@honey badger: MDH is the greatest president this country has ever had. That you don’t think so is no surprise.

@Anthony Curran: He’s not, though. If you look at how a president has tributef to this island and internationally, it’s McAleese and Robinson light years ahead of miggledy. All he has done is bring the office into disrepute globally. He’s an anti-west headbanger with a soft spot for despotic regimes, tyrants, and islamists. The office of president has afforded him a reach his own electoral results never could. The consummate champagne socialist…

@Anthony Curran: you really need to visit Specsavers

@honey badger: You voted for him.. I’ll assume you didn’t always think he was a “headbanger” ( you really need to broaden your limited vocabulary) based on that fact.. So it’s only when his views didn’t align with your pro genocidal views that he became a target of your infantile ire. Poor Honey. #mypresident ;-)

@Anthony Curran: Far from the greatest we have had. He is a terrorist supporting little munchkin, his poems are muck too.

@Brian: Yes, I did vote for him. It was an uninspiring field, initially one that Sinn Fein under McGuinness torpedoed with lies and smears. I assumed, wrongly, that the office would constrain the headbanger within him- more poetry, less antiwest drivel. You cite my “genocidal views” – how a view can be genocidal is quite another day’s work – anyway, Miggledy, at the Holocaust memorial event, *twice* said that the Holocaust was merely “an attempted genocide”. It appears you suffer the same ideological derangement as miggledy. Schrodingers genocide anyone?
(Like the time you attacked me at length for pointing out that Wallace and Daly had voted against an EU motion critical of the execution of children in Iran by the mullahs. You got so very upset but couldn’t explain why)

@honey badger: Poor Honey, you’re still bleating on about an exchange a year ago. You’re truly desperate. I suppose because I’ve schooled you and fact checked your BS so often at this stage you have to cling on to something. Do I really need to school you again about our constitution and the role of our President within it, like I did last week..

@cup of tea: We have a never had a left-wing government in power in this country, ever.

@Brian: Oh, go on then! You didn’t school me, though. I was quoting a lecturer in Irish constitutional law. You were, well, being you. That’s why I brought up Wallace and Daly, and will again. You hate facts. I can put you in contact with the lecturer if you like, and you can let him know that his many years practising and teaching were wasted. Classic Brian. You’re always good for a laugh, in fairness ;)

@Setanta O’Toole: We have had them actually. The Marxist Democratic Left were part of the Rainbow Coalition in the 1990s. The Inter-Party Coalition in between 1948-1951 also contained left-wing parties. Also, Labour have been a member of multiple coalitions throughout the years and they are a solidly left-wing party in their own right. It could also be argued that the centre-left parties of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are moving even further to the left and it can be hard to differentiate them from the other parties in the Dáil as of late. Your statement does not hold up to basic inspection and research.

@William Jennings: Fianna fail and fianna geal are centre right parties William. The insistence of fellas of your Ilk that they are in any way left wing is laughable. I meant a government with a left wing party holding majority, not just given a token few ministerial roles to make up the numbers, and the the lions share of the blame at election time when FFG come up smelling of roses.

@honey badger: I’ll save my thumbs and revert you to said thread. Maybe some of it will go in this time.. most likely not. https://www.thejournal.ie/thousands-of-south-koreans-protest-in-sub-zero-temperatures-amid-political-crisis-6590983-Jan2025/

@honey badger: If he had stepped over the line. The other political parties would have jumped on him.
He is an expert on his role and the most popular president in the history of the state.

@honey badger: Micheal D for the win

@honey badger: He spoke beautifully at he last two.

@Brian: Everything I advised you of was factual and accurate – as per a lecturer in Irish constitutional law. I can’t make you understand this. I can point you in his direction, and again, you can tell him how he’s wrong! I’m nearly impressed by such determined ignorance… ;)

@William Jennings: You are confused. Our left wing parties are center left at best

@honey badger: You haven’t provided ONE fact honey .. not one .. your uneducated opinion of our constitution is not fact you deluded auld codger.. cite your lecturer and what they said. Present it.

