32 thoughts on “De Monday Papers

  1. eoin

    “A spokeswoman said that when gardaí and PSNI officers carried out activities in either jurisdiction it was “within the law and with full permission and knowledge of the host service…Both An Garda Síochána and the PSNI are content normal procedure was followed,” she added.”

    reports the Times Ireland about the heavily armed (Glock sidearm and HK36C assault rifle/machine gun) PSNI officers driving “at a pace” in an unmarked blacked-out Range Rover with UK registration plates towards the gates of Garda HQ in the Phoenix Park. A quick thinking Garda believed the HQ was under attack and pressed a button which activated a steel barrier which shot up from the ground which nearly flipped the underside of the Range Rover.

    Why hasn’t the independent Garda oversight body, GSOC launched an investigation of this incident which happened on 25 March 2019, a fortnight ago? The Garda Commissioner needs to be protected but why wasn’t he protected by Gardai in this State? This looks like a perhaps catastrophic decision by the Garda commissioner about the operation of PSNI in this State?

    GSOC?

      1. Junkface

        Why are there so many recent ATM smash and grab robberies along the border counties? Could the answer be Continuity IRA and other similar idiots are gathering cash to buy weapons and ammunition because they thought Brexit was about to go ahead with a a no deal and some sort of border being temporarily applied? The timing is more than a coincidence I think.

  2. eoin

    A fortnight after Saudi Arabia dropped a massive bomb on a hospital in Yemen killing seven children, it dropped a bomb on a school yesterday which killed 11 including children.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/saudi-led-air-raids-kill-11-civilians-yemen-sanaa-190407201257046.html

    That’s the Saudi Arabia which bribes and buys Typhoon bombers from British Aerospace in England at around €90 million apiece. Saudi uses state contracts as an extension of its diplomacy and any state which deals with it is consenting to its policies.

    Does Ireland have anything to say about the killing of children by indiscriminate Saudi bombing in Yemen? Or would that jeopardise Larry Goodman’s beef exports?

  3. eoin

    The powers responsible for sending Libya back to medieval times are standing well back from the latest turmoil in northern Libya where the government is fighting a faction of the army. If either Libyan side were to expand their operations into southern Libya where the UK and US are making out like bandits exporting $50 million of oil every single day, then there might be some international intervention. Has FG signed us up for that fupp up yet?

  4. GiggidyGoo

    I see Paul Kehoe had to ‘evacuate’ his home over the weekend. Nasty protestors. How could they? You could they give Kehoe something to moan about. Peaceful protest by the way. ‘Evacuate’. Then again, Kehoe has a habit of exaggerating – same with a protest outside his clinic two years ago approx.

    This government can visit nastiness on households, taxes on the homes themselves etc. as well as selling them off to vultures and having families dumped out on the street. And these FG Boyos expect sympathy of some sort for having to endure a protest?

    1. eoin

      Saw the video of the protest, around eight people including the person videoing them. Reminded me of that Paul Hardcastle song, in WW2 the average age of a combatant was 26, in Vietnam it was 19, and outside Paul Kehoe’s home yesterday, it was 60. These eight protesters turned up for 10 minutes with two banners, gave a dignified speech about evictions which was recorded to Facebook and then peacefully departed.

      Glad the (junior) minister and his family are safe. It must have been traumatic for them. Hopefully they’ll get the support they need to recover from the ordeal.

      1. Rob_G

        You and giggidy stick up your home addresses so, and we can organise a protest outside your houses. See how clever you think it is then.

          1. Rob_G

            You and I disagree about things; according to your logic, that’s grounds enough for me to round up some mouth-breathers and protest outside the house where you live with your family.

          2. martco

            however @Rob_G
            you might ask yourself what drives someone to that point where they feel the only way to have their voice heard is to go to that length in the first place, hmm?

            maybe if your govt. concentrated on doing their job properly & in a fair manner instead of the endless PR fest we might get somewhere.

          3. Rob_G

            @Martco – everyone has the same entitlement to have their voices heard as anyone else – there are local and European elections coming up up, and people are entitled to protest also.

