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Nasa is pretty excited about this Star Wars-style space 'lightsaber'

The space agency claims to have spotted a massive lightsaber shooting through the Milky Way.

TWO RAYS OF light shoot out from a newborn star, piercing space at over 100,000 miles an hour.

It sounds like a scene from Star Wars, as Nasa couldn’t resist pointing out during the week when it cleverly released these photos to coincide with the latest installment of the film series.

hs-2015-42-a-large_web The two lightsaber-like streams crossing this image are jets of energised gas, ejected from the poles of a young star. ESA / Hubble/NASA ESA / Hubble/NASA / Hubble/NASA

“Perfectly timed for the release of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, the Nasa/ESA Hubble Space telescope has imaged a cosmic double-bladed lightsaber,” the space agency said in a statement.

In the centre of the image, partially obscured by a dark Jedi-like cloak of dust, an adolescent star shoots twin jets out into space, demonstrating the fearsome forces of the universe.

image The rays of light are spewing out from a newly-formed star obscured from view, cloaked by swirling dust and gas. ESA / Hubble/NASA ESA / Hubble/NASA / Hubble/NASA

The lightsaber lies not in a galaxy far, far away, but within our own, the Milky Way, in a turbulent breeding ground for new stars over 1,350 light years away.

And it has a blast “stronger than one from a fully armed and operational Death Star battle station”, Nasa said.

HH 24 (ground-based view) Around the cloaked star are smaller points of bright light: other young stars peeping through to show their own faint lightsabers. NESA / Hubble/NASA NESA / Hubble/NASA / Hubble/NASA

Impressive.

Read: The 12 most compelling scientific reasons that suggest aliens are real

Quiz: Can you tell if these photos are from Mars or Earth?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:13 PM

    100′s of millions ‘lost’ in sales – irregularities too. The whole deal stinks of corruption but according to Noonan & co there’s nothing to see here. They are the worst people to ever be in charge of this country – at the very least they are clueless idiots but st worst they are facilitators for the deals done.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/hundreds-of-millions-lost-by-nama-in-sale-of-northern-properties-report-finds-1.2786110

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    Mute For Connolly
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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:32 PM

    We said Set. While all the little government hacks were jumping up and down shouting ‘tax evader tax evader’ every time Wallace spoke in the Dail, failure of the government to act on his information has likely cost us all hundreds of times the amount of any bill the bloke ever ran up with Revenue.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:36 PM

    In fairness FG have always been consistent with the N.A.M.A party line approach

    Never Admit Motherfcuking Anything

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:42 PM

    I’m opening a book on how quick a committee will be announced to discuss the findings.

    Any takers??

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:53 PM

    The committee will be announced by an out of breath Enda using multidirectional pointy gun finger hand gestures to underline how important and serious this is. The findings of same will takes years by which time he won’t have to give a bollix.

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    Mute Bobby Phelan
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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:17 PM

    Ff are just as guilty it was them that set up namas secrecy policies and they shouldn’t be left off the hook ff need to dump micheal martian for he was one of those that was in government that drove this country over the edge ff never again.

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    Mute Billy Mooney
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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:47 PM

    NAMA was established as a vehicle to enable the looting of the country by the billionaire class. Both FF and FG support this vast theft and they never waste a good crisis to crush the working class.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:53 PM

    @FC, these type of payments and deals are everyday business in this industry so I don’t know what the big deal is. The country would be on its knees within a week if you were in power. Not because of your past but because youse couldn’t run a economy by giving all your money to people who don’t work ? Does that make sense to you?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:55 PM

    The spoke have you not noticed the country is already on its knees?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:57 PM

    The country is on its knees you loon. Thanks to the grasping parasites that you speak for.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:00 PM

    @ The spokesman : “youse couldn’t run a economy”

    You’ll forgive me if I only take criticism from individuals with basic grammar skills.

