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Updated 14:56
OPPOSITION TD MICK Wallace has asked the government to move the Dáil summer break next year so that TDs can fully enjoy the European Championships.
The Wexford TD raised the issue in the Dáil this morning but was shot down by Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore.
Wallace suggested that as there will “probably” be a six week break for TDs next summer it could be moved to coincide with the football tournament.
“It (Euro 2012) will be a great break for the people who are suffering from the austerity measures”, he told the Dáil. “Given that there will probably be a six week recess at some stage next summer, would the Tánaiste consider arranging two weeks of it to coincide with the first two weeks of the soccer?”
His request was met with bemusement from Gilmore, who told the Dáil: “It shows how much times have changed around here”.
The Tánaiste noted that it was unusual to have a TD ask to move the summer break:
“There used to be a time when opposition Deputies were complaining about the length of the summer recess”, he said. ” This is certainly a first in that we have got a request not only to extend it but to have it in June. Unwittingly, Deputy Wallace might have stumbled on an issue which will find considerable support on the Government side.
“The Government will make a considerable effort to keep its nose to the grindstone and deal with the issues of the people. We will have to watch the games on the television”.
Wallace emphasised that he was asking for the time off to be “reorganised” rather than extended. He also took to Twitter to explain this:
Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett ended the discussion, telling the Dáil chamber, “Deputy Wallace had his run,” before moving on to other business.
Speaking on Liveline on RTE Radio 1 this afternoon, Wallace said that productivity would be down if the Dáil were to sit during the European Championships
“If you try to tell me that productivity will be as high as normal (in the Dáil) during the football, that will not be the case,” he said. ”People will be very much focused on the football anyway”.
He proposed that the Dáil instead take a four week break in August and a two week break in June for the football.
The Dáil broke for recess this year on 21 July and resumed on 14 September. The European Championships will run from 8 June until 1 July 2012.
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The man is right, Plus she’s a head case. All the Best.
@087 bed: He repeated a load of false claims (one of which you dutifully echo). How can that be ‘right’?
@087 bed: Nah he’s looking like the dumb auld lad, now that the dumb auld lad has dropped out. She may well be a ‘headcase’ like… but yea, he’s wrong, see ya.
@087 bed: the article states most of his claims are false but you claim hes right? Typical Trump supporter . Brainless and delusional
@087 bed: he feels up women without their consent and brags about it. He is an old creep.
@barry williams: she did fail the bar exam on first try so that wasn’t false yet the journal can’t do some basic research into that
@KK O Mahony: That wasn’t what Trump said. She *did* pass the exam.
@Brendan O’Brien: but there are any amount of video clips, online, where she refers to herself as Indian, and relatively recently. How are they false claims? What is wrong if if one confused as to whether she in Black or Indian?
@Oh Mammy: Trump isn’t confused: he is bigoted and transparent. In front of an ethnically Indian audience he would have claimed that she always said she was Black.
He should simply accept the fact that she has Black and Asian heritage. That’s what a decent person would do,
@Brendan O’Brien: one saying that they are confused because a person that previously identified and an Indian is now identifying as a Black is a bigot? You have always being inflammatory with your highly divisise posts.
@Oh Mammy: Pointing to divisiveness is not itself divisive. This is a lesson that you need to learn.
@087 bed: obvious troll, almost certainly a bot. Do not engage with these accounts
@Brendan O’Brien: you are not teaching anyone on the the finer points of divisiveness. Rather, many of your posts have divisive intent within. They are also riddled with mistuths and dis/mis information, proved beyond a doubt on these boards not so long ago. So well proved indeed, you had the thread removed. Yay for democracy!
@Oh Mammy: Like your hero, you peddle ‘fake news’.
@John P Doe: You’re the worst commentator on here EVER
@KK O Mahony: but she did pass it yes?
@John P Doe:
You obviously don’t remember Dan quayle
@Sean: Dan “can’t spell potato” Quayle…… LOL
@John P Doe: Really? Worse then Andrew Johnson that became President after Lincoln was assassinated?
How about Spiro Agnew? Ya know, the lad that had to resign.
I’m thinking you don’t actually know very many Vice Presidents.
@Brendan O’Brien: memory holing inconvenient truths. So democratic.
@Oh Mammy: So if a black person calls themselves American, they’re not black?
@Oh Mammy: why can’t she be both?
@087 bed: Go back to the protest line!!
@087 bed: Utter nonsense.
@KK O Mahony: so what! Quite a few students fail first time around, it can be due to anxiety, too many late nights cramming, illness, or not preparing properly for the exam.The fact is she did pass the bar exams so he was telling lies,, Again!
