66 thoughts on “De Saturday Papers

  1. GiggidyGoo

    Soldiers buying themselves out of poverty. Strange, but true. Disgraceful though that the State has them in that position.

    1. david

      It is
      But we must examine is it pay or is it the cost of living
      Where you compare other countries the stats say it all
      They are well paid
      So why are well paid workers not able to have a standard of living?
      Well that’s down to the path of greed
      And a government which cannot or will not control a economy
      When you have a free for all eventually you get to a stage when you end up with a crash
      We saw it in the property we see it now
      But if the soldiers and other public sector workers get help then the private sector must as well
      Itsvtimevwe got government not flashy socks sound bites and a self pat on the back SCUnit
      Unless tackled it is going to end in tears
      And brexit is on us
      Tick tock

      1. david

        Apparently the head of the HSE was the head of the cancer Tony O’Brien when the contract was awarded to this company that handled the tests
        And O’Reilly raised a question regarding possibilities of this exact scenario happening
        He was shouted down in a dail that sounded like a zoo
        When the heads start rolling it must start with Tony O’Brien
        In fact suspend him now pending a criminal negligence case
        The HSE has no future inireland and this tme no golden handshakes
        This is going to cost millions in compensation maybe over a billion
        And time to examine the company that was awarded this contract and the fact they must be persued for damages in the USA starting now before they pull the plug by declaring bankruptcy
        A legal case must be taken now to freeze their assets so they cannot out smart a rather incompetent department of health

      2. GiggidyGoo

        Some are on Family Income Suppliment. Plus having to travel 50,60,70 miles to and from work is a massive drain on income. If they’re driving their own car, then a massive amount of that cost is going to the State in duty and tax. (Same as a lot of people mind you)

        1. david

          I presume this is about the soldiers
          The path of free for all economics has driven us to the point soon unless the cost of living is tackled ,this country will be the last place foreign investment creating jobs
          Or even sustaining them
          Price controls rent controls and price adjustment in line with Europe average
          Donnelly mentioned this when trying to get elected

  2. david

    The FT makes me laugh
    It took since 1953 for north Korea and south Korea to meet and resolve their differences
    If this was under any other president in the USA the banners would be up and joy or joy but not in this case
    Kims nuclear arsenal hits the headline
    The media must be choking on their words
    The media would prefer I assume death destruction because trumps in the white house so they can say I told you so
    Well done trump

    1. GiggidyGoo

      Not only has Trump shook the foundations of what was cosy politics in the US and taking no bull from anyone, he has shown up Obama for his uselessness. Yet Trump is getting negative media every day – even our media has a fixation on him.

      1. Brother Barnabas

        in what way has trump shown up Obama? healthcare?

        negative coverage of trump tends primarily to be of his conduct and character, no?

        1. david

          What healthcare?
          Trump is president of the USA not north Korea
          Before Obama was conceived a sort of health care existed in the USA
          Obama brought in one that was about to bankrupt the different states
          Trump tried to correct it
          The subject is north Korea and Obama’s shining achievement there
          As in the abortion debacle you are informed as much on this than that
          Answer this bro?
          Name one woman who has their body controlled by the eighth amendment
          Provide the proof to back up your argument

        2. GiggidyGoo

          Trump is a doer. If he finds lame people in positions of power he has no qualms of getting rid of them. There’s a trail of wasters dumped by him. .
          I can’t remember Obama sending an envoy over to North Korea, ( and oddly enough, shortly afterwards North and South Korean leaders meeting)
          Also he’s putting his own country first (our lot could learn something from that)
          Negative coverage of Trump, does tend to concentrate on his personal conduct, mostly alleged mind you. However tv and radio news in this country does question his performance as president – but do so in a judgmental way as if the commentators are more qualified than anyone else on how the US should conduct its own affairs, and almost always disagreeing with Trump.
          Aren’t we gifted that we have so many clever people in the media? Wouldn’t their talents be more suited to government here than lambasting another country’s government?

          1. Nigel

            Wow what cynical shams these ranters and ravers against Varadker turned out to be, rushing around to kiss the backside of an obvious spoofer like Trump.

