Sad pic of homeless sleeping in tents taken from gov buildings on Min Coveney’s doorstep on a cold n wet day.! pic.twitter.com/3Te18uzYQf
— Imelda Munster TD (@ImeldaMunster) February 28, 2017
1.40pm
Gardaí in the process of evicting 4 homeless people staying in tents in a car park right nxt door 2 Government buildings. pic.twitter.com/CBq4JgA43o
— Stephen Todd (@UbuntuLad) February 28, 2017
3.56pm
Good times.
Sponsored Link
‘evicting’
Sorry what now?
Evicting.
OK.
Because 2017 and feels?
In fairness, if he used ‘govt’ instead of the whole world the tweet would have read better, just sayin’
* awaits lynching *
Word …Yo!
Not ‘world’ , no yo!
Clampers, I’m not out to lynch you or anything, but surely a little more empathy and a little less pedantry might be required here.
Regardless of the hyperbolic nature of the tweet, there is a nasty truth about it that needs to be addressed and the government fails to adequately do so.
It might, it might not, on the first part.
True on the second part.
empathy fail
Not really. It’s fake news. While the government undoubtedly could do more to alleviate the risks of homelessness in fact so could homeless people.
It’s not fake news..fake news is what Donald Trump tries to create..fake news is the reasons for the invasion of iraq..fake news is the cold war. this isn’t fake news.. people trying to raise awareness of a real issue isnt fake news.
It’s absolutely fake news. There’s no reason to add insult to injury and absurd stunts like this do little in practical terms to convince decision-makers
decision makers havent been making the right decisions..eh hello..civil disobedience is the only hope we have of forcing them to make the right decisions.
again, trot along u pest
Are you unable to get your points across Anne?
How is it fake news, you absolute dolt? Are you saying the people in those tents aren’t homeless? That those aren’t gardaí in the second picture evicting (meaning, dictionary definition here, and pay attention, “to expel (someone) from a property, especially with the support of the law.”) people? Or that it isn’t a car park across from government buildings?
What part of what you saw above is “fake” exactly? I assume you’ll be coming back with evidence of your own to prove your assertion. Unless you are, as I said, an absolute dolt. Which is it?
They’re not being expelled as they don’t have possession. To do so would require the direction of a court. They’re being asked to move along and can come back tomorrow if they wish.
Btw Dolt? Mods please! Why do I have to suffer abuse in this forum?
Listen, if you’re having trouble with the actual meaning of words, I can’t help you. Evict means to displace, expel, or remove–possession is not a requirement for eviction.
Wordz–they haz meaningz.
They’re not being evicted in the historical sense of the ordinary meaning of that term. The only reason the word is used here is to stir up unnecessary hatred of the gardai. Who are merely doing what they do day in and out ie ask ordinary citizens who in their opinion are causing a public hazard or nuisance to refrain from doing so.
Clearly camping in a yellow box is unlawful and dangerous: further the camping outside the houses of the oireachtas is arguably a political act. Fupp off political homeless people and make your point through your local TD.
This isn’t inspiring hatred of the gardaí. I think anyone would recognise that they are just doing what they have been directed to do. The hatred is at the government officials who overlook those tents.
At least you admit now this is a political act and therefore not an ‘eviction’ with the unnecessary and hyperbolic connotations of that word in this framing
No, I don’t. It will all read as fake news if you’re going to just imagine that people are saying things. I think I’ve found your problem. PEBCAC
in all fairness, Clampers, ridiculing the use of the word ‘evicting’ just shows you don’t really know what it means.
Those people were evicted – and in the correct sense of the word too.
+1 BB
Clampers is correct. These people are causing a public nuisance. They are not being “evicted”.
Even if they are a public nuisance, they are still; being ‘evicted.’
@ Nigel
Well said.
How is it “well said” Zena? It’s empirically false
Technically no as they don’t have possession. They are merely being asked to not be a nuisance.
In case and before you start one of those tedious trollfests don’t even bother replying Nigel. I’m not as predictable and besotted with you as Clampers
One does not have to have possession in order to be evicted. But hey, thanks for letting me have the last word!
For a start they’re parked illegally in a yellow box
1. They’re not parked, they’re camped unless you mean ‘they’ve parked themselves’ in the colloquial sense, in which case you’re definitely in no position to be taking issue with the use of ‘evicted.’
2. They are being evicted from the yellow box.
3. It’s a terrible place to camp, potentially quite dangerous as well as a blockage, but I expect if you’re living like that you take what you can for as long as you can.
4. It’s not fake news, unless your idea of fake news is people noticing and talking about stuff you disapprove of.
See you’re doing it now again Nigel.
You really, really have a problem sport.
Homeless people have problems. I just have a weakness for correcting idiots.
The only nuisance is that annoying twirp.
you’re going to need an e, anne
yokes yokes yokes yokes
You are the public nuisance asjfa. Find yourself a hobby, do us all a favour.
Got any more good stuff Zena? That style of argument is unconvincing.
Just when Louis Lefrond bows out, along you slither…..
Where’s Louise Lefrond gone? Back to Cote Z’azur for some croissants?
Lol. Did he really sign off? What an enormous pair of shoes to fill
Yep, big shoes for the clown he was.
Ha ha, well we won’t know for sure until there’s another thread on Poolbeg – but here’s hoping ……
did he announce his departure?
we tried to convince him to give another site a go (can’t remember what it’s called now). perhaps he reconsidered.
why would anyone tell you they’re leaving anyway? who gives a bovine whatsit like? Are they expecting to be begged to stay or something? Like don’t go Louis, we can work things out.. dont say it’s over, things just won’t be the same without you.. lol
Come on now Anne
If you announced you were leaving they’d be in mourning here for weeks
Mannix Flynn cant put them up.
blushirt rejoicing at the agony of the homeless they helped to create
Noonan knows a good foster home they can go to.
zing
This is an obvious stunt. The homeless don’t use tents like this in the city centre.
Well it’s not fupping Bear Grylls camping out in jamboree…
Yeah, my friends and I sleep there all the time, it’s great craic
Actually some of them do now Jocky
There was a couple of people sleeping rough in a tent like those last week on Parkgate st – near the old Hickeys building. Hopefully they got sorted with something, as they seem to be gone for few days now.
“excuse me sir, you are clearly not homeless as your tent appears to be constructed of more than a tarp and a piece of mouldy ham”
Fáilte fíal na h-Éireann
Now that’s a boutique festival.
oh you insensitive brute
Lighten up BB, you’re two tents.
:)
Yurts so good!
…and wonderfully camp
I feel we’re poles apart though Spaghettini
Dailapoloooza
Seen a couple of tents near Heuston station last weekend.
A new regular feature for the site, badly parked tents, sign of the times.
Yea tents that look like Ireland
Leather Tent Guy will arise next
All out bivouac attack
Jesus Christ! you people are all SICK IN THE HEAD! Different worlds eh?