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Teachers' union calls for schools to be kept under 'forensic review' as all students return

A million students and staff are back in school today.

IRELAND’S LARGEST TEACHING union has called for “vigilance” as schools prepare to fully re-open today.

More than a million students and staff will return to classrooms as Ireland prepares to ease its Covid-19 restrictions for the first time this year.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has said there is “anxiety” among school communities over the return, and has called for an ongoing review of the situation.

“We have always said that the preference of our members is a return to face-to-face teaching and learning as long as all risk mitigation measures are in place and strictly adhered to,” the union’s General secretary Micheal Gillespie said. 

“With the full return to school buildings of all year groups today, there is understandable anxiety among all in school communities, particularly given concerns around new strains of the virus.

“At a national level, the situation must be kept under forensic review, while adherence to the measures that protect the health and safety of students, staff and their families must be the key priority in every school.

“We have already made clear that we will not tolerate breaches of key safety measures in workplaces.”

Gillespie added that keeping schools open in a safe and sustainable manner was a challenge for all of society and called for responsibility to be shown.

Today will also see the 5km travel limit relaxed to allow people to travel anywhere within their county, or up to 20km if crossing into another county.

People from two households will also be allowed to meet up outdoors for social and recreational purposes, but private household visits – including to gardens – remain off limits.

All schoolchildren are to return to in-class learning from Monday, while construction on housing and essential projects will also resume.

Further easing of restrictions is expected on 19 April and 26 April.

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    Mute Lurfic
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    Jul 15th 2016, 12:38 PM

    Evil b**tard.

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    Mute bings
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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:31 PM

    This was mentioned last night on Prime Time check out rte player when that episode comes on line

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    Jul 16th 2016, 2:07 PM

    The Star claims that a Galway man was accidentally shot by the Gendarmes and is in a critical condition.

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    Mute cormac o connell
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    Jul 15th 2016, 12:43 PM

    All I am saying is for the first time last night RTE looked objectively as to why Ibrahim Halawa went to Egypt

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    Mute cormac o connell
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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:24 PM

    And if they do they will need to factor in what RTE had on last night….

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    Mute The Oracle of Delphi
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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:48 PM

    Which programme was the Halwa story on? Primetime?

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:16 PM

    Well worth a view..

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    Mute Tariq ibn Ziyad
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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:50 PM

    But but,RTÉ is part of the liberal left mainstream media,how can we trust them??!!

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    Mute Ger Buckley
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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:13 PM

    Leave him where he is.

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    Mute cormac o connell
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    Jul 15th 2016, 12:38 PM

    Hollande is too weak and too Liberal to deal with terrorism. There is going to be a lot more happen in France in the coming years.RTE did a show last night about the Mosque in Dublin and it shows really how we need to be on our Guard for similar behavior.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 12:47 PM

    The Israelis seem to have very little problems dealing with it at the moment

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    Mute Dave Smith
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    Jul 15th 2016, 12:55 PM

    there is a Sam Harris quote along the lines of ” we are all living in Israel its just that some of us havnt realised it yet”. seems apt

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    Mute just readin
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    Jul 15th 2016, 12:56 PM

    cormac, whats a liberal view on terrorism ?

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    Mute Dave Smith
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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:02 PM

    @just , blame the west for everything , don’t do anything as that would be “racist”, virtue signal on facebook and twitter with silly hashtags and flag colours. mention the Muslims you know that are salt of the earth. Oh and all religions are the same and mention the crusades for good measure.

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    Mute cormac o connell
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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:04 PM

    The Liberals want to punish those who join Isis by bring them home and letting them take part in restorative justice programs…They should all be jailed for life

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:07 PM

    https://www.amnesty.ie/latest/news/2015/01/06/ibrahim-halawa-must-released-immediately/

    This is why Amnesty need to be prevented from raising money in our Country

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:40 PM

    Really not sure how authorities can protect against a disgusting attack like this. The guy was not on any watchlist and putting someone on a watchlist for having a history of violence would result in an unmanageable list.

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    Mute Cormac Mulhall
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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:41 PM

    @cormac

    “The Israelis seem to have very little problems dealing with it at the moment”

    How has that been working out for Israel so far? Problem solved yet?

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    Mute June Rose-Sommer
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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:22 PM

    Yes indeed we must!! How many Muslims have stood up and called these acts of terror, atrocities? Absolutely none!!

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:58 PM

    Realistically, what can be done? I can’t say I have the answers, but it certainly seems that our response to the multiple terror attacks across Europe has been weak and this recent attack will simply be a boon to Marie LaPen; as will the next one and the one after that. At this stage, simply locking Jihadis up isn’t enough. Prisons are simply Jihadi breeding grounds – so 10 – 20 years from now will be more fun once their sentences have elapsed.
    Stronger borders and easier deportations and revocation of citizenship would be a good start.
    To start with, moderate and reformist Muslims, like our own Imam Al-Quadrai of the Blanchardstown mosque need to be championed.
    But most importantly, until attitudes within Islam change, such as saying things like ‘kill homosexuals’ and ‘it is ok to beat your wife’ are met with derission and comdemnation; things wont get better. People with these attitudes are routinely invited to speak in mosques around Europe, and are popular online.
    These attitudes are anathema to western values. Western churches and institutions don’t invite the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, or people with his opinions, to give talks to their community. We don’t ask the leader of the Westboro Baptist church thoughts on the supposed ills of our society – yet mosques around the world and in Europe, routinely do; and welcome these types of people through their doors. And that is a problem

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:19 PM

    @Scarr

    It is clear nationalists are to blame, these people who want what all ethnicities have strived for, a place to call home for their people and culture, are the pure emodiment of evil, god forbid Marine Le Pen and other native ethnic European peoples should be voted for, because of this.

