The DUP thread

[Armagh18]

A school with 13 pupils, 3 teachers and 3 support staff.

Surely that can't continue.

I wonder how far away the next 'similiar' primary school is to each of them?

Is there not an enrolment figure in primary and once it dips below that, there needs to be an assessment down on it.

Politicians won't make good decisions - like hospitals etc.

By 13 pupils is very low.   

[Armagh18]

I'm all for small primary schools, local where everyone knows each other, to this day my best friends are ones from primary school but jeez 13 is very low

[gallsman]

Numbers are low for sure, and I'm not at all saying that should stay open, but if these were small, rural banks or post offices, or schools for that matter, I'm nationalist areas, would you be quite so triggered by it?

[Tony Baloney]

Schools that size aren't sustainable regardless of green or orange and they should be closed. This is the DUP doing DUP things but the Shinners would be no different. Politicians here don't like making difficult decisions.

[gallsman]

I agree, not sustainable, but there'd not be a word said if the shoe was on they other foot.

However, why are we so quick to accept that schools should close, but banks and post offices have to stay open?

[general_lee]

I agree, not sustainable, but there'd not be a word said if the shoe was on they other foot.

However, why are we so quick to accept that schools should close, but banks and post offices have to stay open?

John O'Dowd wasn't afraid to close or attempt to close Catholic schools in rural areas. Ultimately though CCMS share some responsibility.

[johnnycool]

A school with 13 pupils, 3 teachers and 3 support staff.

Surely that can't continue.

I wonder how far away the next 'similiar' primary school is to each of them?

Is there not an enrolment figure in primary and once it dips below that, there needs to be an assessment down on it.

Politicians won't make good decisions - like hospitals etc.

By 13 pupils is very low.   

That's kids from P1 to P7, so at best two per age group and a classroom size of 4 or 5 for each teacher...

Nuts

[Orior]

Fine Gael favourite, crater face Hoey having a go at Jarlath Burns and the GAA
https://x.com/catharinehoey/status/1782365465433498036?s=46

[Truthsayer]

Fine Gael favourite, crater face Hoey having a go at Jarlath Burns and the GAA
https://x.com/catharinehoey/status/1782365465433498036?s=46

  Kate be in the same mould as Jamie and Jim.. I wouldn't pay much heed to her.

[imtommygunn]

Massive bigot who deserves no airtime. How anyone ever elected her in England I don't know - she's bonkers.

[Orior]

Dudley Edwards getting in on the act too

https://x.com/ruthde/status/1782437508644516335?s=46

[AustinPowers]

Fine Gael favourite, crater face Hoey having a go at Jarlath Burns and the GAA
https://x.com/catharinehoey/status/1782365465433498036?s=46

What paper is  that article from? The Newsletter?

[red hander]

People of Rathlin not too happy about Zelda from The Terrahawks using their name when Bojo the Clown gave the bitch some ermine to wear

[JPGJOHNNYG]

RDE, Kate Hoey, and Owen Polly FFS. All 3 of them ooze bitterness. I listened to the interview on TalkBack and thought he spoke very well.

[HokeyPokey]

Hoey is a weird one as she apparently supported the civil rights movement and was on record as supporting a United Ireland up until the 1990s I think?

It's likewise interesting to see some of the original founders of the DUP, who would be pretty hardcore protestants and Davy Adams, a former UDA man, coming out basically saying things like they think a United Ireland is inevitable or that they'd be open to persuasion.

It's really hard to know where sentiments are among PUL, with many unwilling to speak out because of the grief they'd get. Likewise there's plenty of spin and narratives.

I think people in general aren't that well informed, north and south (in different ways). The headlines are always on what way people would vote if a vote was tomorrow, but we don't know what they'd be voting for. The polling on preference and aspiration, seems to show a very solid block of 30-35% who are against a UI full stop, a similar number who would vote for a UI regardless, maybe another 30-35% who aspire to unity, but aren't fully convinced yet and then 10-15% don't knows. That should be what drives the debate. I'm not sure why this is glossed over so much by governments and media. I think there's some who just want it to go away for political reasons or personal preference and others who want to have the margin larger so it can be a smoother process.