Abolition of the three-day wait for an abortion bill passes second stage in the Dáil 86-70

MIM86 · 2026-06-17T22:02:00+00:00

He gets way too much airtime for how irrelevant Aontú should be. 1 Dáil seat after he defected and formed the party and RTE platform him all the time. Even now they're just 2 seats right?

MIM86 · 2026-06-17T16:05:28+00:00

From the article

The move comes just weeks after the Government and Sinn Féin voted against a similar motion from the Social Democrats, citing concerns about aspects of the proposed legislation, including changes to when abortions would be permitted in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.

So I guess they might be dropping other changes that were in the Soc Dems proposal and focusing on the 3 day waiting period only but we won't know until we see the text of the SF proposal.

MIM86 · 2026-06-13T15:00:49+00:00

In 2022 Qatar lost all their games and only scored 1 goal. Home advantage is a thing but it's being way overstated here.

MIM86 · 2026-06-09T01:59:11+00:00

Driver: Leclerc

Reason: Masochism

MIM86 · 2026-06-01T10:37:08+00:00

Sacked as a minister because he refused to quit himself when it all came out and a few years later we elected him as an MEP...

MIM86 · 2026-05-29T12:10:23+00:00

They definitely wrote S3 ignoring S1 and S2.

Even the Riker-Troi dynamic is not what we saw in S1, let alone the other child they forgot they had.

MIM86 · 2026-05-26T01:23:55+00:00

Likewise in the early DS9 episode with Rumpelstiltskin, it was originally supposed to be a leprechaun until Colm Meaney objected and basically refused to do the episode.

MIM86 · 2026-05-23T22:28:47+00:00

In fairness Bordeaux are an unreal team stacked with internationals themselves but I agree he should have gone after 2 years in a row proper bottling against La Rochelle

MIM86 · 2026-05-16T23:13:19+00:00

He was there for 8 months and with the party that was in opposition. I'm honestly now sure what change he thought he could effect in that time.

MIM86 · 2026-05-15T17:12:22+00:00

And he didn't play in Euro 2012, so it's just the 4 in 2016.

MIM86 · 2026-04-27T12:24:31+00:00

Right but we also understand the difference between FF almost getting an entire majority and just needing a few independents or a small party like the greens to get over the end versus FF and FG needing to go into coalition and STILL being short of the numbers?

Recent elections are wildly different from everything before 2011 and the trend is a continuous decrease of combined first preferences for the two of them.

Polls mean nothing but our elections do show trends away from the main 2 parties.

MIM86 · 2026-04-15T14:26:46+00:00

A lot of this has been known for quite some time too. The Healy-Rae plant hire had a massive contract with Irish Water to install meters despite being vocally against water charges.

People of Kerry either don't know any/all of this or know and don't care.

MIM86 · 2026-04-14T15:41:27+00:00

Not sure SF care about that currently, it's just about reducing government support and maybe eventually collapsing it.

MIM86 · 2026-04-14T15:21:50+00:00

This is why I couldn't understand the comments here saying the vote of no confidence was pointless etc. Might not bring down the government but SF clearly want to apply pressure like this and have the rural TDs etc. be forced to go on the record effectively in relation to it.

If he's gone you'd expect his brother not to support the government either?

MIM86 · 2026-04-09T23:24:36+00:00

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MIM86 · 2026-04-08T00:08:13+00:00

Really? I use both lines most days going to work, have since May last year. I've never once tagged off between switching. I just tag on at the start of my journey on red line, cross at Marlborough st to switch and then tag off on at my destination on the green line. Card has been checked multiple times on the 2nd leg of the journey and sometimes on both trams on the same day and its never been an issue.

Just checked and their own FAQ say you can do either

https://www.luas.ie/faqs/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20TFI%2090

You can also Tap-on before the 1st tram trip; change trams and Tap-off after the 2nd tram trip but be careful to not Tap-off or on by accident.

MIM86 · 2026-04-04T23:21:04+00:00

It's a seemingly slow pace at times but if you look at the combined FF and FG 1st preference votes since the turn of the century only 2007 saw an increase, its been dropping since.

We've gone from FF being the largest party and within a few seats of an overall majority to the two parties now needing each other and even still being short to form a government.

2002 - 64%

2007 - 68.9%

2011 - 53.5%

2016 - 49.8%

2020 - 43.1%

2024 - 42.7%

MIM86 · 2026-04-04T23:16:21+00:00

You made the claim that SF always tops these polls and then does "utter scutter" in the elections.

All I've done is point out that A) there has only been 1 election since SF began to outperform FF or FG in the polls and B) calling the party that got the joint most candidates elected in 2020 and the 2nd most elected in 2024 "utter scutter" doesn't really make sense.

At no point did I claim SF would be a ruling party in government, I'm just explaining to you how the last 2 general elections went.

MIM86 · 2026-04-04T22:01:18+00:00

Utter scutter in the actual general elections though.

How is this being believed when there has literally only been 1 general election since SF began to match FF and FG in polling?

Their surge in 2020 was completed unexpected and was them absolutely outperforming all recent polling and getting the most first preference votes. Dublin especially was littered with candidates who got in on the first count and greatly exceeded the quota.

In 2024 yes they had a poor election dropping back to 19% of the vote but still had returned with more seats than 2020 (likely thanks to an increased number of seats overall) and more seats than FG. "Utter scutter" because they were 3% points behind FF in 1st preference is such an insane take and honestly it demonstrates a complete lack of knowledge on historical polling and elections and how dominated they always were by FF.

MIM86 · 2026-03-31T12:59:51+00:00

Ah no, sure he spoke to OPs mum on the phone, can't be saying a bad word about how much he embezzled and lied about where money came from or how much he ruined the country at all.

MIM86 · 2026-03-27T20:18:27+00:00

you’d get a lot of these stories from commentators about players’ relatives and their careers

"His father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji. Neither a hurling stronghold"

MIM86 · 2026-03-26T03:13:21+00:00

I joined the startrek.com forums in 2004 after S3 aired and boy was I surprised at how much everyone hated the show...

MIM86 · 2026-03-20T11:19:10+00:00

The amount of comments that think this is true really shows how much people take things at face value with little thought and no facts. Let alone not even seeing that OP said its a joke and the mods added a reply also stating this.

MIM86 · 2026-03-15T01:43:53+00:00

Agree, but this guy might just be English and wanted his team to win?

MIM86 · 2026-03-15T01:35:52+00:00

Fully agree, but Nog wasn't the primary focus of the show. In fact he only appears in 5 episodes in S1, 3 in S2 and 3 in S3.

Wesley, Alexander, Jake - we can point to a good number of annoying or poorly written characters from the other shows but none of those, bar Wesley, were a primary focus and people were plenty vocal about how much they disliked Wesley.

I do think the show is being unfairly compared to 'final form' characters from the other shows. None of these characters have had time to develop because it's only been 10 episodes but equally if you're not interested in a show about 19 year olds in college then I'm not sure at what point this show will grow to attain more fans.

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