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The Daily PollTODAY IS THE first day of fresh restrictions for the counties of Kildare, Laois and Offaly.
The government made the move following an increase of Covid-19 cases in these counties in recent weeks.
Local TDs have said there’s a high degree of dissatisfaction over the move. Kildare North TD Catherine Murphy questioned the reasoning behind the county lockdown, stating that the spike in cases is primarily focused on either food processing plants and Direct Provision centres in the counties.
She said there is a lot of anger among the general public due to the problems in those sectors “not being dealt with”.
In a series of tweets explaining the rationale behind the decision, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said it would not be enough to just isolate the factories as the people working in them live right across the community.
“The goal is to suppress transmission in the community, which needs everyone to limit their interactions for two weeks,” he said.
And, last night, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the government would continue to take swift action to try limit the spread of Covid-19 in future because “we cannot afford to wait and see”.
He said such actions may need to be taken to ensure the re-opening of schools and allowing businesses that have re-opened to remain open.
So, today we’re asking you: Do you support localised restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic?
The first colony to give Britain the heave – ho? Has he heard of the large country to our West?
Ireland wasn’t a colony . It was part of Britain and participated in colonialism along side the English , Welsh and scots .
Wouldn’t surprise me if Angela Merkel decides to call the shots. Pontificating is about all these F/F gangsters can do now, Martin is an embarrassment ,
So the Ulster plantation, Cromwellian plantation, penal laws etc were not part of a colonial conquest?
Fianna Fáil hijacked the economic future of our children and we will never get it fully back
Ireland was a colony in the same way America was a colony. It was invaded, ruled by mostly English landlords and the Anglican Church. Don’t kid yourslef.
Ireland was one of the three kingdoms of James I of England, VI of Scotland (the others being England and Scotland — England including Wales at the time). He was king of Ireland, it was part of his realm, not a foreign colony. Ireland has never been a British colony.
Ff the people who sold our sovereignty the bringers of child deprivation you most certainly are not republican your just euro lickarses.Ff ireland was at war through those 30 years with Britain but you lacked the balls to fight .Even the germans know you have no balls go back to la la land.Ff you were always a socialist party anyway wasn’t lemass a socialist?
Tommy according to your logic India was never a foreign colony of Britain as Queen Victoria was crowned Empress of India. A title does not gloss over the fact that Ireland was forcibly colonised and absorbed into the UK after a series of wars and Acts passed by governments that did not represent the people of Ireland.
The Rising belongs to the Provisional IRA and its political wing.
He needs to brush up on his Irish history.
Fiachra the Irish attempted to invade England just as much as the English attempted to invade Ireland. You know the old story about Saint Patrick taking into slavery by the Irish . Irish people did not see them selfs as being a British colony, they saw themselves as been part of Britain .
No Tommy the Irish did not try to invade England as much as the English tried to invade Ireland, the Irish raided the coast line but there is no evidence that they ever sought to completely subjugate the entire country, and I don’t think a few slave raids after the collapse of the Roman Emperor equals the centuries of invasions that came after. The old Irish word for English people is Gall which literally translates to foreigner so they never saw themselves as British.
I’d like to hear shinnerbots opinion, surely he’s not just content to jump in on other people’s comments?
Fiachra the brits hire mercenaries for hundreds of yrs to defend there coastline against the invading Irish . There where many attempts the Irish made to invade Britain as did many other countries that fail .
The Irish invaded Britain first.
A lovely song.
The British Soldier.
By Mr Harvey Andrews…1972
don’t know why tommy is getting all that heat, he is right. Ireland was not a colony, and had a different relationship within the british empire as opposed to the american colonies etc which were colonies.
1801 – Act of union. Ireland was part of the united kingdom. it had representation in the house of commons and other legislative differences in comparison to the colonies. The key difference between ireland, and say scotland, being the obvious, Ireland never wanted to be part of the UK. unfortunately that’s how things were tho.
Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
You’s must be crazy in the cuckoo,
So how did being part of britain help us during the Great Famine! for example.
No, we were exported to the colonies as slaves, to Montserrat, Antigua and Barbados, mostly. Or as prisoners or subsiside famine refugees to Canada and Australia. Learn your history first. Then learn how to understand it, only then can you ever even aspire to manipulate it.
