My brother John was up at the weekend for my birthday and we were discussing the cost of living in both parts of Ireland.
My visit to my GP costs me nothing.
John’s visit to his GP costs him € 60.
My drug prescriptions are free.
John’s prescriptions can cost him € 90.
If I go to A&E in the North its free.
If John goes to A&E without a GP referral it costs him € 100.
John bought a Wolf Blass wine in Asda in Larne for £ 5.50.
The same wine in Waterford is € 13.
Everything to do with motoring – cars road tax, insurance in the South is multiplied by several factors.
Dentistry is so expensive in the South that many come North for treatment.
A one bed apartment in Larne is circa £ 300 per month
In Tramore in Waterford it is € 1300 per month.
Granted the salaries in the Republic are bigger than those in the North.
BEING IRISH
I regard myself as Irish and not British.
My only passport is an Irish passport.
The Brits have been in Ireland more or less for 800 plus years.
Because of where I live I take more interest in British politics than Irish – but I do keep an eye of the Irish politics too.
I’m living on the “UK” for 46 years out of my 70.
Today I go and vote for the Northern Ireland Assembly in all its uselessness.
But mainly because of the cost of living, why would any of us in the North want to go, at this time into a United Ireland?
Would we not be like turkeys voting for Christmas.
BISHOP PAT BUCKLEY 
124 replies on “WHY WOULD ANYONE VOTE FOR A UNITED IRELAND AT THE PRESENT TIME.”
Well Bishop Pat if you can’t afford to heat the oratory you can always use your free bus pass to ride the bus for the day to keep warm. Let’s just hope the ex Fr Ger isn’t driving it!
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If Ger was driving there wouldn’t be room for Pat it would be full of wimmen😜
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9:30am Yeah!! All those women that were rallying outside Cloughleigh Church can’t wait for another “gathering” with their beloved “Fr Ger” – their lives haven’t been so “interesting” since Fintan Monahan hid Ger away from public view. Ger is Gone but not Forgotten by his delightful possey in Killaloe.
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11:19pm. Read the blog – due to much higher cost of living in Republic, it’ll be pensioners from the South living on Nettie soup & using their bus pass to travel the island of Ireland & crossing the Border on long trips to keep warm on the buses! Some Southerners can be a strange bunch when it comes to money, until recently if 2 identical items were priced differently, they’d automatically assume there was something “wrong” with the less expensive item. A lot of them didn’t even venture into the German supermarkets until the consequences of the Celtic Tiger catastrophe forced their feet into Lidl & Aldi. I even heard some figure you’d be poisoned if you ate anything from these shops! That was back in the day when Tesco executives dubbed the Republic “Golden Island” because they could hike prices in South & Irish consumers paid during Tiger years.
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I actually think self sabotage and self loathing are the defining characteristics of Irish culture.
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I thought it was ‘Treasure Island.’
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Because people tend to vote for reasons of historical loyalty or else on principle and don’t think it through like you have.
I would like to see an independent Wales and Scotland which then rejoin Europe (I’m in England) simply because in the years to come we’ll need somewhere to seek asylum that doesn’t mean crossing the sea.
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You should talk to David Quinn at the Irish Catholic. He is one of many Catholic Unionists. We need to break this myth that Irish Unionism is impossible for Catholics. British rule is wonderful. The republic should accept that they have failed and submit to Westminster. God save the Queen!
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My goodness! What a mouthful!🙈
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They will eventually , wont be becuase of you ,, see you next Tuesday and everybody !
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I shall never vote for a so-called ‘united Ireland’. There can be no such thing, since there are TWO peoples on the island of Ireland: the Irish AND the British. I can no more make an Irish person feel British than he or she can make me feel Irish.
I am British alone, not Irish. The Belfast Agreement acknowledges my right to express myself as such. But Sinn Fein/IRA has no regard whatever for these national-identity issues.
I do not care, in the slightest, what a tiny minority of people living in Britain deny about my identity: I do not give the proverbial. They cannot, and they will not, rob me of my national identity.
Sinn Fein/IRA is the party of DISUNITY, since it is pursuing only territorial unification, and domination of the British population of Northern Ireland. The SDLP is doing likewise, despite the claim of its former leader, John Hume, that ‘agreement threatens no one’.
