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Updated at 8.15pm
THERE WERE over 2,500 homeless children living in emergency accommodation last month.
Latest figures from the Housing Department show that there were 1,256 families homeless in Ireland in March, a rise of 32% since last year, and up 17 families on the previous month.
The number of single homeless adults also rose from 4,875 in February to 4,909 last month.
Commenting on the figures, Housing Minister Simon Coveney said they were a “stark indicator of the challenges we face as we remain focussed and determined to address this problem”.
He pointed to measures being taken to reduce the number of homeless people.
Homelessness charity Focus Ireland called for the Government to publish a strategy to deal with the issue of family homelessness specifically.
Rough sleepers
Rough sleeper figures for Dublin were also released today. They showed 138 homeless people sleeping rough in Dublin on a single night this month, an increase in over 30% since last year.
The spring rough sleeper count for the Dublin region was carried out on the night of 4 April and the morning of 5 April.
The count found a total of 138 people sleeping rough in this period. Of these, the majority (72%) were discovered within the Dublin City area (north and south).
The remaining 28% were found in Dublin’s other local areas: Fingal, South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire.
Rough sleeper counts are carried out by officials working on behalf of the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive (DRHE) twice a year. One count is carried out in spring and the other in winter.
The DRHE manages homeless services for the entirety of Dublin.
The latest count shows a drop of four people since the winter count, which took place in November.
It is up by 30% on last year’s spring count, during which 102 people were found to be sleeping rough.
The highest single count of rough sleepers in recent times occurred in winter 2014, when 168 people were found to be sleeping rough on the streets of Dublin.
The DRHE said it was working with Dublin City Council to bring another 150 emergency hostel beds on stream in the city for homeless people.
The council said it had housed 150 single persons in DCC rented accommodation in 2016 and 42 in the first quarter of 2017.
Breakdown
Of the 138 rough sleepers, 85 had previously accessed homeless services. Seven people had never accessed services and not enough info was available for the remaining 46 people.
85 of the people were Irish nationals, 13 were non-Irish. The nationalities of the remaining 40 could not be identified.
On top of the people sleeping rough outside on the night of the count, an additional 57 people slept in the Merchant’s Quay Night Café.
The Night Café provides mats on the floor for people to sleep, as well as support services.
Taking into account this figure, the total number of people counted without beds for the night in Dublin was 195. The Night Café first opened in January, 2015.
There were also 186 placements for beds in emergency hostels made through Homeless Freephone and Dublin’s Housing First on the night of the count.
The Housing First is made up of workers from charities the Peter McVerry trust and Focus Ireland and funded by the DRHE. Part of its work is to liaise with rough sleepers in Dublin on a regular basis, sourcing beds for them and maintaining a level of contact.
“Unique group”
The DRHE also said that a “unique group” of individuals who had arrived in Dublin in recent weeks from Romania were encountered on the night of the count.
The people had arrived here either seeking employment or having been promised work.
Half of this group have been repatriated to Romania since the night of the count.
The rough sleeper count has been carried out under the jurisdiction of the DRHE since 2007.
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What should be the most important commemoration in decades looks like descending into a complete farce. Seems it’s just an annoying sideshow to this incompetent government.
Can we not just have a parade and a couple of days off? Fireworks would be nice too. It’s going to be a very emotional day. Let people find their own meaning to it. Picnics and street parties would a nice touch too and those don’t require central government planning or financing. People seem to be demanding the bodily resurrection of Christ and I don’t get it.
“Who fears to speak of Easter Week?”… Our leaders, apparently.
Doubt it. The Defence Forces did a dry run of the parade in 2006. A lot of this is already good to go.
I’d use the word “leaders” loosely there Jamie. They couldn’t lead a horse to water.
Fergal, there doesn’t need to be razzmatazz. A dignified few days is all most people want. Reflecting on their sacrifice, not a photo opportunity for politicians.
Current day Sinn Féin and the PIRA are the only true heirs of the 1916 Rising. They should plan it all.
