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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
Now that we FINALLY have a Minister 4 Education FULLY committed to Special Educational Needs can we please have da FULL & IMMEDIATE ENACTMENT of EPSEN (2004).
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
2 years
I will never as long as I live forget watching this man
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
1 year
July in Ireland
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
1 year
I'm so embarrassed as an Irish citizen. How in Gods name did we go from leaders of 1916 to this stain ?
@rtenews
RTÉ News
1 year
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has tonight renewed calls for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza in a speech to hundreds of his party members in Dublin | Read more:
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
Eamon Ryan is completely off his head. Local authorities struggle to house people on the housing list yet he thinks they'll be able to rehome people while their house is being retrofitted. Can someone drug test him please #clarebyrne
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
I've been awake since 4am with an autistic 8 yr old who's yet to receive any services since diagnosis and won't before April 21 (covid) I'm told. So stop excusing Eamon Ryan's behaviour, its bull. Give me €150000 and I won't nap
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
Just turned on RTE TV and no #BloodySunday50 . Why isn't it on TV?
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
Headlice reported in school, that social distancing is really working out.
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
My God our government should be utterly ashamed of themselves
@rtenews
RTÉ News
3 years
Hundreds of Christmas dinners have been served up by charities working with homeless people and those in need around the country. Organisers say this year has been busier than ever for them |
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
2 years
Anybody else absolutely exhausted from the rot in every single department, government politician & TD ? Nothing works properly. System is rotten & our vulnerable targeted every bloody time.
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
They get to socially distance while our kids and teachers are 30 to a room. Why do we allow this?
@caulmick
Mick Caul
4 years
They're Back! #Dail
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
5 years
My little man is 14 today, I don't know where the yrs went. Autism, almost drowned, burst appendicitis, sepsis, bullied at school by a teacher changed school an more an yet he always battles through. He's my heart + my fighter. Far braver than anyone in government
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
1 year
The Spanish really are leading the way, Where's Ireland?
@manolo_realengo
Manolo De Los Santos
1 year
BREAKING: Dockworkers in Barcelona refuse to load or unload ships carrying war materials for Israel. They join the global demand for ceasefire now. There is a growing movement of solidarity with Palestine with millions taking action against genocide. #FreePalestine
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
We have a Taoiseach who is openly hostile 2 MLou when she questions him yet rolls over 4 tummy rubs when #FG pull a stroke. #FF are at a new low. No integrity No self Respect No Dignity
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
Has Michael Martin blamed the IRA for the Russian invasion of #Ukraine yet ?
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
So if a man gets 4 yrs for claiming his dead parents pension & depriving the pension fund, how long does a government get for raiding the pension fund ?
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
2 years
School informs me small man won't have much support next September due to cuts. Why are the Department of Education cutting supports for autistic children in mainstream school when they know there aren't enough places in ASD classes? What exactly is the point of NCSE ?
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
Ban on selling baby clothes, it's an awful pity former #FF #FG politicians didn't feel da same about selling babies #RepealTheSeal
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
2 years
I give you Irish journalism & this is why we have the government we have that are never held to account & are given free reign on our national airwaves
@caulmick
Mick Caul
2 years
Fionnan Sheahan losing his sh1te with the artist Spice Bag for his work #TonightVMTV #HowIrelandWorks
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jean Coonan
1 year
The country is an absolute mess & this fella is off playing the big man promising god knows what while people with disabilities have no rights, little services & no supports in overcrowded classrooms.
@MichealMartinTD
Micheál Martin
1 year
Pleased to be in Kyiv. A powerful symbol to have the EU’s Foreign Ministers here to stand with the people of Ukraine. We will discuss Ukraine’s EU pathway, and ongoing supports. Ireland recently announced €23m in humanitarian aid, part of €210m in total support so far.
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
How many people in rural Ireland were given a 2 yr driving ban and then lost their jobs while #Cowen got 3 months ban on a provisional and collected expenses? #FF will never change and that's what people are sick of. 1 rule for them + another 4 da peasants
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
5 years
No matter what happens on Saturday people now have a very different view of Journalism and Journalists in Ireland
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
Does anyone actually believe a word out of Paschal ? They're destroying the Country #ClareByrne
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
5 years
God he really is as pathetic as he comes across
@christinafinn8
Christina Finn
5 years
Taosieach keen not to comment on the success of the Wolfetones in the iTunes Charts
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
Is there a better politician than @catherinegalway or a politician with more integrity ?
