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5/5/2016

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Danny Healy Rae made his first big impact on Irish politics yesterday by revealing he’s in denial about climate change. Challenging the leader of the Green Party, Danny posed his thesis that God alone is responsible for the climate, therefore mankind has no impact on supposed Climate Change. He backed up his views by claiming we were ‘Roasted out of it’ n the 11th and 12th centuries’ and also citing the loss of 3 million people in the 1740’s as the result of ‘two years of very bad weather’ and ‘another year where the sun didn’t shine at all at all’.

This is the evidence he presented as proof that climate change is a hoax invented by scientists, ‘who may not know everything’. However dramatic periods in the weather do little to prove Healy Rae’s rain god exists and alarmingly ignores years of scientific evidence which demonstrates the destruction of our climate has been caused by mankind.  

Of course it’s worth noting that Danny Healy Rae was elected by a rural community who feel victimised by mounting environmental charges. Europe’s 2020 strategy which focuses on the reduction of greenhouse gases by targeting agriculture and continuous governing over traditional aspects of life such as turf cutting are leading factors in the surge of the Healy Rae camp, which resulted in his brother Michael being elected on first count with 20,378 votes and Danny following his footsteps on the second count with a total of 13,826 votes. Issues such as the right to cut turf have already been a big player in the Irish political scene with Luke 'Ming' Flanagan capitalising on the platform to get elected to the Dail in 2011, which culminated in his election to the European Parliament in 2014, where he now represents Ireland's demands to legalise weed. 

This is a concern because TD’s like Danny Healy Rae & Luke Flanagan are elected on a platform of issues that impact segments of the population which are otherwise marginalised and detached from governing society. The larger parties which are cloaked in ‘The National Interest’ have come under increasing pressure in the last few years for abandoning rural communities, with the closure of Post Offices, Garda stations and hospitals being major issues for rural people.

And now that we’re looking more and more likely of the prospect of forming a government comprised of the people who caused the collapse of the Irish economy and the people who crystallised the crash as National Debt, you have to wonder if the electorate are becoming further disillusioned with Irish politics and further removed from the national interest.
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The result is that gimmick TD’s have been given a licence to spout stupidity and inevitably get opportunities to represent the country as a whole at an international level, whether they’re backing up claims of creationism, trespassing on runways, or denying the holocaust.

The real problem here isn’t that Danny Healy Rae has made a show of the country; it’s that politicians in part have lost sight of the needs of the people, so much so that rural communities are beginning to feel like minority groups and are looking for alternative voices to represent their interests. The government has a responsibility to its people to ensure National and local economies are rejuvenated, to ensure communities feel protected and have a prospect of a brighter future while encompassing traditional values.   
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Letter's to his Mother

3/5/2016

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Patrick Pearse’ Letter to his Mother, 1 May, 1916

My dear Mother,

You will I know have been longing to hear from me. I do not know how much you have heard since the last note I sent you from the G.P.O.

On Friday evening the Post Office was set on fire and we had to abandon it. We dashed into Moore Street and remained in the houses in Moore St. on Saturday evening? We then found that we were surrounded by troops and that we had practically no food.

We decided in order to prevent further slaughter of the civilian population and in the hope of saving the lives of our followers, to ask the General Commanding the British Forces to discuss terms. He replied that he would receive me only if I surrendered unconditionally and this I did. I was taken to the Headquarters of the British Command in Ireland and there I wrote and signed an order to our men to lay down their arms. All this I did in accordance with the decision of our Provisional Government who were with us in Moore St. My own opinion was in favour of one more desperate sally before opening negotiations, but I yielded to the majority, and I think now the majority was right, as the sally would have resulted only in losing the lives of perhaps 50 or 100 of our men, and we should have had to surrender in the long run as we were without food.

I was brought in here on Saturday evening and later all the men with us in Moore St. were brought here. Those in the other parts of the City have, I understand, been taken to other barracks and prisons. All here are safe and well. Willie and all the St. Enda’s boys are here. I have not seen them since Saturday, but I believe they are all well and that they are not now in any danger. Our hope and belief is that the Government will spare the lives of all our followers, but we do not expect that they will spare the lives of the leaders. We are ready to die and we shall die cheerfully and proudly. Personally I do not hope or even desire to live, but I do hope and desire and believe that the lives of all our followers will be saved including the lives dear to you and me (my own excepted) and this will be a great consolation to me when dying.

You must not grieve for all this. We have preserved Ireland’s honour and our own. Our deeds of last week are the most splendid in Ireland’s history. People will say hard things of us now, but we shall be remembered by posterity and blessed by unborn generations. You too will be blessed because you were my mother.

If you feel you would like to see me, I think you will be allowed to visit me by applying to the Headquarters, Irish Command, near the Park. I shall I hope have another opportunity of writing to you.

Love to W.W., MB., Miss Byrne, . . . and your own dear self. P.

P.S. I understand that the German expedition which I was counting on actually set sail but was defeated by the British.
 
 
This is the letter that Patrick Pearse, president of the short-lived Irish Republic, wrote to his mother on the eve of his execution. It is dated Kilmainham prison, May 3, and is as follows:

My Dearest Mother,

I have been hoping up to now it would be possible to see you again, but it does not seem possible. Goodbye, dear mother. Through you I say good-bye to "Wow Wow" (a sister), Mary Brigid, Willie, Miss B. Michael, Cousin Margine and every one at St. Enda's. I hope and believe Willie and St. Enda boys will be all safe.

I have written two papers about financial affairs and one about my books which I want you to get. With them are a few poems which I want added to the poems in MS. in my bookcase. You asked me to write a little poem which would seem to be said by you about me. I have written it, and a copy is in Arbor Hill barracks with other papers.

I just received Holy Communion. I am happy, except for the great grief of parting from you.
This is the death I should have asked if God had given me the choice of all deaths—to die a soldier's death for Ireland and for freedom. We have done right. People will say hard things of us now, but later on will praise us. Do not grieve for all this, but think of it as a sacrifice which God asked of me and of you.

Good-bye again, dear mother. May God bless you for your great love for me and for your great faith, and may He remember all you have so bravely suffered. I hope soon to see papa, and in a little while we shall be all together again. I have not words to tell you of my love for you and how my heart yearns to you all. I will call to you in my heart at the last moment.

Your son,
Pat.

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