Very loosely mate, our liars more like. Best 1916 centenary present would be seeing this lot consigned to the political dustbin, if they’re not gone before then. The Rising was about the people, this commemoration has been hijacked again by this weasel government and their vested interests. Afraid to be proud of our revolutionary spirit. Same shysters would’ve been calling for the executions back in the day.
Ah, SÓB, I see you got my text. Well in a chara :D
Thanks Rols! Any sign of the rest of the lads… WereJammin, Sarafields, FearCiarrioach, Caoimhin, Orange Order Loyal?
Up until Adams and co accepted partition – Michael Collins was cited as a traitor… now he’s being referenced by SF as a hero… its almost as if they are just like the rest of the political parties… wait a minute – turn their backs on a United Ireland – check… make silly promises they can’t keep-check.. make a u-turn on their core values – check… claim to be the descendants of the signatories – check… interesting interesting. I’d be interested in hearing Shinner O Bhots input.
They’re coming.
I’m here shinner mate!
Working on a Sunday I see, nice that FG are paying overtime!
Sergeant, you FG/FF/Lab/CeannComhairle troll, Michael Collins was a traitor, the ambush scene was my favourite part of the movie. He did have a great policy on the press though. SF will keep all their promises and their core values are strong from all the pilates they do. Sinn Féin are the true descendants of 1916 Sinn Féin because the names are the same.
@SOB I can’t argue with that..The names ARE similar. Reminds me of ‘Triggers brush’ from ‘Only Fools and Horses’ – has had the same brush for 19 years… only 7 new heads and 5 new handles – but its the same brush.
I just hope representatives from the UK government are consulted during the planning, and probably would be best to get input from the unionists as well. last thing we want is to protray Ireland as a nation of republican thugs, Ignorant to the feelings of people who share our island.
we should use this opportunity to show the world how European Ireland is. And how far we have come from the dark days.
*portray
The only thing is there Sean why would we consult the UK ? Nothing to do with them.. Its ok that we wanted to break the connection with them and considering that the objectives of the rising were to end the british connection its entirely inappropriate to have them involved while six counties Of ulster are still in dispute.
Republican is not a dirty word it just needs to be reclaimed from the liars and populists that its currently associated with.
Shocking attempt at trolling there sean keep trying compadre
Everybody know what fine Gaels version of European Ireland is Sean it’s full payments to bondholders, Broken promises ( or lies) , appointing friends to committees and boards , charging for water ( twice by the way) .. Need I go on ????
If you were trolling.. Thats some fine work. Lets watch.
I can see it now, Denis O’Brien cutting the ribbon for the opening ceremony.
I’m ashamed to be irish under this government’s rule. It just beggars belief just how detached they are from realty.
800 years fighting for ethnic sovereignty destroyed in 18years by globalist imperial mass immigration plantation policy.
It is a great video for a business showcase but it has nothing to do with 1916 commemorations.
Yes, Fergalreid, that sounds great – a festival, parties, happiness, that’s how we should celebrate. Absolutely!
Lasair you miss the point entirely.
Lasair Aireáinneach is Irish for Aryan Flame… Nuf said.
Seanieryan I am very proud of your new found open mindness. Your comments are easier to read and nicer. And nice to see you are no longer blinded by the fakes.
Use ROI, or the south.
Ireland is Ireland is Ireland, an island on the periphery of Europe.
It used to be the national aspiration to mention Ireland when really only referring to 3/4 of it… as we paid claim to the total, fine and dandy, but now it’s the National delusion.
Read the proclamation, a true 32 county republic that cherishes ALL its children.
Can you please inform us as to why Michael Collins was a traitor
There’s a lot you don’t get Fergal, how can you commemorate an historical event without mentioning the people who took part in it? This government couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery!
Really?
Do they consult us when they celebrate their commemorations; whose country is it?
We are Irish first, European second.
Enda, the name of the State, in the English language, is Ireland.
Diarmuid
It isn’t.