    Cheers.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:01 PM

    @Billy, you better go see your buddy in North Korea, hes going to be taken out soon enough. Also while your there see how happy the people are under left wing communists rule and get back to me about a country being on its knees.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:07 PM

    @FC, deflecting the point because you know I’m right. It’s not a debate about grammar so make your point. Local colloquialism is part of our national culture so if you don’t want to debate because I’m not speaking or typing the queens English to you then that just highlights the hypocrisy of your kind.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:08 PM

    * he’s

    * you’re

    * communist (singular)

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    Mute Billy Mooney
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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:08 PM

    Mouthpiece,
    How are your buddies in DRC, Liberia, Eritrea, Burundi CAR, Uganda and Bangladesh etc etc? All abjectly poor with their people starving to death under the capitalist system.
    P.S. North Korea is a monstrosity and as far from socialism as it’s possible to get.

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    Mute For Connolly
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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:09 PM

    That was correcting your post to Billy.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:17 PM

    Spokesman. You are right about one thing… “These deals are part of everyday business in this industry”

    Isn’t that kinda the problem tho??

    Once the vast portfolio put in the hands of NAMA became public property, publicly owned lands, houses and other assets. A higher level of scrutiny and transparency applies than what is the norm in the development/construction industry.

    The priority should have immediately switched from “how much money can we make?” to “how much good can we get from these assets for the people of Ireland?”
    If that good was better realised by keeping some of the lands for public use or providing public housing or state owned hotels, or just wait until land prices increase for a better return, that’s what should have happened.

    Instead the approach was sell all of these houses as soon as possible in a manner which will artificially manipulate house prices and allow government to say they had turned a profit however small so that NAMA could be called a success.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:20 PM

    *too, you clown. Go on and respond to my post. For Connolly, for Queen and for country.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:23 PM

    Eh, no.

    I was correcting your post to Billy. It’s not ‘too Billy’.

    Dear oh dear.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:25 PM

    @John Doe, you are indeed correct it is the problem but we could not use Nama as a shining light in corporate governance, we were not in a position. I remember reading somewhere that an US investor told a conference in New York, “Don’t invest in Europe, until there is blood on the streets” circa 2009 I think we got the best deals we could under the circumstances.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:27 PM

    @Billy the monstrosity started as liberal socialism and one thing lead to another. This is where Ireland will end up if we start voting left wing. So people do not vote left wing.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:27 PM

    Oh dear back of the class spokesman really you need to put more effort into being a worm to succeed.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:29 PM

    @FC, I suppose I’m glad your the grammar police instead of other type of justice that you have being known to impose. Go on and answer my point.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:33 PM

    No mouthpiece. The monstrosity of North Korea is a result of the U.S. Imperial adventures in Korea as they sought to spread their capitalist ideology across the globe since ww2.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:34 PM

    * you’re

    * types

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:34 PM

    Billy, that was @ The spokesman.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:38 PM

    Thanks spokesman. Think the whole country now knows that these deals and payments are everyday business under this government aided by ff. Doesn’t take long for the dirt to catch you when you leave a trail behind . As is happening now.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:40 PM

    @FC, do Sinn Fein have the Sinn Fein clown on the Twitter machine tonight, which is why you wont answer my question. Morally what is better, taking the odd bribe, or burying bodies in a bog without telling anyone for years. ?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:43 PM

    Wow the spokesman. Do spill. Who took the odd bribe?…

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:43 PM

    * won’t

    * ‘which is better’

    * ? (a question remark removes the need for a full stop)

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:44 PM

    ‘I’m glad ‘your’ the grammar police’?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:48 PM

    Had a little chuckle at that one Joey!

    Here spokesman, I got you a card…….

    https://bonbonsandmartinis.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/grammar.jpg?w=645

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:49 PM

    @Little one, PR for a start, anyway the shinners are out in force to shut me up for making a counter argument. There is more point debating here. Sorry for my poor grammar folks but people who point out poor grammar are just under the kos with the argument.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:52 PM

    “but people who point out poor grammar are just under the kos with the argument.”

    You mean pointing out poor grammar usage by the person lecturing others on matters of intellect?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:19 PM

    What are u on about . PR for a start.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:37 PM

    Tweed Cap
    Have you got titles for IW and APPLE
    That were/are scams.

