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#Ireland
is an interesting country & a very revealing political 'laboratory' for the entire West. Let's have a quick thread on that. Ireland came into this century on foot of being a failed state in the 1980s. As such, its younger generations grew up in an environment of rapid+
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Wow! Wow!
@Trickstersworld
nails it 100% on
@ClaireByrneLive
. Nails it. No matter what side of voting for whatever party you may be on.
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I mean, for real? Does Ireland still have any semblance of governance left? Freedom of press? Whistleblowing? Government concealment of information from the voters? This is genuinely shocking for a democracy.
Fine Gael’s Regina Doherty more concerned with catching the leaker of the AG’s advice, than the fact the Government lied to the people. These people are utterly out of touch.
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I might not earn myself any new friends and might even lose some old friends, but, as a person who spent now good part of 15 years in senior non-exec roles in Irish non-profit sector, I believe NGOs should stop issuing recommendation on how people should vote. Bear with me for +
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Brendan Howlin was one of the principals behind foreign vulture funds raiding Irish housing markets, and Irish banks getting a free ride at the taxpayers expense. He presided over the public sector reforms & reviews that systemically failed to deliver any meaningful reforms in +
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Ok. So... Professorship. 1. Does he have a PhD (de minimum requirement for the policy field)? Seems to me - no. 2. Does he have a single peer reviewed publication comparable with Professorship bar? Seems to me - none.
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Irish success: make households pay to drive empty bottles around.
Customers warned bin charges to rise as bottle return scheme hits waste firm profits
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It's just over 100 miles & currently takes 2 hours 5 minutes. Which is city-tram-level slow. And it will remain thus even after "multimillion investment". This is the joke that passes for transport infrastructure investment on the island of Ireland. Zero ambition. Zero modernity.
Dublin-Belfast train to take less than two hours and run hourly after multimillion investment
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My heart goes out to the 'employees of
@twitter
'. Throughout this takeover saga, they suffered much uncertainty as to whether they'll be allowed to continue facilitating states-sponsored PSYOP bots in attacks on folks dissenting with the prevailing State propaganda.
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#golfgate
in perspective: (1) A country can’t build a children’s hospital = no one resigns; (2) Homelessness crisis raging for years = everyone re-elected; (3) Vulture Funds get rich on mass misery = everyone keeps jobs, perks, salaries. (4) A golf outing in violation of safety +
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This person worked in Ireland, paid taxes in Ireland, was entitled to bring her family to Ireland (contracts & laws) and... WTAF?! 2 years with no family?! If she leaves, she should have all taxes paid by her, rebated to her.
Painful 💔
Pls RT & help this poor mother!
1/ This is another senior & skilled Obs/Gynae non-EEA doctor who just left Ireland after a long 2 year wait for her children and spouse visa to be approved. She was recruited during Covid time to tackle staffing & health crisis.....1/5
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I miss Ireland. It is a land where only a poet or a mathematician can understand economic statistics. For they are the only ones fit to handle the imaginary numbers.
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@eucopresident
This is pure bullshit. The EU staunchly refused to address the Greek crisis & the resulting Cypriot crisis. It refused to deal with the legacy debt, deemed unsustainable by
@IMFNews
. It failed, completely, in including Greece into QE programmes. So, no - there was NO solidarity.
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+ The 'wealthiest economy' in Europe has a crisis in EVERY area its public leadership touches. This drives younger voters out to the political margins. The extremists are not causing political crisis in Ireland. It is the state elites that are causing extremists, instead. +
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Richest country in Europe with massive annual rainfall, and a relatively small capital city that runs out of water? Why, yes. Tax havens are almost never managed efficiently or effectively. Soft budget constraints are almost always self-debasing.
The delivery of tens of thousands of homes is under major threat amid a “high risk of major water shortages” in the greater Dublin area over the next six years, the Housing Commission will warn the government
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I teach behavioral finance & economics in a graduate school. I 100% agree w everything
@PearseDoherty
says in this. These are standard predatory practices that target unknowing customers to effectively increase the cost of insurance despite these customers lower risk profile.
