Gene Kerrigan
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Dublin writer (The Rage, The Scrap), journalist (Sunday Independent). Trying hard to be woke, but I keep dozing off.
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Some entertainment . . .
The guy on the left is Chris Cuomo, CNN host.
The guy on the right is his brother Andrew, Governor of New York.
This is the last minute or so of their interview . . .
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I'm one of those workers, Ivan, and I want nurses properly paid.
I've also been paying your €70k pension since you quit as a TD at the age of 43, and that I'm not so happy about.
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It's not enough to be proud of this man, or to cheer his words. Is there one Minister with the guts to publicly propose that this becomes Irish government policy?
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Never have so few words exposed so many levels of ignorance.
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I'm not a "Come out ye Black & Tans" fan, except when Alan Partridge sings it.
But I'm grimly aware today that many who are upset by that song expressed no anger whatever about homeless children eating off pavements.
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I've written critically about the police for decades.
Listening to the dreary Gemma whine, I feel immense sympathy for this man, as he tries to protect public health.
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These people obviously have no problem wearing masks.
So, I'm wondering why they organised an "anti-mask" "protest"?
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Journalism lecturer Jonathan Foster: “If someone says it’s raining & another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true.”
#debates
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Micheál Martin made a case, in good faith, for rejecting Nphet advice - agree with it or not (I don't).
Can anyone stand over allowing a sneering Leo Varadkar to casually trash the expert body on whose credibility public health measures depend?
Reckless, abysmal, sickening.
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Love this, from Davos:
A radical proposal.
Smug, ignorant laughter.
A billionaire asks a sneering question . . .
And an academic calmly replies.
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Anger and clarity.
James Baldwin said it best, and he said it in 1968.
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This is some speech.
An opponent called Alexandra Ocasio Cortez a "fucking bitch". Yesterday, he refused to apologise for his "passion, loving my God, my family, and my country". He spoke of loving his daughters.
AOC replied today.
Longer speech at
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I wonder if the most helpful thing Mr Varadkar could do would be to stay in his office, doing whatever Tanaistes do?
Say nothing, no photo ops.
Just go away for a while.
Give us a break from the relentless and embarrassing need to upstage other politicians.
It's not helping.
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Uncertain how I'd vote in the Presidential election, until I heard Gavin Duffy on today's radio debate. He said we can have "more of the same" or him.
More of the same it is, then.
Thanks, Gav.
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This man is unravelling in public.
(No, not Varadkar)
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In Nphet's press briefing, we saw adults at work, with no interest in scoring off the Government.
Fully informed, absolutely committed to protecting the public health.
These people think everything through.
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In normal circumstances, this would be a silly tweet from a bit of an eejit.
Given he's returning home after Fine Gael's notorious anti-migrant vote, this is obscene.
What a difference a driver makes!Last Monday it took the bus3 1/2 hrs. from
@Airport_FRA
to
@Europarl_EN
in
#Strasbourg
.Today, on same size bus, the reverse journey took 2 1/2 hrs. As a result, I have even time for a
#burger
before boarding
@Ryanair
flight to Dublin. Nice!
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Can I think about this I thought about this fuck off.
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Exclusive video footage from the FF/FG negotiations for a Grand Coalition for Change.
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Looks like the worst Covid fears were justified.
Any chance the Cabinet would put down their mince pies and go into emergency session - rather than waiting for their scheduled Tuesday meeting?
Come on, lads, pretend you've been asked to bail out the banks.
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Oh, dear, Mr O’Brien lost his defamation case.
Congratulations Tom and Ian. Two reputable journalists who were just doing their jobs.
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Having watched this, I accept that I've misjudged this man.
More, perhaps, than anybody else in the world.
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Heartwarming to see that this pro-Fine Gael chap, Paul, who is not at all a LeoBot, was Kentucky's Auctioneer of the Year in 2014.
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I scoffed when Mr Varadkar and the pundits warned that Mary Lou McD was organising a Nazi putsch.
Then, I saw this terrifying evidence of the Shinners rioting in Cork this evening.
Is there any hope for democracy?