    We read today that dozens upon dozens of FDI and Vulture companies are paying little or ZERO tax.
    Get the RIO investigation team over to Dublin rapidly.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:38 PM

    There is nothing to see here. Noonan “was” in possession of the the report but he lost it down the back of sofa, what can u do. Stop arguing over small money, it’s not that important to the government in the greater scheme of things. Let’s focus on the growing economy and highly paid jobs for anybody who wants to work.

    This constant paranoia many people seem to have about the government working for the big multi-nationals at the expense of the people who elected them while hiding so called shady Nama deals is not good for the collective emotional state of the nation. Let them get on with their job and we will all reap the rewards over the next few years. Even if you don’t feel it in your pocket within a few years, it’s a work in progress. Be patient, good things come to those who wait :D

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:40 PM

    The Spokesman, they will after the wholesale tax evasion by corporations, facilitated by FG/FF. Apple being just the tip of the iceberg. Add the NAMA debacle, IW etc.
    All happening, under right wing neoliberal governments.
    People are sick and tired struggling to live, while billions of tax money owed to the country are being siphoned off by foreign corporations, aided and abetted by right wing governments.
    People are waking up to the facts of governance by neoliberals.
    They don’t care what shade of government is in power as long as their interest and the welfare of the people are put first and foremost by those we elect to govern.
    People have had enough of corruption and fraud.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:47 PM

    Super Ted the rewards are already being reaped. Reaped by the 1%. By the time they’re finished, nothing will be left for anyone.
    As it is homeownership is now a futile aspiration for ordinary people. Deliberate policy to turn the country into a renter society where foreign corporations are owed all the rent.
    We’ve had more than enough patience. The time for reckoning has come.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 11:27 PM

    @Littleone, PR, NI, former FM.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 12:24 AM

    Ah ok . Thanks

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    Sep 11th 2016, 1:05 AM

    Who exactly is behind this €770 billion hidden in tax havens by Irish account holders. These funds are invested through companies registered in places like Panama etc into American vulture funds, then used to snap up massive profits here in Ireland while availing of numerous further tax avoidance schemes such as secrion 110, QIAIFs or ICAVs.
    We saw in the Panama leaks how a very influential person connected to Government was alledged to have used this method to purchase property in London in the past.
    These type of accounts and ‘connected’ influence can be the only reason for some of the astonishing deals being done with our State assets.
    WHO IS REALLY PROFITTING????

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    Sep 11th 2016, 7:16 AM

    ….yes and believe it or not only a skilled tax evader would have the skills to spot other tax evaders. Mr. Wallace should be parachuted into NAMA to sort this out. The incentive… The state will write off his debts and liabilities as a % of what he recoups for the state as a result of his endeavors. He is the State’s best opportunity to sort this out.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 9:29 AM

    While promising he and the dipidees will get to the bottom of this.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 10:29 AM

    The law locks up the man or woman
    Who steals the goose from off the common
    But leaves the greater felon loose
    Who steals the common from off the goose

    The law demands that we atone
    When we take things we do not own
    But leaves the lords and ladies fine
    Who take things that are yours and mine

    The poor and wretched don’t escape
    If they conspire the law to break
    This must be so but they endure
    Those who conspire to make the law

    The law locks up the man or woman
    Who steals the goose from off the common
    And geese will still a common lack
    Till they go and steal it back

