I support Amnesty, and quite like what I’ve seen of O Gorman. I feel this SIPO thing is gonna be used very effectively as a rallying call for people campaigning against repeal though.
paddy apathy
Well then he needs to get his act in gear, abide by the law, pay the monies back. Problem solved. I doubt this will happen though.
Taunton
I fully disagree, O’Gorman has done great harm to that organisation by backing ISIS sympathyzers and the like.
bisted
…the SIPO law is there to ensure those with the most money can’t shout the loudest…O’Gorman has compromised his position…he’s been bought the way Bertie bought the unions…not only should the money be returned but he should resign…
Taunton
Agreed this episode shows he believes he can ignore the law if the law does not suit his agenda.
dylad
Yes, as there isn’t a valid argument against repeal, this will be used instead.
Diddy
On primetimes homeless docu:
Same lazy narrative .. Same old talking heads; Peter mc verry etc
De homeless who can’t gerra heavily state subsidised house into Dublin city is making my P155 boil.
Can we have a show from a middle class peeps rive please with empirical evidence as to the global reasons why the poverty line is going up and up?
I’m sick of listening to the where’s me council house brigade whinging .. How much to these people pay INTO the system???
A roof over these people’s heads costs buttons in the grand scheme of things and the reason it is beginning to resonate with the general public is because so many are also only a couple of paychecks away from being homeless themselves. There but for the grace of God goes I etc.
Is it really too much to ask that the state looks after its most vulnerable? That if provides adequate services so that they don’t die on the streets like animals? No matter what issues or addictions they may have, they are still human beings and deserve to treated as such.
What was interesting about this program was how intelligent and articulate some of those interviewed were. Real people, normal people, some of whom may not be with us by next spring. Completely unacceptable.
Listrade
You could probably get an answer into how much they pay INTO the system if you were a bit more specific about who “these people” are. In the context of your post, I assume you mean homeless people, but do you mean how much did they pay in before being homeless and how much they could pay in if they were homed? Or how much do they pay while homeless?
You need to be more specific.
Anyway, seems like Ireland signed up to the Declaration of Human Rights, which has a slightly awkward provision under Article 25 about the right to housing and the security of it “in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”
Damn, I wish we read these things before signing up to them. It’d make ignoring issues and demonising people a lot easier. Anyway, funny thing about human rights is that they are natural rights and not something that is given to you by the state through law. If you’re a human, you have those rights.
If only we hadn’t let politicians make entitlement a pejorative, you could almost say that under the DHR, housing is an entitlement.
Diddy
I’m referring to the “where’s me house” brigade. The inner city entititled who as we speak are spending €2000 they can’t afford on Christmas presents. That way if life is OVER. The penny hasn’t dropped with them .The next generation are in hotel rooms.
Go A Way
Your point is dumb about howyas but all the same you have a point about the middle class poor
some old queen
Thank you for feeling the need to critique what I post; even when it is just to biatch.
16% of all housing in the NI is social and while that has caused its own tribal issues, it ensures people are not entirely exposed to the chancers and cowboys within the rental sector. ROI has not been so lucky.
Go A Way
I didn’t address my point to you soq it was to diddy
Topsy
Diddy. I’d say you’re a pillar of the tennis club community. Doubtful if you ever did anything for anyone other than yourself. Be proud.
Go A Way
He’s not entirely wrong though. This program failed by not covering the extent of poverty in the middle class as well, you could even say it just fed the stereotypes about the poor. Incidentally diddy many middle class folks live beyond their means and Have an even greater sense of entitlement in my experience that the typical inner city native I’ve met , many of whom are simply glad to be still alive
GiggidyGoo
The Daily Express local council tax story is the way the LPT is going here. The difference though is that we get nothing for it.
Jonner
Was Hawe’s perceived loss of status coming from the imminent marriage breakup, or is there another issue that would have caused him to lose his status as a pillar of society and his wife to leave him?
jusayinlike
+1
Go A Way
Don’t tell me – wait – he was in pizzagate too?
jusayinlike
Go a way Pat Kenny’s wife and Warden of the snot
Go A Way
Haha every time ! I can play you like a banjo now
Topsy
Jonner. +1
Bernie
He had apparently stolen money, I remember that from the original report.
