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THOUSANDS ARE EXPECTED to march in Dublin this afternoon in protest against the EU/IMF bailout and austerity programme in Ireland.
The Enough Campaign has the support of trade unions, TDs, political organisations such as the Socialist Workers Party, and groups seeking to maintain public sector services that have been affected by austerity measures .
One of the TDs involved in the march, People Before Profit’s Richard Boyd-Barrett told the Irish Times:
We are absolutely determined to mobilise mass opposition to this economic madness over the coming weeks and bring the spirit of Greek, Spanish and for that matter Egyptian style resistance to this country.
Protesters will meet at the Garden of Remembrance in Parnell Square in Dublin at 2pm to march for what it says are jobs, fairness and democracy, a bailing out of people and not bankers, and a scrapping of the EU/IMF deal.
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I’d say if the funding was for tennis, polo, hockey, cricket , croquet or bowls etc then little Jeffery would be lauding it as great for Northern Ireland.
@John Doe: neither of those sports would command such a huge bill
@Christy Dolan: a very fair point but even if the funding was a nominal amount he still wouldn’t be happy. The problem he really has is the section of the community that would benefit the most from it – he’s just not going to admit it.
@John Doe: This is the guy who explicitly congratulated Tyrone and Armagh for getting to the All Ireland final , referring by to them as two British teams. Sadly , he didn’t tweet back “ah only pulling your leg“ . The list of sports you listed was a good one , all suitable for the barristers like him. I agree with what you said about him ! But , if NI don’t have the money for it , or least some , you can kinda see why they’d be annoyed about funding the GAA . What I mean there is , even in the south , the soccer and rugby heads and the other niche sports Leila the lyrics and tennis etc get annoyed that the GAA gets so much funding , you know the types who call the GAA the Grab All Association . Donny is an odd fish. Ex UUP but opposed GFA and joined DUP but isn’t a headbanger .
@John Doe: it must kill him that Down GAA own the grounds around Ballykinler lol. That’s one of the main prison camps that interned thousands of IRA and SF men during the Tan War . Right next to James Craig’s old mansion in Tyrella. Wonderful piece of shit housery and trolling . Obviously the Abercorn Barracks holds special meaning to the men of 1916-1922 . Down GAA plan to build a centre of excellence there . Lovely area .
They really do hate to see Nationalists get anything, even if that means scuppering Euro 28 matches in Belfast. And that’s where we’re at in 2023. Sad, isn’t it?
@Anthony Curran: Lower than a slugs belly thon Donaldson lad, total scrote
@Anthony Curran: What if NI The executive genuinely don’t have the money ? It would be a shared stadium anyway , that will have to host other sports (which will suit the GAA , more income )
@Christy Dolan: Amazing how they can find money for bonfires and orange flutes.
@Anthony Curran: Cutting your nose to spite your face= Donaldson. I’d call him a dinosaur but they didn’t exist according to him.
@Christy Dolan: orange.men sHare?
Good one
@Joe Doe: he preexists dinosaurs
@Anthony Curran: ya, but to be fair , the plebs just steal the material. Expenses aren’t the same – yea a total waste of money . Costs of clean up is a different story though .
@Dabhaidh o loidean: In English , please ? What did you say ? What are you assuming ? By all means , you are welcome to express your statement in Irish if you want
@Joe Doe: no, that was the other clown, Gregory Campbell who questioned the existence of dinosaurs
@Christy Dolan: “Fir oráiste ag roinnt?” An dtuigeann tú anois?
JEFFREY Donaldson and his cohort his no intentions of integrating communities in Northern Ireland and no intentions of going into power with SF as the lead party
@Paul Maguire: Plenty of nationalists have no interest in integrating communities either.
@John Terry: A small minority, mostly dissidents. The DUP are the largest party in the north. What an example to set.
@Anthony Curran: I thought SF had the most seats in the last election?
@Anthony Curran: ‘a small minority’…..and you have talked to them all?….again,I love the way people like you speak for a million people and then make up your own narrative to suit your point.They are both as hateful up there.
@Storm Chaser: *largest unionist party
@Anthony Curran: Think you would want to check your facts..Sinn Fein is the largest party in the Six Counties. That’s what galls Jeffrey.
@John Terry: like who ????
No to this, no to that, no to everything,
No,
No,
No.