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    Sep 11th 2016, 10:56 AM

    Please people, they are not idiots, the people who vote for them are the idiots unfortunately. To call these FG/FF/Labour politicians idiots is to misunderstand the system, in the U.S. it’s referred to as ‘revolving doors’ as individuals jump from big business CEO to politics, pass the regulations to favour big business & then back to the board to reap the financial benefits. Naomi Klein has extensive evidence of this in her book/documentary ”The Shock Doctrine”.
    In Ireland it’s not as blatant, the politicians here have to wait til they retire before getting truly rewarded. Let’s look at Brian Cowen, now if there’s loads of cash flowing around like the Celtic Tiger then the 1% get most of it but the plebs get some trickled down. But what if there suddenly was a big crash, & it becomes a choice between the 1% & the plebs(voters who vote for these parties), so what has he to gain by favouring the 1%…a future job on the board of Topaz, with Irelands’ version of rupert murderer..Denis O’Brien..where he can pick up 500k a yr while golfing, or maybe a lecturing tour on health for Mary Harney, getting 10/20k per talk (http://www.maryharney.ie/), or maybe helping Celia Ahernes’ career. Now in contrast what will Cowen,Aherne, Harney or currently Enda/Noonan get off Joe dope who voted for them??? seriously, it’s human nature to be self-serving but in order for things to change the voting population has to wake up to the reality of who these people are serving & stop believing Denis O’Brien sponsored media that they’re incompetant, that’s the classic excuse of last resort…the george bush excuse….whoops I made a doo-doo….a doo-doo that lined the pockets of their masters.
    As I mentioned above, now that there’s not enough to ‘trickle down’, FG/FF/Labour have shown the true narrative(attack the pleb citizen…reward the 1% masters) by their choices…implement austerity….implement tax increase via U.Social charge, property tax(which is essentially charging you rent on your own house!) etc…enforce TV licence payment…send directive to Gardai to increase revenue from road/traffic offences….cut hospital funding…cut education funding….cut Gardai funding….ignore the housing crisis…implement water charges. Now on the flip side…close loopholes so corporations pay the actual 12.5%, NO CHANCE….utilise some of NAMA properties to alleviate housing crisis, NO CHANCE, instead lets wait til the economy/prices hit rock bottom & then firesale to all our 1% masters…CHECK….Europe court find Apple owe 11billion plus interest brings it to 19billion…NO CHANCE…APPEAL APPEAL APPEAL, of course with the corporate owned media pedaling the defense. This isn’t even mentioning Ray Burke selling off all our natural resources for the worst price ever in 1995 I think, still an estimated 220billion worth of natural resources under Irish jurisdiction which NO corporate media outlet has mention since the crash, why don’t we nationalise that, oh wait, there’s a European law forbidding it, think that was included in that vote we plebs got wrong the first time, so they fear mongered us plebs into ”choosing” the correct answer the second time. Seriously, actions speak louder than words, & the MOUNTAIN of evidence over the past 8yrs in Ireland, the US, the UK etc etc etc is undeniable, & yet there’s still this cognative dissonance where people think ”jez what are they doing, they don’t have a clue!!”…nope, they know exactly who they work for, & who will reward them & their families. First step is awareness, then alternative solutions, but the big challenge is affecting those changes, cos the ruling class are always at war..just look at how relentless they’ve been in sabotaging Venezuela under Chavez/Maduro

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    Sep 11th 2016, 2:21 PM

    @Phil – Excellent!

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    Sep 11th 2016, 2:40 PM

    @hugodebarra, the best example to prove your point is the sale of the national lottery to the private sector. Where was the logic in selling this licence to print money?

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    Sep 11th 2016, 2:42 PM

    @Kerry He’s obviously still on the gravy train

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    Sep 11th 2016, 2:59 PM

    @Lazlo, thanks but it’s not mine. No one knows who wrote this poem, it comes from 17th century England and is a response to the privatisation of the common land. I think it was during the time of the enclosures act. Nothing changes eh?

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    Sep 11th 2016, 3:04 PM

    All you have to do Phil is look at Noonans personal investments. They are there to see ,all published on the oireachteas website .It’s not as if he’s not hiding his investments in his defence. How this man can be allowed in government is beyond belief.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 4:30 PM

    Enda does not give a bo***x… eitherway…. he just wants to be taoisoch…as happy as a pig in s**t

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    Sep 11th 2016, 4:44 PM

    What sort of horse manure are they going to publish!