Charger Salmons
Romanian beggars wth return airline tickets jet into Ireland for some pre-Christmas fund-raising activities and to avail of the generosity of charities intended for the homeless.
Dontcha just love the free movement of people.
Rob_G
You’re right – we should leave the largest free trade area in the world, that provides a tariff-free market of hundreds of millions of customers for our goods and services, on the off-chance that a few dozen beggars might decide to move here.
Go A Way
Brain dead
Listrade
Freedom of movement you say:
Brits in Spain: 761,000
Brits in Ireland: 291,000
Brits in France: 200,000
Brits in Germany: 115,000
Brits in Portugal: 60,000
Brits in Switzerland: 45,000
Brits in Netherlands: 44,000
Brits in Belgium: 28,000
Brits in Italy: 26,000
Brits in Sweden: 18,000
Brits in Greece: 18,000
Brits in Denmark: 11,000
Brits in Malta: 9,000
Brits in Austria: 8,500
Brits in Czech Republic: 6,800
Brits in Poland: 5,600
Brits in Luxembourg: 5,500
Brits in Hungary: 5,200
Brits in Romania: 4,500
Brits in Finland: 2,800
Brits in Ukraine: 900
Brits in Croatia: 890
Brits in Bulgaria: 800
Brits in Estonia: 750
Brits in Slovakia: 740
Brits in Bosnia-Herzegovina: 540
Brits in Latvia: 370
Brits in Slovenia: 330
“It’s not unusual to deal with British people who have lived here over 20 years and complain about medical staff not speaking English. Because waiters and barmen speak English, they expect doctors to.’”
I was born in the wagon of a traveling show ..
Listrade
But they don’t go over there and claim benefits like the “other” immigrants.
Ah stop this is practically online bullying at this stage :)
Listrade
Ok, some might be old and so set in their ways, but at least they try and integrate the children into the local culture and not expect the schooling system to pick up the bill?
Don’t worry lads – we’ll keep looking after your unemployed as your own government is incapable of doing.
Blighty – keeping Ireland afloat for decades.
Go A Way
Poor lad I almost feel sorry for you now. Almost.
Brother Barnabas
there was perhaps call for pity the first few times. but he keeps doing this – keeps coming back for more. and gets his arse handed to him every time. I’d be more concerned for him at this stage.
Janet, I ate my Avatar
arseless at this stage
Go A Way
I don’t think he ever really recovered from the time Listrade handed him his bottom before
Brother Barnabas
seemed to have an embittering rather than educational effect on him
that was sad to see – there’s always hope if you’re open to learning
Go A Way
Hahaha
Charger Salmons
Britannia’s teat – always there for the Irish to suck on when times get tough.
Never in the field of human conflict have so many Ryanair one-way tickets been sold.
For many Irish people their favourite view of home these days is in a rear-view mirror.
You’re welcome but a bit of gratitude wouldn’t go amiss Patrick.
Go A Way
Suck on teats you say?
The impoverished Irish peasantry, lacking the money to purchase the foods their farms produced, continued throughout the famine to export grain, meat, and other high-quality foods to Britain. The government’s grudging and ineffective measures to relieve the famine’s distress intensified the resentment of British rule among the Irish people. Similarly damaging was the attitude among many British intellectuals that the crisis was a predictable and not-unwelcome corrective to high birth rates in the preceding decades and perceived flaws, in their opinion, in the Irish national character. https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Famine-Irish-history
Listrade
You’re right again charger. I teared up at the words. British icons flashed before my eyes at your words of passion. True british legends like Bowie, the Brontes, Henry Cooper, Conan Doyle, Michael Gambon, Alfred Hitchock, George Harrison and Paul McCartney, Michael Palin, Ozzy Osbourne, Alan Rickman even old George Osbourne himself.
I’m literally welling up. Heroes. British hero….what?…all of them? Even Snape and Dumbledore? Born of Irish immigrants?
Good job there’s all those celebrated British immigrants to balance out that kind of cultural and financial contribution….
Go A Way
This is going too far :)
Charger Salmons
Michael Collins would be spinning in his grave if he knew quite how often successive Irish governments have let their people down.
The munificence of our neighbours on the mainland in welcoming O’Leary’s Fusiliers with open arms has kept Denny’s Gold sausages on the tables of their families back home.
