All so predictable when is enough enough

[john m]

The public mood has dramatically shifted in the fight against Covid- 19, according to a landmark Kantar/Sunday Independent opinion poll, which has found soaring levels of disapproval at the Government's handling of the pandemic, the roll-out of the vaccination programme and duration of Level 5 restrictions to limit spread of the virus.

For the first time in a year, approval for the Government's handling of the pandemic (43pc) has dropped below the 50pc mark - a massive 19-point decrease since the last poll was taken in November/December and a 35-point drop since this time last year.

After a week of controversy around the Beacon Hospital vaccination of teachers at a private school, and a generally slow vaccination programme, the poll also finds strong disapproval (53pc) at the manner in which the Government has dealt with the roll-out of vaccines, with just a third (29pc) approving and only 7pc strongly approving.

[john m]

HE COULDNT MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS LEARN FROM ULSTER SAYS NO CROWD AND SAID NO TO BORIS AND BREXIT BACKSTOP

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has been forced to move out of his home in Dublin's Castleknock to a more secure location in the capital, due to "credible" death threats.

A fortnight ago, this newspaper revealed that several death threats have been levelled against the Tánaiste in recent weeks, leading to him now requiring round-the-clock armed garda protection. Senior sources say the deaths threats are being taken "extremely seriously" and gardaí are "responding appropriately" in terms of providing protection for Mr Varadkar.

Well-placed sources now say that, upon advice from gardaí, the Tánaiste and his partner Matt Barrett have moved out of their Castleknock home.

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[john m]

HOW LONG BEFORE PEOPLE ON THIS SIDE OF THE BORDER SAY ENOUGH BULLSHIT IS ENOUGH.

There has been another night of trouble on the streets in Northern Ireland with PSNI officers responding to reports of disorder in Newtownabbey in Co Antrim.

Video footage emerged on social media of cars being hijacked and burned out in the area.



The PSNI appealed for calm and asked anyone with any influence in the community to try to ensure young people do not get caught up in criminality.

It comes after eight people were arrested and 27 police officers injured during riots in Belfast and Derry on Friday night.

In Belfast, two boys, aged 13 and 14, were among eight people arrested in connection with riots in a loyalist area of the city.

Police said 15 officers were injured on Friday night after being targeted by a crowd of mainly young people in Sandy Row, throwing stones, fireworks, flares, manhole covers and petrol bombs.

Political leaders have also called for calm.

First Minister and DUP leader, Arlene Foster, urged young people "not to get drawn into disorder", saying violence "will not make things better".

She said: "I know that many of our young people are hugely frustrated by the events of this last week but causing injury to police officers will not make things better.

"And I send my strong support to all of the rank-and-file police officers that are on duty over this Easter weekend.

"I appeal to our young people not to get drawn into disorder which will lead to them having criminal convictions and blighting their own lives.

"I also ask parents to play their part and be proactive in protecting their young adults."

Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis described the unrest as "completely unacceptable".

He said: "Violence is never the answer. There is no place for it in society. It is unwanted, unwarranted and I fully support the PSNI appeal for calm."

The disorder has flared amid ongoing tensions within loyalism across Northern Ireland.

Loyalists and unionists are angry about post-Brexit trading arrangements which they claim have created barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.

Tensions ramped up further this week following a controversial decision not to prosecute 24 Sinn Féin politicians for attending a large-scale republican funeral during Covid-19 restrictions.

All the main unionist parties have demanded the resignation of PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne, claiming he has lost the confidence of their community.

[john m]

100 years ago today people in Ulster were protesting to remain part of the UK and not be separated by A Free State nothing changed there .

100 years ago today Irish Politicians under threat from Loyalists nothing changed there either.

100 Years ago today the RIC /Black and Tans stopping people in Southern Ireland demanding to know where they were going again nothing changed there .

Makes you wonder why on an Easter Sunday 105 years ago we bothered having a Rising nothing has changed .Sad reality we probably had more freedom under British Rule than we have in our own Republic .A Brick layer working building a Hospital of a School or on a site for multi billion Corporations is ok to work but a Bricklayer who might get a small job to build a garden wall could get arrested .

[Cool Boola]

John...Why did they call it the Easter Rising...did they all get up early that day....askin for a Sassenach de chuid

[Shallowhal]

The John M rant thread.....oh...hang on a minute!!

