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Replying To Ryanteam: "The few in Florida that Democrats won were won by less than expected, and they aren't overjoyed on results. Ted Cruz has voiced concern on 2026 elections. Anyway I'm busy watching donegal vs Derry and the real upcoming game. Rebels vs Tipp. That's my real interest!" Correction… the few in Florida that Republicans (not Democrats) won, were won by less margin than expected! Ryanteam (Cork) - Posts: 511 - 06/04/2025 14:27:03 2600760 Link
Replying To Ryanteam: "Correction… the few in Florida that Republicans (not Democrats) won, were won by less margin than expected!" I figured that was a typo earlier. But you're right in that the Florida races were closer than expected. I believe it's because 1. Trump wasn't on the ballots. 2. Republicans are in power right now so less hungry than the Democrats. Republicans should wake up from their sleep. The 2024 Election is over. Trump2020 (Galway) - Posts: 2478 - 06/04/2025 15:04:33 2600762 Link
Trump backtracking already….the art of the deal. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11531 - 09/04/2025 20:44:26 2601293 Link
Replying To yew_tree: "Trump backtracking already….the art of the deal." A stable genius.... If he could kiss his own ass he would. Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1253 - 10/04/2025 09:39:42 2601335 Link
Really smells like insider trading. Apparently NASDAQ call volumes spiked before the tariff paused was announced yesterday. It's crazy. In any sort of well run organisation there are bi-annual ethics courses aimed at this sort of stuff. Different rules for those at the very top it seems. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9720 - 10/04/2025 10:29:58 2601345 Link
Replying To Lockjaw: "Really smells like insider trading. Apparently NASDAQ call volumes spiked before the tariff paused was announced yesterday. It's crazy. In any sort of well run organisation there are bi-annual ethics courses aimed at this sort of stuff. Different rules for those at the very top it seems." Yep, it's 100% insider trading. You'll find that many billionaires in the US, particularly those aligned to Trump, will have cashed in heavily on the turmoil of recent days. In news closer to home, a report showing that the North of Ireland lags significantly behind the rest of the UK in deprivation levels should form the basis of a move towards a United Ireland vote. The unionist position has long been that they care less about the prosperity of their children and grandchildren than about their loyalty to an unelected monarch, but this report has laid bare the gulf between north and south on this island. Time to bring them with us into the 21st century. cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5244 - 10/04/2025 11:12:22 2601352 Link
Replying To cavanman47: "Yep, it's 100% insider trading. You'll find that many billionaires in the US, particularly those aligned to Trump, will have cashed in heavily on the turmoil of recent days. In news closer to home, a report showing that the North of Ireland lags significantly behind the rest of the UK in deprivation levels should form the basis of a move towards a United Ireland vote. The unionist position has long been that they care less about the prosperity of their children and grandchildren than about their loyalty to an unelected monarch, but this report has laid bare the gulf between north and south on this island. Time to bring them with us into the 21st century." Couldn't agree more, unfortunately It won't happen under Martin or Harris's stewardship. If Leo was still in charge he would at least have started the conversation. If a new trade deal can be negotiated between the US and the EU the economic potential for the island would be enormous. A cross party consensus needs to happen but don't hold your breath. tireoghainabu (Tyrone) - Posts: 388 - 10/04/2025 13:50:43 2601376 Link
Replying To cavanman47: "Yep, it's 100% insider trading. You'll find that many billionaires in the US, particularly those aligned to Trump, will have cashed in heavily on the turmoil of recent days. In news closer to home, a report showing that the North of Ireland lags significantly behind the rest of the UK in deprivation levels should form the basis of a move towards a United Ireland vote. The unionist position has long been that they care less about the prosperity of their children and grandchildren than about their loyalty to an unelected monarch, but this report has laid bare the gulf between north and south on this island. Time to bring them with us into the 21st century." The great irony is they don't see it. My daughter was on a retreat for ballet in Belfast recently in a unionist community and the attitude was that southerners were all living in mud huts. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3490 - 10/04/2025 14:44:06 2601390 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "The great irony is they don't see it. My daughter was on a retreat for ballet in Belfast recently in a unionist community and the attitude was that southerners were all living in mud huts." A friend of mine at the same experience recently in a town in Antrim the place full of Israeli flags and the stars and stripes once they herd his accent they gave him the cold shoulder it would take a lot to get them accept an United Ireland minor77 (Galway) - Posts: 267 - 10/04/2025 16:07:40 2601408 Link