Yes we’ve put up with your perpetual whining about 800 years of blah,blah,blah and although we don’t get you to dig our roads any more because the Polish are more reliable we still find plenty of employment for the poor and dispossessed from across the Irish Sea.
I know it’s a bitter pill to swallow but 100 years on from 1916 and the UK is still sheltering the poor,huddled masses from Eire.
Way to go Leo.
Go A Way
Lol
That’s all you’ve got?
What about the mass influx of Brexit fleeing Brit immigrants to Ireland seeking an EU passport these days?
Please stop self- flagellating there Nigella old sport
Listrade
Don’t mention ze dole!
22,000 British unemployed in Germany claiming dole.
I suppose after sucking on the teat of the US for WWII until Truman got sick of waiting Britain to pay him back and cut them off, you had to find another teat. Oh wait, that would now be the EU. Pity.
Charger Salmons
Generation Immigration from the Irish Times.
And why they’ll never come back.
Pauline Lavin, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
I moved back to Ireland after spending three years in England in May 2017 with a lot of experience in a niche area, and a Masters under my belt. I believed the media spin about the Irish economy recovering. I travelled to Donegal for an interview to be told there were 165 applicants for three jobs and they were interviewing 65. I then went to Wexford, Kildare, north Dublin and into the city for several other interviews.
By July I was completely dejected and reminded of why I had left Ireland three years earlier. I started to re-apply to jobs back in England. After interviews in Liverpool and Cardiff, I applied for a job in Oxford, was called to interview and offered the job a week later. The best advice I can give anyone who is unemployed in Ireland is do not hang on and rot; go where you can get work and then apply for jobs back in Ireland from a distance, and ask for Skype interviews.
I am unsure now whether I will return. I was not entitled to dole in Ireland as a returning emigrant and had to claim UK dole for three months, even though the cost of living in Ireland is twice what it is in the UK. Even if Brexit affects me I will probably go to Europe, rather than risk going back to Ireland.
Colm Fitzgerald, London, United Kingdom
My partner and I celebrate one year living in London this weekend, a year in which I’ve come across opportunities that would never have been open to me back home in Limerick after graduation: a communications job with a business organisation in Fitzrovia in Central London, and living in a Georgian house in Queens Park. Life in London goes at a million miles an hour, but I love getting the packed Bakerloo line to work and the buzz on the streets.
I’ve been glad to discover for myself that life here is far more affordable than I had been led to believe. Making new friends is tough and there is more crime. But I’m optimistic about my future in London, knowing a growing career and more money are within grasp.
Taunton
It’s not a niche area if there are 165 applicants in Donegal.
Nigel
No link and a large extract that exceeds fair use? If you’re going to use other people’s work to prop up your spite and bile you could at least do them the courtesy of providing them with potential web traffic.
Jake38
Spot on about London and Oxford, sweetie.
Which is probably why people in London and Oxford voted in spades to stay in the EU. Unlike the Brexit-deluded sink estates and crime ridden wastelands which litter the rest of England and no self respecting Irish ex-pat would ever set foot in.
Listrade
Pssst, Charger, I know you’re in on the joke and you’re not serious when you post these things. It’s just that it was you who brought up immigrants and freedom of movement as a bad thing. No one here did. So all this stuff about Irish immigration has the potential to come off as looking a bit stupid because no one here has any problem with freedom of movement except you.
Just saying as I know you’re not that stupid that you would in effect be arguing with yourself. I mean, only someone incredibly stupid would forget the point they made at the start and within minutes start arguing the opposite.
D
Oh dear. I hope the swingeing cutbacks in the NHS have left the burns units intact. Ouch.
Lilly
Who is Charger Salmons and what’s he doing here when he could be hanging out at dailymail.co.uk admiring Davina McCall’s abs?
Killian G
She is a HOTTIE.
Probably the only thing I would agree with Charger Sam-on about.
Nigel
I think he’s someone who doesn’t like anti-UK racism on the ‘Sheet, which is fair enough, and his considered response to this is to prove once and for all that as a person of British origin he is, in fact, way better at racism than any Irish person. So far he’s proved this point spectacularly, even though it’s kinda anti-UK racist as a proposition that Brits are just inherently better at being racist? He may or may not be an avid supporter of Brexit, but who knows? Linking Brexit explicitly to his racism when Brexiteers squeal whenever they’re accused of fostering xenophobia seems counterproductive. If he’s actually anti-Brexit and this is all a tediously clever ruse, I’m not sure why he’s wasting his time, we’re not exactly a haven of Brexit-boosters round here.
