If you could wave a magic wand and change the Irish Constitution what would you add/remove?
For me:
🍀A constitutional right to Housing
☘️ Term limits on the number of times a citizen can serve as a TD. No more than 2 consecutive terms of office. #IrishConstitution— Politics Watch (@PoliticsWatch14) September 30, 2021
This afternoon.
Anyone?
Bun’ fight!
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I’d add a big picture of Imelda May. She needs exposure.
Clear separation of church and state.
I read that as clutch and brake.
+ absolute seperation
+ 1 on clear separation of church and state. Plus the right to a roof over your head and decent health care. Endless supply of home grown spuds if we’re getting carried away – and a ban on Febreze.
Clear separation of pharma and state is a lightbulb sometime soon I expect.
In the meantime—- > excuse us new non religion?
Can you not at least attempt to join the dots?
The right to express freely ones convictions and opinions, the right to assemble, freedom of movement, right to bodily integrity, Article 40 equality before law, right to liberty, etc. Might as well get rid of them properly as many had no problem giving them up in the face of a deadly virus with a 99.5%+ survival rate.
Unless some idiot forces you from your hospital bed, then your survival rate is 0%.
Jaysus. Turgid nonsense. Would you ever go and get yourself a job and life or fupp off to Russia or China where you’ll actually have something to moan about.
Ironically – you’ll probably rejoice in Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China.
Sheesh.
Oh look, here’s some of the cowardly sheeple who just handed over our Constitutional rights so terrified of this ‘deadly’ virus they had become. You lads are like the Irish people who handed out sandwiches and tea to the British troops as they made their way towards Baggot Bridge during the Rising, where Irishmen like us lay in wait.
Yes Citizen!
Set Garryowen on them!
The craic we had the day we died for Ireland…
I don’t think you were around in 1916.
Thank F for that.
Ha! The immortal crank. Shudder.
“where Irishmen like us lay in wait”
Pleaasse F.O. you miserable dose.
Look at ye all – freely expressing your convictions and opinions …
Aren’t we all the better for it.
The right not to listen to misinformation.
:)
Pay politicians much more and give them a nice pension but then exclude them from taking ANY role in a private company for the rest of their lives.
Would hopefully sort out career politicians.
Change the Dail to random selection like we do on a Jury/citizen assembly – it’s just a sad fact that no Irish political party can be trusted as the primary legislature for the state…
Bring back something closer to the original version of the the Seanad, but with 7 year term limits, with restrictions on what they can veto from the Dail
All meetings with senior civil servants broadcast live… heheheh
That if you born in Ireland you were automatically an Irish citizen (i.e, repeal the 27th).
• Ban all property pension and vulture funds. Seize all property from mega landlords and fold back into the affordable housing stock- just like Berlin has recently voted to do.
• Disband CIÉ and make it a commitment to a yearly increase in spending on public transport.
• Completely separate public and private health systems with no over lap in employment or provision of services.
• Encourage both employees and employers to develop a work from home business model by affording tax breaks.
What has any of that got to do with the constitution though?
Sorry love- no vax- no comment.
All government ministers are appointed according to real-world experience. Arts and Culture minister is an artist, curator etc, Education is a school principal, Health is an experienced doctor etc. Not just a ticked box, someone who understands what their decisions would mean and is somehow beholden to those groups that they represent.
Might limit the need for an army of advisors.
yes some actual knowledge of the field at hand would be refreshing
The current minister for education is a teacher and she’s useless.
Varadkar and Reilly were both doctors who had no success in the Health dept.
That’s a good point alright.
Although I don’t think the problem is that they’re not qualified to hold the position. It’s the type of politician we have. Only interested in lining their own pockets and setting up future incomes with private companies.
Which is why I posted my one above ;)
Careful what you ask for – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reilly_(Irish_politician) … remember him…
Bertie Ahern was an accountant… no bank account minister of finance/taoiseach and ultimately helped bankrupt the country … and potential future president…
Despite his claims he was never an Accountant.
“He has never claimed to hold degrees from UCD or anywhere else. He remembers doing the courses, but not what they were.”
https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/the-cult-of-bertie-ahern–29942291.html
hahaha – yeah, and he was on the radio recently too talking about an accounting exam he took at some point in early adulthood.
From the all knowing wiki – “Ahern was educated at St. Patrick’s National School, Drumcondra and at St. Aidan’s Christian Brothers, Whitehall. He received his third level education at the College of Commerce, Rathmines, part of the Dublin Institute of Technology. Ahern has claimed or it has been claimed by others in circulated biographies that he was educated at University College Dublin and the London School of Economics, but neither university has any records that show Ahern was ever one of their students. He subsequently worked in the Accounts Department of the Mater Hospital, Dublin”
Sort of like his mentor Haughey claiming to be born in various different towns around Ireland…
Simpsons already did it.
Thanks- this is a good lol
The right to bear arms!