@Brian: You’re confusing yourself now, Brian! You’ve shared the exchange. I provided several facts in a few comments. Your inability to understand them is your own business. Also, you can’t keep accusing me of being uneducated/ limited when you stubbornly refuse to take guidance on the correct usage of an ellipsis… ( Yep, it’s three dots – not the bovine two you insist on using…)
I look forward to the next episode of ‘Brian lacks self awareness.’ ;)

@honey badger: No facts then . Zero.. zilch.. nada. Just more drivel. I note that during the 1st exchange you made no reference to this mysterious ” law lecturer”, but now all of a sudden there is one who apparently backs up and supports your drivel that MDH has “torn up article 13.7 of the constitution “. Cite your lecturer Honey. Otherwise you clearly demonstrate yourself, yet again, to be nothing but a liar.

@Brian: Doubling down isn’t helping you, Brian. Zero lies. Only facts. Reread them. It’s basic comprehension, Brian. Also, silly you, I was citing the law lecturer – very few of us receive knowledge through divine inspiration! He wasn’t backing up or supporting ‘my’ facts – he provided them. I’d have thought that was obvious! Another ‘amateur hour’ blooper from you, it seems…
Your churlish tone is perfect, though. *chef kiss* ;)

@honey badger: You said ” I can put you in contact with the law lecturer if you like ” .. sure Honey. Just give me their name . I can contact them myself and verify your claims. If you’re not lying, then the provision of their name should be straight forward. I’ll be sure to get back to you after our exchange. Name ?

@Brian: No problem, Professor Conor O’Mahony – he’s based in UCC. Make sure to tell him that he doesn’t understand the constitution! Hubris is such a wonderful thing. I look forward to your full report, Brian!

@honey badger: Thanks Honey.. now was that so hard.. I’ll ask him to clarify remarks he made that our President has: ‘torm up article 13.7 of the constitution’. I’ll also put his response to my friend who is a law lecturer in TCD. Don’t worry I’ll give you a full report. mwahhhh X

@Brian: Oh, deary me. Feel free to ask the professor a question that now contradicts your own words that you typed in the article you reposted! :)
If only you were half as clever as you think you are. It’ll be fun, though. I can’t wait for the response. I did tell you to reread the comments, but you wouldn’t be told. I would, however, hope you’re not being disingenuous and misrepresenting your own words whilst ignoring what I actually wrote. That wouldn’t be like you at all…

@Brian: Oh and as I’ve said before..throwing out the auld “hubris” line when you call yourself ‘Honey Badger’, one of the fiercest animals in the animal kingdom, sums up your hypocrisy perfectly.. talk soon Honey Dear x

@Brian: Aw, bless. When all else fails, take a swing at a screen name! Jesus wept.

@Setanta O’Toole: You’re wrong again. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are objectively centre-left parties based on their policies. They support increasing inheritance tax and property taxes, they support strict rent control and price controls on childcare and they support “Net Zero”, carbon tax increases, banning turf cutting and other wacky environmentalist policies. They are both soft on immigration and have refused to enforce the laws that are already on the books and deport those who come here illegally without proper documentation. They are also both strongly anti-Israel and both like sucking up to China when it comes to foreign policy. Their manifestos are both solidly centre-left with some left-wing policies. They haven’t passed a single non-left piece of legislation while in government.

@honey badger: Oh deary me..  Poor Honey is getting his little knickers in a twist.. and trying his hardest to backtrack on his claptrap. Your words.. our president has ” torn up section 13.7 of the constitution ” fact. It’s in black and white. When challenged you claim ” everything I  advised you of was factual and accurate – as per a lecturer on the Irish constitutional law ” this would obviously include your opening statement about tearing up the constitution. You can try to squirm all you want. I’ll give you his full response to the remarks you attributed to him while lying in public.

@William Jennings: Fine Geal pledged 480 million landlord tax relief in their election manifesto and were only recently clashing with the opposition over a proposed 3 year rent freeze, so I’m not sure how you have gleaned that they support strict rent controls from that. Price controls on childcare isn’t a left or right wing issue. You know right leaning people have kids and want affordable childcare too yeah? I don’t believe environmentalist policies are inherently aligned to one end of the political spectrum or the other either. As for Isreal, a few speeches condemning the treatment of civilans in Gaza does not equate to being ‘strongly anti-isreal’..cont’d.

@Setanta O’Toole: at most, they have paid lip service to the Palestinian cause. There has been no engagement with the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions movement. No expulsion of the Israeli ambassador. Planes of their biggest financial backers still passing through shannon with impunity. We know Israel and the pro Isreal media globally like to gaslight people into thinking even the most minimal criticism of them is rooted in rabid antisemitism and 100% support for hamas though. Left wing parties don’t endorse privatisation, austerity, decade long housing crises through kowtowing to vulture funds and property developers, USC, and a two tier health system, means tested social supports for pensioners who have paid tax their whole lives, and trade deals to the detriment of their own people.

