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The Rising: Sinn Féin is booking out the Ambassador Theatre for most of 2016

Sinn Féin’s ‘alternative 2016′ launch featured actors dressed as 1916 rebels, and a guitar-playing Mayor. It was all a little surreal…

Updated at 4pm

GERRY ADAMS INSISTED his party’s programme of 2016 commemorations shouldn’t be seen as a “counter event” to the Government’s plan, as Sinn Féin launched a wide ranging schedule of parades, re-enactments and exhibitions.

‘It’s not counter to anything,” he told reporters after the event.

The Government aren’t doing anything.

This morning’s launch by the party president — who was accompanied by fellow heavy-hitters Martin McGuinness and Mary Lou McDonald — follows widespread criticism of the Government’s official programme of events.

A number of relatives of 1916 participants also attended the announcement, in a function room at Wynn’s Hotel, just off O’Connell Street.

James Connolly Heron — the great grandson of James Connolly — said many of the relatives were happy to support Sinn Féin’s programme. He noted that they welcomed events being organised by anybody.

The flagship event in the party’s plans will be a long-running exhibition at the Ambassador Theatre, at the top of O’Connell Street.

‘Revolution 2016′ opens at the end of February next year, and will run for 33 weeks.

The party’s promotional material describes it as a “Visitor Attraction standard exhibition featuring the background, day by day account and legacy of the 1916 Rising through different mediums and artefacts”.

Elsewhere, images will be projected onto the GPO as part of a 3D ‘visual arts project’ that will run nightly over 24 to 29 April next year (the actual dates of the Rising).

From their brochure, again:

Watch as the GPO comes under shell fire and catches fire, see the rebels escape and their last stand. Witness the trials and experience the executions before the grand finale interpreting the events that followed the Rising.

There’ll also be a re-enactment of O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral at Glasnevin in August, parades on Easter Sunday itself, in March next, and a special event to remember the ‘Women of the Revolution’

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sinn1 Pictured are Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams TD, Vice President Mary Lou McDonald TD, and Martin McGuinness with reanactors Jim Roche, 2nd from left, who portrayed Padraig Pearse, and Dave Swift. Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

The Government’s main planned parade next year is for Easter Sunday on March 27. A mass will be held at Arbour Hill on 24 April.

Launching its official programme late last year, the coalition pledged that events would be inclusive, and asked for individuals and groups to give their input on what should happen via the 2016 website.

Special Guest

Meanwhile, at the start of today’s proceedings, Mary Lou McDonald introduced a ‘special guest’ to officially kick things off.

In a slightly surreal sequence of events, an actor dressed as a 1916 rebel introduced his colleague ‘Padraig Pearse’ to read from the Proclamation (Jim Roche — you may recognise him if you’ve ever done the Glasnevin Cemetery tour).

The party’s centenary co-ordinator Bartle D’Arcy then rattled through the schedule of planned events (it took a while) before introducing a promotional video.

Unlike the much-criticised official promo (since deleted from the Government’s website) — he stressed that it featured none of the heroes of modern Ireland, like, for instance, Bob Geldof. 

Sinn Féin / YouTube

Speaking later, Gerry Adams said the Government’s official launch last November at the GPO had been “like a scene out of Sean O’Casey play”.

The great and the good were on the platform, but their voices were drowned out periodically by the anti-austerity, anti-water charge protesters banging the doors and windows. That I thought [was] very much a metaphor for our times.

He described the controversial video as a “joke… a bad joke” and said it was reflective of the Government’s “shambolic attitude” towards 1916 and the Proclamation.

Wrapping up proceedings, South Dublin Mayor Fintan Warfield took to the podium with an acoustic guitar, as the invited guests — including the ambassadors of Cuba and Palestine — stood for a rendition of ‘Amhrán na Bhfiann’.

Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

In a statement later this afternoon, a spokesperson for Arts & Heritage Minister Heather Humphreys — who is heading-up the Government’s 2016 initiative — said plans were progressing “extremely well”.

The Minister updated the Taoiseach and other ministers on progress this week, including a schools programme, which is being finalised with the Department of Education.

