Topic: The Irish Politics Thread.

[BarryCrocker]

FF/FG/GP getting in the arse today over the selling off of estates to vulture funds, and rightly fucking so.

Well overdue. Housing in Ireland has become a hire purchase arrangement for ordinary people paying money to business who don't pay tax.

[Sarge]

Well overdue. Housing in Ireland has become a hire purchase arrangement for ordinary people paying money to business who don't pay tax.

Its shocking, Private homes are being built, Social Homes are being built, Vulture funds are getting a share and affordable homes are being ignored and thats a huge percentage of those seeking are in the affordable sectoin.

[BarryCrocker]

Its shocking, Private homes are being built, Social Homes are being built, Vulture funds are getting a share and affordable homes are being ignored and thats a huge percentage of those seeking are in the affordable sectoin.

One of the major problems is the concentration of property ownership by a few businesses. As the pool of individually held homes becomes smaller prices get pushed up for those that do come to market. Renters only have access to a limited number of properties which means rents get jacked up.

[Sarge]

One of the major problems is the concentration of property ownership by a few businesses. As the pool of individually held homes becomes smaller prices get pushed up for those that do come to market. Renters only have access to a limited number of properties which means rents get jacked up.

And these companies buying blocks of housing will change outragous rent.

[DangerScouse]

Eoghan Harris trying to take the moral high ground over Sinn Fein in his RTE radio interview yesterday and casually drops in the fact he was very good friends with Gusty Spence and David Ervine. 

[Sarge]

Eoghan Harris trying to take the moral high ground over Sinn Fein in his RTE radio interview yesterday and casually drops in the fact he was very good friends with Gusty Spence and David Ervine. 

Harris is a prick, an ex sticky loving prick. An INM mouthpiece.

[didi shamone]

Harris is a prick, an ex sticky loving prick. An INM mouthpiece.

He's sacked from the Sindo

[Sarge]

He's sacked from the Sindo

Still a mouthpiece

[didi shamone]

Still a mouthpiece

Apparently that got him sacked. Something to do with spouting on Twitter under a false identity.

[Sarge]

Apparently that got him sacked. Something to do with spouting on Twitter under a false identity.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/twitter-suspends-nine-accounts-linked-to-profile-used-by-eoghan-harris-1.4558375

By all accounts he had a right barney with Sarh McEnerney on Radio too.

[Macphisto80]

So Poots is the new DUP leader. Foster was a moron, but this fella is straight out of the Jurassic period.

[Crosby Nick]

So Poots is the new DUP leader. Foster was a moron, but this fella is straight out of the Jurassic period.

He can’t be, the world wasn’t around back then was it?

[BobOnATank]

He can’t be, the world wasn’t around back then was it?

Exactly, apparently scientists just planted those bones to try to disprove the bible... The union is in good hands 

[Macphisto80]

He can’t be, the world wasn’t around back then was it?

Haha, that is a very good point.

[thejbs]

Exactly, apparently scientists just planted those bones to try to disprove the bible... The union is in good hands 

That’s an egregious lie. He doesn’t think that.

He believes God put the dinosaur bones and all the other evidence of an old earth there to test us. Or, just for bants.

[BarryCrocker]

And these companies buying blocks of housing will change outragous rent.

A decent start, however excluding apartments from the crackdown is a major fail.

Stamp duty on the purchase of 10 or more houses will rise to 10pc from midnight tonight and act as a “significant disincentive” to bulk purchasing of new homes, Mr Donohoe said last night.

Meanwhile, Mr O’Brien is introducing a new “owner occupier guarantee” to enable local authorities to designate as many as 50pc of units in a new development for owner occupiers. He will also issue a circular today requiring local authorities and An Bord Pleanála to prohibit bulk buying of houses and duplexes.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/crackdown-on-cuckoo-funds-buying-up-housing-estates-leads-to-split-in-coalition-40443325.html

[Sarge]

Shinners are playing a blinder on the houing issue, O Broin and Doherty have really given it to the Government and you know what, they are fucking bang on.

[Sarge]

Other news that Morley case in Newcastle re those 3 kids was awful to listen too.

[DangerScouse]

Other news that Morley case in Newcastle re those 3 kids was awful to listen too.

Horrendous.

[killer-heels]

So Poots is the new DUP leader. Foster was a moron, but this fella is straight out of the Jurassic period.

Now resigned.

[So… Howard Philips]

Now resigned.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-57521158

Didn't take them long to fall out.

[an fear dearg]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-57521158

Didn't take them long to fall out.

He’s in for the Spurs job….

[Ray K]

He lasted 20 days, which is 2 full Scaramucchi's to be fair.

