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 The lack of modern library services outside Dublin and the North and the lack of mobile libraries until recent years points to a lack of joined-up political thinking,proper moral training, real civil development and a country's history marked by intellectual undernourishment. A gombeen class produced this phenomenon in the South, something Southern Protestants can see better than anyone. ... The central problem? The elephant in the room? Irish economic underdevelopment brought about by a history of colonialism, conservative central banking practices,Fine Gael politicians and the influence of farmers,big and small. ... The labour approach? The labour standard is to put workers and the poor first and tell whingeing farmers and screeching women like Moira Drumm and Michelle O Neill and Bairbre de Bruin,"Shut your beak!" ... The BIG picture? The goal in the round of all the ideas enunciated on this blog is joined-up thinking. ... The role of politics,people who appear only a...

You should as a rule not engage with the Irish countryman,be he Orange or Green,rural or townie,Northerner or Southerner,unless he has spent good time abroad or been in regular waged employment. Here are the reasons. A typical characteristic of the " hungry small farmer" with less than adequate means of subsistence is his greed for what belongs to someone else. He is a man set on a path of blind ambition and nepotism. His fellow traveller is the down-at-heel townie. (The political phenomenon which lies at the heart of understanding both Stalinism and Hitlerism is the opposition or support of the countryman). Sensible people say to those talking through their hat about involving these rough, ignorant and unmannerly people in trade unionism and socialist politics,"Do you think you are in Russia in the 1930's. Clearly,you do not know what you are talking about. Stop talking nonsense and get a grip on yourself. Farmers are like their animals,full of shit. They'll die...

 ... other than rough, ignorant and unmannerly country people and semi-educated fascists who send their children to study law and medicine,a bunch of tramps, the worst of them being the Cork or Kerry or Midlands Gardai. These tramps in their big cars try to run people over and kill them even on a Sunday. They are,in that facet of  their activities,no different from police anywhere. The country Gardai are drunken layabouts recruited from the farming  class and the pending dole queue. They will,if they are allowed to behave like the licensed thugs that they are,carry out illegal evictions at the behest of landlords. Gardai own property which they are not paying tax on in every county in Ireland.  Detectives working undercover? Police everywhere are notorious for cheating people out of their change when working undercover in bars and restaurants and for stealing from the till. These people,if they were not enforcing the law,would be put in jail for breaking the law,such...

A tout is a weak and pathetic sort of fool who ends up drinking himself to death. He is a fickle sort of creature,a straw in the wind who like the biblical Jew is a wanderer between sky and cloud. However,he can be dangerous so here are my reflections from a lifetime of experience and untoward advances by these pricks..... A spy or false witness usually acts on his own volition and is interested,inter alia, in  what you listen to on the radio or watch on television. He is a sociopath who likes to alter outcomes and he gets money from the police for telling them such information.The police have the power to influence broadcasting content and schedules. It's MONEY which motivates the hound most.  Sometimes,a country  informer operates remotely by telephoning or through a neighbour but he will stop visiting and calling if you DO NOT ANSWER THE TELEPHONE... Say "Skat!" Sometimes, he may arrive at your door the next day to tell you that he was "concerned" about you. ...