@DubCityCouncil
You've some cheek to be lecturing us on what's acceptable really.
This is the "cycle lane" on my door step every bloody school day at 3pm
Year in, year out
And you have the NECK to lecture on what's acceptable in public spaces
@ICUVua
@KramarenkoMari3
All due respect to
@JakeSullivan46
but lecturing Ukraine on corruption and reform whilst Donald Trump who mounted a rebellion against the constitutional order walks free, is a bit rich.
You can say "no we don't want war with Russia" fine.
But give over lecturing on democracy Jake
The hatred directed at Eamon Ryan is really quite something to watch.
He is by all accounts a personable and inoffensive man.
Maybe that's why people attack him ?
The perception of weakness invites bullies..
I am finding it very stressful the Shinners growing in the polls.
Their online trolls like to accuse you of being "FFG" but, I've never actually voted for FF or FG.
A "Taoiseach" who says the IRA was "justified" including the killing of Garda McCabe is no Taoiseach of mine
This is something to be proud of and BTW no EU member state is controlling the numbers of Ukrainian people coming.
Ukrainians are choosing Ireland because we're English speaking and have a reputation as open, tolerant and welcoming.
#C
รฉadMรญleFรกilte
On the day
@BorisJohnson_MP
is rightly being scalped for his covid malfeasance let's recall
@sinnfeinireland
had a whole Republican pageant funeral for Bobby Storey with uniforms and thousands in attendance at a time people like me had to watch our loved ones funerals on Zoom..
May Lou McDonald is
#NotMyTaoiseach
and never will be
SF represents the opposite of what this republic is
- A safe place for all, no matter what your ethnicity, religion or political ethos
- A place that has rule of law and due process
MLMD continues to make excuses for the IRA
@DavQuinn
"Russia needs to be forced from Ukraine"
Fixed it for you.
No more appeasement of the Dictator in the Kremlin
- Leveled Grozy
- Poisoned Litvenenko with Polonium
- Skripals and Navaly with Novichock
- Yushchenko with Dioxin
- Facilitated Assad in chemical weapons attacks
@JamieBrysonCPNI
It must really get up your nose to see Britain and Ireland co-operating like this.
Funfact most people in England and the South of Ireland have very little time for your petty sectarian squabbles up North.
Just saying.
@jonhenley
Ah yeah but they called it after Alan Turing, a man the British state - checks notes - tried for homosexuality - chemically castrated and drove to suicide.
So patriotism
@Antmidd1
As an EU/Irish citizen resident in Dublin I'll say no.
Highly presumptuous of Britain to think it can just swanny back in after the last four years of insults, problems and unnecessary discord.
You've made your beds lads.
@AdamBienkov
Why is it conservatives are continuously moaning about being "silenced" by "woke culture" and "political correctness gone mad" but when given the chance it is they who move so very often to stifle free speech and the right to protest ?
Big house Protestants are "the enemy"
- Wolf Tone
- Robert Emmett
- Charles Stewart Parnell
- WB Yeats
- Constance Markievicz
- Bulmer Hobson
- Douglas Hyde
Educate yourself to Leaving Cert Irish history level, you might find yourself less bigoted at the end of it.
@ArleneFosterUK
@rtenews
I feel quite sorry for you Arlene.
This is a nice story about rewilding and community effort. I literally don't pick up on the word Ireland except for mention of the island.
This obsession with tribe and flags is pitiably negative.
Give up your Owl sins !
@francis_scarr
@The_Moiety
I rather think its time to fully expropriate Russian central bank assets held in the West.
Quid pro quo $300 billion dollars should go some way to supporting Ukraine's banking system under kinetic assault from fascist actors
@MaxBlumenthal
Yep it is 100% credible that Zelenskyy who is Jewish and his Prime Minister who is also Jewish are persecuting Jewish people for being Jewish - not say investigating acts of treason and collaboration with an occupier - without reference to the religion of the perpetrators.
@UnderSecStateP
@ObserveConflict
Give them
- F16s
- A10s
- Abrams
- ATACMS
Ukraine gave up its Soviet nuclear stock for defense commitments from the US and UK
Not drip feeding just enough ordinance to just about hold Russia in 20% possession of Ukrainian territory
Is the US a country that keeps promises or not ?