    This must now be our main priority and concern – how nationalists, who are causing all this terror and destruction by making these poor poor immigrants and their Euro-loving descendants, who are now French nationals and locals of Nice, cause them to have such hurt feelings that it causes them to act in this way

    Remember people, it is nationalists who made them do it, otherwise we would all be sitting together in mosques (well men and women in their cool different places, women at the back, ha, ha) eating baclava together and not making jokes about Mohamad (Pebuh).
    Peace out
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    hashtag FrenchFlagNice
    hashtag Nice Against Nationalist Monsters

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:06 PM

    @Dave Smith……..Exactly so Dave and coincidentally today’s Gatestone featured an article by Giullio Meotti,cultural editor for Il Foglio that is somewhat similar to Harris’s quote. Let me paste the opening paras and hopefully readers will follow the link and also sign up for Gatestone’s daily newsletter.
    Giullio Meotti
    —-”Last night, at least 84 people were murdered in the French city of Nice by a Tunisian-born Islamist terrorist.

    Whether you are pacifists or warmongers, gays or heterosexuals, atheists or Christians, blasphemers or devout, French or Iraqis, jihadi terrorism does not discriminate. Every one of us is a target: Islamist terrorism is genocidal.

    When Islamist terrorists target Muslim dissident bloggers, faraway Yazidi women or Israeli girls, it should concern us in the West. Islamists are just sharpening their knives on them before coming for us.

    If we do not speak out today, we will be punished for our indolence tomorrow….”
    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8409/jihadi-terrorism

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    Jul 15th 2016, 7:01 PM

    He’s too weak and liberal??? He just vowed to double down on strikes on Syria whcih are part of the utterly disastrous war on terror. If anything the root of this situation is down to eejits who see any actual workable solutions as “too weak and liberal” and no real solution can come about without sacrificing thousands of innocents in drone strokes and bombings first.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 7:03 PM

    What are you talking about Scarr? Look at the US, where right wing politics and religious extremism go hand in hand. Look at who’s funding these “bathroom bills” and the narratives attached. You’re completely off the mark on this.

    You’re also comparing two very different cultures one of whom may be more transparent about their motives than the other. In the west we have more BS to dress up our BS in, in many Muslim countries they have less of that so it seems more singularly religious, even when their ideology isn’t rooted in Islam at all.

    The US has stuff like “homeland security” and “the american dream” and most MENA/Muslim nations never really got a chance to develop that sort of an ego to commit atrocities in the name of.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 7:40 PM

    @leighanna

    i think you’re disgusting, not 24 hours ago a fanatical jihadi murdered over 80 people, he specifically targeted children and families, drove over them in a truck, yet you come on here to vent your west hating spleen.

    and MENA/muslim countries never had a chance to commit atrocities? the ottoman empire was always an expansionist empire, they wreaked havoc in central europe over the centuries and but for the fact they were soundly defeated in the first world war they would still be threatening europes borders. in fact recep erdogan clearly has designs on reestablishing the caliphate. what about the mamluks? they were also expansionist and war like until they were subdued by the west. the list is endless, islamic states, by their very nature, have always been expansionist and have annihilated anybody they had the capacity to annihilate in their pursuit of the caliphate/khan/empire/raj/sultunate.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 7:55 PM

    Woah! Fitzy my boy! Lettin’ it all hang out there,a lot of pent up anger and little pre-prepared speeches,they must have been bubbling up deep inside you for a while now and you just let them BURST all over the place in one comment,good for you dude!

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    Jul 16th 2016, 10:18 PM

    Cormac. That i agree with.
    They had some people on the RTE saying that wouldn’t happen here those people are deluded and all the Muslims are laughing at their stupidity.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:09 PM

    Nobody is saying that all Muslim are suicidal terrorists but looking from the news over the past few years all of the suicidal terrorists do appear to be Muslims.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:38 PM

    Apart from that Dallas sniper who wasn’t a terrorist because he was American

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:54 PM

    It was not about religion in his case but rather about race, as far as I am aware.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:52 PM

    Hmm,it’s not like an Eastern European to take a dim view of Muslims.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:18 PM

    Oh go away tariq will ya

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:27 PM

    What is dim about the comment?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 7:00 PM

    What a surprised a racist white girl telling a muslim to go away.

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    Jul 16th 2016, 7:11 PM

    right wing lone wolfs are a far greater threat, statistically speaking. but they aren’t ‘alien’ enough to cause that little fear sac in the back of your brain to start engorging

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:05 PM

    The name of the driver is believed to be Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel. There is nothing French about that person and nothing French about that name. I’m sick of reading articles calling him French. This is a pathetic lowlife who is no better than the rats in the sewers. May he rot in hell

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:08 PM

    Greg

    Like it or not there are many French Muslims. France colonised many Muslim countries a long time ago just like Britain went to India etc. Creating a mixed population is inevitable

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:11 PM

    The thing is that we do not see any Indians terrorizing the UK.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:21 PM

    He wasn’t French Nick, he was a Tunisian living in France!