Watch as
@PearseDoherty
takes on insurance industry representatives for ripping-off their customers using so-called “dual-pricing” methods
#EndTheRipOff
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This isn't right. Ireland is a wealthy country. The housing crisis is now so endemic, metastasized & broadly-based across all dimensions of the market that one cannot avoid asking ONE basic Q: Is there ANY shade of competency left in public policy formation & deployment? +
Hundreds of students in Sligo could be left with no choice but to commute, defer or drop out due to plans to repurpose student accommodation for refugees.
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Wait. Didn’t your Somerset Capital Management grew tired of London because of
#Brexit
and moved to Ireland?..
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+ squandered amidst accelerating sequences of failures & crises since 2007 on. If you think - along with the Government's rhetoric - that the causes of this are 'extremists' or 'rightwingers' or 'eurosceptics' you really need greater help than your family doctor can prescribe.
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I don't think I can recall a single instance of such raw hate & anger in my entire two decades-plus of living in Ireland and being a naturalized Irish national. Never. Anywhere. | 'No justification': Varadkar condemns Galway hotel fire via
@rte
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Flowers sellers are about the ONLY trace of real life left on Grafton Street, so overrun by low-brow generic commercialism of chain stores & mobile phones stores. Remove them, and you can just about rename the street 'Anywhereville Alley' or 'Bland Street'.
Traders on Grafton Street tell me they'd be willing to get arrested rather than give up their flower stands. It's after a property developer claimed they clutter the area.
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+ extracts value from the economy). The 'wealthiest economy' in Europe has a housing crisis, a healthcare crisis, an education system crisis, an infrastructure crisis, a homelessness crisis, a refugees crisis, and a careers crisis. It is also facing a developing pensions crisis.+
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Jayzus, are you people ok in your ducking heads? She put Ireland on three podiums! WTAF?! She is a legend, just like the rest of her team.
FFG politicians, legacy media & centrist dads who in recent months have slyly & cynically stoked racism for political gain in Ireland bear some responsibility here. Of course not a single one of them will reflect on their sneaky, divisive commentary & reporting in recent months.
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The speed w which companies that borrowed truck loads of cash to buy back their shares over the last decade are now 'protecting their fin health' by putting staff on unpaid leave fills me w wonder at how efficient our markets really are in fu&king the 99.9% to protect the 0.1%.
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The resignations DID NOT come 'after CB fine',
@Independent_ie
. They came following a public exposure by the likes of
@thecurrency
journalists of the systemic nature of Davy & its governance failures.
@centralbank_ie
did its job. But it is public outcry that got the job done.
Three senior figures resign from Davy after Central Bank €4.1m fine
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America repays these folks by making sure their past mistakes will never, ever be erased from their records, no matter how hard they work on rectifying them. A society without a heart.
Two CDCR firefighters working with CAL FIRE on cleanup near Redding Drive in Salinas.
"Sorry we couldn't save all the houses," another inmate firefighter told me in passing. "But we kept a few on the hill (near Trimble Hill Lane) from burning."
#RiverFire
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@rtenews
You do know it is your JOB to actually challenge him & the Govt on this? They are openly threatening & targeting a whistleblower who ensured basic disclosure of information w/in constitutional-level public interest. This cannot be allowed in a properly governed society.
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+ The 'wealthiest economy' in Europe is the one that has most resources to manage its challenges; yet, has the least competency in managing these. Hence, we have one of the lowest densities of population, and yet, we have the least preserved natural habitats in the EU. +
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I cannot stress how fundamentally important it is that no additional interest should be charged on delayed payments on COVID19-impacted mortgages and other loans. It is unconscionable that the Government has not forced the banks to apply proper borrower protection measures!
1. The Central Bank has confirmed that offering borrowers COVID-19 payment breaks on their mortgage WITHOUT charging additional interest over the break period IS consistent with European Banking Authority guidelines - the opposite of what is currently in place for borrowers...
