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Housing Minister issues wind warning

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  • #92
    Magnatu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Magnatu


    Turnipman wrote: »
    The following should wipe the cretinous smirk off your smug face - although it probably won't. :mad:

    Woman Dies After Caravan Blown Off Cliff in Galway

    Thousands of people die every day from accidents. And from normal weathee. That is part of life. Does this mean that that we should wrap ourselves up in cotton wool and stay inside fear and apprehension?
    Does not negate the point at all. That warnings designed to make us fearful and apprehensive are not a good thing. So you are terrified of the wind you sad little man and the death of a woman in Galway allows you to justify your fear.


  • #93
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Magnatu wrote: »
    Thousands of people die every day from accidents. And from normal weathee. That is part of life. Does this mean that that we should wrap ourselves up in cotton wool and stay inside fear and apprehension?
    Does not negate the point at all. That warnings designed to make us fearful and apprehensive are not a good thing. So you are terrified of the wind you sad little man and the death of a woman in Galway allows you to justify your fear.

    Jesus wept. Nobody is terrified you quarterwit sock-puppet.

    Its a warning. You can ignore it or not. One person has died by ignoring it. I pretty much ignored it by cycling to work but I probably wouldn't again.

    But its up to you. Nobody is forcing anything here ( unlike a red warning, the orange is just advisory).

    But you should go wild and go sailing, or kite sailing or whatever you want to do rather than being the hard man on the internet. In fact, please do.


  • #94
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Magnatu wrote: »
    Thousands of people die every day from accidents. And from normal weathee. That is part of life. Does this mean that that we should wrap ourselves up in cotton wool and stay inside fear and apprehension?
    Does not negate the point at all. That warnings designed to make us fearful and apprehensive are not a good thing. So you are terrified of the wind you sad little man and the death of a woman in Galway allows you to justify your fear.

    What the hell is your problem?

    It is a valid weather warning.


  • #95
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Jesus wept. Nobody is terrified you quarterwit sock-puppet.

    Its a warning. You can ignore it or not. One person has died by ignoring it. I pretty much ignored it by cycling to work but I probably wouldn't again.

    But its up to you. Nobody is forcing anything here ( unlike a red warning, the orange is just advisory).

    But you should go wild and go sailing, or kite sailing or whatever you want to do rather than being the hard man on the internet. In fact, please do.

    Quarterwit is my new favourite word.

    Bravo sir, bravo.


  • #96
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    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.

    You mean he shouldn’t be warning people to take responsibility for themselves?

    Or he was warning of the possible risk to lives, like this? https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/caravan-with-woman-50s-inside-blown-off-cliff-in-co-galway-37332432.html


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  • #97
    Jimmy.
    Site Banned Posts: 386 ✭✭Jimmy.


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    What the hell is your problem?

    It is a valid weather warning.

    Say a mass there will ya.


  • #98
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,237 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Magnatu wrote: »
    Thousands of people die every day from accidents. And from normal weathee. That is part of life. Does this mean that that we should wrap ourselves up in cotton wool and stay inside fear and apprehension?
    Does not negate the point at all. That warnings designed to make us fearful and apprehensive are not a good thing. So you are terrified of the wind you sad little man and the death of a woman in Galway allows you to justify your fear.

    I feel like you use the word 'sheeple' quite often.


  • #99
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    National ploughing cancelled today due to storm and wind damage...

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=461643&d=1537354078

    https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2146001325662795&id=1465738413689093&set=pcb.2146001582329436&source=48

    https://www.facebook.com/96796398469/posts/10156932219733470/


  • #100
    skinny90
    Registered Users Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭skinny90


    A young man in northern ireland has died from a falling tree due to the storms...


  • #101
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    People in Ireland need to be warned about severe weather as much as possible. During storm Ophelia I could see from my window people carrying on as if nothing was happening. There were people walking, cycling and taking their dogs for a walk. There was this barrier thing around a telephone pole that the council had been working on. At the exact moment a man was walking around this pole a gust of wind blew it down. It missed him by about an inch.