[john m]

Hal if you were a Kitchen or wardrobe fitter out in Intel or on the Childrens Hospital site you would be back on your tools .If Sharon From the Flats worked for Tesco and not for Pennys she would be back at work .Chungones what go to buy Plastic Diddies in Dubai are not going for essential medical treatment but women who had cervical cancer misdiagnosed and the Government tried to get the legendary Dr Hooligan to fight them in the courts can go to Mexico for experimental medical treatment .The Vaccine fuckup .Leo and his Ego trip with Boros .Importing a Garda Comissioner with no experience of Irish policing culture was all predictable to fail .Over a year since this Virus firse appeared and our government still dont have any plan for getting us out of Lockdown other that blame the People not the Political decisions every time they fuck up .Tired of it Hal .If I could see the problems before they happened then how come Politicians over paid advisors and think tanks couldnt forsee that everything they were planning would fail .

The final bit that broke me was yesterday I was out with the dog and there was a row in the Childrens playground between two women .One had a kid on the swings and when another kid got on the other swing beside them she asked them not to as it was not Socially distant .The seconds kids mother didnt get annoyed and knock her out she said ."Social distancing dosent seem to apply to you when you are pushing your child on the swing .Now when Children have become weaponised in the great Covid debate you got to sit up and take notice .I cant imagine how scared that first mother must be to bring her child out .Every evening on Virgin Media smiley Girl reads out the score and two well paid heads from the HSE spread political Propoganda while the Job they are paid to do run the Hospital Service is ignored and the Hospital waiting lists are now at over a Million people waiting for an appointment .If people dont rant then nothing will change .

Mick from Cork going to Essential boxing matches .Big Phil the only one to get fucked for Golfgate .Enda making an essential travel programme for RTE .Leo Spying for Doctors Unions ,Davy Stockbrokers robbing the State while working for them ,Dublin Footballers breaking quarintine to play a game .We are been taken for fools .Greens looking for millions to build bike lanes that will only be used on sunny days .Dublin Corpo want to pedestrianise the streets with tables and chairs that blind people can fall over .Im sorry Hal if my ranting has upset your well organised happy existance .

[mercenary for hire]

Yeh Hal ye selfish bollix.

[Justin Time]

Hal if you were a Kitchen or wardrobe fitter out in Intel or on the Childrens Hospital site you would be back on your tools .If Sharon From the Flats worked for Tesco and not for Pennys she would be back at work .Chungones what go to buy Plastic Diddies in Dubai are not going for essential medical treatment but women who had cervical cancer misdiagnosed and the Government tried to get the legendary Dr Hooligan to fight them in the courts can go to Mexico for experimental medical treatment .The Vaccine fuckup .Leo and his Ego trip with Boros .Importing a Garda Comissioner with no experience of Irish policing culture was all predictable to fail .Over a year since this Virus firse appeared and our government still dont have any plan for getting us out of Lockdown other that blame the People not the Political decisions every time they fuck up .Tired of it Hal .If I could see the problems before they happened then how come Politicians over paid advisors and think tanks couldnt forsee that everything they were planning would fail .

The final bit that broke me was yesterday I was out with the dog and there was a row in the Childrens playground between two women .One had a kid on the swings and when another kid got on the other swing beside them she asked them not to as it was not Socially distant .The seconds kids mother didnt get annoyed and knock her out she said ."Social distancing dosent seem to apply to you when you are pushing your child on the swing .Now when Children have become weaponised in the great Covid debate you got to sit up and take notice .I cant imagine how scared that first mother must be to bring her child out .Every evening on Virgin Media smiley Girl reads out the score and two well paid heads from the HSE spread political Propoganda while the Job they are paid to do run the Hospital Service is ignored and the Hospital waiting lists are now at over a Million people waiting for an appointment .If people dont rant then nothing will change .

Mick from Cork going to Essential boxing matches .Big Phil the only one to get fucked for Golfgate .Enda making an essential travel programme for RTE .Leo Spying for Doctors Unions ,Davy Stockbrokers robbing the State while working for them ,Dublin Footballers breaking quarintine to play a game .We are been taken for fools .Greens looking for millions to build bike lanes that will only be used on sunny days .Dublin Corpo want to pedestrianise the streets with tables and chairs that blind people can fall over .Im sorry Hal if my ranting has upset your well organised happy existance .