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Sitting here trying to remember one single economist or journalist who asked, "But, where will you get the money?", when Fianna Fail, with the backing of Fine Gael, recklessly blew €64bn on the banks.
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We are in perilous circumstances. Here's one of our leaders.
This frightens me.
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After the break, traffic lights, for or against? We ask both sides.
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From the Sunday Independent 28/5 - six months ago.
“The classic part of their playbook,” Drew Harris said of the far right, “is an over-response by the authorities. We are not going to fall into that trap.”
How's the hug-a-thug policing strategy playing out, Drew?
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Listening to Sean Gallagher, on Sean O'Rourke, twisting and turning, avoiding straight answers, implying he exists on some "higher level", one question nags: Do I want to listen to seven whole years of this shit?
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The apologies are coming in thick and fast tonight . . . from people who should be resigning.
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Siri, find me a headline from today's Indo that sums up the jaw-dropping awfulness of the FG/FF cartel government . . .
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This is millionaire Arron Banks, aged 53, top donor to the Faragists, trolling Greta Thunberg, aged 16.
The man's a piece of shit.
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Excited! My tickets just arrived for the Cromwell Commemoration in Drogheda next September.
A bit doubtful about this until Mr Varadkar explained that the slaughter of civilians was greatly exaggerated by Provo propagandists.
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Some claim Phil Hogan must remain "our man in Brussels", despite a drip-feed of evidence of contempt for basic rules of public safety.
If he proves untouchable, it will devastate EU credibility in Ireland, with unforeseeable consequences.
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We lived thru prescriptions-for-condoms, injunctions for 14-y-o rape victims, coathanger abortions, tell-her-to-take-the-boat.
What really pisses me off, though, are patronising tweets from young whippersnappers agog to find we old dears voting Yes.
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Wow, this guy's impressive.
If he can agree a governing arrangement with another party he'll take "urgent action" on housing, climate change, health and rural Ireland.
If only he'd been able to do this in 2016.
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When politicians needed to confront John Delaney and the FAI, to get at the truth behind the cronyism, one saw his opportunity to kiss the great man's arse.
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The old right wing question, answered by Paul Mason in 15 seconds of magic.
Applies here, too. They know where it is . . .
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Imagine any outfit, other than the nurses, where the politicians blatantly refuse to discuss an issue in dispute, resulting in deep public disruption.
Ryanair?
Ibec?
The horsey business?
Google?
Apple?
The GAA?
They count on our pain making us react against the nurses.
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Leo Varadkar has broken the Code of Conduct for Office holders; he's discredited Sipo, the first line of defence against political corruption; and enlisted FF and FG to help him escape responsibility for his wrongdoing.
My Sunday Independent column.
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Renua, a shower of stone age cranks without a single representive elected at any level, collects over a quarter of a million a year in state aid.
Go piss up a rope, you whining remnants.
@IrishTimes
How much foreign aid has the Irish taxpayer donated to Malawi over the past 10 years? Someone is taking taxpayers for a ride. Either the Malawian authorities are getting funds under false pretences or this person has no right to be granted asylum in Ireland.
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The Dail voted confidence in a self-confessed leaker of confidential information.
Is it appropriate to worry about the amount of personal and confidential information available to 83 TDs who've publicly indicated their lack of respect for the concept of confidentiality?
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If Lidl is handling policy on testing, perhaps we could outsource track and trace to Aldi?
Once we put Mattress Mick in charge of ICU resources, we'll have this done and dusted by Easter.
So six months after Lidl’s sales of antigen tests were dismissed as “snake oil”, Lidl reducing their price to €2.99 each means the Government needs to take no further action
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If you're vulnerable; old; immuno-compromised or just don't fancy being thrashed by Covid - rising figures suggest taking care.
We'll get no leadership from the politicians.
Mask up, ventilate, social distance - like we're back in the bad old days.
Because it looks like we are.
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Siri, can you find me a metaphor for anti-vaxxers putting their health at risk by attacking something designed to protect them?
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Dear
@CharlieFlanagan
,
Just saw this snap of a plateful of delicious food from a direct provision site. Hope you're enjoying your Sunday lunch.
