General election 2020 (2 Viewers)

[Cornu Ammonis]

What is with all these fucking headbangers that keep popping up these days?

Seriously,why are they all so fucking mental? Is it facebook?

Freedom Party chair Dolores Cahill asked to resign after controversial Covid claims

UCD Professor Dolores Cahill was asked to resign as chairperson of the Irish Freedom Party rather than willingly quit the role, according to a document obtained by the Sunday Independent.

www.independent.ie

She is clearly having a mental breakdown in public. I have a feeling in 20 years we’re going to be looking back at these stories of people in crisis and how they are treated by the news, Twitter, and forums and think that we let these people down. That said, I don’t know how you help them when they are also clearly not aware of their mental state and not seeking help.

 

[rettucs]

I heard he's on Thumped using a backwards user name

his real name is LashcoCorm

 

[Space]

so hold on, he wants a new monarchy, just for the Loyalists up north?

That's a new one.

What's the crack with demanding The Right To Marry? I'm trying to work that one out.

Does he think that people no longer have the right to marry now, because divorce exists? As in, does this mean that the definition of marriage has changed with the advent of divorce, and therefore doesn't exist any more?

Those are some interesting ideas.


edit: so basically, I can be the King of The Loyalists? Would he be in charge of that? Do you get a gaff? Do you have to listen to loyalists though? Best I can do is a christmas message for them once a year. But they're not allowed talk to me.

I think it's the same monarchy as the brits but only for those in Ireland who want it. He says a United Kingdom and a United Ireland. So it's a United Ireland but the loyalists will still have the Queen as their figurehead. I think the rest of us have to make do with the pope then as ours. It's all a little too binary for my liking but at least he's trying.

 

[pete]

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[GO]

I don't think citizen arrests are real things at all

 

[chris d]

I don't think citizen arrests are real things at all

I definitely saw one on Police Academy.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

what happened next?

 

[chris d]

Hijinks.

 

[nuke terrorist]

once an activist tried to do this to a US soldier in Shannon airport. the cops said there was no such thing here.

 

[magicbastarder]

there is.
4.—(1) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), any person may arrest without warrant anyone who is or whom he or she, with reasonable cause, suspects to be in the act of committing an arrestable offence.
(2) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), where an arrestable offence has been committed, any person may arrest without warrant anyone who is or whom he or she, with reasonable cause, suspects to be guilty of the offence.

Criminal Law Act, 1997, Section 4

The electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) comprises the Acts of the Oireachtas (Parliament), Statutory Instruments, Legislation Directory, Constitution and a limited number of pre-1922 Acts.

www.irishstatutebook.ie

 

[pete]

I could be completely wrong, but I always assumed that the principle of "citizens arrest" existed to give you cover from charges of unlawful detention/false imprisonment if say you were to catch someone breaking into your house/car/whatevers and you sit on them until the cops arrive.

That clown yesterday seemed to be treating as if it's some parallel legal system-right to citizens arrest someone so you could take them to citizens court and bang them up in citizens prison... "Well Guard, I'm just going to citizens arrest you now" like wtf did she think was going to happen next?

 

[magicbastarder]

'an arrestable offence' is one that seemingly can result in a five year sentence. so you can't arrest someone because they have a bad taste in music.

 

[flashback]

'an arrestable offence' is one that seemingly can result in a five year sentence. so you can't arrest someone because they have a bad taste in music.

what about if they're playing that music on shitty speakers on the Dart?

 

[Cormcolash]

That's not a five year sentence, it's the death penalty

 

[magicbastarder]

Cowen seeks special FF meeting after ‘alarming’ byelection

Former minister doesn’t mention leadership issue but says electorate deserve ‘cohesive’ party

www.irishtimes.com

so, cowen v martin v macsharry? vote for the name you know.

 

[xsteox]

So, Shit, shit or shite

 

[rettucs]

Cowen seeks special FF meeting after ‘alarming’ byelection

Former minister doesn’t mention leadership issue but says electorate deserve ‘cohesive’ party

www.irishtimes.com

so, cowen v martin v macsharry? vote for the name you know.

when is the rotating taoiseach thing meant to rotate next? Was it 2 years? So, next spring..

I wonder will this shitty govt last that long

 

[magicbastarder]

will be interesting to see the dynamic if the government lasts that long. varadkar was probably delighted when FF agreed to take the reins during covid, and has quietly undermined them ever since. but he has to be cognisant that he couldn't do too effective a job, because he needs the government to last to be able to retake the reins.
FF won't have that concern, they've nothing to lose in sticking the knife into FG once the change of power happens.

 

[taubstumm]

will be interesting to see the dynamic if the government lasts that long. varadkar was probably delighted when FF agreed to take the reins during covid, and has quietly undermined them ever since. but he has to be cognisant that he couldn't do too effective a job, because he needs the government to last to be able to retake the reins.
FF won't have that concern, they've nothing to lose in sticking the knife into FG once the change of power happens.

at that point they’ll probably be too busy sticking knives into each other

I think I said this also over on the brexit thread, but this by-election also foreshadows it: it’s quite possible that in the next couple of years, we will see the collapse of the two most successful political-patronage institutions in the last fifty years of Irish history: Fianna Fail and the DUP

 

[Unicron]

what about if they're playing that music on shitty speakers on the Dart?

If you murder one of them it shouldn't be a crime