@Brendan O’Brien: because she campaigned on being “The First Indian American Senator” from California for years, then all of a sudden she has Megan Thee Stallion Campaigning for her pivoting as the First African American VP, she’s the Race Baitor & whether you like Trump or not, Harris is the one who constantly uses Race to further her political career and any apposing candidate would point it out
How has he taken in about half the population? It is so bizarre.
@ecrowley ecrowley:
The same way many commenters here use fictional ‘racial’ differences to justify juvenile misadventures.
It doesn’t disturb commenters in the least that just because convictions are labelled ‘scientific’, they are prepared to abandon any sense of consideration to appear reasonable and responsible.
The Americans try to soften the term ‘Negro’ (or worse) by capitalising the word ‘Black’ thereby perpetuating invalid biological distinctions of favoured and less favoured ‘races’.
What you call bizarre is disconcerting and dismaying as the Irish and their culture were the template for natural selection as a savage ‘race’.
Before any of you look across the Atlantic, look at yourselves first and what you are prepared to accept.
@Gerald Kelleher: not too many agreeing with you here today.
Maybe the savage race is unacceptable characterisation of us Irish? I sure don’t see that in us.
@ecrowley ecrowley: like the way most of ireland were taken in by the ‘Holy Trinity’ religious lark !
@John Nolan:
The connection between the individual and Universal is inspiration- a combination of perceptive and reasoning abilities.
Maybe those following mathematical theorists can distance spirit from inspiration as both represent the same thing (spiritual), but then again, most commenters already bought into the Enlightenment subculture to appear ‘enlightened’ by a bunch of academic voodoo merchants with really dangerous and disruptive convictions.
Not a single person can identify civilised/savage ‘races’ originating from conditions in famine Ireland and industrial Britain.
https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/malthus_essay_population.html
Many have sold their souls (perceptive/reasoning) that enjoy creation and their existence for contrived ‘facts’.
@Gerald Kelleher: Can you do anything else besides waffling?
Gerald, you know I have you muted so there’s no point replying to my comments.
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: Evidently, he’s addicted to ChatGPT. Couldn’t string a sentence toghether without it. Sad, I guess.
@Gerald Kelleher: If your purpose is to dispense wisdom, knowledge and insight then you are failing miserabily with your dense, opaque, long-winded ramblings that make one lose the will to live and literally make the eyes glaze over.
If on the other hand you are trying to come across as a pompous, pretentious know-it-all rock on….
@Mies Valkenburg: Ah, is Gerald using ChatGPT, or *is* Gerald ChatGPT?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere:
Natural selection employed dehumanisation for extermination purposes so, once again, not a single Irish commenter behaves like an adult and identifies the prejudice conviction emerging from the deaths of a million people on this island as the template for favoured and less favoured ‘races’.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Descent_of_Man_(Darwin)/Chapter_V
I celebrate my humanity, but that aggression or survival of the fittest is considered the centre of human life on Earth because animals hunt for food is dangerous and dumb.
I couldn’t live with myself for one day with natural selection for the colonial expansion excuse that it is but seemingly everyone else can.
@Gerald Kelleher: Rock on it is.
@Gerald Kelleher: Dodging bullets like Neo on the roof G! some gems in there! *thumb emoji
@Gerald Kelleher: I hope your making good money with that Arts Degree bud
In the same interview Trump confirmed he would pardon protestors who attached and seriously injured police officers during Jan 6, this includes a protector who knocked the eye out of a socket leaving the officer with one eye. He is as vile as he is dangerous
@Terry Brophy: Harris withheld information that would have freed an innocent man on death row until she was compelled by to by the courts.
@Damien Leahy:
Link ?
@Damien Leahy: That’s not actually what happened, she OPPOSED a DNA test (which a LOT of Attorney Generals do after a person has been convicted in the US, it’s awful, but it’s hardly an usual practice). And he is still in prison. The DNA testing done in 2004 did not conclude in his favour. His blood was found at the crime scene. A teeshirt with both his blood and the victims was found.
He has NOT been proven innocent.
Not saying there aren’t questions around the case, but he was an escaped convict, hiding out in the house next door when 4 people were murdered…… The optics aren’t in his favour.
What are the odds of 4 people being murdered by a different criminal, whilst one is also hiding out next door after breaking out of prison……?
@Damien Leahy: You should know by now that these are Republican Party lies that have long since been shown to be false.
And yet here you are spreading this nonsense again.
And, at the time I write this, 64 other mindless idiots have upvoted your comments containing these false assertions.
@Tricia G28: your wasting your time dealing in facts when talking to an orange baboon supporter..
