Aquatic Village

03/11/2024

Fresh Batch of Beardies in stock. Full set ups from €249.50

03/11/2024

Competition time! Win a €20 voucher and a 2 kilogram bag of popcorn (for some reason) ... Just like share and comment below what your favourite fish is.

02/11/2024

Lunch

26/10/2024

ALL EYES ON THE PRESIDENT: HATE CRIME BILL

Will Michael D. Higgins sign the Bill into law OR do the right thing and refer it to the Supreme Court for judicial scrutiny? ACT NOW by adapting the submission below and sending it to the President, who can sign the Bill 5 to 7 days after it is presented to him.

FOR THE URGENT ATTENTION OF THE PRESIDENT

TO: Michael D. Higgins
[email protected]

Re: Criminal Justice (Hate Offences Bill) 2022

The Criminal Justice (Hate Offences Bill) 2022 (‘The Bill’) was one of five bills rushed through the Dail in six hours on 23rd October 2024 (The Irish Times 24th October 2024). Such rushed legislation demonstrates a pattern that you, Uachtarán, raised in your “unprecedented” letter to the Oireachtas in July 2021, when you expressed grave concern that you were asked to sign too much “complex” Covid legislation within a short period of time, much of which required “detailed analysis of the Constitutional implications”. No doubt you will, therefore, be extremely alarmed that no lessons have been learned by the government or the 78 TDs who voted in favour of the Bill which was passed in such lightning speed without a proper debate or legislative scrutiny.

Democracy demands that this Bill should not be signed into law, particularly as the legislation contains provisions depriving a person of their liberty. I, therefore, call upon you as President to engage your solemn power and refer the Bill to the Supreme Court on the grounds that the legislation contains provisions of such national importance they require full and proper judicial scrutiny on the Constitutional implications.

Specifically, the provisions of the Bill are repugnant to Article 40.4.1 (no citizen shall be deprived of his personal liberty save in accordance with the law), Article 40.1 (all citizens shall be held equal before the law) and Article 40.6.1.ii (the right of the citizens to assemble peaceably and without arms). The Bill also has wide reaching implications on Article 40.6.1 (the right of the citizens to express freely their convictions and opinions), as the Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, has announced, the government’s intention to extend the legislation at a later date to the ‘hate speech' element, which was "shelved" for now due to "lack of consensus".

The provisions of the Bill undermine the rule of law that legislation must be clear, precise and unambiguous and its legal implications foreseeable, particularly as they contain increased prison sentences for offences aggravated by ‘hatred’, a term that is not defined in the legislation. The Bill extends the meaning of ‘protected characteristics’ to include gender identity, defined at Section 3 (d) as “the gender which a person expresses as the person’s preferred gender or with which the person identifies and includes transgender and a gender other than those of male and female”. Such an inexplicable definition of gender has no place in the Irish Statute Book and goes far beyond the obligations of Member States to implement the provisions of Council Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA, which makes no reference to gender. The inclusion of such terms in the Bill, if enacted, will clearly have implications in other areas of law, including but not limited to, ‘hate speech laws’ and equality legislation.

The fact that Minister McEntee in her speech to the Dail on 23rd October 2024 explicitly referred to the provisions applying to those engaging in their right to protest is particularly worrisome, as vague legislation is wide open to abuse by successive governments to interfere with the rights of citizens.

The quick passage of the Bill through both Houses of the Oireachtas without proper scrutiny of the Constitutional implications has monumental consequences for the people of Ireland now and in the future. Only you now hold the power, Uachtarán, to uphold our Constitution and the will of the people by refusing to sign this legislation into law.

Yours etc

Signed

23/10/2024

Friendly Reminder

20/10/2024

Lilaeopsis Brasiliensis aka Micro Sword only €15 per portion perfect for temperate or Tropical tanks. Papyrus plants for ponds or gardens only €20 per tub.

20/10/2024

Still open 7 days a week 10.30ish till 6...
Bottom sign still applies 🙃🙃

15/10/2024

Stick Bugs, only €5 each

10/10/2024

Jelly snakes are gone very life like

08/10/2024

Heres something to get yiur chompers into.....

It was an impossible situation. Michael had heard of whales breaching near boats and kayaks, even close encounters during dives, but being swallowed by one w...

06/10/2024

Stuart!

03/10/2024

Hi there I am Looking for big Heterotilapia buttikoferi cichlids both sexes if any body wants to trade....the bigger the better...Ask your friends.....pretty please....

cheers

Ian

29/09/2024

Look at that face.
Tame, friendly,
Cute as a button.

For snake & reptile keepers, ignore the face just look at the live food 😂

29/09/2024

Diamond Head Neon Tetra
Nice schooling fish
Normally €5.00
Now €2.99
While stocks last
In Store Only!!

28/09/2024

Zompro Stick Insect

Ridiculously easy to care for,
Eats brambles,
Great for nano tank or
Office/Desktop pet
€4.99 or 5 for €19.99
Instore or Online.
https://www.aquatic-village.com/product/zompro-stick-insect-phasmatodea/

28/09/2024

Live Mice !!
For sale as pets or food for your snakes or other reptiles,
Selection of colours and mixes available,
Sustainably bred so vegans dont worry,
Hundreds in stock!
Variable sizes.
Prices from €7.99
Available in store or online.

27/09/2024

Lefties iosing it....great show

Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to Vice President Kamala Harris' lies from her MSNBC interview which were called out by CNN.

23/09/2024

3 weeks without my business phone line...Eir are incompetent, I have nothing good to say about them anyone else? How s**t is eir?

22/09/2024

For the sake of humanity...

Clinical psychologist and friend of Uncensored Jordan B. Peterson joins Piers Morgan to discuss how he would psychoanalyse presidential candidates Donald Tru...

21/09/2024

So this is what people like to do? See something and smash it? Why? What did the cowboy hat wearing cross dressing dummy do on you? Recovered the body but the head was smashed to pieces so now have no where to put the santa hat in a few weeks. Ah well what will be will be. m

21/09/2024

The handsome Irish at it again....what no diversity......the shame.....🥸

Who wouldn’t want these handsome lads brightening up their 2025? ☘️🌾

The Irish Farmers Calendar is officially on sale—grab yours now and add some farm-fresh charm to your walls! 📆

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19/09/2024

Feel the love........if you have Trump derangement syndrome TDS you are a victim of brain washing, if you are a hater you are a victim too.....go educate yourself....one man has stood up to the system for 10 years and the system cannot defeat him. The man that took a bullet for all Americans yet you hate him because the media says so....85 million people voted for him yet you call those voters trailer thrash and far right just like the media tells you too. You are not human. To be human is to fight for truth. To be human is to stand up and be counted. To be a man you must fight evil where ever you find it. Harris has a media coverage of 93 percent and its all favorable where Trump has a media coverage of 83 percent all of it bad. The world is in a bad place but it was not like this when he was president. Your hatred marks you as cursed. Men need to stand together like the 300. Trump will be president.

19/09/2024

Coming to a government nearyou

Author Douglas Murray has called out left-wing media outlets for telling Donald Trump to tone down his language after facing two assassination attempts. Mr M...

19/09/2024

This woman is my kinda gal...

Sky News host Rita Panahi reacts to strategist Scott Jennings accusing CNN hosts of spreading “garbage” about Donald Trump’s “bloodbath” comments.