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RESTRICTIONS REMAIN IN place at a premises near Clonakilty in west Cork after an outbreak of avian flu was detected in small number of pheasants yesterday.
The Department of Agriculture said today that there was no further update as yet as to the cause of the outbreak which has affected a gun club in Clonakilty and another gun club in nearby Ballyroe, RTÉ reports.
Tests continue to determine the exact strain of so-called bird flu although initial testing determined it is the H5 strain and not the more deadly H5N1 strain. It could be next week before full results are known.
Around 100 game birds on the premises are being slaughtered as a precautionary measure.
Yesterday the Department said that a one kilometre avian influenza temporary restriction zone has been implemented around both premises affected with necessary bio security measures also being put in place.
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Stand up for Northern Ireland? Your days are numbers you bag
@John kane: I’d say shes sweating! Yuck….what an awful thought when you think about it.
@Paul Furey: Do not think about it
@Paul Furey: yuk. You’ve just ruined my cod and chips.
@Paul Furey: ah Paul, I’m trying to eat here!
@Paul Furey: I just gagged horrendous looking man!
@John kane: bulldog chewing a wasp ahhh.. Never gets old…
@Paul Furey: smelly crabs
Boris has blinked Arlene. Time to accept it.
@Clifford Brennan: with the UK, The EU and Ireland all standing on the threshold of an end to this ridiculous saga the world will all see the faces of the DUP and know the worms behind it all.
@Clifford Brennan: I’d love to know what deals were done at leo and boris’s meeting sems strange that boris more or less done a u turn ??
Someone needs to remind Arlene that even with DUP support Boris no longer commands a majority in the HoC. As such, her party’s support, once so valuable, is now absolutely worthless.
Assuming Boris is being genuine, which I very much doubt, he’ll need more support than the DUP can give so why is he going to continue to pretend that they matter to *anyone* in the UK?
@John Considine: exactly mate!! In truth there’s no majority or even working government in the HOc at the moment… Any deal will go through /be rejected not on a party basis with MPs adhering to Party whip on it.. So the DUP tail won’t be wagging the Tory dog any longer. Scandalous they are pushing NI towards a No Deal anyway.. When NI Region rejected Brexit and all business sectors in NI crying out for a sensible deal
@John Considine: nail on the head. I’m pretty sure Johnson has done his homework on who supports who in the HOC. I hope Arlene and her backwards thinking party gets the message now the uk are done with you and it’s only yourself to blame for not being progressive enough to be relevant.
@John Considine: The ERG have stated anything that is not approved by the DUP will be voted down by their members. The tories would need 60 odd to cross the floor to pass anything. Its not over yet
Firstly (and most importantly) – Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!! Up yours Arlene, you’re about to find out that nobody really cares about you!
Secondly – I think amidst all this breaking news and thoughts of a deal, people are forgetting that the UK parliament already rejected a backstop deal. There is no guarantee whatsoever that the rumored proposals will ever get through parliament.
Now, back to Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Up yours Arlene
@Dara O’Brien: to be fair the HoC rejected an arrangement where the whole of the UK stayed in the customs union, not just the six counties which was the original scope of the backstop, that arrangement had never been put to a vote. Whether a variation on that is acceptable, well I guess we are about to find out.
“Warnings” “influence” all trigger words of The Troubles. Which Arlene seems to be more warmed to than making a great “best of both worlds” deal for all citizens of NI. Arlene if the Nationalist people of NI can live peacefully with being under the rule of UK then you too can live with being under some influence of the EU. Make peace and prosperity Arlene, not war.
@Susie: Back in 1999 the DUP campaigned against the Good Friday Agreement. After 30 years of war and more than 3,000 people dead they literally campaigned against an agreement to have peace. Thats the kind of knuckle draggers you’re dealing with here.
@Susie: Exactly but they don’t see common sense through those orange tinted glasses.
Well SF can always help get the deal through by standing up for their voters and taking up their seats.
@Colin McCarthy: Would be fantastic if they did anything that helps unity is welcome even joining that basket case of a parliament.
@Colin McCarthy: taking their seats would be going against their voters. But you already know that
@Colin McCarthy: ‘No Surrender’ says Mary Lou who was quite happy to share a platform with Nigel Farage and is so much better than Foster because she owns a Celtic top.