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The country with the biggest meltdown of the banks/financial services in the GFC; with the lightest-touch enforcement of the rules; that has a perfect track record of career- & reputation-assassination of whistleblowers? That country plans to host EU financial crime watchdog?
Ireland in hunt to host EU’s new financial crime watchdog
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Here is ONE person I trust on all policy matters relating to people living with disabilities.
‘Care’ Amendment - An Taoiseach said - “So, if you put in language, say, which was really strong around care, but you don’t have any language in about cancer treatment, then you’ve a problem”
@LeoVaradkar
Eoghan is 22. He wants an Autonomous life -Just Like Yours. We’re Voting NO
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+ European economy, save Norway, and yet we have highest prices & lowest quality of energy supply in advanced Europe. If there is a better empirical example of waste at a macroeconomic scale, I am open to hear of one. Decades of economic & social progress since ca 1990 are being+
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+ of the systemic failures of leadership elites to govern/manage socio-economic development in Ireland over decades. The 'wealthiest economy' in Europe has a legacy problem of the crisis bailout of its banks (banking system does not function in Ireland, but rather parasitically +
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Taken seriously, this is absurd. 90% of the Ministerial *advisers* who are not from 'de family' are from journos/PR ranks. And given the Cabinet has more *advisers* than there are paediatricians employed by the HSE, what on Earth moves them to pay for MORE PR advice?
Government hires PR firm to avoid confusion around Covid messaging
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We - the West - are getting the tax system completely backward. Income from work, human capital should be taxed at the lowest possible rate. Income from financial capital, physical capital & corporate earnings should be taxed at the highest rate or at least the same rate. +
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Meanwhile, in Europe, Dutch PM bikes to work and Swiss Federal cabinet takes public transport... but there is no freedom, of course, cause people aren’t allowed to carry machine guns...
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Sad to see this. We used to attend neighbourhood funerals in this church for years. Our home is just across the Ringsend park from there. Love our neighbours. This is not what Ringsend/Irishtown are about.
Chants now of “get them out” and “don’t let them in”.
Racist goddamn monsters.
I’m fucking furious. This does not represent Ringsend in any way.
You can’t be Irish and turn a blind eye to any kind of migrant. We fled to every corner of the planet for generations.
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You have to be recklessly dumb to travel to a mass public event today without compulsion of serious need!
Cheltenham confirm first case of coronavirus as thousands of Irish travel for racing festival
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OMG! RIP, Sinead! Myself and MrsG have been blessed by memories of encountering her, chance meetings. From RHA events to RTE studios. Always graceful, even when in trouble, and always kind, caring for her friends. Immense talent, but also immense heart. |
#RIPSinead
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I am old enough to know this isn’t a new face and … as far as energetic goes… oh dear!
🤨
"The change of leadership in Fine Gael has given the Coalition a chance to present a new and energetic face to the electorate, giving Harris opportunities to connect with the electorate in the coming days." - Stephen Collins - Irish Times 05/04/24
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Just back from my gym. Usually sports TV mega center. These days, a lot of news channels. Not having watch cable news in weeks (don't have them at home), shocked! Not kidding. 1. It is psychotic. One second they are talking to an IDF officer producing complete and rehearsed +
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@NiallHarbison
Yes, yes, but I hear all those folks who are Constitutional Rights scholars these days saying we can’t have this Communist mind control thingy scan our images.
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+ We have the society that produced generations of builders that built America and Britain. And yet we have shortage of builders to build Irish housing. We have the land that is least densely built on, and yet we lack land to build on. We have energy resources to rival any other+
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+ the public sector, beyond temporary cut backs. He co-delivered 2012-2016 Budgets that were largely about temporary savings and no deep reforms to improve public services delivery, effectively kicking the can down the proverbial road. These budgets were also deeply regressive,+
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+ saddling lower middle class and lower income earners with higher costs.
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The country needs x2 that to stay on current trend of declining homeownership and x3 that to move off that path, but
@rtenews
wouldn't know as much, so can slavishly 'report' this drivel without being critical of the largely clueless Minister.