          2. david

            I wonder how he would of dealt with the smear test scandal?
            Bet he would of done the following
            Sacked his minister for health
            Arrested Tony O’Brien over the awarding of the licence and the possibility that the delays in informing the victims was due to him trying to ensure his retirement was before the truth emerged
            Launched a case to freeze the assets of the US company so a class action suit could be taken on behalf of the victims without fear of them declaring bankruptcy to get off the hook
            But what we got from boy Harris is classic unaccountability and ensuring the Irish taxpayer is landed with a massive multi million compensation bill
            And a usual culprits get off given a pension a golden handshake and remain faceless
            Then the next time
            Its time these incompetents and criminals were exposed sacked sued and put in prison
            Harris must go
            This is not something that a terry prone SCUnit can be allowed to do
            Mickey martin insist these pay the price of this cock up and do not let them off the ropes
            Maybe varadka knows as he was minister of health which will make this far worse

          3. david

            Are you talking about the cancer victims or those who see trump is possibly the best US president in decades or even since WW2
            Bet you are foaming at the mouth over north Korea
            Wait until’ the referendum is rejected
            And we see the reality of brexit

          4. Nigel

            Trump and the smear test scandal: he’d have put a crony from the company behind the smear tests in charge of the oversight committee who would have slashed all safeguards and regulations and created impediments to accessing relevant information and made it impossible for victims to seek any form of civil redress. If possible he’d issue gag orders and sue them for defamation. That’s the Trump way.

        3. Brother Barnabas

          “Name one woman who has their body controlled by the eighth amendment
          Provide the proof to back up your argument”

          what an odd challenge, david. there is no shortage of personal stories from irish women who have “their body controlled by the eighth amendment”. you’ll have no problem finding them. and there’s enough there to keep you busy until may 25. and, genuinely and in goodwill towards you, i think it would be a good idea for you to read some of them – and read them with an open mind and some compassion.

          1. david

            The eight amendment stopped abortion
            It did not control their bodies
            Stop twisting things to use as an agenda
            No woman was forced to have sex
            No woman was forced not to use contraception
            And no man controls a woman and those days are gone
            These stories are from women seeking a procedure illegal in this country
            Abortion on demand now has over taken the savita argument and it is this argument regarding Davila must be addressed and any woman whose life is in danger from a foetus that could kill her
            Not abortion on demand
            Once that happens nothing is standing in the way of distressed women on hearing their child will be handicapped of been pressurised into an abortion at a most distressing time ,simply because she dose not have money ,and the state wants to save money in care for those that can just be aborted.
            That’s exactly a scenario that can happen, and you cannot say different .and you cannot groove it a lie because the laws are not there in the statute books
            So BB show us the proof

          2. mildred st. meadowlark

            It’s not abortion on demand. It’s abortion on request, and then abortion under very specific conditions.

          3. ReproBertie (SCU)

            Again with the scaremongering lie about women being bullied into having an abortion.

            “Just don’t look. Just don’t look.”

          4. Brother Barnabas

            david, the 8th amendment denies women autonomy and the right to make the right decision for themselves

            i would call that control, but i’m guessing you’d disagree. that’s okay.

      2. david

        Exactly
        Not even JFK achieved what trump did
        Mind you when you go into a game of poker you do not show your hand
        And trump just dose that
        I loved le dandruff with micron and leading him like a child out of the white house by the hand
        Classic

        1. Nigel

          And then you could hear Trump’s teeth grinding during Macron’s speech all the way across the Atlantic. Classic.

          1. david

            Certainly did but a photo is ten times better
            Led like a child by the hand out of the white house and the le dandruff
            Quite humiliating really
            Bet the frau is p herself with the French outrage

          2. david

            Nigel
            Outrage is all one can see
            I would say as he is at home eating his frogs legs he is cursing himself for the humiliation on the world stage
            And back home the French people are not exactly happy with micron economics

      3. Jimmey_russell

        drumpf had NOTHING to do with what happened in north korea he wanted ww3 but this happened by accident drumpf is a russian puppet he wants to start loads of world wars with everyone

        1. GiggidyGoo

          That comment has really opened my eyes. Thanks for that. Now that you’ve presented so much proof to support your views, I am convinced.

      4. Nigel

        Love the cynical anti-imperialist types tripping over themselves to give credit for talks between North and South Korea to the white conservative US billionaire.

        1. SOQ

          North Korea’s actions are primarily defensive and Moon Jae-in has been working towards this for quite a long time. I suppose they decided that it was easier to deal with each other rather than letting a nut case like Trump get involved so in a way, he was indirectly responsible.