“Intemperate” indeed:
They say the word ‘honest’ and ‘politician’ should never be in the same sentence.
And ‘adviser’ should always be included with ‘shit’ as in ‘governnent shit adviser’.
Satire
Dandahan4, com
Anyone opposing austerity misses the entire EU agenda if they do not oppose mass immigration wage-slave engineering. Both are mutual components to deliver mass perpetual emasculation & impoverishment.
EU is in the middle of a project to create a Europe of docile debt-ridden, wage-slaves/consumers, while increasing the power of global big business interests and the few unelected EU commissars based in the centre of power in Brussels who see to their financial policy needs. These double taxation water charges the property tax and triple road taxes are a means to get
you to pay for your own destruction. The fraud taxes pay the cost of mass immigration/asylum administration – dressed up as paying for austerity. These taxes are to pay for multicult policies that are touted as “enrichment” & “diversification” schemes. When we are done paying for a debt we do not owe, these charges and illicit taxes will remain to pay for Europe’s social engineering mass immigration wage-slave & consumer-cattle project .
How & why:
Europe is attempting a massive social engineering project by trying to get rid of the pre-existing
homogenous settled ethnic Europeans. These territorially bound ancient Europe ethnicities, like
other world ethnicities, contain the strongest bonds of community which if harnessed properly would pose the greatest threat to the corrupt capitalistic/collectivist forces now running rampant
worldwide, exploiting the worker and most vulnerable. The globalists like ex FG Peter Sutherland, Denis O’ Brien and George Soros, advocates of multicult mass immigration want this threat neutralised, each for their own reasons. They wish to replace these bonded cohesive European ethnicities with a continuous inflow of global migrants thus creating an expendable, obliging, limitless source of cheap labour and consumer cattle, not ancestrally bound to any country or community, but preferring to abide by the wishes of big business who direct govt. policy. Only the super rich will have ancestral and family bonds whose influence is as good as ruling over the mixed up, confused, “diversified” populace.
u were away there for a while …back with a slightly different name i see
yes Diarmuid he used be called Solas Aireanach among other names…he does not want non-white and non-christain people in Irelnad
Caoimhín
Then explain why I am opposed to mass immigration from the EU also. Eastern Europeans and Brits are also white. As in this you are incorrect in most things you say which is why you are not worth wasting time on.
Lasair.. Read the Constitution, the name of the State is Ireland. This is recognised by the UN, EU, OECD etc
Diarmuid
I am replying to what you think the name means, it does not mean what you thought.
Regarding the name of the state. The only territory rightly called Ireland is the whole island of Ireland, 32 counties, which historically is the ethnic territory of the Irish, the gael and Celts of this island – all western European related peoples. The state we live in is an artificially & fraudulently constructed state of 26 counties called the Republic of Ireland, it is not Ireland proper. 6 of Ireland’s counties are under British control, but then again the Republic of Ireland and even Britain and Europe are now under occupied EU capitalist/collectivist control. European nations are no longer sovereign. The constitution was framed when Irish people knew our sovereign claim was rightly over all this island, a treacherous govt. relinquished that claim in the GFA, yet they forgot to amend their betrayal on the constitution. Truth is mightier than a treacherous pen.
KKK go away.
Fair enough, I respect your opinion, but beg to disagree, surely it’s an oxymoron, a throw back to when Articles 2 and 3 were in force… and esteemed…
Please, otherwise do what our neighboring corporate strangle holders do, refer to the ROI when giving you a number to call when faced with the tragic state of a box of stale wheetabix.
Never mind 1916, Brian Brou should be disgusted by our delusional nomenclature.
Diarmid
Diarmuid, le tho thoil .
Sin an sceail :)
Thank you, my later comments were for Diarmuid as replies, but you took care of it in the meantime :)
Thank you Lasair
Shinnerbot Bhot – The Fake Twitter FG led “Lyons” Site .
Typical of the Dr. Goebbels type , False Fascist speak, of The Conservative Unionist FG Party of The 26 Counties of Ireland .