Charger Salmons
Were you the person arguing on Broadsheet yesterday that their posts had been deleted because the good folk at BS were pro-Brexit ?
Or was that some other sad loser ?
Asking for a friend.
Nigel
That was you, I thought.
Brother Barnabas
You’re not as jolly as you used to be, Charger.
You were more fun in the old days.
Go A Way
True.
In my opinion “Charger” is a student in transition year working at bs for his practical. He started off promisingly but the poor lad/lass simply has run out of material and as it’s Xmas most of the other permanent staff are out on the piss so he has no one to give him new story ideas these last few days either. Time to go back and concentrate on the leaving now “Charger”. Genuinely
Papi
You don’t have a friend, Charger, no need for the charade.
Listrade
You mean he’s serious? I thought he was doing a bit and we were all in on the joke. I was sure it was a satire on the ignorant nature of some of the British press, highlighting the hypocrisy with poorly sourced thoughts and an inability to back any statement up before ignoring the original comment and following it up with a direct contradiction.
Why else would someone post such easily dismissed nonsense of not in satire?
Harry Molloy
Well I’m still a assuming he is Moyest.
Nigel
Well, I’ve never found him funny or charming since I only started paying attention to him when he did a bit of victim-blaming in the Tom Humphreys case, which makes him one of the very few ‘Sheet commenters I have a genuine loathing for. Fact is, given how much alt-right racism is couched in ironic or joking terms to provide deniability and sucker people in, it kinda doesn’t matter what the real CS is thinking at the back of it all. This is the real thing, or indistinguishable from the real thing.
Go A Way
But sure that kind of stuff is guaranteed clickbait from the likes of yourself Nigel and I’m not sayin that to be nasty: see my theory above
good picture of May there.
I support Amnesty, and quite like what I’ve seen of O Gorman. I feel this SIPO thing is gonna be used very effectively as a rallying call for people campaigning against repeal though.
Well then he needs to get his act in gear, abide by the law, pay the monies back. Problem solved. I doubt this will happen though.
I fully disagree, O’Gorman has done great harm to that organisation by backing ISIS sympathyzers and the like.
…the SIPO law is there to ensure those with the most money can’t shout the loudest…O’Gorman has compromised his position…he’s been bought the way Bertie bought the unions…not only should the money be returned but he should resign…
Agreed this episode shows he believes he can ignore the law if the law does not suit his agenda.
Yes, as there isn’t a valid argument against repeal, this will be used instead.
On primetimes homeless docu:
Same lazy narrative .. Same old talking heads; Peter mc verry etc
De homeless who can’t gerra heavily state subsidised house into Dublin city is making my P155 boil.
Can we have a show from a middle class peeps rive please with empirical evidence as to the global reasons why the poverty line is going up and up?
I’m sick of listening to the where’s me council house brigade whinging .. How much to these people pay INTO the system???
Or, alternatively, who are, and how much are Noonans vulture fund friends extracting? http://hwp.ie/index.php/fears-large-scale-evictions-investors-leave-ireland/
A roof over these people’s heads costs buttons in the grand scheme of things and the reason it is beginning to resonate with the general public is because so many are also only a couple of paychecks away from being homeless themselves. There but for the grace of God goes I etc.
Is it really too much to ask that the state looks after its most vulnerable? That if provides adequate services so that they don’t die on the streets like animals? No matter what issues or addictions they may have, they are still human beings and deserve to treated as such.
What was interesting about this program was how intelligent and articulate some of those interviewed were. Real people, normal people, some of whom may not be with us by next spring. Completely unacceptable.
You could probably get an answer into how much they pay INTO the system if you were a bit more specific about who “these people” are. In the context of your post, I assume you mean homeless people, but do you mean how much did they pay in before being homeless and how much they could pay in if they were homed? Or how much do they pay while homeless?
You need to be more specific.
