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Dad, engineer, Christian libertarian. Interested in science, sports, culture, statistics, ethics, politics, history and probably in that order too. #ProLife

Dublin, IE
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3 years
@amnesty You never mentioned this when Canadians were protesting against Trudeau?
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@GeorgeTakei Do you think it was fair of a guy couple to travel many miles to find a baker to deliberately antagonise? Isn't that what the judge found?
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@esaagar @ConnorC94096361 @elonmusk I guess that policy is going to change under Musk. But was Connor being a bit disingenuous. Twitter took down everything to do with the Hunter story, not just the hacked documents. It seemed quite partisan in it's application.
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It shows a particular Dublin mindset to hear about a tragic explosion in Donegal and tweet that she hopes they find the 'culprits'. Incredible but revealing from @FineGael TD and junior minister Josepha Madigan. @rtenews
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A GP angry about the HSE's inept mismanagement of Covid tells @TodaywithClaire that there's more to than Covid and he's seeing delayed life threatening diagnoses because of fear patients have of going to their doctors. Claire sounds stunned that he's gone off narrative.
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@MrAndyNgo It's interesting that unarmed protesters who entered the Capitol in January are still detained in custody but a suspect in a mass shooting is out on bail!
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@amnesty Is praying quietly outside an abortion facility considered 'peaceful protest' by Amnesty or far right intimidation? You seem to pick and choose human rights to suit your own agenda.
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@WellingMichael I don't understand how it is morally acceptable to remove life saving equipment from one patient and give it to another based solely on their age. Is this really where modern society is at? This is where moral relativism has got us.
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Just back from Northern Spain. One building had #pride flags, nothing nowhere else. No buses, no trains, no corps, no bars, no businesses, no police cars, no gov agencies, no regional Govs. What has infected Irish media, Gov, and NGOs with this over the top #Pride2023 madness?
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@TomFitton @elonmusk @lwoodhouse @esaagar @Twitter @nypost Pretty sure there's some servers being cleaned up at the moment. Someone somewhere will inevitably leave something incriminating but it may not assist a smooth transition to dig too deep on past 'mistakes'.
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3 years
Hospitality sector seems amazed that the paying public don't want to have an expensive meal in a controlled environment where your ID is checked and verified, your guest list is restricted and your server is masked as though you're a biohazard. #COVID19
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5 years
Let's face it Irish politics wouldn't be any the poorer without: Simon Harris Regina Doherty Eoghan Murphy Kate O'Connell Alan Farrell Charlie Flanagan Josepha Madigan Noel Rock Timmy Dooley Lisa Chambers Katherine Zappone Ruth Coppinger Bríd Smith #GE2020 Make it so
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I see Ireland's proposed draconian 'hate speech' laws are getting a lot of negative coverage worldwide, even Martina Navratilova has weighed in. This is one international angle @rtenews won't cover. How can self respecting journalists be quiet? @morningireland @drivetimerte
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2 years
@SenMarkey Yesterday you were fine with Bezos, Dorsey, Gates, Zuckerberg, etc? Is it just that Musk doesn't finance Dems enough to be considered onside?
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@LeoVaradkar So there will be 2 types of citizens in Ireland? One, on presentation of appropriate papers, will enjoy more freedoms, that we took for granted 12 months ago, than the other. Even thinking about the implications of this are making me nauseous. High Court challenge needed.
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Irish Refugee Council says women and children are in danger in Citywest Centre. From whom, they don't say. It's not staff so they mean all the undocumented male asylum seekers that this Gov has allowed to enter but won't be called out for by media or NGOs. @rtenews
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This should be top news item and Gov ministers should be hounded by media about scoliosis cases. It is cruel and inhumane. @IrishTimes @NewstalkFM @rtenews @rteliveline @VirginMediaNews @EamonRyan @LeoVaradkar @MichealMartinTD
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Are @rtenews deliberately spreading misinformation? They refer to Referendum as removing reference to women's "duties in the home". There is no such mention in the Constitution, it's an obligation on the State not to force women out if they wish to stay at home. #VoteNoRef24
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3 years
It's interesting how @rte now reports on Sweden when it imposed some restrictions around Covid, still a lot less than Ireland's, yet ignored them when they were fully open this Summer! Can @rtenews not simply report the news without fear or favour? #COVID19
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@halftwottered Even if 99% of the population voted for mandatory vaccination it would still be morally wrong.
