This afternoon.
90 George’s Street, Dublin (next to The George).
Smell the Birkenstock.
Mark writes:
Sandra Dunne and her son Hal in the new Green Party pop up shop. The shop opened Monday and will remain open for 7 weeks, providing a space for the promotion for the Green Party, promoting environmental innovation and to raise funds for the party. ‘Pre-loved’ clothes, books*, DVDs, vinyl and CDs** will be on sale and various workshops and events are on the schedule….
Green Party Ireland (Facebook)
* Jonathan Livingston Seagull
** Gipsy Kings, Gregorian Chant, early Enya
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‘Pre-loved’ clothes, hmmm…
Its the amount of previous owners that’s the real clincher for me. Also if items are from the recently deceased I tend to steer clear.
How can you tell?
eh, hello…i have something called a nose!…i also have some kinda sixth sense that those women on Charmed have.
评论员, do the staff not ask you to leave when you go around the shop chanting and singing gobbledegook, rolling your eyes, sniffing the clothes and waving your massive crystals about?
Bloodstains and brain matter are a dead giveaway.
Brain matters Zara
Fresh blood stains
Built in a small extension sprouting from the FF Mega Mall
Have we not killed off the green party and their nonsense yet?
This is the charity shop incarnation
Oh I get it their like Doctor Who, can someone call me when we get to the Tom Baker of Green Party’s.
When you grasp grammar.
So that’s a never then.
No. Democracy is funny like that.
So people stop voting for them but they stick around anyway, gotta love it.
‘Pre-loved’ an adjective to incite one’s most murderous instincts.
Have we forgotten about the years spent toeing the line with a FF government yet?
Nah I’m reminded of it every time I have to pay my motor tax.
Or hear the word “incinerator”
Which incinerator? The one delayed?
they can change. haven’t you seen Rocky IV?
i swapped out the plates on my 3 litre v6 for those off a crashed 2 litre model all i need now is for ryan to cross the road when yer mans red
The continued existence of the Greens / Glasraí is testament to the short memory of the Irish electorate. They’ll be back soon with the spawn of Bertie, Biffo, O’Dea, Hanafin, O’Donoghue – just writing those names down makes me angry.
…the greens were a bunch of ineffectual twits recruited and despised by Bertie and later by Cowen. Trouble is they tasted ‘power’ and will hang around like a bad smell….heard that feck Ryan several times on the radio recently…ffs
No it isn’t. Your post is testament to your ignorance though.
Thanks for your considered reply. You have changed my mind with your well-thought-through rebuttal. Well done!
I’m giving the Greens a second chance…. most other parties have had tonnes of chances :)
Some people don’t grasp what actually happened and never will but the Greens are best chance of sanity this country has. In the face of a lot of independents and the same ol’ FG, FF, Labour or the murderous duplicity of SF you might want to look again at the Greens and do a bit of research before you condemn them with glib sweeping statements.
I’m being serious, I voted Green last election and will again.
Fair play
I agree Greens have good principles in general but their hectoring, bullying zealotry is not the alternative
“hectoring, bullying…” ??? I haven’t seen that. I’ve seen it in other parties alright but not The Greens. Try and “debate” anything with a FF, FG, SF or Labour politician and you’ll see hectoring and bullying.
Bacchus due to them not appearing to being as politically cynical, you give them a free pass? The fact is that they put regressive motor taxes on the squeezed middle and increased the cost of domestic electricity due to the wind subsidy with only the flimsiest of evidence based argument to substantiate those policies.
@Joe no free pass, never said that. No free pass for anyone.
On car tax, the Greens wanted tax based on emissions for all cars but FF and then Phil Hogan altered it so that only new cars benefited. It originally made perfect sense.
The increase in electric bills is down to an EU directive and again, P Hogan allowing the power from wind farms to be sold to the UK while subsidised by Ireland. The Greens would never agree to such an arrangement. Those are not their policies.
Sorry Bacchus I was not specific enough. While I accept your points in rebuttal specifically what I refer to is how those issues and a sundry issue, the carbon tax were implemented and regulated under the Greens direction. The carbon tax for example was placed as a regressive tax on all motorists which disproportionately impacts the squeezed middle more. Meanwhile the largest polluters effectively got a derogation with a misguided ETS scheme that did little or nothing that their bottom line could easily cope with. The Commissioner for Energy Regulation, a quango that could easily have been reformed under the Green government was and is an unremitting failure in terms of consumer electricity prices (fourth highest in EU) and now has another gig in charge of the water also. (Ironically enough electricity prices for the large users in the ID band for example are very competitive though !)
I’m not going of course to argue about how EU influences decarbonisation of energy policy and in terms of generation the Greens can claim a lot of credit though arguably set unrealistically high targets after the 2005 Ukraine pipeline panic. My overall point though is that they in practice only applied polluter pays principle to some sectors of society and not to others and disproportionately.
Squeezed middle? What about the squeezed bottom?
I will never support the greens or their policies, in the past they have led out some of the craziest stuff i have ever seen put before the Dail. They have also been pro homeopathy, anti vac and anti farmer. They are a dangerous fringe party. I am all for policies to help stop the damage to our environment but the Greens are not the ones to implement such policies. #VoteIndependent.
Oh so am I, and ditto.
+1
The Greens joined FF in coalition and abandoned all their principles and election promises. That makes them the same ol’ as FF.
No they didn’t. Policy became compromised and when FG came in mostly butchered but saying they became the same as FF is nonsense. There was a certain innocence there, I blame Gormley for much of that, but they were always honest.
You have your times all wrong there. The Greens came in in 2007, when everyone thought the economy was still strong. They had long campaigned on Rossport, the incinerator, autism education, etc. All of those “principles” were abandoned. Then there was Clever Trevor who promised “not to lead” the veggies in to coalition with FF. He stepped aside so Gormley could do it. There are like the rest of them with a layer of sanctimoniousness layered on.
The literal embodiment of a waste of space.
creating waste, using space. creating space , using waste.
Greens were and are good!