Eamon Ryan to save Limerick

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Services to it
Roads
Paths
Damage to nature

One-Off Housing

[glasagusban]

They want to be allowed to continue to pollute with impunity.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Yeah, we want to be the only people in europe to pollute our waterways

[farmerinthecity]

Where do people live in the country then?

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Towns or existing stock

Same in dublin though, we are very slow building mid density

[glasagusban]

Disproportionate consumption of limited resources.

[maroonandwhite]

@SlippyStevie

I live in rural Ireland. Have done all my life and will until my final breath.

The reasons The Greens are widely detested in rural Ireland (and increasingly in large swathes of urban Ireland)

• in many parts of the country there is little or no public transport. People rely on their private car or van. It’s either use that mode of transport or you don’t work. Simple as that. The reason people like me have seen prices at the pump increase astronomically is because of Eamon Ryan and his party. They e insisted on carbon taxes as part of the programme for government. Insisting on carbon taxes in the middle of a cost of living prices - that makes sense.
• I’m a farmer. It’s my livelihood. Eamon Ryan and his party want to cull my herd and put me out of business. Imagine a party who’d want accountants or librarians or any occupation put out of business. A politician from a leafy suburb in Dublin telling me and others how to run our livelihoods, the same fella has probably never set foot on a farm. Going to Kerry for a week every year doesn’t mean he understands rural Ireland.
• Him and his party have blocked repeated road building. Ask anyone in Galway if they need that outer ring road, and to which the Greens have objected every single step of the way. Again, a champagne socialist from Dublin dictating to the people in the west of Ireland.
• he’s a hypocrite. Bemoans air pollution and excessive travel non stop yet there has hardly been a Minister who has travelled more in the last four and a half years. Look at his trips every St Patrick’s Day alone. Restrictions for thee but not for me…!
• Him and his party, who have a tiny vote in rural Ireland, are against one off houses. It’s because of the likes of him people are being refused planning permission on their own land. And they wonder why small towns and villages are dying.
• he’s not the only person in the country with a child with special needs. (I doubt he ever had to fight for the services his son and every other child deserves). My own daughter passed away a number of years ago after her parents fought tooth and nail to get her what she needed. I emailed Eamon Ryan and he did absolutely fuck all - the response was along the lines of ‘it’s not my department, nothing to do with me.’ Useless. It was the local Fianna Fáil man who eventually sorted it out for me, and That’s why I vote for him.

So don’t give me this rubbish of what an amazing, sound fella Eamon Ryan is. It’s the same when every politician in this country resigns - empty plaudits. It was the same when Haughey, Bertie, Cowen, Bruton and the rest went.

Outstanding post. The laughable arguments it by the woke morons only reinforcing your points. People who live in grim estates in Dublin want to tell people that they can or can’t build on their own land? Want to tell then to use public transport even if the nearest bus stop is five miles away or more? And ‘we live on an island we have to have planes’ is a piss weak response to Ryans pointless international travel. Yeah the luas in galway is just around the corner

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@maroonandwhite

@SlippyStevie

I live in rural Ireland. Have done all my life and will until my final breath.

The reasons The Greens are widely detested in rural Ireland (and increasingly in large swathes of urban Ireland)

• in many parts of the country there is little or no public transport. People rely on their private car or van. It’s either use that mode of transport or you don’t work. Simple as that. The reason people like me have seen prices at the pump increase astronomically is because of Eamon Ryan and his party. They e insisted on carbon taxes as part of the programme for government. Insisting on carbon taxes in the middle of a cost of living prices - that makes sense.
• I’m a farmer. It’s my livelihood. Eamon Ryan and his party want to cull my herd and put me out of business. Imagine a party who’d want accountants or librarians or any occupation put out of business. A politician from a leafy suburb in Dublin telling me and others how to run our livelihoods, the same fella has probably never set foot on a farm. Going to Kerry for a week every year doesn’t mean he understands rural Ireland.
• Him and his party have blocked repeated road building. Ask anyone in Galway if they need that outer ring road, and to which the Greens have objected every single step of the way. Again, a champagne socialist from Dublin dictating to the people in the west of Ireland.
• he’s a hypocrite. Bemoans air pollution and excessive travel non stop yet there has hardly been a Minister who has travelled more in the last four and a half years. Look at his trips every St Patrick’s Day alone. Restrictions for thee but not for me…!
• Him and his party, who have a tiny vote in rural Ireland, are against one off houses. It’s because of the likes of him people are being refused planning permission on their own land. And they wonder why small towns and villages are dying.
• he’s not the only person in the country with a child with special needs. (I doubt he ever had to fight for the services his son and every other child deserves). My own daughter passed away a number of years ago after her parents fought tooth and nail to get her what she needed. I emailed Eamon Ryan and he did absolutely fuck all - the response was along the lines of ‘it’s not my department, nothing to do with me.’ Useless. It was the local Fianna Fáil man who eventually sorted it out for me, and That’s why I vote for him.

