Cillian Doyle
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The Irish Independent in two pictures.
On the right is Mary Lou above a headline about TDs getting a 2% pay increase. Even though she returned it.
On the left is a picture of a failed FG candidate just jailed for fraud. But that detail has curiously been omitted.
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Taoiseach says the housing crisis "is too big for politics"
I give up
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From: "Ireland is full"
To: "Ireland is depopulated"
In just five days
Mother of mercy!🤦
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Reports that Irish aid workers are amongst those killed by the IDF
The Israeli ambassador should be expelled
The Occupied Territories bill passed
The state of Palestine officially recognised
Israeli forces killed 4 foreign aid workers with
@WCKitchen
- one of them British - and their Palestinian driver.
It should not take the killing of Westerners to prove Israel’s onslaught is indiscriminate.
Yet another atrocity Western leaders made possible, killing their own
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Gaza hasn’t got any schools left to close
Israel is closing schools nationwide over security concerns, military spokesman Daniel Hagari has said, after Iran threated to retaliate for a deadly air strike on its Damascus consulate.
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Can anyone explain why this wasn’t used over the last decade?
Emergency powers to be granted to councils to buy homes for Ukrainian refugees
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One more Vogue Williams article and I’m lodging a complaint with the Press Ombudsman
‘When you wipe bums all day you can’t really get an ego’ - Broadcaster, businesswoman and mum Vogue Williams on how she manages to do it all
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It’s pointed out to Stephen Donnelly on RTE this morning that the government have missed all their vaccine targets.
Not so says Stephen. Because these aren’t in fact “targets”. They are “estimates based on delivery schedules”.
So that’s makes it ok then? Jesus wept😪
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Jeffrey Donaldson was the chair of “the Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group”
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Leaders Questions today,
@LeoVaradkar
has his chance to set out the Gov’s view of Ukraine, and goes off on one about SF🤦🏻♂️
You couldn’t make it up
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Any chance of getting the Dart/Luas to run until 3am on weekends?
Seems fairly straightforward
Taxi fares look set to increase by approximately 9% later this year after the National Transport Authority (NTA) recommended a proposed hike in fares to reflect the cost of operating a taxi. Read more:
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Blinne Ni Ghralaigh carrying on Ireland's proud history of having been the first Western country to oppose apartheid and having long supported the Palestinian struggle
Feels all the more important today given the Irish government's failure to support South Africa in the ICJ
"It is becoming ever clearer that huge swathes of Gaza, entire towns, villages, refugee camps, are being wiped from the map"
Blinne Ni Ghralaigh at the ICJ in the Hague
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Every public service helpline in Ireland
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Israel’s membership of the
@UN
should be suspended
The EU should suspend its preferential trade arrangements
Israeli institutions should not be allowed to participate in Horizon
#Rafah
#RafahUnderAttack
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For context the Gaza Strip (pop 2.3m) is almost half the size of Louth (pop 140k)
As the most densely populated place on earth, this bombing is the indiscriminate killing of civilians
It’s a war crime
While you're being inundated with facts and figures regarding Israeli victims, 2.3 million people are currently being carpet bombed, men, women, and children
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WANTED: Information leading to the whereabouts of missing Tanaiste Leo Varadkar.
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I hope Fine Gael make this fella their next Director of Elections
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Leo's 3 stages of defense
Stage 1 - It didn't happen
Stage 2 - It happened but it's no big deal
Stage 3 - Ok it's a big deal but its time to move on
#nursinghomes
#LeoTheLiar
#LeoTheLiability
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Eamon Ryan in opposition:
No to CETA
Don't privatise Coillte
Eamon Ryan in government:
I love CETA
Sell the forests to Vultures
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Tommy Robinson your boys took one hell of a beating
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The reaction to
@JoeBrolly1993
demonstrates one thing clearly.
Just as these journos weren’t listening then, they’re not listening now.
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“Ireland is full”
Said the man with the empty head
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Whatever was left of the West’s “soft power” now lies buried in the rubble in Gaza
This is an immensely satisfying must-watch: extraordinary rebuke of Scholtz by Malaysia's Prime Minister, while standing right next to him.
"You cannot find a solution by being so one-sided, in terms of looking only at one particular issue and erase 60
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The Tánaiste really is King of the Smokescreen
Requests for flexible working arrangements can be rejected for any of these 13 reasons
His legislation is dead on arrival
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Israeli embassy implying Ireland is funding Hamas’ activities
That’s about as serious a charge you can make
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Not only the ESRI, but the IMF and the EU.
Oh and the UN has condemned the gov’s policy of rolling out the red carpet for vulture funds.
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There's a message here.
I just can't figure out what it is?
