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RTÉ EMPLOYEES AND contractors will now have to declare all gifts they receive worth over €50, and have been urged not to accept gifts in excess of €100.
Gifts worth over €100 are to be disclosed on a new register, and will become “the property of RTÉ”.
Staff will have to disclose conflicts of interest, including those relating to their siblings or business associates, on a new register.
Director General Kevin Bakhurst informed staff of the changes today as part of his efforts to drive forward what he described as “necessary change” within the beleaguered organisation.
RTÉ employees receiving free products and services came under scrutiny last year, after it was discovered that presenter Marty Morrissey “had use” of a Renault car in an ad hoc arrangement that was not approved by the broadcaster. Morrissey explained at the time that the arrangement did not require him to publicly endorse or promote Renault.
RTÉ will now have “formalised systems” for recording gifts and conflicts of interest that arise during the year. The requirements aren’t totally new, but the systems for recording them on an ongoing basis are.
“Gifts will be defined as anything given to a member of staff or a contractor that they didn’t pay a fair market price for.
“Any gift with a realistic valuation of up to €50 does not need to be declared
Any gift with a realistic valuation of between €50 and €100 must be declared on the form,” Bakhurst told staff today.
“Any gift with a realistic valuation of over €100 should not be accepted or if it must be accepted, then it is declared and becomes the property of RTÉ,” he further said.
Staff will have to fill out a form declaring that they’ve received a gift, who it came from, and if there was an event associated with it.
The conflicts of interest register will see situations declared which could influence – or be seen by a reasonable person to influence – an employee’s work.
It was made clear to staff that this includes situation relating to siblings or close contacts such as business associates.
Staff were also reassured that making disclosures will not “harm” their careers.
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Cringe.
Meaningless delusional gestures is all the Looney Left is good for.
@Diarmuid: it’s vital we show solidarity with Hamas, ISIS and Al Qaeda. It’s who we are as a people #FreePalestine
@Diarmuid: This is what you get when people vote for the local headbanger because they feel aggrieved about whatever the government of the day is doing. Honestly, they have nothing better to be doing than this? Nothing that could be done about the housing crisis? FFS.
@Diarmuid:
That’s it. Abolish DCC. Dominated by hard left loony parties (SF, AAA, Workers party). Sick to death of them. They are utterly and completely useless and are running Dublin into the ground with their non-sensical planning, while finding plenty of time for this gesutre “solidarity” politics. Makes the blood boil.
@Diarmuid:
Its not meaningless when you are living in the worlds largest consternation camp, every little helps to highlight this injustice,
@Fred Jensen: maybe it’s time we stop splitting out votes on independent candidates and held our noses and voted FF/FG. I threw up in my mouth just writing that.
@Diarmuid: imagine supporting equality and sovereignty. The cheek of them. Next it will be womens rights or disability Ah Diarmuid
@Melissa Porter Nolan:
Consternation camp! Love It! Predictive text throws up gems.
Melisa, google “gaza hotels” and click images and then tell me Gaza is a concentration camp.
@William Grogan: morning Willy Gorgan, hope you are well, busy defending Zionist Isreals murderous occupation again? Ah well at least the majority are against you on this one….as usual!
@Diarmuid: It is very cringe-worthy.
@Fred Jensen: you want to abolish a democratically elected group, because they want to show solidarity with a oppressed people, just because you support the oppressors. Why don’t your friends in f.g/uvf get their private army ( or the gardai as they are sometimes referred to ) to arrest these people on some trumped up charge and have their kangaroo court ( or supreme court as it is sometimes referred to ) try them. While real criminals walk the streets.
@Old Gordon: the left is so nutty. ISIS claim to be Islamic – “No, you’re not” – say the leftists.
White woman claims to be black – “sure thing”.
People who refer to socialist as ‘Looney’ are in fact just trying to hide the fact that they know very little about a lot
@William what an absolutely ridiculous comment
@Ibhar Mac Suibhne: and will you stop supporting murderous Arab terrorists against the only democratic country in the middle east
@Melissa Porter Nolan: Syria?!
@Fred Jensen: the typical right wing response when a vote doesn’t go your way, just do away with democracy. Curiously, the same response that the US and Israel when Palestinians voted by a majority for Hamas in the last democratic elections in the occupied territories instead of the collaborationist PLO. The comment about planning is nonsensical as most planning decisions are now made by the unelected City Manager, as a result of legislation enacted by Phil Hogan as left wing councillors couldn’t be bought off unlike the FF/FG run councils of the past.
@Dáithí Ó Raghallaigh:
I am sure Palestine has a fine record on women’s rights, women dont have many rights in that part of the world unless they live in Israel.
@Colm and what constitutes ‘democratic’ Colm? Plus does that give a country carte blanche to persecute and murder a civillian population of a neighbouring state? Also claiming lands that are of another sovereign state is far from democratic let me point out! You cant claim for a certain kind of treatment on the basis of being ‘democratic’ and also support land grabs which are the most extreme forms of Un-Democratic behaviour, at the same time
@Melissa Porter Nolan: people like you are destroying my country !!
@Marcus Philpott: Hamas and Hezbollah are the opposite of ISIS, Al Nusra and Al Queda. The Hijab is a Saudi creation and not worn on the whole in Palestine. Go away and educate yourself before peddling untruths
@Colm Mcmahon: HAHAAHAHA…..great comment , “the only democratic country in the middle east” that old nugget of propaganda hasbro churns out…are you taking about the same democratic state that jails thousands of kids/minors
So Colm, I suppose your gonna tell me the zionists are acting in self defense?
Well how can you defend this ?:-
http://www.countthekids.org/
@Sean Hammond: The hijab is worn on the head, not the hole.
@William Grogan: Lol, I don’t think all the Palestinians live in hotels. How’s that going to help?
@Plus Prom: Most of the Muslim world claims ISIS are not Islamic, nothing to do with left or right. If a woman wants to feel black is everyone meant to get upset? I didn’t hear of any right-wingers jumping up and down that she has to be white.
@Nigel O’Neill: Have you googled it?
@Colm Mcmahon: colm you should stop supporting murderous jews against children throwing stones or playing on a beach.
