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Eoin Dineen

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@Eoin__Dineen
Eoin Dineen
3 years
Varadkar not ruling out idea that only fully vaccinated people could use indoor hospitality. So people in 20s and 30s wouldn't be able to eat or drink there but can work there? Doesn't seem very thought through.
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It's a bit jarring having to listen to the Angelus before news reports on mother and baby homes.
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@Nigel_Farage @jrmaidment Curious you didn't say this after Jo Cox was murdered by an anti-EU fascist
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@KevinVesey It's scary from outside US looking in. No surprise after 4 years of Trump attacking media but still no less awful. US on a dark path
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@Vinncent Plus if people work Monday to Friday that's 2 days over the weekend they could get sick ahead of Monday
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@punchedmonet_ @EXECUTIVESTEVE Heartbreaking to know some of most common stolen items are nappies and baby food. Something seriously wrong when poverty criminalised
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1 year
Somewhere there's a junior infants pupil without a chair. Are ye happy now hipster pubs?!
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4 years
You'd swear Barry Cowen was crucified by Michael Martin. He's still on a TD on a €96,000 salary. I'm sure he will cope.
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Eoin Dineen
3 years
Anyone parroting the "schools aren't closing in other countries" line needs to add context that Ireland has highest student to teacher ratio in Europe and very little if any mitigation measures in schools.
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Eoin Dineen
4 years
Varadkar calling 2 week stay in a hotel a ''detention centre''. What does that make direct provision or ''homeless hubs''? #cblive
@RTEUpfront
Upfront with Katie Hannon
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The Tánaiste Leo Varadkar says if the Government introduced mandatory quarantining, it would probably be for a year. Summer holidays and seeing relatives next Christmas "would be off the agenda" #cblive #ZeroCovid #Covid19
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@amyohconnor Stonhan getting a round in. She went to Mary I and still plays camogie with her club.
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2 years
@eoinmauricedaly The anoraks of Inisherin
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Eoin Dineen
11 months
Telling a luas driver to back up sums up these people's intelligence. Causing hassle for the sake of it while acting like they genuinely care about public safety.
@NickyRyan_
Nicky Ryan
11 months
A crowd is now blocking traffic at the top of O’Connell Street, close to the scene of today’s attack in Dublin
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@Eoin__Dineen
Eoin Dineen
4 years
4 weeks is a long time in political commentary
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@Eoin__Dineen
Eoin Dineen
7 months
What other public servant could work abroad for years and expect that time to count towards increments? People going abroad to income tax free countries wanting to have their cake and to eat it. Surely onus was on him to do basic research in advance?
@AmyMolloyIndo
Amy Molloy
7 months
‘I’m devastated: my wife and I are wondering why we came back’ – teacher’s four years’ work in Dubai not reflected in pay
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@Eoin__Dineen
Eoin Dineen
4 years
@HoarseWisperer @realDonaldTrump ''S.S'' and ''anti-fa'' in the one tweet. Is he really that stupid not to get the connotation of abbreviating Secret Service? Or is it deliberate?
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Eoin Dineen
3 years
Government minister on the radio telling people they should shop around to try to reduce the cost of living. From the same government that outsourced reducing the cost of antigen tests to Lidl. 🙃
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@Eoin__Dineen
Eoin Dineen
4 months
Natasha O'Brien who Cathal Crotty attacked gave a powerful statement. Crotty should have been jailed and fired from the Defence Forces for this disgusting attack.
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@NicolaBardon
Nicola Bardon
4 months
This is a disgrace. Cathal Crotty, a serving Irish soldier who beat a woman unconscious in a random street attack, and boasted about it afterwards on social media, has walked free from a court after getting a fully suspended sentence.
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Eoin Dineen
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Bizzare
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Eoin Dineen
5 years
@MrHarryCole UK would owe a lot more for all its colonisation. Can't just be a one way street
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Eoin Dineen
4 years
Are the columnists who cheerleaded the easing of restrictions still on their Christmas holidays?
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Eoin Dineen
6 months
Is this meant to be a gotcha of some kind?
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Eoin Dineen
1 year
John Creedon only playing Sinéad O'Connor songs so far. The positive side of public service broadcasting.
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@Eoin__Dineen
Eoin Dineen
5 years
@MannyAwo @Okwonga His team mates need to walk with him. Opposition players too. This is bigger than 1 match or 1 result. Racists should be kicked out of football
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Eoin Dineen
3 years
Catherine Connolly on rte radio 1 seems to be one of the few people who had read the resolution Daly and Wallace didn't support and says in their submission they were clear in criticism of Russia's invasion. Says coverage of their vote by some journalists was deplorable.
