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UPC phone tariffs Sept12: Compared UPC Broadband+Phone (Freetime World) with existing provider. Changed over to UPC Apr13 Noticed phone tariffs last bill were significantly dearer. UPC tell me went up Sept12.First I heard of it. Callcosts.ie still...

I would comment but my last inoffensive posting on this topic was censored.

Has this thread been quashed?

Don't think Commission will get worked up about this!Wheelock family spent a year in the courts trying to get Garda forensic data from same Commission.Amnesty are taking this death in custody case very seriously.No jokes from Amnesty on this! He also acted quickly in threatening criminal...

......sorry, never finished rant. Nigeria has a military/civilian elite that,increasingly, run the country for the benefit of themselves and their friends. Mention of Nicky Kelly has given me an idea.Bertie could arrange to have the Gardai torture confessions of criminality out of the...

We have just told FF that systemic corruption and dishonesty are of little importance to us.Incompetence and massive waste in almost all areas which government are responsible for, just don't matter.Sure the lads are doing their best.They will read this message loud and clear. Did a...

Have come to the conclusion that I'm completely out of touch with the pulse of the nation.I need drastic re-eduction. In the mood Bertie is in, he will put his enemies to the sword.Watch out RTE! Watch out mejia!Am expecting Revenue Audit any day now. No TV licence fee increase, no reform of...

Was told by official at polling station that pencil had to be used. There is potential here for skullduggery, if it is erasable. God forbid we ever had politicians who were corrupt and dishonest! We wouldn't accept that, would we? Reminds me of Building Society manager in UK, a few years ago...

Re: How does proportional represenation work? How do I correct a preferance while voting?

Any Advise on using PR system?

I agree! I calculated last year that if we spent the same per capita as the UK, Health should cost us EUR7.5 Billion per year. Actual cost was about Eur12.5 Billion. Our population is also younger and should therefore be even cheaper in health cost terms. My personal experience of the Health...

I still trust Good Oul Bertie. There is a very simple, straight-forward answer for him getting suitcases full of cash from businessmen while Minister of Finance. Just as soon as his legal team spend a few days working on his simple answer, he will tell us....again. Also, of course, there was a...

I'm not 100% honest but I still wouldn't leave a crook in charge of my financial affairs.Bertie is the leader of a government that spends over Eur50 BILLION of our money per year.Does it matter whether he, or his colleagues, are honest?You bet it does.

Feeling Confused! Discovered threads should be rational and polite. Will have to overdo polite to compensate. Snow White is into small, not tall.Am 6' 2"!

It appears I'm wrong! Just shows, personal experience isn't a reliable indicator of the world.Apologies to Gardai and McDowell.

1:00am last night on Rathfarnham Rd. Gardai checkpoint of about 8 Gardai actually stopping cars. Haven't seen this for 5 years, in this area. Would love to see memo/phone transcript from McDowell to gardai Commissioner requesting a little election help from the boys in blue.

Thanks for suggestion. Must have been seller who doesn't post to Ireland.Tried again this morning and it worked.

Have tried to order a book from amazon.co.uk but it won't accept my Dublin address.Anyone know why!

Symptoms?

Yes! IM(NS)HO EU have no right to instruct US citizens/companies, without a presence in the EU and in the absence of a US/EU agreement. It does have the right to require its own citizens to pay VAT on goods or services sourced outside its territory.