Go back to school T Whelan. Battle of Kinsale, Flight of the earls, Cromwell etc etc
Uneducated comment
The PIRA didn’t exist in 1916, 1916 belongs to the IRB & The Volunteers.
Yes, yes, lets listen to the people who signed away our republics sovereignty tell us how to celebrate the rising.
Would any of the heroes of the rising have allowed germans to force private debt onto our citizens the way michael martins party did?
Answers on the back of a brown envelope please to the drumcondra mafia.
Did SF or The IRA rape children? No, it was individuals who did!
Sf raped children ! Really ? Have you info on this. Have you brought it to the Gardai ?
Patjoe fg ff covered for brendan Smyth, George gibney etc, what’s your point?
If you gave the slightest damn about the victims of child abuse, you wouldn’t be putting smiley faces at the end of your post.
i certainly do give a dam about them as i have repeatedly stated. its your lot i could give a dam about and am laughing at. nice try though, pathetic as usual…
Child sex abuse was covered up for years by fg,ff, lab ,catholic church, garda and department of education
In the instance of the church they to apologised for rogue priests!
Wer jammin If you had a shred of decency you wouldn’t be a lap dog to Gerry and troll every post on the journal from SF HQ … You don’t tho !!!
Patjoe like edna only care about abuse victims when they can exploit their plight for political gain.
Patjoe
This is the SF way of dealing with victims #Harass #Harass #Harass
Why do you call yourself je suis Ireland when you have northern part of Ireland blocked out from your photo?
Northern Ireland is a Separate country to the Republic of Ireland
Encase your Slow it’s the Republic in the picture ;)
Well why don’t you change your name to “je suis republic of Ireland” ?
Haha your twitter account Mrtittler!
Has “Je suis rep of eire”
Why didn’t you translate it properly?
Encase……*in case.
Not enough Characters
Pajoejoe123 your a bit strange!!!!!!!!Stay on topic there is nothing in the article about child abuse.
Je suis – Your silly map has Derry City , not in Co. Derry – but in Co. Donegal ?
You, Unionist Conservative FG Party supporters are very poor at Geography and History !!!
It is important to hijack/rewrite history for political purposes.
Care to poimt out which victims were harassed and how?
These tit for tat comments from politicians are getting old fast. He did this, they did that, he said this, they said that. Shut up and do your job.
Jog on troll.
Remember when you couldn’t spell democracy?
Hah….the troll protect democracy….or is it protect democacy(?)…. got his comment deleted.
Dermot – your hurting, but the truth hurts! Now run report me to mammy again?
Dermot the Delusional SF troll. – crude at that
Well played Comrade Mc Loughlin.
It’s you’re rather than your….I’m not here to correct your grammar, I’ve already taught you how to spell democracy, isn’t that enough?
FF sold our country off to speculators , bankers and developers they can F.uck off with their tit for tat rubbish .
And ff hijacked our country. Let’s hope they don’t get it back
Hijacked through democratic means … Awful isn’t it?!
No,they got elected through democratic means.
What they did when they got there? There was nothing democratic about that.
You have to be a thick wind up merchant C.J shit
Referring to Sinn Fien as “the only party with no direct connection to 1916″ requires some seriously blinkered and distorted logic on Martin’s behalf.
If SF have no direct connection then FF, which formed 10 years after the rising as a result of a split in SF, have to be in the same boat. Admittedly deV founded FF – but if he wants to use that link he has to conveniently forget that deV was also a member of SF and was it’s president at one point.
In the interests of full disclosure – I despise all politicians equally. Except Stephen Donnelly – he’s lovely.
Exactly…. 1916 Sinn Féin and 2015 Sinn Féin are exactly the same as they have the same name.
So what ?
The PIRA didn’t exist in 1916.
Are Fianna Fáil still here? Can we make them disappear completely in 2016 as a gesture to the Leaders of 1916?
Yeah Michéal, maybe more money could be allocated to the councils if it weren’t for the billions which have been pumped into the HSE over the years – the lovechild of yourself and “Fill my pockets and run” Ahern.