Any unionist who votes Alliance today has wasted a vote, since Alliance is NOT a unionist political party.
I shall vote (and proudly ): 1. DUP; 2. UUP; 3 TUV.
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😂😂😂😂😂 In my experience British Unionists identify as Irish as soon as they hit London and soon care not a whit for NI.
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9.21
Didn’t you notice the contradiction in your comment before posting it?
If those people ‘care not a whit for N I’, they are hardly British unionists.
You may be just a tad confused.
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You should move to Britain then lad, I’m sure they will welcome you with open arms, know all about your history and support for the union. 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
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Nooooooo they don’t have to do that. Boris is going to ride across the Irish sea on a white stallion to reward them all for being such good unionists, make sure Jeffrey wins the election, get rid of power sharing and reopen the linen mills and shipyards to give every unionist a job!
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The Catholic unionists of NI could all fit comfortably into a phone box, likewise all the Protestant nationalists of NI could fit into a phone box.
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A vote for economic stagnation.
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Don’t forget the 55% tax rate in the South Pat along with the cronyism and corruption but I assume the latter is the same in the North?
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How old is your brother, Bp Pat? Do these fees apply to those over sixty.
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Even if the north voted in favour, I don’t think the south would if only because of the costs involved in unification.
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Bishop Pat may I ask – did you vote for Brexit?
I voted to Remain whilst also believing that the EU needs Reform – overly bureaucratic and prone to federalism which erodes sovereignty and therefore democracy. But the EU is the biggest economic block in the world. Leaving it didn’t and doesn’t make sense.
The cost disparity between the North and South of Ireland is striking – I have to say that while roads and the rail system have improved in Eire they are not as good as NI. And this I believe is a failure of Eire politicians to negotiate and secure better provision for the people it represents because although the UK is 65 million the EU Bloc is 500 million. So prices and cost of living can and should be negotiated.
The principle of a NHS is built on socialist principles and point of entry is on the whole satisfactory but trust me the NHS is on the road to privatisation and a U.S. insurance based healthcare system. Plus the scandals in the NHS (Staffordshire, Shrewsbury Trusts) are deplorable involving the needless deaths of patients and baby’s.
You are right though we always vote with our pockets – which is why the Tory’s are in power and Labour aren’t because they would nationalise everting that moved and the country would go to the dogs.
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I drive for a living, the roads are now much better in ROI after 30 years and a ton of EU money.
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9:26am Their roads would want to be better than they were – what about the millions that the Irish local authorities overpaid the foreign & Turkish contractors and when errors were discovered, they decided it was “too much bother” to apply to get refunds?? Corruption and glutton laziness.
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Toll roads – that’s another burden on the citizens of the 26 Counties that we don’t have in the Wee 6.
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Indeed.
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7.08
Well, you can ask.
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You are conflicted, Bp Pat, but you know on which side your bread is buttered. The same Pat.
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I visited Free Derry recently. I was paying for my lunch in euros. They wanted to give me the change in pounds! ☹️ No pounds please. It’s against my religion.
I believe in Christian Unity. I attended a Christian Unity service many years ago. The lady vicar spoke very well. It was a jolly good sermon.
I am in favour of Irish Unity. Our 32 counties, as a republic, can still be a part of the Commonwealth. The discussions around the Northern Protocol are the wrong discussions to be having. They are a smokescreen from the more important discussions of the euro being the currency across the entire Island of Ireland.
I predominantly stayed on the west side of the river Foyle. I did walk across the Peace Bridge. Unionists must build bridges and join us peacefully in Irish Unity.
Pax.
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‘Unionists MUST build bridges and join us peacefully in Irish unity’? 🤔
Aye, right. 😀
As we say in Northern Ireland, ‘catch yourself on!’ 🤣
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Seamus! You didn’t tell us a St Olaf story!
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Seamus at 8.48am
LOL. Euros becoming more expensive and harder to save. I prefer the old days of irish pounds. Back then I spent just 20 pounds for the night re drinks and food grab on the way home.
Did you visit the bloody sunday place?
Heard deaf man well into his 80s who saw it as he told us some 5 years ago. He was involved in the protests. His health is not so good nowadays as I have heard.
