Irish Politics Thread

I did hear that new Garda recruits are quiting left right and centre.

What's the issue with Harris? Is it his fault or the governments for under funding. 

You can also add shilling for Russia to that. The far-right in Ireland has become a travelling rent-a-mob that will glom onto local issues, and look to exploit them, and the people expressing them. And unfortunately, there will be people who will have honest concerns, who will be suckered by the idea that this mob are 'listening'.

There will always be ignorant people. I think the major issue with the sex ed thing was the book this is gay. As Gerk alluded to, this was touted by curriculum makers as a possible resource and was rightly dropped due to pressure from some corners. It's there for all to see that the book was a step too far and thanks to some  people who weren't afraid to voice their opinions on it, it was scrapped. 

These days it's getting all too easy to drop the middle and label everything as either far right or left. There were genuine concerns with that book coming into the school cycle and it's wrong for the guy who wrote that article you posted to portray those attending as pearl clutching right wing dinosaurs of yesteryear. It's a journalistic style far too common these days and even on here.

Only last week you had Baldrick claiming that those absolute idiots protesting at the Dail were just another strand from the "anti vaccine, anti immigration,.climate denying crowd" and it's just lazy commentary, the type of which has contributed to making everything one side or the other, to ridicule people who have fair and genuine concerns about something and to scare them into sharing their opinion . 

There are many, maybe most "anti-vaxxers" who have taken malaria, polio and flue vaccines but had concerns about the covid one and sat it out for a while - labelled selfish, tin foil hat wearers who are putting our loved ones at risk as the vaccine stops the spread, a premise which turned out to be compely false. Anti-vax  it is. There are many "anti-immigration" folk who welcome immigrants into our country but have concerns about our ability to house the amount coming in, given that a housing crises existed here before Putin headed South. But yeah, far right knuckle dragger it is....It's just lazy commentary which is putting genuine debate in the bin and it's boring.

His oul lad was a prick too mind.

But he was murdering innocent Irish people doing their jobs.

I didn't know your great uncle was a terrorist.

Do you know see the sheer hypocrisy in this?