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Replying To Saynothing: "At election time TV and radio stations have to give equal amounts of time to all parties. I wonder what's their breakdown of rugby soccer and GAA." As far as I see with RTE they see GAA as the sport of the common people, they prefer to promote rugby, English soccer, English soap operas etc etc. And they try and force us to pay a licence fee to support this rubbish and pay their huge salaries? Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3057 - 16/12/2023 12:00:04 2517040 Link
Replying To Saynothing: "At election time TV and radio stations have to give equal amounts of time to all parties. I wonder what's their breakdown of rugby soccer and GAA." You can't compare the 2 situations as theyre completely different and ridiculous to compare the 2. Professional teams especially ones that are quite successful will always get extensive coverage and more than any amateur teams no matter how much more people follow the gaa compared to rugby KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3680 - 16/12/2023 20:18:22 2517096 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "It is. One of the head honchoes in Dublin soccer club issued an infantile tweet. Same club would take money out of a collection plate :-)" Just curious. Who sent the tweet?, what club?. bdbuddah (Meath) - Posts: 1401 - 16/12/2023 23:23:50 2517114 Link
Replying To Saynothing: "At election time TV and radio stations have to give equal amounts of time to all parties. I wonder what's their breakdown of rugby soccer and GAA." TV and radio broadcasters don't need to be unbiased for different sports. They're looking at target audiences for sponsors or advertisers and that'll have some influence on what they broadcast. Unfortunately social media plays too big a role nowadays on what's broadcast and what isn't. I don't think though that high volume of TV and radio coverage is such a good thing if it reduces attendances for games. GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7701 - 17/12/2023 15:40:33 2517183 Link
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "As far as I see with RTE they see GAA as the sport of the common people, they prefer to promote rugby, English soccer, English soap operas etc etc. And they try and force us to pay a licence fee to support this rubbish and pay their huge salaries?" And rugby, soccer are not sports of common people? And common people ad opposed to who exactly? KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3680 - 17/12/2023 17:24:10 2517207 Link
One thing JPs kind donated has shown is the lack of pro Irish parties currently in the country. Every party is socially far left extremely pro globalism. If parties are anti nationalism the GAA is a target going forward. Sinn Fein are fake nationalists. labour,greens,pb4p, soc domos are all far left and don't pretend otherwise. FF/FG are globalists so the GAA need to prepare for less and less support from government brisbane (Galway) - Posts: 675 - 20/12/2023 20:35:31 2517501 Link
Replying To brisbane: "One thing JPs kind donated has shown is the lack of pro Irish parties currently in the country. Every party is socially far left extremely pro globalism. If parties are anti nationalism the GAA is a target going forward. Sinn Fein are fake nationalists. labour,greens,pb4p, soc domos are all far left and don't pretend otherwise. FF/FG are globalists so the GAA need to prepare for less and less support from government" What a load of extremist right wing claptrap! Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 2003 - 20/12/2023 23:12:12 2517511 Link
Replying To brisbane: "One thing JPs kind donated has shown is the lack of pro Irish parties currently in the country. Every party is socially far left extremely pro globalism. If parties are anti nationalism the GAA is a target going forward. Sinn Fein are fake nationalists. labour,greens,pb4p, soc domos are all far left and don't pretend otherwise. FF/FG are globalists so the GAA need to prepare for less and less support from government" You've clearly been taking in far too much misinformation from the deluded far right guys on social media. All of that is garbage KillingFields (Limerick) - Posts: 3680 - 21/12/2023 07:00:22 2517515 Link
Replying To KillingFields: "You've clearly been taking in far too much misinformation from the deluded far right guys on social media. All of that is garbage" What is "far right" about what he said? All of the parties in government and opposition share exactly the same position on immigration, other than the more left opposition parties and the Greens are more liberal than FF, FG and Sinn Féin and the latter is clearly split on the issue and losing support in the polls. Facts are not "misinformation." This is the main issue in politics at the moment, connected as it is to housing etc. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3223 - 21/12/2023 07:41:02 2517516 Link
Replying To KillingFields: "And rugby, soccer are not sports of common people? And common people ad opposed to who exactly?" We need to get Jarvis Cocker's take on this. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9527 - 21/12/2023 09:34:39 2517524 Link
Soccer and Rugby at all levels couldn't care less about our national sport why should they, gaelic games are not a threat to them. Didn't the gaa at the highest level open up all it's venues including Croke Park to national and international Soccer and Rugby. All this anti gaa stuff is all in the mind, enjoy life while you can. Merry Christmas to all in the closed shop. supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 3082 - 21/12/2023 09:52:18 2517525 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "What is "far right" about what he said? All of the parties in government and opposition share exactly the same position on immigration, other than the more left opposition parties and the Greens are more liberal than FF, FG and Sinn Féin and the latter is clearly split on the issue and losing support in the polls. Facts are not "misinformation." This is the main issue in politics at the moment, connected as it is to housing etc." Because many of those who go on about globalism link it to a Jewish led conspiracy not far from what a Charlie Chaplin look a like did a long time ago. What I'd like to know is how could a successful business man like McManus or any of the others operate