Kevin Higgins
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I don't suppose anyone has noticed that the former Editor of the Sun is now running all Government smear campaigns not least on social media or did yis all think there was just a change in the weather ?
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(1) All Right All Right ! Since so many have there tongues hanging out.
#Zappone
Minister O 'Goman will need to clarify in what capacity members of his Department attended her ladyships's drinky party when his office had cancelled, late in the evening just 48 hours earlier -
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The green light for
#BloodySunday
had already been given in Downing Street when this happened on Magilligan Strand exactly one week earlier. Anyone who was there could taste it.
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(2) meetings with Survivor groups in Tuam (having sought them at short notice to begin with) and yet some of those expected at Tuam -and supposedly quarantinig following an alleged outbreak of covid in the office, turned up at Katy's Party
#Zappone
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To those losing sleep over Niall Boylan- don't
The numbers are against him.
He will NOT take a Dublin
#EU
seat.
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There is a positively delicious back-story to the
#Zappone
benefit gig at the Merrion and the attendance of her courtiers.
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Good grief ! Going to someone's home and forcing them to resign.
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The Zappone payoff is for both her complicity in stifling the Mother & Baby Home scandal and for keeping some inconvenient secrets. It is a slush payment by a corrupt Varadkar of a revolting and corrupt sometime politician. Micheál Martin is a complete idiot to facilitate this.
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#tuambabies
#D
áil 20/10/2020. Kindly note that the vote on a proposal to provide some small amount of time on the Commission of Investigation on Mother & Babies Homes was defeated by 53-51. Alan Kelly and the Labour Party sat on their hands to facilitate the Government.
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Skillfully avoiding mentioning that the premises is the office of FG
#SenatorTwixBar
John McMahon who owns the building but charges the State to rent it to himself.
Can't beat the National Broadcaster
@rtenews
Gardai and 3 units of Fire Service are still at the scene of a partial wall collapse in Dundalk this morning. One man was injured and taken to hospital.
@rtenews
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(1) Mick in 1983, a decent North of England copper John Stalker was appointed to investigate collusion of the RUC with Loyalist murder gangs. That man of 'integrity' Hermon, refused any cooperation & when Stalker finally got a bit of office space Hermon's officers burnt him out
"The reality is that from the mid-1970s the conflict was primarily about the IRA’s attempt to violently impose a 32 county socialist Republic on the island. The sectarian state had been dismantled by then."
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Holy fuck. Patrick Geoghegan who holds an academic post in Trinity's History Dept (and an old buddy from Leo's Trinners days) is being paid €159,725 to provide utterly shit advice -being the 'brains' behind the
#RIC
Commemoration.
Taoiseach
@LeoVaradkar
spends €1million of public money on advisers and still managed to come up with a commemoration of the
#BlackandTans
that has blown up in his face.
#notmytaoiseach
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@carolecadwalla
But it DIDN'T crush you. And your research and the Judgment is going to have you produce an outstanding book and be the public record !
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#DublinBaySouth
FG Candidate makes impassioned plea for the 'locked-out' generation.
"I want to be a voice for those who had as little as €1.6m added to their Trust Fund in 2018. I am one of you."
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Simon Harris seriously considering writing a strongly worded letter to the Irish Times saying that Matt Carthy has been mean to him.
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Are we, in 2022 being bounced into possibly the most immoral scam in the history of the State? Nah, you could never imagine a Coalition of the political establishment, the Church and medical elite. That could never happen. I mean, it's never happened before . . . has it ?
#NMH
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Just as an aside I have lost count of the number of those advised by Terry Prone, who have gone down in flames but there are some notables. Pee Flynn, Albert Reynolds, James Reilly, Frances Fitzgerald clinging to her till they hit the ground leaving only a pool of spinal fluid.
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Do pause to remember that Master
@SimonHarrisTD
once 'purchased' 30k Facebook followers to show their approval of him.
#Ireland
#Coronavirus
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Excuse me. He is PAID way over 200k plus perks. No evidence that he EARNS any of it.
Leo Varadkar earns over 200k. He just hired an extra 6 friends at 100k as “Advisors”. He just went on national radio to say he doesn’t know why our vaccine will sit boxed for 5 days while cases soar. You’re paying for this outrageous incompetence.
#FFG
@FineGael
@fiannafailparty
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@paddycullivan
Do you think she knows he died ten years before Fine Gael was formed and based entirely on the available evidence that we have of him, it is doubtful if anyone in that photo would have escaped an order from him to be shot out of hand.
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@Frank_Carty2048
@gavreilly
Psst. The State owns a shitload of land both in the city and county.