    I don't get this shite of downplaying it. "It's a bit windy". No, there's a storm. And just because it's not that bad where you are it doesn't mean it's the same all over the country.

    This is the kind of shite teenagers do, act like they're too hard to be affected by weather.


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  • #102
    Magnatu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Magnatu


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    People in Ireland need to be warned about severe weather as much as possible. During storm Ophelia I could see from my window people carrying on as if nothing was happening. There were people walking, cycling and taking their dogs for a walk. There was this barrier thing around a telephone pole that the council had been working on. At the exact moment a man was walking around this pole a gust of wind blew it down. It missed him by about an inch.

    I don't get this shite of downplaying it. "It's a bit windy". No, there's a storm. And just because it's not that bad where you are it doesn't mean it's the same all over the country.

    This is the kind of shite teenagers do, act like they're too hard to be affected by weather.

    It's not so much being hard but "the weather" is something that is taken as a normal part of life in other countries.
    In 1984 Orwell spoke of keeping the population in s constant state of fear and that's kinda what has happened in Ireland.with scare tactics and constant weather warnings.
    Maybe it takes an outsider to notice it and understandable that many are in denial and get very annoyed and abusive when it is pointed out to them. But
    . Irish people are now in a constant state of fear and anxiety of "the weather" .
    It is not natural or good.


  • #103
    Magnatu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Magnatu


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

    Its a warning. You can ignore it or not.
    But its up to you. Nobody is forcing anything here .
    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    What the hell is your problem?

    It is a valid weather warning.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    You mean he shouldn’t be warning people to take responsibility for themselves?

    Or he was warning of the possible risk to lives
    :(

    To be frank I think ye are all just a bunch of oversensitive snowflakes.
    And I reiterate. It is Ireland. The wind will blow sometimes. It will rain occasionally.
    But these constant weather warnings and talk of danger and storms is making us as a nation more fearful and anxious. It is the creation of irrational fear in a populace that is straight out of the orwellian playbook.


  • #104
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,237 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Magnatu wrote: »
    :(

    To be frank I think ye are all just a bunch of oversensitive snowflakes.
    And I reiterate. It is Ireland. The wind will blow sometimes. It will rain occasionally.
    But these constant weather warnings and talk of danger and storms is making us as a nation more fearful and anxious. It is the creation of irrational fear in a populace that is straight out of the orwellian playbook.

    I like that you came back to the thread several days later, after everybody had stopped posting just to get that last little comment in.

    Ironic snowflake behaviour.


  • #105
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    Magnatu wrote: »
    :(

    To be frank I think ye are all just a bunch of oversensitive snowflakes.
    And I reiterate. It is Ireland. The wind will blow sometimes. It will rain occasionally.
    But these constant weather warnings and talk of danger and storms is making us as a nation more fearful and anxious. It is the creation of irrational fear in a populace that is straight out of the orwellian playbook.

    I think they're great, every time there's a weather warning I tell my boss that I'm going to work from so as to avoid the resulting traffic problems.

    Gives me an extra few hours back each time.


  • #106
    Magnatu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Magnatu


    Sonics2k wrote: »
    I like that you came back to the thread several days later, after everybody had stopped posting just to get that last little comment in..

    This thread is not time limited because in case you haven't noticed these warnings have become ubitiquous and constant. People have forgotten that there was a time when we didn't have them.
    Be afraid. Be very afraid. Of the wind. And the rain


  • #107
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Magnatu wrote: »
    This thread is not time limited because in case you haven't noticed these warnings have become ubitiquous and constant. People have forgotten that there was a time when we didn't have them.
    Be afraid. Be very afraid. Of the wind. And the rain

    What about the snow? And the lightning? And the ice?


  • #108
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    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.

    His Mam is making him Beans for tea.