            Protesting outside a government dept or TD’s constituency office is fine; protesting outside someone’s house is scummy. You seem to be suggesting that the ends justifies the means, if someone really, really, felt that their voice was not heard being heard, they could protest outside the Minister’s children’s school as a next step.

          4. martco

            I think many people have given up on the system & normal behaviours…again that’s what I’d be looking more into here. they ain’t going away, only going to escalate if anything.

            its not like this subjectmatter has just shown up in the wash yesterday, it’s been thoroughly aired & debated & re-debated, you’ve had everything from Primetime programs to street protests & everything in between….and what substantially has changed?

            some might call that being ignored & that brings reaction.

            your “scummy” is turning into many people’s “legitimate under the circumstances”

            from my reading of this it was a small group made up of older people who in the absence of any action are taking a last resort step to stand outside their representative’s house to get attention. in a different era, a skilled politician might have saved his lunch for the microwave & engaged with the handful of people & heard their views & taken them on board…or does he just represent other more successful people who don’t have issues? perhaps even turned it into a major win…instead of going full-scale exaggerated…”evacuate” ffs have you seen the video?

            my point is many otherwise reasonable people are getting sick sore & tired of the bs. this scummy behaviour as you call it to my mind is simply a consequence.

          5. Rob_G

            “I think many people have given up on the system & normal behaviours…again that’s what I’d be looking more into here. “

            – democracy, for all its imperfections, is the best system we have. I don’t think that we should revert to mob rule because a small minority of aggrieved people are peeved that the democracy

            If the protest outside his house doesn’t work, should the next step be to follow his wife to work? Or as he walks his children to school? What about outside his parents’ home – surely if someone feels ‘ignored’, this is only logical next step?

          6. martco

            I’m not saying you’re wrong in what you’ve written. but bypassing the root cause isn’t gonna do any good here, that’s how is how bad stuff happens, we’re certainly on the road to it.

            let’s say we ignore them further & as the numbers grow, more unreasonable people get involved & you get a real mob rule situation what happens next? crack their citizen heads open with batons?

            see this is the problem with a heavily conservative pro business leaning government…IT IS ANTISOCIAL….then everyone is mystified & horrified that there is antisocial reaction to antisocial policies?!

            antisocial = antisocial

          7. My Man

            I’m sure the protesters fannying around a government minister’s house on a Sunday are all really nice people

          8. Rob_G

            “see this is the problem with a heavily conservative pro business leaning government…IT IS ANTISOCIAL….then everyone is mystified & horrified that there is antisocial reaction to antisocial policies?!”

            You mean the government that was elected by a plurality of the voters in Ireland? (I’d dispute that it it is a ‘conservative pro-business’ government given the enormous expenditure on social protection) – but that’s kind of beside the point. One party one the election (more-or-less), and their policies are being implemented (more-or-less). You can’t please all the people all of the time, but that’s democracy.

            “let’s say we ignore them further & as the numbers grow, more unreasonable people get involved & you get a real mob rule situation what happens next? crack their citizen heads open with batons?”
            – I certainly hope it doesn’t come to that, but if it were the case that the democratic government elected by the people was threatened by violent mob, yes, I hope that the Gardaí would uphold democracy, and am sure that they would, too.

        1. Catherine costelloe

          And exactly what would you say ? That they put a posting up on broadsheet ? You’d be laughed out of it!!

  5. dav

    I see the blushirt favoured vulture funds are allowed to buy up all the property they want, bravo blushirts. bravo..

  6. Junkface

    The Irish Independent headline is disturbing. So Dublin rents about to soar further due to Cuckoo funds/Vulture funds engaging in large scale house buying!!? What kind of Government is this? Why are they allowing these funds to jump ahead of Irish people trying to get their first home?

    I’m starting to think that the people of Ireland should be striking like the yellow vests of France every weekend until something is done about these international funds, and the housing crisis in general. It is not sustainable, the economy will crash and burn soon enough. FG are entirely incapable of dealing with the situation.

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