@Declan Leonard: Well then their voters are backwards and inward looking. Preferring to run the risk of crashing out and the dire economic consequences that come with it rather than take up the seats and stuff it to Johnson and the DUP whilst doing what’s best for the country.
@Donal Connell: ya and loose half their vote overnight real smart
@Dara O’Brien: ya and tell me what type of idiot voter is votting for Fine Gael and Finna Fail one bankrupt the country a few years ago and the other is doing a real good job since then 10000 homeless, a millilon on waiting lists and two capital projects that are costing billions extra and the lastest from a few trust worthy TDs and senators of over claiming on expenses. Which is fruad for the common people but not for them by the looks of things.
@Seamus Donnelly: But they are noble patriots, so they do what’s right for their people with no thought of personal consequences. Don’t they?
@rogermcnally1: ya thats why their doing what there voters want them to do and not listen to people who never voted for them and probably never will.
@Colin McCarthy:
SF voters don’t want them to sit in UK Parliament but you know that.
@Seamus Donnelly: Just like the D.U.P. Isn’t it wonderful?
@Seamus Donnelly: well if it means a united Ireland I’m all for it most sinn fein support is for a united Ireland pal..
@rogermcnally1: I’m a SF supporter and I don’t want them to sit in the parliment, I would rather be found dead in a ditch. I am adult enough however to be able to say that I really appreciate FGs approach to brexit. Leo has played a blinder, fairplay to him.
@Seamus Donnelly: what has that got to do with Sinn Fein not taking up seats in Westminister?
@Donal Connell: Grand and I think we all know that a united Ireland is inevitable.
The Unionist community must know that too. Their culture won’t survive, so I think a little understanding of their position might be helpful. That’s all.
@Dara O’Brien: you called Sinn Fein voters backward and inward looking their is hundreds of thousands of people that vote for them going by your comments your not one of them so why are you so concerned of what Sinn Fein stands for and if ya new anything about the situation in Westmister which i think ya don’t you would know Sinn Fein taken their seats wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference and i gave an example of other parties records to remind ya of your stupid generalization of people who vote Sinn Fein.
@Seamus Donnelly: hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands? Bit of a stretch? I assume you have already subtracted the vote those who left the party and went independent took with them?
@rogermcnally1: that’s understandable I see your point
@Colin McCarthy: I’ll say it agàin SF were voted in TO ABSTAIN from parliment….
@Peter donnelly: Remember they once refused to recognized the Dail. Now you can’t shut them up in there!
@Disco Inferno: add up the percentage of votes they got down south in the last general election and up North and then come to me.
@Seamus Donnelly: come back to me with your numbers
As someone from the Donegal border area, i will be glad if this comes to pass.
The Good Friday agreement cant be held hostage by a group of Far right extermists whose position on Brexit is a minority position in NI.
@Rónán Strain: while I agree, it pisses me off that NI get to enjoy such a sweet deal that neither side deserve. DUP for obvious reasons, and SF for sitting on the sidelines as all this unfoldes in Westminster.
Also, nobody is talking about the impact this deal will have on the economy South of the border. What company would want to set up in Donegal when they could set up on Derry with favourable access to UK and EU markets!
Suggest she goes and has a wee chat with Angela Merkel
If she wanted to stand up for the north, she would be using her considerable influence to lobby for remaining. The majority in the north are remainers and the vast majority want to stay in the customs union. Typical DUP bully
@Anne Marie Devlin: I’m intrigued by your comment. I have thought long and hard and followed this whole debacle for so long now but I have never once considered it from this stance. How different would it have been if they had supported their electorate and gone against the Tories. This will tax my brain this evening.
Hahaha cheerio Arlene
The torys won’t need the dup on this, her gravy train is over
Your party is not crucial anymore Arlene,Boris has played you for a fool and his won,time to suck it up and accept that you have done wrong and especially to the people of n.ireland.you would rather lead n.ireland economy off a waterfall and put back up a border and go back 50 years ago.your days are numbered Arlene raise the white flag
Ulster loves saying No
They even said No to leaving the EU
As Stormont is not up and running and likely won’t be for the forseeable future, a referendum in the North on the backstop is the only logical solution for getting consent. Does Arlene and the DUP have a problem with that?
