Whichever way you slice it Justice Minister Helen McEntee’s decision to publicly rethink offering a Ukrainian refugee a room in her home looks embarrassing.
Especially as it came on the same day as news that 50% of the original offers of refuge for the Ukrainian migrants haven’t materialised.
The excuse that she lives in the middle of nowhere just doesn’t wash – surely she was aware of this in the first place.
And why has it taken this long to change her mind ?
Either way it’s a stark example of how useless this incompetent shower in power really are.
Those cheap headlines she sought are now coming back to bite her on the bottom.
And those other ” how wonderfully generous the Irish are ” headlines are also wearing thin now.
Meanwhile the overcrowded Refugee Express train just keeps thundering on towards the buffers at Disaster Junction.
Mad
Get on your knees Terry
Sure you’re a refugee here yourself
TenPin Terry
If you’re taking a break from Broadsheet why did you post 67 times on here yesterday ?
And that’s just with this username.
There’s thick.
Then there’s Mad thick.
Mad
Which one of my 4 or 5 posts yesterday triggered you the most Toilet Paper Tim?
Was it the one about the dogs?
Long suffering creatures I’d say.
It must be awful to be a dog and have two obese owners who can barely be bothered taking you out (or are barely able, in any case).
Poor “blighters”.
Toilet Paper Tim – nice but dim.
TenPin Terry
Just to be sure, are you taking that break as Mad or GiggidyGoo ?
Or are you just too thick to remember ?
And is it going to be a permanent break like your Joe F username ?
Or temporary like your Putin Boner Snot character ?
It’s the constant repetition – the sign of someone lacking creativity – that always gives the game away.
Mad
Suck harder Timmy
GiggidyGoo
Poor Charger. Full on schizophrenia – everyone’s me seemingly. It’s OK to ask for help Charger.
1966!
Back of the Net!
Hand of God!
Touchdown!
Howzat!
Harry
Mad we are all refugees
The amount we are taking 200 thousand is equivalent to france taking in 6 million as per head of population
And who is paying for this with a measly €400 a month that would hardly pay the food bill
Just wait until the gouging really starts
If you love pizza get ready for the shortage of pizza flour as my Italian supplier has told me Italian flour producers are suspending deliveries to Ireland
Olive oil has doubled in price from Musgrave as has beef which has doubled in price
jonjoker
“Italian flour producers are suspending deliveries to Ireland”
Yeah, right, all of them, all at once.
Give us a break.
Harry
Told by my supplier
He deals directly with food exporters in Italy
It’s from the horses mouth
Italian flour mills get their grain from Russia and Ukraine
The UK gets theirs from Canada I suppose france also gets much from Canada
You cannot use any flour to bake bread hence why Russia and Ukraine are major exporters
Of course it will not be all and all at once but there will be a massive shortage and I did not say they were all at once doing that
Already look at what the shortages of fertiliser is doing to crops and the fact Russia is supplying gas and oil to mainland Europe and the EU is trying to stop the flow
SB
No, it’s the equivalent of France taking 2,680,000
Harry
Yes €400 a month for your home and the conditions yet are not revealed
Just shows how desperate they are and it’s cloud cookoo land
Of course Nigel will be over the moon and even going door to door with the opportunity our people have
I would say that we are talking€1000 a week what with insurance also all the price rises
And let’s face it as sad as it is our people come first and no way would I allow a stranger into my home
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
no room at the inn David
Nigel
No-one’s forcing you to take anyone. No-one’s forcing you to whine about it, either, and you do that for free.
Hughie Luas
Wazzocks. A term just made for Broadsheet. ^
stephen moran
A Cure- all – birthday boy Robert Smith with one of the great ad lib put downs
“Zelensky passed a law stating unless a doctor certifies a soldier died in battle, there’s no compensation for families. With 30,000 +- war casualties, no wonder Ukraine isn’t recovering the soldiers bodies.”
Vlad X. Novichok
That’s your jizzbank full of Putin boner snot for a weekend of ferocious self pleasure by the sounds of it.
NM
‘Ikea is looking for an opportunity to reopen stores in Russia after setting up supply logistics to provide a full range of goods, a similar situation is with Inditex (manages the brands Massimo Dutti, Zara, Pull & Bear, Oysho, Bershka)’
Harry
Fake news but if it is real ,in the coming months I would say with sanctions Russia will start seizing western assets if they have not done so yet in russia
jonjoker
They’ll probably set up an Ikea lookalike.
Same with the other companies who unilaterally gave up their business in Russia.
