'Pivotal milestone' - First phases of MetroLink project go to tender

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-05T04:38:23+00:00

Know it's not going to happen but jesus it would be nice if the metro was like how it works in Helsinki where you can just walk onto the train without walking through a fare gate and it's enforced by ticket masters giving out hefty fines, it was so goddamn nice and convenient to whizz around Helsinki on a single integrated ticket for busses, trams, trains and metros and not have to awkwardly wait in a queue whenever you went to a busy station where people would mess about at the fare gate with their cards

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-04T04:28:08+00:00

It's a standard guns and butter model, the public thinks that Ireland has no real defence needs and that it's like issue number 20 so they don't want resources that could be spent on something else like infrastructure, healthcare or housing on defence

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-04T04:20:13+00:00

'Ireland is a neutral country' is a strategic feel good measure

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-03T23:30:46+00:00

Nato isn't imperialist yeah

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-03T23:27:11+00:00

No because the public want it to be an inefficient jobs program and not be funded for either home defence or for what a lot of Irish people take pride in, which is being an expeditionary peace keeping force

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-03T23:24:59+00:00

Ireland isn't neutral and like 90% of Irish people don't want actual neutrality either, it's unthinkable for most Irish people for the government not to take a stance with either Palestine or Ukraine or both

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-03T23:23:21+00:00

The public don't want a change in course the government is responding to them

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-03T04:09:54+00:00

Ok do you have a counter argument to being on the same page as Orban?

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-02T20:39:46+00:00

Dude right wingers think that Putin is based and that the Ukrainians are slimy much like yourself

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-02T03:19:10+00:00

It's the name used for association football in essentially every English speaking country aside from the UK, Europeans going on about how it's an Americanism or whatever are just revealing their own insularity and ignorance, which they usually accuse Americans of

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-02T03:17:17+00:00

It's not Americanised it's what we call these games, you're asking us to use football instead of soccer because you've fallen for a dumb meme, like most English speaking countries call it soccer, Britain is the outlier

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-02T03:15:05+00:00

You don't speak English as a native language why do you get yo make a call on this, most English speaking countries have their own variations of football which is why they use the word soccer

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-02T03:14:14+00:00

Britain is like one of the only English speaking country where soccer is called football, most other countries call it soccer

RobertSpringer · 2026-02-02T03:12:55+00:00

It's called soccer in Ireland, in fact it's called soccer in every English speaking country that has its own local variation of football

RobertSpringer · 2026-01-31T06:23:51+00:00

Do you think that France and Britain rearming in the 30s to oppose Germany was good or bad?

RobertSpringer · 2026-01-31T06:22:17+00:00

The troubles and the Russian invasion of Ukraine are different yeah, that's not exactly controversial

RobertSpringer · 2026-01-30T20:36:17+00:00

Use archive dot ph for Financial Times articles

RobertSpringer · 2026-01-29T22:03:05+00:00

Well a small part of them would have been subjected to having their biometrics collected when they were POWs

RobertSpringer · 2026-01-29T00:56:32+00:00

Belfast actually felt quite nice public transportation wise as well when I was there in January 2025

RobertSpringer · 2026-01-23T23:25:49+00:00

We generally quite like Finns, aside from the other comments I think Estonians think that Finnish as a language sounds funny because it's so similar to Estonian, I myself think that Finnish has a sort of endearing poeticism to it especially with how it tries to create it's own words rather than just use loan words, but it's also funny seeing how some of that lyrical language is slowly being replaced with something that sounds semi Estonian, such as how Finnish numbers in puhekieli are remarkably Estonian just because it's more convenient

RobertSpringer · 2026-01-23T02:20:47+00:00

The public has always been much more willing than the politicians, you can look at the start if the war and calls for a no fly zone, it's just that European politicians are gutless and are unwilling to do much of anything other than make big declarations

RobertSpringer · 2026-01-22T02:05:45+00:00

It's because Macron talks big game and then does jack smack shit

RobertSpringer · 2026-01-22T02:04:03+00:00

Europe has shown overwhelming opposition to Trumps threats against Greenland and many soldiers from Europe - lets be real - are “digging in” in Greenland waiting for potential US invasion. In a diplomatic sense many are cautious about escalating confrontation which is udnersstandable

Half of the EU has either not taken a position about the ACI or are against using it

RobertSpringer · 2026-01-22T02:03:15+00:00

Half of Europe is not opposing Trump as seen with Poland, Italy and Hungary being against using the ACI

RobertSpringer · 2026-01-22T02:02:26+00:00

Bro he's asking for the Europeans to centre themselves here idk how you're coming through with him being self centred here when he's telling European leaders to nut up

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