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Ecosocialist. He/him. Very woke for an old bloke. Deputy Leader of the Intolerant Left. NGO rates. Double time on Saturdays. @pb4p @RuptureMag_ @risesocialists
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When you have an anti-immigrant protest but you didn't think it through.
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In 1951 Noel Browne tried to introduce decent healthcare for mothers & children. If he had succeeded it would have been the start of universal public healthcare. The Catholic Church, Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael attacked him mercilessly & ensured humane care was not provided.
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A reminder that the vast majority of women killed in Ireland are killed by the documented white men they live with.
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Wild to think Ireland has set up two systems for processing refugees. One for whites and one for people of colour.
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@carldinnen
The symbolism of this image is much different from what you seem to realise.
Utterly tone deaf.
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Canvassing in Tallaght actually
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I'm pretty sure this is the most depressing thing I'll read today.
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You can be a joyless Ireland is full prick...
...or you can be this
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CEO of Ryanair given a big chunk of time on Morning Ireland to tell the nation how we need to get back to work. I can't think of a less trustworthy source of information, but treated by RTE like he's a legit authority that we need to hear at length.
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SF bent to the far right and their popularity crashed.
The French left confronted the far right and their popularity soared.
Go figure.
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I'm in awe of Brendan O'Connor earning 245,000 a year for 4 hours a week impersonating a pub bore.
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Here's a few of the ten men sponsoring a right wing anti-abortion rights Bill in the Dáil tomorrow. Absolute state of them.
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I don't see how Kellie Harrington can be an ambassador for anything after that.
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Noel Browne was inspired by the launch of the NHS in 1948 when he proposed the Mother & Child scheme in 1951. If he had succeeded we would soon have had a full NHS. Never happened. Because FG/FF and the Catholic Church destroyed the scheme. And we still live with that legacy.
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Dr Mary Favier of NPHET on Morning Ireland making it very clear that our under-resourced health service is why we need to move to Level 5. We won't have the capacity to cope by end Oct.
Decades of neoliberalism has come home to roost.
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I worded it clumsily the first time
The second time: Authoritarian cycle lanes
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BREAKING: Emotional scenes as FG applaud healthcare workers while voting against extending rent and eviction protections to all local authority, approved housing bodies and Travellers.
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Ick. I work near Petit Cafe and got many coffees there. Not any more
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Imagine being in a political party who's biggest fear is poor people voting.
#DublinBaySouth
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Racists killed Josip Strok. The 'unthinkable' already happened.
Taoiseach Simon Harris has urged that warning signs around the abuse of politicians and public figures be taken seriously 'before the unthinkable happens'
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The first person interviewed on the RTE Nine O'clock News report on wage increases wasn't a worker, not a trade union rep, it was...wait for it...a vintner.
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Free public transport can be done quickly, reduces the cost of living immediately, benefits those on lowest incomes most, and reduces carbon emissions.
What are they waiting for?
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@carldinnen
1. A black man cleaning a statue of a racist.
2. Cleaning work is amongst the lowest paid
3. Black and Asian people are over-represented in low paid cleaning work.
But you got a laugh.
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NPHET: We're backed by science
Varadkar: We're backed by Mattie McGrath
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Any young women out there who have attended left-wing protests or live 'alternative' lifestyles, you are now suspects.
The spirit of Trump lives on.
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David McCullagh's interview wasn't brave. It was completely risk free for him. Lashing into the US Ambassador about Yemen/Palestine would be brave.
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If Brian Leddin was a Sinn Féin TD I think we would have a heard about it on the 9 o'clock news.
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*A couple of lads in California email a few spreadsheets with big numbers in them to a tax accountant in Dublin*
FG: Best economy in the world👏
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In a socialist society, any day in which the temperature exceeds 21C will be declared a public holiday.
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@BillyKelleherEU
The far left is intolerant of racism.
The far right is intolerant of other races.
Billy of the big brain: These things are the same
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So another racist riot.
Can we all please call it by its name this time - a racist riot.
#Newtownmountkennedy
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The biggest landlord in the Dáil is currently eulogising Pat McDonagh and explaining why young workers should work for less than the minimum wage.
Of course he is.
#FairWagesForAllAges
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Good to hear Catherine Connolly again calling out the nauseating hypocrisy of FG/FF on Saudi Arabia's horrific war on the people of Yemen.
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Thoughts and prayers with Leo Varadkar, stuck in a room with ordinary people for several hours.
#GE20202
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Roderic O'Gorman announces International Protection refugees (i.e. black and brown refugees) will no longer get accommodation
12 May
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I'm very happy to report that Jack Chambers has been humiliated by a left wing woman.
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A Government Minister just said on national radio that New Zealand having *one* new community case of covid is an argument against a
#ZeroCovid
strategy. I have trolls who are too embarrassed to make such a BS claim.
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Normal behaviour.
Worried about grooming gangs while reciting the world's biggest grooming gang's best known poem.