Granted, they may not like the potential result…but its really the only way of dealing with the consent issue presently.
@Trish Boland: ref is best way forward alright.
The dup like democracy but not that type of democracy. Remember they were against the good Friday agreement referendum.
” Ulster says ;
Eh well.
Wait a minute,
Possibly maybe!”
Northern Ireland only backstop which only changes if there is a simple majority in returning to UK.
No party has a veto.
@Niallers: Is it an all island vote???? The border belongs to NI and RoI. RoI can’t give full control of it to NI. Right???
Lovely lady…
@Jack Johnson: Lady? Not even a Gentleman
@Dizzy: Now now. She’s quite the lady:
@Dizzy: what a comment. Chapeau!
Has anybody told Arlene that there’s an election coming and that neither of tbe two big dogs want it to be about Brexit.
Has she considered that Labour could abstain on a new Johnson deal vote if it fits the bill for them.
Then he wont need the DUP to put it to bed.
How does she consider that Bojo and Leo could get this moving unless there are moves afoot that she and her gang were not needed for.
Its all over.
Bye bye baby bye bye
Surely NI’s “long term economic interests” would be best served by be able to trade with the EU and the UK easily. Like the original withdrawal agreement. But as usual the DUP can’t see the opportunity because they are blinded by fear fuelled bigotry and limited by their narrow minds. They could have been the party that pushed for the agreement, ensured that N.I was the envy of U.K. They could have lorded that over SF, they could have claimed to be an forward thinking, pragmatic party. But they are useless, inept, backward, they will ultimately fail but before they do they will instigate, bluster, beat their chests, stomp their feet, shout (emitting that whistley sound that’s somehow unique to their kind) and wobble their jowels.
There has been speculation that a referendum could be used instead of a vote of the Assembly, which is currently suspended.
While not commenting directly on this speculation, Foster said that her party had recognised “the need to be flexible and look at Northern Ireland specific solutions achieved with the support and consent of the representatives of the people of Northern Ireland”.
You’d support a referendum then, Arlene?
The bus was always coming for snarlene
Get back in the wagon
lol, so basically a backstop in name only.
@DJ François: I don’t care what they call it as long as it goes through parliament.
She’ll be our problem soon
If Johnson had balls he dump DUP. Yes he may struggle get it through without them, can he not see DUP are holding him hostage
@Joseph Molloy:
I think he has … flattened the DUP with his Big Blondy Boris Bus
Arlene, just like “Norn Iron” last night , you thought you had it in the bag only to concede in the last minute…..lol
Arlene got thrown under a bus here. I’d be giving her stick here too but I’ve been reading about the childhood she had and I can definitely understand how she became such a staunch unionist. She’ll do anything she can to keep NI in the UK. The thing is no matter what she does, it doesn’t seem to be enough anymore. If Boris has the numbers, it’s them gone.
She threatened to do a lady Godiva in Westminster if a deal goes through,so definitely NO DEAL!!
Arlene no longer has any influence as the Dup no longer holds the balance of power in the hoc.
I thought that if Boris actually wanted a deal, he would keep NI in a customs union and have a snap election in the hope of forming a coalition with the Brexit Party, removing any need for the DUP. Not sure whether the Brexit Party would leave Northern Ireland behind or not….I suspect they would. NI voted to remain anyway so there probably wouldn’t be much of a fallout.
@John F: The Brexit Party might be running at 10-12% in the polls but because of the first past the post voting system in the UK that might only return 5 or 6 seats. 10% in the polls will not return 60 seats like it would under a proportional representation system. They wont have the numbers to make a difference.
@Inanimate Carbon Rod: Ah I didn’t realise that would make so much of a difference. The drama continues then, I guess!
@John F: Yeah the first past the post system in the UK can be pretty cruel. Fox example In Tony Blairs so called ‘Labour landslide’ in 1997 they got 42% of the national vote but ended up with 59% of the seats in the House of Commons. First past the post favours the big parties and shafts the small ones who find it hard to ever gain traction despite good support in opinion polls- the Lib Dems have always had this problem with a lot of voters but not enough of them in individual constituencies to get actually win the seat and make a difference. In the UK an MPs constituency represents around about 50,000 voters so for the Lib Dems to win a seat they need 25,000+ votes in a single constituency which is hard to get even though they poll well nationally at around 15-20%. As a consequence the first past the post system causes voters not to vote for small parties as it is seen as a ‘wasted’ vote. The system is stacked in favour of the two big parties
“the DUP is very relevant in the Parliamentary arithmetic and regardless of the ups and downs of the Brexit discussions that has not changed,” she said. ” she’s pretty cute.