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:32 PM

    I’m very French!! And yet I’m not Francoise Martin!! Seriously… get your facts straight !

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:34 PM

    Multiculturalism does not work. You cannot have multiple cultures living parallell lives. Integration is the only way to go. Integrate or dont come here.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:42 PM

    Multiculturalism involves integration. They’re not distinct things. Plenty of countries have a number off cultures which for the most part live in harmony and respect of eachothers traditions.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:43 PM

    One or two dodgy takeaway’s, but that’s about it.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:49 PM

    @Greg
    Remember now you must be wrong because the media says he is just a lone madman and a French national.

    So he was a Frenchman who did it, nothing to do with islam, even Irish radio are saying he is from Nice, thus we all know what that means, he was a local, a pure french local, just ignore his Tunisian background and muslim name, he was as French as garlic and onions.

    Media and open-border extremists said so, I think we all need to listen to our multicult media and local open-border extremist representative, they will show us the way.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:51 PM

    But Imen, he didn’t value or respect the French way of life, liberty, equality, fraternity! There in lies the difference!

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:16 PM

    @The Guru Can you please provide examples of these countries?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:22 PM

    Australia
    London
    Amsterdam
    Germany
    France
    Singapore
    - Los Angeles
    - New York City
    - São Paulo
    - Toronto

    et al -

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:24 PM

    I fully agree Greg!! Sewer Rats!!!!

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:28 PM

    @Pádraig I see you don’t know the difference between countries and cities. You also only mentioned one non-Western country. Singapore however is multi-ethnic rather than multicultural.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:41 PM

    Wrong on both accounts as is just as pertinent – but hey, go for a poor idea of a cheap shot and hit the wall with a shooting off blanks.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:59 PM

    I would say not so much harmony and respect more like they just about tolerate each other.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:10 PM

    are you drunk mate? virtually every one of those cities mentioned has suffered catastrophic issues around muslim integration

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:16 PM

    Your Trolling IQ 80 is well below the acceptable limit of interaction Fitzy. At least IQ level 115 trolls can read the context of a statement. So in all fairness, son, I would disappear back to the troglodyte digs your crawled out from under.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:56 PM

    No, but some of them curry’s are torrure on the digestive system!!

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    Jul 15th 2016, 12:38 PM

    Mad nutters hard to control ..RIP.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:41 PM

    The irish gov have done nothing about his father or Ali Selim who refused to comment when he was on the late late show some years regarding fundamentalist muslims who may be in irleand, Selim also refused to comment on 9-11 or on Bin Ladin only stating he had never met him. Check out http://www.dialogueireland.wordpress.com date 23/08/2010. Worth a read.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:08 PM

    Bings, I didn’t know it was about them . That seemed to be kept very quiet . I’ll watch out for it on rte player .

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:25 PM

    Great piece of viewing

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:57 PM

    @Bings loads of pretty unsavory stuff floating around about halawa senior to be fair, has been for a long time, but the media elite didnt want to destroy their ‘poor ibrahim’ narrative

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:00 PM

    @will mad nutter? really? he sounds pretty methodical to me, rented the truck nine days ago, positioned the truck 9 hours before attack commenced, systemically targeted people over a 2 km stretch, nothing mad about it, this was a sophisticated and well thought terrorist attack.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:10 PM

    Hes still a mad nutter to do such a thing and to even plan it is even more crazy.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:14 PM

    @fitzy if that’s sanity well them am a nutter .. he’s mad if he believes this action in any way warranted regardless of his in depth planning

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:41 PM

    Have ther been many Muslim leaders condeming these murders?
    Time for them to step up to the plate.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:49 PM

    @will whats your point mate?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 12:45 PM

    not enough is been done to control those nutters

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:36 PM

    We need to be targeting the radical preachers who spew their hate into their followers. Any cleric who does not roundly condemn violence, or who does not fully support the right of non Muslims to live by their own rules, has to leave Europe immediately. The UK has done a great job cracking down on these ringleaders, France should take note of how they thwart these attacks.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:05 PM

    We may all fear the thought of Trump getting elected as President. However, who is more likely to take an extremely firm stance on IS. President Trump or President Clinton? I somehow think the former.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:11 PM

    Thats why id vote for Trump

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:35 PM

    Idiots, the two of you.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:43 PM

    What’s an “extremely firm stance”?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:52 PM

    Joe

    How am I an idiot for stating an opinion? Do you disagree with my opinion? Do you think Hilary will take a more firm action?

    You should read your own posts before calling someone an idiot. You clearly don’t have the intellectual capacity to understand my post.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:47 PM

    And 3 more intellectually impaired people giving red thumbs.do you even understand what you are red thumbing ?

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    Jul 16th 2016, 11:12 AM

    Trump will wave his magic wand and fix everything.