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jean Coonan
4 years
An attempted hatchet job that only comes across as either really lazy journalism or just plain bad, #bluehugh should stick to commenting on #leos socks. Mary Lou wins again The Big Interview: Sinn Fein, the IRA and me - Mary Lou McDonald
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jean Coonan
5 years
@Deisesupes No no no no no
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
Are journalists afraid 2 utter da words Criminal Investigation? #LeoTheLawbreaker
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
11 months
Dublin is stable 😂😂 I'm sorry 😂😂😂😂
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
2 years
Sinn Fein TD Eoin O Broin supported by every Decent citizen of integrity in the Country. Fixed that for ye lads
@sundayworld
Sunday World
2 years
Sinn Fein TD Eoin O Broin slammed after tweeting mock-up of gardai in forced eviction
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
1 year
34 kids in my sons class this year, at least 10 with additional needs and no SNA support. The damage this government has done to children can't be measured
@simonmlewis
Simon Lewis 👨🏻‍🎓🎙📌✍🏽
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
6 years
That moment you get the diagnosis in black & white but then you're told no services for 18 mths to 2 yrs. So you'll have to go private. Jesus Christ have you any idea the damage that's being done @SimonHarrisTD
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
Something very wrong when a member of the Defence Forces on low income isn't entitled to travel expenses but Millionaire TDs are. A system that values the people @morningireland
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
5 years
Says everything about this country, the unelected and completely incompetent over seeing the biggest crisis this Country has seen and #FF hiding
@caulmick
Mick Caul
5 years
Disheartening to see politicians who lost their seats ( Regina Doherty - Shane Ross) heading up a subcommittee to tackle the #COVID ー19 outbreak. #coronavirus
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
Oh shut up #Leo people can't afford to heat their homes nevermind buy an electric car & you could remove the vat on Electric & Gas. You choose not too @morningireland
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jean Coonan
1 year
Why is he admitting it now? Too much heat on Martin? Something else going on?
@caulmick
Mick Caul
1 year
The Ditch Woz Right Fianna Fáil junior minister Niall Collins has confirmed he knew his wife expressed interest in a piece of publicly owned land when he sat at a council meeting where it was agreed to put the site up for sale. Collins said he did not take questions in the
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jean Coonan
3 years
Who voted for Eamon Ryan? Absolutely painful listening #theweekinpolitics
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jean Coonan
3 years
@PaddyDiver4 @ScatmanJohn5 @paddycosgrave Walked away when #FG were mentioned, very strange
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
2 years
@ThomasByrneTD Pity you're not as concerned about ordinary Palestinians Thomas
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
Seeing lots of posts from stressed teachers SNAs Please don't get sucked in by media. There are alot of parents here who support U 100%.
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
1 year
I don't understand why it's these people being asked questions, ask the theatre nurses, and they'll tell you exactly what was going on, who was involved & who have the god complex in all these places
@CMHaughey
CM Haughey Solicitors
1 year
Maybe you could explain to me how a device, walked into a theatre that isn't packaged, and CE marked,- I don't understand - @neasa_neasa 'I've worked on building sites and you couldn't put a non, up to grade window into a building because somebody would stop you' #TempleStreet
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
Just heard of positive cases in a special school in skerries and still HSE + DOE not closing the school. Our most vulnerable children. It's time parents and teachers showed this so called government what they think. #COVID19ireland #
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
15 yr old was at da dentists 2 see what needs doing €3170 which includes braces. Anyone need a kidney? FML
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
2 years
Every single one of them that voted for this should lose their seat, especially the women. You are a disgrace & you don't deserve to represent any of us
@caulmick
Mick Caul
2 years
73 v 62 'Morally obnoxious' and 'callous' redress scheme passes #D áil vote - redress scheme excludes about 24,000 survivors – about 40% of the overall number by dint of the fact that they did not meet the six-month requirement. 🗞️ #MotherAndBabyHomes
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
#TonightVMTV is Regina Doherty seriously on defending #LeoTheLeak for leaking a confidential document after giving Shane Ross a right bollocking last week on radio 4 revealing cabinet secrets in a book ? #FG #FF #Greens #corruptcoalition
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jean Coonan
1 year
The sad thing is there's some who would still say that's a decent man, not right after hearing a child in desperate need of surgery crying on the radio or without a school place but still. He's helped destroy this Country & now he's talking reds under the bed. A disgrace
@thelittlegreen6
Little Green
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'I’m not into personalities. I’m into the policy of playing the ball, not the man' — Micheál Martin 🙄
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
So leo lied?
@DublinAirport
Dublin Airport
4 years
@BarbaraMcMahon8 @rtetwip @LeoVaradkar We don’t share any passenger information with any third parties. We don’t have access to such passenger information in the first place.