The cost of running NI is huge, astromical amounts of money to keep it ticking away. ROI would be broke if they bought out NI.
UK is quite a wealthy country and have their economic independence where we as govt don’t have that kind of economic independence. Its been repeated over and over by famous Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis.
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DG 12:12, the old punt used to go further alright. A calculator was sent to every household in the country to assist with the changeover.
I visited the memorial. 50 years on and no justice. An absolute injustice and a whitewash.
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7.40: A goid observation. Pat got all his education for free in the South and got his seminary training for free.
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You were obviously one of the clever boys, Pat. A scholarship? Smart lad.
Secondary Ed in the Republic wasn’t free until 1967.
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I got mine in 1964.
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9.36
We always look after our own even if they stray.
The lost sheep always come back when found.
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When I went to secondary school in Dublin everyone had to pay for secondary education. I won an academic scholarship by exam from Dublin Corporation/ City Council.
The UK paid for half my seminary education.
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The cost of living is much lower in NI, especially now that Southern house prices are crazy again. We also don’t have to pay separately for water charges and to get our bins emptied, and we get free schools books and no school fees. It’s all thanks to our membership of the UK. It would be economic illiteracy to give that up.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Ireland&city1=Dublin&country2=United+Kingdom&city2=Belfast
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Absolutely way cheaper in the north but much fewer employment opportunities. Many of the lads I work with in Dublin are from NI and are away from their families for the week cos of lack of work in NI.
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Why are so many people from RoI living in England if there are so many opportunities in Ireland?
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And rhe US and Australia
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More opportunities in South than North and more in England, US, Au etc than in the South. Ireland is a small island of around 5 million people, smaller than the population of Manchester.
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9:15am as well as economic considerations, many young gay people emigrated from rural, small minded Irish communities in the 1980s. 1990s & beyond & ended up making a life & meeting a life partner within more tolerant & respectful cultures. It shouldn’t be forgotten that their lives were in danger in some instances & things made difficult for their families. Thankfully, things have improved in that respect.
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I am not a catholic and I do not want a United Ireland. Let’s all vote for border poll parties so we can finally vote to remain part of the UK!
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That’s what would happen. If Boris could think of a way of getting out of NI without losing face he would. It’s costing HMG too much money. The ROI is a Ponzi scheme running on borrowed money and heading for another crash it can’t afford NI running costs. A United Ireland ain’t going to happen in our lifetime.
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Boris has no more face to lose!😄
Hang about! He does have another. 😕
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My husband revealed all, I have nothing to lose, you do
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Huh? 🤔
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If that’s a message to Ger your a bit late luv.
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@ 9:32 Was your husband in a relationship with Fr. Ger too?
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Hearing few stories re hetreo Bishop casey shagging etc as gardai who kept schtum for years. Its notorious old story known by the locals.
Casey is bit similar to Conroy of arundel and Brighton diocese.
Church + gardai plus FFG govt = stasi. Gardai covered it up as much re rcc.
Its Ruc now PSNI, who brought it down re Smyth of nobertines, not the gardai. Famous dpp file which brought it down the FF lab govt as its pulled under the rug by Spring.
If you take away their control of schools and hospitals, their power would be insignificant.
Schools bit of a concern for me cos any priest could enter a classroom and take any boy out as it happened in Renmore parish school back in 1975 to 1980s. I found out priest name recently as he’s no longer in diocese of Galway. He left.
Now reading a book named ‘the dictator pope’ by H Sire. Done reading on Despard book and Frédéric Martel book as well.
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11:02am closed shops are clergy, guards, doctors, senior school staff & BOM etc in communities of cronyism, corruption & inner circles – keeping it all under wraps for own benefit. That’s why all kinds of abuse covered up for so long. It’s all about their own interests. Keep Stum Brigade. Not to be trusted.
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I am British, Bp Pat, but I was astonished to previously read the GP fee of €60 applies to everyone over the age of 8 (and it was only abolished for under-eights within the last five years).
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Horrible prices.
