Have you ever lived in Dublin? Have you ever been to Dublin?
OP
OP
"It was carried out by a group calling themselves the Real Irish Republican Army, a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter group who opposed the IRA's ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement."
Fiends and murderers nonetheless. I'm sorry to hear about your friend. The Omagh Bombing was a horrific tragedy. Fuck the perpetrators.
Time for another rousing chorus of Come Out Ye Black and Tans IMO
Brexit may have empowered fascist sympathy in England but it was plain to see that this was just going to push to independence in Ireland and Scotland because like hell they've enjoyed being under their boot. Turns out when you invalidate the Good Friday Agreement the independence sympathists don't take to that. And history is paved with the bones of the British colonized who tried to get their independence peacefully
Brexit may have empowered fascist sympathy in England but it was plain to see that this was just going to push to independence in Ireland and Scotland because like hell they've enjoyed being under their boot. Turns out when you invalidate the Good Friday Agreement the independence sympathists don't take to that. And history is paved with the bones of the British colonized who tried to get their independence peacefully
No one is denying that Sinn Féin were the Provos, but it was a "war" in which both sides were scum and should ideally be no where near any governmental positions. Sinn Féin only excelled this time due to the need for the removal of the big boys of Irish politics. Doesn't change the fact that they were terrorists. The public needed to rid FG and FF of power. We have no large viable alternative apart from SF.
"Independence" again. Ireland is independent and has been for about 100 gays. Brexit had absolutely nothing to do with this election. The North had nothing to do with this election. It was about housing, health and people wanting a change. They've gotten their change and they'll have to live with it.