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Students should take heart listening to Paul Murphy TD on @drivetimerte . He's a prime example that a complete bluffer can make a successful career with little behind him.
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2 years
So Ainé is told by ESRI researcher that most asylum seekers are men under 40 coming from countries that are not suffering famine or conflict yet doesn't ask the obvious question as to why they're allowed to stay? To ask would obviously be 'far right'! @morningireland
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3 years
Wouldn't life in Ireland be so much simpler if people involved in the cervical cancer cover-up had been held to account and forced to resign or charged with negligence.
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4 years
#keelings So it turns out that much lambasted commentator Gemma O'Doherty was correct, @DublinAirport . There is no screening of incoming flights.
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2 years
A man who has been convicted of murder of a young man in Dunleer has been given bail before sentencing, meanwhile a teacher is being locked up indefinitely for contempt of court. It's hard to believe that contempt of court can be a judicial life sentence!
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@CMOIreland Outdoors: very low risk. How can anyone contract a viral load in the open? Summer: low risk. Weren't we here last year but without any vaccinations? All elderly and vulnerable have been vaxxed, do you not trust the science?
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@etiensyo @PeterSweden7 Why is Ireland with over 92% vaccinated and restrictions still in place seeing an increase in cases and hospitalisations?
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A week after 5000 Italians flew into Dublin from #COVID19 infected areas for a cancelled rugby match on unrestricted flights we have a spike of cases in Dublin. Thanks @LeoVaradkar @simoncoveney @SimonHarrisTD for putting open borders above the health of the nation. #todaysor
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So @EamonRyan is in Paris this morning to sign papers on a power interconnector with France which generates electricity from Nuclear power but won't countenance nuclear here. Is that not the height of hypocrisy? @morningireland
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2 years
@GeorgeTakei So you think Hunter's alleged corruption should be ignored because he's Joe's son? Isn't that the problem with US politics, that justice depends on which side of the fence you're on.
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3 years
@WHO_Europe @hans_kluge "Children contaminate their parents"! I doubt you could come up with a more offensive pejorative phrase if you tried. Are WHO still refusing to allow Taiwan be a member of your organization because China wouldn't like it?
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Two apparently healthy young Irish people dying soon after getting vaccine injections should cause CMO & HSE to pause vaccine rollout at least to under 15s until further investigation. @TodaywithClaire @rtenews
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When we wonder how we're in such a mess in health services in Ireland every Winter just remember Paul Reid, no medical services management experience, is HSE boss, Dr. Tony Holohan who 'dealt' with Cervical Cancer scandal is CMO and Stephen Donnelly is Health Minister.
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I heard on @rtenews that HSE are concerned about outbreaks of Covid in nursing homes again? These are institutions where almost 100% of residents are vaccinated. If they lockdown nursing homes again, what was the point of the vax program? This will happen every Winter.
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@Independent_ie "Two Kerrymen bought a baby" would be a more accurate headline. In some EU countries, like Germany, they'd be charged with child trafficking. Our media or political class don't want an honest debate about this modern slave trade in babies.
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@Gaintrust_us How will the Mediterranean move to the US in 30 years? Who gets to live in Italy, USA? How many people fell for this joke?
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No mention on @TodaywithClaire of @EamonRyan 's double bluff on the PCR test to let him travel to Glasgoy, rather than follow the rules and isolate for 10 days. Party on!
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@RBraceySherman Does it come with a jigsaw, a fun way for the whole family to put the dismembered baby back together?
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3 years
If Tesco, Aldi, SuperValu, Dunnes, Lidl are open to 60 or 70 shoppers and selling flowers, why can't florists who serve about 2 customers max at a time not be open? Unfair, unjust, not science-based just Gov control. @CMOIreland @MichealMartinTD #liveline
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@RTENewsPaulC @LeoVaradkar @rtenews That's coercion. They have no basis in science or Covid prevention. Pretty shocking admission and equally shocking that media let him away with that .