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: joe biden is Republican? Tulsi gabbard is Republican?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article233375207.html
Madam President is ahead in 5 of the 7 swing states!!!!! A prosecutor versus a CONVICTED criminal !!!!!! I wasn’t interested in either Biden or DonOld as they are very old but now with Kamalamania in the race it has gotten very exciting, you can’t deny that she has brought the energy!!!!! Sad that they had to tell republicans to stop focusing on her race and inherent personal attributes with their DEI even though she has more merit than the donvict. #MadamPresident2024
@9QRixo8H: isn’t it funny that comments are closed on most articles but when it’s Trump they are open.. just to allow the bashing,
Reporting in this country is in the gutter
@Joe Mc Dermott: Trump and his followers are in the gutter.
@Joe Mc Dermott: seriously? Between trump himself and now this vance character they are doing all the bashing themselves. And it’s glorious to watch.
@Joe Mc Dermott: yes because he — the perpetrator — is the victim, not Kamala!!! Typical maga kkklansman logic
Hauled off by his handlers after 30 minutes. An absolute car crash of an interview. This is the beginning of his end.
@honey badger: all of a sudden he’s 78 years old, mad.
Absolutely hilarious the amount of negative articles written about Trump and yet not a single one about Kamala..classic media singing of the same hymn sheet. Have a look at her record as district attorney in California. Would love for someone to point out one single thing she has ever accomplished. She has been nowhere to be seen as vice president for 3 and a half years, they even said she was dragging down Biden’s ticket less than 6 months ago yet now she’s painted as the savior.
@KK O Mahony: The stories write themselves every time he opens his gob. The real story is how are so many people so thick to support him.
@Pablo: once again you fail to point out even a single positive thing about her… hyped beyond belief and a massive fall coming
@KK O Mahony: just missing one K.
@barry fay: “once again” ?? Well considering I post here maybe once a month, if that, your post makes absolutely no sense. Bot or just delusional, but either way it would be tricky for me to provide answers to a question I’ve never been asked.
@Pablo: strip away all the noise and look solely at policies and past record. It is fairly clear why people support him. Haha If you think people that support Trump are thick I’d love to know what you think of people that support Kamala are
I heard some of his ramblings ,couldn’t understand what he was saying. Sounds like he needs to retire from public life and get the proper medication.
George Washington: I cannot tell a lie
Donald Trump: I cannot tell the truth
MAGA: I cannot tell the difference
Orange is the new black!
The
Racist
Undemocratic
Mob
President
@KTH: and a sex offender too.
@Kevin Collins: and the church worship him as the next coming. It’s hilarious
@Thesaltyurchin: Which church? The satanic church, maybe…
@Oliver Cleary: lmao.. Trump looking like the longest nursing home resident now that sleep Joe is out.
It’s incredible how the Orange One spews out lie after obvious lie and yet 70M voters swallow without question. He sacked all his challengers when in office but he cant sack 70M voters. He is afraid to debate Harris knowing that his lies will be called out and make him look like the snaks oil salesman that he is. America, wake up before it’s too late!!!!!!
Take the shovel off the orange lad quick
@KK O Mahony: Harris has not stood in front of the world’s media and lies through her teeth constantly. She has not promoted hate and division. Trump has given the media all the reasons it needs ro write negative articles about him. He has never conducted himself in a manner that would lead to positive articles.
You are entitled to your political belief and leaning but if you are truly unaware of how despicable Trump’s behaviour has been, is and will continue to be then I am afraid to tell you that you need to take your head out of the sand. Whataboutary is an argument used by those who know they can not defend Trump.
Donald Trump said in 1993 that Native casino owners didn’t deserve special status because “they don’t look like Indians to me.” He just gets away with this gaslighting constantly.
Car crash interview, train crash interview. Ha ha he is done, unraveling like a toilet roll.
Shady Vance has tanked the ticket and Trump just doubled down on the racism and misogyny. Bye bye Donald, he’s already down in the majority of swing states, wheel’s completely come off
Trump will not win this election, what terrible things he’s saying and useless no foundation in these accusations at all. Head to head she will tear him apart verbally.
Trump turned orange a long time ago
Trump should be judged on his record. Scraped through college with the aid of his Dad pockets. Dodged the draft because of bone spurs. Inherited millions. Bankrupted almost every business he touched. As POTUS -Tax cuts for billionaires. Mishandled Covid. Stacked the Supreme Court. Abolished Women’s Freedoms. Obeyed Putin and denigrated the US intelligence services. Demonstrated disgust and distain for the US armed forces. Since losing big to Biden he has attempted a coup, stolen secret documents been Indicted and found guilty of business fraud. Found liable for rape. Not forgetting he was besties with serial abusers Epstein and Maxwell. Not a great record.
