Extraordinary times call for great sacrifice and dedication. The staff at
@welfare_ie
have truly stepped up to the plate. Dealing with 10 months claims in 10 days, they have delivered money and help to hundreds of thousands at breakneck speed. Thank You 👏👏
Before giving out about NPHET think we should all acknowledge there are some who are still not adhering to bloody Level 3 restrictions or even social distancing for those counties on level 2 - let’s pull together and do what’s asked before what’s asked of us is too much
#level5
All good things come to those who ….work bloody hard and consistently for them. Congratulations to one of the most authentic women in Irish politics Deputy
@ivanabacik
well deserved 👏👏👏
I am delighted to have been elected as an MEP for Dublin. Thank you so much to everyone for all your support. I intend to work hard and repay your trust. Today I am in Brussels for meetings with the
@EPPGroup
and to get started on my work representing the great people of Dublin🔵
‘Celebrity’ seriously
@IrishTimes
The IRA supported by Sinn Fein, viciously destroyed lives, left communities devastated, killed, bombed, maimed, robbed and raped. Absolutely nothing to celebrate
With his celebrity cookbook, Gerry Adams continues to nudge his public image from scheming republican mastermind to avuncular eccentric
(via
@IrishTimesCultr
)
This is virtue signalling at its very best. Maybe start with something that would actually make a difference. There are 53 Data Centres in Ireland, 8 under construction and 26 with planning permission and do we hear a single peep about them? Sharing a few bags of turf though!!!
Given how much the country has spent on PCR tests and lockdowns (PUP and Biz supports) it’s a serious mistake not to give antigen tests free to each household. Have been asking for their use as an effective tool against Covid for months now
Attending my last Cabinet meeting in
@dublincastleopw
today - big agenda where I have 5 memos, so going out with a bang. An absolute honour to work alongside such dedicated and smart people in
@welfare_ie
&
@Deniseduffer1
@Swift1745
the privilege of my career to date 😊
7762 tweets stored on Holly twitter account - 694 posts stored on her Instagram account and more than 200 videos stores on her FB account - if you think data storage is a problem then maybe don’t be part of the problem …..
Data centres have exploded from 5% to almost 20% of our national electricity usage since 2015.
Their consumption almost matched the growth in electricity from wind generation in 2022.
And the government doesn’t seem to have any concerns about this?
This is not a drill - with less than 50 people in hospital with COVID-19 our balance of risks needs to be adjusted. We are loosing jobs needlessly and they will not be recovered.
#aviation
#antigen
#connectivity
Tilts Head.......a bit of respect to Prof Mark Ferguson wouldn’t go a miss, but mostly to the Irish people who are smart enough to figure out what’s going on here
Can I get some snake oil with that? It makes for a great salad dressing with a pinch of salt and something acerbic. Stay safe when socialising outdoors over the next few weeks. Small numbers, distance, masks. These antigen tests will not keep you safe.
Let this sink in - imagine our justice system under Sinn Fein. Sinn Féin witness consulted party over Aaron Brady case before speaking to gardaí
via
@IrishTimes
Honey production is undergoing a major revival as communities help save the threatened honey bee. Among the beekeepers is the country's youngest - Rian Somers - who is busily harvesting this year's crop at home in Rathcormac, Co Cork |
Arrived T1 at 4.20 for 6.50 flight. Big enough crowd but queueing system working very well. Through outside queue and security to arrive at boarding gate at 5.45am. Staff very friendly and engaging especially with tired children
#DublinAirport
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says she does not think there is an equivalence between attending the funeral of Bobby Storey and the event in Clifden, adding that “these are difficult times and the restrictions are difficult” | More:
I’ve known Leo Varadkar for a very long time but think he really showed his mettle during the pandemic when our country was turned on its head and he rose to the challenge and ushered in a sense of reassurance and security. Wish you the best with the next chapter
@LeoVaradkar
❤️
🛬 ADDED to quarantine from 4am on April 15:
Bangladesh
Belgium
France
Italy
Kenya
Luxembourg
Pakistan
Turkey
USA
Canada
Armenia
Bermuda
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Curaçao
Maldives
Ukraine
@VirginMediaNews
Not Giving
#Antigen
tests for free is nothing to do with money - listening to Dr Tony Holohan on
@RTENewsAtOne
it’s all about not trusting Irish people to use them ‘properly’
It’s not about sacrificing foreign holidays - the sacrifice will be jobs, connectivity, aircraft, economic recovery. 143k families are still living on COVID-19 income supports.
Judge said perpetrator had learned a valuable lesson - what lesson was that? That you can grope two women and get away with a donation to charity of €100. Is it any wonder women don’t report this type of crime. 😡
An impressive turnout by
@RecovAIRie
at
@OireachtasNews
today. They just want to feel the hope the rest of returning workers feel. Least we can do is provide a roadmap.