Harry
100%correct jonjoker
Already the mc Donald’s are operating like in coming to America
They have the Golden Arches we have the golden arcs
They have the Big Mac we have the big mick
stephen moran
Eye opening thread about the burial in his home village of Russian soldier Sergey Muraviev. I really brings home to the reader just what complete Hicksville and third world like parts of Russia actually are – the idea that no one in the village had been to the regional capital never mind Moscow shows how cut off they are from reality both physically and informationally.
This is precisely why Helen McEntee has reneged on her pledge to house any Ukranians.She just can’t bear the thought of somebody being cut of informationally.It’s a genuine concern.
Kali
There’s plenty of people around Ireland have never been to Dublin despite the tiny size of our country. Not sure it’s a problem though. People are free to go or not go where they want
jonjoker
“the idea that no one in the village had been to the regional capital”
She doesn’t say that – she says no-one in the FAMILY had visited them. Learn to read, wouldya?
She also says this:
“The spectre of Nazism holds great power in this region where the bodies of Soviet soldiers lie in bogs and graveyards “
One third of all Twitter followers are bots, that’s pretty astounding.
I happen to actually enjoy Twitter, though not faithful to any SM and can move on to other decentralized platforms.
Musk might be sticking the knife in Twitter… he always has a smirk on his face.
TenPin Terry
The Irish Council For Civil Liberties is currently blowing its own independence trumpet.
” Did you know ICCL is completely independent of government and big business?
That because of the support of our members. Take a look at what we’ve achieved together over the past 45 years: ”
Except what they fail to reveal is that between 2011 and 2019, the ICCL took €2million from the EU in funding. That was over 20% of the ICCL’s total funding over that period.
It was also involved in several other projects, with other NGOs, which the EU funded, valued at more than €800,000.
The ICCL has also accepted money from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC), even though the IHREC is an entirely state funded entity.
All aboard the Gravy Train now standing at Platform Hubris …
jonjoker
And the Moscow Times is almost entirely funded by Dutch NGOs – who are almost entirely funded by the Dutch government.
Was it you wh quoted the Moscow Times as an independent source the other day?
TenPin Terry
Wait till you find out who funds RTE.
It explains a lot …
TenPin Terry
Seeing as it’s Friday I thought I’d launch a new occasional award category for people who are thicker than a jockey’s nutsack.
It’s called Dipstick Of The Day.
First recipient of this new accolade is the prize munter who got trollied then decided to wind up Mike Tyson on a JetBlue flight.
The outcome was almost inevitable.
This is like when RTE used to ‘premier’ films seen on video years before. Thanks, but no thanks Charger. It is Charger isn’t it.
TenPin Terry
It’s premiere.
You’re welcome.
Vlad X. Novichok
Maybe you should call it dipthick…
TenPin Terry
Hi Bodger,
Haven’t a clue what it means but I rather like my new avatar.
The monocle certainly captures my inate sophistication.
Thanks muchly,
TenPin
Bodger
Pleasure.
The Millie Obnoxious™
Your avatar suits you Bodge.
Teeth gritted against the eternal headache we’ve given you over the years.
Happy Friday!
PS. Your avatar is excellent, Terry. Love it.
Bodger
Hehehehehehe. Thank you, Millie!
TenPin Terry
Away from all the stuff and naansense of Partygate Biryani Boris has been advancing prospects of a UK-India trade deal very successfully on his current trip.
It’s an important market.
India’s population will be bigger than the EU and US combined by 2050 and the 3rd largest economy in the world.
Get it ” done by Diwali ” is the new mantra.That’s November of this year. The EU has been in negotiations for a trade deal with India since 2007 …
GiggidyGoo
Some trade deal alright. Arms and weapons through the back door to Russia.
The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, met Modi in Delhi earlier this month, and insisted the two countries would continue to find ways to trade, despite western sanctions on Russia.
The UK announced during Johnson’s visit that it would liberalise arms exports to India, as the countries deepen their cooperation of defence. The government will issue an open general export licence for India, which will mean separate licences are not needed for individual contracts.’
Fearganainm
UK threatens to torpedo Brexit deal ahead of Northern Ireland elections
Whichever way you slice it Justice Minister Helen McEntee’s decision to publicly rethink offering a Ukrainian refugee a room in her home looks embarrassing.
Especially as it came on the same day as news that 50% of the original offers of refuge for the Ukrainian migrants haven’t materialised.
The excuse that she lives in the middle of nowhere just doesn’t wash – surely she was aware of this in the first place.
And why has it taken this long to change her mind ?