@Sean Hammond:
Hamas are Sunni and Hezbollah are Shia, but I’m sure you know what you’re talking about really…
@Diarmuid: They should fly the EU flag as a gesture of solidarity to our European neighbours.
@Marcus Philpott: that’s Sligo and a Mayo flag sewn together.
@Diarmuid: About time we got our act together. We are still not a free country really. On the BBC is still’ live from London Derry. WTF. This is exactly what Israel did on ‘Independence day’.Changed all names of existing arab towns. There treatment of Palestinians is no different to that of the Irish under Cromwell. Who as history now shows was sent to conquer Ireland by, yes you ve guessed it ,a jewish zionist MP in fhe British Government
This the same government that under the thumb of zionist movement granted the Balfour declaration. But only after bankrolling Winston ‘bankrupt”Churchill throughout his polical life. Any one in the Irish4israel are not ‘ Irish ‘enogh for me.
@Ibhar Mac Suibhne: your talking crap Ibhar.
Embarrassment to the capital and will turn US tourists away! I think I will either burn the flag or shove it up Lyon’s ass and set it alight
@Marcus Philpott: did you just not comment a democratic will of a vote of the prayer in the dail should be respected yet you dont respect this democratic decision?
@Diarmuid: Are you serious. Our country was (still is in awAy) occupied by the British. Cromwell came over on the orders of zionist MP in the British government in the 1800. Maybe the zionist history revisionists wiped it from your history book.
@Diarmuid: Cringe is right. Lyons is an absolute clown. This is embarrassing.
@Stephen Healy:
“Cromwell came over on the orders of zionist MP in the British government in the 1800. Maybe the zionist history revisionists wiped it from your history book.”
Nice try – you’re only a couple of hundred years out. I’d have thought “any real Irish person” would know their history a bit better than that. Still, that Constant Markievicz was a great fella though eh?
@Melissa Porter Nolan: good post
@William Grogan: Gaza hotels!!! Are you in Canada where Pots almost legal. You go to book your self in for weekend. If your real Irish . I am the Pope.
@Diarmuid: Diar talmud. PIFFLE..
@William Grogan: you anit Real Irish if support occupation . Move to Scotland or better Engand the home of the balfour agreement.
@Marcus Philpott:
How can you be so foolish as to stand with terrorists! Are you totally blind.? Their main goal in life is to kill infidels like you
@Marcus Philpott:
How can you be so foolish as to stand with Islamic terrorists.? Are you that blind? Don’t you know that their main goal is to kill infidels like you?
Small but great act of solidarity for an oppressed people!
@Gearoid Mag Leannáin: no Gearoid, that’s partisan, and has more to do with old SF/PLO ties than people solidarity. A proper gesture would be to fly both Palestinian and Israeli flags itogether in recognition that, regardless of the politics, there are ordinary people from either side who suffer in these conflicts and that all the leaders need to get their act together to sort this mess.
@Gearoid Mag Leannáin: Probably what SF were discussing when they met with Hamas last year. Surprised they didnt broadcast this fact. Maybe they’ll start lobbying Hamas to hold elections again, to end the ban on opposition parties and to stop persecuting anyone who criticises them in Gaza. Funny what the headbangers who voted for this tokenism forget to mention. Will we have a different flag every month now? Why single out Palestine? Have ordinary Israelis not suffered? Can we show solidarity with them?
@Greg Blake: why don’t we let countries who are oppressors and support oppressors like the u.k and USA fly the Israeli flag.
@Gearoid Mag Leannáin: They oppress themselves voting for Hamas and their sc um buddies in the Muslim brotherhood. This flag is not in my name, no way.
@Gearoid Mag Leannáin: “Neutral Ireland’s dead and gone, it’s with Arafat on the pole…”
@Danny foley:
They’ll have little option but to ‘vote’ Hamas in future, since Hamas wiped out most of their political opponents.
Maybe the loony left think that’s the right kind of oppression though, and therefore not worthy of objection.
@Greg Blake: Great post.
@Honeybadger197: Because as a shining ‘democracy’in the Middle East you are meant to be beyond reproach. Again why the settlements. Why no peace. You cannot accept that as per the Balfour agreement with the Brits. The land was to be shared between Arabs and Jews. And as very day passes with less of a solution the picture and reality becomes more obvious. The victim card is now almost transparent and almost void. Dont try to rule the world , join it.
@Gearoid Mag Leannáin:
Really it is showing solidarity with people murdered by Islamists?
@Stephen Healy: there is no peace because Hamas want the complete destruction of Israel, they only last week removed their demands for the death of all Jews. Palestinians got a 2 state proposal in 2006 and then they elected 2 different governments one of which is trying to starve the other at the moment
I’m flying the Israeli flag for a month in solidarity with the people of Israel.
@Jack Cassady: their oppression is harrowing alright. #freeisrael. What they have to go through with military occupation and military law is dreadful. Hope those palestinians let the Israelis have a normal life. Shame on them. Tongue firmly in cheek.
@Jack Cassady: solidarity with the civilised Israelis, what a novel concept.
@Marcus Philpott: civilised Israelis! You’re a better comedian than Tommy Tiernan, granted that’s not hard, but i find u funny anyhow.
@Jack Cassady: Israeli’s have a shot memory, we are all in titled to be freedom.
@Jack Cassady: probably not a good idea as were “supposed” to support the down trodden and impoverished and the local yobs would probably target your house for displaying an Israeli flag. This gesture of the council doesn’t reflect my personal view and could it be a breach of neutrality in some form.
@Damo Doyle: perhaps the council wants a fact finding junket to the middle East. Dubai or Kuwait to see how Arabs live but not too close to the shells of Hamas or Israeli gunfire
@Jack Cassady: FINALLY some sense
@Jack Cassady: FINALLY some sense
@Stephen: Funny thing, though. When the state of Israel was founded, it was made up partly of Arabs who lived in Palestine, and mostly from (Jewish) people from the broader Arab world. The obvious thing to expect was that it would have a political culture similar to that of Iraq or Syria. But no. Israel isn’t held to the standards of Iraq or Syria. It is held to the standards of Sweden or Austria. It almost seems a bit, idunno, racist.