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jean Coonan
3 years
This data the CMO is talking about, where is he getting it? What data is saying kids are not picking it up at school? If 3 families pick it up & the only place those people meet is school surely the school is where it was picked up @morningireland
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jean Coonan
4 years
So #LeoTheLiar did receive emails informing him about information being kept on #autistic kids & their families but not important enough 4 him 2 deal with but a friend asks 4 a confidential doc & he's go go. Am I understanding this correctly? #RTEInvestigates
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
@RomanShortall Funny Hugh didn't comment when his wife was trolling @MaryLouMcDonald with comments about lube and riding but takes time out 2 attack you on behalf of #FG
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
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@caulmick Call an election, Mick. I've had enough
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
1 year
Jesus, there are people in prison with a better moral compass than most of our government
@wereontheditch
The Ditch
1 year
Fianna Fáil TD Niamh Smyth asked Cavan County Council to have unemployed people on a government placement carry out work on a site bought by her husband. Smyth's family home was soon built on the site, part of which was zoned for recreational use.
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jean Coonan
3 years
Remember this guy when your struggling to pay your heating & pay santa this winter
@greenparty_ie
Green Party Ireland
3 years
When changes to tax and social welfare are analysed, the results show that lower income households benefit the most from #Budget2022 . Here's @oliver_moran on @ESRIDublin 's SWITCH analysis and how progressive Budgets work to reduce inequality and build a fairer society.
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
TDs giving out about anonymous trolls & then liking their tweets. Says it all really
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
A minister for justice on the national airwaves spinning like her life depends on it. The @IMO_IRL need to come out + speak now.This is disgraceful. #SackVaradkar #CoalitionOfChaos
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jean Coonan
3 years
Its not #SF who have been facilitating Russian dirty money through IFSC is it lads ? #Newstalk @ShaneBeattyNews
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
Jesus is this true? Are the government really making that much?
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
Mickey Martin in da Dail waffling about balance while refusing to pay #studentnurses while raising da pension of a man who drove da Country off a cliff financially #oireachtastv
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
1 year
Another one ? Is there any of them not at it ?
@wereontheditch
The Ditch
1 year
An ex-Fine Gael TD and close ally of minister Helen McEntee sold a nursing home he co-owned to a charity he directs. John V Farrelly wouldn't say if his charity co-directors were aware of his interest in the deal.
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jean Coonan
3 years
Peter Burke thinks talking about what #SF will do will distract from what #FG haven't done over 10 yrs. Talking about vulnerable? waiting lists yrs long, no services or Therapies, CAMHS waiting lists a yr or more little 2 no respite. We see you Peter, hopefully voters do
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
1 year
@tadgh_byrne Yes, it is, but Isreal has said there won't be one. Isreal are committing war crimes, why can't he say it?
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
How is it possible as things stand with #covid numbers they're still talking about opening schools. How can you take them seriously?
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
So #FF are hands off on #covid hands off on #housing & hands off on health. What are they doing? #clarebyrne
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
2 years
Has WATT signed off millions on any other things we don't know about? That the government don't know about? Taxpayers' money not his own personal piggy bank
@caulmick
Mick Caul
2 years
Tánaiste, the secondment package that was created for Tony Holohan continues to shine a light into the dysfunction of this Government - @Toibin1 Is Robert Watt untouchable ? Will there be any accountability, at all, in relation to this ? #HowIrelandWorks #Watt #Job4TheBoys
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jean Coonan
3 years
He's actually a danger at this stage. Are schools even insured to operate in those conditions? That has to be a health & safety issue alone
@Orla_Hegarty
Orla Hegarty
3 years
“advice from « experts » is that fresh air circulating with windows open is the way to go (not HEPA filtration)” -Min for Health recommending schools open all windows in winter in 5-10°C Any international « experts » care to comment on this advice?
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jean Coonan
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Good job he wasn't caught without a TV licence 🙄
@caulmick
Mick Caul
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The former deputy chairman of An Bord Pleanála has been spared a prison sentence, following a successful appeal against the severity of the penalties imposed on him for making false or misleading declarations of interest to the State planning appeals board. Paul Hyde, 51, had
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
5 years
I don't know who came up with this but it's very good
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
The way the CC spoke to @GaryGannonTD was an absolute disgrace, rush out to the media, fit him better to do his job. What's he done about OGorman lying 2 the Dail about advice from AG he never got.
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
8 years
' If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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jean Coonan
3 years
Mickey Martin celebrating Irish NHS workers? Did I hear that right? Will he ask why they'd rather work for NHS than the HSE ?
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
@pocma81 @paddycosgrave @angiebeeb @paulthefroggy @businessposthq Probably should have done that awhile back. How does someone in his position think those tweets were OK ? No matter what account they were tweeted from? Clearly that's his personality so who that's worked with him has had to endure this?
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
Every single day parents are ringing some sort of HSE service begging for help for their children and completely ignored so what hope does a child like #Grace have without someone shouting for her. The system is rotten & won't change until its torn down starting at the top
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jean Coonan
4 years
They've bullied teachers & SNAs 4 weeks & now bullying doctors off twitter. #IrishGovernment
@Trickstersworld
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves
4 years
Anthony O’Connor is a thoroughly decent person and a credit to his profession. This Govt and their acolytes are an absolute disgrace.