Yours etc.
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So, the pretence is abandoned. Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are working towards another FF/FG government.
They seem unaware their bullshit wordplay is so transparent, especially to the growing demographic that's angry and impatient at being taken for granted.
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Just been wondering how many advisers it took to help Heather Humpheries make such a balls of her job, and is there any chance we could stop their payments?
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Speaking of which ...
How come the Fine Gael website wipes your first party leader from history?
The O'Duffy chap. Eoin, the fascist, the anti-semite, He Who Must Not Be Named.
FG did drop its tolerance of such people late in life, but let's "acknowledge all aspects of our past".
We should respect all traditions on our island and be mature enough as a State to acknowledge all aspects of our past.
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Imagine reaching Cabinet rank but not having the guts to put your name to your views on such an important issue.
Gobshites endangering public health, anonymously.
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OK, the message is clear.
If you've access to confidential documents, and you think it a good thing to pass them to someone else, you are free to do so.
It's not "best practice" but go right ahead.
The Taoiseach, the Tanaiste and their parties approve this message.
DMs open.
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All public and civil servants please note:
The Minister for Justice says that leaking a confidential document should have no consequences, if:
A) you believe doing so is in the public interest, and
B) you don't personally gain.
Come on, folks, feel free - leak away!
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The Minister for Justice confirmed today that it's cool to leak confidential documents, as long as you feel it's in the public interest.
#LeoTheLeak
Memo to all civil servants with a conscience: my DMs are open.
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Damn, another dilemma.
Peter McVerry supports
#TakeBacktheCity
protests.
But, housing minister Damien English says they're disgraceful criminals.
I'll have to think long and hard about this one.
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My media colleagues hard at work getting the inside story of the UK election.
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Seems Séamus Woulfe got off on the basis he’s a bit of an eejit who couldn’t be expected to know anything about following rules. Anyone know what he does for a living?
Breaking: Susan Denham finds the mitigating factors in Woulfe's favour include:
1) he is a newly appointed judge
2) he has not yet sat on the bench as a member of the Supreme Court
3) He has not had the benefit of any introductory programme for judges
#iestaff
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Ah, Old Ireland, we miss ya.
There'd be no violence if we still banned contraception and divorce.
Heaven on Earth if we still kicked the crap out of gays instead of encouraging them to marry.
The good old days, when a husband still had the legal right to rape his wife.
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Housing protesters removed:
Publin Order Unit, in body armour, with faces covered, have nothing but lethal batons to protect themselves against ferocious chants of "Shame on you".
video
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Listened to Micheal Martin's cabinet briefing. Not a single rom-com quote, no reference to the doings of Orcs or Hobbits.
And the man calls himself a Taoiseach.
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More power to Phil Hogan!
There are lefties who've argued for years that there's a layer of people who believe they should and can get away with anything.
Phil's just trying to prove us correct.
Hold your nerve, Phil, baby!
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You look around at the hospitals, the schools and the housing capacity and wonder if the people responsible might be clueless clowns.
Then you watch this . . .
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Not a Cuffe fan, but this is not true.
His mother died, left him a share portfolio. It included oil shares. When he declared his ownership there was a fuss, he sold the shares.
This happened in 2003.
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To set an example to medics, the Dail plans to finish work on December 19, and will not return until 15 January.
That's eight days longer than the UK parliament Xmas recess.
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Siri, show me 8 seconds of a Fianna Fail headbanger demonstrating why the party got a reputation for arrogance.
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Well, it looks like we got over the "heroes" bullshit pretty fast.
Dublin Bus workers to be forced to take 10 days leave, or there'll be lay-offs.
And there's a rumour they want to get rid of hundreds of Bus Éireann workers.
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1.41am
Afraid to sleep. When I wake, Shane Ross might be Tanaiste, one of the Healy-Raes might be Taoiseach. Fucking country’s unhinged.
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Fair play to these people. And the deepest of bows to the Irish Examiner headline writer.
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In 1984, dozens of "peace women" protesting the visit of President Reagan were arrested and held under a secret law. FG's Monica Barnes TD visited them in the Bridewell and tried to raise the issue in the Dail. Almost all other TDs pretended not to know.
