I looked after my pop , was with him when he died, a wonderfull papa. Love was never a nursing home – give it a try .
SOQ
I think you are being a bit judgemental there Catherine. There are plenty of reasons why someone cannot be cared for at home- but they are still loved. Advanced dementia requires 24/7 care in a secure environment which very few if any can provide.
But, if this is in reference to Johnson- his comments were about inheritance, not care, The only time the state will go after a home is if no one else is living there. Why should others be paying for such when the family can well afford to pay for it privately?
Spaghetti Hoop
Condolences. But for clarification, are you suggesting that residents receive no love or care while in the home – or that their families display none because they arranged the care and transfer?
Charger Salmons
Hello Ireland.
Welcome to your new leader.
The one you elected without opposition.
“I will make use of the clauses in the Treaties that allow proposals on taxation to be adopted by co-decision and decided by qualified majority voting in the Council.
Cricket not included on Russia’s officially recognised list of sports
Charger Salmons
Hello Ireland.
Welcome to your new leader.
The one you elected without opposition.
“I will make use of the clauses in the Treaties that allow proposals on taxation to be adopted by co-decision and decided by qualified majority voting in the Council.
“I will ensure that taxation of big tech companies is a priority. I will work hard to ensure the proposals currently on the table are turned into law.”
Yep, she is attacking Ireland’s tax brand, but she’ll face obstacles with tax sovereignty and in any event, to the extent Ireland controls taxation, we’ll defend it to the last. We’ve shown that.
GiggidyGoo
Much as I’d like to agree Eoin, this is the first time it’s been said that the clauses will be made use of. Up to now it was the odd hint or threat by Germany and France. It has been easy for Noonan and Donohue to brush it off.
The above is not a threat. It’s a statement of intent. “Passerelle Clauses” as someone mentioned in the replies, which were put into the Lisbon Treaty (where we were sent back to give the right answer in a second referendum) are worrying.
Charger Salmons
Obviously these worrying statements of intent published two days ago have been thoroughly aired and discussed by the Irish media.
Has the Irish Times taken time off from its incessant Brit-bashing to actually report on something negative involving the EU ?
Has RTE’s Tony Connolly been reporting breathlessly from Brussels about the threat facing Ireland ?
Or is his nose still firmly wedged up his EU minder’s backside ?
This country is badly served by its myopic media.
Janet, I ate my avatar
I have a theory that Salmon is actually an unhinged Nationalist hell-bent on using reverse psychology to goad us into feelings of patriotic pride
Janet, I ate my avatar
Britt’s just don’t care the way he does
B9Com From No
Either that or a failed “comedian” working on a new show.
Maybe he’s just like our US American diaspora thinks the donation into the NORAID bucket votes to the fight for the Irish freedom?
Papi
Charge is the internet equivalent of someone who has a terrible home life and goes to school to beat up other kids.
SOQ
So if the EU is so hell bent on standardising tax across all member states then why has France just passed a 3% tax on annual revenue for digital services from the likes of Facebook and Google?
dav
the irony coming from the purveyor of unicorns and stardust.. https://qz.com/1644202/who-are-the-160000-conservatives-picking-the-next-uk-prime-minister/
“..The project’s research has found that Conservative party members are markedly less diverse than the UK population. Some 97% of the party’s members are white—compared to 86% of the UK population—according to the project’s Tim Bale, a politics professor at Queen Mary. That’s not all that different from other UK parties, whose members are over 95% white, Bale explains.
Tory party members are also older than the average member of other parties—most are above 55, and nearly 40% are above 66 years of age. Apart from the Liberal Democrats, they are the most likely to be middle class—and one in 20 members makes over £100,000 ($125,000) a year. Seven in ten are men, compared to the overall population, which is 51% female and 49% male.”
Charger Salmons
Remind us again of the social background and percentage of the population of the people who voted for Varadkar as Taoiseach ?
ReproBertie
[Edited as it’s not even worth it]
dav
oh sweetie, leo was voted by wannabe thatcherites who are as much deserving with distain as your tory masters..
