Historic defeat of Fianna Fail

[rekil]

A protracted music hall routine that's what. /Trousers fall down

 

[rekil]

Rabble already went through his previous Dail "speeches". Almost everything he's ever said amounts to an incoherent one line heckle. FF and FG always seemed to have an endless supply of these characters on the back benches.

This is his 2nd best one. Climate change denial.

"We have to decide whether food security, food safety and the provision of food is more important than the world we live in."

 

[DotCommunist]

are the irish press normally this mental or has the site of a protest whipped them to hitherto unrecognized levels of froth?

 

[rekil]

are the irish press normally this mental or has the site of a protest whipped them to hitherto unrecognized levels of froth?

It was all property porn and backslapping for ages, then loads of moaning about the SF menace who saw their support rocket upward. The maddest stuff was around the 2004 demo. Eg "Elite troops stand by to tackle May Day 'dirty bomb' threat" - Weirdly the crank heavy Sunday Independent gave Joe Higgins their best best Dail performer award one year.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

The Independent hit piece on Paul is one to frame. Written by a former Fianna Fáil strategist of course. The Mail's daily diatribe (it's "Red Ruth" they go after this issue) can't really compete.

The oddest thing about the whole "but he's not from a working class background, how dare he be left wing" angle is that it's so plainly ineffective. It's precisely the angle Sinn Fein took on the doors in the by election a month ago, and if it didn't work for Cathal King in West Tallaght, why would it work for barrister Noel Whelan in the Independent?

 

[Nigel Irritable]

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/c...es-even-sinn-fein-seem-moderate-30761971.html

A personal favourite.

 

[rekil]

That piece compliments this nugget from Denis O'Brien's nephew.

“I feel what we need is a five-year period of dictatorship, sort it all out, give it back to us and not allow anyone to have an opinion.”

5 years of Mainwaringist proletarian dictatorship for starters, then who knows.

 

[rekil]

Is this a pun?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

funny comments underneath the article

 

[rekil]

Who chopped down the cross on Carrauntoohill? Can this be connected to Murphy, the water mob and the general descent into "anything goes" culture?

THE 5-METRE TALL steel cross on top of Ireland’s tallest peak has been cut down.
This discovery was made today by members of the public climbing Carrountoohill in Co Kerry.
Piaras Kelly from KerryClimbing.ie, who visited the site this afternoon to inspect the damage, told TheJournal.ie that he believes it was carried out in the past 12 to 14 hours.
“It’s very malicious”, he said.

This follows a 2012 case where someone bolted a basketball hoop onto a big cross on Bray Head.

Spoiler

 

[rekil]

Rumours of an early general election going around now.

The Irish bourgeoisie seem to be having a collective breakdown. Chris Johns from the Irish Times has his say.

Chris Johns was most recently Chief Investment Officer for global fundamental equities, State Street Global Advisers (SSgA). Previously he was CEO of Bank of Ireland Asset Management until the sale of that business to SSgA. He has worked in financial services, mostly asset management and investment banking, since April Fool's day 1986.

A quality malapropism from Labour senator Lorraine Higgins.

A LABOUR SENATOR has warned that Ireland’s image as a “lawless utopia” will damage its ability to attract foreign direct investment.

Lorraine Higgins cited several “disturbing” incidents linked to Irish Water and water charges that have taken place in the past nine days which she says have damaged the country’s reputation internationally.

Lawless utopia ftw. She's a lawyer whose political career consists of a series of failed election attempts then being gifted a seat in the Seanad.

 

[rekil]

Mr.Gregg again. So shit it's brilliant but I reckon there's quite a few here who could easily top it - with quotes from some made up italian or something.

The Sinn Fein-Trotskyite aim is to drive us into such a state of frenzy next week that the Coalition will crumple and quit the field of battle.

Anything less than 200,000 stomping pairs of feet on the move across the country next Wednesday will be seen as a serious setback for the offensive against Labour and Fine Gael.

These grim radicals take their cue from Lenin's old maxim: "worse is better". Their catchy slogan: "Can't pay won't pay" would bring a wintry smile of approval from that ruthless old Bolshevik.

Are hundreds of thousands of us willing to march in step with this man and this party over the issue of water and ignore the ocean of blood Sinn Fein is spattered with?

The water charge protests have submerged Kenny but he's still afloat. Just about. To finish him and his administration off, the Opposition need to keep stoking the fire of popular discontent.

Next week, the anger mongers will be out in force. Will they get many takers? The numbers will tell the tale.

 

[flypanam]

How did the water charges protest go in Dublin yesterday. I've scanned the 'paper of record' report and it says nothing apart from whinging from some business group complaining about lost sales and some Gov TD's doing the math and getting their sums wrong.

Any decent reports?

 

[rekil]

How did the water charges protest go in Dublin yesterday. I've scanned the 'paper of record' report and it says nothing apart from whinging from some business group complaining about lost sales and some Gov TD's doing the math and getting their sums wrong.

Any decent reports?

There's an as it happened thing on Journal.ie. There was a tiny bit of shoving at what Lise Hand from the indo called Headbanger Corner. Both the shitty Guardian and BBC go with a "missiles were thrown" angle.

The Detroit people were great but should have been on much earlier, mainly cos I had to go off for a bit and missed them.



None of the lamestream or sectarian so self-called 'left' media reports will mention that the gardai waited until the brave but exhausted PD column (a "Curtain Of Hammers" according to one awestruck worker) withdrew before moving in en masse to shove people about.

Spoiler: Teddy Bears Picnic

Not a lot of solidarity from Mr Panti.