All he does is lie in order to pander to those who are part of his cult. If the population if the USA are dumb enough to elect him then so be it. It will be a reflection on how brainless the population is. No political figure is squeaky clean but few are as obviously flawed as DT.
A black complexion human doesn’t make them any less human than a white complexion human, yet, without a single objection over the last number of years, commenters here are prepared to accept a Victorian prejudice conviction called natural selection based on cultural distinctions between famine Ireland and industrial Britain.
A few years ago, an opportunity to remove prejudice by the commenters here in influencing how evolutionary sciences are taught could be excused out of unfamiliarity. Nowadays, it amounts to cowardice.
I am from the human race, so although many commenters here try to dehumanise me using 21st-century terms, I celebrate my humanity while those who believe in races, racism, racist, and racial cannot and do not.
@Gerald Kelleher: you could have stopped after the first comma, instead of waffling on
The Irish believe Origin of Species emerged from the study of the Galapagos, however, Wallace based the antecedent Origin of Species less than ten years after the end of the Irish famine.
“One day something brought to my recollection Malthus’s “Principles of
Population,” which I had read about twelve years before. I thought of his clear exposition of “the positive checks to increase”–disease, accidents, war, and famine–which keep down the population of savage races to so much lower an average than that of civilized peoples” Wallace, Origin of Species, 1858
Why would 21st-century Irish society accept a prejudice conviction?
If somebody uses natural selection based on the American variant of science versus religion then they are worse than creationist, far worse.
@Gerald Kelleher: I was lucky enough to see his handbook in store at the NHM in London (Wallace), pretty amazing how excellent people were at drawing and how important it was back then.. Pythagorus’ belief that farts were evil and it was the soul leaving the body give us another lesson in the context of intellectual.. he was part of an anti bean society! fr
Trump is right, extremely far right.
As the Americans say she’s bat s-it crazy I’d rather trump any day
@M G:
As crazy as a man who’s a wannabe dictator and who wants to use the presidents office to punish anyone who has disagreed with him?
@M G: can you be specific? Because those that oppose Trump can point to his over 34 thousand lies when making their point.
And the fact he keeps talking about Hannibal Lector, and sharks being electrocuted, and his obsession with water pressure, and windmills etc. I could literally go on all day.
The dude is certifiable.
@M G: Good luck.
@Joe McDermott: If you think the standard of journalism offered on this site is in the gutter then feel free to stop visiting the site and use an alternative site instead. By not doing so, all you ate doing is make a clear statement to everybody that you are a bit thick.
He just displayed his usual misogynistic aggression when questioned about the words he uses to describe people of a different skin colour were laid out before him. Brilliant journalism that US main stream media sadly lacks. Hate to say that we fall in with the US media and treat him as a “normal” candidate which he is not.
She should have questioned his fake tan in response
@Mr Sparkle: Why descending to the level of an old man’s utterings..
Can’t we all just enjoy a Happy Kwanzaa without the bickering?
@Pól Pot: Yes, as Harris will be elected president by then.
@Brendan O’Brien: How do you know? Anyway, it’ll be a far more entertaining Kwanzaa if Donald is having us all over.
@Pól Pot: Donald is having you on.
@Brendan O’Brien: Well, you head on over to Kamala’s gaf, and we’ll see who has the better Kwanzaa. I always spend Kwanzaa at Mar-a-Lago, and it’s always a proper session.
@Pól Pot: Like you’d be permitted within 1000 feet of the place LOL
Trump is the BIGGEST snob. Unless you’ve a few million in the bank that he thinks you might give him, he wouldn’t even bother turning a fire extinguisher on you if you were immolated.
@Tricia G28: Fool.
It’s pure Trumpet. He cannot stand a woman and a woman of power could easily win . He can’t fight her like he did joe and he’s the one now babbling like an old man he is
He was right so… Politicians suddenly would belong and identified themselves to anything if that serve them… Including him
He is getting boring, fast.
Now that frail and doddery Joey is away from the race ,Trump is looking v old himself .Harris is far from Ideal : all that mad laughing etc and her pro choice stance upsets me.along with the Democratic support for transgenderism in female sports in the U.K. So much damage done there . Trump would bring in fracking, absolutely ruinous to the environment and nature .Anyway the next 100 days will b v interesting .
Donald is always right, even when he’s wrong.
The 4 yearly circus has well and truly rolled into town . The predicency has become a farce over many decades . It’s a charade , and attention should be paid to who really runs the country . Lobby groups, wealthy campaign donors , the military industrial complex..and how about their foreign policy…hubris that is seems to have a nation in a hurry to lead us all down the path to WW3 … Rome fell , Washington may too . If it does , it won’t go quietly
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