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The Daily PollPARIS HAS LIMITED cars from driving through the central core of the city from today.
The restriction covers the first, second, third and fourth districts, with some exceptions.
This includes emergency vehicles, buses, taxis, residents, those with reduced mobility or who work there, and ‘destination traffic’ – those in the area for a specific reason such as a medical appointment, shopping or a cinema visit.
Essentially, the new change is to stop people driving through the city from one side to the other.
Dublin rolled out a similar measure along the quays earlier this year, but should the idea be extended to other Irish cities?
So today we’re asking: Would you like to see cars limited from driving through Irish cities?
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Uncontrolled immigration , Children’s Hospital , Housing , Scoliosis , Hospital waiting lists , Homeless , Neutrality in danger , Vulture Funds , Crime , RTE Bailout , Bike Shed and on and on . That’s the list of FF FG GP “achievements” over the term of this government . So tell me Simon and Micheal and Roderick , if re-elected what if anything will you do differently next time ?
@Jim Ryan: difference? I suppose their wages is going up again.
@Jim Ryan: nothing like trump,will waste another 5 years.
@Jim Ryan: The cake is a certain size. Bickering over the size of slices is ongoing. At least FF and FG are making the cake bigger not driving enterprises out of existence because of a Marxist illusion.
@Colette Byrne: 4 years you uneducated dope
@Jim Ryan: Our Neutrality? Our Constitution says that our armed forces cannot go into action without authority from the Oireachtas. That’s it. There is NO mention of neutrality. Our neutrality is a ‘custom’, not any legally ir constitutionally binding decision m
@thomas molloy: I’m no Marxist . We have a housing crisis and can’t/won’t house our own Irish people but it’s no trouble to our Government to house 200,000 Ukrainians . We can build modular houses for them . But Irish people don’t get a look-in when it comes to housing with this Government . Then we have asylum seekers here who should NEVER have been allowed into Ireland . We have Irish politicians smugly speaking about “Ireland’s International Obligations” to accommodate refugees and asylum seekers , but you won’t hear a word out of those same politicians on their Obligations to us the Irish people .
@Jim Ryan: Vote for Islamo SF. Your immigration will be even better.
@Jim Ryan: Bla-bla-bla. Professional moaner.
@Jim Ryan: Apart from housing, none of those things effect the majority of Irish people but agreed they do nothing
@K O: typo doesn’t make me a dope, you mo£on.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: This is correct. What you omit is that the majority of Irish people, time and again, have shown that they support neutrality. It is a constitutional imperative that the will of the people be respected, IMHO
@Colette Byrne: But it’s not just a typo, is it?
@Darth O’Leary: Fine, as long as it’s not done like Brexit. Vote first, then decide what it means. The full, clear and definitive meaning of ‘neutral’, in the Irish context, must be clear FIRST. Personally, the present article is fine by me.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: A vote would be fantastic but it’s not welcome by FFG because they know the answer they’d get
First we will be told lies and then broken promises otherwise same as usual
@pauley870: You are very hard on the media. It’s early days to know who they will support.
@thomas molloy: You’re obsessed with the media.. I’d say take a break from it lad. Both main stream and Social.. judging by the drivel you post, it’s not serving you very well.. go hit a sliotar up a mountain for yourself.
@Brian: We all should be focusing on the media as it is most voters source of information/bias. Eg if the media had fact checked Boris Johnson’s claims Brexit would not have happened.
@thomas molloy: Listen, plenty of ‘media’ fact checked BJs bullsht during the campaign.. if people reading the sun and other such rags want that to be their only source of information.. thats on them.. the information and facts are out there across all media platforms, and whilst it’s getting harder to access it some regards.. with all the other bs around it..this incessant banging of your anti media drum is tiresome.. I mean to say where are you getting all your unbiased 100 per cent factual news from.. please enlighten me. ?
We can expect lots of false smiles, unwanted knocks on the door and promises that will undoubtedly be broken. What else would you expect coming up to an election?
I expect the Polls to be wrong, again.
@Jack Cass: wishful thinking unfortunately
@Nigel Hayden: No way, the entire planet is turning away from treasonous leftists.
@Jack Cass: I’d say your dreaming nailed on sf won’t lead any government
we can expect a lot of lies, false promises and very woke oriented bulls…
I know who I’ll be voting for. I imagine most of us do. Can we just skip to the voting bit?
@honey badger: tell me who? I really don’t know who to vote for apart from not the current ones.
@Basildon Joe: Vote for whoever you want. Just make sure you do vote.
@honey badger: answer my question please I need guidance
@Basildon Joe: Should I cut the crusts off your sandwiches, too?
@honey badger: please help me yes.
@honey badger: a lot of undecideds out there, apparently..
@Basildon Joe: Vote nationalist
@FlipBip: What does that mean?
@Basildon Joe: Labour, Greens, and Social Democrats. Between them they are running more than enough candidates to form a government, if enough people vote for them
@lesidees: a nice thought, but highly unlikely!
@lesidees: maybe I’ll go labour or are they too woke?
@lesidees: Ah Greens tho. Regardless of how much ‘climate’ triggers people, incompetence should never be rewarded.
