Mick Clifford
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Special Correspondent The Irish Examiner. Author of 'Who Killed Una Lynskey?', to be published in August:
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My new book 'Who Killed Una Lynskey?' is coming out on 22nd August. You can pre-order here now:
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Garda of the year
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The DUP, a party formed by religious fundementalists and out of step with their own voters in a small artificial statelet, today holds the future of a continent in their hands. Bananas
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Fair play to JP. Wish I could give my taxes directly to the GAA instead of it going to boring stuff like roads and sewage treatment plants
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White water rafting in a city centre? White water rafting in city with 3,000 children who have no home?
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Homes in Brussels Kilkenny and Kildare Who does Big Phil think he is? Pee Flynn
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I think Johnny you might find that it was a developer led bust that made Ireland look like a banana Republic. Lest we forget
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Why the witch hunt against Eamon Ryan for clumsiness? Are there agendas at work or is it just a symptom of where public life now stands?
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You don’t have to be a fan of Mairead McGuinness to applaud her filleting of that Brexit party blowhard
#rtept
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Not surprised Robert Troy could forget about a house or two. I’m dizzy just listening to the extent of his empire
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The Irish people? Some neck
Asked whether she believes IRA violence was justified, Sinn Féin President
@MaryLouMcDonald
says the Irish people were justified to stand against British imperialism.
Watch the full interview on View From Stormont tonight at 11.05PM on
@UTV
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"The reality is that from the mid-1970s the conflict was primarily about the IRA’s attempt to violently impose a 32 county socialist Republic on the island. The sectarian state had been dismantled by then."
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'So what does he do? Deflects. He points an accusing finger at one of the most vulnerable constituencies as if to say, “look over there at those people who don’t have a vote. They, not I or my party, are to blame".'
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Many thanks to all my friends on here who proved the point of this column, especially the lads who didn't even read it. Much obliged.
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New scheme for undocumented immigrants comes at a time when many countries doing everything to exclude immigrants. Pride.
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The pandemic has saved the Dubs. Everybody knew this was Kerry’s year
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Am a bit uneasy with Drew Harris passing on info about Big Phil to Taoiseach. Has echoes of Martin Callinan passing on info on Mick Wallace to Alan Shatter.
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So Bobby Storey was mastermind behind 2004 Northern bank robbery. What freedom fighting was that money required for?
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That’s twice today Leo V has suggested that Sept is synonymous with Dublin winning All Irelands. He thinks Gaelic football was invented circa 2011
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Who needs elections? Sign petition to create the next Taoiseach
Seán Crowe: We want Mary Lou McDonald as Taoiseach. We will not tolerate Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael - Sign the Petition! via
@Change
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Is this woman filling in for Alan Partridge?
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Says it all
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Michael Ring on Morning Ireland: ‘If they are going to put up the carbon tax…’ They? His party, his government.
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Happy Christmas all but especially the lost and the lonely for whom the warmth of the occasion feels beyond reach
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On RTE News Now it keeps coming up that Laura Whitmore was worried about spending time with her boyfriend. Mother of Jesus
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"Where did it all go wrong for Mick and Clare? Where did it all go wrong for John Waters? All three, in their different ways, made notable contributions to public life in this country, each coming from a position outside the mainstream."
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Have a lot of time for Joe but this is crazy. Never heard anybody blame nationalists
“An orthodoxy started in the south that nationalists in the north were to blame. If they had just behaved & not worried about civil rights everything would’ve been fine.
“Completely ignoring the reality of soldiers machine gunning people to death."
Sport Stories: Joe Brolly
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Brolly calling Spillane over the top? Ask Sean Cavanagh bout that. Dublin victims of media? Ask Lee Keegan bout that
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Cork-Dublin train packed to capacity. Is this sensible right now?
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Top reporting here
NEW: More than 80 people, including the Agriculture Minister, senators and TDs attended a golf function in a hotel in breach of public health guidelines just a day after the Government announced new lockdown measures to stop the spread of
#covid19
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Politicians of all stripes are on social media making noise about supporting teachers and gardai. Yet not one is saying public health advice should be ignored in this instance. Make a stand or shut up please
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End of the ordeal
Justice for the man who took on the law
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"There has been no outrage over the failure to inform ICHH in a timely manner that could have ensured Mr Flynn would have been removed from a position of power. There has been no thundering rhetoric, no calls for an inquiry."
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Trying hard to get excited about UN security council seat. Failing
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I wrote a column bout the Greens for today’s paper but managed to attract murders of Shinnerbots to whom I’m grateful for the distraction today. Two questions: Are they organised? Will they replace Leo Varadkar’s Comms unit when SF get in? Goodbye cruel world
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Please stop saying we are in lockdown. We are not. We are in disruption. Hyperbole feeds panic
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New AG advice on birth cert access interesting. Previous AG gave opposite advice. We were always led to believe AG advice couldn’t be questioned or departed from. Will be far more difficult to hide behind it from now on
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I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin’ about half past dead.
Has there ever been a better opening line in a song?
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Some Personal News: Despite all the bad shit right now, I feel good.
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Cycle this morn. Met 3 garda foot patrols and 2 mobile. If it was like this all the time there would be half the fear of crime that exists or the potential to whip it up
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Cheap shots here but when Tadgh asked to trash it out he runs away. I’m sending guy dressed as chicken to follow him round his gigs
The Kids are OK
A response to Mick Clifford's 'Rewriting history is an insult to the dead'.
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"By the time consequences are felt, today’s decision-makers will have left the stage, most likely to enjoy inflated pensions. Three examples from across public life this week illustrate how the system works."