Mr. Lyons types would want nothing to with 1916 Commemorations !
What can you expect when our politicians are so ashamed of our past they are going to ban history in schools,? Last week the Sindo were denying a historical fact about Michael Collins , such is their desire to obliterate their own past . This video was probably produced by Celtic tiger cubs !
Have a look back at the 50 years commemoration in 1966 , it might give some inspiration ,
Sums up this government. That kenny p***k would wear a poppy before he’d wear an Easter lilly
The Easter Lily is a Provo symbol
No it’s not Dermot. It’s worn to remember our 1916 heroes. It has nothing to do with the Provos.
Wrong Diarmuid. The Easter Lily was first used in 1926 by Cumann na mBan as a way to raise funds for Republican prisoners.
Like many symbols it’s been hijacked by extremists, to the extent that it’s only now worn by supporters of militant republicanism.
Interesting Diarmuid – up until say 1999 the green ribbon was used as support for Political prisoners now it means something else – all symbols evolve – and its time the Easter Lilly was taken back.
Very few people wear the Lily nowadays, mainly thanks to years of sullying militant Republicanism. People should remember, however unpalatable, that physical force Republicanism was the driving force behind the British withdrawal from 26 of our counties after seven and a half centuries. 750 years of brutal subjugation was ended thanks to our brave and heroic fighting men and women. That’s before we talk about the 6 counties post partition.
The savagery that occurred in the North from the 16th century to the present day is a direct result of British government policy to infiltrate Ireland with loyalists and thus hold this land which they viewed as so vital to both their status and their very survival as a global super power. Well we were the first British/English colony, the only white people ever to be colonised… and we were the first to break the yoke, and inspire millions from India to South Africa… See we are a special people and this is a special land. God’s favourite place.
*Gods. So so annoying.
Enda Kenny will always be known as an “embarrassing historical sh*t”…..
Coincidence I think not. …..
First time I’ve seen this video. Biggest pile of shite. A video purely for tourism and a bad one at that.
It’s no wonder the relatives of the 1916 heroes are distancing themselves from such tripe. Just goes to show this government can’t do anything properly without offending the masses. I’m surprised Mein Fuhrer Enda wasn’t in it somewhere and have it double as an election video as well.!!
I was going to say the same its like a Bord failte ad. Who in the name of God thought up this ad it has nothing to do with 1916 christ almighty can they not get anything right. I love to see how much it cost.
I heard a marketing guy ex Unilever who went to Board Failte/Western Tourism I won’t name him in case I’m misinformed.
I want no german queen or english minister at Éire 100 years freedom anniversary to mark the end of english rule, ask her to come to mark the Famine where the english allowed 2 million to starve to death while the shipped food out of all irish ports,
Get a grip. There will be ambassadors present at the very least and it’s very likely that *some* senior European politicians might make an appearance. A token member of the British royal family isn’t beyond the Pale of imagination either. There are international contexts to the Rising (both Jim Connolly’s movement and those German guns). Its aftermath was referenced by Lenin and it was arguably the most consequential urban insurrection since the Paris Commune. So let us please not pretend that we exist in a bubble, divorced by space and time from the rest of the world.
1916 did not mark the end of British rule. Nor did 2 million people die during the Famine. Nor is there a German queen… did you make the video?!
@traolach – you’re such an idiot – i hope you’re just commenting in irony because if you are the depth of the new generation we’re in trouble.. read a fcuking book.
Well said Traolach. My feelings exactly.
There is a German communist (Merkel), a French socialist (Hollande), a Portugese Maoist Barosso and several other ultra-socialists trying to make the EU the new soviet regime, and telling the Irish to bow down. Real Germans were telling us to default.
German Economist:
Hans Werner Sinn: Why don’t you let it default? Default is the best way to solve such a problem. It doesn’t mean the bank comes to an end; it just means that the creditors have to forgive some of the debt and this is quite natural. They made the investment decision.
PK: The ECB will allow us to do this?