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"And I suppose we all get in trouble from time to time for the company we keep,"
@rtenews
Like the time your and Charlie Bird's hanky-panky became public Carole ?
@MaryLouMcDonald
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The Lovely
#DeeForbes
speaking in 2010,yes 2010 very keen on
#TRANSPARENCY
#RTEgate
#RTE
. Just a perfect fit for the job talking about not being enamoured with television not knowing who
#tubs
was though does appear to have got to know him quite well. Truly mind-numbing. 😂😂😂
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I had to almost physically remove priests, TWICE from the bedsides of my dying parents. At their requests.
@AnMailleach
I wish I could explain to you how distressing it was for my dying mother to have a priest at her bedside against her will. I guess 14-year old Eoin might have understood.
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Lot of giggles about Harris-understandable. But this seems to amount to criminality -apart from being seedy. This should not be allowed to pass.
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#Keelings
Dear Minister
@SimonCoveney
will you disclose the nature of your Dept's contacts and representations to the Bulgarian & Romanian Embassies to facilitate the business of your associates and indeed friends, the Keeling family ?
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FF & FG finally agree logo for new party for when they formally merge
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Says the 'brilliant' young UCD economist elected first in 1981 who has spent 40 years telling the poor to tighten their belts, while the vast Bruton lands at Dunboyne await a further developer-led building sprawl worth up to 300 million at least to the Fabulous Bruton Brothers
Sinn Fein don’t want the housing crisis fixed. They have opposed:
- thousands of new homes across the city
- new mechanisms for Affordable Housing
- the use of state land to provide mixed housing options for the entire community.
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@rodericogorman
@VillageMagIRE
My Dear Roderick, have spoken to you with others directly affected by
#tuambabies
for some 90 minutes I am deeply disturbed that you have twice relied on the stale and very bad advice of Séamus Woulfe and are persisting with poisonous legislation which has only one object to
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Did
#DeeForbes
take her
#RTEgate
laptop with her when driving out of Montrose and if so why was she allowed to do so ? Why have
@gardainfo
not taken steps to secure this & other computers within
#RTE
where there is overwhelming evidence of massive fraud . . . as for phones ?
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@davidmurphyRTE
@rtenews
Did he explain where they will be able to find a GP with whom they can register ? You didn't ask him did you ?
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@HelenORahilly
Back in the ice-age one of my uncles who served on a Merchantman brought home a massive truckle of Gorgonzola. My Gran who didn't know what to do with it left it by an open window in July. The neighbours threatened to call the Council.
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(2) meetings with Survivor groups in Tuam (having sought them at short notice to begin with) and yet some of those expected at Tuam -and supposedly quarantinig following an alleged outbreak of covid in the office, turned up at Katy's Party
#Zappone
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@rodericogorman
@VillageMagIRE
which is to protect those who destroyed the lives of thousands of children, the evidence showing sustainable charges of at least manslaughter in very many cases by ensuring no Inquest is held. You have put yourself beyond redemption.
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@JohnBurnsST
@marktigheST
Clever little chap to have managed that in the past... given that he is still only nine
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Apart from filling in on Radio1 when someone has the squits what is it that Kathryn Thomas does? What is it she is supposed to do. The radio only survives if someone gets to it before I do. I don't care that she sounds as if she has a Brillo pad in her throat, its the nothingness
How
@peugeotireland
think that today was the day to publish this picture and article is beyond me. Read the room people.
#RTEgate
#RTE
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The First Lesson, which regrettably has to be repeated in each generation is very simple:
You do not have a rational exchange of views with fascists. Ireland is not an exception to the rule.
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@mir_ocall
@oconnellhugh
@Independent_ie
Bloody hell. For Martin to even said this out loud shows he has lost the plot. Not since the Skibbereen Eagle issued its warning to Czar has our world influence been so immense. I think Michael needs to have a little lie down in a quiet dark room
#zapponegate
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Jaysus you kept that hummungus trust fund very quiet
@LNBDublin
or are they on to that numbered Swiss Account ? That Ryan fella is real Woodward & Bernstein material wha?
@DublinBaySouth
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Dear
@maeveorourke
as I breathe with what remains of my lung tissue I am comforted knowing that we will have probably another fifty years of you being effective in the fight
#tuambabies
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@SeanDefoe
@williamhboney1
Of course. But you have to remember the amount of effort it took for the speculator/developer, to pluck the original price out of their arse. Exhausting.
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And thank you to
@ococonuts
who over a decade, made the
@irishexaminer
THE paper of record on
#MotherAndBabyHomes
and associated issues.
@irishexaminer
@EoinBearla
Congratulations and thank you for keeping the story in the public domain. My brothers anniversary today. Thinking of him & the hundreds of missing
#Bessboro
babies.
