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A MOTION CALLING on the government to carry out an independent review of 5G rollout across the country has been defeated at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis.
It called for a review to establish the “independent facts” about the possible health impact of 5G rollout.
Another motion calling for the postponement of the 5G network was also defeated.
Earlier this week, Donegal TD Pearse Doherty said the Ard Comhairle – the party headquarters – supported the motion calling for the health and environmental concerns relating to 5G to be reviewed.
However, this evening, the membership voted down the motion.
5G is the next step up from the 4G and 3G services offered through mobile phones. It is capable of much faster download and upload speeds. Vodafone was the first network to offer it to customers earlier this year, but many other mobile phone networks are now following suit.
A number of communities have voiced concerns about the arrival of 5G in Ireland, in particular the radiation levels it emits, the impact of mobile masts and associated infrastructure, and the radio waves impact on humans.
Councillors in Clare, Leitrim, Sligo and Wicklow have passed motions raising objections to 5G on health grounds, while protests have been held in towns such as Dingle in Kerry.
Separately, the party membership voted in favour of a motion seeking to ban balloon and lantern releases for marking special occasions.
The motion called on community and campaign groups to find alternative ways of celebrating and commemorating events, stating that balloons have a hugely negative impact on the environment, as well as causing suffering and death to wildlife and sealife.
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Sinn Fein banning balloons? I thought they loved blowing up things
@Roy O’Rourke: care to share with us when or what Sinn Fein blew up?????
@Roy O’Rourke:
Comment of the week!
@Roy O’Rourke: they are dead right in seeking a ban on balloons and lantern’s..
Pretty on release but few consider what they are…single use floating rubbish that somebody else has to clean up.
@Mill Lane: are you talking about sF candidates or the ballons?
@M Bowe: Their credibility, when they greeted the murderers of Garda Gerry McCabe on their release ..? Maybe that!
@M Bowe: mountbatten?
@M Bowe: what rock have you been under lol
@Roy O’Rourke: Sure aren’t Sinn Féin and the IRA two cheeks of the same arse?
Holding the 5G vote in the first place says a lot about Sinn Fein membership IQ levels..
@Lar Meyler: But not as much as that comment says about yours.
@Fachtna Roe: what a great discussion you managed to maintain
@Kev: Pay attention. @Lar Meyler doesn’t approve of discussion.
Balloons? Can we have nothing!!!
@Madra: They are rubbish/litter.
@Madra: they are an environmental hazard/trash.
@Ashling Fenton: oh please stop been such a snowflake will you and live a little.
@tgemainman: I can think of a hundred different ways of celebrating a birthday occasion without letting off dozens of balloons. Their negative environmental impact is well documented. And please, spare us the infantile “snowflake” name calling and grow up a little.
@Madra: The thing about ballon releases is the wasteful use of helium of which there is a limited supply, and cannot be manufactured.
Once we waste all the helium, you will no longer have MRI scanners, and it’s many other clinical uses such a respiratory treatments etc.
@tgemainman: it’s not being a snowflake to say that every minute a bin lorry worth of rubbish ends up in the oceans and seas. If you think that’s okay then clearly you’re a lost cause.
@ObsidianShine: I don’t think a bin lorry of balloons end up in Irish Sea every day if so would love to see the evidence.
@tgemainman: Comprehension isn’t your strong point.
@tgemainman:Quote: “I don’t think”… You said it.
@Madra: we have a lrge building in dublin full of them – its called the dail !
They must be feeling very deflated after that.
@gerard carey:
@gerard carey: €2 euro increase in minimum wage, increases in social welfare, free gaffs for everyone….. it’s like Brewsters millions!!
More “hot air” from the shinners.
A sea change? Rank and file Sinn Fein voting down the top table.! Is the Army Council losing its grip or is this a cute Fenian plot to show that Sinn Fein is really a democratic party?
More importantly, will Sinn Fein in their newfound role as Climate Change Adherent ro ban the use of plastic sunglasses used by the thousands at their thousands of rallies and commemorations every year.
@Gino Brancato: LMAO – but it’s true, all those sunglasses, and those antenna bluetooth phone receivers that come out of their ears too :-)
Anything from sf to get notice
@pat seery: …says the illiterate in the corner looking for attention.
So capitalism or the planet, capitalism always wins!
@Colette Kearns: not always. Communism plays it’s role as well.
@Colette Kearns: what if you run a very successful balloon release company?
@Clifford Brennan: dont vote sf.