Either way it’s a stark example of how useless this incompetent shower in power really are.
Those cheap headlines she sought are now coming back to bite her on the bottom.
And those other ” how wonderfully generous the Irish are ” headlines are also wearing thin now.
Meanwhile the overcrowded Refugee Express train just keeps thundering on towards the buffers at Disaster Junction.
Get on your knees Terry
Sure you’re a refugee here yourself
If you’re taking a break from Broadsheet why did you post 67 times on here yesterday ?
And that’s just with this username.
There’s thick.
Then there’s Mad thick.
Which one of my 4 or 5 posts yesterday triggered you the most Toilet Paper Tim?
Was it the one about the dogs?
Long suffering creatures I’d say.
It must be awful to be a dog and have two obese owners who can barely be bothered taking you out (or are barely able, in any case).
Poor “blighters”.
Toilet Paper Tim – nice but dim.
Just to be sure, are you taking that break as Mad or GiggidyGoo ?
Or are you just too thick to remember ?
And is it going to be a permanent break like your Joe F username ?
Or temporary like your Putin Boner Snot character ?
It’s the constant repetition – the sign of someone lacking creativity – that always gives the game away.
Suck harder Timmy
Poor Charger. Full on schizophrenia – everyone’s me seemingly. It’s OK to ask for help Charger.
1966!
Back of the Net!
Hand of God!
Touchdown!
Howzat!
Mad we are all refugees
The amount we are taking 200 thousand is equivalent to france taking in 6 million as per head of population
And who is paying for this with a measly €400 a month that would hardly pay the food bill
Just wait until the gouging really starts
If you love pizza get ready for the shortage of pizza flour as my Italian supplier has told me Italian flour producers are suspending deliveries to Ireland
Olive oil has doubled in price from Musgrave as has beef which has doubled in price
“Italian flour producers are suspending deliveries to Ireland”
Yeah, right, all of them, all at once.
Give us a break.
Told by my supplier
He deals directly with food exporters in Italy
It’s from the horses mouth
Italian flour mills get their grain from Russia and Ukraine
The UK gets theirs from Canada I suppose france also gets much from Canada
You cannot use any flour to bake bread hence why Russia and Ukraine are major exporters
Of course it will not be all and all at once but there will be a massive shortage and I did not say they were all at once doing that
Already look at what the shortages of fertiliser is doing to crops and the fact Russia is supplying gas and oil to mainland Europe and the EU is trying to stop the flow
No, it’s the equivalent of France taking 2,680,000
Yes €400 a month for your home and the conditions yet are not revealed
Just shows how desperate they are and it’s cloud cookoo land
Of course Nigel will be over the moon and even going door to door with the opportunity our people have
I would say that we are talking€1000 a week what with insurance also all the price rises
And let’s face it as sad as it is our people come first and no way would I allow a stranger into my home
no room at the inn David
No-one’s forcing you to take anyone. No-one’s forcing you to whine about it, either, and you do that for free.
Wazzocks. A term just made for Broadsheet. ^
A Cure- all – birthday boy Robert Smith with one of the great ad lib put downs
https://twitter.com/FarOutMag/status/1517098822320676865
Brilliant!
“Zelensky passed a law stating unless a doctor certifies a soldier died in battle, there’s no compensation for families. With 30,000 +- war casualties, no wonder Ukraine isn’t recovering the soldiers bodies.”
That’s your jizzbank full of Putin boner snot for a weekend of ferocious self pleasure by the sounds of it.
‘Ikea is looking for an opportunity to reopen stores in Russia after setting up supply logistics to provide a full range of goods, a similar situation is with Inditex (manages the brands Massimo Dutti, Zara, Pull & Bear, Oysho, Bershka)’
Fake news but if it is real ,in the coming months I would say with sanctions Russia will start seizing western assets if they have not done so yet in russia
They’ll probably set up an Ikea lookalike.
Same with the other companies who unilaterally gave up their business in Russia.
100%correct jonjoker
Already the mc Donald’s are operating like in coming to America
They have the Golden Arches we have the golden arcs
They have the Big Mac we have the big mick
Eye opening thread about the burial in his home village of Russian soldier Sergey Muraviev. I really brings home to the reader just what complete Hicksville and third world like parts of Russia actually are – the idea that no one in the village had been to the regional capital never mind Moscow shows how cut off they are from reality both physically and informationally.
https://twitter.com/EJ_Burrows/status/1516517836491046918
This is precisely why Helen McEntee has reneged on her pledge to house any Ukranians.She just can’t bear the thought of somebody being cut of informationally.It’s a genuine concern.