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    Sep 11th 2016, 4:50 PM

    The government protecting their good name as usual and putting two fingers up to the Irish people ever since NAMA was created. The EU might say that it was a wonderful idea, but then they did get their money back didn’t they along with the bond holders.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 5:08 PM

    @Chris Kirk. I believe Nama has been one of the best things to happen to this country. We avoided a civil war which could easily have happened after the collapse in 08, this was due to the establishment of NAMA.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 5:23 PM

    Noonal protecting the good name of his former FG leader Alan Dukes…..you couldn’t make it up.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 8:15 PM

    You forgot been.

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    Sep 12th 2016, 12:12 AM

    No it wasn’t Spokesman don’t talk ridiculous, what planet are you on…..

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    Sep 12th 2016, 2:10 AM

    AAA clown Billy: same left wing socialists/communist rubbish out of you every day

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    Sep 12th 2016, 2:16 AM

    AAA shit talk as usual. If it’s not our governments fault, it’s the US governments fault… it’s never the ideology in your eyes. Socialism/communism does not work. PS. Extreme capitalism does not work either. Center is best.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:01 PM

    Fianna Fáil investigating political corruption is about as logical as a vegetarian becoming a butcher…

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:06 PM

    FF are experts in corruption so your comparison is rubbish.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:06 PM

    Irony, amongst other things is clearly something they don’t understand

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:26 PM

    Indeed, Fianna Fáil are the experts in corruption. Hence why I used comparative irony to joke about the situation. In fact, the only time they don’t seem to like corruption is when they don’t have the opportunity to indulge in it themselves

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:51 PM

    Oscar, are you a fine gael man yourself by any chance??

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:01 PM

    Not particularly, and I’m not a supporter of any of Ireland’s political parties. I just abhor corruption of all sorts (Ireland has recently been ranked as amongst the most corrupt countries in Western Europe), and although the other political parties haven’t always exactly been immune from the practice, Fianna Fáil, when in power, have historically been the prime culprits

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:14 PM

    “Not particularly”

    Sure about that Oscar?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:29 PM

    I was unaware of the fact that criticising Fianna Fáil’s political legacy automatically branishes me a blueshirt, which I assure you that I am most certainly not

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:39 PM

    I see. It’s just when there’s a story about FG ineptitude, some would even say corruption, and there’s somebody making multiple ‘quick look over there’ posts about FF, its usually a FG person. That persons twitter account is usually full of FG politicians, and google usually loves it when you type in their name with ‘fine gael’ as a search as well.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:50 PM

    Corruption is a cancer on the body of Irish politics. Politics should be lauded as a career of public service, yet in our country, the profession has been infected with the parasite of sleeze and self-enrichment since the inception of the modern era. Regardless of party, Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael, corruption should be eradicated from Irish public life

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:57 PM

    Well said. You should register your protest at this latest debacle by deleting the smorgasbord of fine gael TDs from your twitter account.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:13 PM

    Ah yes sure aren’t there blueshirts hidden under every rock, infiltrating everywhere. Indeed I follow most of the government and local TDs on twitter, because, for better or for worse, they’re currently the ruling party, but also plenty of other politicians and parties around the world that I also follow. That by know means that I support any of them .

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:16 PM

    *no means

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    Sep 10th 2016, 6:57 PM

    Noonan the turkey is hiding the gun, Christmas has come early.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:52 PM

    Noonan has been exposed as a bully and a chancer, time this dinosaur was put out to grass, preferably in Mountjoy.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:02 PM

    Noonan has been busy since August using the big black marker to remove the juicy bits.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:11 PM

    If you decide to set up a institution without no oversight this is what tends to happen. Now for a freedom of information request or wait we didnt do minutes for that meeting.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:53 PM

    Simon, NAMA are exempt from Freedom of Information rulers. Set up by FF and milked by FG.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 4:53 PM

    I thought that the oversight was the use of ex-Anglo bank employees led by ex FG leader Alan Dukes.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 6:56 PM

    Ah sure look their only friends giving each other a dig out. Why should we who will pay the bill worry…..

