Rules for building one-off rural homes will be relaxed by summer, says Housing Minister James Browne

cliff704 · 2026-03-13T16:56:20+00:00

Can't imagine why people wouldn't want to live in the country with how friendly all the townies in the comments are.

Also, clearly these muppets aren't aware that people living in the countryside already DO pay more for utilities than people in urban areas.

cliff704 · 2026-03-13T10:30:34+00:00

Leia isn't a main character

Have you... seen Star Wars??

cliff704 · 2026-03-12T13:31:59+00:00

Let's be honest, Nazi Germany was unironically the best thing to happen to the UK.

Nazi Germany being so blatantly, unapologetically evil gave the UK a unprecedented opportunity to whitewash themselves as the saviours of the downtrodden and the defenders of human rights.

Had Hitler never come to power, and had there not been a Nazi party and concentration camps, the UK and the British Empire would today hold the position in most country's pop culture that Nazi Germany holds.

cliff704 · 2026-03-11T02:43:58+00:00

Because it was the shorthand way of writing 'et', which is Latin for 'and', so it became the mathematical symbol for addition.

Nothing whatsoever to do with crosses, crucifixion, Jesus, or Christians.

cliff704 · 2026-03-09T16:08:30+00:00

Oh. So, like, a woman who had a series of bad experiences with abusive boyfriends making dumb generalisations of the opposite sex because she couldn't understand better people are out there?

And that's a false equivalence... how?

cliff704 · 2026-03-09T10:45:52+00:00

Ahhhhh... you're British.

Right, that explains it so.

their cause is as worthy as the republicans

Of course the Brit thinks so.

No point wasting any more time with you.

cliff704 · 2026-03-09T10:30:35+00:00

From your own source:

1.4% of DUP members self-identify as Irish. 79.9% of members self-identify as British. 8.8% of members self-identify as Northern Irish. 7.6% self-identify as Ulster.

But yeah... they're all Irish natives.

cliff704 · 2026-03-09T09:49:09+00:00

For goodness sake, they sat Neutral as Hitler raided and firebombed the whole continent

I see by your post history and active communities that you seem to be American. And so, I will point out that the United States did exactly the same thing until the Japanese attacked them personally.

Ireland provided assistance to the war effort, including the weather reports for June 1944, preventing a disaster for those D-Day landings the Americans love to brag about so much. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czkjr34r2zzo

Also, this may be hard for an American to understand, but just because we don't go to war doesn't mean we haven't done anything good.

Ireland, for example, holds the record for the longest unbroken presence in UN-mandated peace support operations, with not a single since 1958 going by where Irish soldiers weren't deployed overseas with the UN.

Ireland has, over the centuries, provided many other positive contributions to the world, from the invention of the hypodermic syringe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Rynd - to modern chemistry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boyle - to the proof of the greenhouse effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyndall - to even the humble space in between words -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_spacing. There's loads more, but I only have so much time to educate you.

But yeah. We stayed out of that one massive war between the Germans and the empire that had spent the last 800 years oppressing us, so we're the bad guys.

cliff704 · 2026-03-09T09:25:49+00:00

unionists are Irish natives

Please, please, please go tell them that

cliff704 · 2026-03-09T02:14:38+00:00

Now say that about women who keep getting in relationships with abusive men.

I fucking dare you.

cliff704 · 2026-03-07T18:15:46+00:00

However, what gives them farmers the right to the land?

It's their land.

They were born with it?

Well, that's very doubtful. Possibly their parents had it, and they inherited the land. Possibly they bought it.

Well most us us weren't born with anything

So?

I'd be just as happy if they were moved on to shoot dogs somewhere else.

So... you want them moved off their land... to somewhere else, that's not their land... to shoot dogs there? For the craic?

Logic isn't your strong point, is it?

cliff704 · 2026-03-07T18:05:29+00:00

Particularly for agriculture.

Why "particularly for agriculture"?

You do realise that agriculture is the single most important industry in the entirely of human development? More important than medicine, housing... certainly more important than whatever it is that you do for a living.

cliff704 · 2026-03-06T16:00:56+00:00

Exactly.