@KTH: What does the ROI say yes to . I’m sure the people of the ROI has said no to a economic border on the Island of Ireland. In a UI it’s also no to a new flag and no to a new anthem .
@Jack Moss:
The ROI said yes to The Good Friday Agreement…
The DUP said no,
The ROI said yes to the protocol…
The DUP said no,
The ROI said yes to The Windsor Framwork…
THE DUP said no,
The ROI says yes to self-governing of Northern Ireland on the basis of power sharing…
The DUP says no,
The ROI said Brexit will be a disaster…
The DUP said no (and voted for it),
The ROI said yes to the Irish language act…
The DUP says no.
Etc,
Etc,
Etc,
Ad nauseum.
The ROI said no to a physical border because it would break the Good Friday Agreement,
The ROI never agreed or disagreed about a new flag or new anthem if/when a UI happens,
You’re just making that stuff up…
A lie from Jack?
No!
@Jack Moss: they said nothing about a new “fleg” or anthem. That all is to be discussed . They acknowledge that these things might have to change but haven’t made any decision on them. Whatever about the anthem , the vast majority of the south oppose changing the “fleg” .
@KTH: anything the ROI said yes to benefits the ROI . Think your missing the point really . The DUP said no to the Good Friday agreement because it ment IRA volunteers that murder hundreds of innocent people been released from prison . I totally agree with them . Why should those that took the lives of innocent get out of prison . The protocol and every thing ales you said benefits the ROI . They having giving up anything .
@Christy Dolan: in a recent survey the people of the ROI have made it clear that they are not prepared to give up the flag or change their anthem in a UI but once again unionists are ment to give them up and many other things .
@Jack Moss: The protocol benefits our soccer team? Besides that, we wouldn’t have needed the protocol if the UK didn’t leave the EU, the protocol benefits NI the most out of everyone involved as they have access to a massive market and can still trade more freely than anyone in that market with GB. You’re right, those who murdered innocents, regardless of which side they were on should have been behind bars and served their full sentences.
Perhaps if Mr Donaldson and his DUP Party went back into the Executive as their Mandate requires, the required Funding may be found for all the Stadium and the Health Services, etc.
@Owen Mc: And yet so many people here parrot the line about SF as ust look at what happens in the North.
Its disgraceful they havent had a sitting Government for what now? Nearly two years??
No wonder its gettin worse up there.
They shouldn’t fund it, let the games be played back in England and the north can miss out all because this guy can’t stand the thought of anything remotely associated with the catholics might get a bit of help.
@Derek Lyster: exactly give Dublin an extra game or two from NIs allocation. Let NI f u c k off to Scotland to play their home games , assuming they actually qualify
@Christy Dolan: Pairc Uí Chaoimh in Cork is a great venue. Perhaps that could be considered if Casement Park doesn’t get built. Unionists will do anything to make sure Casement doesn’t get built
@DJ D: Unionists (DUP, TUV) don’t get to dictate to Nationalists anymore. All the more reason to ensure it’s built, in spite of them.
@Derek Lyster: Another way of doing it would to cut Belfast out and use Pairc Ui Chaoimh Cork as the alternative
@DJ D: what and why would UEFA be doing sending them down to Cork ? That stadium ain’t a soccer stadium. The crowd will be too far away . If another stadium was to be used it would be Croker due to the size . Croker sadly was rubbish for soccer games . Cork ? Transport infrastructure etc (even with the airport ) is not good enough. Unless Turner’s cross got a magically quick upgrade , Putting all the games at the Aviva would be manageable . The next likely suitable stadium for soccer would probably be Thomand Park in Limerick , even then they would have to install all seating and ideally all sides be roofed . . Spare us your parish pump politics ffs .
@Jos: the Aviva would take all the games . If stuck Croker . Cork is only a town in comparison anyway, GAA grounds are rubbish for soccer games . Crowds are too far away
@Anthony Curran: they are 50:50 in terms of combined votes ! SF only ate into SDLP votes and don’t have extra seats . More Catholics don’t mean less Unionists . Aren’t they dictating how things are going by refusing to sit at Stormont ? Moreover , if there are genuinely pressing funding issues that concern all communities , pumping over 20-40 million into a stadium that will rarely be full most of the year is not a wise choice . You lot would lose your shit if that kind of money was pumped into a GAA stadium in the midlands or out west . You’d be moaning about housing or hospitals etc
Probably would be more sensible just to exclude Northern Ireland as a venue.