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Eoin Dineen
3 years
783 cases before indoor hospitality is open. What could possibly go wrong?!
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Eoin Dineen
3 years
@maxseddon @tass_agency His generals don't exactly look ecstatic
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Eoin Dineen
4 years
Maybe if Irish billionaires were actually tax resident here, we wouldn't have to rely on public philanthropy from billionaires? 🤔
@Limerick_Leader
Limerick Leader / Limerick Live
4 years
JP McManus donates equipment to stop spread of virus in hospital
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Eoin Dineen
3 years
Only a matter of time before certain entrepreneurs suggest child labour laws be relaxed so kids can replace sick adults at work.
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Eoin Dineen
3 years
The government's "living with covid" plan is going so well that the President, Harris, McEntee, Taoiseach and Tánaiste have all tested positive in the space of 3 weeks.
@PTHosford
Paul Hosford
3 years
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has tested positive on an antigen test for Covid-19. Spokesperson says that he is now isolating and that events in Cork have been cancelled.
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Eoin Dineen
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@JohnNurden I'd suggest you mind your own business.
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Eoin Dineen
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@EmerTheScreamer "In Ireland male guests wear ties around their heads as evening draws on. It's believed to be a reference to the Rambo films.."
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Eoin Dineen
5 years
I think @HerstoryIreland should consider their following of Graham Linehan in light of abuse of a person whos photo was part of their recent campaign. He is misusing this and causing harm by doing so
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Eoin Dineen
3 years
Varadkar saying employers can report employees if they don't take up offer of old job is peak him tbh
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Eoin Dineen
4 years
Are the social media people alright?!
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Eoin Dineen
3 years
FG will take credit for literally anything.
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Eoin Dineen
3 years
Zero covid was supposedly an unsustainable strategy while the government's "living with covid" with record levels of people getting sick and their close contacts having having isolate with serious pressure on hospitals and many businesses forced to close is sustainable apparently
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Eoin Dineen
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That would be a daft name for a paper tbh
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Eoin Dineen
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There's been a stronger reaction to this in some quarters than the far right attacking politicians and migrants
@irishexaminer
Irish Examiner
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Those responsible for temporary closure of Dublin portal have ‘let us all down’
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Eoin Dineen
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@jbouie Could start with cost of truck and cost of their guns, camo, body armour that they cosplay in
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Eoin Dineen
4 years
Vardkar in Dail earlier saying that as many people have died of covid this year than last year shows how serious B117 variant is. No acknowledgement of the disastrous reopening ag Christmas or failure to have any travel controls before now.
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Eoin Dineen
4 years
Nothing against Claire Byrne but I think thought Sarah McInerney was great replacement for O'Rourke. There's not many who question interviewes as robustly which is well needed.
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Eoin Dineen
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"The Irish Examiner has learned that gardaí and UCC have a long-running arrangement whereby members of the gardaí can confiscate student IDs and report back to the college the reasons for the confiscation." That sounds fairly dodgy
@irishexaminer
Irish Examiner
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Gardaí 'searched students at Cork house party'
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Eoin Dineen
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@newschambers Reminds me of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh’s classic line about it.
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Eoin Dineen
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A cynic might suggest that was their aim all along and they deliberately circumvented the planning process
@paulodonoghue93
Paul O'Donoghue
3 years
Turns out demand isn't actually that high for €1,000 per month "luxury" student accommodation in Dublin. Instead of dropping prices, companies are converting the flats to short-term lets or co-living.
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Eoin Dineen
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Government TD says people advocating zero covid are advocating false hope while "people are dying". We're in such a state because of government actions and not even attempting zero covid nevermind mandatory quarantine. Used NI as an excuse not to even bother. No leadership 🙃
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Eoin Dineen
5 years
@uksciencechief @BethRigby Why does delay phase in other countries involve social distancing and cancelling of mass gatherings, yet in the UK is based on 60% of population contracting it to supposedly build up herd immunity? Have I missed something?
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Eoin Dineen
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@LeoVaradkar Does that mean resuming close contact tracing in schools, mandatory sick pay for all, HEPA filters in every class room, minimum standards on air quality, subsidised antigen tests, health care workers provided with FFP2 masks etc?