@IALPA
The Irish people are sick with worry for their safety and that of their loved ones and rightly so - meanwhile in Marc McSharry land his only worry is who will be the next leader of Fianna Fáil 😳 finger on pulse of the nation not!
Pre Covid 560K people would have traveled during same period. We continue to demonise small number of people 7K who have negative tests before they travel and on return and will isolate anyway. If we continue this demonisation we won’t have an airline industry left post covid
Thousands of people living in Ireland have continued to go abroad for holidays this month.
This is despite the Government advising against all non-essential travel
Startling new figures here ✈️
A member of NPHET suggesting that Irish People would be using butter and coke to get
#antigen
test results- to what purpose? I am genuinely at a loss here. It long beyond time that Government started a National Rollout of
#antigen
tests to ensure the safe reopening of all society
Had to post this as a video because words couldn't do it justice: Prof Mary Keogan shows the Oireachtas Transport Committee two antigen tests, one of which is 'positive'… in which the sample given was tonic water.
The initial clamouring for introducing MHQ has turned to critique. Too many articles in today’s papers to tweet them all but they clearly show that real life is complicated and we should have thought this policy through more.
No surprise but SF again voted against housing in Dublin tonight. Thankfully they were outnumbered and work will begin on 1,200 homes in Donabate next year. 20% Social 20% Affordable 60% Private
@FineGael
Trans people - especially kids - are vulnerable to lies, disinformation and prejudice. Primetime was bizarre. A complex and sensitive subject like gender identity is not best conveyed in a short on the one hand and on the other hand report...
@TENI_Tweets
@BeLonG_To
#SolidariT
SF take voting against houses to a new level? Called vote to oppose Affordable Housing Bill in Seanad, then refused to put forward any tellers to enable vote to take place so the bill passed committee stage. SF texting & making calls seeking instructions from HQ -very democratic!
The
@labour
have a Bill before the Seanad to introduce paid leave after a miscarriage or for time off to have IVF treatment. I’d hope all parties could get behind it and support it to make it Irish law
@ivanabacik
Have spoken with
@adriancummins
regarding the potential scale of layoffs in his sector, my department
@welfare_ie
will do everything to help hospitality staff over the days ahead and will be bringing further measures to tomorrow’s cabinet meeting
The courtroom was packed with supporters - honestly what is wrong with our justice system that treats women so shamefully. Calls for stronger laws sometimes leave you cold when judges don’t even use the full extent of current laws
Ireland has entered unchartered territory due to Covid-19. With increased applications expected this week,
@welfare_ie
will tomorrow introduce a new Covid-19 Payment designed to get everyone into payment as quickly as possible. More here:
@McConnellDaniel
Agree 100% So many jobs are on the line here as well as our connectivity The recommendations of the Aviation Task force have been ignored by government Aviation needs a government plan for recovery
We are delighted to welcome
@BrianSheeh
to Women for Election as our new CEO!
Brian will bring his experience in campaigning, advocacy and politics to the role, to continue our work in building a democracy that is 50/50!
With not long to
#LE24
it's time to
#CountHerIn
🗳️👏
I know we are supposed to concentrate on and critique current SF policy but sweet lamb of Jesus is anybody going to call out terrorists as terrorists or do we just sweep that under the carpet again ….
Sinn Fein supporters berated me yesterday for asking questions about this issue. 3 resignations and MLMD apologises that’s how serious it is. Q’s still remain unanswered - How did state have a Senators personal bank account details. When does ‘Earlier this year’ actually mean?
How is it Sinn Féin had to pay back €30k of public money to a Covid emergency scheme despite their offices being ineligible? How long did it take for this to be paid back? Serious questions to be answered
@bbcradioulster
1000’’s of airline staff on seriously reduced salaries, pubs closed since March and most business are hanging on literally by their fingernails. Decisions made in best interests of our people - sometimes those interests compete buts it’s always about people. Enjoy the break
It was *always* just about the Christmas shopping.
Like, it’s infuriating but for the entirety of this Covid we have had policy predominantly shaped by airlines, vintners, ibec, etc
This hate filled xenophobic bile shows SF not serious about uniting Ireland or its people - not even pretending anymore. It’s no wonder Unionists don’t trust them - now we all see why.
This is a welcome pause - a significant number of senators have real concerns about this bill. Too much ambiguity caused by lack of definitions
#FreeSpeech
Ireland's proposed hate speech laws, the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022, will not progress further until the autumn
Someone might tell Eoin O Broin that objecting to the planning applications of thousands of houses also has a delaying effect to the planning and deliver of new homes in Ireland. The penny might eventually drop
@FineGael
Govt has underspent its housing capital budget by €1bn since
@DarraghOBrienTD
became Minister.
At least 4,000 social & affordable homes that should have been built weren’t.
Thats half the number of households in emergency accommodation.