The republic will build it for them. The sooner we start taking responsibility for projects on our own island the better.
@Tomás Roideachain: exactly
@Tomás Roideachain: it most certainly was not ! When we vote on the constitution and our legislation etc we do with the south in mind and only the south, we barely even think abo it Donegal , Monaghan or Cavan . . Austin Currie , a hero of civil rights was quickly reminded that he was an outsider when he ran for the Presidential elections in 1990. Mary Mc was the only Nordie (with strong links to the south) to enjoy any decent national electoral support (yes , Jarry got elected in Louth ) Unionists want nothing to do with us . No matter what . Why waste money on them ? They are the majority especially in the north eastern part of NI
@Tomás Roideachain: let me guess , low skilled and low paid person dictating how the contributions of others should be spent . Typical nonsense from barstoolers . We don’t have a mandate to operate for the whole island, and we never had . Get that into yer thick heads .
Move it to Páirc Uí Chaoimh let the North sit it out
That’s the worst outcome. We are trying to get a peaceful united Ireland. Things like this build bridges for the ordinary people. Fund it and hand it to Belfast Council. No strings attached. These archaic people need to know they aren’t relevant and their opinion doesn’t matter.
@Joe Doe: Here here.
@: cork lol. Nothing in cork. Parish pump politics idiots . Dublin is the only city capable of hosting such an international event . Cork lol
@Joe Doe: bridges don’t cost the kind of money that a stadium that will struggle to sell out bar Ulster final day (clones will not be happy) will cost . Shouldn’t you lot be whinging about more money for welfare , housing etc . Investing tens of millions into a place that won’t and doesn’t wish to be part of this country ? The sooner people wake up to this Shinner idiotic notions the better .
Imagine going to your grave having lived your life being so bitter
This fellow is like a parrot, or maybe a goldfish with a short memory. Either or both are applicable.
Maybe there wouldn’t be a budget crisis if Northern Ireland actually had a government that functioned.
@Macho Movie Man: hardly . They could not organise a piss up in a brewery . The NI businesses did pretty good in the last 2-3 years with the protocol , in spite of Stormont ; best of both worlds as Sharlene Foster once said . It’s the uncertainty from DUP and UUP that’s the issue
The only thing he cares about is that it is a GAA stadium and it will host NI football games (possibly as they may not even be in it) on the one occasion that major football tournament will ever hit NI. He is not bothered about the £500bn that literally went up in smoke in the cash for ash scandal largely because it benefitted DUP cronies when they thought and were happy for London to foot the bill until they went into panic mode when they found out that they wouldn’t be coughing up. He would also have. He would also have no objection to a proposed tunnel or bridge that bojo was looking into (just for the optics) that was costed somewhere between €300-400bn that would have went from nowhere to nothing. Jeffrey would have had no problems with any of this as he and his party are major bigots living in the past. If he is that concerned with the cost of living etc. he would form an executive in stormont but it is all games with the DUP which always seem to play and usually to their own detriment.
@John Moore: It was £500m in cash for ash. Doh!
Jeffrey seems like good craic
Showing the world his bigotry at least the money will be going to some good not like the dup salaries as they sit it out if fear of working with a catholic first minister.
That’s it Jeffrey. Say NO before anything happens as usual.
Cost if stadium v benefit to economy?
Maybe we could take their games?
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Why, why, why are comments allowed on this subject but comments about the situation in Gaza, Palestine and Israel are being censored by the Journal. Is free speech now censored by the journal????
He’s hardly in a position to be talking about construction…..
@Jb Walshe: he was commenting on what money the executive has . It’s plausible that they don’t have the money needed
It is hard to disagree though, they cant fund health but can fund a stadium,
You cant deny the long term benefits a torunament like this can bring however.
didnt yesterday budget announce 1.1 Billion for development projects in the North? Just use some of that instead and add it to what the GAA are willing to contribute.
The GAA make alot of money each year and it is a GAA pith afterall.
@Hurrly 90: On the contrary, it’s easy to disagree. If this extra funding was to have Euro28 matches in Windsor Park or rugby world cup matches in Ravenhill, Jeffley would be singing a different tune. And if he and his party are so worried about the health service in the north, then why are they still refusing to go back into the executive?