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Eoin Dineen
4 years
@gavreilly ''This is the first time that unions have refused to accept the advice provided by public health specialists.'' I wonder is anyone keeping score of how many times the government diverted from NPHET's advice? Pot, kettle, black.
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Eoin Dineen
3 years
How can any restaurant nevermind a new one not have an accessible toilet?
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Eoin Dineen
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@newschambers Need to get Coleen on the case to solve who leaked the NPHET letter
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Eoin Dineen
6 years
@gemmaod1 What a vile and ignorant comment. We should welcome anyone who wants to make a life for themselves here, have a family and work. The same thousands of Irish have done over past few hundred years. Many immigrants working in sectors of health, teaching and garda. Would have
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Eoin Dineen
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@gavreilly So that's the President, Harris, McEntee, Taoiseach and Tánaiste all getting it in the space of the last 3 weeks. Living with covid eh?
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Eoin Dineen
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@paulodonoghue93 The option of having table service in pubs. Pubs not being absolutely rammed with people.
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Eoin Dineen
5 years
@ava For waiting for a bus while black. Ridiculous. His friends have their heads screwed on right that they waited for him and challenged cops.
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Eoin Dineen
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@MarkPaulTimes Why do you think there are basically no cases in Australia? It wouldn't be partly because they have mandatory hotel quarantine by any chance would it?
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Eoin Dineen
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@gavreilly This seems completely dismissive of people's lived experience in direct provision, poor living conditions, poor food, not having freedom to make own food, huge mental health toll on waiting for years for result of asylum applications. Seems characteristically tone deaf too.
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Eoin Dineen
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@RepDonBeyer @atrupar Prof Pamela Karlan knew this would happen
@HouseJudiciary
House Judiciary Dems
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Pamela Karlan: “What would you think if, when your governor asked the federal government for the disaster assistance that Congress has provided, the President responded, ‘I would like you to do us a favor.’ I’ll... send the disaster relief once you brand my opponent a criminal.”
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@Ed_Husain Yes because racism famously ended in US in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected president. What a superficial and trite take devoid of any deep thinking.
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@Freddygray31 Would love to hear what you think it means?
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@christinafinn8
Christina Finn
2 years
Rents are too high in Ireland, says Tánaiste Leo Varadkar. 'Far too many people have to spend too much of their income on rent, often at the expense of other things,' he says.
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Eoin Dineen
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Hi folks @IrishRail , hope ye're good. Just passing on that the woman who operates the food trolley on the 12pm Dublin-Cork is doing a great job, helping people find their seats, carrying their luggage, giving directions for connection etc.
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Eoin Dineen
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"The revisions in particular mean car parks, represented by the traders alliance, such as the Arnotts or Fleet Street car parks, would see no alterations to their access routes." Says it all tbh. Potentially millions of passengers can't have better transport because of them.
@IrishTimes
The Irish Times
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Watered-down Dublin traffic plan should allay traders’ fears
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@VictoriaPeckham @kathysheridanIT Do you think there are no circumstances where children should be able to access something online without parent's knowledge? What about access to a site for assistance if parents abusing them for example?
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Eoin Dineen
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@Dominic2306 @krishgm If you seriously believe that despite the reality of EU showing solidarity with Ireland all along it says a lot about Britain's negotiation tactics. Not being able to deal with the political reality and failing to offer any realistic compromises or solutions is nothing new.
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Eoin Dineen
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@kenklippenstein Nixon "I did Watergate". Moving swiftly on..
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Eoin Dineen
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The outright dismissal of this by some probably proves Brolly's point more than anything
@VMSportIE
Virgin Media Sport
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“An orthodoxy started in the south that nationalists in the north were to blame. If they had just behaved & not worried about civil rights everything would’ve been fine. “Completely ignoring the reality of soldiers machine gunning people to death." Sport Stories: Joe Brolly
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@shockproofbeats What is with these people and inanimate objects?
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@liamstack I don't get why people in US haven't been protesting on the streets over the healthcare/insurance system for years.
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Eoin Dineen
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@gavreilly Would he not need a 3rd test if there's 2 conflicting results?
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Eoin Dineen
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@earthboy__ Tells you a lot that it probably genuinely is easier to get fascists reported for copyright infringement than hate speech..
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Eoin Dineen
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The headline has this energy
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@POLITICOEurope
POLITICOEurope
2 years
In 1992, a 15-year-old schoolgirl went to join her local branch of the far-right Youth Front in Rome. The all-male group of radicals met her with bemusement. Thirty years later, Giorgia Meloni is on course to become Italy’s first female prime minister.