Anyway, seems like Ireland signed up to the Declaration of Human Rights, which has a slightly awkward provision under Article 25 about the right to housing and the security of it “in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”
Damn, I wish we read these things before signing up to them. It’d make ignoring issues and demonising people a lot easier. Anyway, funny thing about human rights is that they are natural rights and not something that is given to you by the state through law. If you’re a human, you have those rights.
If only we hadn’t let politicians make entitlement a pejorative, you could almost say that under the DHR, housing is an entitlement.
I’m referring to the “where’s me house” brigade. The inner city entititled who as we speak are spending €2000 they can’t afford on Christmas presents. That way if life is OVER. The penny hasn’t dropped with them .The next generation are in hotel rooms.
Your point is dumb about howyas but all the same you have a point about the middle class poor
Thank you for feeling the need to critique what I post; even when it is just to biatch.
16% of all housing in the NI is social and while that has caused its own tribal issues, it ensures people are not entirely exposed to the chancers and cowboys within the rental sector. ROI has not been so lucky.
I didn’t address my point to you soq it was to diddy
Diddy. I’d say you’re a pillar of the tennis club community. Doubtful if you ever did anything for anyone other than yourself. Be proud.
He’s not entirely wrong though. This program failed by not covering the extent of poverty in the middle class as well, you could even say it just fed the stereotypes about the poor. Incidentally diddy many middle class folks live beyond their means and Have an even greater sense of entitlement in my experience that the typical inner city native I’ve met , many of whom are simply glad to be still alive
The Daily Express local council tax story is the way the LPT is going here. The difference though is that we get nothing for it.
Was Hawe’s perceived loss of status coming from the imminent marriage breakup, or is there another issue that would have caused him to lose his status as a pillar of society and his wife to leave him?
+1
Don’t tell me – wait – he was in pizzagate too?
Go a way Pat Kenny’s wife and Warden of the snot
Haha every time ! I can play you like a banjo now
Jonner. +1
He had apparently stolen money, I remember that from the original report.
Romanian beggars wth return airline tickets jet into Ireland for some pre-Christmas fund-raising activities and to avail of the generosity of charities intended for the homeless.
Dontcha just love the free movement of people.
You’re right – we should leave the largest free trade area in the world, that provides a tariff-free market of hundreds of millions of customers for our goods and services, on the off-chance that a few dozen beggars might decide to move here.
Brain dead
Freedom of movement you say:
Brits in Spain: 761,000
Brits in Ireland: 291,000
Brits in France: 200,000
Brits in Germany: 115,000
Brits in Portugal: 60,000
Brits in Switzerland: 45,000
Brits in Netherlands: 44,000
Brits in Belgium: 28,000
Brits in Italy: 26,000
Brits in Sweden: 18,000
Brits in Greece: 18,000
Brits in Denmark: 11,000
Brits in Malta: 9,000
Brits in Austria: 8,500
Brits in Czech Republic: 6,800
Brits in Poland: 5,600
Brits in Luxembourg: 5,500
Brits in Hungary: 5,200
Brits in Romania: 4,500
Brits in Finland: 2,800
Brits in Ukraine: 900
Brits in Croatia: 890
Brits in Bulgaria: 800
Brits in Estonia: 750
Brits in Slovakia: 740
Brits in Bosnia-Herzegovina: 540
Brits in Latvia: 370
Brits in Slovenia: 330
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dG0C54J1qsQ
Bringing civilization and chips to those God awful places don’t you know
That’s unfair Harry. They’re model immigrants who integrate into the local culture rather than isolate themselves within their own communities.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150220175245/http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/The%20Edge%2019_tcm8-8226.pdf
“one third rarely or never met Spanish people, apart from in shops and restaurants, and that 60 per cent did not speak Spanish well”
Oh
But they aren’t a drain on resources and pay their way
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2006/jul/09/travelnews.spain
Oh
“It’s not unusual to deal with British people who have lived here over 20 years and complain about medical staff not speaking English. Because waiters and barmen speak English, they expect doctors to.’”
I was born in the wagon of a traveling show ..
But they don’t go over there and claim benefits like the “other” immigrants.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/-sp-thousands-britons-claim-benefits-eu
Oh
Ah stop this is practically online bullying at this stage :)
Ok, some might be old and so set in their ways, but at least they try and integrate the children into the local culture and not expect the schooling system to pick up the bill?
http://www.surinenglish.com/20080516/news/costasol-malaga/british-pupils-have-most-200805160941.html
Ho Boy.