It’s a pity fianna fail didn’t act when people were being burned out of their homes in 60s and 70s
I must expand on Fianna Fail’s “Flawed Pedegree”
Haughy.
Flynn ( father and daughter)
Liam Lawlor.
Ray Burke.
Doherty ( the phone tapper)
Ivor Callelly
Bertie.
O’Dea. ( these are just some of the ones caught out )
There isn’t enough space to list the incompetents. All the last cabined.
De Velera and the Irish Press?
There was also a guy called Cowan if my mind serves me right !
I bag the first cuckoo of spring
I think the USA might have been the first colony to break free?
Will this FF muppet ever disappear from Irish life for the sake of everyone!
SF/IRA are an embarrassment to ireland
Patjoe, you are an embarrassment to ireland
Patjoejoe is more of an embarrassment to the evolution of mankind since the mid nineteenth century at least…
Fianna Fáil has woke up and released they need to do something after Sinn Fein made public their series of events for 2016- but it seems poor Fianna Fáil are still in the planning stage and the best events have already been booked by Sinn Fein-
Referring to Sinn Fien as “the only party with no direct connection to 1916″ requires some seriously blinkered and distorted logic on Martin’s behalf.
Is this wreckage of a political party trying to slither back up the cliff? The country has suffered enough because of the systematic wrecking ball propelled by FF and FG, as for hijacking an unpopular and bloody rising during the biggest meat grinder in human history they are all welcome to it.
Something very wrong snd silly about this story. Back in 1916, fianna fail didn’t exist, but sinn fein did. In 1926, a group of sinn fein members split and founded fianna fail so now……. politicians from fianna fail are argueing about how to celebrate something they done together back in 1916. Honestly, martin seems so out of sorts now that he’d start a scrap with his own shadow!
Sf was formed in 1905 the very first party in ireland the one and only through republican party in ireland.At the end of the civil war we got fg the blue shirts after they killed their own people namely the ira the very people that were fighting for a united ireland.THE Free state army killed more irish then the brits did.Ff were anti-treatyites the ira but sf are the very first real republican party.Fg took the brits weapons to kill their own during the civil war the worst of the worst are in government thats why they dont care about their own people ._.
Its all about the popularity and votes for the next election, soooo greedy. He’d sell his own mother for a vote!
Be jesus he is a bollocks
IRA and Sinn Féin no link to the Rising. ? IRB, Irish Citizen Army, the Irish Volunteers, all became the de facto Army of the Irish Republic IRA. While Sinn Féiners played individual roles as formerly IRB Citizen Army or Volunteers, it was the British governments branding of it the Sinn Féin Rising that lead to the massive rise in SF popularity. To say neither is related to the Rising is just pure revisionism by Me Hole. Sure where were Fianna Fail in 1916? Grow up me hole
SF/IRA won’t take part in the official state 1916 commemorations. Seems Right. They didn’t take part in 1916 Rising either.
Their laughable attempt to hijack same will stick in most peoples stomach who well remember their short & violent history. The men of 1916 were democratic. The SF pretenders of today are clearly a “one man fantasy band” Marxist organisation.
well said
“SF/IRA won’t take part in the official state 1916 commemorations. Seems Right. They didn’t take part in 1916 Rising either.”
Actually the Irish Volunteers did take part in the 1916 rising and the Irish Volunteers (Oglaigh na hEireann, ring a bell?) became the IRA in 1919.
“Their laughable attempt to hijack same will stick in most peoples stomach..blah blah…The men of 1916 were democratic.”
The “men of 1916″ consisted of a very large range of men with very differing political views. For example James Connolly, de facto commander in chief, was a communist and not a democrat. Indeed he was a prominent marxist theorist. You would have known that if you had any knowledge of Irish history beyond sloganeering.
Protect Democracy could you please enlighten me as to where the men of 1916 got there democratic mandate from
I love all this ‘mandate’ talk.. You hardly have referendums before a revolution. Cancel July 4th and 14th as national celebrations if that’s the case.
Deegan- it’s clear it’s you who needs to have a few history lessons ! Comrade Putin & Fidel would not be impressed with you !
A failed rebellion by people acting without mandate?
It’s no wonder fine gael and fianna fail feel so attached to it.
