Sinn Fein? They have gone away, you know.

[trueblue1234]

The poor Shinners here in a tizzy as Marylou makes EOB "clarify" to AGSI.
He made a sincere "clarification" to AGSI Secretary.
I presume he deleted his masterpiece too.

Put down the shovel 😂

[Snapchap]

In a state which can look back to the not too distant past at the Emergency Powers Act, the Censorship of Films Act, the Censorship of Publications Act, the Committee on Evil Literature, Section 31 etc etc etc, last night on the Tonight Show we had the spectacle of a "journalist" (in the form of Fionnan Sheahan) in a debate with the artist who produced the eviction image, and attacking him for being "politically motivated". Apparently Fionnan pines for a society where art and political satire should be non-political.

[seafoid]

The pushback by Fionnan Sheehan and others on the Gardai is wrong.
The evictions are wrong. As Fr Peter McVerry said they could have arranged overflow accommodation to deal with the ending of the ban. They chose not to.

[Snapchap]

The pushback by Fionnan Sheehan and others on the Gardai is wrong.
The evictions are wrong. As Fr Peter McVerry said they could have arranged overflow accommodation to deal with the ending of the ban. They chose not to.

And if they don't want people getting angry about the ending of the ban, or the failure to arrange overflow accommodation while the numbers of homeless people is touching 12,000; then what better way than to try to distract everyone by pretending that what we really ought to be angry about is Eoin O'Broin retweeting a piece of satirical art instead.

FFS even Leo Varakar's biggest fanboy in journalism is calling out this charade that Tubberman, Rossfan, Trailer etc would like us all to be stupid enough to fall for:

[seafoid]

The pushback by Fionnan Sheehan and others on the Gardai is wrong.
The evictions are wrong. As Fr Peter McVerry said they could have arranged overflow accommodation to deal with the ending of the ban. They chose not to.

And if they don't want people getting angry about the ending of the ban, or the failure to arrange overflow accommodation while the numbers of homeless people is touching 12,000; then what better way than to try to distract everyone by pretending that what we really ought to be angry about is Eoin O'Broin retweeting a piece of satirical art instead.

FFS even Leo Varakar's biggest fanboy in journalism is calling out this charade that Tubberman, Rossfan, Trailer etc would like us all to be stupid enough to fall for:

Totally agree.
The reaction to the eviction ban ending is not PR manageable.
The scale of the clusterfuck is enormous and could bring down the government.

[trailer]

The ban has to end. It's easy for SF who aren't in power to criticise. What is the alternative? No evictions ever? If landlords can't evict tenants legally then many will choose to sell or simply not rent the property. Making the crisis worse. There is always a need for a rental market.
The housing crisis is a disaster and a shame on Ireland. However it is not the only country dealing with a housing shortage.
As the economy has grown in the south the failure to invest in housing and infrastructure is coming back to haunt FG and FF.

[Rossfan]

CorrectcTrailer, they are increasing SF's potential vote everyday.
Obvious from 2917ba oro active approach was needed.
I see the Land Development Agency has got/is getting a site in the centre of Galway City with potential for 750 homes......


Won't be built till 20fkn30.

[Rossfan]

The poor Shinners here in a tizzy as Marylou makes EOB "clarify" to AGSI.
He made a sincere "clarification" to AGSI Secretary.
I presume he deleted his masterpiece too.

Put down the shovel 😂

There are none so blind 
Just as well for SF that the Dear Leader has a bit more political acumen than their GAAboard spokespeople.

[trueblue1234]

The poor Shinners here in a tizzy as Marylou makes EOB "clarify" to AGSI.
He made a sincere "clarification" to AGSI Secretary.
I presume he deleted his masterpiece too.

Put down the shovel 😂

There are none so blind 
Just as well for SF that the Dear Leader has a bit more political acumen than their GAAboard spokespeople.

FFS let it slide of the page  for your own sake. 

[seafoid]

http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?action=post;topic=15128.9075;last_msg=2191840

On the Tweet of a reworked famine eviction picture by Sinn Féin TD Eoin Ó Broin, Commissioner Harris said that the deputy "meant no offence and it is sensible of us not to take offence but it does highlight what a contentious issue this is in society."

[seafoid]

The ban has to end. It's easy for SF who aren't in power to criticise. What is the alternative? No evictions ever? If landlords can't evict tenants legally then many will choose to sell or simply not rent the property. Making the crisis worse. There is always a need for a rental market.
The housing crisis is a disaster and a shame on Ireland. However it is not the only country dealing with a housing shortage.
As the economy has grown in the south the failure to invest in housing and infrastructure is coming back to haunt FG and FF.

It obviously couldn't go on forever but the Government didn't plan how to deal with the consequences of their decision. they just delivered it.  That is deplorable.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/04/01/cliff-taylor-ireland-has-lots-of-cash-but-must-get-better-at-spending-it/
Just as Ireland got caught by a failure to anticipate the scale of housing need arising from economic and population growth after 2015, we also clearly do not have the capacity in much of the State machine – the civil and wider public service – to deliver on the scale required. This has created a credibility gap in Irish politics, a lack of trust in what can actually be delivered.
We have seen it all before: the failure over many years to deliver on successive housing plans, the eternity it is taking to get any shift on building on State lands, the snail-like delivery of major projects such as the Children's Hospital, the failure to meet climate goals, the slow-bicycle race that is Sláintecare, and so on. And the other manifestation of the lack of State capacity are shortages: of houses, apartments, hospital beds, consultants to perform operations, mental health services and so on.

[Tubberman]

He apologised to the AGSI Secretary, presumably on his Party Leaders instructions.
2nd time in recent times EOB has had his knuckles rapped by his Boss.

Again, no he didn't.

Yes, he did. Antoinette Cunningham of AGSI confirmed he "expressed remorse" for dragging the gardai into a political matter.
What do you think expressing remorse means?

[Keyser soze]

I am only following this peripherally, but anyone who thinks that the EOB tweet and the reaction to it, is going to harm the SF vote need to get a new interest rather than politics.

[trailer]

I am only following this peripherally, but anyone who thinks that the EOB tweet and the reaction to it, is going to harm the SF vote need to get a new interest rather than politics.

No it won't harm their vote one bit. But it shows what they think of authority and law and order.

[Rossfan]

They need to attract more than "their vote" though.
Hence the Dear Leader's clampdown on EOB.