Maybe your father just told you that to keep you quiet and fully intends to vote FF again.
On a serious note I wouldn't be surprised if FF do a lot better than expected because a lot of people who are angry at what they have done nationally are still fond of their local FF TD, and may think of him/her on the day and actually vote for them. They may be at 15% in the polls but I wouldn't be shocked if they get 20%.
Ah Basic! and do you remember MacWrite by any chance? I went into a computer shop last year that deals with apple and the guy there asked me what system was on my (old) computer, when I told him MacWrite hs started laughing!
Is he on the brink? some reports say he's fled to his home town where he still has support, other reports say he's gone to Venezuela, his son is threatening rivers of blood if the protestors don't back down.
Ahem..born in '64 myself so had all that too! I'll never forget the sugar industry in Tuam and the pottery in Carrigaline ext. Your teacher sounds very like mine!
Agree with you there but the point is they could be learning something more useful. Generations of kids have had blighted educations in this country because of compulsory Irish.
Just because you love something does not mean that everyone else does too. Stop trying to ram it down people's throats, Irish people have voted with their feet and they don't want to speak Irish.
Fair enough, I apologise for my misunderstanding you, for a moment I confused you with another contributor who insulted my family and ancestors Apologies again.
'A small community school'? that's exactly the point I was making. I agree with your point about language learning being good for kids, but why not French or German instead of Irish? that would be of more use to them?
I'm referring to the millions that the taxpayer spends each year on the con-job that is the restoration project.
The whole undertone of your argument and craized's is that you're not really Irish if you don't speak Irish, or at least not as Irish as someone who does, hell she even accused my family of 'succumbing to British rule' because they were brought up in an English-speaking area!
Well if you want to delude yourself that's your business but please don't ask me to delude myself as well because I'm not going to. And while you're at it you can drop the whole "Im more Irish than you are" nastiness thing.
You might be happy to waste millions on a pipe-dream but not everyone is.
(Didn't know you were Dutch dude!) If you give freedom to something it usually thrives. But this country is full of short-sighted people who want to tell people what to do, and give a good kicking to anyone who tries to stop them!
Aha!!! So my family 'succumed to British rule' did they?
And while you're at it don't forget Cromwell and the massacre of Drogheda and the penal laws and the famine and the Fir Bolgs ext ext and if only Brian Boru had had a guard outside his tent at Clontarf he'd be alive today and Padraig Pears and revenge for Skibberean...............
Amazing what comes out if you give someone a little rub isn't it.!
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Another reason not to vote for Gerry!
RE: how will you vote
Maybe your father just told you that to keep you quiet and fully intends to vote FF again.
On a serious note I wouldn't be surprised if FF do a lot better than expected because a lot of people who are angry at what they have done nationally are still fond of their local FF TD, and may think of him/her on the day and actually vote for them. They may be at 15% in the polls but I wouldn't be shocked if they get 20%.