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In the most unsuitable for the weather track.... A Perfect Circle's version of Imagine.

Doesn't Fox also carefully edit clips of Trump speaking so the viewers don't get the full rambling spastic experience??

I imagine that's a given.

I don't know the fella or his catalogue, and that's very tasty playing, but I've seen loadsa tasty players who can't write a decent song. I wouldn't listen to 45mins of that, for example.

Pantera playlist with cans in the sun. Probably belongs in the simple pleasures thread.

Mad reading all the responses here and realising just how integral to the metal scene that Def Leppard and Bon Jovi were.

While Bon Jovi didn't do it for me at the time, I knew they were adjacent to what I was looking towards.

Medical dramas not really being my bag, I'm actually enjoying The Pitt.

Wow, some shit day at the office, that.

Medical dramas not really being my bag, I'm actually enjoying The Pity.

S3 of White Lotus was bollox. I was surprised who got killed off though.

I was going to say his supporters would surely call this blasphemy but, well...no, they wouldn't.

I dunno, with my neighbour's ivy creeping over my wall and on to/through the slats in my wooden shed, I can kinda see where he's coming from.

https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2025/0428/1509834-monaghan-arrest-weapon/

Some may have the seen the videos of this guy standing in the middle of the road in Carrickmacross on Sunday evening waving a knife trying to get people out of their cars.

I can't think of a worse way to get somebody out of their car than waving a knife at them

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I'd like to know the re-offending stats on all the cases ruled by Nolan or any other judge that follows these types of decisions. We all know these people aren't deterred by prison in the first place. But surely minimum sentencing for some of these cases are totally justified?! I think the main thing people want is a sense of justice - that doesn't seem to play out some of the time.

McEntee's increase in maximum sentences last year was utterly pointless. There should absolutely be minimum sentences brought in.

On the deportation side of things, isn't he given 2 weeks to deport himself?! Hardly good enough for the right of centre folks, they would argue probably for a mandatory leg chained event leading up to the plane  but there's a case to be said for some type of proper system in place to deal with these.

Ya, the current model of voluntarily deporting themselves is a major issue and needs serious monitoring. Leg-chained up to the plane is perfectly acceptable. Scumbag should be treated accordingly.

To play devils's advocate on this one.... wasn't anyone even slightly right of centre saying, If you're an immigrant and you commit a serious crime, you should automatically be deported. So, while it's typical Nolanism, is this not a worthwhile approach?

He went mental a while back, even sold loads of gear in Reverb.

The opening track, I think it is, is very good. He can still play metal. On the rest of the album, unfortunately, he chooses not to.

What I think gets lost in the conversation is that most of our population growth is legal immigration from the EU.

And practically full employment, so, economically they are needed.

God forbid lads we get a bit of wage inflation instead. I would argue the point also - economically in what areas exactly? If you say construction, I remember reading somewhere, people coming in related to that area in terms of skills was only less than 5% of the people. If you say nursing, we trained one of the highest amounts of nurses per capita in the OECD. Yet the vast majority will end up emigrating elsewhere and don't tell me that all because they want to travel the world. Common sense will tell you if you pay properly with decent working conditions we wouldn't be discussing it. The central bank literally came out and say we need more migrants to keep wages down. Think of your own working sector - if we flooded that with cheap labour I don't think you'd be happy with the outcome of that. Sure with nursing, there's a recruitment freeze within the HSE yet an exemption for overseas nurses, two tiered system, HSE doesn't want to give permanent roles, they want agency staff, cheaper long term. My point is, without a proper immigration system with having a decent idea of X numbers in, Y numbers out, you can't realistically plan for the future of anything. And I'm near confident bar the 2004 post EU enlargement - from say 2014 onwards - that most of the migration is from non-EU sources, esp nowadays. 86,000 2023-2024 were from non-eu countries for example if you check the CSO website.

It was nursing that I had in mind as I can only speak from an area that I've been privvy to. The wards seemed to be about 60% foreign workers in the wards I saw.

The issue is housing. We have loads of nurses qualifiying as you correctly point out. In Dublin, a couple, both nurses/teachers/guards can't get a mortgage. So, nurses will fuck off somewhere where they can have a decent standard of living. They need to be replaced, so we have, imo, welcome and needed immigration.

Teachers, as above, can't get a mortgage. However, they can flake off for 5 years according to their terms and conditions. So they head off to Dubai, earn a fortune, come back and buy a house. But the reason an awful lot of em fuck off in the first place is lack/cost of housing.

I am completely against open borders letting anyone in and I'm glad that the gov finally seem to be trying to make the process much quicker. How successful that will be remains to be seen.

Back to serious matters...Gwan the 'Pool!