successfully without globalisation? The free movement of capital is essential to big enterprises. And by extension this then requires movement of people to provide the labour. The tech companies here being a prime example. MachaireConnacht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1000 - 21/12/2023 10:30:30 2517531 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "What is "far right" about what he said? All of the parties in government and opposition share exactly the same position on immigration, other than the more left opposition parties and the Greens are more liberal than FF, FG and Sinn Féin and the latter is clearly split on the issue and losing support in the polls. Facts are not "misinformation." This is the main issue in politics at the moment, connected as it is to housing etc." He said Labour is far left. You'd have to be standing so far right you'd be nearly over the horizon before you'd think Labour was far left. Most of our main parties sit slightly right of centre tbh. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14123 - 21/12/2023 11:49:31 2517549 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "What is "far right" about what he said? All of the parties in government and opposition share exactly the same position on immigration, other than the more left opposition parties and the Greens are more liberal than FF, FG and Sinn Féin and the latter is clearly split on the issue and losing support in the polls. Facts are not "misinformation." This is the main issue in politics at the moment, connected as it is to housing etc." Most of the main parties are on the same page about immigration because they know the facts about it. Nearly all our immigration, other than returning Irish people who were one of the biggest numbers of immigrants between April 2022 and April 2023, is due to our membership of the EU and the CTA we have with the UK. Neither are something we can do away with. We don't have an immigration problem as such, the problem we have is a housing problem, and its affecting all of us not just immigrants. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14123 - 21/12/2023 11:53:28 2517550 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Most of the main parties are on the same page about immigration because they know the facts about it. Nearly all our immigration, other than returning Irish people who were one of the biggest numbers of immigrants between April 2022 and April 2023, is due to our membership of the EU and the CTA we have with the UK. Neither are something we can do away with. We don't have an immigration problem as such, the problem we have is a housing problem, and its affecting all of us not just immigrants." More Irish people have left the state in 2023 than have returned. That's CSO official statistics. Unless they are "far right" misinformers? BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3223 - 21/12/2023 15:17:02 2517573 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "More Irish people have left the state in 2023 than have returned. That's CSO official statistics. Unless they are "far right" misinformers?" They sure did Barney. The whe immigrant thing is a bit of a red herring. It's an accommodation in general crisis we are suffering from. We don't have that many immigrants. From the CSO report- "The population rose by 97,600 people which was the largest 12-month increase since 2008. There were 141,600 immigrants which was a 16-year high. This was the second successive 12-month period where over 100,000 people immigrated to Ireland. Of those immigrants, 29,600 were returning Irish citizens, 26,100 were other EU citizens, and 4,800 were UK citizens. The remaining 81,100 immigrants were citizens of other countries including almost 42,000 Ukrainians. Over 64,000 people departed the State in the 12 months to April 2023, compared with 56,100 in the same period of 2022. This was one of the highest figures of recent years. There was a natural increase of 20,000 people in the State comprised of 55,500 births and 35,500 deaths." There were only 13000 odd non Ukrainian asylum seekers in 2022 also, hardly the huge wave that some portray. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14123 - 21/12/2023 17:50:00 2517581 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Most of the main parties are on the same page about immigration because they know the facts about it. Nearly all our immigration, other than returning Irish people who were one of the biggest numbers of immigrants between April 2022 and April 2023, is due to our membership of the EU and the CTA we have with the UK. Neither are something we can do away with. We don't have an immigration problem as such, the problem we have is a housing problem, and its affecting all of us not just immigrants." By the time the requisite number of houses have been built, the population will have increased again and we'd be back to square one. Galway9801 (Galway) - Posts: 1942 - 21/12/2023 18:55:46 2517589 Link
The Irish state has seen the largest increase in population of any state in Europe over the past two decades, MOST of that is made up of non nationals who now comprise 20% of the population. How can that not be related to housing shortages? The state and the private sector simply cannot cater for the increased demand. These are all facts. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3223 - 21/12/2023 19:28:12 2517590 Link
Replying To Galway9801: "By the time the requisite number of houses have been built, the population will have increased again and we'd be back to square one." Let's go back to the 50s and drive half a million people out of the Country. Plenty of accomodation then! Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 2003 - 21/12/2023 19:35:32 2517591 Link
Replying To Seanfanbocht: "Let's go back to the 50s and drive half a million people out of the Country. Plenty of accomodation then!" I'm just stating a fact, a constant stream of people wanting to come live here means that we're going to pretty much always be under pressure for housing. And that's not a dig at anyone wanting to come live here BTW. If I was stuck in some slum in a 3rd world country or war torn country with no prospects, and a country like Ireland was willing to take me and my family in and perhaps be put on a housing list I'd be on the first plane or boat over. Galway9801 (Galway) - Posts: 1942 - 21/12/2023 20:40:17 2517593 Link