@saoirse janneau: that’s not fair. I don’t see what her having a face like a slapped arse has to do with her competency as a politician (she’s also an incompetent politician)…but seriously, she is not cute, wide, shrewd, clever, tactical. She is a dullard, driven by hate, is patently incompetent/corrupt and is tactically useless. Not that the DUP has much more talent. If i was a unionist I would be worried. The end is nigh. Hopefully the North will recognise the devisive backward politics belongs in the Stone age and move from the edges into the middle.
Unless SF takes their seats…..
@Jim Buckley Barrett: not since boris kicked out half his party
Stand up to DUP blackmail and send them back to sort out the mess created at home
Did she actually believe a minority in her part of a “Union” would hold strong amid this mess?
If Arlene gets sodomised by the backstop, you will hear her screams in Dingle.
D.u.p. THRUMPed by Johnson
Poor Arlene! The bus is waiting, revving up. You well deserve it.
If this latest proposal does not work, we should invade the North,. I understand we have 3 tank. We can put Leo in one of them as flag bearer….
She speaks.
Good man Boris, what a boyo, a much trusted friend of ours,,,, Leo,, beware the smiles of blondes bearing etc etc, and Arlene avoid them big bus wheels!!!
We have to be more considerate and understanding of the Protestants in NI who want to remain part of the UK. For many of us 1921-22 is within our parents or grandparents memory when Protestant farmers and small business owners from my county had to sell up at fire sale prices and migrate North.
To those particuluarly, the nightmare of becomming part of a Catholic dominated Republic with attitudes towards them as expressed on these Journal threads is simply
outrageous. Just think about it?
Imagine that you are a Catholic in the North and that the South is an 18c Protestant State and that you are now comfortably part of a Catholic UK. How would you feel
about Unification or even any symbol vaguely suggesting that?
In business when one sits down to cut a deal, one has always put oneself in the other party’s seat as well as being clear about one’s own objectives and from postings on these threads, it is baltently obvious that very few have ever been in such situations
As an Irish citizen living part time in Ireland, I am absolutely apalled by the venom and hatred directed at the DUP & the Orange Order by the obviously unaware Catholic primary and secondary school brainwashed public. If our Catholic bias was physically manifest we’d be a nation of the lame! ( like your woman on the strand in Joyce’s Ullyses)
So, IMO, it is time that the Republic leads the way out of 16th & 17C religious bigotry
and debunks the Catholic Church from primary & secondary education and then declares the Republic as a fair and equitable Secular State.
I’d vote for that but unfortunately my country deprives me of the vote!
Mm
D.u.p. THRUMPed by Johnson
-3 month extension
-general election ( proxy Brexit Referendum) ( Labour Coalition Government)
-2nd referendum with a Stay carried
Amen
D.u.p. THRUMPed by Johnson
ARLENE needs to understand that the people of NI voted to remain in the EU.
The time for Boris and other Tory PMs paying protection money to the DUP has ended.
Arlene.Kop on. Nobody cares about your backward repressive party now. Your ship is sailing. Captain Boris has no interest anymore
DUP blah Blah & talk shit.
Shut up you daft bag. You and your party is a busted flush. Daily Telegraph for once got it right today by stating what has been known for years – the UK is sick and tired of NI and won’t be held to ransom by it in seeking Brexit. In fact they’d rather be shot of it.
@Nigel Barlow: shot of ARLENE at least. Now that’s an idea.
Jeez Arlene, how did you end up in the road? What? Who threw you? Oops, duck! Theres a bus coming!
Jeez Boris, you’re a cruel man
Arlene.Kop on. Nobody cares about your backward repressive little party now. Your ship is sailing. Captain Boris has no interest anymore. You v had your day
Dies she ever stfu
Bye Arlene
Can I be one of the first to welcome our unionist friends into a United Ireland
Arlene.Kop on. Nobody cares about your backward repressive little party now. Your ship is sailing. Captain Boris has no interest anymore
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