A political party with populist policies, has the world gone mad?

The Northern Executive have no fiscal powers they divide up a block grant – they can’t raise taxes etc. They can only spend the amount in the block grant and the Tories cut that.

In the South Sinn Fein in government could bring in tax changes to raise taxes on the wealth people who have made millions and billions on property and other specualtive businesses and also get rid of tax incentives, thats how Sinn Fein could be different in the South. They also promied to cut the wages of the senoir civil servants who are getting huge salaries and pension pay offs.

They are looking for fiscal powers to be transfered to the North so they can bring the corporation tax into line and harmonise it with the Southern rate – having an all Island rate.

Most of their policies will be implemented by the current government in a year or so … but it may be too late then.

Seán – You clearly don’t have the first notion about the differences between Stormont and Leinster House. The budget is already allocated for Stormont IN Westminster, and the Stormont assembly has no legislative powers over taxation to balance the burden on tax-payers.

In contrast to Leinster House, where the Irish people do actually have the ability to balance the scales through determining our own taxation.

So don’t pretend as if they are two equal scenarios. They aren’t. And to pretend that they are is either disingenuous on your behalf, or just sheer ignorant.

Moreover – What Sinn Féin is saying is that they would have never used the Irish tax payers as scapegoats for the banking system. On that issue, I wholly support them.

Sinn Fein are not progressive at all as they pretend to be, it’s purely electorate, Up in stormont they can be as right-wing as they want, and nobody will care up there because there the default nationalist party.
Down here they actually have to come up with a different edge, as most Irish people have gotten over the whole ‘Fuck the Brits’ way of doing politics.

He’s from Northern Ireland, Fiachra. U are welcome to him. I do understand your sentiments, tho’ -

Its not a matter if we want him, its that we were told to accept him despite everything, while the southern media (and some people) are doing exactly the opposite.

He is from the UK and has no business here. Funny how we despise Tesco for flogging NI milk here but somehow tolerate SF. At least Tesco just use price discrimination to rob us and not oil tankers and protection rackets. I do sympathise with you being stuck in a time warp with the racist Shinners though.

Are you saying i am not Irish as Im from Derry? Do I have no buisness in the south?

Fiachra, you are in that funny position where you may designate yourself British, Irish or both. You are living in the city of Londonderry, which is officially British, part of the United Kingdom, uses British currency, is on British phone system, has British road signs, etc. You will find you are ‘Irish’ when in GB and ‘Northern’ when you’re down here. It’s not pretty, but that’s the way it is. If only the people of Northern Ireland could be proud of being Northern Irish.

“He is from the UK and has no business here.”

He is from Ireland, and holds an Irish passport. He also is an elected TD for the county of Louth. Our current president is from the same city as Gerry – Belfast.

So tell me once again why he has ‘no business’ here?

Ignore it, Fiachra. It’s not typical.

How about we all agree to call The Town I Loved So Well by whichever name each of us choses? Some want to call it Londonderry. Fair enough, I know they mean the city I call Derry.

How can you say he’s from the UK and has no business here? That’s an absolute disgrace. And you have the ignorance to call Sinn Fein racist. Bit hypocritical perhaps?

Well said
If you don’t agree with Sinn Fein fair anuff but to say they should go back up north if just dumb

Anyone who doesn’t bomb, murder, shoot, bludgeon, amputate, abduct, smuggle, extort or run drugs is welcome in any civilised society, not least ours. The neaveau-provo movement of Sinn Fein/IRA, on the other hand, can stay where they came from.

Mary McAleese, Seamus Heaney, John Hume etc never abducted poor Mrs Jean McConville, murdered her & secretely buried her for decades & left her poor kids wondering where their mother was. That’s just one example. Don’t give us this bullshit about Sinn Fein/IRA standing up to Govts defending society. We’ve seen their “bravery” on our TV screens over the decades. I remember seeing torn bodies on the streets of the North. That’s what has formed our opinion of them & their loyalist counterparts. As shown by the recent visit of QE11 to our shores, people here showed SF we don’t subscribe to their views. The reception she got was an expression of what people think of GB & a message to SF we don’t agree with your anti British attitudes. SF & Co never refused her schilling.

They’re not mad on the British now are they?

I guess you missed the part of the ard fheis where they had a Unionist Presbyterian minister on stage to give a speech, who received a huge applause. Or the Orangeman who wore a sash at a Sinn Féin Ard Fheis 2 or 3 years back who also received a huge applause?

Sinn Féin have been building bridges between the two communities for a long time.

And they never once had a qualm with the British people – their qualm was with the British establishment. I suppose The Vietnamese who had a qualm with the US Government were racist against Americans.. Or the Dalai Lama is racist against the Chinese? Wise up. There are many people from England within the SF membership.

Guys, the funny bit is that no one cares. For ALL intents and purposes, we are a 26-county nation. Fact. The rest is semantics for the sake of the shoe-horned peace up there.

A tour around the SF/IRA website is an interesting experience on tolerance btw.

Anyway, we’ll be doffing our caps to QE2 soon soon hopefully when we rejoin the Commonwealth under President Norris. Genuinely, that will be a great day for all on this island if we’re big enough to do it.

Maybe it’s about time some people on here accepted the Good Friday Agreement.

Toast Rack, you’re funny.

I’d like to thank the facists @ thejournal for removing my post, well done lads.
Nothing hurts more than someone espousing the truth behind your real intentions with this site eh ?

Which one of your staff is behind all the trolling fake twitter accounts abusing others and shouting crap while hiding behind anonymity all the time ?

