Late Stage Ireland

2022-06-05 20:37:12 Their only concern about the use of violence to impede their political opponents is that "such violence can give the far right greater publicity". ओपन / कमेंट

2022-06-05 20:36:00 Just ban the political parties you don't like — democracy. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-06-05 20:35:31 By 'militant' they mean like the situation in Germany.

That's where your door is smashed down and you're taken away by armed police for offering a perspective on history which differs from the State approved narrative, and entire mainstream political parties are placed under State surveillance. Very liberal and very democratic. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-06-05 20:32:00 But who are the far-right anyway?

Apparently "there is no general consensus on definitions of the phenomenon," and they can't just be open about it and say "our political opponents" so they published two long paragraphs of vaguery.

Best they can come up with is that 'far-right' is an umbrella term encompassing both 'the extreme right' and 'the radical right'.

The extreme right "reject democracy tout court" while the radical right "accepts the essence of democracy but opposes fundamental elements of liberal democracy".

Liberal democracy is supposed to guarantee political freedom so if these people are seeking to impede that freedom, they've already failed their own test.

And if it's democracy they're interested in, 53% of Irish people believe that Ireland should NOT take in any more refugees while only 35% of people believe we should.

Imagine what the figures for fake refugees must be like (which is the vast majority of them). ओपन / कमेंट

2022-06-05 20:30:00 Apparently "far-right positions are quite widespread among the electorate" so the StopFarRight project wants to make sure democracy doesn't function to afford them any representation. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-06-05 20:28:20 Maynooth University want to get 'militant' about the 'far-right' in Ireland.

They released a report last week about their 'STOPFARRIGHT' project. The key takeaway, they say is "the need for a national anti-far right strategy in Ireland, which includes a more militant state in the defence of Irish democracy". ओपन / कमेंट

2022-06-05 19:04:30 Sinn Féin to issue a complaint that a Pride flag wasn't used.

BBC apologise after Irish tricolour seemingly used to represent Northern Ireland during Platinum Jubilee concert ओपन / कमेंट

2022-06-05 13:21:44 Ali is also unhappy with the new trend of race-swapping historical figures

aliasgharhanafi ओपन / कमेंट

2022-06-05 13:12:22 Shahid Ali makes some good points here.

These Muslims are protesting the movie The Lady of Heaven outside Cineworld in Bradford (24.7% Muslim population officially).

Ali says the film has insulted Muslims and that they have a right not be insulted. Now where did he get that idea?

The comments are full of British people attempting to correct Ali — that the UK has freedom of speech and that there is no right not be insulted. But they're wrong as the case of Alison Chabloz proves.

Chabloz was convicted for writing three songs which district judge, John Zani, said he was satisfied were grossly offensive and that Chabloz intended to insult Jewish people. Chambloz has a different perspective on WW2 like the makers of this film have a different perspective on Islamic history to these protesting Muslims.

If the Campaign Against Antisemitism are allowed to take offence at her art on behalf of Jewish people and have her prosecuted, why can't these Muslims do likewise?

Bob_cart124 ओपन / कमेंट

2022-06-04 13:28:05 Latest immigration figures from Dr Matt Treacy:

The total number of new PPS numbers issued between January 1 and May 31 of this year was 129,634.

25,458 were newly registered births.

99,302 were to persons of “other than Irish nationality,” including 34,962 from Ukraine.

That means even had there been no war in Ukraine, 68% of new PPS numbers would have still been issued to persons of other than Irish nationality.

According to Economics Professor Ronan Lyons at Trinity College, every extra 10,000 migrants require on average 4,000 new dwellings, principally in the cities.

Ukrainians aside, the migrants issued PPS numbers this year require 25,736 homes.

Meanwhile the government's €450 million Croí Cónaithe scheme aims to deliver just 5,000 apartments by 2026, yet few can still afford them.

There's your housing crisis.

gript.ie ओपन / कमेंट