Maurice McGowan ‘I never comment on Shane’s private life. There’s so much more to comment upon. His magnificent genius that I’ve had the privilege to have had custody over during the formative years’ Now there’s a Dad.
#fairytaleofnewyork
@katymcguinness
All of the middle class sitting behind their laptops ‘working from home’ trying to shut down businesses under pressure. Stay home if you’re scared.
@OisinOhAlmhain
Brakes not working again? Wonder what the cops would say to me if I drove into the side of a car because ‘I was looking behind to check if my way was clear’ 🧐 I hope you don’t drive a car if you apply your cycling technique to your driving.
@JohnOBrennan2
@theresareidy
I haven’t read this yet but Theresa declared that ppl voted NO/NO in
#referendum24
because they were ‘confused’ or simply didn’t understand (or were too thick to understand) the issues. When they understood them very well. So I might give her opinion a pass this time.
#Referendum
‘Care’ Article 42.B Not Human Rights Based. It Will Give Constitutional Expression to Patriarchal Ideology that Care is Exclusive Responsibility of Family - 98% Unpaid Carers in Families are Women & Girls. ‘Strive’ is Legal Opt Out for
@HSELive
& Govt-
#VoteNo
Wonderful women calling in who knew exactly why they were voting No/No. The absolute nerve of
@alisonoconn
& the rest of them who put the vote down to ppl being ‘confused’.
#liveline
@rteliveline
@FineGael
The shot of Dublin Castle at the end. This is what they’ve envisaged all along. Standing on the stage with their sleeves rolled up surrounded by ‘I fancy Roderic’ posters. Held by young ppl who can’t move out of their parents’ houses & buy a place of their own.
#VoteNoNo
My initial thoughts on the referendum, with added anger and amusement because I watched 10 minutes of RTE.
Short version: Claims that the public "didn't understand" are insulting bullshit from a political class that's deeply out of touch:
Hilarious.
@ciarakellydoc
Only ppl who don’t have 3rd level education voted for
@CaseyPeterJ
You’re a shining example of everything that’s wrong with Irish education system. Silly, silly woman.
#CuttingEdge
@wereontheditch
Did it occur to you in your rush to get likes & reposts that you might just have outed a dedicated professional (by the accounts of the parents who know him best) who’s being set up by
@HSELive
as a scapegoat for their failures?
@PaulTreyvaud
Msg from friend. ‘The town is on its arse apparently & this was their last hotel. 60 people have lost their jobs, bcos the government brings in their own people to run those places. There’s already a crowd in the old mother and baby home and they want to put more in the convent’
@BreegeHannify
As someone who voted Yes in previous 3 referenda but will most definitely
#VoteNoNoRef24
in this one. I wonder if you realise they’re different & you have a choice? You don’t always have to try to be in with the ‘In’ crowd 🙂
@RCPilkington
Only fair to say that
@olivercallan
is great on that show. But we all know that’s not the point. When will Dee Forbes crawl out from under her cowardly rock? She was happy to swan about the place but did a runner the minute questions were asked.
@MeredithHepner
I’ve avoided posting as well but this. ‘It was usually carnage but when I came down, she’d done everything & it was unusually calm’. Rang all kinds of coercive control/gaslighting alarms for me. See interview. Imagine if she’s still alive? What have
@LancsPolice
done?
@PaulTreyvaud
I fear many who’ve chosen not to inform themselves will be taken in by
@rtenews
reports portraying wimmin potwalloping & chained to the kitchen sink. So I wouldn’t be so sure.
Talking to a guy from Iowa this morning. Laughing at the obsession with Covid here. Life back to normal in Iowa & Florida where he holidays & has businesses there. Thinks we’re nuts.
@Glenna_lynch
Whenever I see reports on Ireland on international channels, usually with the usual suspects, I remind myself never to believe what I see on MSM again.
@Editorialz
I know about the rumours floating round about him, his kids & Ashling. The reporting makes me feel that a lot is being held back. Or maybe they just don’t know. Did his kids go to Ashling’s school?
@emma_okelly
@rtenews
@PaulDeighano
Aid orgs asked ppl to send cash. That most of this tat would end up in landfill. They don’t have the time or the ppl to sort stuff. Donate to the Red Cross or something. And you don’t need to post your generosity on social media……
Piers Morgan Has Received Totally 100% Real and Accurate Lesson in Geopolitical History From Jeffrey Sachs
ENJOY‼️‼️‼️
📑You seem very reliant on accepting Putin's worldview
rather than perhaps the stark reality of the
barbarism with which he's executed this war.
Yeah, maybe
@Glenna_lynch
I second that. In a nutshell. And it was the desperation of FF/FG to stay in power & keep the Shinners out which led to them caving to every
@greenparty_ie
demand. Zealots given key ministries to manipulate. & worse, tampering with our Constitution to enshrine their ideologies.
@jonathan_mccrea
We’ve entered a terribly authoritarian, humourless period courtesy of environmentalists. Not sure life will be worth living any under their dictatorship. Gaybo flew back & forward every week between Granada & RTÉ & he changed Ireland 🙏
@Editorialz
My sister said to me ‘Imagine the two of us landing in say, Karachi, & going up for election within 2 weeks??’ Where do you get that kind of confidence? Wartorn or not.