Charger Salmons
Precisely.
While you’re at it perhaps you might also explore the idea that the interests of the population in matters of financial oversight and political accountability are not best served by there being no effective opposition.
dav
I’d might suggest you’d explore the impact of a no deal brexit and implantation of border posts on the Good Friday Agreement and the subsequent peace process but I think we both know that you and your ilk don’t really care..
Charger Salmons
You obviously haven’t been following my posts for the past three years.
Of course it can be difficult doing this during school hours but surely you could have found time in between doing your homework and going on the Xbox ?
Papi
Poor Tommy Robinson wannabe is lonely Charger.
dav
“past 3 years” does that include the time you reinvented yourself as oliie cromwell??
B9Com From No
About fupping time
As others note we will fight it tooth and nail like the good little sycophants we are, then as with Mercosur, one of ours will be bribed or co-opted into the negotiating team, then a few years later it’s just announced – as a fait accompli.
But so what? Why should farmers or a few multinationals dictate our tax policy anyway? I’d be much happier with the EU dictating it as we might eventually get to an equivalence in terms of public service provisions and basic rights for all citizens. No one needs your dystopian vampire squid capitalism
eoin
Where is Lisa Smyth? She’s in a refugee camp says the media. So, she’s free to go? Nope. She’s being held by a group called the “Syrian Defence Forces” (SDF), a ragtag military grouping with some backing from the US, France. This isn’t a refugee camp, it’s a detention camp while the SDF decides what to do with its captives. Some are being sent (“sold” according to some) to Iraq where they face harsh conditions including torture (“Palestinian suspension”, “parrot perch” and suspension by the wrists are common) and punishment for the activities of the group known as Islamic State. The Al Hawl camp is, according to some, a hotbed of pro-Islamic State militantism because the captives were all captured in Islamic State territory, and in many cases, they’re suspected of being militarily or familially involved with IS. Lisa Smyth says she wasn’t militarily involved, others say they’re “absolutely positive” she was training fighters and you don’t need to speak Arabic to show someone how to use a gun. Even Lisa Smyth herself says she wants to see a caliphate, that is, land governed according to a strict version of Islam. At the very least, she says she was married to an IS fighter and has a child by him. The SDF is currently considering moving 2,000 captives to Iraq for prosecution. Lisa Smyth will likely be one of them. Very little of this is being reported in the Irish media.
Let her off to face justice in Iraq. Her child is another orphan of war and there are 100,000+ in Syria, northern Iraq.
ReproBertie
Irish media is pretty consistent in saying she is being detained. I’ve seen no suggestion that she’s free to leave but then I don’t read the tabloids. That said, the IDM above even says “where she is being held”.
eoin
Refugees in refugee camps are free to leave, it’s just they have nowhere to go and they get food, medicine, shelter and protection in a refugee camp. Lisa Smyth is not in a refugee camp, she’s not free to go, there’s wire fences around the camp, a la German PoW camp. Which Irish media has reported who’s detaining her and what their plans are? Has any Irish media spoken to the detention camp commander? Has any Irish media reported on the transfer of detainees to Iraq? Course not, that might clear up some confusion and that isn’t a role our brave media embraces.
ReproBertie
Has any Irish media reported that she is free to leave? Or have they all said she is either “being held” or “detained”? On Six One yesterday RTÉ were very specific that she is not free to leave.
B9Com From No
Completely agree about the reporting Eoin and thanks for the additional information in your post. But you’ve again gone straight for the pitchfork , do steady on, old chap.
While she clearly doesn’t have the media training or concerted campaign behind her like that ex-guard you love, her agenda is no less obvious.
