Protestant School threatened after bus axed

[Odyessus]

Why, do you think, they would not choose to send their children to a state school should one exist and should one be more convenient?

Because I think they would prefer to have their children educated in a Protestant school in their own ethos. Many parents are probably past pupils of the same school.

[Schomberg]

As someone with a brother who has a special needs child in Tippeary I know how things like bus services are being cut, when everything else is being cut. At this time, the OP only take exception when it's a Prod school services being cut. If it was a Catholic school, special needs or anything else he wouldn't have cared but he highlights it's not the Department of Education that are the bigots - it's him. By even raising this above all the other cut backs in education just shows what a bigoted cretin the OP, and his Unionist minions, are.

waaoooooohh! Steady on there horsie!! I didn't even once suggest there was a sectarian element to the ham fisted politics behind this. This is something you and your fellow Catholic Over-Defensive Front came up with because a) It's about Prods and b) It's me who posted the OP. I said from the outset that the problem here is the disproportionate effect that this "cost saving" approach has had on CofI schools and local RC schools and the disproportionate knock on effects of the disproportionate approach. In fact it's you whose turned this into a sectarianism issue. A Prod bringing up a ham fisted government plan that will have a greater impact on Prod schools than local RC schools is somehow sectarian. Get a grip.

The Bishops have been highlighting since April the "'unintended consequences' resulting in disproportionate outcomes". All completely legitimate. While they'll remove the buses from the Cork schools, in a situation not unlike Fermoy in Donegal they've granted a bus route! The bumbling and "one-size-fits-all" approach to this, the disproportionate implementation and the disproportionate knock on effects should all be looked at and reevaluated on an individual basis.

I don't see why I should have to defend myself to bigoted dramaqueens like of you and why the issue of a Protestant school in Cork (me being a Cork Protestant with young children and all) should interest me more than some RC school in Kilkenny. It's called Human Nature.

[Schomberg]

Sorry but he freely admitted his admiration for White Rhodesia another thread which makes him bigot. A lot of people are reacting more to who the OP is rather than what he is saying in this instance which is human but also wrong, that was my point.

SevenStars, you've a mad imagination. My "admiration of White Rhodesia". I love how you dress that up to make it seem all racist like In fact what I said to you was, I'd never condemn Rhodesia. Politically incorrect though Ian Smith was, he, as Morgan Tsvangirai said, was the greatest PM Zimbabwe ever had.

[seanad voter]

I recall that in Trinity's Phil reading room (in the GMB where many of the 'Educating Rita' scenes were shot) back in the early 1970s there used to be advertisements in papers for the Rhodesian civil service and - if memory serves - police. I seem to remember that a prominent rugger-bugger (possibly the brother of an Irish international) went out there to take up a position.

[Socratus O' Pericles]

SevenStars, you've a mad imagination. My "admiration of White Rhodesia". I love how you dress that up to make it seem all racist like In fact what I said to you was, I'd never condemn Rhodesia. Politically incorrect though Ian Smith was, he, as Morgan Tsvangirai said, was the greatest PM Zimbabwe ever had.

What was the competition?

Tenure Incumbent Affiliation Notes
Southern Rhodesia Self-governing colony
1 October 1923 to 28 August 1927 Charles Patrick John Coghlan, Premier RP Died in office
2 September 1927 to 5 July 1933 Howard Unwin Moffat, Premier RP
5 July 1933 to 12 September 1933 George Mitchell, Prime Minister RP
12 September 1933 to 7 September 1953 Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister RP/UP/URP From 1 January 1941, Sir Godfrey Huggins
7 September 1953 to 17 February 1958 Garfield Todd, Prime Minister URP/UFP
17 February 1958 to 17 December 1962 Sir Edgar Whitehead, Prime Minister UFP
17 December 1962 to 13 April 1964 Winston Field, Prime Minister RF
13 April 1964 to 11 November 1965 Ian Smith, Prime Minister RF
Rhodesia Unilateral Declaration of Independence from United Kingdom
11 November 1965 to 2 March 1970 Ian Smith, Prime Minister RF
Republic of Rhodesia
2 March 1970 to 1 June 1979 Ian Smith, Prime Minister

18 April 1980 to 31 December 1987 Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister ZANU Becoming President
31 December 1987 to 11 February 2009 Post abolished
11 February 2009 to Present Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister MDC – T


It wasn't much of acontest.

[Toland]

Indeed not.

Can we get back on topic now. (My fault, I know)

[SeamusNapoleon]

Morgan Tsvangirai said, was the greatest PM Zimbabwe ever had.

A bit of an easy first-prize, in fairness.

Ian Smith was the only PM in the independent Rhodesia, it being a colony prior to the UDI, and being ruled - aside from one very brief period - on a [shall we say] 'restricted' franchise during its period of 'independence'. Following that you had Mugabe.

Quoting that Tsvangirai statement with some sort of pride is akin to stating that Napoleon was the greatest Emperor the French Empire of 1804-1812 ever had.

[Socratus O' Pericles]

The fact still remains that it is the weakest members of society who hurt the most when public services are cut. In this instance the students of this school are in a weak position and so are sacrificed so that there is money to pay back Franco -German Banks.