@Jack Cassady: the bigoted Loyalists up North do so also. Good man
@Ben McArthur: Sweden or Austria ??
People on here are mixed up between Zion ism and Jew ism
Zionism is the root cause of the conflict in Israel/Palestine and that conflict will continue to fester until Zionism is stopped.
@Jack Cassady: I’d say you would fly it all year round by the sounds of you. We should leave the Palestinian one up on all government buildings until all Palestinian land is returned to the indigenous Palestinians and all the zionists go back to their homelands with their dual passports.
@Jack Cassady: good for you. Why not stick a nice union jack up on the side too .love
@Jack Cassady:
Good on ye.
@Jack Cassady: Do you have a clue what you are talking, why not pay a trip to Israel but be careful of those ongoing daily rockets attacks ,suicide bombers, car ramming’s, stone throwing knifings , Thankfully the Israeli military are there to try to protect you as your Palestine buddies target anyone regardless of religion,genders age , etc , a little tip for though if you do go. If you hear a siren , you have less that a minute to take cover.
@Jack Cassady: Well done Jack , doing right now as well depite the abuse from one or two who have not got a clue
Great to see DCC looking after what matters as a priority. I suppose it should be expected when the majority of DCC is made up of SF and the AAA
@Nick Allen: I heard the guy who proposed this on Newstalk (PBP, obviously). He straight out said that Hamas had a right to carry out acts of violence
Now, consider the type of violence that Hamas has carried out
@Nick Allen: It’s a powerful gesture for those who oppose Israel State-sponsored terrorism and ethnic cleansing.
@Tariq Ibn Ziyad: 1.6 million Arab Palestinians live in state of Isreal and have no desire to move to any Arab state or the West bank…Nazereth is 70% Arab….In 1948 around 600000 Palestinians…..
@Nick Allen: this is the type of policies the likes of Corbyn has promoted for labor, in doing so they have neglected the working class for insignificant issues of political correctness, in turn the working class have neglected labor. These types of nutcases hold sway in Dublin at the moment.
@Tariq Ibn Ziyad: I wish Israel were as good at ethnic cleansing as the Palestinians are because if they were there would be no conflict today!
@Tariq Ibn Ziyad:
It may well be but there are other priorities the DCC should be addressing
@Tariq Ibn Ziyad: because the numbers of Jews living in Muslim countries must be at an all-time high? https://www.unwatch.org/algeria-jews-hillel-neuer-u-n-human-rights-council/
@Emeralds: yes they have resisted Israeli assaults and defended palestinian dignity with pathetic weaponry. Viva Palestina!
@Niall Conneely:
So what’s your view of Hamas murdering fellow Palestinians?
@Tariq Ibn Ziyad: Any words on the turkish occupation of Cyprus, their way on the Kurds(that has kill far more than in all the arab/Irsael wars combined, and the bombing campaigns by the Erodegan regime into Syria and Iraq in which the Kurds are the ones being bombed? how did you like Erodegans version “night of the long knives” after the pathetic “coup”?
Last week they gave Saudi the thumbs up and this week it’s thumbs up for Palestine, we’re everyone’s friend! Ireland, a great little country.
@Government Sachs: That was hilarious. Saudi on the UN Women’s Rights Council. On balance I approve of our politicians spending their time doing this. If they’re devoting their energies to nonsense, that’s less time for them to spend bollocksing things up at home and creating petty annoyances for me.
This beggars belief. If I understand the logic most don’t fully understand the politics and history of the region – but pretend to or presume to.
Their reasoning is something along the lines of, Israel = bad guy because… what did that guy say… something about a six day war and 1967 and Palestinians = good guy because… 1967 day war and six day year… or something like that…
They ignore the realities, the truths, they try to explain why Israel is the only country in the world whose citizens live under a missile defence shield, and it’s used every day. Hamas and Hezbollah fire thousands of missiles and mortars into Israel every year and murder dozens but lets just ignore this.
Even now in Gaza they have electricity for only a few hours per day as Hamas and the PA refuse to pay for it, they’ve raised taxes and charge their people but put the blame on Israel. Meanwhile the money lines their pockets and buys weapons to start more conflicts. And who’s the bad guy…???
But hey, blame Israel, blame the victim.
@Jed I. Knight: . They live under a missile systems becuase since their uprising in the 40s killings thousands of Arabs who the Balfour declaration stated that the land was to be shared with. And then and starting wars with all its neighbours, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria it needs too. The Iraq war was create by Israel to divided the country and make it less of a treat. 9/11 was the the ‘pearl harbour’ to bring America in to their proxy battles. Now we have Syria and a misery chemical bomb, wow, Assads winning his civil war and he decides to use a chemical weapon yeah, right. And before the UN have a chance to respond/investigate ,Boom tomahawks missiles away. Your perspective is a little blurred. The Journal of old released an old copy of the red crosses figures for the jewish dead in the camps it was 272,00. But today that figure is a nice round 6 million which strangely match the jewish Talmud prophecy. Coincidence.
@Stephen Healy: Sweet lord Stephen. Where do you buy your tinfoil? Further down this comment thread youll even tell us Cromwell invaded ireland in the 1800s. The cherry is the red cross lies. You really must research deeper than your confirmation bias permits…
@Stephen Healy: You are very good and stringing together a mix of silly incomprehensible conspiracy fantasy and racism that bear absolutely no relation to the facts. Begone you stupid ignorant troll!
@Stephen Healy: Take a moment, step back, and take a look at your own perspective on this matter for a few minutes.
The Balfour Declaration stated the land should be shared, and it was – until the day Israel declared Statehood, then every one of it’s neighbours attacked. They’ve been attacking in some form ever since. You seem to blame Israel for this, a little like blaming the victim for being raped.
As for the rest of your rant, the Iraq war, 911 and Syria, that’s just ‘tin foil hat’ territory.
You fail to mention the dozens of UN employees working in Gaza who were fired from their positions when it was proven they were also working for Hamas, some holding senior positions. Blurred lines indeed.