“Deegan- it’s clear it’s you who needs to have a few history lessons ! Comrade Putin & Fidel would not be impressed with you !”
Like I said, dumb sloganeering.
You should go back to school Pd…..that’s if you ever went at all…..and learn punctuation, history and grammar.
I understand you’re hiding behind a fake Twitter account but I still like to read coherent and articulate comments when browsing through this news site.
I thought the commemoration of the 1916 rising was to be inclusive to all the people of this Island of Ireland irrespective of what political party you belong to or politics you vote for. So can someone please explain to me why the main party FG and some other grubby party called FF are trying to put down the largest party on this Island SF who more people voted for and have a larger mandate then any of them from commemorating the Easter Rising the way they and there supporters see fit. 100′s of thousands of people vote and support Sinn Fien and they will commemorate 1916 however they seem fit, just like they have “every year”
I’ve never voted FF, and never will, but I agree with Micheal Martin on this. I owe nothing to SF or PIRA.
Well I live in the North and I do as do many here. When Irish governments turned their back and ignored the plight of their northern countrymen it was Sinn Fein that stood by us and continued to fight for equality and an ending of partition. How so many have forgot that part of the country is still under British rule. Suppose its easier to forget about it than to actually face up to it. The men of 16 must be proud….
SF/SDLP have played a massive part in getting the six counties into 32.
move on from the republican group’s attempt to tarnish the events of 1916…. it was the ira that hijack Dublin that fateful day in 1916. next he will be telling us there was no casualties, Collins and de valera shook hands with the brutish and asked them to leave nicely the British have said it was illegal, the people hounded the men of 1916 on the streets that changed when the British shot them,..FF/FG or should i say FG/IRA FF/IRA would have us believe it was some fairytale, it created a civil war. FF/FG have continue to adopt the divide and conquer rule and very good they are at it as well.
Im not a sinn fein supporter in any shape or form although i would consider myself a nationalist, and i was a former fianna fail supporter in my youth. As a lot of us were. But this crap about the IRA completely ignores the conditions that led to the provos campaign. Sectarianism and blatent ethnic cleansing by loyalist murder squads, both paramilitary and state sponsored, was bound to lead to atrocities in response. Northern ireland from inception was akin to apartheid south africa, were the value of a catholic life meant little to the protestant majority. And what did our politicians do to help? Nothing. Last irish leader to send any help north was Collins. I in no way condone any of the violence against civilians carried out under any banner, but what option did the nationalist community have? The IRA were, unfortunately, a necessary evil. One that we can all be glad there is no need for anymore, but to say there was never a need is to ignore our history. And those who ignore history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of yesteryear.
Coming from the leader of a party who sold the very independence of the country over to the IMF and EU by wrecking it to suit their own greed ….the leaders of the Rising would be turning in their graves….. Shame on you
The first colony that they lost. Does he not realise that 6 of our counties in our province of Ulster are still colonised and under occupation or is he the same as dame Edna kenny and sees our 6 counties as a foreign country. You failed the real visionary men of 16 micky martin when you sat at the cabinet table and oversaw the the sailing of our country down the river and into the hands of the troika.
Are ff claiming responsibility for the murder and myham of easter 16.
Michael Martin is so far removed from what it would take to be revolutionary.
in true fashion the IRA were nowhere to be seen in 1916 coward then and cowards now
Are you and Tap Solny twins?
Given that the IRA did not come into existence until after the Rising that is asking a bit much of them.
The IRA hijacked illegal armed insurrection and FF want it back. They also hijacked cars, blew up property and people, were involved in rape and sexual abuse – does FF want this as well?
So did the FF-era IRA, what’s your point?
Think I’m going to vote Sinn Fein now just to annoy you!
Michael who?
Privileged to be in attendance at the launch today at the RCOS, the commemoration should be inclusive to all the people of Ireland but unfortunately SF/IRA have already tried to hijack it. Shameful from the provisional movement.
Ollie, your sainted former leader , Charlie Haughey, didn’t seem to mind the IRA too much when he tried to buy guns for them.
” Shameful from the provisional movement.”
As a member of FF, I think we can take it for granted that you don’t understand the concept of shame.
Hey Ollie, remember when fianna fail ruined this country?
