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The Daily PollTHE LATEST GANGLAND murder saw 29-year-old Gareth Hutch shot dead while getting into his car outside his flat in the city centre yesterday morning.
The killing took place on North Cumberland Street, just minutes from O’Connell Street, at around 10am.
Local representatives say residents have been left feeling abandoned with one councillor insisting that any similar outbreak of gun violence in another part of the country would have been met with a major crackdown by authorities.
Speaking in the Dáil yesterday, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he would meet with the community where this latest murder took place and “assure them that the government are serious about their protection”.
So today we’re asking, do you think the residents of inner city Dublin are being abandoned?
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There is always a point in getting training, learning new things. People with attitudes like yours usually end up like you, nobodies who have achieved nothing and never produce anything besides pessimism.
It may not be the best paid job at the moment but it’s what it may lead too is the important bit. It sure as hell beats working minimum wage in the local shop until something better comes along
Training for the Gravy Train
Yea getting paid half the minimum wage to work abroad, some gravy train…
Total crap. The EU Administration costs less to run than it does to run the Mayor’s office in Paris. It cost a total of €6.8bn or 6.3% of the entire expenditure of the EU and less than 3% is spent on EU civil servants’ salaries and pensions, the rest going on buildings and infrastructure and running schools for EU staff.
The low and mid-level staff aren’t paid excessively, in fact they are losing staff to the private sector. They do get allowances for working abroad and travel home but anyone working overseas gets that.
Whats the point? It will be dead in a few years
So will you
Latest poll shows over 70% of irish people support the EU. Average support for EU across the union is 67%. The EU will outlive your illogical prediction
Not really. 30% DONT support the EU. That figure was inconceivable 10 years ago. In 10 years it could well be a majority. The mood in Ireland has changed and will continue to change unless something in the EU gives and the notion of the nation state is reinstated and respected. I don’t see this happening. The EU experiment was a good one till it overreached. The domino effect has begun.
Marg 35% opposed the EU in the late 90s. If we are going to base our conversation around statistics and polling the least we can do is get the %’s right. The mood in Ireland has steady over 70% since 2001 & there is no sign of that % lowering given support for the EU rose after brexit. The notion of a national state is an old concept best left for the past. More power to local communities and more power for the EU to set the minimum standard. You can’t claim a domino effect when only 1 country has left, a domino effect is a rapidly increasing numbers of countries leaving after the first and that simply hasn’t happened.
Actually according to the irish times poll, 87% of Irish people support staying in the EU and just 9% want to leave. Why is so much of that 9% on this website lol
“The mood in Ireland has changed and will continue to change unless something in the EU gives and the notion of the nation state is reinstated and respected.”
Like, say, the principle of Subsidiarity, for instance.
But of course the proud ignorant you are you don’t want people who know stuff telling you things, do you Marg?
€1200/month to live in Brussels! At least their trainees will learn to be frugal with money.
About the same as my allowance to study in Geneva, which has a cost of living much higher than Brussels (closer to London or New York). You can live comfortably on €1,200 if you flatshare, don’t smoke, drink less and eat vegetarian 5 days a week. AFAIK the cost of living in Brussels is quite manageable.
At the end of your training you’ll be qualified to be… a Fine Gael senator.
Read the article they are training / apprenticeship roles the salary reflects this !
€1,120 a month.
Sign me up quick.
That’s what I was thinking. Rent in Brussels is really expensive. Even a bedsit outside the city would take over half of that.
Interns often share flats together, passing flats from one group to the next as they move up or move out. It happens in London and DC too.
Screw the EU!!
So non graduate’s do they have a chance?
Yes they do, i know a lady who applied for a previous traineeship and was successful. She did not have a college qualification and was able to get it due to extensive experience from working in that area. The traineeships last a year, and are not a guarantee of full employment after. But if you work hard and prove your worth, you will be rewarded. You may not get posted in Brussels, you are placed in a panel and where they need trainees, you will be offered a role should you be successful. This lady in particular was posted in Parma, Italy. Others were posted to Alicante in Spain, Bilbao, Spain and Malta. Of course they are the places most want to get to, and most will end up in Brussels, but the fact that you have this experience in your CV is a huge plus. Plus working there opens doors to other areas within the EU. You may also be placed on a panel from which they draw from over a period of time. Not unlike the public service here.
Beatiful thank you for the information
Yes. Maybe not for these trainee-ships. But for other positions if you have enough experience and the right language experience you can be appointed.
1150 a month.?? Not a hope.
They print the money and still offer crap wages.
Been lucky enough to work with some of these trainees including from Ireland… virtually all go on to have successful careers inside or outside the EU bubble… other ways to get into the EU institutions also… but second and third eu language is essential. Irish counts of course…
Can they say that no one with Isis sympathies will get in, like last time?
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