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"One person's rent is another person's income.
And that income deserves a tax break"
I'm Leo Varadkar and I approve this message
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There are 1,973 hotels in this country. 14 of which were selected as mass vaccination centers. What was the criteria for selection? Its too early to say. But having a party 'Think In', conference, launch event, etc seems to do your chances no harm. (thread)
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They’re both unqualified
Thanks for coming to my TED talk
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Good lord this is embarrassing. Interest rates are so low for European sovereigns because the ECB backstops them. Maybe you should look up Mario Draghi's 'whatever it takes speech'. Refrain from commenting Neale on matters you clearly know nothing about.
And why are borrowing conditions so good? Who was the party that restored Ireland’s finances and what did SF do throughout this process? Audacious duplicity from SF again with their alt-budget.
#Budget2020
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I mean who amongst us hasn’t been overpaid by €345k and failed to notice?
In other news, I still live with my parents
#ryantubridy
#RTE
#latelateshow
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Oh just send each other a text and spare us this contrived performative nonsense.
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Reasons for not building homes:
2008-10 Financial crisis
2010-13 Sovereign Debt Crisis
2013-15 Fiscal Consolidation
2015-16 Recovery just started
2016-20 Oh no Brexit
2020-22 Here’s Covid
2022-? Ukraine
What’s next?
The best way to get homes built is to get rid of FFG
War in Ukraine poses major risk to State’s plan to ramp up housing supply to 33,000 homes a year
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❌Tommy Robinson employs a former MI5 agent
❌Tommy Robinson identifies as a loyalist
❌Tommy Robinson was a former member of the BNP
iRiSh pAyTriOts = intelligence psyop
Chants of "Sinn Féin are traitors" as the public swarm the capital against mass immigration 🇮🇪
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2005-17 €118 billion was funneled from the IFSC to Russia’s most important state-backed & oligarch-controlled companies.
Serviced by the Big 4 Four accountants & top law firms here, but Martin never said anything.
FFG are the best pals Putin ever had.
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Is there anything to be said for revoking his Irish citizenship?
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To all the people I gave books for Christmas. Please note they’re due back in the library on the 14th.
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They’ve gone from:
“We’re not here to take part, we’re here to take over”
To:
“Taking part was a miracle in itself”
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The Taoiseach said today that we never bailed out the banks. The Comptroller and Auditor General’s report from last year put the net bailout cost at €41.7 billion, gross cost at €64 billion. Micheál just get in the dust bin....
of history...
and for god’s sake hurry!
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Kneecap are becoming the new Rage Against the Machine (as Gaeilge)
Our message to the British Government and a crowd of 25,000 at Reading Festival just now. 🇵🇸
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Question: Can a Commission President be removed?
Answer: Yes, from a successful censure vote by the EU parliament
Question: Has this ever been done before?
Answer: Sort of, the Santer Commission resigned (financial mismanagement) in 1999 just prior to a vote
This is the moment for unity.
This is the moment to join forces against terror.
And Israel can count on the EU ↓
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Tonight during a debate on Afghanistan in the Irish parliament, the speaker of the house tried interject when
@Farrell_Mairead
raised the issue of
@JulianAssange_
saying it wasn't relevant.
Mairéad set him straight.
#Assange
#Afghanistan
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And he says rent control is unconstitutional....
The attorney general’s €8.5 million property portfolio includes a Dublin house he lets for €4,000 per month.
He also lets a Dublin 4 two-bed for a little over €2,000 a month.
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MEPs by attendance:
Maria Walsh had the 2nd worst
To be fair to her she was too busy avoiding the Agricultural Committee to show up
Billie Kelleher was the worst
To be fair to him he was probably in Ukraine tweeting about Cork, or in Cork tweeting about Ukraine
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He managed to build a large property portfolio (10 rentals), and hold multiple directorships, but apparently
#roberttroy
didn't know how to fill out the below declaration correctly.
If you believe that, then I have a Blarney Stone to sell you...
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Cynical move by FG who hate Michael D for criticising Gov housing policy
Trying to weaponise refugees to score a cheap political point
Every time I think they can’t sink any lower the floor caves in and they plunge to new depths
Patrick O’Donovan, the minister of state for the Office of Public Works, has asked his officials to write to President Michael D Higgins about housing refugees in Áras an Uachtaráin.
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D'Arcygate
Golfgate
Zapponegate
FOI crisis
Fraud/false accounting in Local Authorities (RTE investigates)
CAHMS (HSE)
Leo the Leak
Reduced protections for Public Service Whistleblowers
ABP scandal
#TroyStory
Did I miss anything?