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Paul Reid saying we've learned that covid comes in waves as if it's a completely natural phoneneman as opposed to being partly caused by government policy 🙃
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Eoin Dineen
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"I dispute your facts" says FF TD Jackie Cahill about impact of agriculture on emissions. That about sums it up
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Eoin Dineen
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@Billy_Timmins @TheConorFinn @eoghanymurphy Shows how out of touch you are. You could easily find out this information yourself or even better go to a viewing yourself and experience firsthand for yourself and instead of trying to dismiss the reality of the dreadful housing crisis.
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Eoin Dineen
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RTE have a former politician and screenwriter discussing public health. Funny how it's usually only Twitter that the term armchair expert is used 🤔
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Eoin Dineen
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@DonnellyStephen And what are the consequence for ignoring the crystal clear protocols?
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Eoin Dineen
3 years
Remember when government said teachers would be fully vaccinated before September when it said it couldn't prioritise workers who might be at greater risk? Doesn't seem like teachers in 20s will be.
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Eoin Dineen
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Good thing we avoided the "permanent lockdown" #zerocovid would supposedly bring... Now we're getting worst of both worlds.
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@TomLyonsBiz The RNLI do trojan work. Even more impressive when the lifeboat crews are volunteers.
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Eoin Dineen
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I'm old enough to remember a few weeks ago when we were told we couldn't do #zerocovid because it would lead to constant restrictions.. 🙃
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@Michael_O_Regan It was clusters in meat processing plants and direct provision centres due in no small part to conditions there.
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@SenatorKeogan Crocodile tears. Look in the mirror if you want to find who's responsible for whipping up this bigotry.
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Eoin Dineen
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@boucherhayes What's the alternative for necessary travel from an island nation? I'd gladly take a train to Paris, Amsterdam etc if it was an option like it is from Britain.
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Eoin Dineen
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@Tiananmens @KCsixtyseven Hopefully none of the moneygrabbing pubs get any State support over next few weeks or months. Should be a condition of getting support, to show proof you either closed or made efforts to maintain social distance
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Eoin Dineen
4 years
Any update lads?!
@Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
9 years
Scientists Say They Can Recreate Living Dinosaurs Within the Next 5 Years http://t.co/NCHlCVx8ad by @Geoff_Weiss http://t.co/4vk36Xa13Y
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@alisonoconn Not sure I'd call someone resigning because of sexual offence allegations as political excitement tbh, risks trivialising a very serious issue
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Eoin Dineen
4 years
Constantly saying ''but the border'' is like leaving your front door open because you've a window open. Would you not at least try to close the front door? #cblive
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Eoin Dineen
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Looks like @HerstoryIreland have unfollowed. Thanks for being so responsive folks.
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Eoin Dineen
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Would think most unions would demand a salary scale is set out clearly..
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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
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I’m hiring….
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Eoin Dineen
4 years
Should the government massively expand the bike to work scheme to everyone in the country? Would reduce demand on public transport, reduce emissions from cars, have health benefits etc.
@dublincycling
Dublin Cycling Campaign
4 years
Absolute scenes outside @donnybrookbikes this morning. #BikeBoom2020
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I'm no fan of Cosgrave but what's controversial or inaccurate about what he said? What are the companies that pulled out of the summit supposedly objecting to? Most of them care more about profit rather than principles either way, let's not pretend this is some principled stance
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@DarranMarshall
Darran Marshall
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Google pulls out of Web Summit over Cosgrave’s Israel-Hamas comments
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Eoin Dineen
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Bonkers qoute. It definitely is because of covid. If someone's a close contact they by definition have been in close contact with something with a highly infectious disease. And this guy's a doctor?! 🙃
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. @fionnansheahan saying mandatory hotel quarantine has been nicknamed Guantanamo Bay. By who exactly? Because a 2 week stay in a hotel is the same as being held in a torture centre for years.. Only connection is “rendition” flights went through Shannon.
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@amyohconnor Wonder did they offer to post about the toilets there to avoid having to pay for them..
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@BethRigby It means next to nothing if they're not willing to put their name to their view.
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@BigBoyler They're not really from Cork if it was only the 2nd sentence..
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@cwarzel @HayesBrown But not covering it will play into Trump's fake news rhetoric (completely unjustified obviously). I really dont think there's a winner in either strategy. Maybe the do less harm approach which is probably not to air live
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@gavreilly She will be a tough opponent after Gibraltar but sure we will give it our best
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