“Minister Humphreys believes the commemorations belong to everyone, and her Department is partnering with local authorities to develop community events so as many people as possible can get involved.”

Further elements of ‘Ireland 2016′ will be unveiled in due course, the spokesperson said.

Read: Protester removed from 1916 event after she called Enda Kenny the C-word

Read: Relatives boycott launch of 1916 commemorations, calling it a ‘political stunt’

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    Nov 9th 2016, 4:58 PM

    It’s like a bleedin episode of Simpsons

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:20 PM

    @Darren Boothman:

    Newstalk Drive in full damage limitation frenzy mode, fear-mongering, smearing Trump and outright lying. Going for Guinness book of records for using “racist” most times.

    Irish mainstream media lie, are partial and biased all aimed toward their agenda of multicultural mass-immigration pushing.

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    @Darren Boothman:

    “Hillary Clinton packed her trunk and said goodbye to The White House and off she went with a hump-thy hump Trump Trump Trump”!

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:44 PM

    @Darren Boothman:

    It is actually exactly like the episode when Homer takes on Ray Patterson in order to take charge of garbage disposal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVoKVxRlzcY

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    Go away into some hole n never come out u witch

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:17 PM

    Except without the catch song..

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    @ Warthog. Feck ya anyway , I can’t get the tune of nelly the elephant out of my head now , going to keep me awake

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:08 PM

    Unfortunately it’s only just begun….

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:21 PM

    @Tom Thumb:

    Not one factual word about Hillary, her corruption and appalling actions in court viciously attacking a 12 yr old rape victim.

    Irish media are poison, bye bye, your time is at an end.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:53 PM

    @stevenocarroll: That thing about “attacking a 12 yr old rape victim” is utter rubbish and that is why the media don’t mention it. It is called being a lawyer and the only people who complain about it are the ones who don’t understand the justice system.

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    There is a cue of potential law suits lining up for trump…. not over yet.

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    Nov 10th 2016, 6:09 AM

    @The Duke of Fluke: You need to stop with your pesky facts,as they have no place on here anymore. Mr Trump is now going to be the next POTUS and as you know,he hardly ever dealt in those pesky things.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:16 PM

    Trumps first action as President should be to Pardon Julian Assange given how Wikileaks destroyed faith in Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media reporting of the news. The Alternative media have stamped their footprint all over this election, long may it continue!

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:52 PM

    @Super Ted: The Assange haters should support that, since he’ll then have absolutely no reason to avoid answering charges in Sweden.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:57 PM

    @Super Ted: Are you endorsing that – pardoning a person for sexual assault just because he helped him win a political campaign?

    If so that would be an utterly despicable and depressing way to start his term in office. (NB whether you think Assange is guilty or innocent is completely irrelevant here).

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    He should pardon Snowden too, but it won’t happen

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    @The Duke of Fluke:

    Well if the States didn’t plan his extradition from Sweden…

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:08 PM

    Absolutely not!, Assange should be allowed to answer rape charges in Sweden without extradition to the U.S hanging over his head. In saying that, those allegations are a separate issue and have nothing to do with his role as a truth seeker & whistleblower.

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    Nov 10th 2016, 12:12 AM

    In the mean time a pardon from an American president wouldn’t mean jacks to a judge in Sweden

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:00 PM

    Hillary finally decided to make a speech. The $250,000 cheque must have cleared at Clinton H.Q.

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    She’s a witch!

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    @Jon Mackey: careful now Jon, alleged witch. We need scientific proof. Maybe a trail in Salem. If she sinks she’s innocent but if she floats that indicates witchcraft. Simples

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    Poor auld Crooked Hillary. I’m sure there’s still a bonus cheque in the post from her employers in Saudi Arabia.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:21 PM

    Well Clinton is the very definition of an establishment figure.

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    The Democrats need to end the corporate ownership of their party.

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    @Stiofain Murray:

    Monster how?

    Are you aware of Clintons actions and abuse of women and a 12 yr old girl. Her connections with pedophile rings in Haiti?

    Obviously Irish journalists have not been doing their job, try listening to alternative media. That where the facts are.