A military “analyst” on the Telly last night confirmed that at one stage it was considered possible for the Connacht Rangers to go in and extricate her, and added that as an Irish citizen who got into “trouble “ abroad, the precedent would be for the state to go and get her out, as there is no evidence to support the claims of her training militants, likely none that could be obtained, or in any case, there’s no law in Ireland against joining ISIS
bertie blenkinsop
That Angela Merkel flag was funny at the time but bringing it to your wedding reminds me of when Bart Simpson was the “I didn’t do it kid”
Spaghetti Hoop
It made national news yesterday and today’s prime-time bulletins! But Bert, oh soccer trivia man, weren’t the North Korean (or hired Chinese) fans first at the 2010 WC with the phrase of ‘Kim-Jong -il thinks we’re at work’?
Bertie Theodore Alphege Blenkinsop
Ha!
Never heard that one Hoops tbh :)
B9Com From No
I noted the wife’s surname is German!
Do you think he chatted her up with this banner?
V
True
But you know what Bert
It’s the only nice thing in those papers today
ISIS Bride – and Irish citizen – who might be sent to Iraq for torture- fecking torture
Boris, and whatever tis he’s on about today
Trump – always a bad sign
Army Pay – always a downer
Pilots Strike in holiday season – as if the weather here in JULY FFS wasn’t tough enough without the fear of being stuck in it when you should be in Majorca
McIiroy in another meltdown
Baby agony
And the villa is haunted
C’mon
Let the groom off for getting another day out with his flag and his five minutes
Bertie Theodore Alphege Blenkinsop
Ah Clampers has a lovely story about waiting for his wife to come out of prison (reading between the lines) on the Nicks Tix thread :)
Papi
HA! Utterly unnecessary and wonderful.
eoin
Sorry, forget which commenter mentioned the circulation figures for the Irish Daily Mail during the week, but yesterday, the circulation figures for all British newspapers in Ireland in June 2019 were published. The Irish Daily Mail has circulation of around 27,000 a day. Circulation for all British papers is down 11% in the year, and the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday are following the market. Funnily enough, there was no real impact on the Times Ireland which stopped its print issue on 21 June.
A day after the Irish Times had a 1/4 front page ad for BAM, the Dutch construction business which is the lead builder at the National Childrens Hospital, the “most expensive” hospital in the world, the paper today gives a platform to the CEO of BAM, who tells us how it is. There’s even a nice upward angled pic of the hands-folded Theo. You couldn’t get a more tushy licking article if you tried. And if BAM were such experts, why has the cost of the NCH increased 100%+.
Remember this is believed to be the business that Leo was talking about when he said “there are one or two contractors who, quite frankly, I would not like to see get a public contract again in this State” In response to that, BAM issued Leo with a 2-hour ultimatum to clarify he wasn’t talking about BAM, but Leo ignored them. Since then, Leo has been visited by the Dutch royals who probably leaned on him because BAM is formally called “Royal BAM Groep”.
B9Com From No
Probably
They’re also probably one of the few large contractors capable of delivering such a large and complex project of this scale, without going bust.
Carillion, anyone?
They also delivered the new motorway yesterday
SOQ
If I asked you to build me a house and it turns out the Quantity Surveyor never bothered even visiting the site and architect didn’t know his ass from his elbow- how is that your fault? Pretty certain BAM are on solid legal ground with NCH- otherwise they would have been challenged long before now.
B9Com From No
+ €3Bn
Why am I being modded this time?
Charger Salmons
Probably because you’re boring.
Although being a knob as well doesn’t help your cause.
Bertie Theodore Alphege Blenkinsop
* irony meter explodes *
B9Com From No
Hahaha
That’s the funniest thing you’ve ever said
The NORAID comparison hit home I see
Papi
Matthew 7:5, Tommy.
Papi
Ah, leave the Charger Robinson comment up, just for Berties response, that was mint.
B9Com From No
Feel like I missed something :(
Charger Salmons
Gun.Fish.Barrel.
Papi
Yeah, you’d think you’d have learned by now, but no, just keep coming back for more, Tommy.
Britain’s first Muslim Home Secretary praises Nigel Farage and admits The Brexit Party are not extremists.
Not that you’ll ever hear or read this in the Irish media.
I looked after my pop , was with him when he died, a wonderfull papa. Love was never a nursing home – give it a try .