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    Jul 16th 2016, 7:15 PM

    in fairness, at least that tv presenter buffoon has the laugh factor going. i mean if its all going to pot then world leaders should at least look like grossly inflated ferrets with a creme brûlée head

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:19 PM

    Evil f***ing b****rd!! Heartless!! Soul-less!! Wake up Europe!! Those terrorists are hell-bent on destroying our Europe.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:23 PM

    Many fear that this is already going to happen here remember the controversy of… http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/concerns-over-visit-of-plans-for-radical-islamic-preachers-to-address-student-conference-34511046.html
    In the day of the internet any fool can be easily brainwashed into hate and murder once the excuse is good enough to fool them?
    I can see it happening here as well and that is scary, therefore we will need the Gardai to be prepared for any such event here, are they ready and is the government?
    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/muslim-cleric-calls-on-preachers-to-sign-anti-extremism-statement-1.2559911
    “Dr Al Qadri said that both Kuwaiti clerics, while not well known globally, preached a sectarian form of Islam, Wahhabism, which is intolerant of other religions such as Christianity and Judaism as well as of other Muslims such as Shia or Sufi Sunnis.

    “They don’t believe in democracy and to them, Osama Bin Laden is a hero. . . Dr Al Khamees is very outspoken against Shia Muslims, not just highlighting the difference in theology, but speaking of them in a very insulting and derogatory and sectarian manner,” he said.”
    If Wahhabism is being taught here then that is dangerous as it goes to the heart of Isis / Daesh and always leds to hatred and to acts like this, is our government prepared for similar acts of terrorism here???

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:37 PM

    It won’t happen here for a long time yet. They like to use Ireland as a safe house/haven. They see Ireland is so naive, lax and foreigner friendly so innocent, they laugh at us, play along while using the country as a rest and recuperation zone.

    Only when the numbers increase and there is more opposition to Irish people especially Irish women being harassed and leered at, and the opposition to no-go zones, will they impose more direct physical action.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:46 PM

    We are living in the generation of hate, hate that causes racism and racism that cause hate, that is what it is really about with sectarianism, racism, sexism, bullying, a me me culture fuelled by consumerism, it will all end in a social explosion.
    Here is as good a place as any because our culture is similar now to the U.S. model as is the U.K’s. Remember Shannon and the rendition that took place there?
    The more PC we get then the more unequal we will become and poverty creates extremism in society especially when people loose money?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:52 PM

    yes Alois you are so right, I especially think the Zulus and palestinians who say it is their right to have their own territory for their own people, is particularly dangerous, and sets an extreme racist precedent that the evil white man might latch onto and follow, they might start saying all peoples of the world have a right to their own country.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:01 PM

    How can anyone state that they are right when they kill people and CHILDREN?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:41 PM

    @Alois

    You do know that European and American nationalists have always opposed war in Iraq, afghanistan etc, whereas your open-border extremists like Blair, Obama and other far-left around the world supported it?

    You do know that the koran directs its followers to conquer the world for islam, which is quite a separate issue to any war in the M. East, and that if such wars did not exist that there would still be a motivation for islam to conquer Europe for islam? You do know that don’t you?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:10 PM

    stevenocarroll, “You do know that European and American nationalists have always opposed war in Iraq, afghanistan etc, whereas your open-border extremists like Blair, Obama and other far-left around the world supported it?”

    Wasn’t the war in Iraq and Afghanistan started by George Bush? Wasn’t he an American “nationalist” as you so stupidly put it? Practically the entire of the EU opposed the war in Iraq and cautioned America against it.

    Talk about trying to twist the facts to support your warped narrative!

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:30 PM

    @John R

    European and American NATIONALISTS were against these wars. Nick Griffin is a Brit nationalist, he was against these wars, Marine Le Pen, these are the real true European nationalists, Golden Dawn in Greece they were against these wars.

    George Bush is not a nationalist, he is an American freemason, he is not even christian, though he pretends to be, he is a capitalist. The war was started by the US neo-cons most of whom are from “the-tribe-we-are-not-allowed-mention”, people like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle. And it was backed by big business friendly politicians, like Donald Rumsfeld.

    none of these people are nationalists, the neo-cons are mostly not even Americans, the country they are loyal to is Israel. NATIONALISTS opposed them and their wars. Don’t confuse real Americans most of whom want nothing to do with interfering with other countries, with non-americans and their big business pals. 5 of the big 6 American banks in the US are owned by zionists.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:57 PM

    You’ll have to stop there now steven,you’re embarrassing yourself and making readers wince.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 9:36 PM

    The Frank Mc Donald school of reality eh? http://markhumphrys.com/frank.mcdonald.html

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    Jul 15th 2016, 11:01 PM

    It is the Saudi money building mosques around the world to teach their version of the Quran and the U.K. and the US don’t mind once the oil is kept flowing.
    I am saying not to paint everyone with the same brush as that is what Daesh wants, for the West to turn on all Muslims in order to get more followers.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 11:04 PM

    Steven I remember when it started I felt that I was the only one who thought it was about oil and I got laugh at for saying that, look now everyone wants to be on the popular bandwagon rewriting history to cover being seen as being wrong…

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    Jul 15th 2016, 11:08 PM

    Steven, European and American nationalists seem to be more neo nazi these days, yes I know the Koran says that, I think you find that the media at the time made up the minds of the populatiion through the tube for them.

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    Jul 16th 2016, 10:19 AM

    stevencarroll so you are a new-Nazi? Okay I know where you’re coming from now. We must maintain racial purity at all costs.

