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Most of the wealth is owned by very rich Irish people. Around 3% of the population. Its far from the 32 county socialist Republic that Connolly wanted we live in Barney.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 13070 - 04/12/2023 16:13:47 2515499 Link 0 |
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Most of the record 2.6m people working in this State today would not want a "Socialist Republic" or a return to Barney's 1950s or is it the 1980s? As for his comment about people "not even Irish"....enuf said. Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1717 - 04/12/2023 16:59:07 2515501 Link 3 |
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Communism didn't work out so well for countries that embraced it.
yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11333 - 04/12/2023 18:29:13 2515516 Link 2 |
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I am not too sure that the main opposition party as a whole want to revert to the Communist system. Maybe a smaller hard left party believe in the Communist ideal.
thelongridge (Offaly) - Posts: 1831 - 04/12/2023 22:49:57 2515537 Link 0 |
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According to the Census from 2022. Just under 20% of population of state was non Irish. That has gone up since Ukraine etc. It is a statement of fact, enough said.
BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 2929 - 05/12/2023 10:21:45 2515570 Link 1 |
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WTF has communism got to do with it? I'm talking about socialism. Real socialism is equality of opportunity. Which starts with education. It has to be free with no hidden charges. 3rd level included. Equality of healthcare access would be a second. Affordable housing that low wage earners can actually afford to rent or buy would be a 3rd. Connolly wasn't looking for a totalitarian regime where some animals were more equal than others, to quote George Orwell.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 13070 - 05/12/2023 10:42:55 2515572 Link 0 |
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What was the question in the Cebsus? I have a number of relations who were born in England but now live here. Are they "non Irish"? Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1717 - 05/12/2023 10:54:35 2515578 Link 0 |
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They asked people where they were born. Of course people born to Irish families abroad are Irish. Indeed, if you applied that criteria to people born here of non Irish families, the non Irish population be a few points higher than what it is, BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 2929 - 05/12/2023 11:33:01 2515588 Link 1 |
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The question was on country of citizenship. If your relations are Irish citizens, then they wouldn't be classified as non-Irish.
WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2105 - 05/12/2023 11:36:59 2515591 Link 0 |
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Was James Connolly, from Edinburgh, Irish?
cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5082 - 05/12/2023 12:23:40 2515598 Link 2 |
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You know what the man means, people like you I just don't get, would you like to see the day when native Irish people are in a minority here or what? we'll end up as bad as the places these young men are fleeing from if we keep going the way it is. For what died the sons of Róisín? when we've sold enough of Ireland to be but strangers in it. Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 2897 - 05/12/2023 12:23:55 2515599 Link 1 |
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Of course he was. His family were Irish. Same way as someone born here of two non national parents would generally regard themselves as of that nationality. I know quite a few people From Poland, India and elsewhere who have had children born here. They don't consider either themselves or their children as anything other than Poles or Indians. Did Shane McGowan consider himself to be English, or worse "New English"? BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 2929 - 05/12/2023 15:22:24 2515619 Link 1 |
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Stop putting words I never said into my mouth please!! If you want to stop immigration you need the State to 1 leave the Common Travel Area so necessitating a hard border between 6 and 26. 2 leave the EU 3 stop employers getting work permits to fill vacancies 4 only give holiday visas for a month 5 no foreign students. Or YOUz could go to Albania rather than trying to create it here. Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1717 - 05/12/2023 15:56:48 2515626 Link 0 |
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Great Post. This a very simple and more importantly achievable set of ideals of there was any political will to do it
Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 2961 - 05/12/2023 16:46:55 2515633 Link 0 |
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I saw an old picture of him yesterday wearing a union Jack blazer type jacket. Can't say I know too many Irish men who'd do that.
Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2006 - 05/12/2023 17:38:25 2515638 Link 0 |
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Of course legal immigration is a good thing, it's the illegal unvetted free for all that will destroy the EU and was the biggest reason they voted Brexit next door, anyone who can't see that is willfully blind imo.
Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 2897 - 05/12/2023 20:52:37 2515661 Link 0 |
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I'd imagine there was a bit of irony going on there!
BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 2929 - 05/12/2023 21:04:42 2515664 Link 0 |
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Anyone applying for International Protection is NOT ILLEGAL unless their application is refused and they don't leave. They are "vetted" as part of the checking their application process. The eejits next door have stopped people from Europe immigrating but have had to get 500,000 people from India and Nigeria in instead. Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1717 - 05/12/2023 21:13:37 2515665 Link 0 |
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The amount of misinformation on immigration is absolutely hilarious. None more so than across the crowd next door. We are slowly starting the same rhetoric here. It's dangerous.
TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 7972 - 05/12/2023 22:01:16 2515670 Link 4 |
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Like Declan Rice or Jack Grealish.
updwell (Limerick) - Posts: 818 - 05/12/2023 22:36:19 2515676 Link 0 |