@Antmidd1
We begged and pleaded for the UK to stay, gave every opportunity.
Actions have consequences. Out means out for at least 10 if not 20 years.
Incredibly arrogant UK needs to learn it can't treat the EU as a doormat.
You had a sweet deal, you threw it away.
Actions have consequences
Where you stand on
@sinnfeinireland
is Ireland's equivalent of the Brexit/Trump culture wars.
So far, the populist tide hasn't overwhelmed but, you only have to look at the US and UK to see how easily it might.
FF and FG are not my parties but, SF is not even my country...
@gavreilly
@LeoVaradkar
How is it right a person born in Eng, who never set foot here, and whose parents never set foot here but had an "Irish Granny" gets a passport but a child born here, who speaks primary school Irish doesn't because parents are not citizens ?
/2
Nobody wins in war & no serious person thinks Ukraine can win an absolute victory in this one. 1000s of civilians & 10,000s of soldiers dead. 1,000,000s displaced. For Ukraine to survive, for any peace to be just & sustainable, shrill jingoism & belligerence from the EU must end.
@TelegraphWorld
Yes.
Lets appease Russia with land. After all, when Putin threw out the post-WW2 settlement and declared Crimea Russian territory with the tank, the "brought peace" for - checks notes - a grand total of zero years.
"Peace in our time" is a cautionary tale, not a prescription.
@DanielJHannan
I was stopped three times in March inside of my own borough in Dublin by the police to explain my movements during the initial lock down.
But yeah Daniel - try to make some off the wall Brexit point.
After all its not like other people/countries have agency outside of Brexit ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
@gemmaod1
It's one thing taking action on constitutional grounds.
But do your "supporters" have to obviously and consistently break the physical distancing rules ?
You can be sure if the people in that picture get covid - they won't reject the nanny-state and its free medical care ๐
The number of comments from people wondering
a) What's the problem
b) What are you supposed to do
c) Insinuating that really cars have priority on the pavement/cycleway over pedestrians and cyclists
Is 100% predictable and 10,000,000 % depressing
When
@paddycosgrave
mouths off about his "journalism" and how his connection to the ditch is "completely normal" lets recall here is Chay Bowes - from the Ditch, illegally in Ukraine deep throating Kremlin balls
The influx of Syrian & Ukrainian people fleeing war into Ireland maps directly back to
#Putin
in the
#Kremlin
Putin would like nothing more than EU states like Ireland to collapse into nationalist dogfighting
#Eastwall
#Finglas
over a migration crisis he has deliberated caused.
When the Ukrainian flag flies over Ukraine's black sea fleet anchored in its home base of Sevastopol with Ukraine in NATO and the EU, I confidently predict Clint will not admit he was even the slightest bit wrong.
THREAD: Today, a time for choosing arrived for America.
A truck bomb has been detonated on the bridge that connects Crimea to Russia.
We're running out of time to reconsider our support for Ukraine attempting to retake the peninsula by force.
@pmdfoster
@hmtreasury
@BorisJohnson
@jeremycorbyn
They key takeway
- 98% of businesses will struggle to pay
- 30% effective tariff
30% !!!!!!!
Party of business ?
Conservative and UNIONIST ?
Bloody Brexiteers adding 0 + 0 getting -30% and claiming it's +130%
When truth is subordinate to feeling this is the result
@TheEconomist
If you count
- Not going to mass
- Not obeying any of the 'teachings' of the RCC
- Being vague on the commandments
- A la carte "Catholicism"
- Turning up to church for communion, confirmation, weddings and funerals
"deeply Catholic"
Otherwise... not so much
@Femi_Sorry
It's exasperating how rational argument is like water off of a duck's back.
Imagine how much more unhinged the Brexiteers would be without people like Femi to check their crap
We are now past the 100 day mark since Russian began its invasion of
#Ukraine
. Today, an examination why strategic patience is needed in our support for Ukraine to defeat the Russian invasion. 1/24
@DavQuinn
Not compared to
- Poland
- Moldova
- Germany
- Romania
It's telling all of this supposed "Christian intent" is a mask that easily slips.
What does your supposed saviour have to say about displaced persons? How about Moses?
Complete hypocrisy
@rtenews
If you're all over this declaring Michael D a "hero" ask yourself the question - if Uachtarรกn na hรireann was saying the exact opposite - would you be happy ?
