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Housing Minister issues wind warning

  • 18-09-2018 9:33pm
    #1
    Olsky
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭


    The Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has taken to twitter to advise us all of the possibility that it might be windy.
    According to the Minister there is the "potential for damaging gusts"
    So please be careful out there... particularly if you are homeless.


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  • #2
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    All action sleeves rolled up ready for the wind


  • #3
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Olsky wrote: »
    The Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has taken to twitter to advise us all of the possibility that it might be windy.
    According to the Minister there is the "potential for damaging gusts"
    So please be careful out there... particularly if you are homeless.

    There are very few people in this country without a roof over their head. Actual homeless numbers are being inflated by the ‘Foreva Home’ crew.


  • #4
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Maybe he shouldn't have built the houses out of straw.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    oooh minister for wind talks out of his hole, shock horror!!


  • #6
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    The opening posts of this thread read like the comments section of the Journal.

    This is not a good thing.


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  • #7
    Jimmy.
    Site Banned Posts: 386 ✭✭Jimmy.


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    The opening posts of this thread read like the comments section of the Journal.

    This is not a good thing.

    Posters in the Journal are like the thick class in school.


  • #8
    Happy4all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    rusty cole wrote: »
    oooh minister for wind talks out of his hole, shock horror!!

    windy hole by all account.


  • #9
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Whats wrong with him tweeting this?


  • #10
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    Whats wrong with him tweeting this?

    Obviously he shouldn’t be doing anything else but building homes by hand until all the “can’t pay, won’t pay” brigade have their fur’eva home.


  • #11
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    It's windy out there, stay safe folks :pac:



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  • #12
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    Whats wrong with him tweeting this?

    As well as being a Minister,he's also a TD.

    You can bet your mortgage,that if he did'nt tweet about the threat,and one of his constituents got clattered by a falling tree,the aforementioned malcontents would be beside themeslves with righteous anger.

    :o


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #13
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    The opening posts of this thread read like the comments section of the Journal.

    This is not a good thing.
    Get used to it...


    :pac:


  • #14
    Kevin Finnerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Kevin Finnerty


    amcalester wrote: »
    Obviously he shouldn’t be doing anything else but building homes by hand until all the “can’t pay, won’t pay” brigade have their fur’eva home.

    It's not in his remit to issue weather warnings. Tweeting for tweeting sake from a professional account is juvenile at best.


  • #15
    Jimmy.
    Site Banned Posts: 386 ✭✭Jimmy.


    amcalester wrote: »
    Obviously he shouldn’t be doing anything else but building homes by hand until all the “can’t pay, won’t pay” brigade have their fur’eva home.

    Won’t work brigade.


  • #16
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Kevin Finnerty wrote: »
    It's not in his remit to issue weather warnings. Tweeting for tweeting sake from a professional account is juvenile at best.

    Hes relaying important information. His entire life doesnt have to be just about housing. Maybe hes a weather geek in his spare time


  • #17
    Wheeliebin30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,593 ✭✭✭Wheeliebin30


    Kevin Finnerty wrote: »
    It's not in his remit to issue weather warnings. Tweeting for tweeting sake from a professional account is juvenile at best.

    Jesus.


  • #18
    Kevin Finnerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Kevin Finnerty


    Wheeliebin30 wrote: »
    Jesus.

    Make your point.


  • #19
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,266 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Kevin Finnerty wrote: »
    It's not in his remit to issue weather warnings. Tweeting for tweeting sake from a professional account is juvenile at best.

    What?


  • #20
    Jimmy.
    Site Banned Posts: 386 ✭✭Jimmy.


    Wheeliebin30 wrote: »
    Jesus.

    First cousin of minister?


  • #21
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,478 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    That's the name of the next storm.


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  • #22
    Olsky
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭Olsky


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    Hes relaying important information.

    To be frank I think these semi permanent weather warnings designed to induce weather paranoia and fear are getting a bit ridiculous and silly.

    We are already getting these weather warnings from multiple sources including met eireann.

    Is it really really necessary for the Housing Minister to take onto his portfolio driving weather hysteria by warning people that it might be a bit windy or it might rain or it might be sunny tomorrow?


  • #23
    The Satanist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    Kevin Finnerty wrote: »
    It's not in his remit to issue weather warnings. Tweeting for tweeting sake from a professional account is juvenile at best.

    It actually is, since Met Eireann are part of his department.


  • #24
    TheShow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,157 ✭✭✭TheShow


    Kevin Finnerty wrote: »
    It's not in his remit to issue weather warnings. Tweeting for tweeting sake from a professional account is juvenile at best.

    There is no hope.


  • #25
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,478 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Olsky wrote: »
    To be frank I think these semi permanent weather warnings designed to induce weather paranoia and fear are getting a bit ridiculous and silly.

    We are already getting these weather warnings from multiple sources including met eireann.

    Is it really really necessary for the Housing Minister to take onto his portfolio driving weather hysteria by warning people that it might be a bit windy or it might rain or it might be sunny tomorrow?

    Hyperbole.


  • #26
    Kevin Finnerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Kevin Finnerty


    The Satanist wrote: »
    It actually is, since Met Eireann are part of his department.

    You're right! Didn't know that at all.


  • #27
    Turnipman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Turnipman


    Olsky wrote: »
    The Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has taken to twitter to advise us all of the possibility that it might be windy.
    According to the Minister there is the "potential for damaging gusts"
    So please be careful out there... particularly if you are homeless.

    Might that be the Minister whose portfolio includes both Met Eireann and the National Directorate Fire and Emergency Management, the body responsible for co-ordinating the national response to severe weather events and a range of other major emergencies?

    If so then I can see a pretty simple reason why such an individual might tweet a warning about the risk of severe weather.


  • #28
    Ninthlife
    Registered Users Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Ninthlife


    Olsky wrote: »
    To be frank I think these semi permanent weather warnings designed to induce weather paranoia and fear are getting a bit ridiculous and silly.

    We are already getting these weather warnings from multiple sources including met eireann.

    Is it really really necessary for the Housing Minister to take onto his portfolio driving weather hysteria by warning people that it might be a bit windy or it might rain or it might be sunny tomorrow?

    Doesnt matter if he is Minister for Housing or Junior Minister of F All if he wants to tweet its going to be windy tomorrow he can.

    Not sure what the issue is. Im sure Evelyn Cusack tweets about non weather related things


  • #29
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,112 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Nice tactic to soften us up to be raped out of it with carbon taxes in next months budget.


  • #30
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,478 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Not everyone gets information from the established media. There were people on the radio today who owned more than one house when the NPPR came in. They never knew a thing about it even though I remember it being all over the radio, television and papers. If it had been on Twitter they might have found out.


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  • #31
    Olsky
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭Olsky


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Hyperbole.

    Whenever I hear a weather warning I am reminded of the use of fear as a means of controlling and distracting populaces in 1984


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