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11:14am until recently it was actually an unspoken direct threat to child health, as working parents who didn’t qualify for medical card did not take kids to GP unless absolutely essential. I remember parents openly say like it was a “badge of honour”, my child didn’t have to see a GP until age 8, 12, 15 whatever! Situation with GPs didn’t help as they’d charge €50/€60 for first visit & no reduction on follow up visit for same Illness & prescription charges high as well. At least now children have access to free GP care in Republic. About time, long overdue. Waiting lists for special needs therapies like OT & PT are years and years long, a total mess even before Covid. Ryan Tubridy had mother from Crystal Swing band on Late Late Show recently highlighted how bad it really is. Little or No respite budget for 24/7 carers. That Don’t bother priests & their cronies, they all have private healthcare paid for by sheep state pensioners & then they want them to make wills in their favour & take cash off them on house visits on Fridays so they have a pocket of cash for boiler house Saturday nite. Cute Hoor Clergy & cohorts think we all blind eejits down here.
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3.55
Fr Ger confessed in one of his messages that his bishop, Fintan Monahan, wanted him to have private, exclusive, and highly expensive psycho-sexual counselling. Guess where? In CANADA.
This would all have cost probably tens of thousands of euros, paid for by the Sheep.
These men would not send YOUR family members off for such privileged, pampered treatment: they’d tell them to pay to see their GPs, and then take their chances on the Republic’s money-spinning lottery that is its health service.
Here’s a question. Why do you Catholics tolerate these men, priests? The men who don’t work for a living, but sponge off very hard pressed families, of whom some simply cannot afford medical treatment in the Republic and just forego it, even for their sick children.
Why?
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5pm I don’t believe the younger generations subscribe much if anything- many simply cannot afford it & are not regular mass goers anyway. Envelope system probably works to extract funds from those with vested job interests etc in RCC.
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GP visits average 60 to 70 euros. Out of hours GP service, evenings and weekends 70 euros. Blood tests 45 euros, Sick certs 45 euros. Phone consultation 60 euros. If one qualifies for a medical card, most of the above is free except blood test, one pays 1.50 per item dispensed at the pharmacy, waiting lists for everything are huge.
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And you pay for overnight stays in hospital and even, amazingly, if you call out the fire brigade. They didn’t have free LFD tests in RoI, which is why so many of them crossed the border to steal from the NHS. They also steal school and nursing home places in NI by supplying the address of an NI relative and pretending to live in NI. Even when it came to the covid jabs, Free Staters were openly boasting on social media that they had crossed the border to steal a place in the queue for vaccines.
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Don’t forget the free cataract surgery, I love the NHS the gift that keeps on giving!
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Thief at 2.10pm. You should be ashamed that your country cannot afford an NHS.
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1:16pm smoke was pouring from a house & neighbors stood outside watching not even sure if occupier inside, not one of them would use their own phone to ring fire brigade in case they’d get stuck for the fee – think it about €3,000 – if homeowner insured & makes a claim – insurer pays it but they figured this old person possibly not insured. All mass goers they were too! Luckily no one died – pensioner emerged, smoke damage – public phone boxes still existed then so someone eventually drove to use it! Not sure what’d happen now as no public phone boxes anymore.
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Yes, free staters take Services in N.Ireland…. funded by Westminster… using Scotland’s North Sea Oil Money…. while the people in the Shetland’s just look on….
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5.00: Such lying hyperbole! You really haven’t a clue what you’re talking about. You are literally quoting ad verbum, all the vile, mischievious anti clerical commentary on this blog. Try to be original…Now I must go and have my pre evening dinner drink…I’ve worked long day…😁😁😁😁😋🤣😋🤣….you idiot.
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6.33
Scoll back, sweetie, to the blog dated 3 May. Look under ‘MESSAGES FROM GER TO CAROLE WHEN THE YVONNE THING BROKE’.
Read it, and weep. They are all Ger’s words.
Here’s laughin’ at cha! 😅
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6:33pm OMG! What a vile out pouring from a Fr Ger Fitzgerald supporter – probably a priest or a cohort. You’re doing him or his ilk no favours anyway, Well Done 🤣🤮
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Sammy No 1 Pat?
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Sammy doesn’t stand for the N I ASSEMBLY.
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Of course he doesn’t Pat, Gordon (Sammy’s former assistant). No 1? Same question really.
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I do not vote for the DUP. I gave a personal vote to Sammy for helping me with 2 major issues.
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He stands for repression and bigotry.