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    @Stiofain Murray: Trump is very much a part of that corporate owned establishment. They picked the wrong candidate if they wanted a protest vote. There were other candidates besides Hilary and Trump

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    You tell ‘em Grey Beard! You tell those Yanks that there’s more to Democracy in ‘Murca than the Blue and Red.

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    I am glad as 9 out of the top 10 weapon manufacturers in the world were supporting her, Saudi Arabia and Omar were really behind her, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan were behind her as much of Wall Street was as well.
    Many were put off in rural areas with her and her show bizz friends as well as many could see through the bull that Putin was behind her and even poisoned her was given out as an excuse once.
    She did her best to blame Russia for the leaks, she couldn’t deny them so she hoped to transfer the attention from what they said to talking the whole time about Russia and that failed as well. Her fracking friends will leave her now and what will Monsanto do now, wanting to go into Ukraine to use their land to grow their GMO’s on???

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:24 PM

    @Alois Irlmaier: “I am glad as 9 out of the top 10 weapon manufacturers in the world were supporting her”

    And their share prices shot up as soon as it was clear Trump would win – what does that tell you?

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:37 PM

    @Phil Blanc:

    Unable to get out of your far-left mind bias and see the facts?

    Hillary and Obama have PROVEN record of murdering Africans and M.Easterners. Hillary threatened ww3 with Russia and war with Iran if she became president.

    You don’t really give a sh!!t about foreigners, you use them to push multiculturalism and mass-immigration but you don’t actually give a crap about the long term consequences of the millions born in Africa every yr who replace them and millions who will stay there in poverty, if you did you would see mass-immigration only benefits a few and leaves most in the mud, it benefits you and your image of yourself as beknighted virtuous humanitarian, more worried about your own image as such and how can appear as better than some other european by virtue signalling your piety in your new church of multiculturalism. Nothing but a self-server.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:52 PM

    @stevenocarroll: lol, great points Steven.

    But I have to correct you on one thing, Phil Blanc certainly not ‘left’ minded, far from it, he is just a confused little man, with loads of anger issues. He wouldn’t know left from right if they both hit him in the face. Hi type are in fact quite dangerous to society as they think that up there on their arrogant moral high ground, they know what’s best and the rest are dumb asses which effectively makes him totally intolerant.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:45 PM

    Phil I’m surprised you turned up to comment. I thought you’d be crying in your pillow all day

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:46 PM

    Well said Nick. Poor Phil certainly needs a bit of counseling.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 9:45 PM

    @Phil Blanc: That is Wall Street trying to effect the vote before the election and now normalising itself now. Politicians change but the lobbyists and bankers stay the same, it is sensationalism now but the republican party will keep Trump under their thumb. Remember what Obama promised, no one thought he end up killing innocent people in 7 countries with drones after the nobel prize, did they?

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    Nov 9th 2016, 9:56 PM

    @stevenocarroll: Did you hear now that Hillary wants a job now in Trumps government, mustn’t have deleted all the emails she wanted lol.
    Hillary was supported by Omar and the Saudis, who help Bahrain torture doctors who treated protestors who wanted democracy in Bahrain, they were tortured for treating them. Also the Saudis were behind 911, Bin Laden and Al Queda as well as the fountain of all Sunni terrorism in the world and helped form Isis under Hillary’s nose. They crucify people by nailing them to trees, they flog bloggers, they rape women, they throw gays off buildings like Isis do, they rape men, they treat women as slaves and Hillary spoils them with doubling the weapons they got in one year to 170 billion.
    Goldman Sachs is behind her and with AIG they both cause the last mess that led to E.U. AUSTERITY where bank debt became tax payers debt and JP Morgan backs Hillary, the last time they banked anything like her it was the Titanic, they were penny pinching back then…
    But it is the democratic right of the U.S. Citizens and if she was not so nasty to Sanders then Sanders would be President elect now but ambition and greed drove her to it as the leaked emails will show.

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    Nov 10th 2016, 6:11 AM

    @Alois Irlmaier: At least Mr Trump isn’t beholden to Goldman Sachs or the state owned bank of China..Oh wait..