Suppose I better not mention one of your founders from boards.ie is also a member of the Freemasons then either…

Are you not Irish have you no morals have you been asleep to our history have we not suffered enough through what they have done to this country and think all is forgotten damn no , I’m proud to be Irish but will not stand for the hatred that the sf party has . We need a good decent ambassador .Ireland says no

Brain washed

Brain washed? Lmao SF hatred? Get real they have created peace in ireland fir the first time along side with the orange order. That’s a small miracle if you ask me. But then again I am not ignorant to the truth.

“- Our founders aren’t the founders of Boards.ie.”

You are intricately linked and as with the dire biased politics on boards with your government sponsored mods, your stories here and coincidentally amazingly quick set up of trolling fake twitter accounts follow hand in hand to shout out the rhetoric. As others have suggested in the past with boards, there are many who believe one of your founders/main people behind you all, having close links with the secretive Freemasons in Ireland, determines and sways your independence to report and comment without interference from same.
That at the very least I find dangerous, considering their past links and continued alleged interference in Irish politics and media in particular…

“- None of our staff are behind ‘trolling fake twitter accounts’.”

So the likes of “Toast Rack”, a clear fake trolling twitter account which was just set up coincidentally at the same time this story broke, uh huh, honestly like O.o

“- Your original post was removed because it was an ad hominem post which didn’t address another user’s points.”

My post intricately addressed and replied to the original post, supporting that poster with further information as to the real reason behind the fake cowards trolling twitter account they mentioned and suggested they just ignore them, as that account was only set up to post in reply here with trolling comments, the one and only reason.

“TheJournal.ie does not pursue an editorial agenda on any subject.”

Sure, you just carefully edit or delete comments from others that disagree with or question the fascist right wing element that post on here.

No Gavan, I appreciate you taking the time to reply and I’ll leave it at that. I accept what you’ve said, even if I disagree in some ways with same, no need to continue on here and if I do, I’ll email instead as you’ve suggested.
Thanks.

Here Here, Rory. A lot has been achieved, I grant that. However, much more needs to be done to convince me of SF/IRA’s credentials. Remember that poor wee lad who was beat to death behind a shed along the border some time ago ? Silence from SF/IRA. That’s the “justice” they believe in. People are not ignorant of their reality, Ciaran O’Hare. They remember only too bloody well & don’t want that. We do “know our histroy”. How can u open your mind & heart to that ?

Good man Rory. Nice to see you are onboard with Jim Allister and his stuck-in-the-past eejit mates at TUV. Tell me this, do you refer to your customers in such a way also? After all your shop, Stationery Solutions (Carrickmacross) is located in an area where nearly 1 in 3 voted for Sinn Féin.

To the happy place?

Over 15,000 people in Louth and over 150,000 in the South disagree with you. I care and listened to him because Sinn Fein have interesting things to say about the economy and the euro. I give the current government a year before they start implementing Sinn Fein policies – might be too late then.

I thought it was interesting that he was prepared to raise the question about whether the government had a plan if the euro unravelled. That’s a brave question to ask as the establishment don’t what to spook the horses until after they have bolted, again might be too late to deal with the mess.

“I think he should go back to the ‘Six Counties’ where he belongs”

That’s quite progressive of you alright!

St Nolan, by your very admission, the majority of the Irish electorate are smart enough to know that Shinner ‘politics’ are utter bunkum. They should stick to the only economic activity they’re good at – fuel smuggling and knee-capping.

Guinness, touché, I’m off for a pint! Life’s too short to even try to reason with the RA.

Ni cheapaim…

Toast Rack…… FF three terms… yeah the majority of the Irish people have the good sense etc…. load of b*licks.

Far more people died in the last century as a result of Fine Gael in power than by the actions of the provos …. over 5000 people died in the Civil War when the godfathers of Fine Gael blew up and extra-judicially executed people to enforce the Treaty over 18 months in 1922-1923. So I think there is an inconvenient truth in the Irish political estblishment that some how only Sinn Fein have blood on their hands. Even Labour supported armed struggle at one time.

By the way you obviously didn’t read the piece above – maybe its an auto-response programmed into your brain – Adams gave his speech in the “Six Counties” so how can be go back there if he was in fact already there.

Fool.

How can anyone believe a word Mr Gerry “I’ve Never Been In The IRA” Adams says, St Nolan ?! U are right, Toast Rack – he should go back to the “six counties” & stay there.

If people can forgive what Gerry Adams and his party did in the past, and what they stood for and treat him as a credible politician now……just goes to show you that fianna fail are going nowhere! What they did is nothing compared to what the did but people seem to be voting for them….

“I think he should go back to the ‘Six Counties’ where he belongs.”

What, like our current president who is also from Belfast?

I wouldn’t be Gerry Adams’s number one fan at all but telling someone to go back to the “Six Counties” smacks of extraordinary parochialism.

What is the betting that Toast Rack is some FG/PD/FF knob from south Dublin who only ever saw the conflict in the North on a TV set, he’ll happily blatter on all day about it though and be quiet righteous. He’ll never mention any killing by the UVF or British Army, as he is a sneaking regarder for them and he’ll never move on from what happened 40 years ago. I have friends from both sides of the conflict that lost fathers, they are friends even though their parents were enemies.

The likes of you can fuck right off.

Pasted?

Funny then how the Gardaí have stated that they have “no information to suggest that this attack was authorised by, or carried out on behalf of the IRA.”

Sinn Féin condemned the murder and also called on those with information to contact the Gardaí or PSNI.

Ill-informed speculation and rumour have no place in a Justice Campaign. There has not been a shred of evidence so suggest republican involvement.

They haven’t been.