@Colette Kearns: god why is it every comment you make is ridiculous.
@Colette Kearns: Colette, I don’t agree with you on much, but I agree with you on this. 5G is absolutely horrific and shouldn’t be allowed near the country.
@tgemainman: At least my comment was relevant to the article sweetie, go troll someone else, easy to do when you hide behind two d**ks!
@Colette Kearns: You really are a tool.
@Burn_the_Witch: what’s wrong with 5G?
@Colette Kearns: yes people like to eat almost as much as they love high horses
BANG
I dont know what the big deal is! The only time 5g harmful is when you take it to fast.
@Harry Trafford: so don’t take it to fast, take it somewhere else instead.
SF watching too many David Icke videos
Nobody’s taking my balloons.
Can we rollout 4g nationwide first FFS. Cart before the horse BS again, jeez not even everyone has 3g either.
@Diarmaid O’Riordáin: infrastructure already being put in place for 5G. By the time u realise it’s lethal u won’t be able to stop it.
Yiz’re all doomed – I heard it on the wireless – doomed, I tell yiz. Tune in next Tuesday for more…
@Kath Noonan: Probably not as lethal as that extra chromosome you’re sporting.
Oh the humanity
@Gisbert Bayertz: LMAO!
According to the current body of evidence in innovative
risk research, there is now clear evidence of so-called biological effects of wireless communication technologies, which can range from impaired well-being to serious disorders of or damages to the quality of life and health. This increase in wireless radiation exposure takes a heavy toll on risk groups, especially on children, adolescents, and persons with electromagnetic hypersensitivity. https://kompetenzinitiative.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Statement_Mainz_4-6_Oct_2019_english.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3iDXUtiOX7e6mVddTDonN6I6SBHk2vrGyrrXnGvHfj7F9NOhnMNHX20RQ
@JuBa Kelly: what is innovative risk research. Its not medical or scientific research.
@Séamus Ó Mórdha: why would u prefer medical or scientific research? It’s funded by those who profit from approval of said research. Totally biased.
@Kath Noonan: when I get an answer as to what is innovative risk research then its a matter of which one i prefer.
Google suggests its something to do with business studies. The studies, it does not state who it was conducted by, claim to make some sort of medical findings about the effects of 5g.
The sentence basically means business students claim 5g is bad for your health.
What if British /Russian / or American trolls are spreading disinformation about future technologies to keep Irelands economy static. Do we know who is funding innovative risk research?
@Kath Noonan: oh Kath, take off that olde tin foil hat there, sit down, and have a nice cup of tea.
As a consultant and physicist, in 2000 Bill P Curry was invited to study the health risks associated with the use of laptops and wireless networks in 250,000 students in Broward County public schools in Florida. His graph labeled “Microwave Absorption in Brain Tissue (Grey Matter)” showed that electromagnetic fields are “likely to be a serious health hazard.” https://www.greenmedinfo.health/blog/5g-technology-why-should-we-expect-shift-rf-induced-brain-cancers-skin-cancers?utm_campaign=Daily+Newsletter%3A+5G+Technology%3A+Why+Should+We+Expect+a+Shift+from+RF-Induced+Brain+Cancers+to+Skin+Cancers%3F+%28MMhM2q%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Daily+List&_ke=eyJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJsb29zZWZpc2hAaG90bWFpbC5jby51ayIsICJrbF9jb21wYW55X2lkIjogIksydlhBeSJ9&fbclid=IwAR1uGk4uQ7NvK3AM8lE7hWWD7ivj1q0CXMyJQVZaWxR_AsSWkHEjDzNv53w
5G going to wipe out all species over time. U’d have to be crazy not to realise all these wireless waves are playing havoc with the electrics in our body already. 5G bringing it to a whole new level. DNA change? U ain’t seen nothing yet. Next generation won’t know if they’re male, female, bird or dog.
@Kath Noonan: radio waves have existed since the Big bang. Before life existed on this planet. 5g technology is about sending messages and receiving messages along those wavelengths. We have been doing it to various degrees for over a century. The waves exist all around us, we did not invent them, all we do is inevnt the transmitters and receivers to send messages along them, like the mast at the top of a mountain sending messages along radio waves and the car or kitchen radio receiving them.
5g is a technology to send and receive messages along radio waves on the Internet.
The radio waves have always existed. If they could do so much damage as some claim they would have been weaponised by now. Russian and American soldiers aren’t running around recent conflicts with 5g guns or dropping 5g bombs.
Like all the policy’s full of helium
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