@Honeybadger197: ohh didums, i make a mistake on a year and thats all you have to hold on too. Sad. Lets talk about Israelies have a good old BarBQue outside the prisons of Palestinians hunger strikers. Very humanitarian. Or Israeli children signing bombs as there about to rain on Gaza. Mate, no one burnt my old books and no history revisionist will tell me any different. And strangely the books not printed anymore. SURPRISE.. So your obviously a troll, I get lots of you guys on Zionist watch and Real TV. Same old sameold. ‘We re the victims not the Palestinians’ .Even good liberal Torah jews get labelled anti semtic if they saying anything , just look at the German Ambassador shunned by your PM because he want to meet with jewish rights activ.tists. Anyway yawn bored now.
@Stephen Healy: No, I mentioned the lies about the Red Cross you presented too. Please share a link to your information. Take your time… I’m assuming the worst about ‘zionist watch’ and ‘real tv’ though. Poor deluded soul.
@SteoG: Me the troll. Not likely. You can t get a decent debate going here without the races card, or your this. Yor that. Now i ve got some interesting figures to print on here regarding the red cross. Watch out hete it comes.
@Jed I. Knight: lol with a handle like yours it’s no wonder you have a fertile imagination called Hasbara.
@Stephen Healy: I will save you the bother of posting lies here is a link to the official statement from the ICRC or Red Cross on the matter. https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/history-holocauste-020205.htm
@Jed I. Knight: Wow jedi, not so ignorant now eh. You another Troll found your sabre. You certainly anit Irish. That. Or u been reading up. no one catches up that fast. You started with not knowing shit apparently. But now your ‘so supermarket . Com. Fxxk me. U’s real Jedi.
………not.
@Honeybadger197: yeh big boy. Happy to stick the numbers right here, camps , dates numbers. .with publidher. Revisionism is dead. Come on send me an email address. Big man.
@Jed I. Knight: Crap. So jedi ,declares statehood and thats ok. It was terrorism , its on wilkipedia So you nicked the other half of the pie. So thats fine . Now the West Bank, whats next, bit of Syria. Turkey. Lebanon Jordan a smige of Iran. Enough. Good night.
@SteoG: history rev
isionism.
@Stephen Healy: What are you on about. You are making mumbles about the Red Cross. I provided a link to their site and official statement, notice the mention of millions died, no specific number. Well here are a few stark facts, 12 million perished in the Holocaust. The first victims were 200,000 physically and mentally handicapped German citizens. I can provide you a full list of victims compiled from the relevant primary sources. In other words compiled from the facts. Finding spurious information on TINFOILHAT.org or ILOVENASTYNAZI.com and producing it here just makes you look foolish and idiotic.
Any chance of a breakdown of how each Councillor voted?
@Stephen Devine: Alan shatter voted against it I believe.
What about Abkazia? Don’t they count?
And what about the New Guineans oppressed in Irian Jaya?
Armenians, South Ossetians, the people of Trans Deneister?
Dublin City Council might be better occupied finding homes for homeless Dublin people, or would that be too much to ask?
@Virtual Donal: Yemen…….
@gregory: Tibet, Uighurstan, Western Sahara, Lakotah, Chechnya, Bougainville, Assyria, Kurdistan, Cyprus… We have opened a Pandora’s Box with this. Why single out the Palestinians? Or are other oppressed, ethnically cleansed peoples not worthy of similar treatment? I rarely ever hear the same people who support the IPSC talk about how Turkey murdered 1,500,000 Armenians and wiped out the entire Pontic Greek population between 1912 and 1920 and then proceeded to invade Cyprus and either murder or expel every last man, woman and child of Greek Cypriot ethnicity before proceeding to build a wall dividing the island and the communities, not to mention what they are currently doing against the Kurds. But, no, no one says boo to Turkey. Or the Chinese and their Sinicisation policies in Uighurstan and Tibet, the destruction of mosques and Buddhist temples and the repression faced by these peoples in their own lands. Again, no one challenges China. It’s entirely hypocritical.
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: Well said.
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: isn’t the Tories in england supplying turkey with weapons.
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: That’s because you never listen to people who support the IPSC
@Robby Fenian Martin: Oh, so you know me, Robby? That’s strange, because I have directly asked them. And the only answer I have ever received is diversionary and then straight back to the Israel-Palestine conflict. I’m not saying the Palestinians are not oppressed. They are oppressed. And they do deserve a state of their own and the right to decide their own future. But it is exceptionally rare that the same people who advocate Palestinian rights ever advocate for the rights of other oppressed peoples. And not once have I ever heard anything from them regarding Turkey’s invasion and ethnic cleansing of northern Cyprus or the situation in Uighurstan. Tibet, well, the very odd time, yes. But anywhere else, no.
@Brian Ó Dálaigh: I doubt you have talked to to many IPSC supporters because I know many that do support other oppressed peoples around the world. But your comment re other conflicts is typical hasbara deflection, don’t look here, look over there and there etc as if the oppression of other peoples somehow lessens the Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people. Oh and you left out Kashmir, West Papua and the Rohingya of Burma/Myanmar.
Viva Palestina! A fine gesture of solidarity. Well done to everyone who voted in favour of the measure.
@The Risen:
ARe you the official SF spokesman? Can we abolish DCC now please.
@Fred Jensen:
The Risen is taking on Wally’s role since he was removed
@The Risen: I’m flying the Israeli flag for a month. Long live Israel!
@Fred Jensen: Next thing you know, shinners like “Risen” above will be out painting murals comparing Gorry to Nelson Mandela.
That’s all they can offer the people of Dublin.
@Adrian Kenny: BDS is working
@Paul Masterson:
What’s BDS?
@The Risen: When will DCC be voting for LGBTs to be thrown off the City Hall, and no rights for women in Dublin so that they can all feel a sense of solidarity with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and all other Palestinian “freedom fighters”
@Remy: Last time I checked Israel did not exist until after the Nazi regime ended.
No surprise long tradition of anti semitism in this country
@paddy: what’s anti semitism?
@paddy: ahh the would anti semitism stick, it must nearly make the holocaust worthwhile
@joe o hare: what a disgusting comment
@joe o hare: You’re an evil, repulsive little man.
@Malachi: I am not the one using the murder of millions of innocent jews, to excuse the murder of millions of non Jews.