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    Jul 16th 2016, 3:17 PM

    I feel I have integrated here, altho it was first through socialising in churches ( urgh) but now I think about it, I think people need to be encouraged and also do some comparative politics in whatever language , politics is everything in this world, there is nothing more human. once understood racism becomes a thing of the past in ones mind,also I’ve meet more racist in Africa then here. btw golden dawn are racist criminals?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:01 PM

    I just fail to understand people who proclaim to hold liberal and tolerant viewpoints, who take strong condemnatory stances against people venting their anger at these terrorists and their supporters. Yet, in the same breath, they support the ‘rights’ of those terrorists to spew out their anti western hate speeches, to demonise and persecute ‘deviance’, to suppress and abuse their women and children and to freely live, travel and operate in our society.
    They can throw out all the vindicating shite they like about the crusades ( a two sided affair), or colonialism or Israeli politics … all that doesn’t change the fact that our world would be better off if every one of these extremists and a good amount of their apologists and supporters dropped dead in the morning. I really wish that hell did exist, that would be a suitable place for them all.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:02 PM

    heart breaking that so many kids involved also kids found that might now be orphans. how do you process that?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:43 PM

    At this stage the Irish Navy should be viewed as a hostile agency , how many terrorists have they helped on their way to Europe?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:17 PM

    A step in the right direction would be to withdraw from the Middle East and stop supporting Israel and activity return the lost land of Palestine – It would not fix anything overnight but sure as hell would start to fix the open wounds.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:27 PM

    If Israel reduced itself to its 67 borders then it would be the size of Cork with 6 million Jews
    Then all the Jews would be driven out by HAMAS and Hezbollah

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:30 PM

    Oh, what a crying shame – A fascist and apartheid country – maybe some agreement could be sort to give them a few extra farms.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:42 PM

    Padraig, Israel isn’t going anywhere. Multinational armies have tried and failed. You should look up the notion of moral relativism. You seem very capable of enormous double standards in your comments.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:46 PM

    Just have an issue with a war mongering, fascist enabled, Zionist propelled, child killing machine, that’s all.

    The more Western powers have solidified a place in the Middle East the more we have encountered radicalisation. When you start to compound that with the support of Israel, you have set a course for a full collision with Islamic militants. Israel is the third mask of Evil in the world. ISIS being one, the U.S/NATO making the second and Netanyahu categorically makes up the third. “Israel will always live by the sword.” One of the most accurate accounts of the rise of Fascism in Israel attributed to the Supreme Commander the only way to describe Netanyahu.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:52 PM

    Padraig the Jews trying to take over and world and start wars
    You should write a book about it

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:26 PM

    Funny you should say that -

    In the mean time feel free to partake in

    America how it rewrites history for propaganda

    Since the birth of the “great” USA, it has managed to clock up 222 years spent in some version of a conflict. Two hundred and twenty-two years out of its meagre 239-year history. What is, even more, telling about this supposedly great nation is how quickly it has entered the final stages of the lifecycle of an Empire.

    America has the propensity to disregard actual history instead opting to write their own. Broadcasting far and wide using the philosophy of “A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes.” American propaganda is so intense that in the minds of many people, it is simply a historical context. We even see academics, historians, and general papers solidifying many American untruths creating plausible lies and false truths.

    The German philosopher Hegel famously said:

    What experience and history teach us is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”

    Glubb Pasha, as he was commonly known was a British general and historian. He wrote 16 books and in 1978 wrote a book entitled “The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival. ~ Sir John Bagot Glubb.”

    Glubb penned his own anecdotal that somewhat shadowed the words of Hegel.

    ‘The only thing we learn from history,’ it has been said, ‘is that men never learn from history’, a sweeping generalisation perhaps, but one which the chaos in the world today goes far to confirm. What then can be the reason why, in a society which claims to probe every problem, the basis of history are still so completely unknown?”

    Glubb surmised that Empires follow a cultural lifecycle from studying the Empires of History. He also stated in general terms; the average an empire lasts is 250 years. With the USA being 239 years old it is depressingly set to fall before that baseline.

    Glubb outlines the seven stages of Empire as:

    1. The age of outburst (or pioneers).
    2. The age of conquests.
    3. The age of commerce.
    4. The age of affluence.
    5. The age of intellect.
    6. The age of decadence.
    7. The age of decline and collapse.

    How the Empire conducts itself will influence the rise and indeed fall. Political stability, leadership, military involvement and social capital all create incubators and catalysts for the extending or diminishing the lifespan of the Empire. >> http://www.tworoundcorners.com/america-how-it-rewrites-history-for-propaganda/

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:32 PM

    TL:DR

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:38 PM

    True Clifford, I do tend to write for people with more attention span than that of consuming a People Magazine “article” or a Totes Hilar Twitter, Twaddle.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:00 PM

    Of course you do. How silly of me. It’s fine, I get it – you hate America and Israel. If they weren’t here, we’d all be dancing around the world naked and happy.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:13 PM

    @padraig o raghaill chemtrails, lizardmen, wibble….

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:45 PM

    I am sorry Fizzy, have you lost your way to school?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:47 PM

    Is Stupidity Just More Visible Online?