I think you are being a bit judgemental there Catherine. There are plenty of reasons why someone cannot be cared for at home- but they are still loved. Advanced dementia requires 24/7 care in a secure environment which very few if any can provide.
But, if this is in reference to Johnson- his comments were about inheritance, not care, The only time the state will go after a home is if no one else is living there. Why should others be paying for such when the family can well afford to pay for it privately?
Condolences. But for clarification, are you suggesting that residents receive no love or care while in the home – or that their families display none because they arranged the care and transfer?
Hello Ireland.
Welcome to your new leader.
The one you elected without opposition.
“I will make use of the clauses in the Treaties that allow proposals on taxation to be adopted by co-decision and decided by qualified majority voting in the Council.
https://twitter.com/EU_Taxud/status/1151465268062957568
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Heh,heh,heh.
Cricket not included on Russia’s officially recognised list of sports
Hello Ireland.
Welcome to your new leader.
The one you elected without opposition.
“I will make use of the clauses in the Treaties that allow proposals on taxation to be adopted by co-decision and decided by qualified majority voting in the Council.
https://twitter.com/EU_Taxud/status/1151465268062957568
“I will ensure that taxation of big tech companies is a priority. I will work hard to ensure the proposals currently on the table are turned into law.”
Yep, she is attacking Ireland’s tax brand, but she’ll face obstacles with tax sovereignty and in any event, to the extent Ireland controls taxation, we’ll defend it to the last. We’ve shown that.
Much as I’d like to agree Eoin, this is the first time it’s been said that the clauses will be made use of. Up to now it was the odd hint or threat by Germany and France. It has been easy for Noonan and Donohue to brush it off.
The above is not a threat. It’s a statement of intent. “Passerelle Clauses” as someone mentioned in the replies, which were put into the Lisbon Treaty (where we were sent back to give the right answer in a second referendum) are worrying.
Obviously these worrying statements of intent published two days ago have been thoroughly aired and discussed by the Irish media.
Has the Irish Times taken time off from its incessant Brit-bashing to actually report on something negative involving the EU ?
Has RTE’s Tony Connolly been reporting breathlessly from Brussels about the threat facing Ireland ?
Or is his nose still firmly wedged up his EU minder’s backside ?
This country is badly served by its myopic media.
I have a theory that Salmon is actually an unhinged Nationalist hell-bent on using reverse psychology to goad us into feelings of patriotic pride
Britt’s just don’t care the way he does
Either that or a failed “comedian” working on a new show.
Maybe he’s just like our US American diaspora thinks the donation into the NORAID bucket votes to the fight for the Irish freedom?
Charge is the internet equivalent of someone who has a terrible home life and goes to school to beat up other kids.
So if the EU is so hell bent on standardising tax across all member states then why has France just passed a 3% tax on annual revenue for digital services from the likes of Facebook and Google?
the irony coming from the purveyor of unicorns and stardust..
https://qz.com/1644202/who-are-the-160000-conservatives-picking-the-next-uk-prime-minister/
“..The project’s research has found that Conservative party members are markedly less diverse than the UK population. Some 97% of the party’s members are white—compared to 86% of the UK population—according to the project’s Tim Bale, a politics professor at Queen Mary. That’s not all that different from other UK parties, whose members are over 95% white, Bale explains.
Tory party members are also older than the average member of other parties—most are above 55, and nearly 40% are above 66 years of age. Apart from the Liberal Democrats, they are the most likely to be middle class—and one in 20 members makes over £100,000 ($125,000) a year. Seven in ten are men, compared to the overall population, which is 51% female and 49% male.”
Remind us again of the social background and percentage of the population of the people who voted for Varadkar as Taoiseach ?
[Edited as it’s not even worth it]
oh sweetie, leo was voted by wannabe thatcherites who are as much deserving with distain as your tory masters..
Precisely.
While you’re at it perhaps you might also explore the idea that the interests of the population in matters of financial oversight and political accountability are not best served by there being no effective opposition.
I’d might suggest you’d explore the impact of a no deal brexit and implantation of border posts on the Good Friday Agreement and the subsequent peace process but I think we both know that you and your ilk don’t really care..