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has told his party's convention in Dublin that he believes 40,000 new homes can be built this year
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A bit of a thread on my thinking about Progozhin's bizarre March on Moscow: +
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@realDonaldTrump
This is pure nonsense. European wines are priced cheaper in the U.S. retail than California, Oregon, Washington wines. U.S. wines are priced in line with domestic U.S. prices in Europe.
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This has to be either the most Kafkaesque tweet of the year, or the most historically ignorant one. USSR was built on the bones of millions of people enslaved by the Soviet regime in Gulags. It was built on the bodies of millions of peasants killed off in Collectivisation. +
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Wait... WHAT?! There is still medical / healthcare staff not vaccinated, yet?!! WTF?...
The new vaccination centre in the Aviva Stadium is now up and running, starting off with healthcare staff. Up to 3000 people will be vaccinated here every day when fully operational
@iehospitalgroup
@cho6
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A Minster is not in control of his Department. This would be a resigning matter, but... reality is, no Minister in Ireland exercises any serious control over their Department. The Permanent Government do. They are hereditary, job-for-life clique of a limited number of families. +
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Listening to
@WhistleIRL
testimony in the Dail. One thing is clear:
#Ireland
systemically & fundamentally lacks proper governance.
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This is grotesque. Epically grotesque.
NEW - Justin Trudeau blames Russian propaganda for Canadian Parliament honoring a Nazi.
"Obviously, it's extremely upsetting that this happened... this is something that is deeply embarrassing to the Parliament of Canada...
It's going to be really important that all of us push
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Work wanted: whistleblower, unrepentant and still seeking justice
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In the Land of the Free, we punish those doing good and reward those who fail to reform the system that fails millions. But, hey, we can always blame Putin for all that… right?..
School superintendent quits after using own insurance to help sick kid
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A snapshot of the Irish economy... flying from San Fran to Dublin, airport lounge. Two hipsters with trendy handmade leather packs and $400+ sneakers. Yapping next to me in the arm chairs. Both are tech execs. One - Canadian (I suspect by the accent) one Irish. The two were +
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wait, is this not weaponizing
#oil
#Production
?
#OPEC
announced an
#oil
#production
cut over the weekend, but they were already underproducing to start with.
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@barryokellyrte
@RTEOne
Did you REALLY make a documentary about
#whistleblowers
in Ireland without mentioning
@WhistleIRL
? If true, HOW?!! WHY?!!
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I have travelled to the U.S. for 28 years now. As a Green Card holder, as a Russian and an Irish citizen, as a GC holder again. In ALL my personal interactions with Border Control, I never witnessed any non-professional, non-courteous behavior toward myself or others around. +
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This is getting nasty, even though it is a minority movement still. In years to come, refugees flows will accelerate dramatically as climate change drives people from the Global South. It is likely to be an exponential trend once it reaches full acceleration phase. How are we +
Outreach services are cancelled tonight as our vehicle is currently be blocked by racist thugs on Sandwith Street. Car is presently struck by missles.
@rodericogorman
@DarraghOBrienTD
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@PadraigBelton
It is impossible to relate to some of the UK media's perspectives on Ireland & Biden's visit. Which was, as you note, contrived, angered & racist.
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Who knew that giving people a meaningful access to home (as opposed to temporary shit shelter) & support (advice, counseling & social help) can dramatically cut homelessness. It's not like homeless need homes to stop being homeless... right?..
“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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Can we just say it out loud - 15 years after the start of the GFC, none of the lessons from 2004-2014 have been learned. Fu&king NONE. The entire army of regulators, supervisors, risk managers, compliance officers - is useless & worthless to their core. Billions siphoned off +
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@joncoopertweets
No John, "Russia was forced to default on its foreign debt" by itself with the help of the US and the EU.
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+ I am sorry, but how exactly this hiring took place? TCD aims to be in top 100 global universities. This requires international level recognition of scholarship. And it requires transparency of such scholarship. Can we please see evidence?
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A legend. First term in Seanad and already a major piece of legislation on his scoreboard!
@TomClonan
is an example of candidates we should be electing into Dail as a rule, not as an exception!