It is NOT the role of Uachtarรกn to provide political opinions of this nature at all.
Well past time Higgins was censured.
@nexta_tv
But of course this means he cannot set foot in any country that abides by the ICC, he will be subject to arrest.
"Meaningless" except you know, not meaningless at all, quite the opposite.
@matthewdmarsden
Far Beyond Driven - Pantera
The Wall - Pink Floyd
Reign in Blood - Slayer
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Nirvana - Unplugged in NY
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient works 85-92
Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
Homerun - Hardfloor
Debut - Bjork
Homogenic - Bjork
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
@MacaesBruno
Obama unfortunately was a weak President.
- Didn't do nearly enough on Crimea and Donbas
- Laid down a "red line" on chemical weapons in Syria and then resiled from it.
Pains me to say it but, there it is.
@BrigidLaffan
@UnaMullally
@IrishTimes
Not just that but categorised Martin as "elite" .
Let's comparison to the alt-Taoiseach
- Went to most expensive girls school on the island
- Parachuted into safe Dublin 1 seat from Rathgar
- "Elected" unopposed after predecessor 35 years in same job
If that's not elite, what is?
Does
@WebSummit
have shareholders? How about an accountable board?
Using terms like "west Brit" and "castle catholic" in public would get the CEO of Intel fired.
Does websumit have no HR department, no corporate code of conduct?
Can himself just be as bigoted as he wants?
Iโm offering a โฌ10,000 reward for information that leads to the criminal or civil conviction of anonymous FFG trolls
DM me any info or ideas you might have on true identities etc
Literally all he tweets about is NATO
Does he have a mandate for that? Was NATO an election issue for the Ireland South constituency? Are Mick's voters lobbying him to spend ALL of his time on this ?
Nothing he says relates to Ireland, let alone his constituency.
So
#NATO
Boss
@jensstoltenberg
is worried about
#China
Military buildup in South 'China' Sea but has no problem with
#US
Military spending $800 Bn per year - more than the next 9 countries put together, including China + Russia. So who engages in the most Military Aggression...?
@hazechu
Can you give a specific example of which multinational didn't pay it's part?
20% of the tax take comes from multinationals
1 euro in 5
Intel ? Has put literally tens of billions through this economy.
I worked there myself.
Without the multinationals, we would still be 1980s broke
The irony is this fella when he "debates" Southern people is all about Ireland being "a kip" ruined by "FFG" which can only be fixed by SF.
But as soon as it's about a UI and a Northern audience?
Suddenly the "FFG kip" is a successful enticing place.
Hypocrisy much?
I really find this "Dame of the British Empire" stuff deeply inappropriate and disturbing.
Who else should be excluded from Irish public life on this basis
- Geldof - charity work
- Bono - music
- Senator George Mitchell - GFA
- Peter Sutherland
- Mother Teresa - Sainthood
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@RueDaungier
The HDF-2 diffuses itself after 30 days.
Stop just regurgitating the first thing you read on a Russian "new site" and do 10 seconds of Googling John.
Your argument on the Geneva convention is just as informed.
Which articles do you think it contravenes and why ?
I can wait.
@WarintheFuture
There really is no debate
The UN charter is clear. After the trauma of WW1 and WW2, the vile suppression of Eastern Europe in the cold war, it is beyond debate
Crimea is Ukrainian territory. Russia is a pariah for trying to use force to change that
Ukraine 100% justified to fight
@mdouganlpool
Personally loving Republicans on Fox news navel gazing about "Gwinnett county" in Georgia while their frog in Pennsylvania boils nice and slow.
Some day, we will get to watch a bunch of Brexiteers bounced out of office in the same way.
Almost makes it all worthwile
Almost
@LornaBogue
There's also the possibility and just putting it out there that being a vociferous opponent of the PfG undermines subsequent credibility as a minister in the resultant government.
Jamie Bryson tells Newsnight "I absolutely think Brexit is going to drive a coach and horses through the Belfast Agreement, I think that is a good thing"
@samagreene
@tanyalokot
My problem with the calls for negotiation and the defacto ceding of territory apart from opposing it in principle is, there is no interlocutor.
