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It's not necessary but this is a further example of the sheer arrogance oozing from SF MLAs who believe they are above us all, that they could not be crossed by anyone for fear of what would become of the individual and they are now firmly ensconced in government where they now control the levers of power over anyone or anything they wish.

No doubt that McKay was not operating alone and he had the backing of his colleagues and a party that exerts ruthless central control of all actions by its elected representatives.   As Sammy Wilson put so eloquently this morning, "a SF MLA can't order a box of staples without sanction by Connolly House".  The communications reported today show that at least one other MLA was involved in a choreographed appearance by Bryson.

Pardon me if I don't take Sammy's word for what happens in SF for obvious reasons, but why should we believe you?

Great game. Rogers deserves full credit. Neither Lennon or Delia would have had the nous or balls to do that.

What I mean is that I don't waste my time over something that will never happen.In my.lifetime I have seen incredible change up here which I never believed would happen.I.don't feel unhappy with the status quo now.

Feck sake it was only yesterday you were giving out about the Shinners because they are "happily ensconced in Stormont".

I wouldnt bet against it.Loads of.Poles.going.Actually.witnessed a Polish guy buying a ticket at Ticketmaster in Portadown last Friday

Stephen Kenny on the radio this morning said they were hoping to match the 25k attendance at the cup final. Capacity of the Aviva is 52k.

I think I've reached peak semantic satiation with Tony's use of the word "top" on this thread of late.

Dundalk are halfway through their league and the new Cetlic manager has hardly even had three competitive games. They would have lost that game last year, so a distinct improvement so far.

Have been following the foreign exchange markets closely for about a year now and to be honest I've found those forecast sites like poundsterlinglive to be not much more than tabloid clickbait. All very shallow, reactive pieces to whatever is in the FX news on any given day. No substitute for the in-depth analysis you'll get on zerohedge or the FT.

Maynooth was recommended to be shut down 5 years ago after an inspection in the wake of the Ryan and Murphy reports into sexual abuse. It's quite telling that it's staunchest defenders now are the aging liberal wing of the Catholic Church such as those in the Association of Catholic Priests under who's watch the scandals happened. They've proven themselves a beaten docket at this stage with nowhere else to go but align themselves with the abortionists such as Mullally and O'Gorman. Martin is correct in what he has done, if not altogether for the right reasons.

She is running on a 'no second vote' ticket and being supported by brexiteers. It would be the equivalent on turning around after becoming PM and declaring that she was defecting to labour. There will be no second vote

There will have to be a vote in the Brit Parliament. Given the Tories only have a 12 seat majority, passage of that vote is far from guaranteed.

I had an argument on Facebook with someone in Dublin who would welcome border controls. If 'they' want to stop us going into the UK, we should stop 'them' coming to the ROI. I pointed out that a lot of 'them' were actually 'us' and worked daily in Dublin, and consider themselves Irish, and not only that but are guaranteed to be Irish under our constitution. Would we really want Irish people, working in Dublin, to be inconvenienced with a border every morning.

The response was that ye are not Irish. So hard luck lads. Even though the constitution says you are part of the Irish Nation, and Citizens of the ROI, as far as she was concerned, only people born in the 26 counties are Irish.

Sometimes I hate people.

I may be wrong but does the constitution really say the north is Irish? I thought it was dropped in article 3 to allow for the GFA. And the dual citizenship is protected in the GFA not the constitution.

Either way anyone who refers to a piece of paper (passport) or legislation to confirm their indentity is as two dimensional as their facebook page.

The GFA guarantees more than dual citizenship, it also protects the right of all those born in the north to a single Irish citizenship (rather than dual citizenship) and as such to be legally no different from those born in the south. Constitution gives this right the underlying legal basis. Therefore those born in the north do not have to do anything (such as getting a passport) to prove their citizenship.

We were talking about europe here and one fella is of the opinion that leaving europe still won't happen and Cameron leaving (the smart move) is not what Gove or Johnson would want as if say Johnson was elected leader he cannot go to the eu with a peoples mandate as he isn't technically the peoples choice and therefore he would need to hold a general election.

As before if Cameron had went forward he would have had the peoples mandate and with him leaving it messes their plans up.


Now if a general election was held and a party go in that was pro euro (labour) and judging by the back lash and people realising how bad things could get this could happen then they could come to an agreement not to leave the euro.

fingers crossed??

This isn't as outlandish as you might think. The Brits don't have a written Constitution and an ineffective upper house so their Parliament effectively makes the rules up as they go along. If a majority government of the day wanted to discount the result, or more likely have a rerun there's legally nothing to prevent it.

I'm waiting for someone to say that britain will bring back the Commonwealth and will sell to it.








waiting...

Nige Farage mentioned the commonhaven'tgotthenailstoscratchthemselveswealth this morning, I kid you not, harking back to the days of the glorious empire and Britannia ruling the waves!

Irish senator calls on Republic of Ireland to rejoin Commonwealth
'Would rejoining not help further develop a pluralist Ireland'

Published
22/06/2016

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/irish-senator-calls-on-republic-of-ireland-to-rejoin-commonwealth-34823437.html

Yeah, could someone explain to me the DUPs thinking? Surely they are going down the same route as Cameron and getting confused between tactics and strategy (tactics being strengthen the border short term, strategically though Brexit inevitably weakens the Union long term). Just don't understand what they think they are going to get from this.

Even if a border poll is staved off, Scotland is going to go and an NI with an EU border to the republic and one to Scotland is just not tenable.

The re-imposition of the border plays to their neanderthal wing and emphasises they are a different country. They were never comfortable with this blurring of the border carry-on. They also believe that repeal of the Human Rights Act will allow them to get away with discrimination against LGBT and foreigners, while also putting an end to the Fenian's taking their grievances to the European Courts. Personally I don't think there's a chance in hell the Brits are going to break an international treaty brokered by the US and lodged in the UN for the sake of Ulster backwoodsmen.   

SF couldn't milk a cow let alone a situation.

Why did the Jo Cox murder change your mind?

Because I couldn't vote on the same side as the people that inspired her murderer. For me that's akin to voting for Paisley in his heyday.