#fine gael

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@is-maith-liom-tae bro I told one of the teachers in the school that I joined a young political party and he deadass put his hands together and said "please don't be fine gael, please don't be fine gael-" 💀

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I saw some tiktoks where Americans were praising Leo Varadkar for “what he’s doing for Palestine” and are claiming that him resigning as Taoiseach is some conspiracy by Joe Biden.

Listen, sure I don’t know what goes on behind the scenes of nations governments, but guys…

Leo was such a shit Taoiseach. Not only are all leftists happy he’s gone, but conservatives too! He was the head of Fine Gael, a centre right party that is one of two parties (other one being Fianna Fáil) that our Taoiseachs rotate between.

Also! He hasn’t done shit for Palestine! He’s literally a “centrist” leaning towards Israel on the issue. People are claiming that because he was planning a meeting with Joe Biden to tell him that “you can be for both Israel and Palestine”, somehow America is controlling our politics and genocide Joe got him to step down. Like how America-centric can you be?

[milesaerach]

US diplomat is now trying to intervene in Irish politics

Of course, the Free State government likes to show their bellies in defeat, for they might be doing something that is morally right for once in their lives.

[smokygluvs]

Michael Noonan - Fine Gael

Michael Noonan, former Fine Gael finance minister. A bull of a bald man, with piercing, dark eyes.

How comes Ireland gets so many handsome, solid, sensible politicians, whilst here in the UK we are stuck with a stream of thick (i.e. stupid), ugly, incompetent wankers?

Wouldn't say no to that.

Looks good with his specs on as well.

Don't make him angry,,.

[freedomisainmdom]

choose your fighter hannibal lecter a wonderful man or tiny tim should get a job

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#OTD in Irish History | 2 September:

1022 – Death of Maelsechlainn II, the great High King of Ireland. 1752 – The Gregorian calendar is adopted in Ireland and Britain, 170 years after mainland Europe: 2 September is followed by 14 September. 1731 – Birth of Sir Lucius O’Brien, opposition politician, once described as ‘a man who disagrees with the rest of mankind by thinking well of himself’. 1752 – The Gregorian calendar is adopted…

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Ireland's Prime Minister Simon Harris Calls for 2024 General Election

Start of the 2024 General Election in Ireland Ireland’s Prime Minister, also known as the Taoiseach, Simon Harris, has officially initiated the 2024 general election by announcing his request for the dissolution of the current Irish parliament, or Dáil, on Friday. In a concise yet impactful address delivered in Dublin, Harris expressed gratitude towards his colleagues in the centre-right Fine…

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Irish Fascism: An Examination of a Political Fringe, and a slow return.

Fascism, a political ideology that rose to prominence in Europe during the early 20th century, left deep imprints on the history of several countries, from Mussolini’s Italy to Hitler’s Germany and Franco’s Spain. In Ireland, however, fascism remained a relatively marginal movement, confined to small groups and figures that never gained mass political support. Yet, Irish fascism was a significant…

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[just-ray]

are you in a political party at the moment? are you gonna join one?

I am part of a young political party. I shan't say which to avoid tumblr slander, but it's quite complicated.

So say party A and party B and party C are all in government, and party V, W, X, Y, Z, are all in opposition. I support outright the values of party Y and Z, and some of the values of party B. Ireland has a big issue where party A and B have been cycling in and out of government for decades, and opposition parties have never had a chance to get into government.

Now, say you are any of the following.

Somone with the intention to be a politician that;

-wants to be in government

-cares more about making a difference than party affiliation

-wants a realistic chance of having influence

(This does not apply for people with no intent to be in government, and I VERY MUCH encourage voting for a party you support and agree with regardless of affiliation, or for locals, voting by candidate rather than party.)

Because the cycle between A and B has been going on for so long, if you want to make a larger change, it's adviseable to be in government. It could be argued that it's easier to join party A or B, than to break the cycle.

Dosen't this feed into poor decisions? Not inherently. So, I am formally affeliated with party B.

We must take a look at this parties youth. You will observe that they are all very progressive next to the current party. You will also observe that party B seem to really like party Y and Z.

As I said, party B has solid values but sometimes falls on execution. I also wish to break the cycle between party A and party B, but to do that, I must be in party B, in order to have a chance of being in government, and also to have a chance of promoting true democratic practice within that party, and establishing good, competitive but healthy and non hostile relations between parties. Competition stays, but it is paired with cooperation.

Although I agree with all of the values of party Y and Z, I see real potential in party B to rise to the same standard, and even above it, and I feel it's the better of the two parties that will get you into government, compared to party A.

I might be canvassing for party A, however I feel similarly towards them in the sense that I really do believe the candidates are good and dedicated people, but there needs to be real discussion had upon the question; "are we working AT the people, or are we working with and for them? Are we justifying our mistakes instead of endeavouring to improve upon them?"

