32 thoughts on “De Friday Papers

    1. sǝɯǝɯ ʇɐ pɐq

      A ‘Gazette'</i1. is an ex-politician, most likely an ex-member of the Labour Party, or the Greens, or a new recruit to ReNua.

      No, hang on.
      I'm thinking of a no-hoper, a has-been and a blind optimist..
      None of them are Gazettes.

      None of them are Gazettes.

      Carry on.

  1. sǝɯǝɯ ʇɐ pɐq

    Sinn Féin and Independents are gonna landslide the next election.
    The usual cabals won’t get a look in.

    We’re gonna be double foooked, or we’re gonna be doubly-double-fooooked, in the following election.
    Do the maths.

    Brace yourselves my dears, we’re in for a very rough ride.

    Personally, I think it’s great craic.
    I’m looking forward to the Revolution.
    -Long overdue, innit?

  2. Clampers Outside!

    Criticise away Merkel… Ireland didn’t tell Palestinian kids ‘there’s no room’ for them when they arrived…. because of a war we started, but you did.

    Suck it up Merkel.

    1. mauriac

      maybe she should have thought twice about unilaterally announcing the end of the Dublin convention and creating huge pull factors for millions of illegal migrants. who made her queen of Europe and how long before older German attitudes assert themselves ?

  3. Fergus the magic postman

    So, in times of austerity, the garda comissioners husband leads the secret unit Operation Mizen, to spy on, and gather profiles & data on water protesters.
    There’s a lot of tax payers money being pumped into political policing.

  4. Mr. T.

    So the State Police are being used to spy on citizens who have a different opinion to Government policy.

    Are we living in East Berlin pre 1989?

    1. Fergus the magic postman

      It’s the fact that they’ll barefacedly deny there is political policing. In this case isn’t it an amazing coincidence that this operation is headed by the commissioners husband.

      1. ReproBertie

        He’s a garda. Should he be excluded from being assigned to any operations just in case some wannabe rabble-rouser Daily Fail journo hints at it being a somehow shady appointment?

        1. Fergus the magic postman

          It’s no secret that Mr. Enda Kenny & his mate with no name have a pretty big interest in anything that upsets Irish Water protests. To suggest this is merely a coincidence because he’s a Garda is pretty dumb, but keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.

          1. Fergus the magic postman

            It’s not what I know about his career. It’s about not being an gullible idiot.

          2. ReproBertie

            So you know nothing about Detective Superintendent McGowan beyond who he is married to but are happy to claim that his appointment to a garda operation is in some way political because the operation is investigating a cause you believe in.

            Not a gullible idiot then, just a paranoid loon.

          3. Fergus the magic postman

            Almost everything to do with the Gardaí and their Irish Water related operations including GMC Sierra meter installation security, and raids/ arrests in Jobstown, and lower profile arrests and intimidation at smaller protests (as recently as yesterday a Detective Clarke in Dundrum lied to a protester that it was illegal to film an arrest – he had filmed a heavy handed arrest at a peaceful protest of about 5 people – the detective was on the scene in minutes).

            As I say, you keep telling yourself that there’s no political policing. It’s no skin off my nose.

          4. ReproBertie

            Non-arrest of 4 people at peaceful protest politically motivated claims Fergus the magic postman.

            Or is it only when they enforce the law at protests that it’s political?

    2. ReproBertie

      Typical Johnny come lately protestor. The gardaí, and other police forces around the world, have been taking stills and video of protests for years. The images are then used to track down and arrest people should charges arise from the actions surronding the protest. It’s not political policiing. It’s just policing.

        1. ReproBertie

          If they were treating IW protests any differently than other protests then you could argue that it was political. As they are treating IW protests the same way they treat all other protests then either all protests are policed politically or none are.

          1. DD

            Horsepoo.

            For starters, most non water tax related protests are not videoed by balaclava wearing Gardai.

          2. Fergus the magic postman

            They are treating the water protests very differently. Most wouldn’t argue with that, whether they wanted to or not.

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