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@CFL68 @sentdefender @JP1958S One would hope that mass conscription might just be the catalyst for widespread protest in Russia.
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Austria has passed a law on mandatory vaccination, which seems illegal under EU law on free movement of citizens. Why aren't the EU Commission complaining about 'rule of law' breaches in this case? @rtenews
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@FergalBowers @ronportnoir @rtenews I don't remember any 'fearless' commentary where you challenged the Gov line on Covid. It felt as though you were simply a direct mouthpiece for HSE/Gov.
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@gavreilly A 4th dose of a 'vaccine' within 1 year is unprecedented. Even journalists with no technical/scientific background can grasp that the injections are not 'vaccines' at that stage, they're top ups and more study is required into their long term side effects for those patients.
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We have a media that condemn a priest for having a 30min mass with 10 socially distant parishioners in the back of a draughty church while it applauds thousands of virtue signallers having a mass rally in town. Lockdown enforcement is over when Leo won't condemn this farce.
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No kidding @IrishTimes carried half page ad with "It's not a choice if you kill someone". The ad was sponsored by a Vegan group with an image of a turkey. Imagine if Prolifers tried to get the same ad and wording instead with a picture of a baby in her mother's womb. Not a hope!
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It's hard to believe that euthanasia and abortion, which were promoted by Nazis, are now promoted by the left and to oppose these totalitarian measures is portrayed as 'extreme right-wing', especially by media. Who is pulling the strings?
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@KandaceSayadi @ArtValley818_ She tasted Starbucks coffee?
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@IrishTimes Except they don't, they want to change the world in their image and erase 'woman' as a biological female.
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@JamesTHooper @SherriGal @binarythis This thread is almost priceless, except for the creeping feeling that we have front row seats to the collapse of western society. In the olden days such people just had to keep their daft ideas to themselves and their families, now they openly seek affirmation for lunacy.
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This #GretaThunberg saga is getting more and more bizarre. She is being lifted up on the shoulders of 'Climate deranged' idiots. What I see is a young girl with Asperger's who needs help, others apparently see a Messiah.
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This may have escaped the attention of Irish media? @rtenews
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I can't support charities that don't support basic biological science when it comes to something so important as cancer. Biological men get prostrate cancer. Cosmetic surgery by men to look like a parody of a woman is simply cosmetic and doesn't change biology.
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Prostate cancer awareness is important to everyone born with a prostate. Men & those born male or assigned male at birth. A woman who was assigned male at birth has a prostate. We are highlighting that everyone with a prostate needs to get their PSA checked.
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The wedding party in Longford is a shocking indictment of the Irish State. Armed Gardai are unable, or unwilling, to enforce a Court order for the event to be cancelled. Meanwhile @gardainfo are arresting a priest for saying Mass for 6 or 7 parishioners. @rtenews
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In the bad old days shamed Irish parents drove their pregnant daughters to the mother&baby homes. In the new dawn proud #togetherforyes parents drive their pregnant daughters to the abortion clinic. Same misogyny, just wrapped in a new blanket of faux compassion. #LoveBoth
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Sorry @trocaire , but we will not be sending the boxes back. The Trocaire support by attending a politically motivated demostration about/against free speech is not where I expect the money to go. Nobody from Trocaire has apologised for their attendance.
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An offence to leave their home for Mass! @MichealMartinTD Very soon FF will wish they still had 11% support.
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The Irish State has clarified to the High Court that it is an offence under the public health regulations for a person to leave their home for Mass, other than for weddings and funerals #VMNews
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@JoeBiden Life begins at conception. Listen to science it's not a bad thing. I can't believe that has to be said.
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@PaulTreyvaud They could fix it tomorrow by refusing entry to anyone who does not have identification. Nobody can arrive in Dublin airport without having had documentation to board a plane. No passport, no entry- like every other proper country with basic border control.
