STRIKES HOME
ISLANDERS off the coasts of Donegal, Galway and Mayo cast their votes in the European and local elections for what could be the last time yesterday.
More than 2,000 people were eligible to have their say in the remote locations, a day before the rest of the country today.
It may be the last time early voting is allowed under changes within Government.
Presiding officer
Mcbride and Garda but they made sure they did not fail to line their own pockets.” Another person blasted the Government for “wasting” money that should have been put towards building housing.
They added: “We didn’t need another bridge in Cork or a huge hospital in Dublin costing millions, think of the amount of houses that could have been built with the money that the Government is wasting.”
Another added: “Absolutely failed and seem to fail [at] everything.
local authorities in the country, with a total of 949 elected councillors to represent the general public at grassroots level.
Your vote is truly local here with counties and cities further broken down into local wards.
As for the referendum on divorce Carmel Adrian Mcgettigan were dropped off by helicopter on the island of Inishbofin on yesterday morning, with Mr Mcgettigan delivering the ballot box to the polling station.
Ms Mcbride has been the presiding officer for around 30 years. God it’s shocking. I don’t know where it will end to be honest, our own people are suffering with these dreadful cutbacks. Fed up listening to them. Shame on them.”
One reader claimed ministers need to “stop wasting money on themselves”, adding: “Yes in every way, they failed.
“All the money they have wasted on themselves and the pensions and trips... they only look after themselves.”
Another commented: “Failed and
changes, it is proposed to reduce the time people must be living apart to qualify for a divorce from four of the last five years to two.
It is almost certain to pass but requires a change to the Constitution which must be approved at the polls in order for it to eventually be turned into THERE’S a psychological phenomenon called “rankism”, which is an assertion of superiority that is the source of most man-made suffering.
It’s adopted by those who think they’re “somebody” towards people they take for “nobody”.
Rankism describes the attitude of the current Government and it’s what’s driving all their shameful cruelties, from housing to health, which we are bearing the brunt of in an Ireland that’s harder to live in than ever.
Behind their supposed “progressive” moral posturing, this is what they are selling to the kind of people who feel the need to elevate themselves by looking down on others.
It’s the smug message behind their status as the party for “people who get up early in the morning”.
It’s there in their engineering and maintenance of a housing crisis that suits them and the gains of the elites they pander to very well.
It encourages the mentality of viewing all of those who are struggling, or in poverty, as only having themselves to blame – appealing on the surface, as it provides a false sense of control.
The perfect, who have made all the right life decisions, will get all the rewards.
Those who are suffering by dint of circumstance? All their own fault. Get on failed again. No desire to do anything for ordinary people except tax us.” Meanwhile, one respondent was bewildered some people voted no in our poll, saying: “How have 5% of people said the Government are doing even an adequate job in regards to homelessness in Ireland?”
Meanwhile, the Tanaiste has urged voters to counter the rise of the Brexit Party by voting for pro-european candidates in the election today.
Simon Coveney made his remarks
law. Meanwhile, the citizens of Cork, Waterford and Limerick will also be asked today if they would like to have mayors who are directly elected from now on.
They would have increased powers and enjoy a salary in the region of €140,000. board with the Government and you too can be wealthy in the country where the rich/poor divide is wider than it has been since the days of the tenements in the early 20th century.
It’s tenement life they are trying to repackage as modern “co-living” in a totally dysfunctional and anti-family housing market that is ripping the social fabric apart.
Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy describes living in a box and sharing your kitchen with 42 other people as “exciting” and tells us it’s what young people want.
“We all sacrificed space for less rent” he claimed, in a comment that could have come straight from Orwell’s Ministry of Truth propaganda department.
It’s 1984’s “double-think” – the State policy of being conscious of complete truthfulness, while telling carefully constructed lies.
But €1,300-a-month is extortionate and it appears Murphy himself, whose father is a millionaire barrister, spent much of his own younger years living in Geneva, one of the richest cities in the world.
As for those who can’t meet their rent, let them live in emergency accommodation and to hell with the knock-on consequences.
But even if it were true, where is the common humanity in rankism? Where is the compassion our so-called “liberal” leaders profess to have so much of?
If we participate in this we are part of the problem. Now, more than ever, the comfortable need to rise up on behalf of the uncomfortable. on the campaign trail in Cork with Mr Varadkar and Ireland South Fine Gael MEP Deirdre Clune. The Tanaiste has warned of worrying times in the EU.
He said: “I hope the best response Ireland can give the Brexit party is to vote Fine Gael.
“A party that has worked night and day to protect Irish people and Irish interests through the Brexit negotiations.
“These are dangerous times in the EU. We need to protect Irish interests and to make sure they are understood and protected in the context of any final agreements.
“As we have seen a surge in support for the Brexit Party we need to see a response in Ireland to support parties that are pro-european.” Meanwhile, Ms Clune described the Brexit Party, founded by Nigel Farage, as a “destructive force” lacking “substance.
She said: “They don’t engage. We are in for a very fractious and rough time. We need to focus on the centre ground.
“As you an see now things are hotting up.
“No doubt there is going to be choppy waters ahead of us with Brexit. We need to send out people who have a steady hand on the tiller.
“Now more than ever we need voices with experience to engage with Europe.”
No doubt there will be choppy waters ahead with Brexit
DEIRDRE CLUNE
CORK YESTERDAY