    Stupidity
    [noun]
    I could not believe the stupidity displayed by The Journal article commentators
    The lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit or sense. Stupidity may be innate, assumed or reactive
    http://www.tworoundcorners.com/is-stupidity-just-more-visible-online/

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:52 PM

    @padraig hey dude, how about you shove your conspiracy nonsense up your safe space #loon

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:54 PM

    @Padraig O Raghaill……..Israels migrated to Palestine and bought the barren dessert lands from absentee Arab landlords and turned it into an oasis of productivity,prosperity and democracy. They couldn’t make a go of it themselves. Preferred the easy life in the coastal cities of Syria.There was hardly anyone living there except mostly nomads. 90% of present day Israel was those barrenlands. The other 10% is strategic territory won and legally held from the 5 invading Arab states that set out to destroy Israel and genocide the Jews.
    Less tha 5% of Palestinians in the area to-day can trace their ancestry to Palestine beyond 1880′s when the Jews arrived to buy and make productive this barren land.
    Compare the peaceful plantation of Palestine by Jews in the 1880′s with the other not so peaceful plantations going on at that time in other areas of the world………..

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:57 PM

    You couldn’t resist, could you Paddy?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:00 PM

    Conspiracy is something thought Fitzy, whereby history is something in the past. Education is freely available son, and would see a dentist if I was you. Oh, and by the way, anyone that shares content from Katie Hopkins truly does display unconditional and incurable idiotism.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:02 PM

    Oh and Patrick, you might need to update your history.

    Proof that Palestine existed before the existence of biblical Israel. US anthropologist and pathologist, Sherry Fox discovered a huge Philistine cemetery some 3000-years-old has been found in the Mediterranean seaport of Ashkelon. The manner of the burials proves, for the first time. The cemetery was found just outside the city walls of Tel Ashkelon, one of the Philistines’ five primary cities in today´s Israel. http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.729879

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:12 PM

    @David Newton …..You mean Padraig O R couldn’t desist moving to what was formerly safe ground for his ilk,ie., making attacks on Israel but Irish people are waking up in droves to that old con-game.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:22 PM

    No, to the fact that this whole page is about the French attack and you single out the one person who discusses Israel. Are you sure you are not paid by Israel because you did not answer it last time, maybe you can clarify?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:22 PM

    Just imagine how well you could interact, Patrick if you actually stopped reading the Sun and discovered a library. Hell, even the internet is able to grant you a better understanding of the world.

    Of the 17 most-senior security & intel chiefs who have worked with Netanyahu, at least 13 have strongly criticised his policies. Israel’s prime minister is fighting hard to weaken the most important moderate force in his country. Which is why he’s going to be a big problem for the next U.S. president. ~ http://goo.gl/7L3092

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:28 PM

    @Padraig O r.. Did she find any rockets in there? Now that would be real proof.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:31 PM

    You just relinquished yourself to the level of imbecile,

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:34 PM

    @David Newton……….Thanks for admitting that Padraig broke of topic to introduce Israel. So you ought raise you displeasure with him…

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:36 PM

    Not really off topic at all Patrick, as Palestine is central to the terrorism we are feeling to this day.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 8:24 PM

    Bollox. The arabs can live anywhere. Thers only one israeli homeland. Git

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:21 PM

    Time for some Muslims to change sides here. We need reliable intelligence about Imans that are radicalizing normal people. Give them life sentences in a pig sty. these people will soon start to realize that promoting hate and murder doesn’t pay.

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    Jul 16th 2016, 7:13 PM

    life sentences in a pig sty is pretty inventive, in a sick sadist sort of way. you’ve been watching too much telly.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:30 PM

    Shouldn’t all these attackers be declared takfir or excommunicated by the whole Islamic community for being unmuslim in their violent actions? Surely the moderate Muslim Communities should be standing up to the plate here…going on the attack as it were themselves against the extremists who are bringing all Muslims into disrepute among many western minds. I don’t think any religion today condons the mass slaughter of innocent women and children out celebrating on a holiday day.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:43 PM

    Its in the Koran

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:50 PM

    I’m afraid the Koran is like the bible and interpreted by extremists to suit their own aims.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:17 PM

    Read the Koran

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    Jul 15th 2016, 6:32 PM

    @winston which muslim community? sunni? shia? wahhabism? salafists? who exactly are you talking about?

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    Jul 16th 2016, 2:27 AM

    Moderate Muslim???

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:27 PM

    Ross Kemps program last night on Sky. Well worth a watch. He was reporting from the front line on the fight with ISIS. He interviewed a captured ISIS fighter. Very enlightening. Most Muslims hate IS even the Sunni s. But muslim people need to act. Your religion breeds hate. Either fix this craziness or prepare for battle

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:17 PM

    I hear Chuck Norris has nightmares about Ross Kemp.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:20 PM

    @quiggers pretty simplistic analysis right there mate, and not entirely true, but even if it were, there are many millions of wahhabi’s in the world, people who share the exact same world view as ISIS and there are many millions more who find ISIS and their world view hugely appealing

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:28 PM

    I see we have a new Islamophobic troll on our hands. Or is it just one of the regulars that have changed their name Here is a bit of context for you troll, see if it helps out with that myopia issue you seem to be experiencing trouble with. https://goo.gl/pYvb9E

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    Jul 15th 2016, 6:07 PM

    Cheers for the link Padraig. The circles really helped. So what if this atrocity happened in Dublin during Patrick’s day? And what if your family were killed by one of those Islamic terrorists. Would you still be fine about muslim terrorists? Well the answer must be yes, otherwise you would be an islamophobic troll. Just like me seemingly

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    Jul 15th 2016, 6:11 PM

    @padraig whats islamophobia mate? explain to me how one can be phobic to broad and diverse system of beliefs and practices? is christianophobia a thing? or is it an islam exclusive condition?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 6:24 PM

    Islamophobia
    ɪzˌlaməˈfəʊbɪə/
    noun
    dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 6:34 PM

    @padraig ah so its not actually a phobia, just a flaky contemporary dictionary definition, nice one.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 6:35 PM

    You are too kind to the dimwits Pádraig,it reminds me of when Jesus cuckolded the disciples for sending the children away!