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
There are 100,000 children experiencing food poverty in Ireland #100DaysOfChaos
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jean Coonan
3 years
Norma waffling like her life depends on it, she's been completely out of her depth since all this began. She can say health advice as many times as She likes She failed to protect children & teachers #ClareByrne
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jean Coonan
4 years
Allegations? 😂😂
@Independent_ie
Irish Independent
4 years
Joe Brolly taken off air by Claire Byrne over DUP allegations during RTÉ United Ireland debate
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jean Coonan
3 years
For god sake can someone please question the absolute shite spouted by #LeoTheLeak on an almost daily basis at this stage?
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jean Coonan
5 years
Imagine a woman making this comment about another woman and guess who she is, a sister of Mary Newman our Tipp candidate for #FG and Kate O Connell #FG . It's a mindset, these people really believe they're better than others.
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jean Coonan
4 years
@caulmick @DonnellyStephen @colette_sexton Was that a Whitehouse press briefing?
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jean Coonan
5 years
@ProfPayEquality @CardioDocMatt @JMNolan89 His boyfriend lied to the Country, put our health staff in danger and this fella joins Twitter to troll a doctor who has consistently advocated for frontline staff. There really is nothing uglier than a weak man
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
My coal man text to say he won't be doing the fuel any more. Well done to the #Green party #FF #FG
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jean Coonan
3 years
I sincerely hope these 3 parties are completely decimated
@irishexaminer
Irish Examiner
3 years
Low-income households set to get one-off payment to reduce cost of living
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jean Coonan
3 years
According to Norma covid is sneaky with all its twists & turns. That's her excuse 4 an education system on its knees. The woman who made the statement she was on the side of children. @morningireland does anyone have faith in this woman?
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jean Coonan
4 years
Sarah Carey tweeting "poor Eamon he is so tired people are mean" No Sarah parents whose children are on long waiting lists for services + interventions are tired but if they had Eamon's wages + expenses they could go private
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jean Coonan
4 years
I have waited for 4 weeks for an appointment for a CT scan after something suspicious seen on an x Ray and this fella expects people to believe our health system is fine. People who use it will tell you differently
@thejournal_ie
TheJournal.ie
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Taoiseach defends ICU capacity and says talk of a 'rundown health service' is 'overstated'
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jean Coonan
3 years
They have to go, they've destroyed the Country. Drove the Country off an economic cliff, raided the pension fund & now telling us they'll never fix the housing crisis. Why are they there?
@oconnellhugh
Hugh O'Connell
3 years
🚨EXCLUSIVE: The Government privately admits that the new auto-enrolment pension scheme is needed to help those who will never own a home and will still be paying rent when they retire Grim news for those struggling to get on the housing ladder
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
95 patients on Trollys in UHL yesterday & Donnolly on @morningireland telling us what he wants 2 do & what he's gonna do today 2 yrs into this mess. Both he and Reid have to go. This is a disgrace
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
#HowIrelandWorks And they just happened 2 have all those teachers phone numbers 2 hand ? And it was easier 2 contact them than patients on wards?
@paulofdub
Paul O'Connor
4 years
One of the most expensive hospitals in the country vaccinates the teachers in one the most expensive schools in the country where by coincidence the hospital’s CEO’s children go to school. There are all sorts of lack of morals right there.Did no one in that link stop and say no?
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jean Coonan
4 years
He's out of his depth + he's made the Attorney General look incompetent. How can we trust the Attorney General's advice now without seeing all if it each time?
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
Small fella humming in da back of da car. What are U humming? Come out ye black & Tans. Where did ya hear that? Uncle Ger always plays it in da car 😂
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
Can someone explain to me how the @HSELive can say we have capacity when people are on trolleys in hallways in UHL every day in a pandemic where you cannot stop the spread of a virus ?
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
4 years
If some are doing this in public what are they doing when they've people in custody? Can't help but think of families fighting 4 justice 4 family members who died in garda custody
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
3 years
Who considers this journalism ? Lifted da mood ? Really? Did it lift da mood of parents with children on never ending waiting lists 4 services? Did it lift da mood of carers ? NO it didn't & no amount of propaganda from da IT will make it so
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@jean_coonan
jean Coonan
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Yesterday they were apologising for people including the church stealing babies today they'll explain why we should gift a maternity hospital to the sickos. You'd wonder what the church has on #FF
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jean Coonan
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And there's the problem they all think they're VIPs, above the rest of us. FG are the Main reason nothing in the Country works
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Mick Caul
2 years
FG TD Paul Kehoe's refusal to apologise for availing of VIP hospitality from the gambling industry at Punchestown racecourse is 'hugely ignorant and disappointing' former Gaelic football star Oisín McConnell has said. 'two fingers to those trying to tackle the issue' #Gambling
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