General election 2020 (6 Viewers)

the surgeon at rorke's drift went to our school. not a politician, but possibly the only one who was played in a movie?
colin farrell was in my year in school, so the reverse of the above.
 
All the big Sinn Féin and PBP people are privately educated, which always amuses me.

To be fair to Paul Murphy though, someone on Twitter was trying to say he couldn't be a socialist because he went to a private school and he responded with "Karl Marx went to a private school," which is a pretty good comeback.
 
All the big Sinn Féin and PBP people are privately educated, which always amuses me.

To be fair to Paul Murphy though, someone on Twitter was trying to say he couldn't be a socialist because he went to a private school and he responded with "Karl Marx went to a private school," which is a pretty good comeback.

Maybe in Dublin. I don't think Pearse Doherty or Lynn Boylan were privately educated.

I went to school with a bunch kid's of FG, FF and SF politicians and it wasn't private or fee paying. There were some boarders before my time but they'd mostly be kids from the sticks. the proper rich folk around me went to Sligo Grammar.
 
Bit of black mark against PBP for me when they refused to stand for Zelensky's speech in the dail.
I know the point they were making....but it annoyed me.
 
Bit of black mark against PBP for me when they refused to stand for Zelensky's speech in the dail.
I know the point they were making....but it annoyed me.

They've been playing the fellow traveler during this whole thing - it's been really disappointing


P.S.
I went to Joey's
Proper Dub school for proper Dubs
 
Me personally? No idea, I don't really know anything about them except no one I knew went to them. I do get the impression it's a bit of a different vibe out in the sticks. Would value insight from anyone who knows about these things.

Hilarious if these lads were paying 5 thousand a year or whatever to look like this:

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Finian's was definitely quite affordable. Six horrible years there as a day boy. I reckon it was more cost-effective to pay whatever it was for the year [peanuts in comparison to Wilson's anyway], than be feeding and carting your kids around during the week [if viewing the overall cost of something like for the year vs having the kids at home. Also pre-1996, some of the boarders only got home once or twice a month. Horrific.] It was bog standard.


just did a quick google; st finian's is listed (currently) as non-fee paying, non private; but the last boarder finished there in 2007. begs the question why you'd send your kid to a non-private boarding school? family tradition? that was the case with a lot of the lads who were boarders where i went to school.
Family tradition, and like I said above, it might be a no-brainer for some parents financially and being more time-rich as an added bonus. There were a few rich Meath farmers' kids, but a lot of them were from average income households. They were mostly from Meath. Such fucking tribal wankers. Let me ask my buddy how much he paid between 97 and 2002 to board.
Wilson's hospital produces a rather poor quality of chap. Children of prod of farmers with money, bad rugby players, played soccer during Michaelmas AND Hilary terms.
All the hot girls went to Wilson's... it was a lot more expensive, private and fancy than Finian's.
 
Anyway, Robert Troy helped get me the welfare when I came back from Japan.

Ahem.
Paschal fixed a mahoosive drainage problem for me outside the house

No one else could/would help
Not even Mary Lou
Actually Kitty Holland of the Irish Times was a big support, but she had no actual pull


The best bit about it is when anyone in the family slags Paschal, I get to yell "HE FIXED THE ROAD!"



Still vote SD Green and Shinner though, obv
 
I don't know who to vote for anymore. I would be interested to see what sinn Fein would do if they got into power. What they have been preaching over the years Vs the financial reality of running a country.
Although im not interested enough to actually vote for them.
 
I don't know who to vote for anymore. I would be interested to see what Sinn Fein would do if they got into power. What they have been preaching over the years Vs the financial reality of running a country.
Although im not interested enough to actually vote for them.
I've been voting for SF since the get-go
But it always felt like a protest vote as much as anything else


Will actually have to think about it now
But it's not like I'm going to give anything to FF or FG
 
Paschal fixed a mahoosive drainage problem for me outside the house

No one else could/would help
Not even Mary Lou
Actually Kitty Holland of the Irish Times was a big support, but she had no actual pull


The best bit about it is when anyone in the family slags Paschal, I get to yell "HE FIXED THE ROAD!"



Still vote SD Green and Shinner though, obv
Yeah, Troy like Donie Cassidy before him is a classic FF gombeenman... but he actually can get shit done. "Good local politician" etc.
 
i haven't listened to it, but my wife was saying she enjoyed blindboy's recent podcast where he discussed troy; that FFG are subtly reframing the whole notion of property ownership; an example given was that robert troy describes himself as 'a young person' on his website; he's 40, he's hardly 'young' but their use of language has shifted to remove the expectation that you could have (or would want) stable accomodation.
 
i haven't listened to it, but my wife was saying she enjoyed blindboy's recent podcast where he discussed troy; that FFG are subtly reframing the whole notion of property ownership; an example given was that robert troy describes himself as 'a young person' on his website; he's 40, he's hardly 'young' but their use of language has shifted to remove the expectation that you could have (or would want) stable accomodation.
I listened to that

Pretty good
Gave Troy a right go of it

Jennifer O'Connell had a similar note in the paper at the weekend, that she had a mortgage when she was 20, cos the banks were giving them out willy-nilly, everyone was getting them, and it was a very reasonable expectation for her at that time
And then you have Emmet Kirwan on Brendan talking about the struggle of even finding somewhere to rent now.
There's probably about 10 years between the two of them and it's an ocean.


Although I suspect O'Connell's husband is loaded.
 
i got my first mortgage in 2003. i was 26 and the bank were cagey enough about it that my dad had to go guarantor on the mortgage. they (national irish) seemed to have been less profligate than AIB or BOI.
 

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