A once former valuable search engine that has been broken beyond recognition by a change in corporate philosophy that makes it now close to useless for doing the thing it is supposed in existence to do for people.
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Junior partners in any Irish coalition usually take a hiding in the next election.
The Greens in the past, Labour, Progressive Democrats…all have lost seats when coming out of government.
We take it out on the weakest link.
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Potential alliances
1)FF & FG
2)SF, SD, PBP &. Labour
Likely outcome FF & FG with II and some Independents.
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It’s time Ireland 
thinks about grand coalition like Germany 
Never going to happen
The anti SF feelings of the centrist right parties won’t allow it.
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Proud to be Irish
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In my view they shouldn’t have the choice.
Their Ambassador should havr been removed months ago.
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Israeli Foreign Minster calls names…
His Government underwrites mass murder.
Fuck him.
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Sending you all 
and merry Christmas.
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RIP:palms_up_together:
to the peaceful civil rights marchers who were murdered on 30th January 1972. God bless them. Gone, but never forgotten. Amen/Ameen.
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I always had a soft spot for George.
Also for Paul Hughes. He is a shining example as an Irish ambassador for MMA sport unlike that moron McGregor.
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McGregor is seriously out of control.
A pure scumbag.
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I have seen some of his comments on my timeline and its racist! However, i loved the comments from the Irish people defending Paul Hughes and bringing down McGregor a peg or two on ‘what is Irishness’.
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We have a number of Irish speaking areas around the country known as An Gaeltacht where the language is widely spoken on a daily basis. Unfortunately the urban areas use english so the issue is how do we get a larger percentage of the population to use it daily.
For me the answer is to make every primary school a gaelscoil. Every primary school teacher already has to have a working knowledge of Irish in this country.Those that don’t teach secondary school. In making them all gaelscoils, within a decade we would have 50, 000 12 Yr old kids leaving primary school every year with a good knowledge of the language. After that we need to encourage secondary school to do the same while also promoting the use of Irish in everyday life, which will be helped with having 50k plus new speakers every year hopefully looking to use it.
As Kneecap have shown with their lyrics, there should be no reason why both languages cannot co-exist.
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Kneecap in my view have elevated the Irish language in the 21st century and definitely made it look ‘cool’ to learn.
I thought it was called Irish gaelic and was similar to Scottish gaelic, but I was told it is totally different language.
Is this correct?
I will have to google the origins and which other language it is close to.
It’s in the same group of languages as Scottish Gaelic (Goidelic) as well as Manx, but they are their own thing. I did try to study Scottish Gaelic and I can occasionally see Irish words that look similar or are obviously from the same route.
They are very similar languages, but not quite mutually intelligible - the Ulster dialect logically enough being the closest. Scottish Gaelic and Gaeilge share the same root (along with Manx) in Old Irish, and are much closer to one another than to Welsh/Cornish/Breton, the other group of languages.
For context, the Norwegian/Swedish/Danish grouping are considered mutually intelligible, though dialects very frequently make that a challenge (or humourous, as in ‘The Bridge’)
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On a lighter note,
I finally got my wish to see the Emerald Isle. I am going to Dublin on Sunday for 5 days.
Taking my friend, she recently lost her mum. She wanted to get away, but not too far.
We booked a day’s excursion to Wicklow, Kilkenny and Glendalough.
We are staying near Parnell Square.
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