HWS: I don’t know what the ECB will say, but these economists whom you cite from Germany said that that should be done. And actually it was not just 270, it was a total of 480 professional economists in Germany who said it is much better to forgive the debt and ask those people who have miscalculated their chances to
reduce their claims against the banks.
http://www.rte.ie/news/player/2013/0205/3482023-prof-hans-werner-sinn-discusses-the-irish-economy/
The unionists brought in German guns in the Larne gun-running, by the way.
An international context is all very well; it doesn’t mean we have to castrate our statehood to be nice.
The song to the video is so anal.
I heard a Labour senator say the other day that we need to keep the military out of thew celebrations. says enough about those commies that they even want us to forget our past
Well let’s be honest FG where always going to f this up. Not surprised really just disappointed.
FG are more European than Irish in their outlook on life.
What else would you expect from the Irish Unionist party.
@phil – do you mean Sinn Féin?
After painfully watching that video, I’d say that sh*t is too mild a word.
Is that video for real??
Finbarr, you mean Labour didn’t invite the Official IRA? Wonder why!
Sergeant only a dissident would call Sinn Fein a Unionist party…so does that cap fit you then ?
the video is nothing to do with history it would be well suited for tourism.
Great! One of the most important and momentous days in this islands history and it will be completely f@#ked up by a bunch of campaign trailing freeloaders! Just once, I wish something that is so important to so many can be done right in this country!
How come so many men love to celebrate death, hero’s guns and then grumble about whether we wear a poppy or an Easter lily or maybe a sprig of shamrock would suffice.
Let’s forget 1916 and the :,,troubles ” and let our children who were not even born get on with their lives without this monkey on their shoulder
@ mary lyons what do you suggest burn the history books. i think our children will be just fine.
The best way to honour the 1916 rising, is to stage another one.
This time, it will be the people of Ireland against a tyrannical, Vichy government.
We, the people, WILL WIN…
Name the time and place, I love the south of France.
@francie – you can’t beat the armchair republicans – they’ll fight until the last drop of someones blood.
Why don’t you 2 climb out from under the bed & join us, – Man up, FFS.
Tell the Queen to feck off. She will be welcome to tea when we get back the 6 counties.
The 6 counties don’t want to come back man and who’d blame them?
Well said Celtic. Ireland will be one soon enough. The writing’s on the wall, Britain wants out.
We’ll settle for 5, they can keep Fermanagh.
I’ll see your Fermanagh and raise you the six she has plus Donegal and Louth.
But doesn’t N.Ireland cost the rest of the UK a billion or two a year maintain..prob why they would want out…the Republic could not cope,no chance of it ever happening.
You’re right Keike, look how bad it was for Germany!!!
This video is embarrassing. Ask anybody abroad what this is about and they wouldn’t have a clue. How much was wasted on this carp. Also by not putting the revolutionary part in it, they are probably saying ” don’t give them any ideas”
It’s godawful SHITE!!!!!
Another fg and labour cock up
The fools. The fools. The fools !
That song is cheesy and immensly irritating. Whoever wrote the lyrics for it should be banned from songwriting forever. The video also spectacularly misses the point of both the proclamation and indeed the Rising itself.
FAIL.
James Connolly, the Countess, Liam Mellows. They would spin in their graves if they knew what Joan Burton has turned their Labour party into, for what died the sons of Roisin, to give contracts to tax dodgers?
Connolly executed whilst strapped to a chair by the Brits in Kimainham Gaol 1916. Liam Mellows executed by the Staters in Kilmainham Gaol 1922, taken from his cell along with 3 others, Joe McKelvey, Dick Barrett and Rory O’Connor, and shot as a reprisal for an attack by Anti-Treaty IRA on the outside. 2014, Fine Gael still fulfilling the work of the foe.
How many PIRA victims would spin in their graves seeing SF in power? Well, at least those who have graves…
@jamie – good job they shot Connolly like that – until that event the jackeens were throwing and spitting on the rebels. Labour are a disgrace much like SF they have sullied the objectives of the rising in the first place.
