Comments on: Cóir . Youth Defence. Schutzjugend. You Decide.

By: yobbah

yobbah — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:38:10 +0000

You're right Conan, on a poltical party level people like Christian Solidarity and Bennis will never win. The extremists tend to vote Fianna Fail or Fine Gael because they have voted for them for 'generations'. I know it's a bit of an exageration but Fianna Fail could introduce compulsory abortion tommorrow and expel all the priests from Ireland, these people will still vote for them. But if an "issue" is raised, like the Treaty, That is when they make their presence felt. And it is significant.

Yes you do find the Opus Dei in the oddest of places….

By: Conan Drumm

Conan Drumm — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:02:47 +0000

And how many votes did she get? We'll never be faced with them as a political force to be reckoned with. However, you do have to watch out for them, and Opus, and the Knights on school boards, and in public bodies where they can be like woodworm in the organisational structure.

My only suspicion of their involvement in the body politic is in Ml Woods's negotiation/capitulation with the religious orders on the abuse compensation issue.

By: Bock

Bock — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:30:02 +0000

Conan: this crowd are far to the right of Mrs Bennis, which I know seems ludicrous.

By: Conan Drumm

Conan Drumm — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:26:28 +0000

Mairead, Yobbah, Bock… I think if you look at the vote achieved by christian solidarity and similar candidates in recent elections you'll find that there are relatively few adherents to their cause. Even Mrs Bennis didn't crack it in Limerick when she had a go, to my best recall, and there were some useful GAA connections there too, I think.

Dan, brilliant!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:14:08 +0000

Mondays show is here:

http://tinyurl.com/u6put

on the right-hand side of the page near the end: Shows from the past week – Just Click on Monday

By: Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:44:25 +0000

Coir fibers are found between the husk and the outer shell of a coconut. The individual fiber cells are narrow and hollow, with thick walls made of cellulose. They are pale when immature but later become hardened and yellowed as a layer of lignin is deposited on their walls.

Sounds right enough to me.

By: MairÃƒÂ©ad

MairÃƒÂ©ad — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:00:51 +0000

Bock, this crowd CÃƒÂ³ir represent a scary number of people in this country. They are bubbling away just beneath the surface. I have to live and work among extremely right-wing, entrenched, so Catholic they're mad people!
How they can still run around after the priests / bishop/ pope / TDs / etc… makes me want to be sick. I truly don't get how they scurry off to mass and confession and pay their dues and bow their heads and cough up the cash and vote FF…….. even when they're screwed and screwed.
Make no mistake about it, we are a heartbeat away from another ecumenical revolution!
P.S. Conan – interesting point.

By: yobbah

yobbah — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:08:13 +0000

Ferdia: I don't think the no's won it. They were beaten on many issues regarding taxation, neutrality, abortion etc. It was revealed that Mary Lou had proposed to increase the corporate tax in the European Parliament 4 weeks ago then she was on Q&A trying to defend the current rate revealing the hypocrite she is. Ganley was middling at best.

Hoof: I thought it was hilarious!!! She was denouncing the Yes crowd for 'acting like 12 year olds' for interrupting the No crowd although Ganley and Mary Lou were just as guilty as anyone else, then proceeding to scream her way throughout Enda Kenny's assurance from Diarmuid Martin that the Treaty would not affect abortion. Like a frustrated twelve year old….a bloody loon.

Conan:Despite your conspiracy theory, Bock is right. There are still a sizeable number of people who regard her ravings as reasonable and intelligent and worthy of regard. Her point of view is reflective not only of the ignorant but of some well educated people who should know better…

By: Hoof

Hoof — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:40:26 +0000

OD, try the RTE website – Pat dePlank shows are usually available for download somewhere in the Radio 1 section for a week or so.

Have to say she is some loon. Was she the Coir one that popped up on Q&A last night and couldn't shut up once either ?, then complained loudly about being shouted down!

Dangerous people these Cathofascists, no reasoning with them at all. Surprised to see Libertas and the Shinner panel members happy to go along with some of the more outrageous comments, they should at least have distanced themselves from this rabid insanity, rather than blindly accept support for their cause from Coir and Schutzjugend. (btw where's Reichsmarshall Justin Barrett? ….tied up in a bunker?)

Or do SF want to drag us back to the good old days of the squinting window too, MaryLou?

By: Organ Donor

Organ Donor — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:20:55 +0000

Is the interview available to listen to online anywhere?

Jesus first Jim Corr does a David Ike and now Plank Kenny is shouting at mental patients.. Radio hasnt been this entertaining in a long time..