You mean the prudent, fiscally responsible soldiers of fortune? There is only one bigger bunch of cunts in Irish politics than the Shinners and that’s the FF shower of cunts.
Killarney has its fair share of e.u funding and grants. Not to mention the benefits of easy travel to Ireland from e.u countries.
People have short memories.
https://x.com/rtenews/status/1725955758070616092?s=46
Watch the comments underneath this. So sad what Ireland is becoming.
Twitter ≠ Ireland
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Using innocent children to spew their hate, thats fairly twisted even for the far right headbangers
Tone, Childers, McCracken, Parnell. All celebrated by Sinn Fein. All Protestant or Presbyterian. Sean Mac Stiofain, chief of staff of the Provisionals, a protestant. Don’t get lost in Thatcher’s crazy Irish catholics fighting crazy Irish protestants narrative, you’re smarter than that.
The absolute worst thing Sinn Fein could do is go in with FF. FF would tank the economy as usual on their own, and SF are aware enough that they’d be made take the fall for it. I believe there’s a contingent of people in Ireland who’d love to see SF fail no matter what, and I really can’t fathom where their minds are going to go if they go in without FFG and it ends up being a success.
Scary piece on Rte today about the far right take over in Ireland.
https://x.com/BBCArchive/status/1726510691182338440?s=20
A lot of highly intelligent Irish people in this clip, running rings around the interviewer.
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The last fella with the issue of a ‘moral debt’ fairly floored that interviewer I’d say
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Yes. And the first Irish man to speak, even just by his vocabulary, was exceptionally bright and nuanced.
Before Donagh O’Malley pioneered free secondary level education in the mid 1960s, many of Ireland’s brightest and potentially best had to take the boat. A lot of them drank out of frustration. Meanwhile, back at home, the thickest of the thick, so long as from a certain background, did fine and better than fine.
Fine Gael and elements in Fianna Fáil, supported by many of the Catholic Church’s top brass, vehemently opposed the free education initiative. To his eternal credit, DO’M, a Clongowes alumnus, outwitted and outflanked this opposition. He remains the Irish politician I most admire. He had the courage both to realize that all many people want is an opportunity and to accept that this granting of opportunity would undermine his own caste’s preeminence (and ultimately the hold of authoritarian Catholicism). This reality was what terrified, at the time, the more thoughtful right wingers.
There is a reason why many members of my parents’ generation detest Fine Gael. During the 1960s, Fine Gael wanted everyone to stay in their established place, nice and quiet. Tom Garvin’s Preventing the Future: Why Was Ireland So Poor for So Long? (2004) was an eyeopener. But I already knew, long since, the truth of his case.
The manner in which scumbags such as Derek Blighe have been psychically colonized by neo Imperial mindsets makes for cold amusement. For the Irish gene pool, it was a tragedy that most of those Irish people interviewed in that early 1960s BBC report did not get to have children in Ireland.
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All very articulate and insightful. In a time when you had to seek out information and knowledge from books and radio and newspapers.
1961 was when Ireland was emptied out. Our lowest ever recorded population 2.8 million.
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Ireland was a great country back then, no foreigners
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Would you be of the belief that the lower social classes in Ireland today are genetically inferior in terms of intelligence?
A lot of people who went to London came back in the seventies as things had got a bit better. Population by mid 70s was about 3.2m.
I’ve posted before about it. My folks went to London. Most of my mothers’ family went to America. America was seen, she said, as a better and less rough place to go than England.
How happy is the moron,
He doesn’t give a damn.
I wish I were a moron,
By God, perhaps I am.
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“we redistribute the money to help the poor”
“how does that help the poor on less than 50k”