@MeredithHepner
@LancsPolice
She got her kids up & out for school. Dog in car for walk. Emailed her boss. Texted friend to arrange play date. Logged in to work meeting. And
@LancsPolice
are trying to tell us she threw herself in the river after that? Has any cop spoken to her kids? Alone.
Let’s put
@campaignforleo
‘s tweet in context. “Enda Kenny to get €378,000 lump sum and pension of €126,000 a year for the rest of his life”
@off_the_cuff_IE
Do you know a pensioner who lives alone and gets the fuel allowance? They will be entitled to the new Telephone Allowance: it's not a lot of money (€2.50) but it adds up to €130 a year and about 120k people will benefit. Payments start this week. More at
@jasonomahony
That’s actually not what Ryan Casey said. Somebody paraphrased it. As reported by
@rte
& Paul Reynolds at lunchtime, this is part of what he said. And after this, maybe leave the guy & the family alone?
@NewstalkFM
@NTBreakfast
We’re coming down with Leftie ‘Doctors’. Basically ppl who spent all their lives in college gathering pretendy qualifications because real business had no place for them. Remove your beady eyes & sticky paws from my income & property
@lorcansirr
@danwootton
@MailOnline
‘a creaking health system with less than 200 intensive care beds to service five million citizens’ Has she got around to doing anything about this or just too busy virtue signalling? Are the adoring populace asking any questions about it?
@mullally_elaine
We put this guy in a position where he invited half the world in with a promise of own door accommodation within 4 months. This is all he thinks about. Ready for the next election?
⛽️ The US prioritizes acquiring, possessing and controlling the Earth's wealth at all costs, even if the price is innocent lives and children.
With one word, Biden can stop the war in Gaza, but his ambition for gas and oil in the Gaza Sea makes him a warlord and indifferent to
🇮🇱🇵🇸 The trauma of being captive for 50 days for a 9 years old girl suffering lack of food
Emily Hand's step sister told about changes in Emily after her return.
+ See how the Palestinians manipulated that video
(Next comment, you'll be amazed!) 👇
@ExCllrRedmond
@OHanlonEilis
‘Pauline O’Reilly received a grand total of around 80 votes.
That’s fewer people that can fit on a double-decker Dublin Bus — but on that basis she claims the right to restrict Irish people’s basic freedoms of expression, according to her own definition of the common good.’
@Editorialz
‘If some Nigerian turns up at my door, I've only got two questions to ask. How long have you been here, and what makes you think you can run this country when we're quite capable of making a sh!t of it ourselves?’ About time someone said it. Spot on.
@rtenews
Would these be the workers forced out of Dublin because of lack of housing & crazy rents, who work in Dublin so have to arrange childcare where they live & then commute up to 100 miles return trip each day? And
@greenparty_ie
think they can use reliable public transport?
@POTUS
"Don't worry, I'm Muslim, we won't hurt you" Hamas warriors said.
They even asked permission before eating a banana.
Hamas cares more about the Prisoners of War than Israel, so far Israel murdered 20+ Israelis
I presume
#CarbonTax
will go into the central pot like all the rest of the taxes to be squandered & poured down the drain. It’s a money grabbing scam and we’re clowns to fall for it.
#Liveline
@SocDems
@HollyCairnsTD
They’d kill to get their kids into Catholic schools in the UK. Be careful what you wish for & think before you throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Jesus. Another horror story of baby dying with fractured skull & brain injury following botched forceps delivery at Our Lady of Lourdes Drogheda. In the country they keep telling us is one of the safest in which to give birth. Steady procession of these cases.
#liveline
.
#rtenews
I’d consider myself fairly right of centre. But I’m flummoxed at the Right’s boot licking support of Israel & their repeat of their own history in the horrors they impose on Palestinians. Can anyone explain it?
@john_mcguirk
People like
@SineadOCarroll
like to talk of how oppressive Irish society was back in the day and how we’ve moved on. She is now front & centre of a whole new type of oppression & the sad thing is, she can’t even recognise it for what it is.
@stevensgreen1
Greens should stay far away from anything to do with cars & stick to bikes. You incentivised me to buy a diesel car & it’s still going strong. Passes emissions test at NCT every time but I pay multiples in tax of what a car 1 yr younger wd cost bcos of an arbitrary age cut off.
‘Care’ Ireland 2024! -HSE Tell Me ‘Your Daughter Can Look After Your Son When You Die’
@HSELive
Refuses Adequate Care Supports for
#Disabled
Citizens & Carers. 98% Unpaid Family Carers are Women/Girls. Govt’s
#Referendum
Article 42.B Gives Constitutional Indemnity to HSE -Vote NO
@MichaelsCoDub
The Fisherman’s Arms near Penzance tweeted recently about this lot who did a runner without paying. And they tracked them down. Hoping you’ll have similar success.
@LauraHoganTV
@rtenews
Lay the blame for this at the feet of our medico/science ‘leaders’ & their lockdown tunnel vision that destroyed business. Same everywhere - they can’t get staff.