It's Ireland,what are you so upset for? It's always been like this,the haves and have nots. People moan and moan and complain (you presently),we have the highest number of people on hospital waiting lists,highest rents, highest numbers of homelessness, lack of affordable housing,highest mortgage rates in EU, highest Insurance in EU and on and on .
Guess what, the people vote  for the same political partys time and time again.
No change there then.
It's who we are!

[Bob Shillin]

A part of me hopes that those breast enhancers court case against internment without trial in a quarantine hotel is successful.

[Shallowhal]

One waits with bated breath Bob!!

[john m]

If only they said they had to be detained in a Laundry or a Convent the two youngones would be up to their tits in Lifeboy soap scrubbing sheets or towels and nobody would of given a fuck .Not like an Irish government to ignore the Constitution !

[john m]

Now this Fuckology ....Tánaiste Leo Varadkar's department contacted Dunnes Stores last week over its supermarkets selling non-essential goods and its website offering click and collect services, the Sunday Independent has learned.

The contact from Department of Enterprise officials resulted in Dunnes Stores removing references to its click and collect service from its website, which as of last Thursday stated that this service is "temporarily unavailable" in the Republic.

Last Wednesday the same section of the website said customers "could choose to have their online order delivered free to their selected store".



I ordered 5 ton of gravel and 40 bags of cement to lay a foundation .Its not illegal to order it but its illegal to lay the foundation unless in building a school or hospital .So you can buy blocks but cant lay them .BUY A FUCKING GUN .

[silverbullet]

Hal if you were a Kitchen or wardrobe fitter out in Intel or on the Childrens Hospital site you would be back on your tools .If Sharon From the Flats worked for Tesco and not for Pennys she would be back at work .Chungones what go to buy Plastic Diddies in Dubai are not going for essential medical treatment but women who had cervical cancer misdiagnosed and the Government tried to get the legendary Dr Hooligan to fight them in the courts can go to Mexico for experimental medical treatment .The Vaccine fuckup .Leo and his Ego trip with Boros .Importing a Garda Comissioner with no experience of Irish policing culture was all predictable to fail .Over a year since this Virus firse appeared and our government still dont have any plan for getting us out of Lockdown other that blame the People not the Political decisions every time they fuck up .Tired of it Hal .If I could see the problems before they happened then how come Politicians over paid advisors and think tanks couldnt forsee that everything they were planning would fail .

The final bit that broke me was yesterday I was out with the dog and there was a row in the Childrens playground between two women .One had a kid on the swings and when another kid got on the other swing beside them she asked them not to as it was not Socially distant .The seconds kids mother didnt get annoyed and knock her out she said ."Social distancing dosent seem to apply to you when you are pushing your child on the swing .Now when Children have become weaponised in the great Covid debate you got to sit up and take notice .I cant imagine how scared that first mother must be to bring her child out .Every evening on Virgin Media smiley Girl reads out the score and two well paid heads from the HSE spread political Propoganda while the Job they are paid to do run the Hospital Service is ignored and the Hospital waiting lists are now at over a Million people waiting for an appointment .If people dont rant then nothing will change .

Mick from Cork going to Essential boxing matches .Big Phil the only one to get fucked for Golfgate .Enda making an essential travel programme for RTE .Leo Spying for Doctors Unions ,Davy Stockbrokers robbing the State while working for them ,Dublin Footballers breaking quarintine to play a game .We are been taken for fools .Greens looking for millions to build bike lanes that will only be used on sunny days .Dublin Corpo want to pedestrianise the streets with tables and chairs that blind people can fall over .Im sorry Hal if my ranting has upset your well organised happy existance .

It's Ireland,what are you so upset for? It's always been like this,the haves and have nots. People moan and moan and complain (you presently),we have the highest number of people on hospital waiting lists,highest rents, highest numbers of homelessness, lack of affordable housing,highest mortgage rates in EU, highest Insurance in EU and on and on .
Guess what, the people vote  for the same political partys time and time again.
No change there then.
It's who we are!

You can mock all you like Justin, but read back over your article - We're world leaders in a lot of things, just be proud we're good at something.

[stonethecrows]

Bit crazy when you can go out and buy as much gargle as you want but you cant but a pair of shoes or Trousers or other essential items !!

Oh and BTW I do gargle and I like it.