Agree. A country that spends hundreds of billions on it military per year. I agree with helping but thry don’t really need it as a country. That money would help q few very hard up families here put food on table. If we were flush with vash fair enough but we are not

I agree Seamus but reading the above there seems to be plenty of money in the country….let’s help Tom and Gerry whilst our society falls apart at the seams…. Reminds me of the famine, whilst our own were left to die on the side of our roads by the millions ships loaded with food were leaving our harbours to foreign shores, again…it’s the one who don’t need to decide for the one who do….pathetic societal system…

Who decide*

they can spend 3 trillion on illegal wars and give funding to gangster state israel. why would they need pittance of 50grand. that wouldnt cover hayes trip.

Ive no problem with giving aid to USA but we just cannot afford it. €50,000 would help keep one Garda station open and the hundreds of millions given to Africa would go along way to help the Health Services. I just despair. Country is run by crooks.

I agree and good point, those who can give, will give, those who can’t simply won’t…

absolutely. Very sad in all honesty.

Ah come on lads you wouldn’t expect the Irish to help their own?!….more in line to drive them further into the mud….they’d rather give €50,000 to homeless people in the US that €50 to a homeless here because they have pre-branded the one here as useless, a sponger and whatever else!
typical Irish mentality towards their own…

If its was 500k you’d probably be whingeing about giving away too much funding!

Read again. It is part of €320000 Not bad from a small country.

What??? Not bad for a small country? Are you on drugs? We have been massively bailed out. Ireland is totally broke. Troll surely.

Who can we vote for? They seem to be all the same. No way am I voting for SF.

ULA, run independently. Give SF a chance. Also think another group will run but haven’t looked into them TBH. I think they’ve a few members that post regularly here.

Come across that bridge when it happens but for now what’s happening in Ireland is totally unacceptable and voices need to be heard and the anger people are feeling needs to be shown.

seamus get a life you troll!

One does not just get a life.

Yes, that is the way. We are being bailed out with taxpayers paying to aid African countries, meanwhile Irish people suffer in poverty. I forgot, we should also invite half of Nigeria aswell to the party. What the h*** is going on.

If every country followed that line, no first world country would ever donate anything to any third world country. There will always be poverty in every country. But our poverty is nothing compared to the suffering elsewhere, luckily. You can debate the relative merits of sending money to the US, but to extrapolate from that to say we shouldn’t send any aid money at all to anywhere is a total over-reaction.

Apologies I see that I’ve misconstrued your comment and that you were talking specifically about the US – I meant to reply to a previous commentator.

This is Ireland and we need to look after our own Irish people. That is what a country is all about. Look after Irish people, not bloody foreigners.

How is any child going to school hungry, you would feed a family a breakfast of portage for a week for less than a fiver. We but two bags of portage a week for under five euro and it feeds 4 adults for the week.

Seamus, have you seen the thumbs down on comments referring to supporting our own over sending money abroad, as always the Irish are the best at knocking their own. Heck!….We don’t need Europe to drag us in the mud, we are good at doing it to ourselves and have done it for generations…

Seems to be the way David. Seems alot of Irish people have complete disdain for their compatriots.

Oh for goodness sake Neasa, there are plenty hungry children, I know because I teach them. You might take a look at the bigger picture!

Explain to me how a family can not afford to give a child the cheapest meal of the day. Sure children’s allowance alone would buy a serious amount of porridge. I too work with children all of the time and there are other issues in a house when things such as a bag of porridge for less than two euro can not be purchased.

Go on Neasa, what other issues, you seem eager to bring these “other issues” up as they were the culmination of reasons why children may not be properly fed and of course they are the rule I suppose.
Pre-judgment of our own prevails well in Ireland, well let me tell you that “feeding a child” or an adult for that matter on porridge when he/she is out on the streets doesn’t bid well… but I suppose you are of the camp, if there is no bread let them eat cake type of person because you do sound like that, excuse me if I’m wrong….. It’s amazing, a few comments up I wrote about the famine days and how similar the events are, do you really want to see our children go back to the porridge and gruel of the workhouses?
You say you work with children, well I’d suggest that if you are feeding your children porridge 24/7-365 then I wonder what you are feeding them for a main meal and it worries me. Maybe a call to social services might be in order? Remember this Neasa, whilst you stand in judgement of poorer families from your pedestal do so in the knowledge that PRISONS offer better food, better heating and better TV choice (and more) than the law abiding citizen/children of our current society. It really begs belief, they gave a “right” to a basic common treatment….wtf is happening here?

To David Stephens if you look at the comment I was replying to the individual was talking about children going to school hungry because of parents paying bills etc, no mention of homelessness, so my point was that no child should be going to school hungry because porridge/breakfast is one of the cheapest meals to provide for a child, now if you read back over the comments you will see that there was no mention of any other meal of the day so don’t know where you are getting this from. Also all of this has got to do with an article which was published about a week ago on the journal which headlined that children are going to school hungry, but if you read the article then you would see that although x amount of children are going to school hungry more reported having sweets and dizzy drinks ever day.

We have irish people giving out all round about Irish people having to leave Ireland, an how sad it is, and yet when there homes get washed away in the places they are living now we do not want to offer any support.

Couldn’t have put it better myself, thanks Stephen.

Neasa, if you read my comment you will understand that children going to school hungry might be because the “overpriced” mortgage has to be paid so cuts need to be made on the table, some families will cut food, others cut the phone, the channels whatever they need to meet the most overwhelming bill in any household, the mortgage.
So it’s a case of either feeding your family and loosing your roof, or cutting your feed and keeping your roof…..not rocket science……
You are in your early 20′s so please don’t patronise parents double your age about what they should be feeding their children, even if you do have children, you certainly don’t have long term experience.
You seem young and naÏve and as teenagers do think you have all the answers no matter how immature the reasoning… Do you have a mortgage? do you have children? Did you buy in the boom years? Do you pay for school? Are you liable for property tax? Water rates? Perculation tax? Do you need a car to go to work? Insurance? Road tax? Do you work? Hmmm….

Tell that to the people who lost their homes and all worldy belongings in the flooding in New York and New Jersey, very many of them Irish. I have to laugh at the hypocrisy of people who bemoan the number of emigrants leaving the country and then begrudge a relatively small donation to help them in their time of great need. This money is going to Irish centres, helping Irish people.

The fact that these Irish live in the US and that the US spends billions on arms is neither here not there, because that’s not going to change, whether we like it or not.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/02/hurricane-sandy-hit-caribbean-media

It might help to do some research before posting. It is a matter of public record that the Irish Government donated over €1million to Haiti in 2012 alone.

what? they’ve enough money over there. this money should be going to 3rd world.

That’s a bit unfair. We should help where we can. And we do.

Your taking the monkey right ???

He is taking the michael alright

Im too polite say to different!… lol

And where is this money coming from? The huge pile that we had to borrow??? This is crazy!