The right to arm bears too…
All From Wikipedia… Not many School teacher anymore… still a lot of family dynasty/worked-in-the-office-of-FFFG-insider stuff and several accountant/finance folk…
From Trinity College, Donohoe was selected by the multinational company Procter & Gamble in the UK, for their fast-track graduate training programme. He spent six years working in the United Kingdom and became a sales and marketing direct
From 2004, she [McEntee] studied economics, politics, and law at Dublin City University (DCU), where she helped to re-establish the university’s branch of Young Fine Gael, which had been inactive for some time.[3][9] After graduating in 2007, she worked for a subsidiary of Citibank, but returned to higher education in 2010, to complete a Masters in Journalism and Media Communications at Griffith College.[3][8]
Coveney was born in Cork in 1972 to Hugh Coveney and Pauline Coveney. His father was a chartered quantity surveyor and later a TD, and also a member of one of the famous merchant families in the city. His uncle is Archbishop Patrick Coveney. Simon was educated locally in Cork, before later attending Clongowes Wood College, County Kildare. He was expelled from the college in Transition Year but ultimately was invited back to complete his full six years there. He repeated his Leaving Certificate in Bruce College in Cork.[4] Coveney subsequently attended University College Cork and Gurteen Agricultural College, before completing a BSc in Agriculture and Land Management from Royal Agricultural College, Gloucestershire. In 1997/8, he led the “Sail Chernobyl Project” which involved sailing a boat 30,000 miles around the world and raising €650,000 for charity. He spent several years working as an agriculture adviser and farm manager. His brother, Patrick, is chief executive of the food corporation Greencore
In 2000, Donnelly moved to London, where he worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company.[9]
In 2008, he completed a master’s degree in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He returned to work for McKinsey and Company, in Dublin, before deciding to run for office in 2011.
Prior to becoming a TD, she [Norma] was a teacher at Presentation Secondary School, Tralee. She is married to fellow teacher Denis Maguire. Her parents are Denis and Hannah Foley. Her father Denis Foley was a Fianna Fáil TD for Kerry North from 1981 to 1989 and 1992 to 2002.
McGrath was born in Cork in 1976. He studied commerce at University College Cork and later qualified as a chartered accountant.
Before entering politics, he [O’Brien] worked in the Pensions sector with Friends First Assurance Company.
McConalogue has a degree in economics, politics and history from University College Dublin (UCD), which he completed after a year as Education Officer in the UCD Students’ Union. After graduation, he worked as a political organiser at the Fianna Fáil HQ in Dublin. Upon the death of his father, he returned home to Carndonagh, County Donegal, to manage the family farm.
She then attended University College Galway (now NUI Galway).[5] For a number of years she worked as an official with Ulster Bank and the Credit Union. She was later appointed manager of Cootehill Credit Union
[Harris] – He initially studied Journalism and French, at the Dublin Institute of Technology, but dropped out in first year to pursue politics full-time
Martin was born in Cavan in 1972, but is a native of Carrickmacross, Monaghan. She studied at Maynooth University. She was a teacher of English and Music, and the head of the Green Schools Committee at St. Tiernan’s Community School in Dundrum for 15 years prior to being elected to the Dáil
O’Gorman: He completed an undergraduate law degree at Trinity College, followed by a Master of Laws in European Union (EU) law in the London School of Economics. In 2011 he completed his PhD, with a dissertation entitled ‘Union citizenship, social rights and the Marshallian approach’, at Trinity College, Dublin. O’Gorman started an academic career at Griffith College, where he lectured and was a course director for five years. He next worked as a law lecturer in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. He served as the programme chair of the Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Politics and Law. He has taken leave in order to serve as a TD.
His father, Frank Chambers, from Newport, County Mayo, is a consultant at the Mater Private Hospital, and was a political ally of Brian Lenihan Jnr. His mother, Barbara Farragher, is from Hollymount, County Mayo. He is not related to the senator Lisa Chambers. He attended Belvedere College and earned a Law and Political Science degree from Trinity College Dublin, before enrolling in medicine at RCSI, graduating in 2020 after interrupting his studies early in his political career
[Farmer Hackett] – During her time in Britain, she studied Equine Science at Aberystwyth University and Agriculture at the University of Essex. Back in Ireland, she studied Graduate Equine Science at University College Dublin, and gained her PhD in Sports Biomechanics at the University of Limerick
Naughton is the only daughter of P.J. and Marguerite Naughton. Her father was a member of the Fine Gael National Executive.[2] She was teacher at St. Patrick’s Boys School in Galway.[3] She is a classically trained soprano, and in 2008 won the Association of Irish Musical Societies’ Best Actress award for her role as Eliza Doolittle in the Galway Patrician Musical Society’s production of My Fair Lady.[3] She speaks fluent French. She was co-ordinator of the 2007 Telethon People in Need Campaign for Galway City and County, which raised over €300,000 for local charities
Isn’t copy and paste a wonderful thing?
Especially on Magic Mushrooms from Monaghan.