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And Sinn Fein and the SDLP don’t? 🤣
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Ireland will be united just a matter of time.
Brexit united north and south because NI is predominantly remain and prefer to be part of EU.
Mavericks, eccentrics aren’t the voice of the people and NI is a pain in the arse for the UK – not that profitable only 1 million people – the size of Birmingham.
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3:06pm it’ll be entirely irrelevant in another half a century, our grandchildren & great grandchildren will be deeply tanned & fluent in a variety of East European & African dialects. But fair play to the Africans, some of them dance a mean Irish set & the fusion of traditional Irish music & African music is interesting. At least we are not putting racist signs in our windows referencing no black human dogs need digs – racial integration is the real success story in the Irish Republic. Not sure that was the ambition of the 1916 martyrs but sure we all have to keep boldly marching forward.
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Ireland will be united in just a matter of time, 3.06? They were saying as much … way back in 1921: they said Northern Ireland wouldn’t last ‘a generation’, that is, 20 years.
Meanwhile, 100 years on … 😀
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Éamon de Valera was a disgrace. It was he who should have gone across the Irish Sea to negotiate the treaty. It was an absolute stitch up.
Alex Ferguson likened it to sending his assistant to try sign Eric Cantona, the former Man United striker.
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8.12, De Valera was a coward, or a wily politican. Take your pick. He left Collins to head the Irish negotiating team in London, knowing that the outcome could only be a solution that fell short of self-government for the whole of Ireland. De Valera predicted that there would be a falling out among former comrades over this. He was right, on both counts: the outcome was the partitioning of Ireland, the only realistic and workable solution then, every bit as much as now. Collins paid the price: a .303 through the back of his head by an anti-Treaty IRA gunman.
So, though a unionist, I owe a debt of gratitude to Michael Collins for his sterling efforts in helping to found my country, Northern Ireland.
Cheers, Mickey!
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Four Green Fields. Tommy Makem and The Clancy Brothers. Beautiful song. The problem is no one is sure what the fourth field is anymore…. I would like to think it refers to these two islands and the future ( I do appreciate what the songwriters meant and where they were coming from in outlook). Three of my grandparents were from Belfast… 1922 chased one lot out, worked in the shipyards… 1931 sent the others … Irish News to Irish Independent employment. The fourth grandparent I had was from Cavan…. With connection to Laragh 😂😂…and Cavan town. Four Green Fields….. prosperous farms don’t put up too many fences in the world now…. But it’s not progression. Durum wheat gone through the roof…..
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All that Irish nationalist stuff is very old fashioned in modern, multicultural Ireland. Far more people in Ireland speak Polish than speak Irish.
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I think we’ve finally discovered Seamus’s first language….
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3.57 “ The farther backwards you can look, the further forward you are likely to see.” Winston Churchill
It was Disraeli who got it right on Ireland….
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The Polish community are setting an example for the unionist community. The Polish live peacefully in Ireland and still retain their own identity. The Polish blessing of food on Holy Saturday is a wonderful tradition.
The 2019 local election results suggested that none of the 6 counties had an outright unionist electoral majority. Derry, Armagh, Tyrone and Fermanagh are nationalist dominated.
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5.03
The same Disraeli who held that the only aristocrats were fit to govern.
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What about an a Republic of N.Ireland? Can they 6 counties stand on their own two feet or will they always need someone to keep the peace… and the health system.
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4.05 The Isle Of Man had its own king at one time …. What about that….
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4:58pm The Isle of Dogs has its own Queen, well, for the moment anyway, she is slowing down, remarkable length of service.
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We don’t pretend that we can go it alone; never have, unlike the Free State/Republic of Ireland. Which, of course, it never really did do, since it always relied on emigration, especially to Perfidious Albion, to deal with its huge economic surplus: the unemployed. It still does, but less so these days, since it benefits largely from the great largesse of the European Union.
It’s all very well getting mawkish about those Four Green Fields, while singing, over pints in pubs, A Nation Once Again; but none of this teary nonsense pays the bills, does it?
And then comes the morning after the night before, and economic reality bites in. For the commonsensically sober.
As someone tweeted, if the Republic of Ireland cannot afford 26 counties, how could it afford 32?
