Everything Ireland thread

[Buck_Mulligan]

Currently the lead story on The Free Press, a new and Jewish owned outlet.

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-deep-roots-of-irish-antisemitism

[Trollheart]

How can they be so blind? Refusing to see, had this been say Syrians attacking Gaza (for some reason) we'd be all up about it and condemning the Arabs? It's not that we hate Israelis: we hate murdering bastard states who think they can do anything they want, including killing children and bombing schools and hospitals, and then shrug and say you can't say anything against us because we're fucking Jewish! That fact does not give them the right to practice genocide. Fuck them. There's going to be trouble on the streets.

[Trollheart]

Not sure how to feel about this. Had he not given himself up - after 10 YEARS! - there would have been no justice and the fire would have been ruled an accident. Props for courage? Or just a "tell-tale heart" sense of guilt he could no longer cope with? Fucking horrible either way.

Man jailed for death of father and daughter in house fire

[Trollheart]

Now this is a sad story. The power of the mind...

Woman wants to die after forced feeding order considered

[Trollheart]

Ireland prepares to batten down the hatches, turn up the heating and root out those snowshoes as we get ready for a "multi-weather hazard event".

https://www.rte.ie/news/weather/2025/0104/1489045-weather/

[jimmy jazz]

Ireland prepares to batten down the hatches, turn up the heating and root out those snowshoes as we get ready for a "multi-weather hazard event".

https://www.rte.ie/news/weather/2025/0104/1489045-weather/

We've got snow now. What about you?

[Trollheart]

Not where I am, not yet anyway. It is pissing rain though and quite cold. I sort of expect one day soon to go open the door to the back garden only to find I'm trapped, as snow has piled up against it! In reality, we'll probably get less snow than most of the country though; Dublin usually tends to avoid the worst of the bad weather.

[Trollheart]

More on our "Multi-weather hazard event"...

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0105/1489127-weather/

[Trollheart]

Something good to report for once. Community spirit trumps the weather!

Community rallies to assure funeral can take place in snowy conditions

[Trollheart]

It's a winter wonderland across Ireland! (And it's bloody cold too!)

[Trollheart]

More from snowy Ireland...

[Buck_Mulligan]

An extract from a blog about a book.....

It is said that one of the reasons many in N.I.don't want to join a UI is for fear of losing NHS access.

The NHS in Northern Ireland is the worst in the UK.  During the quarter April/June 2021, over 349,000 people were waiting for a first appointment, 53 percent for over a year, an increase of 39,000 for the same period in 2020.  Adjusted for population size, waiting lists in Northern Ireland are 100 times greater than those in England, a country 50 times its size.

That is from the truly excellent Perils and Prospects of a United Ireland, by Padraig O'Malley.

[Trollheart]

Uh, I don't get it. They're saying the NI NHS is the worst ever, and they're afraid of losing it if there was a United Ireland?  There never will be, anyway. Only hardcore Republicans want a united Ireland. Even Sinn Fein don't want it. It's a completely idealistic goal now, not a realistic one. It would more than likely be a disaster for the Republic, even lead to a second Irish Civil War (if you could get us out of the pubs, that is).

[Buck_Mulligan]

Uh, I don't get it. They're saying the NI NHS is the worst ever, and they're afraid of losing it if there was a United Ireland?  There never will be, anyway. Only hardcore Republicans want a united Ireland. Even Sinn Fein don't want it. It's a completely idealistic goal now, not a realistic one. It would more than likely be a disaster for the Republic, even lead to a second Irish Civil War (if you could get us out of the pubs, that is).

It's the book that says NI NHS is the worst, but it still goes to show the level of misinformation among the public. I suppose they see headlines about trolleys in the South and that colors their views. 
I'm with you on UI. Worst thing that could happen.

[Buck_Mulligan]

I see a former president of Estonia took a swipe at Micheal D. He's starting to look and sound like a leprechaun. When is the next Prez election? I suppose he thinks he should run again...