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Do 8 lads with white shirts, ties, sun glasses and black gloves usually just turn up at funerals in the North and just happen to walk in single file each side of the hearse?

You got there before me. Funnily enough, they seem to be the only ones who might be marching - sorry, walking - two metres apart.

[The right wing media are propaganda sheets for shady 'think tanks' that represent the ultra-rich 1% who don't think they should contribute to society. Look at how easily they got the nation demonising professional footballers for not taking a pay cut.]

The BBC is an arm of the state. The right wing media are propaganda sheets for shady 'think tanks' that represent the ultra-rich 1% who don't think they should contribute to society. Look at how easily they got the nation demonising professional footballers for not taking a pay cut. Hedge fund managers, media billionaires, tax-dodging business moguls - not a mention.

The people who are keeping their sorry carcasses alive and delivering their food now are those they wanted to ban from the country a few months ago.

Rather the irony there.

I'd say there's a certain disgust from the ruling elite that oafs that kick a ball are earning these worldy sums and the umbrage that come with it

It's that in one way, but more that the footballers provide a convenient 'look over there' opportunity to distract people from contemplating powerful people and corporations that are thousands of times wealthier.

Those poor £50k a day chaps 

Missing my point. And making it, in a way.

The BBC is an arm of the state. The right wing media are propaganda sheets for shady 'think tanks' that represent the ultra-rich 1% who don't think they should contribute to society. Look at how easily they got the nation demonising professional footballers for not taking a pay cut. Hedge fund managers, media billionaires, tax-dodging business moguls - not a mention.

The people who are keeping their sorry carcasses alive and delivering their food now are those they wanted to ban from the country a few months ago.

https://twitter.com/AndyOstroy/status/1246811769076678656?s=09

They are only following a long tradition of Irish Politics.  The entire history of southern politics has been littered with nepotism and some fairly ropey politicians along with some good ones.   

The Healy Raes

Every time I'm tempted to laugh at the Yanks for electing Trump, I remember the Healy-Raes.
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I'm spending a fortune on the messages. Is messages just a Derry thing or do the rest of yous use it. It's messages or goods we use, mostly messages and never groceries

Must be a city thing. Groceries or 'the shopping' is what we'd use most. Messages maybe a very odd time.

'Messages' is countrywide, as far as I can tell. Certainly in Dublin and Cork. I told this here before -

This mode of expression had very serious consequences back in about the 80s when the Irish girlfriend of a Middle-Eastern suspect in a bombing was being interrogated by the English police. When they asked something like, "and why did you go out that evening?", she answered, "to get the messages". Cue hours of interrogation about the content of these messages, the recipient, etc., terrorism charges and an appearance in the Old Bailey. As far as I remember, she was eventually acquitted.

Surely this joke of a man has to be seen through now.

The people who vote for him are not capable of seeing through a window.

Apparently it does.

https://twitter.com/boughsof/status/1239490782861709312

The most accurate description of the situation and clearest presentation of the essential message I've seen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hks6Nq7g6P4&feature=youtu.be

I see you and I raise you:
https://twitter.com/drantbradley/status/1239325741386432513

A pastor in Florida keeps his megachurch open, encourages people to mingle and shake hands, and pledges to keep bible study classes going because they're "revivalists not pansies." This could wipe a significant portion of Florida's population out.

Lock him up, ffs.

You can infer what happened from the way the articles are written. He "died suddenly".

Unfortunately I heard that was the case

Sad for all those involved.

If it was suicide is the reason it's not widely published an attempt not to glorify it?

Preventing suicide by influencing mass-media reporting. The Viennese experience 1980–1996
The gist: Guidelines agreed by the media on suicide reporting reduced the incidence of imitative suicide by over 80%.

Top 10% already pay 70% of all income taxes

How much more would you like them to pay?

Given the top 10% have over 99% of the wealth, I'd be expecting them to pay more than 70% of taxes. [note - not income taxes alone]

This is probably worth a read:

https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/who-are-the-rich-and-how-might-we-tax-them-more/

... and this worth a look.

A great TED talk.

'If you are depressed, you're not a machine with broken parts, you're a human with unmet needs.'