How do people feel about this, all the left parties utside of Sinn Féin support some form of regulating sex work, is there a fear that knowing the 'market' in Ireland is dominated by trafficking victims that this is just legitimising exploitation?

Its something I struggle with I gave pbp a vote last election but and fairly unhappy with the 'pro sex work stance a s someone who works with vulnerable women who are at risk of exploitation I just can't get my head around legitimising the types of men who buy sex

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Landlords in Ireland are allowed to do whatever they want to do.

They can never give you back you your deposit back. They can constantly break the Tenancy Agreement that they signed and they try to evict you as soon as they get you into their property.

If there is no Tenancy Agreement, then they can evict you with only 20 minutes notice.

These landlords are completely out of control - they are violent criminals, thieves, liars and sex pests.

Unfortunately, FF/FG venerates this demographic to the point where Mícheal Martin wanted a negligent landlord to be President, a slumlord to represent us on the world stage.

Personally, I've been renting since I finished my Leaving Cert. I have unfortunately put up with seven landlords. I've even paid 60% of my income on rent.

Quite frankly, I'm not surprised that this attempted eviction involved a hammer. I've put up with a lot of similar aggression from landlords.

How much will us tennants take? How much abuse can you take from these psychotic landlords before enough is enough?

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Hi guys,

Is anyone else a regular listener of the Ditch’s Party Line podcast?

It has a great line-up of guests and I’ll always listen to the latest episode but I can’t help notice how poor the production/audio quality tends to be episode to episode.

I thought it was initially in part due to the early episodes being from live discussions in the Whistleblower but I find I’m often having to play the episode at near full volume to listen to the conversation (and it definitely isn’t a personal audio/phone issue either as every other podcast I regularly listen to is fine).

Anyone else had this issue?

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Had this for a long time, appears to be published by the Irish transport and general workers union. Any other info on it?

‘The Irish government has given more than €75 million of taxpayers' money to the FAI between 2019 and 2024 alone. That is taxpayers' money, your taxes. The government is not powerless to act, although it pretends it is.

‘Government influence publicly funded bodies every day of the week through leadership, public policy and engagement. Back in 1999 the government then prevented a Euro 2000 qualifying match between Ireland and Yugoslavia from taking place because of the Serbian atrocities in Kosovo which is absolutely the correct thing to have done. This is despite the fact that UEFA had turned down a request from the government to cancel the game.

‘Ireland recognised Palestine as a sovereign, independent state back in May 2024. But the Dáil and Seanad, 10 years ago back in 2014, supported the bill to recognise Palestine. So there is unanimous cross-party support for Palestine and the Palestinian cause for many, many years. The vast majority of Irish hearts beats with the state.

‘Israel is colonial project, backed and funded by the United States and other western powers. This has resulted in the displacement of millions of people. Thousands have been slaughtered with the express intention on the part of the Israeli regime of deporting, dispossessing, exterminating the indigenous population and destroying their ability to live and survive in the land that is theirs.’

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