Decent woman. RIP.
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If he doesn’t want the “work” he shouldn’t get the wages.
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Michael O'Rahilly opposed the 1916 rising, saw it as his duty to stand with his comrades, fought bravely, treated the enemy with respect, calmly wrote a love letter to his wife as he died of his wounds.
Such honour is alien to the Ireland of greed that demolished his home today.
Early this morn the O’Rahilly home at 40 Herbert Pk was destroyed by developers Kennedy & McSharry!below is the letter O’Rahilly wrote to his beloved wife at 40 Herbert Pk as he lay dying in Moore Lane, Easter Friday 1916-Greed see no value in these sites of historical importance
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Most impressed by FF’s Timmy Dooley on Morning Ireland.
He’s shocked, SHOCKED, to hear of a politician interfering in a planning matter.
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To be fair, don't you feel just a small glow of pride that our councillors are so consistent in their ability to maintain low standards?
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Gene Kerrigan: And finally... Goodbye to 30 years of crooks, chancers and codology
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Dear
@MichealMartinTD
, have yiz any Protestant TDs in Fianna Fail?
Asking for a friend (of yours).
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Terrific debate!
@TonightVMTV
#LeadersDebate
Made up my mind.
I'm voting for that Yates lad - knows everything, terrific debater.
Anyone know which party he's leader of?
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Wow!
We should get that guy to fix the housing crisis. He might be able to fix the trolley scandal, too.
Whoever was in charge for the past five years hadn't a clue.
Leo Varadkar’s approval rating in the latest Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI is 75%
Seventy-five per cent.
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This, once you get over the foolishness of it, is actually quite sad.
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Dave, to be fair, it'd be easier to let us know when you won't be on.
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The infection figures say we're in deep trouble. Has anyone seen any evidence that we still have a government?
Yeah, it's Christmas, but y'know . . .
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So, our "white water rafting facility" went from a proposed €12m to €22m, and a sod hasn't been turned.
Is there a chance that when we've spent €57m we won't be told that the final cost will be €136m, but we can't cancel because we've already signed a bunch of contracts?
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The hard neck on Simon Harris, thinking he - as Minister for Health - should be allowed see a Health contract before Leo Varadkar was done leaking it to his mates.
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Not often you see a bigot’s jaw literally drop. To celebrate Roy Moore’s loss, 60 secs of a journalist doing his job.
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Great argument on housing from FG's candidate James Geoghegan. It seems that, over the next three years in government, FG will do all the things on housing they haven't done over the last decade. Convincing.
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Me too, Alan. Got so agitated I fell off my chair, sprained my back, haven't been able to sit on a barstool since.
My solicitor's on the job, the letter's on its way to
#RTEInvestigates
, I'm demanding a modest €50k.
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Yes, this is a fucked-up government.
Yes, there are anomalies.
Yes, there is unfairness.
Yes, the FF/FG parties are beholden to meat barons, and they allow the GAA make its own rules.
But if we don't respect the Nphet protections, we're fucking-up just as badly as FF/FG.
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Shane, his name is Rob.
If it helps you remember, think of how someone might "ROB the public purse to subsidise private schools".
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Rail workers, if they win, would be on €61k, yelps Ivan Yates.
He’s had a TD pension since 2002. Now 58, he’s on €75k. Plus massive salary.
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I love being outraged, too, but before I jump into this one . . .
Tell me, should I get outraged every time TCD waives fees for a student, or is it only the Muslim ones I should get annoyed about? Asking for an Islamaphobe.
This is a slap in the face to every Irish student paying their way through college.
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OMG. Just hearing on RTE News that Simon Harris is helping police with inquiries.
Meanwhile, Leo Varadkar has lawyered-up.
Word of advice, lads: Stay cool, hang loose, admit nothing.
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Varadkar was caught leaking a confidential document. The Taoiseach has an inescapable duty to remove him from the position where he has access to such documents.
I read the Village story. The only crime I see is taking 10 bleedin' tedious pages to tell an important 2-par story.
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