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There has been comment about this on @rteliveline . If it is age appropriate material for kids why doesn't Joe Duffy or @RTE or @rtenews read out some passages that concerned parents object to? #LeaveTheKidsAlone
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On @RTENewsAtOne the @cmo is implying that the Antigen tests are only 50% accurate? Surely that is not correct!
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@BreitbartNews Pretending to sell worthless fake art for 500 grand is a great way to launder lots and lots of money.
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#GE2020 Time for Ireland's first 'Women's Pro-Abort Party' filled with the rejects of all other parties: Zappone, Chambers, Doherty, Burton, Coppinger, O'Sullivan, Noone, Mitchell O'Connor, O'Connell. What a list of candidates! #prochoice #repealthe8th
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@todowd @muirtheimhne @paulreiddublin @ICGPnews Are you publicly saying that you refuse to see patients based on their prior medical history? Do doctors get to pick and choose what illnesses they wish to treat in surgeries now?
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@Niall_Boylan No. Clear evidence from UK and others that it has a detrimental effect on young girls. Feminists should be up in arms about it but are too 'woke' to accept the truth.
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Seems to be a committed campaign to unseat the only visible Prolife Senator in the Seanad, Ronan Mullen. The level of vitriol and abuse leveled at him online is staggering, given the Caroline Flack tragedy only yesterday. @TwitterDublin really needs to do more! #BeKind
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@NewstalkFM This is the same guy who told a couple getting married to disinvite their unvaxxed guests from their forthcoming wedding. I guess, as a paid up member of the inner circle, he never expected the shoe would be on the other foot. #Tubridy
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Not sure why Mary McAleese's 'threat' to abandon her Catholic faith is news? Surely her faith is a private matter as we are constantly being told by 'right-minded politicians and media. The Church has survived 2000 years without Mary McA I suspect it'll survive 2000 more.
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On @RTERadio1 Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly got an easy interview. RTE reporter never challenged him on the idiocy of the Covid cert but wanted to see stricter measures for non compliance? Don't worry about the science.
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@IrishTimes @IrishTimesOpEd Kathy going to bat for Helen McEntee plays the straw man misogyny card. I think the Minister's record speaks for itself, both in Justice and her previous roles. She is wy out of her depth in office.
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@KittyHollandIT If The Book of Kells was destroyed in a TCD fire Kitty would be saying " I'm sorry, it's just a book."
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@loreillysf Why does SF pretend to represent Catholics in the North, when it despises them almost as much as fundamental unionists?
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@SimonHarrisTD @TodaySOR One would hope that as a highly paid Gov. Minister you would be at your desk trying to sort out the historic mess the Health Service is in rather than this childish twitter spat! Let's hope the people of Wicklow see what you are doing right now? #wicklow #GE2020 #pknt #todaysor
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The number of journalists coming to the defence of the embattled Minister for Health @SimonHarrisTD on the #ChildrensHospital scandal illustrates how little journalistic integrity there is in Irish media. Not one commentator takes issue with biased media handling of the affair.
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Ireland has a higher mortality rate than the US for #COVID19 but @joeliveline is asking Irish people has Trump handled Covid well? Trump shut down foreign flights and was called 'racist'. No fear Joe would mention Leo's handling or Nursing homes. Funny Friday already? #liveline
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According to @rtenews this is 4000 anti-abortion campaigners, although they did not use this group photo. Instead they used a photo of some marching through Belfast, meanwhile a photo of a few pro-aborts was captioned as 'protesters gathering'. Can they not recognise their bias?
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Anti-abortion protesters march to Stormont in silence:
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Holly Cairns is like a 5th class debater when she seeks to withdraw diplomatic status from the Israeli ambassador on @morningireland . By her logic shouldn't the Palestinian envoy be sanctioned too? It is hard to believe @SocDems are taken seriously as a political party.
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@paulmurphy_TD Amazing that there has been no outbreak in any indoor supermarket yet, despite the fact they've been open throughout this scam.
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@gavreilly Why don't you ask how Sweden are doing so well with less restrictions?
