34 thoughts on “De Saturday Papers

  1. jusayinlike

    Wimpy Varadkar and his infatuation with censorship will end in tears just like his laughable SCU outfit.

    “The Taoiseach said he wants Richard Bruton to work out the best and most effective way of keeping such commentary off the internet. He noted that the government was working towards the creation of a Digital Safety Commissioner which he hopes to advance in 2019.”

    The other “opposition” cult, Fine Fail, are looking for precisely the same thing. Coincidence of course.

    1. The Great Wall of Gammon

      Tell yeh what… those sparkly thigh-high boots she wore with that dress were a sight to behold…. She’s spectacular on so many levels.

        1. f_lawless

          her recent efforts to help rehabilitate the public image of war criminal George Bush are disgusting. That’s FU I suppose

          1. SOQ

            Politics is the art of optics where people can hold diagonally opposing views in public while being best of friends elsewhere. She, a good looking black woman, is out there as an alternative to Trump, at least until the Democrats get their act together.

            I see nothing wrong with that.

          2. jusayinlike

            A Trump supporter calling someone else scum, how fitting. That’s about the size of fg shill brains these days.

            Trump has stopped more bombs in 2 years than any of his predecessors did in 8 you uneducated moron.

            informing fg shills is tiresome.

  2. realPolithicks

    The clown show that were Martin O Neill and Roy Keane departs and now Declan Rice is reported to be commited to pay for Ireland. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

  3. Eoin

    Whatever about social media, the language in the Dail from the Left and the Right (says Owen C) and Centre (FF says it’s centrist) is fairly plainspoken:

    “That banks’ enforcers, these thugs – I call them thugs – can enter somebody’s property, cut down locks, break down doors, take somebody out by their ears, kick somebody on the ground and push them out of their own home and property while gardaí watch on is not acceptable” Pearse Doherty

    “We are trying to solve a housing crisis while turning a blind eye to the mayhem and treachery taking place in the use of a third force militia to evict people from houses and family farms. They are nothing short of thugs and they would have been dealt with a lot differently 100 years ago. They have no place in our modern democracy. We must stand up for our people and support them. Ní neart go cur le chéile. ” Mattie McGrath

    ” Legislation needs to be brought up to date to ensure the particular groups involved – they are thugs really – will be reined in and regulated properly.” Martin Kenny

    “In my opinion, many of the banks involved are scum. Yesterday in County Roscommon a group of 20 or 30 men with dogs came from the North, aided and abetted by An Garda Síochána who blocked off two roads. The group of men pegged three people, two of whom were elderly, out of a house and left them on the side of the road. They were aided and abetted by An Garda Síochána, which is disgraceful. Irish people need to wake up, especially if people are coming from the North. We must take them on and stop what is happening.” Michael Fitzmaurice

    “We have said time and again that vulture funds are aggressive and should be stopped in their tracks.” John McGuinness

    I wonder how far the 1000s (and it is literally thousands) of court cases by banks/vultures will get if the thugs doing the evictions meet organised community resistance? Judging by the wee drubbing handed out last Sunday, not very far at all.

  4. Eoin

    Front page of the Daily Mail is a hoot – collect tokens for Pope’s visit in August, the one hardly anyone turned out to see. Might be of interest to the boys who were absent from il papa’s sit-down in Rome yesterday.

    BTW, in case anyone is thinking of buying the Mail – and after the revelations about its attitude to truth and public duty exposed in the Charleton Tribunal, decent people probably wouldn’t – you’ll have to keep buying it to collect enough tokens to get one of the commemorative coins which they plainly have surplus shedloads of.

  5. Eoin

    Nice that Leo wants to uphold law and order. So, how is the government getting on with its favoured means of getting to the bottom of shadiness and sleaze.

    Last week, Leo agreed to a second extension of the Commission of Investigation into Nama’s sale of Project Eagle. The transaction lost the taxpayer €200m said the C&AG and the public accounts committee. The Commission was established in June 2017, was supposed to conclude in June 2018, sought an extension to December 2018 and last week was given a second extension to June 2019 (that’s just a few months before Nama is supposed to wind up, so any conclusion will be fairly moot even if the Commission does finish in June and the betting is, it will seek another extension).

    And what about the Siteserv Commission of Investigation, which has already had FIVE extensions. According to the Times Ireland today.

    ““From the time of its establishment to the end of November this year the commission spent €4.8 million on direct costs, including salaries, administration, overheads and its legal counsel,” Mr Varadkar said. “The commission has not provided any estimate of the third party legal costs incurred to date but they are likely to be substantial and it would be prudent to assume the final cost of the commission will exceed €30 million.”

    Forget about curbing social media, maybe a few curbs on Leo and his commissions might be in order.

    1. Giggidygoo

      Vacron would establish a Commission into why there are so many Commissioning of Commissions.

      He’s now said he viewed the video. Regardless of what went before or after, he has seen the Gardai ignoring violence. He has seen a Northern (British) citizen coming into this country and assaulting Irish citizens.

  6. shortforBob

    This business with the drones at Gatwick airport is mad. They’ve caused nearly as much hassle as a big storm or multiple bomb threats.

        1. jusayinlike

          Optics are so bad wimpy Varadkar threatens to ban the internet.

          I’m sure he’s fully thought through the congestion such a frivolous act would have on the court system.

          1. MaryLou's ArmaLite

            Jesus wept, SF/IRA scum saying someone else has bad optics when you scumbags spent decades looking at people thru the optics of a pistol.

          2. jusayinlike

            The optics are bad you moron.
            I don’t support sinn fein but in your binary childlike fg shill brain that all that rattles.

  7. Otis Blue

    “But we can’t be having that. That’s not allowed. And so the Establishment hits back”

    True in this instance but in some many others too. We’ve had worse Governments, but have we had one as beholden to the interests of the few or one as dismissive to the general wellbeing of its citizenry?

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