@colmomongain
That's life, that's how it is. Riding high in June, shot down in...June...

[Macphisto80]

He’s in for the Spurs job….

Spurs love an FA Cup.

[Crosby Nick]

He lasted 20 days, which is 2 full Scaramucchi's to be fair.

@colmomongain
That's life, that's how it is. Riding high in June, shot down in...June...

It’s the equivalent of the rest of us being in charge for a couple of million years in fairness. Well batted Edwin.

[Ray K]

It’s the equivalent of the rest of us being in charge for a couple of million years in fairness. Well batted Edwin.

[BarryCrocker]

TÁNAISTE LEO VARADKAR has set a target of 70% home-ownership in Ireland by the end of this decade, a goal that would require up to 40,000 new homes built every year.

“Housing is a human right but it means nothing just to say it or to write it into law. You have to mean it and make it happen,” he said.

From the same fella that says opposition parties of being “too ideological” when it comes to housing and insisted investment funds have a place in the Irish market.

[Red-Soldier]

From the same fella that says opposition parties of being “too ideological” when it comes to housing and insisted investment funds have a place in the Irish market.

I shake my head when I read politicians making statements like this.

It should be about sustainable development, not house building.

[BobOnATank]

Johnson the destroyer
Again here we are, the DUP are being taken for fools. The disreputable people of the former British paramilitaries are being paid for and organised again. Its seems like déjà vu, here we are, subjects to save the tories in England.

BJ and frosty need NI to fail in order to hide the failure of Brexit. You may assume that this is some attempt to protect the “union”, the UK, but again you’d have to be a member of the DUP to swallow that one. Its simple, and its not the union, NI or Scotland but rather it’s the survival of the tory party in the next election. The british/tory government cannot allow NI to succeed with the EU. If that happens maybe the scots & welsh will care, the tories won’t. Maybe the English will realise and that’s what the tories will care about. It is all about the narrow English vote and to keep the them in power. The damage that might be done or the DUP that are foolish enough to not realise or especially the forgotten loyalist community that is being used, again, and committed to poverty for a cause that’s long lost. Its shameful but the result of an association with Westminster.

Whether in the north or south of Ireland, Johnson the destroyer is a huge threat because of the lengths he will go to protect the English tory party.

[bigbonedrawky]

I think the DUP's Sammy Wilson finally realised the contempt Bojo's Tories have for them during PMQ...No bullsh*t, no bluster, no false promises he just got up and fled the chamber as soon as he started asking the question.

[Macphisto80]

Well, the word 'Tory', does, afterall, come from the Irish language. Means thief or brigand. Funny how it stuck to them.

[djahern]

What do we make of Labour’s win in the by-election? A sign of a return of some support for Labour after they looked like being wiped out completely or a just a rejection of FF (completely) and FG (kind of).

Or was it just a result of bad choices by the main parties and FG in particular about who they stood? The pandemic and its response has obviously played a part in the result so hard to gauge anything meaningful from it going forward I guess.

[Sarge]

Any roving reporters from the World Rioting Championship today?

I hear Ireland, sorry Northern Ireland are doing really well in the petrol bomb throwing discipline.

[bigbonedrawky]

Any roving reporters from the World Rioting Championship today?

I hear Ireland, sorry Northern Ireland are doing really well in the petrol bomb throwing discipline.

Ifithadnabin for the ending of the free movement of goods...They could of smoked a joint and chilled the f *ck out, instead they've swapped the bongs for bombs.

[Macphisto80]

Any roving reporters from the World Rioting Championship today?

I hear Ireland, sorry Northern Ireland are doing really well in the petrol bomb throwing discipline.

They've behaved themselves for once. Must be all that climbing trying to go for the gold in the bonfire building. And the furthest drive in the golfing when on top of it. They're looking to top the Burj Khalifa next year.

[Sarge]

Been a quite one alright.

[Libertine]

Sad to hear that Des O'Malley has passed away. One of the giants of Irish politics, a man of great integrity and one who had a huge role in the transformation of the country over the past 30-40 years.

[Sarge]

Fucking Leo wha.

[Corkboy]

Irish politics is a bit silly at the moment. All up in a heap about a fucking festival and a 15k job.

[Libertine]

Irish politics is a bit silly at the moment. All up in a heap about a fucking festival and a 15k job.

Is that the sign of a dysfunctional political/media system or one that is working pretty well such that there are only such trivial matters to attend to?

I'd say in comparison to some of its neighbours/peers, the Irish government has handled the last 18 months reasonably well, both from a public health and economic support perspective. With 83% of all over-12s now fully vaccinated, the country is in a pretty strong position going into autumn/winter.