So don’t give me this rubbish of what an amazing, sound fella Eamon Ryan is. It’s the same when every politician in this country resigns - empty plaudits. It was the same when Haughey, Bertie, Cowen, Bruton and the rest went.

Outstanding post. The laughable arguments it by the woke morons only reinforcing your points. People who live in grim estates in Dublin want to tell people that they can or can’t build on their own land? Want to tell then to use public transport even if the nearest bus stop is five miles away or more? And ‘we live on an island we have to have planes’ is a piss weak response to Ryans pointless international travel. Yeah the luas in galway is just around the corner

“We want to build up in mountains in the middle of nowhere”
“its outrageous there isnt public transport near my new house”

QED

[maroonandwhite]

I knew Ryan being called out for pointless trips would trigger you. Like you making all those pointless trips to Australia. Not to mention the waste of fuel driving past your local soccer clubs to go to tallaght to follow a, em, big, team.

[carryharry]

@glasagusban

A genuine question on your farm, herd, livelihood, do you believe you will or should be able to continue your business in the way you are now for the next ten years? How about twenty years? Do you honestly think it will remain a going concern without having to change

Wtf

[PasqualePaoli]

Agriculture has responded better than most industries over the last 5 years

[PasqualePaoli]

Have you ever been on a plane?

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Still the worst though

[SlippyStevie]

@farmerinthecity

Do you accept that measures need to be put in place in relation to climate change?

Here we go. Object to your livelihood being decimated and you are a climate denier.

To answer yourself and @glasagusban - farming has changed enormously over the last three decades. Most of it for the better.

Farmers don’t just object to change and hate the Green cult for the sake of it. They’ve openly said they want to reduce the national herd. How does that benefit me? How does that benefit any farmer?

I’ve complied with each and every new directive from Brussels - it might surprise the latte drinking classes from Rathmines but most of us don’t want to poison our own families, neighbours and friends. It just comes a time when a sector can’t take any more and that time is now.

You don’t last long in this business without a love of animals. Don’t want to think what I’ve spent on vet fees over the years - probably the deposit on a house. Would happily do it all again.

We’re targeted for reducing emissions while Eamon Ryan flies all over the globe. He was even in China there recently - needless to say he didn’t open his mouth about the vast coal burning factories in operation there. No, happy to go after farmers in a tiny island of 5 million people when there’s eight or nine billion people in the planet.

He’s a bluffer, in my opinion, and this O’Gorman chancer will be even worse. Widely acknowledged he has made a dogs dinner of immigration and now we’ll have a fella from Blanchardstown who wouldn’t know a cow from a cougar deciding what farmers and families in Cork, Mayo, Leitrim and Wexford can and can’t do.

[glasagusban]

@SlippyStevie

They’ve openly said they want to reduce the national herd. How does that benefit me? How does that benefit any farmer?

Because you could pivot to something else?

I just find it odd that you seem to think your business model will stay the same. Do you actually think that?

[farmerinthecity]

@SlippyStevie

Here we go. Object to your livelihood being decimated and you are a climate denier.

Relax.

Where did I say you were a climate denier?

I asked you if you thought measures need to be brought in, across the board, in relation to climate change?

By the way I know a lot of farmers and they wouldn’t say their livelihood is being decimated.

[glasagusban]

Think it’s a fairly basic and straightforward question.

[PasqualePaoli]

Depends on how you account for total emissions

[SlippyStevie]

Of course it has changed, like any industry it has evolved. No doubt in 20 years time, what we are doing now will look dated.

I’m going to pass my land on to my son in time. Thankfully he has a love of the land and agriculture. I don’t know a single game farmer who actively goes out of their way to harm their land, their community or their environment. It just doesn’t happen. Yet, it’s always farmers who are in the firing line from the Greens. Default setting.

[PasqualePaoli]

How can he pivot? What do you think farmers do exactly, and dairy farmers in particular? They have spent fortunes on concrete and specialised infrastructure on the back of state funded teagasc advice. It’s less than 10 years since quotas were lifted