@Joe Travers: arabs are semites also
@Niall Conneely: was thinking that alright. Suppose it’s a fashionable phrase to throw about when diverting attention from the occupation. Would love to see the reaction of the far right in Ireland if we were occupied with deadly force. Wonder what Israelis think of it, god knows netenyahu doesn’t speak for the majority any more.
@Joe Travers: To be an Anti – Semite is to be against the Semitic Languages, of which Arabic, Hebrew and even Maltese are included.
I am sure he means Anti – Jewish
Just give us an exact breakdown of how flying a flag of a country is anti-semitism?
Go on I can’t wait to hear this one….
@Eoin Milner: Its not. Period. I have a tricolour and a Palestinian flag in my garden. This is the problem . Last year Celtic supportters got a huge fine for bring a Palestinian flag to a game. Its not antisemitic, its an expression of opinion. Israel plays in the European league!!!!but no Palestinian team.Even in Hollywood actors like Dave Allen , Mark Ruffulo have been hounded by the Anne Franke organisation and the anti defamation league for expressing ‘their’ views. What surprised me most is I found a video on you tube where an Congress woman lost her job because she didnt sign the AIPAC pledge. This is a pledge is to but Israels interest before that of the USA. And their worried about Russian interference in US politics!!!Dont let the trolls get you down.
@Joe Travers: “Anti-Semitism It’s a Trick, We Always Use” It https://youtu.be/Q9ljMxgItg0
@joe o hare: No its about WW2 reparations. Before the seventies revisionisms. The offical Red Cross Figures where 272,000, still a huge number. But not 6 million. I have the individual figures but felt guilty posting them.
This is a total disgrace & should not be allowed. We are a neutral country with enough problems of our own without supporting a country with a very chequered past. I don’t agree with Israel blowing the cr.p out of them but neither do I support Palestinians launching rockets into Israel. This is our capital city & only Irish flags should adorn civic buildings. PBP shame on you.Disgrace
What’s next the bloody Saudi Flag.
@FlyB: Crimean flag next month
@FlyB:
Anything but sorting out the planning issues, traffic issues or homeless issues
@Nick Allen: ah now wait haven’t we got a new plaza on Stephens green planned to show what they can do to screw up traffic further
And with that comment you sum up the amount of muppets commenting on here in support of Israel who literally do not have one clue what they are talking about!
And this is the meaningless BS you get when SF hold a little power
Abolish the semi-literate hard left DCC. Sick to death of their gesture politics. This is what happens when you put the likes of SF in power.
@Fred Jensen: These are the same people who gave us 6 storey height restrictions in the SDZ. Geniuses.
@Emeralds:
Precisely. Absolute muppets of the highest order. They make Jeremy Corbyn look competent. I wasn’t joking about semi-literate either, i’ve heard some of them speak.
I’m an Israeli-supporting Republican. Shock horror! Palestine, we seem to forget, is where over 90% of the population believe homosexuality should be punished whereas Israel is a country which holds more Western Values than any other in the Middle East!
@Ryan Kelly: and that makes bombing the shit out of them and their kids all the more palatable…
@Craig De Barra: can you make a point that addresses Ryan’s or do you go into virtue signalling mode automatically?!
@Mick Micky: I made my point, in fact have made several points – do you have a point to make or are you another troll posing with an irish flag avatar?
@Mick Micky: ive also looked at your twitter account – you are an israeli social media propagandist – im on to you
@Craig De Barra: definately not irish. Most likely paid social media israeli student out to defend the holy land. They have a good few on this site…. some change names but their messages are the same. You know your doing something wrong when you have to pay kids to go online and swing the public perception in your favour.
@Craig De Barra: You seem to forget Hamas use kids as human shields.
@Ryan Kelly: because zionists are from everywhere but Palestine you clown. Have you never wondered why zionists are so pale skinned, it could be something to do with their dual passports, brought up everywhere in the world but Palestine and locate to the stolen land of the oppressed indigenous Palestinians.
@Richard Brady: What a load of total of complete BS! “Have you never wondered why zionists are so pale skinned”. You’ve obviously never met or even seen an actual Israeli. Feckin conspiracy theorists, spewers of useless, false, jihadi spawned chatter.
You not a very educated Israeli supported Israeli are you?
@Richard Brady: Actually most Israelis are dark, because they are descendants of Jews expelled from Morocco, Yemen, Iraq, Iran and Tunisia. That’s before you add in the Indian and Ethiopian Jews.
This all Zionists are Europeans or Americans just shows how pathetically illiterate you really are. Go educate yourself and stop repeating sound bytes
@Ryan Kelly: rubbish
@Remy: and zionist are fake Jews, so that’s your point completely turned on its head troll.
@Ryan Kelly: or you saying when Israel is slaughtering innocent Palestinians, they segregate the gays and let them go. What about the children have they some way of telling which will grow up to be gay and grant them a pardon. Must be a difficult task when you are bombing schools and hospitals.
@Ryan Kelly: Just cause the vast majority of Palestinians are socially conservative (note there is a huge lack of education there due to the occupation, surely it doesn’t warrant them having their land divided by empires (see Balfour Declaration), invaded, ethnic cleansing and then being subjected to apartheid, a brutal occupation and massacres where new weapons are tested on innocents regularly by the Israelis IDF – Gaza the largest open air prison in the world!
Surely Ryan you can understand what repression of ones spirit and freedoms is like Ryan?
And even worse when they lift a fist to defend themselves they are called ‘terrorists’, it’s like a rapist blaming the victim when they retaliate!
Surely these down trodden souls need our support?
And by the way it’s certainly not a western value to actively target and murder, en mass innocent children, not an aspiration I know of !
The IDF have a long history of doing so:-
@Stephen Healy: good argument
@Richard Brady: You really are an idiot.
Nice gesture but Israel will let nothing deter it from its ongoing land grab and brutal apartheid rule of Palestinian land.
@Dave Hogan: Nelson Mandela supported Israel’s right to exist and declared there was no apartheid there.