Social Democrat TD
@HollyCairnsTD
has just offered to be a permanent pair for
@HMcEntee
for any votes she might miss while on maternity leave pending legislation to allow politicians to take maternity
So Sinn Fein who can't stay in Government in the North and Fianna Fáil who gave us 450,000 people on the live register are teaming up to criticise Government's JobPath initiative . Hard to take lectures from those who fail to govern or those who governed disastrously.
‘A lighthearted video’ that mocked the 1000’s of victims that the IRA created. Imagine the outcry of SF supporters if similar ‘lighthearted video’ was made by the UVF
This is one of the most small minded positions I’ve seen in a long time - Paul may not credit the scholarly pursuits of his constituents but clearly doesn’t care about livelihoods of the 1000’s of people who rely on the hospitality and travel industries to support their families
When we talk about a recovery plan for aviation it’s not about passengers & travel destinations, it’s about the 143k families that earn their livelihoods from it. I few so upset for the people who have been laid off today but equally for all the others who think they will be next
✈️Aer Lingus has informed its 130 Cork-based cabin crew and other staff that they are to be laid off without pay between September and November.
📱
@rtenews
has the full details:
#cork
#corkairport
I want to welcome the Cabinet decision today to allow all children under the age of 12 be exempt form requiring a PCR test returning to Ireland as I requested last week. Will decrease the costs associated with travel for families and bring some parity across Europe
@RecovAIRie
A good day's work in
@welfare_ie
! New law providing Jobseeker's Benefit to the Self-Employed passed through its final stages tonight. From November, those who create jobs will have the supports in place should they ever unfortunately lose their business.
#BREAKING
: Health Minister Simon Harris is trapped inside his Wicklow home along with his wife and newborn baby by "anti-austerity" protesters. More on
@Independent_ie
I’ve been to plenty of cabinet meetings that were adjourned and reconvened as agenda long. The message this action is sending out is very disappointing and confusing to say the least.
Breaking: Govt sources say travel memo related to EU green cert is withdrawn from Cabinet agenda at last minute, as too busy with housing and cyber attacks.
Honoured to unveil “Her Surrender” by Sinead Guckian in Seanad this morning on International Women’s Day. The painting depicts Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell standing beside Padraig Pearse and General Lowe at the moment of surrender following the events of Easter Week 1916.
#iwd2021
Cringing watching DAA CEO trying to justify offering €13,800 salary to people who would be responsible for determining security access through our airports. Wrong on so many levels
#emplpymentrights
Whatever about subsidies, no brain cells were taxed coming to this conclusion.......Paying child benefit to all parents is a ‘subsidy for them to have sex’ – Fine Gael councillor
A teenager who seriously assaulted a man who remonstrated with a group of youths after a ball hit his car as he waited for a takeaway has been placed under probation supervision for a year
Delighted to announce former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern as a key note speaker/ panellist for our Sunday morning discussion at this year's Women in Media event.
This session will focus on "Brexit - "The aftermath a dream transition or a living nightmare"
In a year that has been like no other it’s lovely to still feel the optimism of the Irish. Hope you all have a lovely few days break and to those who continue to mind us and keep us safe Thank You ❤️ Happy Christmas 🤶 R x
EU needs to ban all flights into and out of Belarus until people who were effectively kidnapped today are released - serious reaction required
@vonderleyen
@IrelandRepBru
@EPP
At least we now know why she couldn’t offer direction on moving to a different level!McDonald left health officials' briefing after less than an hour
#Spinfein
Last week we saw the publication of the ‘most ambitious climate action plan’ Ireland has ever had. This week we are postponing our public transport plans
#MetroLink
🤔
Sinn Fein highlighting gender based violence today contrasts with the lack of support for victims of such violence by republicans. When asked about
@mairiac31
Michelle O’Neill said it wasn’t for her to say she believes Mairia - doesn’t really add up
The decision to not allow this lady leave Ireland is shameful- where is our humanity? .‘I am so broken’ – woman whose father died on day she entered hotel quarantine refused permission to travel home to Argentina -
As I lie down to go to sleep, my mind is disturbed thinking about the vulnerable people in the 28 care homes in the north where this deadly Covid virus has now entered
Don’t spread the virus -
It may not kill you but it may kill someone else.
EU Majority of 468 - 203 vote in favour today for "urgent request procedure on the Digital Green Certificate - Union Citizens" 😊 very pleased that our government has agreed to opt in to this system to enable safe travel later this year
@RecovAIRie
@IALPA
@ITAATweets
What an incredible role mode we have in this young lady for all our girls - such a bright future ahead. Thank you
@rhasidatadeleke
and continued success 👏 🇮🇪
What a race. Hard to believe Rhasidat Adeleke is just twenty one years old. What an achievement being Ireland’s first olympian to make a sprint final. Just outside the medals. Thank you Rhasidat for giving us all that excitement and proudly representing Ireland.
#rhasidatadeleke