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    Nov 10th 2016, 11:14 PM

    @Francis Mc Carthy: I rather have politicians associated with bankers that being associated with arm dealers as in drone makers and other industrial military complex gits…
    Lesser of the 2 evils?

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:09 PM

    I am buying a 4- year supply of popcorn. This is gonna be sum craic lads!

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:07 PM

    A sad day. Hillary is finished in public life. The Democrats been beaten for the Senate and House ae well. The American voter gives the establishment an up yours.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:23 PM

    @prop joe:
    Wrong it is now time to press charges against this criminal.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:42 PM

    @stevenocarroll: Bill Clinton consoling Hillary this morning : My dearest, Nelson Mandela had to spend 26 years in prison before he could become President. We’ll try to get you out sooner.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 9:14 PM

    Ffs Steven the election is over. What criminal charge do you put against her? Even Trump has moved on.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:03 PM

    Hillary… you’re FIRED!!!

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:17 PM

    F*ck her, one less corrupt, self serving political criminal to worry about.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:20 PM

    @Les Behan: What will her revenge be on the Obama’s and Trump now lol.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:04 PM

    She can take satisfaction at least that she got more votes than Trump.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:08 PM

    That will be great satisfaction when she’s in prison

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:12 PM

    @Reagan Smash: I feel for you and your kind in the coming weeks when the penny drops that Trump isn’t actually going to do all the things he said he would.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:14 PM

    @Rochelle: I’m sure her associates in Saudi Arabia and Goldman Sachs will also be consoled by slightly winning the popular vote.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:16 PM

    Wind your neck in ….

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:20 PM

    We listened to the liberals fawning over Obama and how much hope and change he would bring. He didn’t and Trump has reshaped the electoral map in the United States. You now have a large number of Trump Democrats in the rust belt and like in the 80s with Reagan, they are backing Trump to deliver the change needed.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:21 PM

    Rochelle why would anyone listen to people like you? You and your ilk said he’d never win the nomination then said he’d no shot at the White House. Hes now won the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, he’s going to pass a tonne of his agenda.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:23 PM

    @Rochelle: “I feel for you and your kind in the coming weeks when the penny drops that Trump isn’t actually going to do all the things he said he would.”

    Which will be a relief for many who didn’t support him and a annoyance for those who did.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:25 PM

    Why are you sorry for me? I have been vindicated. Globalisation and liberal fascism have been rejected. I should be the one sorry for you, but I’m not. The liberal establishment is coming crumbling down.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:38 PM

    Phil Blanc just another loser who got absolutely everything WRONG!

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:40 PM

    @Rochelle:
    What politician every does? “I mean it’s what you do during elections, tell lies”.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:45 PM

    Phil’s opinions are so far removed from reality, that to even classify them as being wrong would be inaccurate.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:49 PM

    Guys, be nice. The likes of Phil are do clued into the public consciousness. Sure how couldn’t they be. All the celebrities told them so

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:50 PM

    @regan.. establishment might be coming down alright but with Trump as it’s replacement I fail to see how anyone with an ounce of sense can celebrate today.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:32 PM

    @Lucy Legacy: The poor little devils will be all cussing soon as Trump will not be able to carry out his “promises” ..This is going to be hilarious to watch..

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:18 PM

    Brenda power nearly self combusted on George Hook radio show today. Was cringeworthy to listen to a clueless person like her

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:01 PM

    I’m so happy I won’t have to see her face and hear her voice in the news almost everyday for the next 4 years, that’s assuming Trump doesn’t give her a very senior position in his new government like Obama did.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:03 PM

    @cryptoskitzo: Obama, a democrate, gave Hillary, a democrat a job. Trump won’t let her in the front gate of the White House after that campaign.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:23 PM

    @Neil:

    Now time to charge and arrest her.

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    Nov 10th 2016, 6:23 AM

    @stevenocarroll: Sure.The election is now over & Hillary & Trump will get on like a house on fire again..It’s going to be a hoot watching Trump trying to “secure” the border and deporting all of these undocumented workers ..hahaha..hahahaha .As Tariq says PMSL ..