You obviously haven’t been following my posts for the past three years.
Of course it can be difficult doing this during school hours but surely you could have found time in between doing your homework and going on the Xbox ?
Poor Tommy Robinson wannabe is lonely Charger.
“past 3 years” does that include the time you reinvented yourself as oliie cromwell??
About fupping time
As others note we will fight it tooth and nail like the good little sycophants we are, then as with Mercosur, one of ours will be bribed or co-opted into the negotiating team, then a few years later it’s just announced – as a fait accompli.
But so what? Why should farmers or a few multinationals dictate our tax policy anyway? I’d be much happier with the EU dictating it as we might eventually get to an equivalence in terms of public service provisions and basic rights for all citizens. No one needs your dystopian vampire squid capitalism
Where is Lisa Smyth? She’s in a refugee camp says the media. So, she’s free to go? Nope. She’s being held by a group called the “Syrian Defence Forces” (SDF), a ragtag military grouping with some backing from the US, France. This isn’t a refugee camp, it’s a detention camp while the SDF decides what to do with its captives. Some are being sent (“sold” according to some) to Iraq where they face harsh conditions including torture (“Palestinian suspension”, “parrot perch” and suspension by the wrists are common) and punishment for the activities of the group known as Islamic State. The Al Hawl camp is, according to some, a hotbed of pro-Islamic State militantism because the captives were all captured in Islamic State territory, and in many cases, they’re suspected of being militarily or familially involved with IS. Lisa Smyth says she wasn’t militarily involved, others say they’re “absolutely positive” she was training fighters and you don’t need to speak Arabic to show someone how to use a gun. Even Lisa Smyth herself says she wants to see a caliphate, that is, land governed according to a strict version of Islam. At the very least, she says she was married to an IS fighter and has a child by him. The SDF is currently considering moving 2,000 captives to Iraq for prosecution. Lisa Smyth will likely be one of them. Very little of this is being reported in the Irish media.
Let her off to face justice in Iraq. Her child is another orphan of war and there are 100,000+ in Syria, northern Iraq.
Irish media is pretty consistent in saying she is being detained. I’ve seen no suggestion that she’s free to leave but then I don’t read the tabloids. That said, the IDM above even says “where she is being held”.
Refugees in refugee camps are free to leave, it’s just they have nowhere to go and they get food, medicine, shelter and protection in a refugee camp. Lisa Smyth is not in a refugee camp, she’s not free to go, there’s wire fences around the camp, a la German PoW camp. Which Irish media has reported who’s detaining her and what their plans are? Has any Irish media spoken to the detention camp commander? Has any Irish media reported on the transfer of detainees to Iraq? Course not, that might clear up some confusion and that isn’t a role our brave media embraces.
Has any Irish media reported that she is free to leave? Or have they all said she is either “being held” or “detained”? On Six One yesterday RTÉ were very specific that she is not free to leave.
Completely agree about the reporting Eoin and thanks for the additional information in your post. But you’ve again gone straight for the pitchfork , do steady on, old chap.
While she clearly doesn’t have the media training or concerted campaign behind her like that ex-guard you love, her agenda is no less obvious.
A military “analyst” on the Telly last night confirmed that at one stage it was considered possible for the Connacht Rangers to go in and extricate her, and added that as an Irish citizen who got into “trouble “ abroad, the precedent would be for the state to go and get her out, as there is no evidence to support the claims of her training militants, likely none that could be obtained, or in any case, there’s no law in Ireland against joining ISIS
That Angela Merkel flag was funny at the time but bringing it to your wedding reminds me of when Bart Simpson was the “I didn’t do it kid”
It made national news yesterday and today’s prime-time bulletins! But Bert, oh soccer trivia man, weren’t the North Korean (or hired Chinese) fans first at the 2010 WC with the phrase of ‘Kim-Jong -il thinks we’re at work’?
Ha!
Never heard that one Hoops tbh :)
I noted the wife’s surname is German!