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    Mute Paul Mc
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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:02 PM

    Mr (Dow Jones )Noonan looking after the countries best interests my eye.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:24 PM

    There is an insider in government working against the interests of the state.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:21 PM

    Noonan had no right to lend that money for a start it was not his to give.
    Now we the People of Ireland want that money back, we can put it to good use Hospitals schools Housing.
    Noonan is too old to have a job as finance Minister.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:49 PM

    Von I’m old but I agree with you.
    Noonan can’t leave. Too much to cover up. Too much ass covering to do.
    And before that pr##k spokeswan opens his wide jowls, NO I am not SF although if there was a vote tomorrow they would come well before FFG.
    What a last 10 years we have witnessed. Delboy Trotter has nothing on this lot.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 12:11 AM

    Christy. I agree that he should held to account but i can’t stand the look of him or his voice and above all his treatment of the People of Ireland.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 6:57 PM

    Wonder how much redaction will be read on this document he has it long enough to smudge it big time

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    Sep 10th 2016, 11:15 PM

    I’ll never understand why governments don’t understand that the main priority of voters isn’t profit or efficiency – it’s transparency.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:27 PM

    Zimbabwe has nothing on us.

    I didn’t think any party could out-corrupt Fianna Fail but Fine Gael have managed it. Congrats lads.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:42 PM

    Ah but the thing is Eamonn they have been fooling a lot of the Irish public for decades.What these 2 parties have been doing is feeding each other with scandal and outrage and pretending they are acting in the public interest. Wake up people they are the same party and I think the day is coming when people will see through the bullshit.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:25 PM

    I hope this piece of news will blow FG and FF out of the water. The only expertise they have is to skrew the people of Ireland.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:57 PM

    Saturday 17th Sept 2 pm. protest march. I will oil my wheelchair.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:19 PM

    And this is why we need fundamental root and branch change in this filthy little state. When their billionaire buddies and speculators need their gambling losses covered it’s very much the taxpayers business, but god forbid the same taxpayer be privy to what happens to it after we’ve been robbed blind.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 6:59 PM

    Project Eagle and the rest…..

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:32 PM

    Why in God’s name are fine gael and labour fianna fail doing all of this to Ireland. Between having a population carrying a monterous debt saddled on them by a private business, turning us into a tax haven for multinationals, privatising our natural resources like water, giving away our gas and fishing rights. It appears to me that Michael ” sow up your pockets” noonan and enda simply don’t care about the ordinary Irish public.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:59 PM

    Now that the penny has dropped for you Aoife lets hope the rest of the population get the message to.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:08 PM

    It’s been an accumulation of so much crap over the last few years that I can’t imagine how anyone in their right mind thinks it’s OK.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 1:04 AM

    Aoife, I just read that the American firm, Cerberus, that bought the Project Eagle portfolio has as it’s Chairman a Dan Quayle. Yes, The former VICE President of America served under George W Bush.
    And the US Authorities are “investigating” Cerberus. What chance a “correct” result.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:37 PM

    NAMA lost €3 bn on this sale alone,and noonan knew about it.time for him to go,FF act now on behalf of the Irish people,call GE,or forever shut your mouth.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:23 PM

    Name has done a terrible disservice to the Irish taxpayer.We have been swindled out of millions by the northies! Shame on them. And we guaranteed the banks!

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:27 PM

    Barrersea power station was sold too cheaply NAMA got £700 million for it
    It was flipped a year later for £1100 million
    At the time London property was booming they should have waited before selling it

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:36 PM

    Peter Robinson and his cronies, caught by the testies. Wonder when his next sob story will generate from.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:42 PM

    High time for heads to roll starting with Noonan

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    Sep 10th 2016, 7:16 PM

    Jebus that Noonan man!!

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:14 PM

    Fianna Fáil calling for publication of report. Is this the same Fianna Fáil who colluded with fg and labour to block an investigation into nama?