I also believe that canvassing is good in all it's forms. While there are outright discriminatory parties I wouldn't canvass for, I believe the spreading of information and a variety of perspectives is inherently good. The people need to know their options, and I am happy to facilitate that in any way I can. I trust the voter will make the choice that they feel is best.

Tbh I'd be the first to admit that I have to perform insane mental gymnastics to be a part of this party, but I do think I have fair reasoning.

There are definitely worse parties to be in. There are less popular (thank god) parties that outright deny people human rights, and would fall very close to the beliefs of US trump supporters, however I'm happy to say I'm not part of a party that is deliberately denying human rights, but rather just a party that has solid theoretical values but exercises them poorly sometimes, but I really think the youth will have a great impact.

We all affiliate differently, but many of us have a common goal of liberation, happiness, and healthy institutions.

I have friends from all parties, from a-z. We do discuss sometimes, but we do not tend to argue because we share the same foundational desires for a healthy and empowered society.

As long as a party does not restrict human rights; I am not against that party in any way. We each have our own unique set of beliefs and our own power and healthy ideologies, and to have a real future for the people, it is essential that we cooperate and work with, rather than against each other, to find a way to move forward in the common belief in justice and civil rights.

Sorry for the really long answer, but I feel it's necessary to explain.

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[gael-garcia]

Gael García Bernal interviewed by Dir. Julian Schnabel for Interview Magazine (2003)

📷Ellen von Unwerth

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YOU CAN'T OUT ME LIKE THAT 😨

You said you take our requests on this blog so, this is my request for you to draw the sinn fein fine gael enemies to lovers arc. I do not know why I'm making this message anonymous. It is very obvious who is sending it. 😭👍

RAY WHEN I CATCH YOU

[atopvisenyashill]

Why do you think Jaehaerys sexually assaulted his own daughter?( I'm genuinely curious)

I have two dedicated tags to this if you want to dig in a bit more - "gael and the bard" and the newly added "jaehaerys the cruel" tags, with this meta here being the kind of jumping off point into that whole theory/analysis. gael and the bard is more focused on gael targaryen herself and the mystery surrounding her pregnancy and suicide; there's a lot of bael the bard imagery surrounding her, being called the winter princess, gael being one letter off from bael, the father of her baby noted to have been a singer, and her status as like, an eternal maiden because of her relationship with alysanne. the jaehaerys the cruel moniker is just a reference to maegor the cruel - i think the play between maegor being outwardly monstrous and jaehaerys being privately monstrous is very interesting! but also it's not like a fun tag name lol so i might change it, haven't decided yet!

but i guess to break down my thought process here - i have never liked that man lmaoooo, i am an og jaehaerys hater. my lil journey here is, i read this series in high school, roughly around the winter of 2012, but i didn't read twoiaf when it came out in 2014, i read that just before i started this blog, so like....idk 2 years ago, roughly, but i was Aware Of Its Existence (they didn't have it at school, the library was kind of far, and it felt like a stupidly expensive book to ask for at the time). i had kinda skimmed over the short stories the princess & the queen and the rogue prince (don't ask me when they came out, icr), and had read all the twow preview chapters so it wasn't like i wasn't up on all the asoiaf world stuff, i just hadn't been able to get my hands on twoiaf, which I do think impacted my view of jaehaerys because the thing is...i just didn't understand the jaehaerys appeal. i won't get into the wanky aspects of fandom (i mean i will if someone asks but idk if you care lol), but i would say in the like 2010-2014 era the fandom was p staunchly and loudly pro targaryen, and not just in a "i love the rot" way but in a "they are the promised heroes" type of way and i never jived with it. i did not enjoy the vast majority of dany's chapters on my first read, nor did i enjoy this weird "well if you like the starks you're a NORMIE" takes that i was constantly seeing, and the sansa v arya war was insane (i'm blocked and have blocked just so many people lol).

i say all that because everyone was UP jaehaerys' ass. i won't name names but i remember a common rebuttal to the "well george is kinda critiquing incest-in-fantasy here and i'm not sure this series is going to end with an incestuous targ restoration" stance was "well if incest is so bad why do jaehaerys and alysanne exist huh? check AND mate incest hater" and it was like............alright, so this is a fandom of deeply unserious people who like to think they are the Expert On Themes instead of just another schmuck with a blog like everyone else. it was just a very condescending tone, always, and it turned me off the targs but especially turned me off jaehaerys.

and it was also like....but what has he done to be so beloved in this fandom??? again, this is pre twoiaf, and then post-twoiaf but pre f&b, so all we know about this dude is that he was called the conciliator because he pardoned the people who sided with maegor, he "protected the faith", he married his sister who gave the watch the gift, he abolished prima noctus, he built a dirt road, he was besties with barth. okay? i always thought the move with the gift was annoying and goofy behavior & i feel very vindicated on being right there esp if aegon’s dream was real, and i’ve always thought the marriages for his kids were kinda weird once we got those in twoiaf and WHAT DO YOU KNOW. like, pre twoiaf everyone was hyping him up as this great king, this paragon of valyrian supremacy, oh he’s so smart and politically minded but he’s not overly cruel, and it was like. we know little about this man in his day to day life though. we know damn well whatever good robert did as king was largely jon arryn's influence so Why are we pretending like just because jaehaerys passed a few good laws it means HE was the one responsible for those ideas (and again I WAS RIGHT). is what he’s doing even that good??