The foreigner had his capital at Dublin since 1170, it was always going to be hub of colonial import. Dublin’s fighting history isn’t in question. Dublin is proud of its Volunteers.
Its just leftover footage from the gathering and wild atlantic way ads
How can people who think the rising was wrong be competent to commemorate it!
Some person had to sign off on that drival .Now can we have that person’s name and let him/her explain why we ha ‘ve wasted tax payers money on a promotion that.no one’s happy with .
What the f–k was that ? Are we ashamed of our pasted, or how we became a sovereign ?
We are hardly sovereign. We are ruled by the EU and 1 in 4 babies are born to non-Irish parents.
This makes the annual FG commemoration of Collins at Beal na Blath look like a Party Political broadcast and nothing more, an opportunity to pay lip service to their ‘hero’ who they now seem to not give a fcuk about.
Now that we can expect our State to honour Google Facebook Intel Bono and Geldof and the likes of them I’m looking to the relatives organisation and I’ll support whatever they organise because at least they intend to honour those men and women who took on the despicable Empire and gave their lives.
Give me a few bob, access to the archives and ill do it netter
The Fine Gael unionist party won’t be in power to witness these celebrations,imagine our dictator trying to sound patriotic while waving his big Deutschland flag while Merkel pats his head.
Tipperary will remember, Kerry will remember, Limerick will remember and Cork will remember the terror inflicted on the people of these counties and the men who stood up and were counted, it may not have been in 1916 but it was as a direct consequence of it. There is a lot more at play here than some Marketing genius from Bord Failte wants.
What do u expect people for god sake this is FG the brother of the Tories and union ness who if the get their way they will change it to make it look like the brave men and women were sc.m look what John bruton said about it let organise it properly and give two fin.ers to these FG/Tories
They’re trying to take everything off us, our water, 1916… The fools will no all about it come the next election.
*know all about it… might quit while I’m behind.
Absolute disgrace. We’re commemorating men who fought for our freedom, not trying to pack a few more Americans onto Aer Lingus flights. We should all be ashamed.
No mention of the innocents murdered by these armed thugs in 1916 and the thousands that died following this act of madness.
Would you ever fück off you fool.
Pat solny…aka patrick lyons aka pickart solny….running out of ways to spell you’re name? Hows banga ncube?
Should you not have Tetley or Lipton as your avatar
a bitter Orange.
Sure what else should we expect from a national school headmaster from the back end of Mayo. His only concern is to show that Ireland PLC is open for business; so the video must show smiling paddies (his term not mine) happily going about being 21st century consumers.
God forbid we might show anything that smacks of national pride, that might give the wrong impression; like being more interested in sticking up for the rights and concerns of Irish people than the non-tax paying multinationals our beloved leaders are so fond of. He’s more interested in fumbling in the greasy till and adding half pence to the pence and prayer to shivering prayer than remembering the likes of O’Leary, Ceannt, Plunkett, Pearse, et al.
At the end of the day the only emotion that 1916 sparks in members of Fine Gael the Commonwealth Party is one of embarrassment. Bruton’s sentiments on the event are a lot closer to their real feelings than the likes of Kenny would ever care to admit. The simple truth is the wrong party is in power to do 1916 justice.
Mother of Jaysus that was shocking shite. I can’t ‘unseen’ that. I’ve just seen Ireland packaged like a product and every patronising and cloying image and phrase, straight from some marketing execs toilet, designed to show us as the ‘best little country……..’. Fair dues to Ferriter for calling this for what it is.
Oh no, it’s embarrassing sh*t alright, but it is historical. Very. I mean how could the efforts of worst government ever not be?
I agree with Diarmuid Ferriteir. I felt upset by the video. We need to honour the people who gave their lives that we might have freedom rather than be occupied by how we used or abused that freedom.
How are you abusing your freedom??
Why do we even celebrate the 1916 rising? Did we win? Did we achieve freedom? Typical Irish mentality. Celebrating failures
Good God – what was that?