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BREAKING: Michael D. Higgins has challenged Conor McGregor to hand to hand combat with the winner claiming the Presidency of Ireland
"I'll flatten the c*nt in 2 seconds" President Higgins said
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A quarter of a century, that’s how long Sean Fleming has been in the Dail.
Government minister tells people to 'shop around' for savings instead of 'complaining'
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House prices back to Celtic Tiger levels
Bertie being welcomed back into the bosom of FF
Planning system (ABP) facing the biggest crisis since the Mahon Tribunal
The more things change....
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We were supposed to have a referendum on a right to housing
Instead we got a confused vanity project
Timed to coincide with international women’s day to try borrow from its moral appeal and give the government a boost prior to EU/Local/General elections
#Referendum2024
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Maybe it's time to stop looking at the decisions of An Bord Pleanála and scratching our heads, and time to start looking at it's Board and start scratching the surface.
Hundreds of homes at O’Devaney Gardens can now be sold to funds
▪️Veto on sale of 524 homes to a ‘corporate entity’ had meant they would have to be sold to individuals or used for social housing
#HousingCrisis
#vulturefunds
#ODeavneyGardens
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The lack of self awareness by FG TDs is frightening.
FG privatized the National Lottery and the company that took it over increased the numbers you had to match in order to win.
It’s privatisation in a nutshell. Create fewer winners and more losers.
Not something you see every day: a Government TD seeking an ‘urgent investigation’ into the “unwinnable” National Lottery.
In Ronan Collins’ day the odds of any line winning were 1,947,792 to 1.
Now they are 10,737,573 to 1 - five and a half times higher.
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By that logic, your position on the Oireachtas Israel friendship group calls into question your own objectivity
I agree with
@MichealMartinTD
. South Africa motives must be subjected to scrutiny. Its relationship with Putin & Iran deprive it of objectivity.
Calls for govt to join genocide case against Israel are 'trying to create division' in Ireland
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**Breaking** Leo Varadkar currently being pursued by the Guards on the M50
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Nov 28th: Daniel McConnell writes SF has “failed to maximise its numerical advantage” by “being outsmarted by the “likes of Labour”.
Nov 29th: SBP shows SF polling at its highest level ever (30%) and Labour at 3%.
No money is too good for that kind of mature insight.
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SF = bad
FFG = good
My column in today’s Sunday paper.
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1. This wasn't Israel, it was the Golan Heights - illegally occupied Syrian land
2. Those attacked weren't Israelis, they were Syrians who are excluded from Israeli citizenship
3. Is it likely that Hezbollah would attack their own allies?
4. The Israeli state lies repeatedly
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Under the Musk regime its almost impossible to distinguish between parody and reality
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A criminal investigation where a file has been sent to the DPP, described as a "row" is quite the effort at damage limitation
In other news, the recipient of the contract has been given a show on RTE, presumably to create a sense of familiarity/fondness for him
#howirelandworks
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I wonder who’s behind the coup in
Bolivia?
Is there any country with a track record of overthrowing left led governments in South America?
**Asking for a mate**
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The vast majority of these accounts have:
❌No profile picture
❌No human name
❌Large numbers of fake followers
Paid troll farms being used to try inflate the size of the far right
In the latest evidence of this hellsite being a racist sewer, the vast majority of posts about Newtownmountkennedy are coming from…. the United States.
Just 20% of posts originated in Ireland.
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Voters announce plans to get rid of Micheál Martin
Micheál Martin announces plan to get rid of triple lock which limits Irish military operations overseas
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The algorithms, I knew it was them.
Even when I knew it was housing, healthcare and cost of living, I knew it was them!!
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Right now on
@rteliveline
Joe Duffy is blaming Ben Gilroy’s horrible social media activity on Sinn Féin.
I’d say you couldn’t make it up...but it appears somebody already has🙄
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Thursday: Poses with picture of James Connolly
Sunday: Rules out alliance with other smaller left parties
Wednesday: Rules out coalition with SF
That only leaves FFG?
Maybe they should have stuck with Kelly after all🤔
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Looking at the policies of iRisH pAytrIOt parties is illustrative
Tax breaks for developers
Tax breaks for landlords
Lower capital gains tax
Disdain for people with dissabilities
So basically just Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael, but with added racism and more tax breaks for the usuals
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“We need to pay top salaries to retain top talent” - RTE
Concerns growing at Virgin Radio as Tubs' new show is struggling to attract listeners
Former Late Late Show host has attracted just 0.2pc of listeners out of a UK population of just over 67 million.
*Equates to 134,000 listeners*
#RteSecretPayments
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After they were founded in 1933 FG built the country’s first time machine to travel back to the 1920s to build housing.
