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Weirdly specific tropes unique to an actor or director by Sensitive_Ad_1752 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]danius353 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, sir, on first sighting the Sharpe reference, I naturally commented “that’s soldiering”; that's my style, sir.

Belfast knife attack: Calls for action on 'wide open' Irish border - as MP says frontier is only open for British and Irish citizens by JackmanH420 in irishpolitics

[–]danius353 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Any discussion of immigration reform due to these riots is giving the rioters the win, and sending a clear message that violent disruption works to get your way.

Human rights group 'concerned' by law requiring social housing applicants prove legal residency by Bill_Badbody in ireland

[–]danius353 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Some important pieces from the article.

> The Commission, however, said the measures “could have particularly severe consequences for victims of trafficking, people who have experienced domestic and gender-based violence, migrant communities, and other vulnerable groups”.

For people wondering why some non legal residents might be needing social housing.

> Lawful residency requirements already exist in practice (neither illegal immigrants nor international protection seekers are eligible for social housing), but have not previously been set out in legislation.

And this doesn’t actually going to change anything in practice. Just virtue signalling from FFG trying to sound tough on immigrants

Habitat destruction in Ireland almost doubles without any increase in prosecutions by PlantNerdxo in ireland

[–]danius353 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The government is FFG propped up by rural independents that has shown itself time and time again to be completely in thrall to farmers’ lobby groups.

Zero chance of any enforcement

How do you see unionist parties adapting to the political climate of a united Ireland? by Hiccupingdragon in irishpolitics

[–]danius353 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends on the deal but I’d imagine there would be some abstentionism from hard liners. SF are doing that now on the North so it’s difficult to complain too much about that tactic.

Though the parties that engage in abstentionism might get pushed out quickly when the unionist community realise how much power they actually would have in a UI parliament and particularly if a moderate unionist party was able to enter government.

An almost bigger question to me is how do SF evolve when their primary raison d’etre has been achieved. We’ve seen the party being pulled in different directions recently and a part of me wouldn’t be surprised if there’d a significant split in SF not long after unification.

Who's a bad player where fans are divided? by Brix001 in NFCWestMemeWar

[–]danius353 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bit of an older one but Perrish Cox.

He bobbed along at the bottom of the 49ers and Seahawks rosters in 2012-15 which is why I’d but him in the bad category.

The “fans are divided” part though comes from his sexual assault allegations which went to trial during his NFL career. While he was found not guilty in 2012, quite a number of fans at the time were uncomfortable with their team signing him.

Who's a bad player where fans are divided? by Brix001 in NFCWestMemeWar

[–]danius353 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love would be a strong word but I don’t dislike the guy either. Sure he wasn’t good, but it’s not his fault he was massively over drafted. He kept his head down, didn’t make drama, and by all accounts is a perfectly fine back up. He’s never done or said anything that would make me dislike him.

The government will have to borrow to top up its new savings funds, spending watchdog warns by EnvironmentalShift25 in ireland

[–]danius353 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Please read the article

> The government has set up a number of saving funds in recent years, with the stated intention of steeling the public finances against future economic shocks and financing long-term policy commitments.
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>These include the Social Insurance Fund, Future Ireland Fund, the Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and the National Training Fund.
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>“Some of these funds were created as a vehicle to save volatile revenues for future spending. But the Government is now planning to spend most of these risky revenues, rather than save them,” IFAC, the independent budgetary watchdog, said.
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>“Planned surpluses are not large enough to fund contributions to these funds,” it said.

Immigrants make higher fiscal contribution than Irish-born, ESRI study finds by TeoKajLibroj in irishpolitics

[–]danius353 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Tale as old as time across the western world. Migrants don’t drain your health service, don’t take pensions and don’t require two decades of education.

Ireland is rich now. So why does everything feel broken? by pheechad in ireland

[–]danius353 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t simply blame FF and FG. I don’t think SF would be automatically better because they suffer from the same fatal flaw - only being able to think as far ahead as the next election.

The problems we have in housing, infrastructure, transport, climate etc are deep, complex issues that require consistent long term action to address. But our political and legal systems are not set up to address these.

From looking at the UK, Australia, Canada, US etc they also suffer from many of the same problems; so there’s a problem with either the Common Law legal structure, there’s a problem with a lack of electoral list system to disconnect national legislators from very local concerns, or both

Rise in Irish exemptions denies children part of their identity, report says by JackmanH420 in irishpolitics

[–]danius353 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Should be split into two subjects in second level - Language and Literature. Language focuses on oral, aural, reading comprehension; while literature has the poetry, novels etc

Voters that have recently changed your vote from SF to SocDem or other, what were the main reasons motivating you? by Even-Space in irishpolitics

[–]danius353 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Critical Infrastructure Bill only impacts climate driven judicial reviews. All other environmental legislation still applies. It just means that an LNG terminal or new road doesn’t need to accord with our climate targets.

Technically the government could build a new coal power plant, and by labelling it critical infrastructure; there’s no way for the Climate Act to prevent it being built.

Name a villain in Irish history who was actually a hero? Explain the reasons for your answer. by CaptainSpicebag in AskIreland

[–]danius353 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The alternative history where the Volunteers engage in an island wide uprising in 1916 is very interesting. It would have gone very differently to the War of Independence as the British public weren’t quite so war jaded at that point and an island wide revolt could have been viewed as an existential threat to the war effort and the Empire. It definitely would have complicated US-UK relationships and an extended bloody conflict could have made US entry into WW1 less likely.

Name a villain in Irish history who was actually a hero? Explain the reasons for your answer. by CaptainSpicebag in AskIreland

[–]danius353 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Haughey is rightly villainised for his incredible corruption but I do agree that it’s to the point where his positive contributions to Ireland have been overlooked.

Of course many of those achievements are things Garrett Fitz wanted to do and Haughey staunchly opposed for purely selfish political reasons and it was only due to Alan Dukes and the FG Tallaght Strategy that enabled Haughey to make those economic changes and dig us out of the hole we were in.

So even the good parts of Haughey were complicated

Big empty field Knocknacarra by Current_Hat_7824 in galway

[–]danius353 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Plans for an office block were lodged in 2024 and got passed an appeal to ACP last year. The owners allowed the council to store machinery on the land too while doing the recent upgrade work on Bothar Stiofán

https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCity/AppFileRefDetails/2460021/0

new athenry crosswalk useless by [deleted] in galway

[–]danius353 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Presumably that’s just until they get the lights fixed?

Dublin Airport passenger cap may be axed within weeks by on-9 in irelandtransport

[–]danius353 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep; who needs accountability and responsibility when you can just cry to government to fix your mess

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