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The Phantom Honker's avatar

So a 19th century Whip system, from a British based rule of party politics is still being applied to Irish politics and influential in our judiciary 150 years later, despite our own Constitution.???

If you still think we're independent I've got a booster to sell you.

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rowena roche's avatar

could not have put it better!!

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Mutley72's avatar

So the two their justice system in Ireland is moving along as normal. So now Lady Justice can fully take of her blindfold to wipe away they tiers of they Irish people who are awake enough to see the suffering and hell that they left-wing government, NGO sector and the bought of MSM, are unleashing on the people of Ireland.

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Fr Sean Sheehy's avatar

Poor Ireland, she has lost here sovereignty, her religion, her culture, and her heritage and grasp of the truth in order to be liked by Brussels and its globalist and atheistic agenda. Thank you, Louise for this report.

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rowena roche's avatar

how wonderful to have a priest in the house! God bless you Father!1

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Aidan McGrath's avatar

If it took 35 pages to argue his case and not very convincingly-it says more about how far he is willing to go to satisfy his paymasters. Reminds me of the contortions the judge who ruled in the Brian Curtin case underwent to rule out the evidence against him by moving the warrant issue back in time to the midnight previously so that he could claim it was served late. Jonathan Swift couldn’t write better satire.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.

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Charles Foster Kane's avatar

Who needs the Brits in Ireland when the State does their job for them?

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rowena roche's avatar

I want you to know that I’ve just been out to vote and have effectively just written what’s highlighted there across the ballot paper I added in that the use of the whip was interference. I did think of crediting you but I didn’t want to write a speech a mile long across the ballot because I don’t think they’ll even read it. I hope you don’t mind that I didn’t credit you. I’m crediting you here.👏🏾🙏🕊️👍

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rowena roche's avatar

thank u kindly. this was very informative

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rowena roche's avatar

Still have not decided what to do.....deeply torn. Both candidates are political pawns. I am tempted to write on my ballot 'THE PRESIDENT SHALL BE ELECTED BY DIRECT VOTE OF THE PEOPLE' - 'LOM DIREACH' IS DIRECT VOTE OR IS IT? ACCURATE TRANSLATION OF 'LOM' IS 'WITHOUT INTERFERENCE'. IRISH SUPERSEDES ENGLISH IN IRISH LAW. The use of the whip that was justified by judge in Cora Stack's case dates from 150 years ago and today is unlawful. The people today feel it is interference. People accepted authoritarian power 150 years ago but now people feel it is wrong....

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Vinny's avatar

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see.

No Reason by Lysander Spooner 1867

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J. P. Bruce's avatar

Great to read this account of the Cora Stack case, otherwise unreported by mainstream media I gather.

On the face of it the judgment seems sound. But this is a state court protecting a state process so the result could hardly have been otherwise.

Let them have their little farce today. In some ways I pity whoever 'wins'.

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