People in Laois, Offaly & Kildare cannot travel to Dublin today (61 combined cases yesterday).
People in Massachusetts can travel to Dublin today (417 cases & 18 deaths yesterday).
The Irish far-right are truly disgusting cretins.
Using an attack on children to push their racist agenda, based on rumours created by themselves.
A great embarrassment to the people of Ireland.
"cOvId OnLy HaS a ¹% DeAtH rAtE!"
1% of Irish population: 67,000
1% of UK population: 666,000
1% of US population: 3.28 million
1% of world population: 78.1 million
Five years ago, a Fine Gael led government made history by becoming the first country to pass marriage equality by popular vote. Fine Gael helped to make gra the law and continues to ensure that we become a more progressive and inclusive society!
#MarRefMemories
Government landlords (THREAD)
Robert Troy: Owns 11 properties, 9 of which he rents out. Troy has lobbied government minsters to allow landlords to evict tenants during the pandemic, failed to register properties with the RTB, & left some tenants living in dangerous conditions.
Ireland has:
- 59,247 on the housing list
- 11,689 living in DP
- 10,805 homeless
- 2,583 asylum applications in 2021
- 62,425 Ukrainian refugees in 2021
Meanwhile Ireland has 166,752 vacant houses; 232,887 if we include holiday homes.
IRELAND IS NOT FULL.
#HomesForAll
Flicking around on to see what the story will be for people forced to find new places to rent in the coming weeks.
162 1-bed properties to rent in Dublin City.
6 in Galway City.
6 in Cork City.
2 in Limerick City.
Every person giving off about immigration to Ireland, likely has a friend/family member who's emigrated to Australia in the past 12 months.
The hypocrisy.
A more accurate description of what Fine Gael have done in the last 2.5 years — A thread:
— Left 10,514 people without a home
— Left over 700,000 people on hospital waiting lists
— Left over 780,000 people living in poverty
Here’s some of what we’ve managed to get done since I’ve been Taoiseach. Two and a half years in two and a half minutes...
[Full credit to
@jacindaardern
for this idea!]
Direct Provision Residents: 5,928
Homeless People: 9,907
Vacant Homes: 245,460
Allowing Direct Provision & Homelessness to exist are political choices.
With €13 billion/yr, the govt could afford to do the following:
- Free Public Transport/Education/Primary Care
- Abolition of Carbon Tax
- Increase Social Welfare to €300/wk, Disability Allowance to €350/wk
- Pension at 65
- Nationalise Energy Sector
Yet they choose not to.
This is a dangerous and misguided anger, which scapegoats the country's entire migrant population for the acts of one person.
Despicable and unacceptable.
Ryan told the court how they met, their plans for each other, but described Ireland as "not safe anymore". "How can someone come to his country, get social housing, social welfare, not hold down a job of any description and never contribute to society for 10 years?
#AshlingMurphy
Everyday I check (out of both hope & desperation) to find the cheapest 1-bed apartment in the city.
Today it is €1,350 per month, or ~80% of a full-time minimum wage salary after tax.
It shouldn't be so difficult to afford a home of your own.
Emboldened by the freedom of the city they got in
#DublinRiots
last night, 2 racists went into Aldi Royal Canal Park
#Ashtown
with knives, attacking women workers & racially abusing them. This sort of attack on workers must be responded to by workers everywhere. Despicable.
#dubw
It appears far-left SU candidate Conall McCallig has used NUIG student email database on a large scale to solicit votes unfairly. Many students in touch saying they got this email.
SU Manager Chris Newell has indicated there will be no investigation. Very serious.
#NUIGSU21
If you support:
• George Galloway
• Chris Williamson
• Kerry-Anne Mendoza
• Paul Embery
• UK Labour cranks (Han Dodges, Rachael Swindon, etc...)
• Aontú and other socially conservative Irish "left-wingers"
This account is probably not for you.
Goodbye...
Five years ago, Sinn Féin stood with Palestine. Today, they do not.
Sinn Féin continue their march towards the centre, selling out their principles in exchange for power.
The Oireachtas has agreed to our request to a minute's silence for those murdered in Gaza yesterday.
Now we need to act in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Expel the Israeli ambassador and recognise the state of Palestine.
#Nakba70
#GreatReturnMarch
🍫🍔
@MariaWalshEU
was born in the USA, but does she prefer Irish or American snacks?
Watch her put them to the test in
#SnackWars
& discuss her policies.
On June 7th, vote No.1 Maria Walsh in Midlands North-West.
Illegal immigration this, illegal immigration that - let's talk about the illegal burning down of buildings by the far-right in an attempt to murder immigrants
On Friday, we vote in the EU/Local Elections. Remember:
- No votes for the govt parties of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, or Greens.
- No votes for the "respectable" conservatives of Independent Ireland or Aontú.
- No votes for ex-FG/FF "independents".
- No votes for the far-right.
There are 8 properties available to rent in Galway City on , with an average cost of €2,274 p/m, and an average of 4,092 viewings per property.
A mere 2 of these have been listed for greater than 2 days.
Where are people supposed to go?
Don't forget who the real Conor McGregor is.
A violent, tax-dodging, racist, poppy-wearing, misogynistic, abusive, multimillionaire, rapist, zionist grifter & establishment shill; who would back Fine Gael economic policy to the hilt.
I'd tell him to stick to the day job, but...
100% your doing & your fault, you can't tell students to find accomodation in Galway, and then give them no events nor any on-campus learning. Students won't sit in their room looking at the wall all year.
An extract from an NUIG email sent to all students on 8th June:
What commendable public servants.
The Gardaí are the armed wing of the state, and serve a single purpose - to protect the wealthy and powerful from the interests of ordinary people.
- Independent Ireland MEP joining Fianna Fáil's Renew group in the EU Parliament
- Irish Freedom Party Cllr voting for FG/FF choice of Deputy Mayor
- Stenson & Pepper abstaining on FG Lord Mayor
The far-right are frauds - they will always side with the establishment.
“Israel has an inherent right to safeguard its citizens and territory against violent assaults that result in profound suffering, division and distraction.” -
@EPP
Our thoughts are Israel and it’s citizens 🇮🇱
What's happening in Coolock is a direct result of our government thinking they can do to us what the British empire did for centuries.
They, like the empire, will fail miserably.
Asked how she felt after losing her seat, Clare Daly told RTÉ News: "You had no interest in talking to me for five years so I've no interest in talking to you" | Read more:
The amount of people who actually believe that Fine Gael aren't complicit in the pandemic response, and that it'd all go away if Varadkar had the Taoiseach role is astonishing.
People Before Profit are the only party who will:
- Introduce a €15 min wage
- Abolish College tuition fees
- Push for carbon neutrality by 2030
- Legalise cannabis
- Not build private property on public land
- Pursue a zero-covid strategy
- Not enter coalition with FG/FF
Whilst in government, the "Green" Party have opposed PBP bills to:
- Ban private jets
- Ban additional data centres
- Stop the construction of LNG Terminals
- Freeze licenses for oil gas exploration
No wonder we are so far behind our climate targets...
Others like to talk climate but they don’t act on climate. In fact they oppose the very measures we need to take to close our climate targets.
#keepgoinggreen
@greenparty_ie