There’s plenty of people around Ireland have never been to Dublin despite the tiny size of our country. Not sure it’s a problem though. People are free to go or not go where they want
“the idea that no one in the village had been to the regional capital”
She doesn’t say that – she says no-one in the FAMILY had visited them. Learn to read, wouldya?
She also says this:
“The spectre of Nazism holds great power in this region where the bodies of Soviet soldiers lie in bogs and graveyards “
https://twitter.com/EcommunistForum/status/1517222366903816192?s=20&t=Sqji7hzi9CHK_g0u_T1uYA
One third of all Twitter followers are bots, that’s pretty astounding.
I happen to actually enjoy Twitter, though not faithful to any SM and can move on to other decentralized platforms.
Musk might be sticking the knife in Twitter… he always has a smirk on his face.
The Irish Council For Civil Liberties is currently blowing its own independence trumpet.
” Did you know ICCL is completely independent of government and big business?
That because of the support of our members. Take a look at what we’ve achieved together over the past 45 years: ”
https://mobile.twitter.com/ICCLtweet/status/1517098468115898368
Except what they fail to reveal is that between 2011 and 2019, the ICCL took €2million from the EU in funding. That was over 20% of the ICCL’s total funding over that period.
It was also involved in several other projects, with other NGOs, which the EU funded, valued at more than €800,000.
The ICCL has also accepted money from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC), even though the IHREC is an entirely state funded entity.
All aboard the Gravy Train now standing at Platform Hubris …
And the Moscow Times is almost entirely funded by Dutch NGOs – who are almost entirely funded by the Dutch government.
Was it you wh quoted the Moscow Times as an independent source the other day?
Wait till you find out who funds RTE.
It explains a lot …
Seeing as it’s Friday I thought I’d launch a new occasional award category for people who are thicker than a jockey’s nutsack.
It’s called Dipstick Of The Day.
First recipient of this new accolade is the prize munter who got trollied then decided to wind up Mike Tyson on a JetBlue flight.
The outcome was almost inevitable.
https://www.tmz.com/2022/04/21/mike-tyson-repeatedly-punches-man-face-plane-bloodies-passenger/
This is like when RTE used to ‘premier’ films seen on video years before. Thanks, but no thanks Charger. It is Charger isn’t it.
It’s premiere.
You’re welcome.
Maybe you should call it dipthick…
Hi Bodger,
Haven’t a clue what it means but I rather like my new avatar.
The monocle certainly captures my inate sophistication.
Thanks muchly,
TenPin
Pleasure.
Your avatar suits you Bodge.
Teeth gritted against the eternal headache we’ve given you over the years.
Happy Friday!
PS. Your avatar is excellent, Terry. Love it.
Hehehehehehe. Thank you, Millie!
Away from all the stuff and naansense of Partygate Biryani Boris has been advancing prospects of a UK-India trade deal very successfully on his current trip.
It’s an important market.
India’s population will be bigger than the EU and US combined by 2050 and the 3rd largest economy in the world.
Get it ” done by Diwali ” is the new mantra.That’s November of this year. The EU has been in negotiations for a trade deal with India since 2007 …
Some trade deal alright. Arms and weapons through the back door to Russia.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/22/india-and-uk-to-press-ahead-with-talks-on-free-trade-deal-modi-johnson
‘India has abstained from successive UN motions condemning Russia, and continues to buy Moscow’s oil.
The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, met Modi in Delhi earlier this month, and insisted the two countries would continue to find ways to trade, despite western sanctions on Russia.
The UK announced during Johnson’s visit that it would liberalise arms exports to India, as the countries deepen their cooperation of defence. The government will issue an open general export licence for India, which will mean separate licences are not needed for individual contracts.’
UK threatens to torpedo Brexit deal ahead of Northern Ireland elections
https://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/uk-threatens-to-torpedo-brexit-deal-ahead-of-northern-ireland-elections-41577724.html
Never not at it
UK Government opposes plan for special designation for Irish grass fed beef
https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/beef/uk-government-opposes-plan-for-special-designation-for-irish-grass-fed-beef-41578094.html
Decision allowing gardaí to examine mobile phone seized from journalist’s home is overturned:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/decision-allowing-gardai-to-examine-mobile-phone-seized-from-journalists-home-is-overturned-41578719.html
‘A malign influence in boxing’: The downfall of Daniel Kinahan
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/apr/21/boxing-the-downfall-of-daniel-kinahan-malign-influence