  • #109
    Magnatu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Magnatu


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    What about the snow?
    Last time it snowed we shut down the country for two days. Actually very interesting to observe the way the populace is being conditioned to be afraid of the weather.


  • #110
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    Ninthlife wrote: »
    Whats wrong with him tweeting this?

    Not a thing in the world. But because he’s a politician this somehow makes it acceptable to scorn, belittle and hate everything he says and does.

    The real issue people have with EM is that unlike Harry Potter he cannot wave a magic wand and make houses appear out of thin air.

    I really think folk in this country have a lot of unrealistic expectations when it comes to our politicians.

    We also need to realize that not everyone on the homeless register is actually homeless - to me, if you rent a property or live in a council house then you are not homeless.

    That title, for want of a better way of putting it, only applies to those poor souls who live on the streets.


  • #111
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Met Eireann falls under his remit in the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government.

    Not sure what the big deal is


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  • #112
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Eoghan Murphy should insread issue a hot air warning...

    ...all the guff that comes out of his gob and sweet FA all action.

    I can’t understand this thought process - do people honestly believe our politicians sit in their offices and do nothing all day?

    Surely you have a bit more sense than that?


  • #113
    Magnatu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Magnatu


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    The real issue people have with EM is that unlike Harry Potter he cannot wave a magic wand and make houses appear out of thin air.

    I really think folk in this country have a lot of unrealistic expectations when it comes to our politicians.
    That is the argument that Fine Gael have been using for many many years. That they can not magically provide social housing.
    However the minister has been in place for long enough now to judge him on his achievemens.
    The figures for social housing completions this year have been released. They are tiny.
    At the same time the minister has dramatically increased payments to Fine Gaels supporters, the landlords, the institutional investors and the vulture funds through the odious landlord support scheme called HAP. He has also revoked a pledge by his predessor to phase out payments to hotel owners. This is an ideological decision.
    The big losers are the working poor who face increased rents because of the hundreds of millions being paid to private landlords.


  • #114
    Magnatu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Magnatu


    Retailers blast overuse of weather warnings by Met Eireann.
    Alarmist and making people afraid to go shopping

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/business/retail-industry-body-blast-alarmist-met-eireann-weather-warnings-893018.html


  • #115
    El_Bee
    Registered Users Posts: 933 ✭✭✭El_Bee


    Magnatu wrote: »
    Retailers blast overuse of weather warnings by Met Eireann.
    Alarmist and making people afraid to go shopping

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/business/retail-industry-body-blast-alarmist-met-eireann-weather-warnings-893018.html




    I would have thought people panic buy and stock up to avoid last years scenes.


  • #116
    Dakotabigone
    Site Banned Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Dakotabigone


    The showers becoming more showery.


  • #117
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    Maybe he shouldn't have built the houses out of straw.

    or sticks


  • #118
    Magnatu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 260 ✭✭Magnatu


    A nation wide weather warning because it might be windy by the coast at the weekend.
    Is it not time we got rid of these ridiculous weather warnings.


    https://www.joe.ie/news/met-eireann-issue-nationwide-weather-warning-weekend-657480


  • #119
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,425 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Magnatu wrote: »
    A nation wide weather warning because it might be windy by the coast at the weekend.
    Is it not time we got rid of these ridiculous weather warnings.


    https://www.joe.ie/news/met-eireann-issue-nationwide-weather-warning-weekend-657480

    No it's not time to get rid of these far from ridiculous as you call them weather warnings. There may be scope to alter them someway but not to get rid of them.


  • #120
    Dakotabigone
    Site Banned Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Dakotabigone


    Lads need to knock one out. Getting very excited over wind is abnormal.


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  • #121
    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,526 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Magnatu wrote: »
    A nation wide weather warning because it might be windy by the coast at the weekend.
    Is it not time we got rid of these ridiculous weather warnings.


    https://www.joe.ie/news/met-eireann-issue-nationwide-weather-warning-weekend-657480

    No.


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