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Winding up pondlife like
#Francois
is not difficult but Will Self has made it into an art form and it is delicious.
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@louiseckenny
You do realise that Ganley, McGuirk & Co are tearing their hair out screaming...there's another one....
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Ban is going well . . .
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Shocked, I am utterly shocked. Was it the old Irish Press or The Irish Times the late Brian Farrell wrote Leaders for, while anchoring RTE Current Affairs & major political events for the guts of three decades? Jasus Mark I get bigger scoops doing the litter trays for the cats.
Sinn Fein’s Eoin Ó Broin wrote anonymously for Phoenix magazine
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@sinead_ryan
Psst . . . he is not actually liked . . . he doesn't really have an audience . . . he was just a fixed point on the schedule and if they bring him back . . . the licence fee revolt will be hummungus.
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I think it would be nice if some grown-ups were in control of public affairs.
@MaryLouMcDonald
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Within 12 months this woman has interfered on 'behalf of a Constituent' in one of the worst animal cruelty cases ever to come before the Courts & now as "Interim" Justice Minister, goes on national television to prejudge a criminal investigation into her party leader
@finegael
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@jessphillips
And the children who died in a residential
block in
#Gaza
today hit by Israeli rockets ?
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Pardon? Members of Government? Of Government? THEY are deciding Master Tubridy will return to the National Broadcaster because THEY feel he was hard done by? Was he fuck, he was the beneficiary of a fraud on public funds & overpaid even without it. So he gets to give us earache?
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@Paulmcgrath5
Dear Paul, if you are getting grief on here from anybody, it is outrageous. You are the Very best of us.
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#GE2020
& in the words of the late Hughie Green - 'I mean this most sincerely folks' - the best outcome is for RTE to stand by it's decision & let the two wallies punch each other
@MaryLouMcDonald
should sit at home with the kids & a big bowl of popcorn There can be only one.
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BREAKING: Group of hermits discovered living in medieval ruins on isolated island in the Shannon. Anthropologists have tried to communicate but say they are best left alone. Picture shows group gathered around what appears to be a sacred 'firestone' A Cordon Sanitaire is in place
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@PearseDoherty
@Paschald
Oh and Paschal, we do hope you haven't been deleting texts and messages on various apps from your phone.
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That ain't the only 'respected' political name that is going to emerge.
Labour Party confirms Ivana Bacik attendance at Merrion Hotel party:
"Deputy Bacik was briefly in attendance for approx. 15-20 minutes at an outdoor event organised by Katherine Zappone on 21st July. Deputy Bacik understood that the event was within Government guidelines."
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#Zappone
#Roddygate
Just to inform those whom have been good enough to take an interest in the odd connection between the afternoon champers party with Her Haughtiness & the cancellation of meetings with Tuam Survivor Groups, these are now rescheduled for the week of August 30th
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I hope no one objects to me reminding people that the butchery of our railways was carried out by Todd Andrews, one-time Chairman of CIE and Grandfather of grifter Ryan Tubridy, who 'works' in
@RTE
(or used to) and of course was also Chairman of the RTE Authority . . .
What's been lost: The Irish rail network in 1920, and the rail network today.
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Our last three Presidents, Robinson, McAleese and current Michael D Higgins have always opposed the SCC in and on principle -but then they are a bunch of terrorists
#GE2020
This is a good point. The Special Criminal Court is a disgrace. They aren’t used in England for serious terrorist offences and the regular courts are more than capable of addressing the same problems.
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@Alan__Shatter
Alan, have you ever read the vicious disgusting anti-semitic speech made by you former party colleague Oliver J Flanagan, Papal Knight delivered in the Dáil at the height of the Holocaust who of course was later elevated to Minister for Defence by your former leader Liam Cosgrave
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The orchestrated chorus of FG disapproval of
#Varadkar
is pretty limp stuff in terms of a 'heave'.
But it does show, for those who have ignored or failed to notice the obvious. Leo does not have a single friend, occupying any meaningful position within Fine Gael. Not one.
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To be as fair as I can, they cancelled at 6.20 pm on the 15th for meeting on the 16th. Katy's Party was on the 21st -still only 5 days quarantine-so how could they attend that and not meet their obligations in Tuam ?
#Zappone
(1) All Right All Right ! Since so many have there tongues hanging out.
#Zappone
Minister O 'Goman will need to clarify in what capacity members of his Department attended her ladyships's drinky party when his office had cancelled, late in the evening just 48 hours earlier -
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Mr Michael Noonan has a number of State pensions Teacher's , Minster's, TD's all State payments he does NOT have a
#psc
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@orlaryan
@newschambers
@ococonuts
A Masterclass in how to shred your own academic reputation of almost 50 years in less than 90 minutes. (He does. And a very fine bee it is.)
