People Before Profit ashamed of our National Flag
By fionnuala
Sat , 1 Dec 2018 , 7:42 am
A People Before Profit Councillor in Fingal - Matthew Waine opposed a motion to fly the Irish Flag outside Fingal County Hall saying - "I would prefer to see the red flag outside county hall here".. referring to the flag of communism..."Maybe in the future that will be the case".
The Motion before Councillors read as follows :
However , Councillor Matthew Waine of the Solidarity People Before Profit party objected to the motion .
Voting against the motion , Mr Waine told other Councillors :
Mr Waine's Views met with strong rebuke from Independent councillor Jimmy Guerin , the brother of murdered journalist Veronica Guerin who said :
Below - Video of Matthew Waine's Speech
Meeting : Fingal County Council Monday 13 November 2017
this council will ask the chief executive to ensure that the irish flag will fly permanentely outside the county hall
if the motion is passed arrangements will be made for the national flag to be raised and lowered during office hours will be put in place
However , Councillor Matthew Waine of the Solidarity People Before Profit party objected to the motion .
Voting against the motion , Mr Waine told other Councillors :
I dont really agree with this . we have one of the most multicultural populations of the whole country living in fingal and I think we need to consider the sensitivity of this , because the issue of religion , language nationality , all of those issues are extremelty sensitive.
I think we should flow the flags of minority groups
I come from the tradition of the workers movement , the labour movement which doesn't see the country of your birth being anything really significant
I would prefer to see the red flag fly outside county hall here , maybe in the future that will be the case- Councillor Matthew Waine (solidarity-PBP party)
Mr Waine's Views met with strong rebuke from Independent councillor Jimmy Guerin , the brother of murdered journalist Veronica Guerin who said :
I take offence at the comments of councillor wayne .
I'm not surprised at him suggesting we fly a red flag , in fairness you've been appointed to the council by someone who only last week told us that our inspiration is from the russian revolution ,
so i dont think we shoud take surprise at anything thats said by councillor wayne and I'd be very supportive of this motion , I'm very proud to be irish , I'm very proud of my flag and i think it is a very appropriate and well thought through motion- councillor Jimmy Guerin (Independent)
Below - Video of Matthew Waine's Speech
Meeting : Fingal County Council Monday 13 November 2017
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just heard gemma o'doherty was in clondalkin this afternoon . would have loved to have talked to her . oh well , got her leaflet in door next best thing , Hermanns and Ben Gilroy too . all my birthdays at once
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Duke of Cork
agree charlie , we can kiss goodbye to the tourist trade in Ireland if this trend continues . tourists like this woman come to Ireland for our Irishness but that is disappearing at an alarming rate
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Hitler believed that changing the racial structure of society makes it better . advocates of racial diversity believe the same thing . I dont think it does . if 10 people are in a room and 5 have different skin colour ,
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he'll soon realise the reality , that communism = oppression , the government become the bourgeoisie or middle class , everyone else is left to fight it out for scraps of food while they enrich themselves at the expense of the working class
this idea to fly the communist flag is highly offensive not only to irish people but also people from eastern europe who are living in fingal
if a picture could paint a thousand words , it would show how far the country has fallen over the past 100 years
now ruled over by communists and europhiles