Remarkable party.
Fine Gael were building houses all the way back in the 1920s apparently. I'd say the noted Fine Gael stalwart Michelangelo laid the first brick on every one too. What a plonker
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At this stage anyone citing GDP as a measure of Ireland's standard of living should be charged with journalistic malpractice
Study shows Ireland has the highest quality of life in Europe
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Sinn Fein in the membrane, Sinn Fein in brain!
Under Sinn Fein, Ireland would no longer be at the heart of Europe but on the edge. Ireland would choose to be outside the room rather than at the table. That would be a profound change for the worse
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There’s supposed to be this thing, a diplomatic convention, where ambassadors won’t interfere in host country politics
But I suppose when you’ve been violating international law, human rights law, the laws of war, and so on….without punishment…
Who cares about such things?
Soc Dems ‘strongly reject’ claim by Israeli Ambassador that deselected candidate faced ‘discrimination’ because of nationality
“The party attempted, on a number of occasions, to resolve issues with Ms Degani. Those efforts were not successful. Ms Degani was deselected as a
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The Sindo’s cartoon of ML reminded me of 19th century British press depictions of the Irish (sinister savages).
They were used to try quash support for Catholic Emancipation, Home Rule, etc
So to the lads at the Sindo...the 19th century called, it wants it’s cartoon back.
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Gov: "So what do we get for providing you with this 0% rate of VAT?"
Papers: "Even more favourable headlines?
Gov: "We'll take it"
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Latest RED C Poll (18-34 age group):
✅SF: 31%
🔵 FG: 23%
🟢 FF: 15%
🟣 SD: 10%
🟢 GP: 7%
🟠 S/PBP: 5%
🟢 Aon: 2%
🔴 Lab: 1%
I wonder what would happen if Labour got rid of Alan Kelly, stopped attacking SF & started working toward a broad left coalition?
Asking for a mate.
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Sending a shock jock dope of a DJ to Europe, on some misconceived notion that he “tells it like it is”, will have consequences
The Von der Leyen Commission’s transforming the EU in dangerous ways
We need MEPs working with others to oppose this. This lad is terribly unqualified
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Leo Varadkar: 'My legal advice says that I've committed no offence'.
Lionel Hutz: 'Don't you worry Mr Varadkar, I've argued in front of every judge in this country. Often as a lawyer'.
#LeoTheLeak
#LeoTheLiar
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She said Jews felt "unwelcome and unsafe" in Dun Laoghaire.
This is complete nonsense and offensive to the residents of Dun Laoghaire
Not the kind of thing I'd say if I was now running as an independent
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FG’s social media strategy in 3 panels.
Step 1. Advocate setting up troll accounts.
Step 2. Have troll accounts engage in trolling.
Step 3. Bemoan such troll accounts, declare Twitter a sewer and seek sympathy.
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Gyms should be moved to essential services to support mental health. Their contribution to outbreaks seems fairly minimal. Around 0.5% according to this recent HSE cluster report.
#LockdownIreland
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FGs most powerful Ministers tying themselves in knots begs the questions:
What leverage did Zappone have?
Whom did she hold it over?
How did she get it?
#MerrionGate
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Tune in next week; where Philip goes under cover to reveal how one Sinn Fein TD left the toilet seat up, and another was late putting out their green bin.
"Beware, beware, ye statesmen, emperors, and thrones, for the Skibbereen Eagle has its eye upon you!"
🤦♂️
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Younger voters:
"Can we please have affordable housing?"
MacNeill:
"Of course we can have nuclear submarines"
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It’s remarkable how “concerned locals” generally comprise the same travelling band of eejit agent provocateurs
And of course its purely coincidental that buildings burn down after they appear
#coolock
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RTE’s coverage of the elections has been so poor vs Virgin media (Gavan Reilly)
I say when RTE comes looking for it’s inevitable bailout…
We just let it go to the wall and nationalise Gavan Reilly instead
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You could argue Alison O'Connor has never written anything worth reading
You could argue we’re veering into the territory of just too much political excitement right now.
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This is appalling from
@MichealMartinTD
Is this kind of condescending whataboutery all he has to offer? Every time he appears in the Dail it’s the same old hackneyed routine. “But, but, but IRA!”
He’s a liability to the country, the government and to his own
@fiannafailparty
The Taoiseach
@MichealMartinTD
must reflect on his comments to me today.
I addressed him as a bereaved relative of the conflict, seeking a meeting with
@RelativR
as per a letter to him from 3500 bereaved relatives.
The Irish Gov is a signatory of the Stormont House Agreement.
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“nothing further to add”
By no stretch of the English language does that constitute a defense or even an explanation.
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