Replying To minor77: "A friend of mine at the same experience recently in a town in Antrim the place full of Israeli flags and the stars and stripes once they herd his accent they gave him the cold shoulder it would take a lot to get them accept an United Ireland" The likes of those will head for England where no one will want them. Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 2227 - 10/04/2025 16:29:05 2601413 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "The great irony is they don't see it. My daughter was on a retreat for ballet in Belfast recently in a unionist community and the attitude was that southerners were all living in mud huts." Mark from Peep Show voice Chance would be a fine thing! Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12285 - 10/04/2025 16:35:17 2601414 Link
The world's richest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth, the largest one day gain in history after Trumps tariff pause. Some man looking after middle America. Keep it up Donald you're playing a blinder. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11531 - 11/04/2025 09:22:19 2601475 Link
Replying To yew_tree: "Trump backtracking already….the art of the deal." How many times has this 'genius' been bankrupt? He's the only one saying it in those long mumbling monologues that makes less sense than Bidens senile moments. We'll see again today what great idea he had overnight to MAGA, what a dangerous clown the US gave to the world. updwell (Limerick) - Posts: 896 - 11/04/2025 10:04:25 2601479 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "The great irony is they don't see it. My daughter was on a retreat for ballet in Belfast recently in a unionist community and the attitude was that southerners were all living in mud huts." I'd take a mud hut over a council flat in a high rise any day. Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2237 - 11/04/2025 13:18:31 2601507 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "The great irony is they don't see it. My daughter was on a retreat for ballet in Belfast recently in a unionist community and the attitude was that southerners were all living in mud huts." Work colleague of mine was once sent up to a northern unionist town and was told to fcuk off with his southern reg vehicle by young lads outside the premises. Inside they were very hostile to him. He was just there to cover for a colleague and help get them back up and running. Very odd people up there. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11531 - 11/04/2025 17:24:23 2601529 Link
Replying To yew_tree: "Work colleague of mine was once sent up to a northern unionist town and was told to fcuk off with his southern reg vehicle by young lads outside the premises. Inside they were very hostile to him. He was just there to cover for a colleague and help get them back up and running. Very odd people up there." Living in the 17th Century makes them like that Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 2227 - 11/04/2025 18:44:19 2601535 Link
Replying To yew_tree: "Work colleague of mine was once sent up to a northern unionist town and was told to fcuk off with his southern reg vehicle by young lads outside the premises. Inside they were very hostile to him. He was just there to cover for a colleague and help get them back up and running. Very odd people up there." They're terrified that they'll be railroaded into the Republic. They have a blind allegiance to the UK, and will resist ferociously any attempt to change that. I've also seen the Israeli/Trump flags in loyalist areas, and conversely the Tricolor/Palestinian flags in nationalist areas. Unionists are oblivious of the Irish Republic and will still abide by their motto "Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right" Ryanteam (Cork) - Posts: 511 - 13/04/2025 11:01:53 2601668 Link
during the 1930's Irish folks were supporting different sides of Spanish Civil War. There are other examples of this stuff, Irish people are unusual in this way. A polarized people very often, focus needs to be on solving domestic differences first suckvalleypaddy (Galway) - Posts: 1726 - 13/04/2025 11:55:19 2601677 Link
Replying To suckvalleypaddy: "during the 1930's Irish folks were supporting different sides of Spanish Civil War. There are other examples of this stuff, Irish people are unusual in this way. A polarized people very often, focus needs to be on solving domestic differences first" I suppose that as a nation or race, we are much like most others. Some more right or left leaning than others. Social conditions and lack of education or the inability to see the world in the round can determine how extreme our views can become. Europe is becoming more right leaning, and the further east you go, the more so, right wing rhetoric is increasing here and America has become alarmingly polarised. Autocracy, the forerunner of totalitarianism or dictatorship is on the rise worldwide. ( mostly pushed by the rich who see opportunities to get richer - there are very few Warren Buffets in the world) Remember, Hitler, with 33% of the popular vote, plunged the world into its worst convulsions in history. You are right in that if domestic issues can't be sorted out or are ignored, chaos and anarchy can quickly ensue. Democracy is probably the fairest political system that has ever been disguised but it can never or should never, be taken for granted, and has never been so fragile. Freethinker (Wicklow) - Posts: 1593 - 13/04/2025 12:45:14 2601684 Link
"Social conditions and lack of education or the inability to see the world in the round can determine how extreme our views can become" It's the arrogance of the left/woke that bugs me, they try and put anyone who opposes their left wing views as the uneducated far right, ignoring and trying to trample down the views of the common people is having the opposite effect of what you woke lefties are trying to achieve. On a sperate note the 'coalition of the willing' the Brits and others are talking about for Ukraine, where is the coalition of the willing talk to protect the innocents in Gaza? Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3161 - 13/04/2025 14:02:45 2601689 Link