Do you think he chatted her up with this banner?
True
But you know what Bert
It’s the only nice thing in those papers today
ISIS Bride – and Irish citizen – who might be sent to Iraq for torture- fecking torture
Boris, and whatever tis he’s on about today
Trump – always a bad sign
Army Pay – always a downer
Pilots Strike in holiday season – as if the weather here in JULY FFS wasn’t tough enough without the fear of being stuck in it when you should be in Majorca
McIiroy in another meltdown
Baby agony
And the villa is haunted
C’mon
Let the groom off for getting another day out with his flag and his five minutes
Ah Clampers has a lovely story about waiting for his wife to come out of prison (reading between the lines) on the Nicks Tix thread :)
HA! Utterly unnecessary and wonderful.
Sorry, forget which commenter mentioned the circulation figures for the Irish Daily Mail during the week, but yesterday, the circulation figures for all British newspapers in Ireland in June 2019 were published. The Irish Daily Mail has circulation of around 27,000 a day. Circulation for all British papers is down 11% in the year, and the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday are following the market. Funnily enough, there was no real impact on the Times Ireland which stopped its print issue on 21 June.
http://www.ilevel.ie/media-blog/print/abc-irish-newspaper-circulation-june-2019/
A day after the Irish Times had a 1/4 front page ad for BAM, the Dutch construction business which is the lead builder at the National Childrens Hospital, the “most expensive” hospital in the world, the paper today gives a platform to the CEO of BAM, who tells us how it is. There’s even a nice upward angled pic of the hands-folded Theo. You couldn’t get a more tushy licking article if you tried. And if BAM were such experts, why has the cost of the NCH increased 100%+.
Remember this is believed to be the business that Leo was talking about when he said “there are one or two contractors who, quite frankly, I would not like to see get a public contract again in this State” In response to that, BAM issued Leo with a 2-hour ultimatum to clarify he wasn’t talking about BAM, but Leo ignored them. Since then, Leo has been visited by the Dutch royals who probably leaned on him because BAM is formally called “Royal BAM Groep”.
Probably
They’re also probably one of the few large contractors capable of delivering such a large and complex project of this scale, without going bust.
Carillion, anyone?
They also delivered the new motorway yesterday
If I asked you to build me a house and it turns out the Quantity Surveyor never bothered even visiting the site and architect didn’t know his ass from his elbow- how is that your fault? Pretty certain BAM are on solid legal ground with NCH- otherwise they would have been challenged long before now.
+ €3Bn
Why am I being modded this time?
Probably because you’re boring.
Although being a knob as well doesn’t help your cause.
* irony meter explodes *
Hahaha
That’s the funniest thing you’ve ever said
The NORAID comparison hit home I see
Matthew 7:5, Tommy.
Ah, leave the Charger Robinson comment up, just for Berties response, that was mint.
Feel like I missed something :(
Gun.Fish.Barrel.
Yeah, you’d think you’d have learned by now, but no, just keep coming back for more, Tommy.
– https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/this-old-video-shows-how-far-trump-has-gone-from-reagans-republican-party/
Classy white supremacy.
Britain’s first Muslim Home Secretary praises Nigel Farage and admits The Brexit Party are not extremists.
Not that you’ll ever hear or read this in the Irish media.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SkyNewsPolitics/status/1152151622979653632
We didn’t read much about how you guys cheated to win the World Cup either
Which one ?
Football,rugby or cricket ?
Yourselves ?
Heh x 3
Just a video of a nurse singing to a young lad battling cancer at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
https://news.sky.com/story/nurse-becomes-internet-sensation-after-singing-to-boy-battling-cancer-11765566
Great voice in fairness.
Longer version here.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7264243/Singing-nurse-internet-sensation-playing-McFly-song-cancer-battling-boy.html
He’s hit the sherry early, he’s maudlin.
He’s not the same since Eoin Morgan said Allah was with the English team
Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party welcomes the new Prime Minister next week with a cracking new effort from its social media party.
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1152237776080908288
He hasn’t gone away you know …