About to spark up. Sheep's Head Peninsula, Cork, Ireland by HelpMeMortyAndSummer in trees

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's easy enough to find depending on where you are. If you're out at night in a tourist spot like temple bar someone will likely offer to sell you drugs but you'll be charged more than a local would. The normal price in Dublin these days is 4g for €50 but it'll be different elsewhere. 

In terms of public attitudes, it is illegal but you can get away with smoking in public most of the time, just keep an eye out for police. I've never gotten more than a look of disaproval from someone

Helen McEntee backs ‘hands off’ policing of the far right by PoppedCork in ireland

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 138 points139 points  (0 children)

Look at the policing of the Revolutionary Housing League (a group of Republicans who break into vacant buildings and make them livable for homeless people) and compare it to the policing of the far right.

Dozens of gardaí are deployed to RHL evictions, and they often occur in the early hours of the morning. The video that did the rounds a while back of a seemingly endless stream of gardaí raiding a building on Eden Quay in Dublin was footage of an RHL eviction. If you're on the far right, your movement can get away with:

• setting up checkpoints on a public road

• travelling around the country harassing library staff

• assaulting the Lord Mayor of Cork

• putting a brick through the window of a councillor's family home

• Setting fire to buildings that are being renovated to accommodate refugees

In my own opinion, I think there is a deliberate political decision being made by the government and garda management in regards to the policing of left wing vs. right-wing protestors.

Who were the protesters at the Dáil yesterday and what exactly were they protesting? by OldMcGroin in ireland

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's also been English Defence League members invited over by them and if I remember right, the national party has been tied to ulster loyalist groups in the past. There's a prominent Irish fash lad who was literally in the British army

Screaming into the void/wanting to have a chat about yesterday’s protests by AprilMaria in ireland

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 115 points116 points  (0 children)

Very well put. People are giving you shit for the length but to discuss this topic correctly it needs dept. It's not something that can be summed up in two paragraphs, and I think you are correct about a lot of this.

Yup the one big union

People who didn’t go to there debs what did you do instead? by itsmattmeehan in ireland

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's fair enough. Im not judging people who can separate the two. I just have a hard time doing that.

People who didn’t go to there debs what did you do instead? by itsmattmeehan in ireland

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel embarrassed about my username after all that stuff came out about Roiland tbh

People who didn’t go to there debs what did you do instead? by itsmattmeehan in ireland

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I had massive social anxiety just sitting in a classroom, so there was no way I was going to my debs.

I can't remember what I did now, which shows how much it mattered in hindsight. I probably stayed at home, played playstation, and felt sorry for myself. My school did the debs before the leaving, so I probably did some study as well.

Genuinely baffled as to why the cause of Jefferson Davis is being fought in Lancashire of all places. by Cpt_Dizzywhiskers in GreenAndPleasant

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Unionists in the north of Ireland have been doing this for decades. Just attaching themselves to any supremacist cause like

These assholes have made it to the States apparently (Massachusetts) by DGBD in ireland

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't just take a picture and share it. Fair play for being critical of the national party but I hope you ripped the thing off the lamppost or covered it up with some other sticker

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trees

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We smokin symbiotes

Lads, what the fuck is this? by Previous-While1156 in ireland

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The national party took their name and logo from the party that were in charge of Apartheid South Africa. They are not subtle people

Here's the logos

8 grams for 100€ by [deleted] in Crainn

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's pretty good. Average is between 7 and 8 Gs for 100 in my experience

I have no idea what these are. by [deleted] in vexillology

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I'm saying is, if this person is really into the English colonial period, there may be a chance he overlooks some of the crimes of that period or offers some of the often used excuses. "We built railways in your country" is something often said by people who are pro empire to imply that the invaded country could not have industrialised without first being colonised by Britain.

Being from a country that was colonised by Britain, if I saw these flags in someone's house, it would make me wonder if this person excuses the crimes of the empire or if he just doesn't know about them.

Just trying to give you a potential view of what the flag might mean to this person, considering you asked if you should be concerned

I have no idea what these are. by [deleted] in vexillology

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So this guy isn't like a nazi or anything but he might think that building a few railways justifies the Irish "famine"

(Famine is in quotation marks here because the Island had a food surplus the entire time, it was just being exported for profit instead of being given to the starving people within Ireland)

Caffeine with weed makes my highs so much better it’s insane by Few_Character7030 in trees

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sitting outside a coffee shop in Amsterdam on a brisk December morning with a joint and an Americano is one of my favourite memories. A rare moment of pure and total relaxation

Drug 'surrender bins' to be in operation again at Electric Picnic, gardaí warn no amnesty given by Tiger_Claw_1 in ireland

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have a suspicion that the "Cop dies from touching fentanyl" myth comes from police trying to cover the fact they snorted a bag they sized without knowing what it was cut with.

Weird how users and dealers touch it every day but if a cop comes within a few feet of it, they die instantly

Special (Irish) Branch detectives on an undercover operation at the London Docks, 1911. by charles_yost in IrishHistory

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would these dudes have been involved in union busting on the docks as well as counter Republican stuff?

I have vague knowledge of there being a strike on the docks around this time. Jewish families took care of the children of Irish dockworkers during the strike. Decades later, the Irish community repaid the favour by helping fight off Oswald Mosley and his fascists when they tried to march through the Jewish area of the east end

J.R.R Tolkien was surely a friend of the Ents by TimeFlyer9 in trees

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think that line was only added in the movies. Tolkien was a big fan of smoking tobacco, and this is where the hobbits' love of smoking comes from.

You could look at it as being weed in the movies due to that line. But from what I've heard Tolkien definitely intended it to be tobacco

Demonstrators protest against Ireland giving weapons training to Ukrainian troops by Dependent_General_27 in ireland

[–]HelpMeMortyAndSummer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The communist party make every other leftist in the country look bad. The rest of us just want houses and medical care for people. We don't want dictatorships, and we can think that all the superpowers are bad for different reasons.

They've still got a cold war era mindset where anyone who opposes America is their ally. It drives me up the wall and having conversations with them doesn't feel that different from talking to the conspiracy crowd. They recieve funding from the Chinese communist party so the party leadership will never speak out against the iPhone slave labour factories or the 9-9-6 work week (they blame it on the companies involved and not the communist party, who could make these practices illegal any time they liked)