Slugger O'Toole

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1. Comment on Taking years off your life – NI life expectancy deprivation gaps show increase over last decade
   on 19 May 2013 at 4:09 pm

   “Barnshee will we all just forget how much it costs the state annually clearing up after loyalist bonfires, repairing the damage done to public and private property caused by these annual bonfires or can we add on the policing costs of thousands of Orange order parades every year”

   er no tho compared to the billions PIRA cost the taxpayer its a mere bagatelle

   The answers are relatively simple

   1 Bonfire should be restricted to (contained) beacons Fire organisers should pay for any cleanup needed with cah up front prior if necessary (also see 2 below)
   2 Parade organisers and parade protesters should lodge a security deposit of a material sum (oh say £50,000) in cash or irrevocable bank guarantee prior to each parade/protest
   3 The “side” instigating trouble as identified by the police/parades commission forfeits their “deposit” it is then awarded to the “innocent side. No trouble and everyone keeps their money.

   A dam sight fewer parades even fewer “protests”

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2. Comment on Has the Protestant Working Class lost out in the Peace Process?
   on 19 May 2013 at 12:10 pm

   CATHOLICS in Northern Ireland are in poorer health, are more likely to be un-employed and live in larger households compared with Protestants, latest census figures show”

   Would that be in anyway related to family size? (perhaps the oft quoted increase in roman catholic population Versus protestant population)

   1 How much is heath related to genetics, lifestyle and in its widest sense environment ?

   2 Why will a (free) choice exercised on family size give anyone a right to special treatment–a bigger house?- at others expense ?

   3 At any one time there are a limited number of jobs available – where there are more job applicants than jobs a level of unemployment in the remaining population is inevitable

   4 If ,in the AFM remaining population there are more of Group X people than Group Y people, unemployment levels are likely to be higher in X than in Y -its hardly the fault of Group Y.

   In short what are the root causes of Health, Employment and housing problems?

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3. Comment on Taking years off your life – NI life expectancy deprivation gaps show increase over last decade
   on 19 May 2013 at 11:47 am

   “In the grand scheme of things, no they didn’t. They held it for two and a half years, fifteen years ago. Since 2002 it’s been under direct rule or a Unionist.”

   During SF`s time I seem to remember an attempt to promote the use of Irish in the health service which cost £1m??– at the expense of clinical treatments -another ” good days work”?

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4. Comment on Taking years off your life – NI life expectancy deprivation gaps show increase over last decade
   on 18 May 2013 at 4:12 pm

   “Would it be fatuous to factor the degree of alcohol and tobacco consumption into the various equations?”

   Oh dear its the naughty step for you- people are “disadvantaged” Hhow dare you suggest they might be in some small ?? way responsible for the state they find themselves in

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5. Comment on Radical Independence & The Jamaican, Ugandan & Pakistani UKIP candidates
   on 18 May 2013 at 1:28 pm

   Fear stalks ALL the parties in GB- UKIP might hit them all -hence the efforts to belittle, demonise etc. (try todays Guardian Weekend for a cliched agenda ridden item trying to debunk UKIP) Nice to see a hand round the throat of the big boys -hope it lasts

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6. Comment on Taking years off your life – NI life expectancy deprivation gaps show increase over last decade
   on 18 May 2013 at 1:22 pm

   Whats all the fuss about — everyone stay on the bus until Finaghy and live to be 80+ –or what someone who knows SFA about Statistical analysis might suggest

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7. Comment on UTV Insight: Collusion and some of its innocent victims…
   on 10 May 2013 at 2:53 pm

   the British state has shown itself incapable of investigating and reforming itself on this issue.”

   The reply to the residents of USA who whinge about the British is simply reply firmly GUANTANAMO and Torture every time (s)he cheeps

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8. Comment on UTV Insight: Collusion and some of its innocent victims…
   on 10 May 2013 at 1:53 pm

   “Despite what you have been brainwashed to believe the RC community find death and destruction as abhorrent as you do on your perceived moral high ground – and guess what, they don’t have horns either”

   As well demonstrated by the 10s of thousands who turn(ed) out for the funerals of bombers and murderers- whose politican`s qualifications for office are murder by shooting in the back ,bombing and imprisonment ? They hardly crowd the “moral high ground”

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9. Comment on “A lot of Northern Irish funding rewards bad behaviour” (with few positive outcomes)
   on 10 May 2013 at 1:06 pm

   “In some areas all the external money has done is to create a cadre of paramilitary-connected elites who have ‘non-jobs’ because of who they know”

   Er– this applies to virtually all the public sector in NI and of course the ultimate gravy trains of Local Authorities and the Assembly

   The British government has bought peace -how long they will continue to fund it -that`s the question

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10. Comment on Taking down walls not popular in interface areas…
    on 10 May 2013 at 12:55 pm

    The walls are essential for the people living cheek by jowl with them. They are here to stay for an indefinite period and may indeed continue to multiply where people feel the need

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