@Setanta O’Toole:
We don’t even have left wing opposition just a bunch of privately educated student union thicko types and SF the one trick ponies that’s does it’s Banking in Bulgaria

@Setanta O’Toole: Fine Gael were literally the party that brought in rent control in 2016 through their Rent Pressure Zone bill which capped rates at 2%, one of the strictest bills in Europe and they have expanded the number of locations that are subjected to these rules up to 38. There’s a reason why landlords are fleeing the market in record numbers. 98% of economists agree that rent control doesn’t work and only shrinks the supply of housing. Price controls are a fundamentally left-wing position to take no matter how hard you try to cod yourself. It is literally government intervention into the marketplace to engineer an artificial price and distort the supply and demand curve. They also put price controls on medicine which I didn’t mention earlier.

@Setanta O’Toole: Fine Gael have positioned themselves as the most pro-Hamas government in the Western world. Their rhetoric has been unacceptable and they were about to pass the disgraceful OTB until Simon Harris got a clip around the ear from America to stop spouting his unqualified ramblings. The bill literally denies Israel’s sovereignty of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and declares that all Israeli towns and cities located there are illegal. Fine Gael has repeatedly refused to differentiate between civilian and combatant casualties, hasn’t condemned Hamas for hijacking aid trucks, lies about Israel “starving” people in Gaza when we know that’s not true, objects to the EU-Israel trade deal and uses extremist terminology like “genocide” which comes straight out of the Hamas playbook.

@Setanta O’Toole: Every single year that Fine Gael has been in power, the size of the government and the civil service has increased. They haven’t abolished a single useless government department and they keep throwing money at the HSE despite its outcomes getting worse every year (the budget has nearly doubled since 2015). They haven’t privatised anything meaningful and keeping increasing the state pension to win votes. They also have made it clear that they want to abolish private healthcare completely and they are about to remove the means test for the Carer’s Allowance and have already done it for the Child Benefit, enabling even more welfare fraud to occur. You’re a fool if you think that it has been anything other than government intervention that has caused the housing crisis.

@William Jennings: Oh look, William, one those ad hominems you like to bleat about so much. You have now forfeited the argument by your own oft-repeated logic. Good to see I rattled you anyway. Have a good night. Just off to listen to some Kneecap. ;)

@cup of tea: why?

@Setanta O’Toole: No proper answer as usual. I’ve provided you with ample evidence that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are centre-left parties and yet you continue to bury your head in the sand and deny factual information. It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when you can’t even admit that you are simply wrong and that you lack any evidential credibility to back up your statement.

@William Jennings: I cited a point on rent control from 2024, you came back with something from 2016. Your points on Israel were nothing but your usual exaggerated and over emotive bluster and didn’t invalidate anything I said. Do you remember Micheal Martin visiting Isreal or the numerous times they have condemned the violence of Hamas? The OTB was supported by 124 UN member states, is every single one of them a left wing government? Like every pro-zionist you are conflating innocent palestinians with Hamas in an attempt to take the moral high ground. Swelled government agencies and bureaucracy are an inevitability from the power of unions and wouldn’t change with the ideology of the government. I’d say anything left of hunting the homeless for sport is all out communism to you.

@Anthony Curran:
A wealty left fool version of his tea cosy.

@Paul O’Mahoney: You’d love to see Bertie Ahern as president wouldn’t you, lol.

@Mr Inbetween: Nope I vote Labour

@Mr Inbetween: Try and debate the facts and not whataboutery , SF are now as useful as house on land that the owner will never own, or get a mortgage for.

@Paul O’Mahoney: The lads who wanted to tax children’s shoes..

@Paul O’Mahoney: Oh Labour, the poster boys for water charges, I see…..

@Dermot Blaine: Pa Daly is heading off to the High court as he’s unhappy about Junior Ministers will be at cabinet meetings. The smell of desperation is getting stronger.

@Mr Inbetween: Really…….SF poster boys for death…..you really are struggling with the concept of debate, Charlie Haughey blah blah, if you can’t debate on the present without using frankly childish references and assumptions, you need to stop and try and improve.

@Paul O’Mahoney: Who are they now. They’re a sad imitation of a real Irish Labour party, pre smoked salmon

@Gary Kearney: Who are who?