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    Jul 15th 2016, 6:38 PM

    You deserve less attention than that. However, I understand even troglodytes need the occasional meal.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 6:42 PM

    Yea, I know Tariq, I blame the poor parents that gave no support at home or in the third level. Poor flakes can only get by with the limited cells in regressed development. Thank god for welfare, everyone deserves a safety net.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 6:46 PM

    Xenophobia in extreme form could possibly be classed as a mental illness

    One diagnostic criterion of xenophobia/racism personality disorder is a lack of empathy and an unwillingness or inability to recognise or identify with the feelings and needs of others. When it manifests in groups, the mob mentality it becomes a delusion whereby the theme is that of a group of individuals who share a defining characteristic, in one’s environment have a particular and unusual significance. These delusions are usually of a negative or pejorative nature, but also may be grandiose in context. When these delusions are extreme, the person/s may act out by attempting to vilify, harm, and even murder, members of the despised group/s. Presenting with extremism, a complex phenomenon, although its complexity is often hard to discern. Most commonly, it can be defined as activities (beliefs, attitudes, feelings, actions, strategies) of a character significantly removed from the ordinary. In conflict settings, it manifests as a severe method of conflict engagement.

    http://goo.gl/LXQXky

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    Jul 15th 2016, 7:44 PM

    @padraig excellent cut and paste skills dude

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    Jul 15th 2016, 9:15 PM

    So that makes 12700 Islamic xenophobes. Well at least the ones aligned to a terrorist organisation. Is that a lot? Should I be concerned Padraig?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:12 PM

    Nothing can be done”, “How could they have known” “You can’t blame all Muslims”. How many times will we hear those statements?? What can be done is untie the hands of the Police and Intelligence Services and give them Carte Blanche to deal with the Islamic terrorist threat as they see fit. And if that includes targeted assassination then so be it. Squeeze those that would offer support of any kind to any Radical Muslim (from moral to physical) hard enough to make their hair bleed. The French still have colony in South America (French Guyana) with the former Penal Islands off the coast. Set up a European Guantimo on them. Where those even suspected of being radicalised can be exiled permanently. And use the Foreign Legion to guard it. They need to know that the velvet gloves are off and the steel Gauntlets are on. That crying about their civil and human rights will fall on deaf ears. That if the want to live in Europe then the had better get with the programme quick smart.

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    Jul 16th 2016, 7:17 PM

    im pretty sure thats the plot to Escape from New York

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    Jul 15th 2016, 2:52 PM

    Prime time from last night is on http://www.rte.ir/player prime time extras mosque power. Sheikh Hussein Halawa in on at 8.50 goes on for approx 22 min Interesting watching. Sorry it wouldn’t let me post link but you can check it out for yourselves. Might try again foe min to see will it let me post the link

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:35 PM

    It’s time countries stopped interfering in other countries business,as innocent people are losing their lives.the people must call for this,or there will be no end.RIP to those innocents killed,and I hope the injured speedy recovery.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 1:44 PM

    They are killing in their own countries as well. Have a look at Iraq, Syria and Yemen to start off with.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 3:35 PM

    Why France and not the ultra secular Scandinavians? They hate France for what its military executes overseas not because of what France stands for.The 3 countries you noted are fantastic examples of where intervention has not worked and yet you cite those exact examples of where “They are killing in their own countries as well”. How can you cite those examples and tell me to continue to support foreign intervention? I prefer to assemble information from the likes of Michael Scheuer, Robert Pape and John Mearsheimer.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:15 PM

    @david newton so what about belgium? germany? nigeria? somalia? spain? and why france? really? france has the highest number of muslims in the western world, simple really.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:17 PM

    @mdmak33 so you reckon that ISIS will forget all about their plan for armageddon and a global caliphate if the west are nice to them? really?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:44 PM

    Pathetic really to be honest. Why is France or Russia or Egypt being targeted? Was a Russian airliner brought down because Russia is free and secular? No it’s because they are sticking their dick in. Why was Spain bombed in 2004, why was London bombed a year after? Because they intervened in Iraq. Why is Germany not being attacked? I am not defending extremist Islam here but I am trying to get you to understand why they do what they do. Somalia is a country without a government and in ruins, Nigeria is not far off with a government. Where is the intervention there if things are so bad? The West has a history of picking and choosing when and where it wishes to invade based on its own interests. I am not defending ISIS (they are proper nuts) however a reasonable question would be, would France be attacked last night if operation Chammal were discontinued? Inadvertently I believe France should be more annoyed at the US and Britain for creating the conditions that created ISIS in the first place.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:18 PM