Listen lads – we need to get out an take our country back- urgently!
@ padraic thats what you call an embarrassment and insult
Its disgusting the way our history has been erased by successive governments. I don’t see what is so wrong about creating a slightly dark truthful provocative piece showing 1916 from an Irish perspective and then a British perspective. Then and only then we could put in some of the useless crap that exists in this tripe. The big thing I would have like to see was the relationship with the British back then and the relationship now 100 years on and how good it is.
It just seems to be a big piece of propaganda shxte that tries to cover up our past and present into something that it is not. Like the Google, Twitter, multinational bit. Its all well and good putting that in but one of the reasons why we are going mad on the streets lately over Irish Water is because these companies don;t pay their taxes. And Irish people are suffering. Very skewed vision of the country I might add.
This Government cannot respect the living How in the name of God can we expect them to Respect Our Heroes of 1916 A very brave People of the time and this Government would not be fit to clean the boots of the P.Pearce,J Connelly,E,Ceannt,T,Clarke,S.MacDiarmada,T MacDonagh,J.M Plunkett who and always will be The True Statesmen of our Nation….Kenny, Noonan, Howlin,Burton,Bruton, along with Ahearne, Haughey,just to name a few Etc you are all nothing but a disgrace and an embarrassment to Irish People and you should all hang your heads in shame for selling off All of IRELANDS assets that these men of 1916 and their Families We the People should organise festivals in each town and village ourselves for this event anyway we cannot trust those in Government to do the right thing so ket us all sort out the celebrations ourselves.As on Commentor suggested picnics events in local parks street parties etc etc You know we would do a better job of it all
Where is Heather in all this………..govt don’t give a hoot.
Heather is probably busy in discussions with the Orange Order
What was the verdict on the 2006 commemorations? What would people change/add/delete?
Nothing to do with
A. The current government
B. The European union.
All to do with.
A. The rebellion
B. Collins, plunkett and the rest of the prisoners.
C. Every thing else of the time thsts relevant.
This sht is basically ignoring the past, because the current government think that by correctly highlighting past would only encourage people to vote sinn fein
Sorry. I was asking what you thought of the 2006 commemorations. Did you think they were better/worse/just the same?
Well, at least they have a picture of what looks like Ben Bulben. Linking us to Sligo, Yeats, the Ascendancy and an, at the very least, ambivalent poem (hot off the press, published 1921). Its a start isn’t it?
Can’t wait 2016 euro finals and the Olympics
I actually like the video. Why not commemorate part of our history with something positive and also look to the present and future. We should celebrate the times we live in now and be grateful that we don’t live in a country ripped apart by war. I think the leaders of 1916 would be proud of the peaceful country we now have. If your not happy with what’s been organised, go organise something yourself.
Being the selfish northerner here but I like the implied or accidental integration of the Good Friday Agreement with the Rising. Gives the story a happier ending. I’d we’re going to remember the proclamation on the Easter weekend perhaps we should also remember to remember the GFA.
Where are the drugs that are rampant on the street. Violent crime exists on the streets too but let’s put a skewed piece of propaganda to put out a nice image of the country. We really undersell our history with the British Monarchy back then and now too.
@Roland. The commeration will be no different than the rising itself which was badly planned and carried out without the permission of Eoin McNeil who founded the Volunteers in 1913. We need to know the real history of 1916 before we glorify it.
What would be appropriate for the present Government is to indure the same faith as the Seven Signatories…. #Kilmainhamjail
I don’t know why people are so surprised by all this? Fine Gael are basically the home rule party of Ireland. Former Taoiseach and leader of the party john burton said there was no need for 1916 Ireland had achieved its goals in 1914. Fine Gael are not comfortable with republican
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/…/europeancoun…/pdf/cop_en.pdf
“Membership presupposes the candidate’s ability to take on the
obligations of membership including adherence to the aims of political, economic
and monetary union.”
This government wants to change Ireland, so that it will become part of a political union within the E.U. To do that they will have to change what it means to be Irish by rewriting history?
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