Trader fined for Sunday opening

[Jim]

republic said:

Oh, i meant the provos. The ones who killed children.

almost every military organisation on this earth has killed children mate, its just a matter of being told if they do it or not.

thats a good idea about making sure the govt fulfills its obligations, i like it.
esp on the registration issue, its nearly a grand in UCD now. free education

That makes me want to go to Dublin Its 3 grand a year in the UK excluding Scotland thanks to Anto Blair.

[Republic]

jim said:

republic said:

Oh, i meant the provos. The ones who killed children.

almost every military organisation on this earth has killed children mate, its just a matter of being told if they do it or not.

thats a good idea about making sure the govt fulfills its obligations, i like it.
esp on the registration issue, its nearly a grand in UCD now. free education

That makes me want to go to Dublin Its 3 grand a year in the UK excluding Scotland thanks to Anto Blair.

Now Jim, the provos were terrorists, not an army. They did not represent Ireland, no matter what they claim.
If they were an army, they should have attacked the british military only. Not planting bombs in civilian areas. I dont care what other armies do, i will hold any ''irish'' army to a high standard.
If britain or whoever else wants to lower their standards, let them, they will only lose the battle for hearts and minds.
Which is what happened with the black and tans- the IRA largely stayed way above the ruthlessness of the tans and the auxies.

so i cannot accept any justification for the provos actions.

Were you considering coming to UCD? It can be good, but it can be quite hard to settle into if your not from dublin.

[Republic]

It's one I always throw at the FF/FG tweedle dums and dees. They go on that THEY introduced free education, then I remind them about books, uniforms registration fees, materials etc etc etc.

I'm from a "disadvantaged area" so we rented our books from the school and I'd rather that was expanded to every school then all students getting free books. Next Ard Fheis I'll be putting a motion in on this.

Me too, we rented our books as well, its a good idea.

Nothing about gender imbalance I know of. Reducing class sizes, recruiting teachers mainly for preschool and primary schools is a priority to build for the future and allow more to go on to third level.
There's a new policy document out this week that I haven't seen yet so I'm not going to bull shit you, coz I just don't know at the moment. I'll get back to you when I've read it.

Fair enough, but i would suggest an initiative at trying to address the gender imbalance. I know quite a lot of males around my age who are unable to become primary teachers. The entry requirements are somewhat biased towards females.

I'll tell you in all honestly we have no plans to get rid of stamp duty.......shock horror we aren't following the herd. My Labour Party rivals in our area can't see the irony in them taunting me about our position on stamp duty when they're signing up with a party that wants to abolish it.
We advocoate larger tax allowences for people paying mortages instead of getting rid of stamp duty.

Every house price is over inflated by up to 60k to guard against a crash. Lession learned from the UK they say. Plus most of the cost of a house is the lands it's on. This is because in the late 70's early 80's 10 development companies bought up all the land in Dublin and surrounding areas and are releasing parcels of it for development year by year atrificially driving up the and price and that's had a knock on effect in the rest of the country. They should be hit with CPO's to takr the land they're hoarding, at a fair price, and any property lying derelict over 12 months can also be bought with a CPO and the Councillers that rezoned the land from industrial/agricultural to residential locked up.

In Japan and many other countries there is a constitutional right to a dwelling. Now that doesn't mean everyone gets a gaff overlooking the bay. It mans that everyone is entitled to a dwelling from the state if they can't afford to buy one on the private market AND THEY'LL BE MEANS TESTED TO SEE IF THEY QUALIFY. Prices will come down when you get rid of the inflated land prices.
So you're able to get a gaff!

im not sure im comfortable with that amount of CPOs, is that not giving the state too much control?
although i do appreciate the sentiment behind it, it seems like it could be unworkable, there could be massive opposition. SF would really need to be a majority party to implement this IMO.

Incidentally, how many seats are ye hoping to get? realistically? would you be satisfied with 10?

[Jim]

republic said:

jim said:

almost every military organisation on this earth has killed children mate, its just a matter of being told if they do it or not.


That makes me want to go to Dublin Its 3 grand a year in the UK excluding Scotland thanks to Anto Blair.

Now Jim, the provos were terrorists, not an army. They did not represent Ireland, no matter what they claim.
If they were an army, they should have attacked the british military only. Not planting bombs in civilian areas. I dont care what other armies do, i will hold any ''irish'' army to a high standard.
If britain or whoever else wants to lower their standards, let them, they will only lose the battle for hearts and minds.
Which is what happened with the black and tans- the IRA largely stayed way above the ruthlessness of the tans and the auxies.

so i cannot accept any justification for the provos actions.

Were you considering coming to UCD? It can be good, but it can be quite hard to settle into if your not from dublin.

I dont want to get into the provo debate but I dont see them as terrorists or an army, they're simply a paramilitary organisation. I dont care much for labels because in the end they wear the uniform they come under discipline they have a political cause and they shoot people, same as "real' armys. Otherwise, I'm agreeing with you, they shouldn't have done some of the things they done and should have stuck at military targets which are legitimate in my eyes. But what do we matter eh?

Nah man I'm not considering going to UCD anymore I couldn't find information on it and I've settled into England now but I was thinking about it last year before I applied to any universities. I've heard if you leave the UK for 10 years they wipe your student debts or something. A bit slimey but its an option ;D