AND THEN FIRE AND BLOOD CAME OUT. and everyone was crying screaming throwing up about how stupid he is, how cruel he is, how weird he is about his daughters, and then people started saying “well you’re being unfair if you don’t like him because-“ i don’t give a shit because i’m validated for not liking that man’s vibes thanks!!!! like…yeah he IS a paragon of targaryen supremacy and this is not a good thing! and especially when you factor in how often the patriarchs of the series have these deeply rooted, very disturbing flaws, i thought the backlash to f&b re: “he ruined jae & aly!” so silly. of COURSE he was weird about his daughters, he eloped with his 12 year old sister and when confronted over it basically said “i do what i want fuck you” that’s not romantic it’s INSANE BEHAVIOR and i’ll stand on that forever!!! marrying your siblings is deranged and idgaf about what magic or political reasoning they have ESPECIALLY when jaehaerys himself refuses a valyrian marriage several times over when it makes more political sense to go that route (in both his own marriage and in the marriages of his grandchildren).

so! i always thought he was boring and weird, then f&b came out and i was vindicated. the thing is, as i read, i guess i was also like. but what is the fuckijg POINT of this guy! he dominates the f&b narrative when there’s way more interesting characters, he has no redeeming qualities, every good thing he does is usually overshadowed by his reasoning being heinous and disturbing, but this book is pushing this idea that he’s the good one, he’s the blueprint, so is it JUST an exploration of like, what ~being a good person~ really means and how reputations & history are very malleable depending on who is recording it??

And then i really started to dig into Saera. Her isolation, her drinking, her sexually tormenting the court fool, the way jaehaerys is always giving her gifts and "indulging" her, the way she's brought before the throne instead of in a private room because what she did is considered like, treasonous basically (what she did being, of course, having sex without her father's permission, lmao!), her very hysterical confrontation with her parents, Jonquil Darke forcing her to watch her boyfriend be murdered, Jaehaerys' insistence on refusing to forgive her and calling her a whore, and of course this weird exchange:

“What have you done?” the king said, when at last the princess ran out of words. “Seven save us, what have you done? Have you given one of these boys your maidenhead? Tell me true.” “True?” said Saera. It was in that moment, with that word, that the contempt came out. “No. I gave it to all three. They all think they were the first. Boys are such silly fools.”

"They all think they were the first." they all think it. i don't think any of those three boys were the first - i think she'd lost her virginity well before she started fooling around with them and when I first read that part my first thought was "I think Jaehaerys knows damn well who she lost her virginity to" and I started spiraling from there.

I decided to do a write up of Jaehaerys Being Deeply Weird Towards His Girls and while there's some things I would change - in particular, I think I'd add more to the Alyssa, Viserra, and Gael sections - there's a reason that the Saera section in particular seemed to really spark off a lot of conversation (not to toot my own horn here lmao) and that reason, imo, is that a lot of people read about what happened between Saera and jaehaerys and go "now what in the goddamn hell is THAT about." Saera more than any of Jaehaerys' kids is imo the canary in the coal mine, so to speak - whatever George intended with F&B, I do think he meant for us to look at the way Jaehaerys talks about Saera and go "this guy has some fucking ISSUES." I don't know that he meant for it to go all the way up to "Jaehaerys is molesting his own kids" route but I do fully believe he meant something in that realm of "Jaaehaerys is cruel to a sexually abusive point to his children" the same way that like, Tywin and Cersei sexually abuse Tyrion but don't outright rape him themselves. I think Jaehaerys was always meant to be aman who is remembered fondly but was an absolute monster in his private life, in contrast to both the kings he succeeded (maegor and aenys) and as a point of comparison to our "modern day" patriarchs who have their own hang ups surrounding their daughters in Tywin, Doran, Ned, Robert, Jon, and Hoster.

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#OTD in 1892 – Birth of General Eoin O’Duffy, near Castleblaney, Co Monaghan.

Birth of Eoin O’Duffy, IRA man, Commissioner of the Garda Síochána and General Franco supporter, near Lough Egish, Co Monaghan. O’Duffy first came to fame when he led an IRA group which captured the first RIC barracks at Ballytrain taking from it weapons and explosives, during the War of Independence. Also present at this victory were Ernie O’ Malley who went on to organise flying columns and the…

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Upcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland

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