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:05 PM

    I have to say I felt a little sad that we didn’t have our first woman US president. I cant help but wonder if she feels any regret about her many lies, dodgy deals and deleted emails which ultimately cost her the election. I do not agree with her politics but there is no doubting her ability and intelligence.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:42 PM

    She and her supporters are still convinced that this was a rejection of women in general rather than her specifically

    To believe that you have to believe that America was racially egalitarian enough to elect an inexperienced black man in a landslide 8 years ago but still wouldn’t elect any woman. It’s obvious bullshiit

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:51 PM

    Emeralds.. Totally agree with you. You can just hear the screams of misogyny and the angry feminazis going mental. But if they could be honest with themselves they would see all the dead bodies she has left in her wake.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:03 PM

    You’re Damn right there Emeralds, if Jill Stein was running as a Democrat or Elizabeth Warren or even Michelle Obama, you can be Damn sure they’d have won. It’s simply that Clinton isn’t likeable and doesn’t inspire trust.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:09 PM

    @Brendan McGill: michelle o’bomber wouldn’t have had anymore of a chance of getting elected than killary

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:11 PM

    @Sinead Hanley: she’s totally destroyed Libya and has more than Libyan blood on her hands, lots people that stood in her or her families way ended up dead in extremely suspiscious circumstances

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    Nov 9th 2016, 7:36 PM

    Obama still polls at around 54%, I think that would have transferred to Michelle as well. I’m not saying I’d vote for her I’m just saying any one of those women would have done better than Hillary.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:50 PM

    Won’t be too many donors happy today. Wasted a lot of money on someone who couldn’t even beat trump.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:12 PM

    Crooked Loser Hillary #LoseWithHer

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:35 PM

    @Eddie Simon: You ignored me earlier on,when I asked you how he will be able to carry out the promises that he made ? How is he going to do these things? Can he do these things?
    I will be keeping a close eye on the numbers of Mexicans coming into America..It would be hilarious if they started to go through the roof..Hahaha

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    Nov 9th 2016, 7:38 PM

    Francis… Give President elect TRUMP a chance. He has only been elected 12 hours ago. He has lots and lots to do. For example overturning Roe v Wade…..

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    Nov 9th 2016, 8:29 PM

    @Sinead Hanley: You are a funny one,Sinead..Sure,didn’t you avail of an abortion many moons ago & you have been whining about it ever since..C’mere ,the President can only elect a judge to the Supreme Court,,Do try to keep up.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 9:02 PM

    Francis.. Miaow. What a catty comment. But thats to be expected. The ould liberals are having a baaaaad day. Poor pets….

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    Nov 10th 2016, 6:17 AM

    @Sinead Hanley: I’ve asked Eddie a couple of times on how Mr Trump is going to carry out these promises of his ,you know the one like Obamacare,where you have 20 million POOR people(the ones that Trump “cares” so much about) that will lose their cover & that of their children,who would have had cover up to the age of 26 <- did you see that one Sinead? Wait until those people wake up and realise what is at stake & what they voted for..Oops!

    I'm having a great day ..

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:00 PM

    It will be more painful when she’s in prison

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:09 PM

    @Reagan Smash: Hopefully they won’t put her in the same cell as Chelsea Manning. Ha has suffered too much.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:06 PM

    @Laurence Fogarty: trump may well grant him a pardon ;)

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:17 PM

    Just can’t wait for Trump to make first fails Shouldn’t be too long

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    Nov 10th 2016, 12:08 AM

    the thing is, he will make fails, what president hasn’t? only the controlled media will blow up every fart he makes and we’ll just sit back and laugh at how deseperately sore they are cos they have nothing better to do. the sheer anti trump articles in the media was deafening and quite immature. Clintons, DOB, all connected, say no more. The biggest fools are those believing the tripe they publish.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 7:48 PM

    The Democratic party has to take a lot of blame for this. They handpicked a deeply unpopular candidate and rigged it to make sure she won the nomination. Sanders or Warren would have wiped the floor with Trump. Even Biden would have beaten him easily.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:37 PM