@Dave Hogan: wasting your time talking to them Dave, they are the troll army
@William Grogan:
“If one has to refer to any of the parties as a terrorist state, one might refer to the Israeli government, because they are the people who are slaughtering defenseless and innocent Arabs in the occupied [Palestinian] territories, and we don’t regard that as acceptable.” (Nelson Mandela, 1990)
So Mandela is the bible and SME on all things Middle East now!?
@Remy: yes APARTEID..jesus if the black n tans were kicking the shit out of your family, u wouldnt roll over . Then maybe you would . The Brits double crossed the Arabs with the Balfour declaration .period. Its an illegal state never ratified by the US . And guess what JFK got a bullet in his head for the trouble. And to top it off their bragging about supporting ISIS. Apparantly humanitarian needs only. Ok and a few ariel bombings against Syrian positions.
People comparing Saudi barbaria to Palestine seriously.
@Remy: isreal is in preach of 65 UN resolutions Iraq was in preach of 2 and was destroyed just abit of context.Offered by who? the occupying power hmm!
@Remy: dont forget the israeli regime who gets 38 billion from the US to continue its oppressive agenda
Ain’t they great supporting terroists
@wiggy: that’s the u.k and us you are thinking of, theyLove to train and supply terrorism.
@wiggy: aren’t you great at spelling
Why doesn’t DCC engage in something useful closer to home ? Like building social housing for the city’s huddled masses. The wannabe rag heads have taken over the asylum
I demand that they fly the flag of MAYO over City Hall for the month of September in solidarity with long suffering Mayo GAA supporters to mark another missed All-Ireland opportunity.
It would be a hugely symbolic statement from Dublin CC to these downtrodden people
Ex-Muslim Jihad Terrorist Walid Shoebat once said,
“One day during the 1960’s I went to bed a Jordanian Muslim, and when I woke up the next morning, I was informed that I was now a Palestinian Muslim, and that I was no longer a Jordanian Muslim.”
Jordanian Flag:
http://www.theflagman.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/flag-of-Jordan.jpg
Palestinian Flag:
http://flag.kuda.ua/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/134.-Palestina.jpg
Spot the difference?
That’s right, there isn’t any.
@Jack Cassady: Hi Yaakov, going forward it might be an idea not to copy and paste from templates – thought the IDF would have better training for its social media trolls…
@Craig De Barra:
Watch any good Pallywood movies lately?
@jack you got BURNT dude lol.. ya troll
I can spot these Hamas apologists a mile off.
Thousands of children homeless, no access to basic health services, poor literacy skills, chronic lack of decent housing, long hospital waiting lists, no future, no hope, no dreams.
FFS Dublin City Council.
Do something about Dublin City.
This act by DCC could be viewed as inciting hatred against Israel & as such should be investigated by An Garda Siochana.Someone should make a complaint. If they have time to investigate blasphemy against Stephen Fry then they will obviously have time to investigate this act
@Ciaran Kehoe: hahahahaha, twerp
@ciaran and idiotic comment of the day goes to….
@Ciaran Kehoe: should we not fly the tricolour in case it could be seen as inciting hatred against england.
Fair play, as a nation who lived under the thumb of an oppressive occupier this is a good gesture for the people of Palestine who are left to the mercy of Israel and we have seen the result of that.
Though we were neutral!
Brilliant! Well done Dublin City Council!!
BDS!!
@Chris Jordan: Indeed, well done to Dublin City Council for highlighting oppressed nations. So next month they intend flying the North Korean flag – bravo !!
Is this flag first step in campaign by the Council to ban all Isreali products…..
@John003: hopefully John. we should stand up to oppression and apartheid.
@Cathal Mac Einri: We certainly should. Tell me about Jewish rights in the palestinian territories?
@Cathal Mac Einri: But, what about the Tibetans, or the Uighurs, or the Kurds among countless other peoples who also face oppression and are left to the mercy of their own oppressor states? If we are going to ban Israeli products on the basis of solidarity with the Palestinian people, then we should ban Chinese products on the basis of solidarity with the Tibetan and Uighur peoples. We should also ban Turkish products on the basis of solidarity with the ethnically-cleansed Greek Cypriots and the Kurds. Otherwise, we are just being hypocritical and simply jumping on the latest fashionable bandwagon without any real thinking of the issue.
@John003: hopefully. But only settlement products. They have statehood but want lots more lanf the Greater Israel project. Lots of Syria, a pinch of Turkey and just smidge of Jordan.
imagine supporting equality and sovereignty. The cheek of them. Next it”l will be womens rights or disability Ah Diarmuid
Islamic terrorist organisations like Hamas certainly create plenty of people with disabilities. Presumably you support that?
Tell me why did Hamas form again?
@Williram Grogan: humm IRA ring a bell. Maybe they should have rolled over and let interment continue in Northern Ireland. Your a proper patriot
The amount of comments “vanishing” from this thread is brutal. Pretty obvious what the agenda is and the journal is in on it.
@Mark Mcloughlin: its a disgrace – there is something seriously rotten in the journal and agenda clearly shared with some of the “posters” here – im off food luck to them
@Mark Mcloughlin: Thats what happens when you let the hippys invade from their safe spaces… they impose a left wing media on the rest of us. :)
@Craig De Barra: They owned by that billionaire, who in turn is owned by Soros . Everything that mainland Europe is going through now will soon be happening in Ireland and this is by design.
@Ros Aodha: Dont I know it ha :)
Your only left with the far right nut jobs!!
I see the Israeli propaganda war machine is up and running early this morning – morning to you all
@Craig De Barra: funny how most in the media and obviously the city council, waste time spouting propaganda almost weekly when it’s a conflict which is way down the importance list… Yet a few Irish commenters who can’t understand this madness are the “propaganda machine”! That doesn’t add up haha!
@Mick Micky: shalom micky, you have just outed yourself as a total troll – hows the weather in tel aviv?
@Mick Micky: since my comment was removed – I saw your twitter account and it is clear you are part of the israeli propaganda machine… youre busted
Great to see
And who has the most seats on Dublin city council
Yep sinn fein. Who advocate open borders for all our Muslim friends.
We think this country is bad now wait until we see it in ten years.
Why aren’t the National Women’s Council of Ireland or the Irish Feminist Network protesting this lunacy?