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It cannot. Which is why many South of tge border don’t really want the 6
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HG, I agree.
Many southerners do not want the six counties of Northern Ireland incorporated into an all-island state, but the majority of them do. This is the politics of abstract, wistful balladeering; it is not realpolitik. And it is most headily and glibly indulged in by Irish nationalists and republicans in Northern Ireland.
No thought is given to the economic unreality of such an aspiration. Their well-thought-out, grown-up attitude is: erm, we’ll cross that particular bridge when we come to it. And it is the attitude mostly of well-paid politicians in Northern Ireland, and in the Republic, who could afford to weather the perfect storm of so-called ‘Irish unity’; the losers (the poor) they would just throw overboard.
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@8.09
It is only assumed the majority in the south was to unite. It has never been voted on… except when it was voted to accept tge Anglo-Irish treaty and divid.
It is too unfashionable to admit that a person might prefer tge border, so they don’t. But in a private polling boot things might be different 🤔
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7.08 Are you a Donegal Aristocrat….ontologically !
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8.43
Not every commenter on history is a Raphoe priest with a doctorate. Try again.
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8:43pm It’s Daniel O Donnell & Fr Brian D’Arcy is his butler.
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I left the ROI a few years ago. I am from Munster. I am in no hurry to go back.
(1) Its very expensive. For everything. Its basically 55% tax as well.
(2) Its now basically a 51st US state – except for poor wages, higher taxes and atrocious weather. If you’re a salaried worker in a US multinational you can expect 10-12 hour workdays plus endless on call for zero overtime pay. You get a yearly bonus, taxed at 48%, which is an insufficient de facto overtime payment. These companies believe they own you and are cesspits of diabolical and insidious American workplace culture. The Irish leaders are the worst, trying to out Yank the Yanks.
(3) When you are working nothing is free. Doctor 60 euro. Costs are atrocious and 90% of the population are two paychecks from disaster.
(4) Rent is running at 150% of a mortgage repayment. This is a symptom of serious planning dysfunction.
I live 7 hours from Ireland on the plane. The sun is always shining, pay is good and when work is over thats it. I wouldnt go back and NI should avoid being sucked into the ROI economic mess.
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Fr Todd at 4.07pm
Agree with some of the things that you were saying.
When I studied tax exam befire as I was astonished to see overall tax rate including vat, income taxes, stealth taxes all amounted somewhere from 55% to 60%. Its a telling statistic.
Hotels prices here rip off cos I stayed at a hotel in Germany few years ago at 1/4 or 1/5 of irish hotel prices.
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Why do people in Ireland tolerate Scandinavian levels of tax but US levels of public services, where you pay again out of your taxed income for schools, bins, GPs, fire services, which should really be funded from the high taxes. Where does the tax money go? It doesn’t go on expensive services such as defence, for example. And the hated Church was the provider for much of post-independence Ireland’s health and education systems that in other countries were part of the welfare state, so they weren’t even spending money on those big ticket items or on infrastructure such as good roads, which had to wait for EEC funding, which in turn was paid for by the few net contribution countries in the EEC/EU, notably the UK.
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Point 4 doesn’t indicate a planning dysfunction, I think it’s planned that way!
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Point 4 is why Fine Gael didn’t do so well in the last election. Young voters voted for Sinn Féin Dáil Éireann. Sinn Féin Dáil Éireann left seats behind them at the last election. In counties like Waterford, they would easily have gotten a second candidate elected.
If Fine Gael/Fianna Fáil don’t improve the housing situation, they and the Greens will be turfed out. It’s not just the millennials who are angry about the housing situation. Their parents generation aren’t happy either.
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@4.07 pm Fr Todd
Sounds like you have just described Tenerife.
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@9.28 Tenerife is 3.5 hours from Dublin. I am double that away.
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One basic reason why rent is so high is government has waged war on Irish landlords who often now decide it isn’t worth the bother and sell up. Rent increases are limited to 2%, which means an enforced rent cut of 5% per annum. Properties have to be registered with the fussy and useless RTB (can any government body create a properly functional website? Not the RTB) who conduct occasional and somewhat bizarre inspections. Mortgages for a rental property no longer obtainable. The government banned bedsits a few years back which provided basic accommodation to those who needed it. The very limited amount for land made available for housing is taken by foreign property investors who are almost free of tax. They are only interested in people who can pay very high rents.