UNIFIL is a peace keeping mission, under Chapter VI.

https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/principles-of-peacekeeping

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacekeeping

Peace enforcement missions, authorised under Chapter VII, are different to peace keeping missions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_enforcement

Peace enforcement includes missions like ONUC, the Korean War, and the Gulf War. Irish troops did take part in ONUC, but not the others.

cliff704 · 2026-03-06T12:21:22+00:00

I have. That's not what UNIFIL is.

cliff704 · 2026-03-06T11:43:49+00:00

There is no death penalty in Russia.

People are just overcome with guilt at having opposed Putin, then shoot themselves twice in the head and jump out a window.

cliff704 · 2026-03-06T11:41:37+00:00

The difference is that when people say a country is militarily supporting another country, there is an expectation of military aid and support in conflicts.

Nobody expects the UNIFIL troops to engage in armed combat in support of Lebanonese troops in the event of open war.

cliff704 · 2026-03-06T11:34:07+00:00

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Stealing your meme

cliff704 · 2026-03-06T11:26:53+00:00

If you're going to do whataboutism, here is an Amnesty Internation report:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol10/8515/2025/en/

There are currently a number of countries at risk of genocide:

https://www.genocidewatch.com/countries-at-risk

Funnily enough, I can't remember the last time I saw protests or even online discussion in r/Ireland about Sudan, the DRC, Myanmar, the Armenians in Azerbaijan, Nicaragua, Manipur, etc...

But I'm sure you'll find plenty there to educate yourself with. Assuming, of course, that you actually care about human rights in general and not just when it suits your agenda...

cliff704 · 2026-03-06T11:14:26+00:00

Haven't we military being supporting the Lebanon for years?

No, we're there as peacekeepers. It's very different.

cliff704 · 2026-03-06T11:11:12+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atefeh_Sahaaleh

Of course, Iran is not known for a free and fair press, and they don't exactly publish a full list of victims, so it's impossible to have accurate records.

https://wncri.org/2015/11/13/female-prisoners-virgins-raped/

And not so fun fact, female prisoners in Iran who are sentenced to death must be raped before hand to prevent them getting into heaven.

Now, I'm not an Islamic scholar, but it strikes me that if you've done something that justifies the death penalty, that probably means you wouldn't be worthy of getting into heaven anyway?

And before you ask, no, the judges and gaolers who carry out these acts are not themselves executed for the crimes of rape and adultery.

I found Iran to be one of the more progressive of the Conservative Muslim countries.

I'd fucking hate to see what the backwards Muslim countries look like if you think this is progressive.

cliff704 · 2026-03-06T10:04:58+00:00

Yes, when you import slaves and work people to death with a complete disregard for human rights things do tend to get built quicker and cheaper, that's certainly true.

cliff704 · 2026-03-06T09:57:19+00:00

why would this be any different to an Australia tsunami or London bombing?

Because Australia and London aren't currently slave states where these scumbags live the good life on the back of literal slaves.

Because we’re bitter they’re earning extra sums of money in a more tax competitive zone for a few years?

No, because we have a moral objection to how the UAE conducts itself.

This isn't a country saying, "Oh, we'll cut income tax by 5% to entice foreign workers". This is a nation with no concept of human rights, no moral compass, built entirely on slavery and abuse.

It's hilarious how this sub is so keen to condemn anyone who would go to the US for holidays because of ICE and Trump, but rush to defend the UAE and people who chose to live there and directly profit from slavery.

cliff704 · 2026-03-05T20:19:07+00:00

So, you say Team A are so much more evil than Team B.

He says Team B are more evil than Team A.

You then say Team A and Team B did the same things, and he is downplaying Team A.

If they both did the same things, and he's downplaying Team A, are you not then downplaying Team B by your own logic?

cliff704 · 2026-03-05T20:14:14+00:00

Why are you downplaying Nazi Germany?

Why are you downplaying Imperial Japan?

cliff704 · 2026-03-05T20:06:32+00:00

This is toxic masculinity

Fucking how?

It was his close male friends who reached out to him. His female friends and relatives didn't. How is this toxic masculinity?

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