OliviaDee

i checked it out. yip that's me. just a regular colleen

oh well then it probably is me. i get around. like to do me bit...

in the other what narnia?

for anyone who needs a three and a half minute crash course in all of irish history, religion, politics and culture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veWJr4BiIkM

it's Irish. Teachta D?ila. Means Member of Parliament. Recently known as GB. (Gob shite).

minister

love it!

But what FF did with regard to CB was despicable. They patronised a lobby for affordable childcare and more places by not engaging with the real need/issue there and instead jumped up the CB payments - including, incredibly, giving each child ?1000 PA !!!!!!!!. Of course this did not result in any more childcare places, and those already existing doubled their prices so as to take that money off the parents, and then some - the CB has been seriously cut and is due for further cuts, that annual payment is long gone, no more places created and the problem of childcare exacerbated rather than solved. And that was FF all over - buy off any irritant when we were oh so flush rather than build an infrastructure, or any lasting legacy for that matter. Besides CB - that's only women and children anyway. Nothing you really have to bother about.

probably just as well you're not that into it sean. you're not going to get peace to do anything for a very long time...

oh yeah narnia? do you really mean series three has started on FX - I thought series two had just started? I too am bitten.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0129/breaking15.html here you are LM. But don't believe a word.

I can only surmise you are trying to get a rise...

FG are FF with different ties on. They won't do it. (Thanks LM)

http://www.unitedleftalliance.org/ promising

http://fintanotoole.ie/petition/ check this out. heart fintan i do. fintan for taoiseach!

eh?

they say that now...

i too 'believe that people get the politicians they deserve.' And that's what scares me - i think we are about to empty the Dail of one load of gobshites only to fill it up with another load. if i had a vote at home - for the first time in my life i really do not know who i would vote for. and anyone i ask who they are voting for, avoids answering - I can only assume that is becuase everyone feels the same, and feels the utter despondency of that. Still, I find it hard to believe that after everything Ireland has been through, and considering we are quite a politicised nation, that no leader or even flurry of independents has emerged from all the mess. There is a lot of talk and little action. and as a result we are going to end to up with a party in power who are as entrenched in the failed political machinery, the cronyism, the fear of the banks and builders etc... as FF. If not, sweet jesus, FF themselves again. that would not particularly surprise me. nor would the assent of Sinn Fein as a knee-jerk vote or a vote in the void. and personally, i think that is a terrifing prospect. (keeping an eye on this ULA outfit - they might shape up)

all right then let's bring the thread back round - cos it is a good one - and since i can't get my Irish friends (in Ireland) to discuss the FUTURE of Irish politics maybe we can get something going here. I am utterly intrigued as to the absolutely incessant discussion about how rubbish FF are - yes they are but they are on their way out so let's move on - and so little willingness to discuss who we (i use 'we' liberally since i too will not get to vote) are going to put in the Dail (that's Irish Parliament for all you of the rubbish-at-eurovision-nation). I suspect it is because the options are not particularly inspiring. And they're not. But that can't be ignored in the way it seems to be. No great white hope is going to miraculously appear on the ballot box. Who would you vote for if you could vote in Ireland?

but the glory jah the glory. dylan moran would be good too

he could probably fix a win in the eurovision. that would be a serious international coup which could do much to ameliorate all the recent international bad press for ireland.

i don't think it is a wind-up. TW clearly has the credentials and clearly his country needs him.

'you can't take knickers off a bare arse.' My granny.

lol

mr daly on N+ rd. i've recommended him on here before. he is fantastic. especially if you are nervous. i would rather give birth again than have a scale and polish. his surgery is also taking on new people at the moment.