#irish politics

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking gooooooo

[northern-punk-lad]

I’m obsessed with the fact the British right wing put Sinn Féin as a ethnicity

[luimnigh]

Unfun Fact: In Ireland, there is a far-right party called the National Party. They're homophobic, islamophobic, antisemitic, racist assholes. They were founded in 2016, and have never won a seat at any level of government in any election.

Fun Fact: Guess who just got robbed?

According to party leader/founder Justin Barrett (who's attended neo-Nazi rallies in Germany and Italy), a significant amount of the party's funds were stolen by party co-founder/vice president James Reynolds (known Mussolini admirer) and national organizer Paul Conroy (once pictured literally goose-stepping at a party meeting).

It gets even funnier though: the funds that were allegedly stolen?

They were in gold bars.

Yeah, Barrett claims they kept their funds in gold bars, believing it would be protected in the case of the collapse of fiat currency. They kept it in a safe.

They kept their party's funds in gold bars in a safe.

And it gets better: Gardaí (Irish Police) have responded to the claims, and are currently investigating... whether a crime has been committed.

See, they've found the gold... but have not yet established that the gold was stolen. They're investigating the ownership of the gold, and who had the authority to move it.

Might have helped them if they'd supplied records of their accounts to the Standards in Public Office Commission, as legally required of all political parties, which they failed to do last year.

Of course, this does raise the question: how does a political party, with no elected members, and received 0.2% of the vote last election... have €400,000 in gold bars?

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: There are three images. The first one is similar to a title card and shows a screenshot froom the show supernatural. Dean and Castiel stand facing each other. The screenshot is faded and superimposed with a blue background from a news show. In the front is a logo which says 'Destiel News Channel'. The second is a screenshot of Castiel from the same confession scene. At the bottom is a headline which reads 'Irish Unification?' and a subline which says 'Let's hope this Star Trek prediction comes true'. The top right corner shows a screenshot from Star Trek. It shows Data (an android in a yellow uniform with pale skin) talking to Picard, who is wearing a red uniform and is shown from behind. Subtitles read 'the Irish Unification of 2024,'. The third image is a screenshot of Dean from the same scene edited so that a text looking like subtitles spells out 'I love you'. /End ID]

Happy New Year y'all!

[drumlincountry]

Source: https://dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/articles/2023/12/19/aodhan-o-riordain-eurovision-24/

[ly0nstea]

"Oh Irish is a dead language whyre you still trying to speak it" okay? Youll be a dead person in 80 years does that mean we should let you die too? Do your creations not merit preservation because youll be dead so who fucking cares? Do you not deserve to be remembered? If you're dying in a hospital bed should we just pull the plug because well youll die eventually anyway?

[fromrusholmewithlove]

Fascist filth in Dublin are using the stabbings of 3 kids outside a school to go on a racist riot. These fucking pigs using the blood of children to spread their evil

[banrionceallach]

Aghhhhh. It would be really nice to have a government that doesn't fuck up what should have been two easy referendum wins and update of the constitution with modern language.

Alas, Ireland has Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. So they completely fucked it and we'll have to have these referendums again in a few months once they fix the proposed new wording to be less dangerously ambiguous for disabled people and carers. As they were PREVIOUSLY ADVISED TO DO before finalising the wording for yesterday's absolute cock-up.

Turns out people won't vote for something thats consequences haven't been properly outlined. Who knew.

[alorsondanse42]

An actual interaction in the Dáil

Ahead of the upcoming referendum about the definition of family, TDs discuss polygamy and throuples.

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/oireachtas/2024/01/17/miriam-lord-polygamy-and-throuples-in-the-dail-chamber-doesnt-sound-like-a-durable-relationship/

[ayeforscotland]

Based Ireland.

[tenaciousgay]

Landlord bootlickers think landlords are important to the rental market because when they leave, the properties go off the rental market, as if the properties cease to exist, rather than being shifted to the sellers market and sold. This logic exists in a vacuum. The vacuum of pro landlord brain rot. In reality, landlords have taken property from the private sellers market, which otherwise would have been bought by people to live in, such as couples or familes etc, but instead have become part of an investment portfolio. This is where the propaganda begins. Landlord stans will claim that the landlord putting the property up for rent to be rented by, the family or couple or person who got outbidded on the private market by the landlord, is a good thing because it is providing a market. They will never acknowledge that the property has been horded, stolen right out from under the people who want to buy it to live in. Instead you get this cognitive dissoance about how the landlords are providing a service and we should all be grateful, and to never call out landlords on being scum of the earth when they pull shit such as putting a bed up on the market for rent, in a shared room, in a shared house.

They will never admit that by forcing a landlord to sell up, that it will be a net benefit to the rental market by reducing demand. That's one less family/couple/person looking for a place to rent and will be able to buy. That's a good thing, especially during this housing crises. There are too many people on the private rental market because they have no choice. They need a place to live, and the private rental market really isn't sutiable and the options are slim already. So this pro landlord propaganda rubs me the wrong way. Why should we bend over backwards to cater to them? Their apologists act like when a landlord enters the rental market that the property they are offering just spontaneously pop into existence! And extend that thinking to when landlords sell up, that the property ceases to exist. It's magical thinking, but I don't put that past much people in this country to be perfectly honest.