          1. Nigel

            I think Kim is making out like gangbusters. He’s got his nukes. He can’t get any more because his test site collapsed. The US State Department is in disarray. Trump veers around wildly contradicting himself with no clear foreign policy to speak of giving Kim all the room to maneuver he wants, and there’s a new more conciliatory regime in the South. Kim’s a creepy murdering feck whose country is an open-air gulag but he’s operating at several levels above Trump. Just hope the South Koreans have his number.

          2. Brother Barnabas

            you could also argue that kim would be nuts to completely abandon its nuclear programme while it’s faced with a hostile, bellicose and seemingly irrational US president

            hope it’s genuine but it seems to be an odd about-turn from north korea

          3. Nigel

            I think he just wanted to be a nuclear power and get a seat at the international big boy’s table. The conventional weaponry pointed at Seoul has always been the effective deterrent against US agression but now nobody knows whether Trump is willing to support or defend traditional allies any more. If – big big if – peace breaks out and the peninsula becomes nuclear-free and the North becomes more open it will be a great thing, but the idea that people want to give all the praise and credit to a rich white American man for essentially being really bad at his job, rather than the South Koreans or the machinations of Kim himself or possible behind-the-scenes pressure from China, tells us a lot about how Trump got elected in the first place.

          4. Nigel

            Are you worried I’m being presumptuously over familiar with one of the worst modern dictators in the world Giggidy? Wait til Donald and Teresa and Angela and Leo find out!

          5. Nigel

            Me an’ Vladimar an’ Bashar keepin’ it tight, yo.

            edalicious – aw we had him going there.

          6. GiggidyGoo

            @Edalicious. Better tell Nigel then. That was easy mind you – his reply was hilarious.

          7. jusayinlike

            +1 GG
            +1 David

            Trump making a mockery of Barry Sotero, tbf though it wouldn’t be difficult..

          8. david

            Is that foam in your mouth or are you just gagging on your words
            Trump achieved
            Obama well he can always play the black card

        2. david

          Well with moons like you ,Mildred, and jimmy, what else can a person who can think for themselves, think about those who cannot argue with evidence
          Even Mildred answer for changing abortion on demand to something more palatable like request
          But its the same
          Killing the unborn

  3. david

    Bet the next triumph will be the Israeli Palestinian conflict?
    Maybe the first move was to remove the poker hands of Hamas and Fattah, by signing the order to move the US embassy to Jerusalem a massive bone of contention and all those middle eastern visits.

  4. Jimmey_russell

    also, only backwards catholic bigots are saying that the silence on pro-abortion Broadsheet regarding Alfie Evans is deafening, he should have been terminated so that this circus would never have have happened.

    1. david

      My god
      Poor algae Evans
      Parents going through hell trying to get the best for their son ,fighting the hospital that decided to withdraw all treatment
      All the legal fighting and they lost
      But the despicable thing was when they wanted to bring home little alfie home so he could die there they were refused
      The ultimate FU for taking the might of the health system
      That’s the sickening thing
      They could of sent him home with a palliative nurse and shown compassion
      But jimmy you are a typical nasty piece of work
      Are you saying if he was aborted the suffering would of been just hunky dorey

  5. newsjustin

    No Irish Daily Mail? I can’t remember if BS usually include it or not.

    It flags it’s 10 day old opinion poll on the referendum on the cover. Yes vote continues its slide.

  6. david

    And we as a nation are to remove the protection of the unborn in our constitution and leave this in the hands of a government to do the right thing
    A government that cannot house the homeless
    Control rental property
    Provide a health service
    And now we hear about the head of the HSE who awarded the contract for smear tests
    We now have a minister who is bringing in reviews another tribunal and refuses to suspend immediately the guy who awarded the contract
    Boy Harris seems to be totally out of touch with reality
    Its action needed not talk
    Imagine this state as its run being allowed to abort children
    Scary stuff

  7. ReproBertie (SCU)

    It all brings to mind that Treehouse of Horror episode. “Just don’t look. Just don’t look.”

  8. david

    Meanwhile due to an avalanche of women seeking retesting due to this cancer scandal
    Boy Harris is diverting extra teams of nurses to adress the issue as nothing is done regarding who is responsible and immediately suspended pending punishment
    The result will be more people waiting for medical treatment ,less patients receiving treatment
    I bet by the time this is finished the waiting lists will be quite staggering and reflecting something like a hospital in the slums of Bombay
    Boy Harris must be removed as for Tony O’Brien well jail him

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