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    Mute Al Ca
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    Sep 10th 2016, 11:20 PM

    When ordinary people lose their homes because of debt but the Johnny Ronan’s of this world while in Debt with NAMA get paid by NAMA a six figure sum per annum to manage his debt even though he didn’t declare all his assets as required….and then exit NAMA with his portfolio intact….surely you can smell a rat?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:34 PM

    Let’s have a tribunal so we can charge people like we did after the Moriarty Tribunal found wrong… anybody?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:03 PM

    The Garda fraud squad must be busy at the silage.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:38 PM

    The real question is, is the bottled water on the table for mixing the whitewash?

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:23 PM

    Project Eagle.. Should be called project feckyn’ vulture

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    Sep 11th 2016, 12:00 AM

    Ok and why oh why is the obvious choice facing us not been hammered home by every keyboard warrior on here and every other site calling out this bullshit. Which is, for the slow witted people out there the march on September 17. Iceland, Romania, Ukraine, Poland etc etc have shown that mass protests can bring down governments but i despair that irish people have no backbone!!!!

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    Sep 11th 2016, 12:22 AM

    Michael. You are so right, they moan but don’t leave their homes. It would be great to have the biggest (peaceful) protest so far.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 2:06 AM

    Noonan might as well use his report/whitewash to line the bottom of his budgies cage, the game is up and he knows it.
    The 30 hours of covert audio sitting in a Belfast solicitors office is the smoking gun.
    Millions apon millions lost and squadered whilst folks can’t get a hospital bed……a cattle truck should be parked outside the Dail, FF/FG herded on to it and taken down to the ferry terminal Iin Dun Laoighaire.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 10:38 PM

    I sense its gonna be a situation where this report will come out and we’ll find that the state (this pathetic gov) has lost possibly billions, followed closely by noonan making statements that the irish gov doesn’t want the 13 billion because our reputation will be ruined (too late, leprechaun economics and tax haven), followed by new record numbers of homeless figures.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 1:42 AM

    Noonan is up to his boll(ock in it. Typical Limerick S(umbag.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 1:43 AM

    Noonan has sold this country out.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 12:20 AM

    How much has the IMF got involved in this?

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    Sep 11th 2016, 12:18 AM

    I would love to not pay any taxes USC PRSI if we stopped paying the Government would feel the pinch after all we pay them well.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 12:16 AM

    The government is suppose to work for the people under what the term democracy as that is what democracy is suppose to mean, therefore they should as it is tax payers money being used here?

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    Sep 11th 2016, 3:57 PM

    will we get the TRUTH…the whole TRUTH… or anything but THE TRUTH…

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    Sep 11th 2016, 3:54 PM

    “The Government will publish its report into Nama’s controversial multi-billion Project Eagle sale this week”, so not an eagle but a giant Turkey, Project Turkey, the report will say gobble gobble, gobble…

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    Sep 11th 2016, 2:31 PM

    Lots of worried eyes in those pictures.

    Now let the whole truth emerge.

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    Sep 11th 2016, 6:32 PM

    “leaks this weekend suggest “hundreds of millions of euros” were lost due to shortcomings in the transaction, which was approved by Minister for Finance Michael Noonan.”

    Approved by Noonan? Well I guess that will rule out an enquiry….

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    Sep 11th 2016, 5:54 PM

    I’d say we don’t know the half of what’s going on behind closed doors – seems to be the scandals are getting bigger and bigger -

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    Sep 10th 2016, 8:39 PM

    I thought Gerry Adams hated Spotlight? Now he’s quoting from their broadcasts?

    He’s eminently flexible.

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    Sep 10th 2016, 9:24 PM

    Is that the most interesting thing you took from the article?

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    Sep 11th 2016, 12:18 AM

    Trying to use rumours from the time to cloud the issue to back your own emotional views? In order to control others beliefs, is that what you are doing?

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    Sep 12th 2016, 12:11 AM

    What the fcuk are ye doing asking that space cadet Alan Kelly For his opinion. He spent five years shouting insults at any TD that mentioned NAMA from the opposition benches. The man is an irrelevant has-been, his opinion is about as much use as a turd sandwich when your hungry

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    Sep 11th 2016, 5:13 PM

    Michael Noonan has balls like a Bengal tiger…. Fair play to him!!

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