@Paul O’Mahoney: Well it was Charlie Haughey FF who gave the PIRA the ammunition to take on the British soldiers who shot and killed innocent Catholics who were partaking in a peaceful protest against the apartheid system in NI which totally favoured the Unionists.

@Mr Inbetween: Dude take a rest I’m not condoning what others did either, you seem to have a problem with me, yet I’m exercising my free speech, just like the shinners have done for the last 10 years.

I’ll say this simply,SF are the most nefarious political party in this country and the last 2 days have been great in the criticism of them. And if you don’t believe me read all the responses from hundreds of posters .

@Mr Inbetween: based on TheJournal comments I was starting to think deaths only occured when the IRA were involved.

@Eoin .h: Well that’s obviously not true, but the IRA did their bit, and it’s political wing SF are public representatives now, it comes with the job.

@Paul O’Mahoney: same political party which took the guns out of the IRAs hands. Or did you forget to mention that part?

@Mr Inbetween: Why did the Provos kill more Catholics than the British Army did during the troubles?

@Eoin .h: Did they I thought that was the GFA and it took years to convince the unionists even though Paisley and Mc Guinness were ” getting it on” on the taxpayers money.

@Paul O’Mahoney: no, it was thanks to Sinn Fein for convincing the IRA that the political process is best option. Is that the same loyalist paramilitaries who still have their British army supplied weapons?

@Paul O’Mahoney: Ha ha ..you wanted to meet up with me a couple of hours ago ” if I was man enough” for replying to you. You’re all about free speech now.. I’d say have a lie down for yourself lad.

@Eoin .h: So they convinced themselves, at least they convinced someone, they have struggled in that department ever since especially in elections.

@Paul O’Mahoney: ah ok, you’re just rewriting widely known history at this point. Pitty you wouldn’t care about the countless more victims of loyalist paramilitaries.

@Eoin .h: I’m not rewriting anything and what the loyalists did was equally evil, but the IRA and SF are now trying to wash the facts away. SF are now like the religious orders saying nothing until facts pop up…..

@Paul O’Mahoney: leave the events of the north to people who know what happened. And read up on The Conflict Archives of Northern Ireland before talking about what’s ‘equal’.

@Eoin .h: Dude I have a copy of the ” committee ” in my library the book that was banned here and the UK, the book that Trimble took out a $100m lawsuit who launched an appeal to fight that bstrd. So please don’t tell me to understand what I know.

Additionally the copy I have was bought in Boston and the person who bought it was visited by the authorities.

@Paul O’Mahoney: well it’s hard to believe a person who knows enough to read the committee would also frame arguments the way you have.

@honey badger: The BA used their proxies to do their dirty work. Surely even you know that?

@Eoin .h: Well there ya go, or are you saying that there’s only one side of the argument? There aren’t. Both sides did what they did for nothing more than power and money via extortion. And if you objectively think about it what was achieved? Both SF and the DUP are equal s now, and I was in Enniskillen last weekend, the weekend before the storm, doing the 12 steps to heaven, I got to purgatory and I was happy enough.

Nothing was achieved in all those years that innocent lives were traded for idealogy.

@Eoin .h: Not only is he trying to rewrite history Eoin, but the Sleeveen MM was at it during the election campaign when the conflict in the North was brought ” I’d be careful about saying on both sides “. The revisionism from these lads is staggering.

@Eoin .h: Additionally all I want is for a peaceful Ireland and that may have to allow the present situation go on…..and let us then create enough for all those who don’t have enough. Do I think political parties will do that …..NO …..but I do believe the people can. Perhaps I’m naive

@Eoin .h: You know what happened – all through the eyes of a nationalist.

@Anthony Curran:
Why not ask MI5 they’re being running Sinn Fein for decades.

@Eoin .h:
Sure it was not the SAS that convinced the RA now was a good time to look for a way out.?

@Eoin .h:
SAS put the idea in their head.

@Tim Brennan:
And complains about to many private houses being built,
When he himself lives in one.

@Dermot Blaine: Italia 90 is the only time I can remember and I’ve been around since the 70s.

@Gary Kearney: so what did he say and how has it been taken out of context?

@Louis Jacob: it’s would be very Monty Python, what did lowry do for us?

@Paul O’Mahoney: hahaha. This calls for immediate discussion…

@Louis Jacob: We could have the tribunal staff March in and out only finding a burnt match…..