Paddies in UK – 537,108
Don’t worry lads – we’ll keep looking after your unemployed as your own government is incapable of doing.
Blighty – keeping Ireland afloat for decades.
Poor lad I almost feel sorry for you now. Almost.
there was perhaps call for pity the first few times. but he keeps doing this – keeps coming back for more. and gets his arse handed to him every time. I’d be more concerned for him at this stage.
arseless at this stage
I don’t think he ever really recovered from the time Listrade handed him his bottom before
seemed to have an embittering rather than educational effect on him
that was sad to see – there’s always hope if you’re open to learning
Hahaha
Britannia’s teat – always there for the Irish to suck on when times get tough.
Never in the field of human conflict have so many Ryanair one-way tickets been sold.
For many Irish people their favourite view of home these days is in a rear-view mirror.
You’re welcome but a bit of gratitude wouldn’t go amiss Patrick.
Suck on teats you say?
The impoverished Irish peasantry, lacking the money to purchase the foods their farms produced, continued throughout the famine to export grain, meat, and other high-quality foods to Britain. The government’s grudging and ineffective measures to relieve the famine’s distress intensified the resentment of British rule among the Irish people. Similarly damaging was the attitude among many British intellectuals that the crisis was a predictable and not-unwelcome corrective to high birth rates in the preceding decades and perceived flaws, in their opinion, in the Irish national character.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Famine-Irish-history
You’re right again charger. I teared up at the words. British icons flashed before my eyes at your words of passion. True british legends like Bowie, the Brontes, Henry Cooper, Conan Doyle, Michael Gambon, Alfred Hitchock, George Harrison and Paul McCartney, Michael Palin, Ozzy Osbourne, Alan Rickman even old George Osbourne himself.
I’m literally welling up. Heroes. British hero….what?…all of them? Even Snape and Dumbledore? Born of Irish immigrants?
Good job there’s all those celebrated British immigrants to balance out that kind of cultural and financial contribution….
This is going too far :)
Michael Collins would be spinning in his grave if he knew quite how often successive Irish governments have let their people down.
The munificence of our neighbours on the mainland in welcoming O’Leary’s Fusiliers with open arms has kept Denny’s Gold sausages on the tables of their families back home.
Yes we’ve put up with your perpetual whining about 800 years of blah,blah,blah and although we don’t get you to dig our roads any more because the Polish are more reliable we still find plenty of employment for the poor and dispossessed from across the Irish Sea.
I know it’s a bitter pill to swallow but 100 years on from 1916 and the UK is still sheltering the poor,huddled masses from Eire.
Way to go Leo.
Lol
That’s all you’ve got?
What about the mass influx of Brexit fleeing Brit immigrants to Ireland seeking an EU passport these days?
Please stop self- flagellating there Nigella old sport
Don’t mention ze dole!
22,000 British unemployed in Germany claiming dole.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2017/12/19/de-wednesday-papers-244/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=web&utm_content=latest_comments#comment-1909903
I suppose after sucking on the teat of the US for WWII until Truman got sick of waiting Britain to pay him back and cut them off, you had to find another teat. Oh wait, that would now be the EU. Pity.
Generation Immigration from the Irish Times.
And why they’ll never come back.
Pauline Lavin, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
I moved back to Ireland after spending three years in England in May 2017 with a lot of experience in a niche area, and a Masters under my belt. I believed the media spin about the Irish economy recovering. I travelled to Donegal for an interview to be told there were 165 applicants for three jobs and they were interviewing 65. I then went to Wexford, Kildare, north Dublin and into the city for several other interviews.
By July I was completely dejected and reminded of why I had left Ireland three years earlier. I started to re-apply to jobs back in England. After interviews in Liverpool and Cardiff, I applied for a job in Oxford, was called to interview and offered the job a week later. The best advice I can give anyone who is unemployed in Ireland is do not hang on and rot; go where you can get work and then apply for jobs back in Ireland from a distance, and ask for Skype interviews.