Not in my name, Shame on Dublin city council. A completely ill-informed decision by certain councillors with a vile political agenda. They have no interest in peace and wish to cause division and distress to victims of Palestinian terrorism. If they were really interested in the peace and security of decent Israeli and Palestinians citizens they would understand that there are many complex issues on all sides and not be extreme in its bias and political posturing. This flag-flying is divisive and derives from a mentality that was rife in Northern Ireland during the height of the troubles.
What’s with people’s complaints about this? If we were still being oppressed, as they are now, we would appreciate any support we get. It’s a great thing they’re doing.
Go and live in The Gaza strip for a week and come back to me, when you have Israeli filth that calculate the amount of calories a human being needs on a daily basis and only ALLOWING that amount of food into the country per person, see what it’s like for soldiers to bulldoze your house and then move Israeli settlers into newly constructed homes on your land. Israelis are the absolute scom of the earth. We should do more for the people of Palestine than just fly a flag
@aleeto45: Isreal left Gaza in 2005 and expelled. 20000 Jewish settlers…..There are no Jewish settlers in Gaza not even one…..Since then HAMAS use all the money they get from EU and Gulf states to build tunnels to attach Isreal and fire rockets….Isreal has security fence around Gaza if they did not hundreds of suicide bombers woukd resent on Tel Aviv and gain paradise….If Isreal did not have naval blockade Iran would send lots of powerful rivets there…..Their brother Arabs Egypt’s who fought 3 wars for the Palestinians have closed all contact and border with Gaza….Electricity for Gaza comes from Israel who have not cut supply off despite not being paid for it….
What’s your plan of action so?
@aleeto45: your so stupid it’s scary , don’t believe hamas terrorist properganda
@John003: if you read the news lately you’d know that Israel is currently putting new settlers into the Gaza strip “buffer zone”… The flying of the flag over DCC is in solidarity with oppression by Israeli forces
Vomit
Why should we show solidarity with a terrorist nation
Israel forever
Why do the Israeli keep demolishing Palestinian homes and take there land if there so civilised?
@barry collins: their preciousness and sense of entitlement knows no bounds
@barry collins: BS no they don’t. Illegally built houses and the houses of suicide bombers are only bulldozed.
@william tell us exactly where you got that info!?
@Marcus Philpott: presumably, you think the Palestinians are uncivilized? They’re not the ones living on occupied land, treating their neighbours with racist contempt, knocking down thousand year old olive trees, polluting their water, restricting their freedom of movement, shooting at them when they try fishing in the Mediterranean, shooting their children etc, etc is that civilized? All with the backing of the 4th most powerful military in the world (and billions of dollars of US aid without which the Israeli state would collapse). Is that civilized?
@Conor Kennelly: Isreal gets around 2.5 billion dollars in US military aid per year around 6% of their GDP increased by Obama….Egypt and Jordan between them get more in military aid….Isreal economy would not collapse without US millitary aid….
Israel independence was on 2nd May! I know because I was in Israel for it.
@Ruth Mathews: I bet you were
@Marcus Philpott: Speak for yourself Marcus and not ‘we’ as a people. This is Ireland and there is NO solidarity with Isis or any other terrorist organization.
What utter and complete left wing muppetry. With the issues facing the country, especially the capital, housing, rent, etc… this is a timely distraction. I may not agree with all of Israels govt’s decisions regarding palestinians, but nope, not a big fan of meaningless gestures like this, especially from safe space, triggered, left wing, revisionist politicians who would have us descend back to a socialist state. They should head off into the wicklow mountains and find a tree to hug, preferably in a gorse fire.
In solidarity with Palestine because of the shocking levels of inadequate, substandard and lack of housing both places experience.
What’s a Palestine?
@tae: People who speak Palestinian, those of Palestinian culture, from an old country called Palestine whose capital was …….. OK I give up.
@William Grogan: You give up???….feck that took ages!!!, Welcome to the club Willy!
I know you’ll make a staunch defender of justice, humanity and Palestinian freedom!
I’m so happy I kept trying to persuade you give up your silly Zionist ways (c:
I always have to laugh at this whole taking sides thing that happens in regards to Israel and Palestine. I don’t understand why people haven’t yet realised that neither side is a friend to the people of the West. Israel is nothing more than a parasitic state that extorts money from German and US taxpayers, and uses the militaries of the great powers to fight its wars of aggression for them, and is even willing to attack its allies in false flags, to put them against their enemies (look up the Lavon Affair and the USS Liberty incident). At the same time, Israeli NGOs are helping migrants to invade Europe (but not into Israel of course, because they don’t want them there). As for Palestine… actually you know what, I’m pretty indifferent to them.
Well done very thoughtful free Palestine
Are they also going to fly the hamas flag
Let’s hope that after the next election our councillors aren’t brought to the top of public buildings…. like City Hall and let’s hope they aren’t beheaded by the new crew elected…. Complete horse.
If those counsellors want a cause let them help improve the city instead of this Students Union clap trap.
@Paul Maher: your incoherent fear is tedious.
Hang on a minute!
We are living under occupation.
Great to finally see the world is recognizing the crimes of Zionist Isreal,
More moderate peace loving Israelis might start to be heard now over the hatred of the religious zealots
In the mean time its a victory justice and freedom!
@Ibhar Mac Suibhne: “Zionist Israel” Do you know what Zionism actually is?
@Ivan Badger: He’s got thousands and thousands of questions.
A lot of digusting supporters of child killers on here. Anyone who openly supports israel and its illegal occupation is complict in the murder of children in their own homes and in their own country.
@Seamus Og: So you believe all 7 million Israelis are evil child killers? I suppose you’d be upset if someone called you an anti-Semite bigot too. Unbelievable how deluded some people are.
@Ivan Badger: ahhh the Cards out . The races card out. Didnt take long. No hes not. NO government or state is beyond criticism. and shouldnt be. Period if Israel desired any type peace they would have stop settlement building. And their are numerous accounts of settlers burning down Palestinains homes, with women and children perishing. If i am wrong i d be greatful for your rational..