Ireland 📍🇮🇪
Protesters pray at
#Newtownmountkennedy
Ireland is a catholic country and it’s full get used to it. 🙏🏻☘️
#IrelandisFull
#IrelandBelongsToTheIrish
#IrelandOptsOut
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Varadkar: Events in Capitol Hill taught us the dangers of fake news
Also Varadkar: NPHET made us open up the economy
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If RTE did just a couple of days of coverage like this on what's happening in Yemen, the public pressure for sanctions on Saudi Arabia would be overwhelming. And that of course is why it will never happen.
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@AnMailleach
@TheSundayIndo
Racists and anti-racists are basically the same argues one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals.
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If you think what capitalism is doing to football is bad, wait till you see what it's doing to the climate.
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- Not enough teachers
- Not enough nurses
- Not enough farm workers
- 160,000 vacant homes
The Far Right: Ireland is full
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Why these people are the same - my column in the Irish Times
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Alot of the Independent TDs refusing to vote this evening to expel the Israeli ambassador.
Each and every one of them is a useless pos.
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We have a Green Party Minister for the Environment and a Green Party Minister with responsibility for asylum seekers and this is the outcome of their combined efforts.
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Dublin has 8 far right candidates for the European elections. Let's be like London and humiliate them all.
Only in
#London
, could a candidate called Count Binface beat a fascist candidate (
@BFirstParty
) 👏👏👏
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If you let immigrants into your community like Balbriggan did you'll end up winning national trophies, like Glebe North FC of Balbriggan just did, and then where will you be.
REPORT |
@OfficialGlebe
seal their first ever FAI Intermediate Cup with a 3-2 win over
@RingmahonRanger
in a dramatic final in Drogheda 🏆🟢🟢
📝
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Priced out of your human rights? Have you considered living in a shed in a field.
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The Palestinian flag will be flown in Leinster House next Tuesday, the day in which Ireland formally recognises the State of Palestine. The decision to fly the flag was confirmed by the Ceann Comhairle Seán O Fearghail following a question from TD Thomas Pringle.
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One of the biggest climate demos ever in Dublin and the Green Party was afraid to show its face.
Speaks volumes.
#cop26ireland
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Green Party members: We face climate apocalypse. We must do whatever it takes to stop climate change. WHATEVER IT TAKES!
Me: Challenge capitalism?
GP: Not that.
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Is there another government in the world with a green party component with a policy to *end* free public transport?
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The Irish Times not understanding Pulp...or the class system, is right on brand.
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The Lord Mayor of Dublin Dáithe De Róiste (FF) has lost his seat in Ballyfermot-Drimnagh.
#LE24
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In December Ursula von der Leyen got a standing ovation in the Dáil from Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, Fine Gael, the Greens, Labour and the Social Democrats.
Everyone but PBP. It wasn't difficult to figure her out.
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So Eamon Ryan is in favour of legalising cannabis
but is concerned that a vote for legalisation will be defeated so the Greens will vote against.
Makes perfect sense obvs.
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Yesterday he threatened escalating carbon taxes to make ordinary people pay for the climate crisis. Today's its ordinary people punished for his collapsing tax haven policies.
Donohoe doesn't get enough attention for how toxic he is.
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@JohnSimpsonNews
This is true. It was in the bar of the Merrion Hotel, a legendary republican socialist haunt of Ireland’s subaltern classes.
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Capitalism: Billionaires blasted to space and back.
Socialism: Billionaires blasted to space.
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If you remain loyal to your political party no matter what they do, you're not doing politics right.
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Drew Harris: the far-left were on Grafton Street this afternoon.
The far left this afternoon:
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Ten days ago you voted for a government motion supporting 'Israel's right to defend itself'. Everyone knew it would result in this. Own it.
Gaza is under constant bombardment
This is the Slaugher of the innocent.
No electricity, No food, No water, No medicine, No escape
All communication and internet have been completely cut.
The slaughter must end NOW.
#CeasefireNOW
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@gavreilly
@VirginMediaNews
In fairness the entire Labour Party membership has no memory of anything from 2011 to 2016.
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FG: Sorry for weaponising International Women's Day.
Also FG: Let's weaponise Protestants.
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The candidates for next Taoiseach will include a failed housing minister, a failed health minister and a finance minister who runs the biggest tax haven in the world
Be grand I'd say.
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Eamon Ryan is what's left when you start with climate justice and remove justice, and then remove climate.
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Breathtaking interview by Sarah McInerney. Let's Simon Coveney talk at length, providing political cover for Israel's real time war crimes. Then cuts Richard Boyd Barrett off after just one question when he wouldn't join in with the West's hypocrisy.
#drivetime
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Sinn Féin just voted to support a bad Government motion that backed Israel and abandoned the Palestinians.
PBP, Soc Dems and left Independents opposed.
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Data centres bringing blackouts ever closer.
And that's a helluva response from Cloud Infrastructure Ireland.
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Lots of RTE coverage of a Belarusian seeking refuge with the EU, not so much the refugees the EU leaves to drown in the Mediterranean.
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Alot of people need to hear this - the EU is the last hold-out against dropping Covid vaccine patents.
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I've got this inexplicable feeling that the EU may not do enough to prevent climate catastrophe.
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The mainstream is going to promote this toxic gobshite endlessly and then shrug their shoulders at the consequences.
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