I am unsure now whether I will return. I was not entitled to dole in Ireland as a returning emigrant and had to claim UK dole for three months, even though the cost of living in Ireland is twice what it is in the UK. Even if Brexit affects me I will probably go to Europe, rather than risk going back to Ireland.
Colm Fitzgerald, London, United Kingdom
My partner and I celebrate one year living in London this weekend, a year in which I’ve come across opportunities that would never have been open to me back home in Limerick after graduation: a communications job with a business organisation in Fitzrovia in Central London, and living in a Georgian house in Queens Park. Life in London goes at a million miles an hour, but I love getting the packed Bakerloo line to work and the buzz on the streets.
I’ve been glad to discover for myself that life here is far more affordable than I had been led to believe. Making new friends is tough and there is more crime. But I’m optimistic about my future in London, knowing a growing career and more money are within grasp.
It’s not a niche area if there are 165 applicants in Donegal.
No link and a large extract that exceeds fair use? If you’re going to use other people’s work to prop up your spite and bile you could at least do them the courtesy of providing them with potential web traffic.
Spot on about London and Oxford, sweetie.
Which is probably why people in London and Oxford voted in spades to stay in the EU. Unlike the Brexit-deluded sink estates and crime ridden wastelands which litter the rest of England and no self respecting Irish ex-pat would ever set foot in.
Pssst, Charger, I know you’re in on the joke and you’re not serious when you post these things. It’s just that it was you who brought up immigrants and freedom of movement as a bad thing. No one here did. So all this stuff about Irish immigration has the potential to come off as looking a bit stupid because no one here has any problem with freedom of movement except you.
Just saying as I know you’re not that stupid that you would in effect be arguing with yourself. I mean, only someone incredibly stupid would forget the point they made at the start and within minutes start arguing the opposite.
Oh dear. I hope the swingeing cutbacks in the NHS have left the burns units intact. Ouch.
Who is Charger Salmons and what’s he doing here when he could be hanging out at dailymail.co.uk admiring Davina McCall’s abs?
She is a HOTTIE.
Probably the only thing I would agree with Charger Sam-on about.
I think he’s someone who doesn’t like anti-UK racism on the ‘Sheet, which is fair enough, and his considered response to this is to prove once and for all that as a person of British origin he is, in fact, way better at racism than any Irish person. So far he’s proved this point spectacularly, even though it’s kinda anti-UK racist as a proposition that Brits are just inherently better at being racist? He may or may not be an avid supporter of Brexit, but who knows? Linking Brexit explicitly to his racism when Brexiteers squeal whenever they’re accused of fostering xenophobia seems counterproductive. If he’s actually anti-Brexit and this is all a tediously clever ruse, I’m not sure why he’s wasting his time, we’re not exactly a haven of Brexit-boosters round here.
Were you the person arguing on Broadsheet yesterday that their posts had been deleted because the good folk at BS were pro-Brexit ?
Or was that some other sad loser ?
Asking for a friend.
That was you, I thought.
You’re not as jolly as you used to be, Charger.
You were more fun in the old days.
True.
In my opinion “Charger” is a student in transition year working at bs for his practical. He started off promisingly but the poor lad/lass simply has run out of material and as it’s Xmas most of the other permanent staff are out on the piss so he has no one to give him new story ideas these last few days either. Time to go back and concentrate on the leaving now “Charger”. Genuinely
You don’t have a friend, Charger, no need for the charade.
You mean he’s serious? I thought he was doing a bit and we were all in on the joke. I was sure it was a satire on the ignorant nature of some of the British press, highlighting the hypocrisy with poorly sourced thoughts and an inability to back any statement up before ignoring the original comment and following it up with a direct contradiction.
Why else would someone post such easily dismissed nonsense of not in satire?
Well I’m still a assuming he is Moyest.
Well, I’ve never found him funny or charming since I only started paying attention to him when he did a bit of victim-blaming in the Tom Humphreys case, which makes him one of the very few ‘Sheet commenters I have a genuine loathing for. Fact is, given how much alt-right racism is couched in ironic or joking terms to provide deniability and sucker people in, it kinda doesn’t matter what the real CS is thinking at the back of it all. This is the real thing, or indistinguishable from the real thing.
But sure that kind of stuff is guaranteed clickbait from the likes of yourself Nigel and I’m not sayin that to be nasty: see my theory above