Fair play. I have visited Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Given our history we should stand with the underdog – the Palestinians. These non-Jews have the right, and a duty in fact, to resist their occupation by the army of the self-proclaimed Jewish State. I have a picture of a tricolour flying over Gaza City and I’m very proud of that. Viva Palestina!
@Niall Conneely: You must be very proud of hamas recent history of abduction, torture, extra judicial killing of its own people. Are you beaming with pride that they have banned opposition partys, cancelled the democratic process and hammer dissenting voices from their community? What about their stance on womens rights & the gay community? How about their views on jews? Christian community numbers in freefall? Does all this merit support with an irish flag? I doubt you’d accept any party in Ireland taking these positions. So why the moral relativism? Or were you not aware of the above?
@Remy: 7 is the number of children killed this year by Israel. They’re both shite.
@Remy: wow a six year old article. How about you post articles of the hundreds of murders of Palestinians by the most moral army in the world IOF, you can also include the burning to death of almost an entire family including a baby by dirty land grabbing settler that that moral army was protecting. Zionism is a parasite on this earth, the have proven it by every greedy self entitled action by the for decades.
@Honeybadger197: You can get reconstructive surgery these days.
@Remy: Sorry this happens, but tit for tat. Settlers killed a eight month old baby in a house last year a week before the big fires engulfed Israel. Mum and dad survived with 60% burns. The guy who did it got nothing, not even a slap on the wrist. Thats the problem different rules. One for Israelies and one for Palestinians. Why keep building if it is peace you want. ACTIONS SPEAK volumes, so does inaction. Why cant there be peace. Its easy, this your land this is ours. (and please no reply saying its complicated) .Any one on here with the slightest sympathy for the Palestinians is being ridiculed and labelled barmey or antisemitic. I ve seen this before with Jewish Labour Movement ‘free speech on Israel’ the motto but if anyone so much as utters critiitism, even english jewish MPs and bang,’Their Antisemitic.’ Which is odd. Antisemitism is to protect jews from religious abuse. Yet this label is being used against jews, like Max Blumentile. Good night to all you badgers.
@Honeybadger197: Right. Got those figures you ridiculed me about earlier Happy to post them. There are dates numbers and camps all from The Red Cross. The first into the camps and last ‘ independent ones out.
. Balls in your court.
As a small country who was taken over by an invader, an oppressor, we have allot in common with Palistine. One day Ireland will United and hopefully one day The Palistinians will reclaim their land back from the Zionist Jews
@SuzukaYuiMoa: History isn’t your strong point is it?
@Jack Cassady: And I am flying the Palestinian flag
Stupid flag waving loony left meaningless identity politics always playing the victim.
Hurrah! I say.
A piece of cloth on a pole, that’ll show them.
Well done Dublin City Council!
Too right – a huge irony what Israel is doing to Palestine to what was done to them.
About time we got our act together. We are still not a free country really. On the BBC is still’ live from London Derry. WTF. This is exactly what Israel did on ‘Independence day’.Changed all names of existing arab towns. There treatment of Palestinians is no different to that of the Irish under Cromwell. Who as history now shows was sent to conquer Ireland by, yes you ve guessed it ,a jewish zionist MP in fhe British Government
This the same government that under the thumb of zionist movement granted the Balfour declaration. But only after bankrolling Winston ‘bankrupt”Churchill throughout his polical life. Any one in the Irish4israel are not ‘ Irish ‘enogh for me.
Why??
We support the people of Palestine. After all we know more than most what it’s like to loose your land to invaders and filth
About time. Thanks to a zionist zealot MP in the UK government cromwell was ordered to conquer us in the 1800s. But some people on here seem to think thats ok ‘there’ gods chosen’. We have more history in common with plight of the Palestinians than Israels use of our passports of duel nationalities to carryout numerous assassinations. Proud to be Irish well done Dublin and Sligo councils. No doubt some funding of some kind from Israel will be cut/reduced in retaliation for this action.
@Stephen Healy: Even though Cromwell died in 1658? What else in your post in incorrect? Id wager 99%.
@Honeybadger197: most of it how cares about the year, Hes was a cxxt to the Irish and a zionist puppet. Abit like most of the world eh. Ok especially the good old US of A and Plighty.
@Stephen Healy: Cromwell… 1800′s????
@Paul Maher: yeah I know.big F.in deal about the year. Who gives a Fxxk. He crushed Ireland on the instructions of british zealot. Period. Occupied us for hundreds of years. Where and when is the Irish Holocaust rememberence……….nowwhere a few monuments thats it.
Well done Ireland!
Screw the uneducated whingers and moaners..
They should be all thrown in over the wall in gaza for a few months… I bet they would have a different story coming out of it- if they would ever be left out again!!
The predictable drivel from the Zionists. Flag’s still going up. Nothing you can do about it. Stagger all you like.
It’s a small gesture at best but one that needs to be escalated, like the removal of diplomatic status to all and any zionist and the expulsion of zeev boker and all his staff from the state. They are manipulative parasites on this earth and nothing more.
@Richard Brady: Conspiracy theorist by any chance?
@Ivan Badger: ?
1oo years ago Eamonn DeValera was in the US seeking support for our struggle against occupation and for our right to self determination. Today Palestinians are living our history. This act of solidarity is the least we can do for Palestine, we should be doing so much more, our history compels us to do so.
As for “Irish4Israel” and the other “Irish” commenting here in support for the brutal occupation of Palestine, I’m sure they will say that, Pearse, Connolly, Plunkett, Collins and all those that died for their freedom to talk utter rubbish, were terrorists too. Ignorance has no shame.
that’s a Sligo flag if u cut off the bottom half.
Have they flown Tibetan flag over Dublin City Hall?
Nakba Day is a day of Mourning. It commemorates the loss of Palestine. It reminds Palestinians of how they were dispossed of their country, its ‘celebrated’; the day after Israeli Independence day. Google is your Friend , Please do better next time.
Has the Dublin council EVER flew the flag of any other fictional(as in that there is no state/country called Palestine) in protest of an ocuppation(tibet, cyprus, western sahara, etc) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_occupations#Current_military_occupations or is it just a jewish(sorry, zionist) thing!
Did they protest during the numerious cold war occupations?
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