{"id":1050,"date":"2014-11-05T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:35:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T14:35:36","slug":"let-the-people-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/let-the-people-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the People Speak – Irish Water Potential Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why not also a vote on the property tax issue? I proposed same on Boards.ie some years back to a muted response when it wasnt politically fashionable or popular to resist austerity as part of the Offaly CAHWT http:\/\/www.boards.ie\/vbulletin\/showthread.php?p=77678510<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Its<\/a>
Its not a revolutionary idea… its an old fashioned practice called Democracy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Those who pay for all that’s spent
\nTo keep captains of industry content
\nWant to speak for all who were sent
\nAcross the seas for a job…<\/p>\n

They want to come back to a life back home
\nAs opposed to singing wistful songs of “Ireland across the foam”
\nWhere Dublin is as foreign to their children as Rome…
\nTell the EU to shut their gob!<\/p>\n

We did not fight the British for our land,
\nTo French and Germans for free to hand
\nJust because they cant understand
\nCommon people owning their homestead!<\/p>\n

We did not fight that battle that distant time
\nTo make asking for water without payment a crime
\nWithout pollution, fee or slime
\nBut pure, and free, instead!<\/p>\n

So, from Ballypooreen to Donegal to Moate
\nLet the people have a say and a vote
\nLet as the news it then be wrote
\nThe people said a loud NO…<\/p>\n

In future times in history classes
\nLet student read when the Irish masses
\nStood up to the upper classes
\nAnd to the ballot box did go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why not also a vote on the property tax issue? I proposed same on Boards.ie some years back to a muted response when it wasnt politically fashionable or popular to resist austerity as part of the Offaly CAHWT http:\/\/www.boards.ie\/vbulletin\/showthread.php?p=77678510 Those who pay for all that’s spent To keep captains of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,55,54,130],"tags":[1202,663,2345,1201,900],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-ireland","category-politics","tag-irishwater","tag-austerity-2","tag-ireland","tag-irish-water","tag-referendum","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-gW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3728,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/enda-exits-legacy-of-lives-lost\/","url_meta":{"origin":1050,"position":0},"title":"Enda Exits – Legacy of Lives Lost","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"18th May 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Enda Kenny is set to retire as I speak as Fine Gael leader, and as prime minister when a replacement is found, and we look back on a legacy that will be shrouded darkly by the ghosts of the dead - those who killed themselves as a result of banks\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Austerity"","block_context":{"text":"Austerity","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/austerity\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The little people to be afraid of are not the leprechauns... its the citizens saying they have had enough of austerity and will take no more!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Embarrasing-Relations.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Embarrasing-Relations.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Embarrasing-Relations.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Embarrasing-Relations.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/The-Embarrasing-Relations.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3919,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/how-lucky-are-we\/","url_meta":{"origin":1050,"position":1},"title":"How Lucky Are We","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"27th August 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Was it for this the Wild Geese fled?\" Poor Irish - how lucky are we In these modern times, in our land all see We are looked down on by our own Like those who looked up to the throne Who ruled us before Who rule us no more. 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