@lesidees: Labour and Greens sold their souls to get a pop at ministerial pensions. large protest coming their way again this time as a result. Labour are in terminal decline and might only have AK-47 in the house next time. Greens can probably depend on some under 40s who care about the planet but popularity is for the policy more than the party ( their result is probably the most unpredictable of all parties because they could potentially transfer all over the place and do relatively well)
Register. Decide. VOTE!! Bad governments are a result of good people not voting. REGISTER! DECIDE!VOTE!
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Bit of a sweeping one. Not sure you could successfully argue that but anyway. Who to vote for! OR who to vote against? Regardless nothing will be built here for decades. Any party committing to building infrastructure might get a look, any language about giving out fivers or forming governments with the current Green party will be a massive negative.
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: bad governments are a result of people not voting?. Not true. No matter how many people vote in this country we’ll still end up with the same bad government. Simply because there isn’t an alternative.
@Ger Whelan: subjective viewpoint this Government got a lot right no angels but no alternative as they choose to defend kiddy fiddlers
Ireland has emerged as one of the most expensive countries in the European Union for goods and services. Heard on radio this morning already knew tough. More same or will something be done to help iris people . Even when can travel is more expensive for flights and parking everything a rip off here
Look after the pension who paid tax a prsi sice the we’re 16yea old
@martin finnegan: Martin, the median salary in Ireland is twice as much as most of the rest of the EU. The prices are aligned with people means. It’s basic economic you missed in school.
@Alex: Ye but the prices are nearly 3 times with other European countries
@martin finnegan: it is also one of the countries with the highest salaries and highest minimum wage.
@Alex: Explain then, why the price of a litre of milk is the same in a shop in Dublin and Clare.. yet there is 10k in the difference between the median salary in both counties.. and that’s not even taking into account low income earners, minimum wage earners and unemplyed/disabled/OAPs.. whose means are prices aligned with..? or do you even have a clue what you’re talking about..???
@Brian: don’t bother him with facts. Can’t you see he’s happier without them
@Darth O’Leary: Indeed.. glad I wasn’t subjected to the economics classes he was in school.
Loads of pretty posters and lies incoming!!
Journal could you put up a Gravy train tracker like the Santa tracker at Christmas.
No shinner vote
@Lefty Cries: why don’t you go outside & shout at the lads putting up sf posters instead of your relentless toxic bleating on here? Set your phone to measure your time spent on comments while you’re at it. All of your accounts that is.
Will FF & FG have enough of the sweet cake to “go it alone”????
@Frank Mc Carthy: hopefully
Even the journal can’t distinguish between both party’s, it was michael who told us, was that not the news of the day yesterday. Please keep up journal.
we need to vote Sinn Fein for a more equal and diverse ireland
@Billy Eyelash: Not if you want your kids safe you don’t.
@Billy Eyelash: Shalom
@Billy Eyelash: freedom for kiddy fiddlers
Empty Promises & Lies, we seem to fall for the lies as a Nation, every time. Some of these people are pathological liars.
Not to be the bearer of good news but even if FG isn’t perfect (far from it). Ireland went from 3rd world country with nothing going for it to one of the wealthiest country in Europe with taxes surplus every year. Moan as much as you can but that’s a fact.
@Alex: Just look at the state of France or the UK our next African neighbours. Social policies have its limits. In France not even 50% of people pay taxes to subsidise the other lazy 50%. No one wants that. Only invalid and elderly should get any help.
@Alex: Then stop sending millions of euros to sh!thole who never use the funds as they are supposed to be.
No votes for Mary Muslim Lou and her pedo party
Only thing I expect is a lot of broken promises.
We can expect three weeks of unmitigated b/s and lies!
Did you notice that the only person not smiling is Rodders, I wonder why
Nothing new thats for sure
Just like in US the public in Ireland are more intelligent than the world is flat Marxist incapables who want everyone negative about progress.
It is very simple what people will hear for the next 3 weeks. Lies, lies and more lies from a bunch of absolute liars.
@Gerry Lamont: All 550+ of them are liars?
I think we can expect BS piled on top of BS and all done with a straight face and genuine fake sincerity! Business as usual, really…
Handy link here to all the constituencies, incumbents, who is running, etc.
RTE news : General Election Constituency Profiles
http://www.rte.ie/news/election-24/profiles/#/general-election-constituency-profiles/
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: Thanks for sharing. RTE provide predictions in each constituency based on “analysis”
This is very speculative and littered with unsubstantiated presuppositions. This is not the job of the national broadcaster imo. Nowhere, AFAIK, in the link does it disclose the source of this “analysis”
We can expect nothing. All proceeds go to Brussels.
Same old, same old. SSDD.
The Socialists in Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil arguing with the Socialists in Sinn Fein as to who can put forward more radical left-wing policies and who can spend more of our hard-earned money which they steal from us through taxation. You’re screwed up the creek without a paddle no matter which of the major parties that you vote for. Smaller parties like Labour and PBP are just as bad when it comes to being left-wing. There is a hegemony of opinion in Dáil Éireann and it is cancerous for the Irish people.
FG for the win!
I wish terrible things upon them.
Whoa… so many to choose from in my new exciting election… well, you all look so tempting but no point in wasting my vote, so…. I’m gonna go with The People’s Judian Front. Final answer.
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