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@JohnnyMercerUK
@MichaelOHare02
I don't think you will ever get it. You are simply guaranteeing yourself an ignoble place in many volumes of factual history yet to be written, a mere insignificant footnote perhaps, but not what you want.
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Ah now . . .
#RTEgate
The "Toy Show Musical" cost an arm and a leg but was not 'financially successful'. Jeez thought the guys had worked that old scam out years ago "The Producers" C'mon do the math
@HomeoftheDixies
@VillageMagIRE
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Oh last night? Harry McGee reckons she got 9 seconds more than Varadkar? &as for the way she has been allowed to dominate the 3-way debates of party leaders ... oh wait she was completely excluded. Are you going to write another Lady Bird book - 'Uncle Leo is your friend'
#ge2020
Mary Lou Mcdonald seems to be getting a disproportionate amount of air time to the other leaders.
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@MaryLouMcDonald
Second that. He almost single-handedly made wearable, affordable 'fashion' available to a generation of young Irish people, which went a considerable way to establishing a sense of style and self-confidence that has been missing. Others followed, but Ben did it first.
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From day one Zappone's intention has been to prevent exhumations to protect both the Bon Secours and State institutions she made cooing noises and was fawned over. The policy is one of deceit, outright lies and treachery and cannot be allowed to prevail
#tuambabies
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Imagine a Government enacting a law for the purpose of preventing any Inquest into the deaths of children lying in the mass graves of "Mother & Baby Homes" but that is what begins in Leinster House tomorrow
#PhilomenaLee
#MotherandBabyHomeReport
#rtept
#tonightvmtv
Imagine all Philomena suffered in her life and being forced at 88 to challenge this report. It never ends
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#tuambabies
Case to release concealed documents of Tuam Home continues Court 24 the Four Courts 11.45 tomorrow Monday March 6 All welcome
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A few . . . beginning with:
" I am arresting you . . ."
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This is Eileen Gleeson responsible for Dublin Regional Homeless Executive Does anyone know what she actually does or what her qualifications for the post are ?
#sidebyside
#mynameis
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@CharlieFlanagan
My Dear Charlie, its simple. The Coroners Service falls under your Department. If Dr Val Costello Coroner for North Galway will not convene an Inquest into the mass grave at Tuam, fire him.
#tuambabies
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@TVsCarlKinsella
I wouldn't read much more into it, other than it was an 'Up Yours' to identifiable individuals and entities and the occasion simply presented an opportunity. There will be a monumental 'Up Yours' come the general Election.
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This is wonderful news
Today, after two weeks hard work, I walked 400m. It felt amazing. My body was tired but my lungs were not. I am so grateful to my donor and I am constantly amazed at my new lungs.
#smashinggoals
#Livelifethengivelife
#beatcf
#organdonation
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Well, well. The truck which has crashed through the gate of the Russian Embassy in Dublin appears to be the property of "Desmond Wisley" Ecclesiastical Suppliers of Tully, Liberty Hill, County Leitrim. Who wins the most inventive advertising initiative of the year
@SkyNewsBreak
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@Mickcliff
Sir Oswald Mosley?' A little later with the mischief for which he is known that same lawyer whispered to me: 'Congratulations, you have shaken the hand, that shook the hand of the Fuhrer. 1933 is never that far away Mick.
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@aoifegracemoore
@eamonderry
Ah don't be moaning . . . isn't it all there in black and . . . black
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Well now. According to Micky Martin,
#niallcollins
need not answer questions in the Dail because
#TheDitch
is a Moscow/Putin inspired conspiracy against the Government. Gas man. Holly Cairns' expression was that of a kind, patient and professional Psychiatric Consultant.
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@IrlagainstFash
Obviously went to a Swiss 'finishing' School.
I really do not think you should ignore this.
It is foul, it is certainly actionable -though that is hardly your priority. But think about and take advice. They keep pushing -there has to be pushback at some point.
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@dmcbfs
Right. Now lets do a comparison on the cost of consumables, quality of life, healthcare, cost of heating in quite different climates, quality of home-building, wages/salaries, transport, insurance and life expectancy.
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@PaschalSheehy
@AudreyCarville
@outonashout
@IrishCoastGuard
@rtenews
I sincerely hope this individual is found safe and if they are I hope every rescue worker is given license to give them a kick up the hole
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#tuambabies
If you have any interest in some small measure of justice, demand an Inquest into the 798 deaths in Tuam now
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