 

[rekil]

My photos are a bit shit. I couldn't find anywhere that would give an idea of the size of the demo.

Blocking the bridge later on.





Lots and lots of coppers showed up after I'd left.

 

[coley]

My photos are a bit shit. I couldn't find anywhere that would give an idea of the size of the demo.

Blocking the bridge later on.

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Lots and lots of coppers showed up after I'd left.

Have they rented the met for the weekend?

 

[rekil]

Have they rented the met for the weekend?

My most recent bit of 'activism' entailed trying to badger the local coppers into sending someone up to the industrial estate now and then as we have armed gangs turning up and walking into warehouses and taking whatever they fancy whenever they feel like it, putting the safety of nightshift workers at risk. Nope, no resources available, but there's plenty of cash to pay for the above and for coppers to stand about during the installation of water meters.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

http://www.independent.ie/irish-new...hy-told-water-meter-contractors-30832738.html

Yet another front page lead on the Paul Murphy menace.

 

[8den]

The Big Bow Wow was legendarily shit. Yes, that almost certainly is the same Gregg. His production company with Harris was called Praxis Pictures!

I'm not surprised to find he, like Harris, is now a right wing shit heel.

One of the 1st things I worked on in telly was the big bow wow and it was epically terrible.

 

[rekil]

Comparisons with 1930s Germany may have been overstated before, but they feel terrifyingly real now, writes Eilis O'Hanlon

References to Germany in the 1930s have probably been overplayed by SF's opponents in the past, but right now the comparisons have never been more chilling.

A 2010 study actually found that men were reverting to more masculine ways of behaviour in response to the recession. The self-grooming metrosexuals were giving way to a more rough and ready aesthetic. Witness the contemporary renaissance of the beard.

It just needs the right seed bed in which to grow. Germany in the 1930s had the Great Depression and the simmering resentment at the financial punishments inflicted on the country by the victorious powers at Versailles. Ireland in the 2010s has austerity and an equally intense anger at the cruelty inflicted on the country by the EU. Anger in both cases was entirely justified.

Comparisons with early 90's Labour are probably more apt but that just doesn't have the same dripping blood horror fillum font clickability.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-new...hy-told-water-meter-contractors-30832738.html

Yet another front page lead on the Paul Murphy menace.

He got the "condemn the violence" treatment on primetime the other night. Has he ever mentioned our friend PC Mark Kennedy and his antics at farmleigh and elsewhere. If he's going to be sidetracked down that alley over and over, he might as well.

 

[coley]

That piece compliments this nugget from Denis O'Brien's nephew.


5 years of Mainwaringist proletarian dictatorship for starters, then who knows.

Whey,,when you look at our alternatives, it has a certain attraction

 

[rekil]

They're really pushing the fascism line.

Fascism thoughts as Burton held in car at water protest

“I suppose I had a couple of hours to reflect on what it would be like if we had a country run by some of the people who were outside and who seem to have an utterly nihilistic approach,” Ms Burton said, in a Christmas briefing with political correspondents - “I have to say at times when I was in that car I was worried about the parallels with fascism.

Burton's special advisor is paid €120k a year. Labour down to 5% in the latest poll.

 

[Idris2002]

Four people, including Paul Murphy TD, arrested over the Jobstown incident last november:

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crim...eld-over-blockade-of-tánaiste-s-car-1.2096680

 

[rekil]

There's nothing like a dawn raid to 'send a message'.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

Four people, including Paul Murphy TD, arrested over the Jobstown incident last november:

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/paul-murphy-one-of-four-held-over-blockade-of-tánaiste-s-car-1.2096680

Paul Murphy, Two AAA councillors, Mick Murphy and Kieran Mahon, and Scott Masterson, who is I think a supporter of Eirigi.

 

[Idris2002]

Paul Murphy, Two AAA councillors, Mick Murphy and Kieran Mahon, and Scott Masterson, who is I think a supporter of Eirigi.

That's the plan, then? Use eirigi to smear the whole sinister fringe? Is this upping the ante do you think?

 

[Nigel Irritable]

That's the plan, then? Use eirigi to smear the whole sinister fringe? Is this upping the ante do you think?

I'm not sure about the Eirigi guy. What is notable is that they have singled out four political activists from a protest that consisted overwhelmingly of unaffiliated locals. Apparently they've had six cops assigned to investigating a sit down protest for nearly three months now. Getting Paul in particular seems to be a bit of an obsession.

If you think back to the bin tax protests, when repression started they also started with Socialist Party reps before they started arresting "non politicals". I suppose the common factor is that it involves an attempt to blame difficulties on radical agitators.

A lot of the state and establishment media's approach only makes sense if you assume that they've written off the "harder" end of anti-water tax sentiment as unpersuadable and are instead trying to scare off the "softer" end of it.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

They extended Paul's detention for six hours to permit further questioning. All four out now, without charge.

An anti-austerity alliance TD getting arrested over a sit down protest has been the lead item in every news outlet all day. The same day that a Fianna Fáil councillor pleaded guilty to soliciting someone to kill a detective and two others. He was arrested by appointment rather than with a dawn raid.

 

[rekil]

They extended Paul's detention for six hours to permit further questioning. All four out now, without charge.

An anti-austerity alliance TD getting arrested over a sit down protest has been the lead item in every news outlet all day. The same day that a Fianna Fáil councillor pleaded guilty to soliciting someone to kill a detective and two others. He was arrested by appointment rather than with a dawn raid.

Son of ex FF TD Noel O’Flynn and all.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

Son of ex FF TD Noel O’Flynn and all.

One of the TDs who was most keen on playing the anti-immigrant card