@Anthony Curran: Thats completely fair. The North is a complicated issue but the DUP are most definitely not helping anyone at all.
Why don’t they just build a new stadium?…..Windsor park is just as toxic for nationalists.
@John Terry: That option was mooted years ago. To build a 40,000 capacity stadium on the site of Long Kesh. And guess who scuppered it? Yes, you’ve guessed it, the DUP.
@Anthony Curran: Long kesh?…I think you will find that that site has a contentious history as well.
@John Terry: why in god’s name (and Allah) an Irish Nationalist would support Northern Ireland National Football team ? They are not real Irish nationalists if they did that . Only one team in Ireland and that’s the one in Dublin . It shouldn’t matter how friendly the Windsor Park mob make it for so called Irish nationalists , Irish Nationalists shouldn’t support them .
@John Terry: yes , most people born before mid 1990s know that . Your point is ? There was a proposal to use THAT site for a sports stadium. Sounded like a good idea , terrorism (black cabs ) and misery (Titanic museum ) only has they can squeeze outta that .
@John Terry: Indeed. History. Can the DUP not look to the future instead of living in the past? 25 years since the GFA was signed and they’re still trying to scupper it.
@Christy Dolan: you’re right
@Anthony Curran: Linfield and DUP work hand in hand, not a chance would they move Windsor from “the village”. Its very intimidating for catholics to even step foot into Windsor.
@Christy Dolan: So if irish nationalists are not going to support the team why would they hold it in a gaa stadium.thanks for proving my point.
If there was ever such an inane platitudes as “raises a lot of questions”; I’d like to hear it.
What doesn’t “raise questions” at the moment.
@Louis Jacob: Read the article and it explains it.
Why cant they fund helath but can fund a stadium is what he is asking. The lack of a sitting government though he doesnt question.
@Hurrly 90: ‘Why can’t they do their jobs but can get paid for it’ is what the rest of us are asking!
@Anthony Curran: As the auld sayin goes they are cutting Their nose off to Spite Their face.
It’s high time that Casement’s remains were transported to Antrim. This was his wish and was denied by cruel English spite
The first reaction of the DUP is
No no no
It does not matter if the province, gain exponentially from the Euros
Its a sectarian reaction just like the foot dragging on the Irish language , that’s Norn Iron today sadly .
Wee Jeff saying no? Unbelievable!
It time to get back to government where this and so many other issues need addressing.
We have a children’s hospital that is finished our government wood be better to see about it instead of building foot ball parks
What an absolute plonker Donaldson is, he and his DUPers are pure morons. “If the other side benefit, we will object” seems to be the default position.
@John Hetherton: If Gerry Adams was seen walking out of a McDonalds tomorrow, Jeffrey and his band of miserables would boycott McDonalds and announce that all loyal sons of Ulster should only eat in Burger King henceforth.
Fair enough. Make sure the pri*k gets no tickets.
Get th’ fac out of it you can’t
@Edward Hughes: You can . Easily . UK will already be respected with 3 football teams , no need for a 4th. Only one team and only 1 Ireland
Sure take it out of the 1 billion we just gave ye Jeff…
That poor misfortune man is pity fully predictable. A cursory “No” to anything that might burst his bubble. Unfortunately old Jeff, the gas is slowly leaking out of your Bubble. You will soon be leaving cloud 9. When you finally touch down you will be on Irish soil. Our country finally united , thanks to you. Down, Tyrone, Armagh, Derry, Fermanagh & Antrim. All back in the fold. Keep blowing gas in your bubble for as long as you can Jeff. It’s all helping the good cause of a United Ireland. Your are the chief architect.
@Max Cooper: …at this stage he only represents about 18% of the electorate in the North. The smart unionists are starting to vote Alliance. SF, Alliance & SDLP now represent about 55% of NI people. It’s only a matter of time, however, if we want it, NI will cost us €10bn per year to run as NI currently has an ongoing budget deficit each year of 10bn. Sunak would love to offload NI.
Just do it !
For qualification, why not the five teams in a single group? The top two qualify as good teams, the next two qualify as hosts and the fifth team doesn’t qualify. It would be some craic.
The fact that the Gaa, Irish government will be involved must be hard for the DUP, the Irish are moving in to the north by the bank door. If they went back to work maybe things could be different.
The 2023 rugby World was going to played at Casement Park.
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