Ireland was a colony.it was exploited pillaged and women and children raped by the detested English. More irish died in the great irish genocide than jews in the second world war but they label it the irish famine when English soldiers forced the deportation of our livestock,poultry etc because their crop were failing also.this will always be remembered and never forgotten. You cant go 30-40 miles in any direction in rural ireland without famine mass grave sites .
Commemorating a failed coup d’etat laughable ……why is it we don’t celebrate the real independence day ????
Because we haven’t had independence yet.
First colony the british empire lost……what about america?
Ireland wasn’t a colony in 1916, it was part of the UK
Yeah, it was doing really well as an ‘equal’ member of the UK, highest child mortality rate apart from calcutta, largest slum areas in Europe. Proper nirvana..
@Tommy Whelan and supporters: if Ireland was not a colony, why then was Winston Churchill present at Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations in his capacity as Secretary of State For the Colonies?
A lot of hot air from a selfcentered hypocrit trying for political survival. Insulting the brave men and women of 1916 for political gain is beyond belief. Time for FF to rid itself of it’s biggest liability.
Amen
Let’s vote on it
Does he not mean 14th Colony?
The US, at the time, was made up of 13 colonies (indicated by the increasing number of starts on the flag but the 13 stripes)
Such an utterly crap statement Martin. The majority of political parties in Ireland were happy to ignore how our country achieved its freedom and a large majority of the public played along. How anyone can buy such a crappy PR fuelled statement is beyond me. I know I will be utterly pxssxd off when 2016 comes around and we have to listen to the sanctimony of these cardboard centre parties and their bar stool supporters bleed on about something they are usually only too happy to ignore!
Martin is a dead man walking and will be ousted as party leader even after entering government with Kenny after next election This is the talk of a man desperate to gain lost ground to SF who are the real and honest REPUBLICANparty
Fianna Failed
Can someone remind Mr Martin that we only got 3/4 of the country free. The 6 counties in the north and its people are every part of this country and nation. Successive Irish governments turned the other way when their country men were being butchered in the north from partition. Maybe Mr Martin is ashamed of his parties record when it comes to ignoring the north. Lets face it the only time they actually talk about the north is to attack Sinn fein. The leaders of the rising set out to free all of Ireland and lead all the Irish people. How has Fianna Fail any right to claim anything in common with the men of 16. Even his use of the word country to describe the 26 counties and esclude the north is against the spirit of what those men fought for. Sinn Fein the first Republican party in Ireland are the only party that can rightfully claim to represent those ideals that were fought for in 1916.
Fianna Fail are damaged goods and are unlikely to lead a government for many years to come Party made a huge mistake in leaving some of the old guard at the helm ie MARTIN/O DEA/COWEN name alone stinks They should have rebranded like NEW labour in britian some years ago with new young guns leading ie McGrath/Dooley etc If Martin was shafted FF vote would increase considerably Send old boys to the backbenches for good Might be infighting in party in short term but they would have better long term prospects by far
Totally agree. The IRA drenched our heritage in blood, often that of children and innocents, and not in the name of the Irish. Time to reclaim our history from the bombers of Omagh and the abductors of Jean McConville
If the volunteers could see what you lot have done to the people of Ireland today you lot would be lined up and shot. Shame on the lot of you
the same party who sold the proclamation crying about defending 1916
yes 1916 needs defending but from FF,FG and Labour
I am actually beginning to loathe this man.
There is some weapons of mass destruction on here ie.patjoe,patsolny etc etc gimps and cretins of the highest order!!!! Fg/ff/lab rentboys..trolls..pity you where not educated in letterfrack the dump your ff/fg pigs installed on our nation.and as for the genocide(famine my hole)
Has he even asked the people of Ireland if they want it back?
No more than the clowns in the GPO asked the people of Ireland if they wanted a revolution.
“If I wish to know what the Irish want, I look into my own heart” said DeValera. Or he could have just asked us.
People who don’t ask difficult questions are usually unsure or afraid of the answers.
And this man represents the threat of namby pamby revisionism, of history being hijacked by Nancy boys and halfwit liberals. Like or not , no IRA = endless lapdog servitude to the filthy poms. Who wants to be scots or welsh?
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