Elsewhere… the Seanad has passed legislation from
@TomClonan
which would give people with disabilities a legal right to access therapies (not merely an assessment of need). Govt tried to pause the bill’s passage but didn’t appoint any tellers for the vote, so passed uncontested
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Who is the asshole that ordered this?! How can he/she sleep at night?
A cancer sufferer who was growing cannabis at home as pain relief for herself has been ordered to carry out work in the community in lieu of a prison sentence.
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So Israel told Palestinians to evacuate. Some decided to listen. Israel then proceeded to bomb them as they fled. Right? So why do we not know how this happened? Where is the endless analysis, ad nauseum of move-by-move accounts of how this tragedy took place? Where is the +
NEW: 70 killed after Israeli strikes hit three convoys of evacuees trying to leave northern Gaza.
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+ Yep. The is the Irish economy in the nutshell: a lot of pretense and little substance in the froth at the top. The rest of the body of society is fighting to come ahead in this game.
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@ProfJohnCrown
People doing work should be paid full wages equivalent to their work. [Full stop. Repeat.] People doing work should be paid full wages equivalent to their work. [Repeat.] People doing work should be paid full wages equivalent to their work.
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@declanganley
He's got a valid point. I could never fly without visas and passport - couldn't even board a plane - back in years I spent living on Russian passport. It is bizarre that there are folks with 'no passport' arriving into Dublin airport.
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@conorhumphries
So who ARE the far-right?.. Names of organizations, leaders?.. handy source?
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A health system that can’t handle normal flow of patients through hospitals w/o parking 100s on trolleys in corridors is as prepared 4
#COVID19
as I am prepared 2 climb Mt Everest w/o oxygen, wearing waders. There’snegative quantum of evidence HSE can deal w pub health emergency
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In glorifying Nazi officer,
@JustinTrudeau
is doing Putin's bidding by simply confirming to the entire world, not just Russians, that
#G7
,
@Nato
et al are standing for mass murder of ethnic Russians with no moral qualms about endorsing nazis. This cuts across Ukraine's real +
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@eucopresident
@IMFNews
+ The EU (and Greece) stumbled from one emergency summit to the next as the Greek crisis raged over a good part of this decade. And every summit ended without ANY decisive action beyond shifting more and more sovereign debt onto the Greek state. There was no 'joint effort' +
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"Comisiún na Meán" no, seriously, folks... do you think that giving it an Irish name is going to make it anything other than a state-run media censorship quango? Genuinely pathetic shit from overpaid PR consultants.
Ireland was the first member state to trigger an alert under the EU's powerful new legislation on online hate speech in the immediate aftermath of last week’s riots in Dublin, RTÉ News has learned
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What qualifies him to receive this honour?!! How on Planet Earth does this guy still stand there collecting awards?
'I regret 250,000 lost jobs in recession', says Brian Cowen as he receives honorary NUI degree
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Happily, last day before the break, and I signed on the *proverbial* dotted line... :) A new job to be announced in 2021. Until then, I shall stay silent on the topic.
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@27khv
People like
@FareedZakaria
talking to people like
#Bono
about populism with the likes of
@wapo
promoting this PERFECTLY explains the rise of populism in the West: the complete and total detachment of the elites from the real life.
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There is a likable guy who is being paid a lot by the Irish Government to make comments on the Government failures while he makes no decisions. Everyone in Ireland likes him. Possibly because he never makes any decisions.
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@IrishTimes
Wonderful! I made that jump few years back and never regretted it. Great country and culture to call home!
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Nothing wrong with Erasmus students being supported, but the overall treatment of student nurses through this pandemic has been atrocious, unfair, unjustifiable and outright cruel. That the State perpetrated this is injury squared.
Irish Erasmus students to have hotel quarantine paid for by State - you'd wonder what the student nurses have done wrong ?
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Kinda puts things into perspective: in Londonovka just ONE Abramovich's pads is valued estimated EUR170 million. London and the UK have been making mint off the money stolen from Russian society for decades.
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