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@rtenews There's a shocking outbreak of 'far-rightism' among the population. I wonder why Irish people suddenly don't want to house mostly male asylum seekers, 70% of whom mysteriously lose all form of identification from the airplane to immigration control. Deport all the undocumented.
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It was notable in all the coverage of Sinead O'Connor, most publications chose older, more photogenic photo stock and avoided her more recent incarnation as a hijab wearing Muslim. It suited the narrative better and avoided the obvious contradictions.
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#marian So @senatornoone 's Abortion Committee was able to find doctors who represented the 2% of GPs who have signed up to provide abortions but couldn't find any doctors who represent the 98%! A bit bizarre, you'd think a free and fair media would question this? @rte @IrishTimes
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When the 'science' changes within 48 hours one does wonder at what point did NPHET realise that their policies were the equivalent of flat earthers?
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@AlanFarrell It's not good news Alan. There is no scientific basis for the discriminatory Covid Certs/Passes. It is a coercive measure that all democratic representatives should be deeply ashamed of.
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@KittyHollandIT A sad tweet showing that you can't appreciate great Gothic art that transcends your ideology. I suspect you are almost alone in your view in the @irishtimes newsroom on this, or else its a joyless hell hole.
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@JOEdotie Lynn Ruane gets away with slagging off another Senator and then the Chair, rather than calling Ruane to account, lands in with the same accusation. Then before the other Senator can respond she suspends the meeting! Farce! Only pro-aborts allowed to talk! @rtenews
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Sorry @cooper_m your interview with Peter Tatchell fell way short of basic journalist standards. Why? You never followed up on anything that Peter said. Very strange interview, it was as if you wanted to protect him? Are you a @greenparty_ie member? @TodayFMNews
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@mdmak33 @LeoVaradkar It is amusing that the Greens think the farmer is the problem and contributing more emissions than the multinational factory next door? @greenparty_ie
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@angela_mcgowan @rtenews Paediatric doctors have said it's RSV and it is a direct result of lockdown. We are getting two years of RSV infections because kids weren't interacting.
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@TomOHanlon17 @NeilRedFM There are people in Direct Provision from South Africa, yet thousands of Irish holiday there every year. Economic migrants are not refugees.
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RTENews reported last night that despite a pick up in off license sales, overall there was a drop in alcohol sales nationwide, yet it proceeded to interview two experts who told us to cut down on our consumption? Don't let facts get in the way of the story.
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@KittyHollandIT Wouldn't it be great if George Hook and Kevin Myers could have been so easily forgiven as the contrite Kitty has been by all her media colleagues.
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@MickBarryTD You're on the wrong side of history, Mick. In 10 years' time, we'll laugh at your attitude to biological women's rights on Reeling In The Years. I hope half your voters know what you think of them. They may need to be informed before the next GE.
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@NewstalkFM Maybe Roderic O'Gorman should not post ads in all those foreign languages he previously used to say "Sorry lads, the gravy train has run out of steam, go elsewhere."
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@LeoVaradkar A very strange tweet Leo! Are you so concerned about what the anti-faith @IrishTimes think that you can't even acknowledge that #NotreDame is first and foremost a place of worship, just as much as the Sikh temple you respectfully visited yesterday with covered head.
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@IrishInquiry @RuthCoppingerSP That's assault Ruth. And you are a witness. Will she still be invited on @rtenews programs, of course.
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@Michael_O_Regan What's 'zero tolerance'? You mean up until now you have been 'tolerating' the unvaccinated? Should we have zero tolerance on obesity too, after age the most reliable predictor on how ill a person with Covid gets?
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In January Simon Harris was unsuitable as Minister for Health. We held a General Election because of him. He is even more unsuitable to manage the #COVID19 crisis now.
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@MariaWalshEU Repercussions? He's a Catholic priest in a Catholic church, giving a sermon to Catholic parishioners. What's it got do with you? Don't you want separation of Church and State, or is it just when it suits you?
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@EndWokeness @Tamzilla_52 It's notable that none of her colleagues ask her to step back. She's inflaming the situation and yet clearly her 'known ideology' has other police officers afraid to intervene for fear of her wrath.
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