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"Maybe the Proud Boys could tool up with their stickers, get together with the Pius Resistance and the LGB Alliance, and hire a minibus to go on a recruitment drive around the country."
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Is there a quota for SF reps of how many times the term ‘workers and families’ must be used in media appearances?
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It is a pity Gemma O’Doherty won’t get nominated because now there will be no scrutiny of her allegations of widespread corruption which she claims to have uncovered.
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"Even more defining of the difference between the old IRA and the Provos was how they behaved once the guns fell silent.
"The founders of the Free State, including de Valera, quickly adapted to democratic norms. They upheld and obeyed the law."
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President of the USA
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Iran footballers living under totalitarian regime showed courage today. English football with nothing to lose opted to bow to bullying pressure
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"The amendments are being rushed through to avoid controversy, negative media coverage, and the requirement to actually explain what is at issue. The result is that the role of the Dáil is being completely undermined."
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Mick Collins signed his own death warrant to prevent the destruction of his people. Rees Mogg and Johnson can’t sign away their egos to prevent a different kind of destruction on their people
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You have to have sympathy for the poor parish priest in Listowel who went on retreat and left Fr Sheehy in charge of the shop. Man will be seriously stressed rather than refreshed on his return
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Notre Dame is terrible but is the emotional reaction just a teeny bit over the top?
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BREAKING: Donie has been released from custody. He is back on Twitter.
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There he is, representing d’oul town only massive
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Michael Clifford: Developers are not and never were the custodians of common good
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Relations between govt and Netflix very tense
Peter Fitzpatrick, TD, today in the Dáil, expresses his dissatisfaction with the advice Netflix are giving the government on the
#COVID19ireland
situation.
#NPHET
#Netflix
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This is excellent, really insightful
Terry Prone: In 50 years, nobody stopped Eoghan Harris. That's our shame, not his
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"Out of this milieu and the challenges associated with climate change, a narrative has grown up. It’s all the Greens’ fault. They are imposing a ‘green agenda’ on rural Ireland. This infers that climate change is a pet project of the Green party."
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A spot on analysis of the revolting spin to which we are relentlessly subjected
Fergus Finlay: Bank advertising makes me sick to the stomach
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"Were Watt to be successful, he will be able to retire with a tax-free lump sum of €438,000. He would also be entitled to an annual pension until his death of €146,000, as well as his severance payment."
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Decent man fighting an indecent law
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I feel much better now that the AG has given me a lecture on how governance works. Who knew his job was more than providing legal advice?
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This is deeply dishonest from
@TadhgHickey
His contextualisation of rape was the prime example of what I was writing about. Contrary to his defamatory lie, I reported on his explanation. He is well aware that the remainder of his tweet is baseless. Hopefully the matter ends here.
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"A properly functioning democracy might concentrate on actually providing the services required rather than spending energy and money on defending to the hilt the failure to provide those services."
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These new regs are an outrageous discrimination against Louth people and in favour of Corkonians
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It’s a disgrace
Liberals want to evict an elderly, financially troubled Covid survivor and his family from inner-city public housing
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Does Declan Rice have any idea what he’s leaving behind? The craic, the fans, the COYBIG, the pints, the John Delaney, the long ball. Is he mad?
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If Leo Varadkar doesn't become Taoiseach it won't be because he's gay but because he's straight
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"The members of ISAG have contributed widely to the public debate on the virus over the last 15 months or so. Their big idea was to follow a policy of zero Covid in this country, but that ship has sailed. Since then it’s been gloom heaped on doom."
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This is brilliant. Comical Johnny
"GRA members did not falsify figures. [They] were told to elevate figures by ... management, and those figures were elevated thus."
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Delighted that A Force For Justice - The Maurice McCabe Story has made shortlist for Eason's favourite book of the year. You can vote for it here if you think it deserves the nod.
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Ah the Irish Examiner published all the best bits last October. The chairman retired early a week later. But fair move anyway
Enough chat. Because it's in the public interest – and because no one else will – we're going to publish the internal An Bord Pleanála report the state doesn't want you to see.
Unredacted. In full. In the next hour.
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Ironic that anti RIC stuff led by some FFers. Their founders attempted to violently destroy the new state which had received a democratic mandate. Ah sure tis all plain and simple
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Maurice McCabe: An extraordinary career and huge service to the State by illustrating wrongs in the force
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The headline I dreamed of since I was four.
Another Clifford wonder goal the cherry on top for classy Kingdom
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"Police in two jurisdictions have examined it in great detail, yet now we are expected to believe that filmmakers are arriving like the cavalry 24 years later to solve the mystery through investigative journalism."
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In fairness, hurling needed Cork to win today and in fairness to Cork they did it with buckets of Corkness
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We have a mandate for change. That’s a change mandate. The people want change. We are change. We will bring a change of clothes and some loose change but not small change. This change is big change, a mandate for change. We will change direction to change when the weather changes
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Now that Cork has won a medal let's hope the neighbouring jurisdiction Ireland can do likewise
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"Many accounts referenced feelings of alienation when they came south. They mentioned apathy and ignorance here about what was going on just up the road. They spoke of attitudes towards them in which they were made to feel less Irish."
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"Whenever a citizen — or those representing a deceased citizen — attempts to establish whether the State’s agents acted negligently, the response is to treat the injured or bereaved parties as opponents rather than citizens entitled to answers."
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"Let’s stop here to contemplate the collective psyche of the gathering of thousands of techies and politicians from around the world watching this unfold. An educated guess might suggest confusion reigning. Or, perhaps a question. 'WTF is going on?'"
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