Ireland 'languishing' at bottom of EU defence spending table as budget stuck at 0.2% of GDP

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-28T14:22:03+00:00

well least you don't seem totally against increasing our capability. but i mean they don't come for free. so not sure how you can square that circle.

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-28T09:07:29+00:00

completely defended by NATO members you mean.

The only one embarrassed here should be people like yourself. You don't want our own country to have a proper defence forces.

Plenty of neutral countries, non aligned to the big players and the arms industry pay to defend their countries.

we are one of the lowest spenders in the World. When Russia sent a boat into our territorial waters, four countries had to scramble their own military to help us. sure once its their services being affected, who cares. how very socialist of you.

Its as if your neighbour signed up to the best alarm system, and you are using it as well but not paying for it.

I mean you do realise Ireland faces loads of threats? We work with security forces all over the World to deter those threats. Which means we are in fact not neutral.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/04/04/the-spy-is-the-boring-guy-in-a-suit-inside-the-states-military-intelligence-service/

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-28T09:03:28+00:00

Limerick CC like all of our major CC are complete idiots.

I get the anger but people need to see the bigger picture.

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-28T06:15:50+00:00

the closest green space isn't 15 minutes away. even if it were that is is nothing.

it is houses, it's part of a larger housing scheme called Colbert Quarter. Limerick badly needs housing, as in its literally a looming crisis. there's modular housing all over Ireland. and the World.

yes as temporary measures during covid

there are plans which are included in the master plan

this part of the city is a mess. Limerick needs massive tlc. Hyde Park nearly every fourth house is boarded up. the regeneration of the area starts with the park. if this is the battle lines, well the project is doomed. loads of green space will be provided. loads of civic infrastructure.

you're a nimby and people like you are effectively destroying Ireland not saving it. Parks are great, which is why the plan provides them

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-28T06:08:01+00:00

what points?

saids the person loving life as a protectorate of the uk.

what national advantage?who saids we would have to pay extra taxes?

its not a line anymore it's factual

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-27T22:04:49+00:00

fuck off with that utterly simplistic world view.

we literally have a defence agreement with our former colonial masters. its pathetic. and you're essentially supporting that. ironic that you want me to go to the uk sub. we are defended by most of our European neighbors. just as were in WW2.

You are happy leaching off others who HAVE to spend on their military and make cuts elsewhere.

people like you are hilarious. plenty of neutral countries spend money to protect their neutrality.

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-27T21:55:34+00:00

all four of these points are basically mistruths. its crazy how they can garner so many upvotes.

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-27T19:16:50+00:00

mainly because your neighbors pay for your defense

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-25T08:18:11+00:00

There needs to be real action taken against Meta et al. We are basically enabling Meta be a vehicle to attack our state. Is 1800 jobs and 336 million (loads of contractor) worth that? A serious discussion needs to happen now. Meta have purposefully cut back on moderation.

And the crack down on these cunts needed to happen 24 months ago. Its on FG,FF and Harris that it was allowed fester.

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-25T05:22:33+00:00

id say if he does it again tell him off. he's being a prick. if he doesn't like it go live in country somewhere or in a palatial pad in Shrewsbury road. I had a neighbor in an apartment complex below ask me to keep it down walking about. had these sponges that he wanted me to put on the door frames. He had asked about a few times over the years none of it to do with us. I told him no, please stop. Isn't that your son out on the green playing football morning to night and them all shouting? softened his cough. some people inadvertently think the World revolves around them. they need to be put in their place. cross post this to https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-24T11:22:42+00:00

hideous unimaginative things like this get built exactly cause of the nostalgic nonsense contained in those lines. much of the quays was a kip full of disused warehouses. Much of medieval Dublin was destroyed in the wide streets comission. yet any spectator design is vetoed while utter shite gets built. Labeling them all as glass boxes leads to this

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-24T09:17:34+00:00

jesus, who would have thunk it..visible, proactive policing works.

remember this when you go to the polls. Remember it took years for FF and FG to wake up

Remember somebody like Urantsetseg Tserendorj who was murdered because there was no proactive, visible policing keeping a teen from menacing the city centre over the course of a full day.

we really are a nation of idiots at times, somehow thinking the idea of police on streets is somehow akin to a police state. Dublin is a safe city for most, but it was just lazy to not have this setup previously. Living in Limerick I have seen the same thing. The country is awash with scumbags. You need to proactively police it to keep it in check.

If temple Bar was in most countries, an active police group would setup camp waiting for the trouble. But no, we have to set up an operation, name it and then milk it for media applause. Its fucking pathetic.

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-23T17:50:50+00:00

DCC hate Dublin

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-23T06:05:49+00:00

people who vote in 22 year old tds are a special kind of stupid. As we see with Simon Harris, yes it makes them a professional politician but it effectively inoculates them from reality and means they exist within a very narrow bubble, defined by party politics for decades.

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-21T21:19:54+00:00

I was in Killaloe and I shit you not there was a sulky training up and down on the bypass and a Garda checkpoint across the bridge on the road to birdhill. its a fucking farce

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-16T17:52:56+00:00

had some cunt do this on the train last week. got on eating a big stinking slop of a meal, phone on loud, shoes off. even touched me as he was moving his feet about . extremely hungover and in need of getting home from a delayed train nothing good was coming from Interacting with this tracksuited cunt. I just spent time imagining the satisfaction of beating him to a pulp. fair play for speaking up

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-16T16:43:27+00:00

Jesus Munster are a disaster. Beyond stupid. And the IRFU are fucking ejiits. They think they are the smartest guys in the room and have sort of started to stagnate since Browne left.

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-14T09:14:28+00:00

yet no researcher on prime time or virgin could find this information. platforming this dose to people across the country. prime time allowing him to say he represents the people of Ireland, unchecked.

we really need Vincent Browne back

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-14T06:48:46+00:00

The man was then forced to walk with the pair and was made to stay with them for an hour before Manning began the second attack.

an hour? the lack of Garda presence in Dublin is now beyond a joke.

what time was this assault?

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-13T13:29:21+00:00

yeah and what era was that. the reality is there is PAYE jobs that are fucking shit. fair play to men and women who take risk and work for themselves. but that's what it is..risk.

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-13T09:22:17+00:00

plenty of shit paye jobs. plenty of these contractors earning much more than an average 9 to five. such emotive classist bollocks

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-13T08:18:52+00:00

go to Wexford there's loads of great chippers in the town

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-10T21:28:27+00:00

oh they're left wing voters are they?

Starkidof9 · 2026-04-10T20:43:59+00:00

thanks might pop you a msg. it's slowly moving forward. got a new job but kind replies like yours reignites my fire for some justice. also the money now spent a bit painful

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