[luimnigh]

Okay, so this is starting to make headlines in right-wing news sources in other countries, so I feel I have to explain this.

In Ireland, a Secondary School teacher by the name of Enoch Burke has been jailed.

Burke claims that this is because, in his own transphobic words, he "refused to call a boy a girl". This claim is being repeatedly by right-wing media internationally.

This is a lie.

Burke is being charged with contempt of court, after knowingly violating an injunction against him sought by his employer.

Back in August Burke's employer, a private religious boarding school run by the Church of Ireland (an Anglican denomination) held a meeting before the beginning of the school year. One of the things discussed was that a returning student had changed their name and was now using they/them pronouns, and that the school and teachers would be respecting this.

Later, at an official school church service, Enoch Burke loudly interrupted proceedings; in front of staff, parents and pupils; denouncing this position and spewing other transphobic bullshit. At a subsequent official dinner, he confronted the Principal, continually harassing her until others stopped him from following her.

As as a result of this, he was suspended with pay, pending an investigation. Because that's what happens when you shout at your employer in public.

Enoch Burke refused to accept the suspension, and despite repeated attempts to remove him from school grounds, kept showing up to teach his classes. His classes had to be moved to other classrooms, because he was occupying the original classroom.

The school then sought an injunction from the Irish High Court, basically a court order barrring him from school grounds. When he showed up the next day anyway, the police were called and he was arrested for contempt of court.

In court, when given the opportunity to purge his contempt, he refused, citing his faith. Don't know why he thinks his religion guarantees him a teaching position, but that's what he said.

He was jailed yesterday, until he purges his contempt of court, or a judge decides to let him out.

This is not Enoch Burke's first brush with the courts. His family, a group of Evangelical Christians, has caused several headlines over the years, mostly for opposition to LGBT causes.

Enoch himself was banned for life from Student Societies at his alma mater, the National University of Ireland Galway. This was because he and his siblings embezzled funds from the Christian Union Society they ran in order to print flyers advocating a position in a student union referendum. The flyers also had the college's logo on them, implying an official position of the college, which was against the college's code of conduct.

They brought the ban to court, claiming religious discrimination, which was rejected by the court.

[pulsar-1919]

Anti-immigration rioting currently going on in Dublin, I just know people like the Irish Freedom Party (our fairly recent and small right wing party) is going to take advantage of people's anger over today's stabbing and Ashling Murphy's murder to drum up votes, so I took a look through their other policies

They are in favour of 'Itrexit' - Ireland leaving the EU and dropping the euro currency

They are vehemently anti-abortion (their constitution says 'pro-natal' but their leader has been quoted saying 'abortion is a stain on this country'

They are seeking changes to the 1989 hate speech legislation (which isn't even very effective for prosecuting hate crimes) in order to protect free speech - citing that hate speech legislation has been used in other countries against Christian pastors (I smell homophobia and transphobia)

They are pro reunification (and everyone is in theory, of course it would be nice, but right now it would cost the relative peace that Northern Ireland has had in my lifetime)

Reminding people to look beyond one issue before giving a party like this a vote

[mariemariemaria]

Found out about this recently and it's driving me insane lmao

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

(Northern) Irish solidarity with Palestine whilst commemorating the death of Martin Hurson, who died from his hunger strike 42 years ago.

He was one of ten IRA hunger strikers to die in 1981 in Maze prison over the right to be treated as political prisoners. The government eventually conceded on most of the prisoners' demands, without ever officially granting them political status.

[hamletshoeratio]

The right wing saying immigrants are ruining the country while actively burning Dublin City centre...

Do not pretend that they care even a little about the horrific events that unfolded today. They just needed an excuse to stand behind as they rioted.

They are using the same disgusting rhetoric that was used against us for centuries. Signs with statements like "No cats, no dogs, no Irish" were hung in windows in England as well as the States. They are nothing but bigots, bigots who know nothing of their own history. Immigrants are not the issue.

They're complaining about the gardaí not saying that it's a terrorist attack, when this horrific incident only happened less than 12 fucking hours ago. It's still under active investigation, an investigation that they are very much hindering by them rioting as a result of their outrage. If we want the man responsible to face justice, a thorough investigation is needed so that his lawyers can't turn around and argue, "actually just hours after the attack before a proper investigation was begun, a garda called this a terrorist attack. There is no evidence of this, nor does the evidence gathered later as part of the investigation indicate that this meets the criteria of a terrorist attack outlined in the criminal justice act. Gardaí labelling my client as a terrorist has made an impartial objective jury impossible." The state could lose their case if everything is not done explicitly by the book. Defence lawyers have to do their job, just as the gardaí do. Gathering evidence and doing their job, which takes time, is what the gardaí were trying to do before they themselves got attacked.

I'm beyond disgusted by these people. I'm just horrified. I'm pissed that they are using these children as an excuse to be bigoted.

I pray to God that those harmed will make full recoveries. They should be the sole focus.