    Surprised by the level of disdain towards Clinton here – anyone I’ve spoken to today was negative about Trump’s victory – regardless of their view of Clinton. The world would never have had this reaction to a President John McCain or Mitt Romney. The problem is with his personality and his simplistic outlook. The world is a far more complicated place than he seems to think. Does anyone actually think he will solve the problems of rural coalminers in Appalachia in any meaningful way? Not that Clinton would have either, I hasten to add.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:54 PM

    @thomas.. I’m surprised too at level of vitriol for Clinton.. who lost incidentally. Likewise at work today people were generally upset and fearful at the Trump victory. Don’t worry Journal commenters today are not reflective of general feeling and thank goodness for that

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:04 PM

    @Thomas Conneely:

    The reason why there’s so much venom towards her is because she’s a genuinely horrible person. In the 2008 campaign, Obama described her as a pathological liar who sums up everything that’s wrong with the US political system.

    In this campaign, she rigged the DNC to get herself on the ticked, insulted half of the voter base by calling them a basked of deplorables, took money from Saudi Arabia and Qatar and lied repeatedly to the people about her various scandals and political beliefs. That’s before we touch on her awful record as Secretary of State.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:08 PM

    @Thomas Conneely: be surprised no more ;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LYRUOd_QoM

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:42 PM

    Simply wrong candidates !

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    Nov 9th 2016, 5:40 PM

    fairly sure any disease never feels good when its defeated

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:37 PM

    A tremendous blow to the Establishment.will enda and Leo apologise for the nasty things they called president trump.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:23 PM

    Clinton does realise that half the electorate are male right ?

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    Nov 10th 2016, 12:04 AM

    course she doesn’t, typical and deserving of losing. the marketing ideal of first female president just like last time, the first black president is not enough when you’re up to ones neck in corruption, saudi connections, oil greed and war. trumps mistakes are peanuts compared to her, but the media tried to fake it like she was great cos she’d be the first female president. what good is that? they could have been male or female, its what they have done and will do that counts. picking up remarks that trump made about ‘pussy’? c’mon, any man who hasn’t had that convo with another man AND women about other mens parts down the pub is a liar! its a private convo, so blow it up, he’s now a pig cos someone over heard the convo. So now girls, when your finished salivating over brad pitt and what you’d like to do to him, come back and say you’re done with hypocrisy and nit picking.

    May Tesla get the support for electric now and tell saudi to shove their oil fields. American investment is where it needs to go and take manufacturing out of China, back home. Globalisation is one capitalist greedy machine and its got to end.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 7:23 PM

    Hillary it need not have been so painful if you had listened to what people have been shouting from the rooftops you and your Wall Street friends lived it up. While the ordinary American family were thrown on the streets after collapse of the banks. No wage rises like here for the white non college educated (Now tell me whats that all about??) oh yeah snobs !!!
    If you get time look at the film The Big Short on netflix Hilllary and friends and maybe you might realise the seeds of you and your establishment friends downfall including the affluent media moguls were sown in 2003 to 2008 and now have flowered in the form of a president attached to an ultra right wing party for whom many of those who voted for him will become even more impoverished.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:05 PM

    not as painful as existing in a country totally and utterly destroyed by the actions of a corrupt war criminal!! stfu you cu next tuesday, you, your family and an awful lot of your friends should all be swinging from a rope!!

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    Nov 9th 2016, 7:59 PM

    Wonder how long it will take her to announce that her farce of a marriage is over?

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    Nov 9th 2016, 7:27 PM

    Lock her up.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 7:27 PM

    Goodbye Hillary. You were’nt really meant for it. Hope you will spread a decent percentage of the Clinton Foundation money to charity for Christmas and beyond.

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    Nov 9th 2016, 6:48 PM

    The Journal failed to pick up on Hilarys friend and ‘mentor’. The KKK’s Robert Byrd.
    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/08/27/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-kkk/index.html?client=safari

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    Nov 9th 2016, 7:10 PM

    Poor Killary, I’m fresh outta sympathy

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    Nov 10th 2016, 12:12 AM

    as someone said, the skinny jeans millennials must be sore around the groin. you’d think our young would be smart enough not to believe lies. they only see surface material, are arrogant, extremely arrogant and jump in without thinking. very very hyper on the tongue and mouthy.

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