However, one of the biggest factors is uncontrolled mass migration. Everyone of them can be certain of being housed at the expense of the taxpayer while an Irishman or woman can live in their car or die on the street. The urban areas of this country are increasingly becoming a tatty Anywheresville.
A 32 county Republic might seem a nice idea, but before that a government that can cope with the 26 counties, would be needed.
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BREAKING: A judge has upheld the Parole Board’s decision to release Baby P’s mother, Tracey Connelly.
The government has failed in its attempt to overturn their decision.
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You don’t like justice being served, do you, ‘father’.
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6.54: The “you don’t like…do you father” piece of caca is back. Rarely goes past one sentence which is almost always the same silly, fatuous nonsense.
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You don’t like my comments, do you, ‘father’.
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Howling that you’ve managed to try your social worker trolling and not even mentioned social workers. 🤣
Looks like you could try trolling teachers instead.
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She is being relocated to Ireland under the witness protection scheme, like Maxine Carr. Fuck Rwanda, Ireland gets all the female child killing Brits!
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Isn’t there a convent she could join? I sense a religious vocation there.
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Luck the Irish government is obviously more compassionate than the cathbots who comment here.
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It was on the 16th of February 1844 that he summed up “ the Irish Question.” Disraeli was a decent human being.
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It’s not just a united Ireland that we need. It’s a NEW Ireland
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I also understand the republic does not have a Mobility scheme like the UK for disabled drivers… or they did have a similar scheme, but it was abolished as too expensive. You have to buy your own adapted vehicle (I think).
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I think a trust administers the mobility scheme. A lot of car suppliers have pulled out including Mercedes and BMW. They should go back to the blue three wheel invacars.
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Inquest into Canon McCoys suicide
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10786609/Catholic-priest-took-life-learning-police-investigating-historic-allegation.html
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Bishop Billy Bunter should have found him alternative accommodation immediately. It put McCoy in an invidious position, remaining there but unable to offer mass. Everyone would have seen that as uncomfortable—shocking failure of the bishop’s duty of care.
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9.32 pm. The Irish delegation for the Treaty was led by Arthur Griffith. That is a fact. Collins was NOT the leader
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In THEORY, yes.
Collins was the miliary clout behind that delegation; Griffiths the, er, politically respectable face of it.
Your naiveity is…telling
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11.03
You are at the other end of the naive-devious spectrum. You were wrong so you attempt to twist the facts. It doesn’t work. You show yourself up.
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Read almost half way re book named ‘the dictator pope’ by Henry Sire. Book demonstrated that frankie is quite vindictive and unreal re friars of Mary immaculate, Burke, Sarah and Bishop in Argentina who opposed him re order of Malta.
It isn’t NOT christ like re decisions and behaviours coming from him. I understood why frankie the politico peronist choose santa marta instead of papal apartments.
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10.39
To balance that, DG, read Austin Ivereigh’s book.
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Google (or whichever search engine): ‘Austen Ivereigh, Daily Mail.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-515997/Im-abortion-hypocrite-insists-Catholic-adviser-accused-girlfriends.html
Creepy little man and the role he got recently from the English bishops suggests they give not a fiddle about harassment. I suspect Francis sees him as a third rank sycophant.
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humility, on a tram, in a small car, in a record store, with photographers present, before he retires to the luxury of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
Now not a word against Putin and his wretched minion watch loving, cigarette and alcohol concession rich Kirill. One personally commands slaughter and the other waves his hands in blessing. Ukrainian Catholics are demoralised. Others are perplexed.
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/a-strange-type-of-ecumenism-francis?s=r
Kirill has a nice ol seaside pad:
https://fitzinfo.net/2021/03/06/russian-orthodox-patriarch-resides-in-295-million-dacha-next-to-putin-palace-oligarchs/
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Arthur Griffith was a dual-monarchist. It is totally inaccurate to say that he was republican. He wanted political self-governance for the island of Ireland, but that Ireland should share the head of state with Britain.
I found that quite the good idea. An all-island kingdom of Ireland in its own right is good.
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11.54
Kingdoms are passé.
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