    Where were all these voices last week when the Chilcot report was released? Read his findings into how ISIS were created. It is a double standard to hate ISIS and yet also defend the countries responsible for creating the mess in the first place. I don’t defend ISIS, far from it in fact but I don’t understand how people are not creating a link between what the West has done and what ISIS do?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:20 PM

    @david
    trying to get me to understand? mate you’re the one who clearly doesnt get it. you’re essentially saying that the sole reason for this global jihad is ‘imperialism’ or ‘foreign policy’. lets take that at face value, if this was indeed the truth and the cause was entirely political wouldn’t there be a political solution? i mean the situation in northen ireland was largely solved through diplomacy, much the same with ETA in spain, now given that IS wish to bring about armageddon and establish a global caliphate, how do you suggest we negotiate? capitulation? submission to the will of allah? some plan batman.
    the fact is the problem is ideological in nature, pulling out troops or kowtowing to terrorism is not the answer, in fact it only validates and encourages these zealots. you said spain was bombed because of their presence in iraq? well how do you explain the foiled al-qaeda plot in madrid AFTER spain had withdrawn ALL their troops from iraq? you say germany? german authorities have foiled ELEVEN major islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11, but hey, imperialism. russia? russia has endured islamic terrorism for many years, long before 9/11 or the syrian civil war. egypt? did i miss egypts invasion of iraq? now explain why belgium has been consistently attacked? when were they involved in iraq? when did they invade the middle east? what about sweden? 2010 stockholm bombings? lars vilks assasination attempt? what about denmark? 2015 copenhagen shootings? 2010 bomb plot? 2007 bomb plot? also, are you suggesting nigeria is a failed state? really?
    you sound like the run of the mill west hating ‘progressive’ type, shove your self loathing up your safe space mate.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:34 PM

    Ok then we will agree to disagree on that but I believe we should take responsibility for our own actions. I don’t defend ISIS but clearly you are defending the Iraq invasion. Are you really saying that Frances bombing of Iraq and Syria makes it safer? How do family members feel when a sidewinder missile kills half a family. Russia has endured Islamic terrorism for many years, thanks to the US supporting the taliban. We agree that this is all bad but I despise Western hypocrisy that you try to defend.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:39 PM

    Love to know how the U.S (did not) start this mess along with several other countries.

    Afghanistan (1979-1989) Russia could see what everyone else ignored or failed to understand due to being the “evil bear.” The CIA was already several years in an actively financing the Hezb-e Islami Mujahideen Organisation.

    America had been in the area for some five years, by 1973. The CIA had recruited over 5000 fighters from all over the Islamic world and started infiltrating Afghanistan under the command of Gulbadin Hikmat Yar and Rasool Saif. One of the pertinent questions to ask is not why did the Soviets enter Afghanistan but why did they wait so long. Reeling from the embarrassment of the Vietnam war the US turned its attention to The Middle East; beginning a campaign of infiltration and destabilisation. It is also mindful to think of the context of the Cuban Missile crisis and the removal of missiles from Turkey. If America could control Afghanistan, it allowed yet another opportunity to encroach upon Russia through their Southern Border. With the SALT II negotiations taking place it is plausible that this also stagnated Russia from earlier involvement.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 6:08 PM

    @david mate, you’re being a bit free and loose with facts here, you’re all over the place in terms of timelines and context. you’re over simplifying and reducing complex narratives into bite size anti western rhetoric. its very interesting to note you keep referring to ‘we’, who’s this ‘we’? ireland? belgium? the UK? the west in general? you’re all over the place mate, but best of luck with the self loathing.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 8:04 PM

    Padraig. Islamic butchery did not just begin 30,40, 50 years ago. It began 1500 years ago. And has spread the sword and conquest.
    Islamo-apologists will say nobody is forced to become a Muslim that Islam forbids forced conversion. But Islamists skirt around their own rule by giving those it’s conquered a choice. Conversion or Death. So they can say “We did not force anyone to convert. They chose to Convert. We gave them a choice”. And after it had spread across Asia and North Africa they turned their gaze to Europe. They invaded Greece and the Balkans and Southern Spain and were only stopped when they reached the gates of Vienna and were cast out of Spain.
    They speak of the Crusades as if they happened last week not 1000 years ago. They only reason that the Americas North and South and Australia/New Zealand were spared was until the age of modern transport it was simply to difficult to get to them.
    Islam demands the entire world submit to its will. That every person on the Planet becomes Muslim and that Sharia Law will be the Only Law. And every devout Muslim strives for this. They mouth platitudes while the are the minority but when the balance tips firmly in their favor they soon loose the mask of humility and the real face of Islam is shown.

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    Jul 15th 2016, 8:09 PM

    This is the goal of Islam and it needs to be stopped

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    Jul 16th 2016, 7:20 PM

    i hear the real face of islam uses Oil of Olay

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    Jul 15th 2016, 5:32 PM

    Get them all out of Europe NOW. Enough is enough. We’re sitting back waiting for these atrocities. Time to wake up and close borders and send people back.

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    Jul 16th 2016, 7:18 PM

    who are them?

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    Jul 15th 2016, 10:05 PM

    Jack bauer – that’s all we need

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    Jul 15th 2016, 8:58 PM

    Israel killed 217 little children in 2014 it’s hardly a bastion of peace

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    Jul 15th 2016, 4:44 PM

    No Fitzy I’m not drunk!! Took the pledge the year I sat my Leaving Cert.

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