Russia doesn't want peace, it wants full and complete capitulation. It will not accept anything less than all of Donbas, Crimea, Odessa
@paulmurphy_TD
Maybe you should tell us under what circumstances you'd actually support ending the PUP ?
We know what you're against but, what are you for ?
Just when you thought Sinn Fein Nua was for fairness, housing, families and community, reconciliation and a United Ireland.
Matt Carthy posts a love fest for the man who shot Arlene Fosters father in the head.
Reconcile that.
Seamus McElwain was assassinated 35 years ago today. He was in his own country; those who killed him were not.
Seamus was an IRA Volunteer, he was a participant in conflict. But, he was also a son, a brother, a friend to many who is as sorely missed as all others who were killed.
@mdouganlpool
@CR_OBrien
If you had told a Big Lie - like 350 million for the NHS, like "Oven ready" - like "no trade border in the Irish sea" - like "nobody is questioning our place in the single market".
You'd believe you could get away with anything.
And... you'd be right.
@PearseDoherty
Meeting with the lady from the met office who does the weather on RTE.
Want to let her know just how I feel about this weather she's been delivering.
Too cold lady, ya know ?
๐ฅ๐คฌ
@samagreene
@tanyalokot
And in reality going right up to Transnistria.
The "realists" are having a conversation with themselves about terms which are miles off of the map.
If Russia achieved all of that logically it would try for Kyiv again.
It will try to push forward again.
@globalhlthtwit
And incredible number if born out. HMG dithering, mixed messages and laissez faire attitude criminal if this comes to pass.
Ireland 13 times smaller in population terms but UK set for 12 x our mortality rate.
Will the Tory press bat an eyelid ?
Nope it will be busy lionizising BJ
@ksorbs
Your beliefs are not required to validate an election result, that's what we have election officials for.
But if you have credible evidence that countermands the result, feel free to share it...
No ?
Of course not.
Gemma O'Doherty going off on
@hazechu
I stopped at "Pedophilia"
Look at it from another perspective.
O'Doherty is clearly not well. Probably she needs to speak to a mental health professional.
We should be reaching out to her and encouraging her to get the treatment she needs.
@DavQuinn
- Boris Nemtsov - shot outside the Kremlin
- Georgia invaded and occuplied
- Moldova invaded and occupied
- Ukraine invaded, occupied, raped, murdered annexed
There is no deal to be done with Putin's Russia.
Fascism must be opposed and defeated, be seen to loose.
@paulmurphy_TD
Hey Paul.
Why do you call for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador but, not the Russian ambassador ?
Putin is indicted at the ICC, Netanyahu is not.
I'm wonder what criteria, if any, you use to make these calls.
It "feels right" ?
@afneil
You mean like how British ministers are asked about "EU vaccine nationalism" despite the fact
- EU has exported 41.6 million doses
- ๐ฌ๐ง received 10 million from ๐ช๐บ
Yes those "hard questions" you ask supplied directly from Johnson's "ministry of truth"
๐
@NOELreports
- Return to 1991 UN recognized borders in Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia
- Recognize Ukraine's sovereign choice to join NATO and the EU
- Pay reparations to Ukraine
- Return abductees
- Turn over Putin and Belova for trial at the Hague
After that we can talk
@bctallis
Disappointing and not surprising in the least to hear
@OlafScholz
has "difficulty" with visa restrictions.
Facilitating Russians who want to leave Russia, should be done - EEA blue cards should continue.
But holidaying in the Alps or Rome while Mariupol smolders ?
Grotesque.
@DavidHenigUK
A really simple comparison.
Ireland 2% of EU population. Scotland 8% of UK population.
Which country has had more "say" over Brexit?
Tells you everything you need to know.
Devolution is "granted"
Pooled sovereignty is amplified sovereignty.
People before profit
"They will use the Gardai and Army to stop a left government"
Also People before profit
"If you don't like what gov does, then take to the streets and subvert their decisions"
I'll leave it to the reader to split the necessary hairs between the two
What the Dรกil does, the streets can undo.
Don't accept that it's over now the government won the vote.
Join
@CatuIreland
and resist your eviction.
Join
@COLCIreland
protest on 1 April 1pm at the Dail to evict the government - not the renters.
What is the neutral point between a Ukrainian child stepping on a landmine or not - and why would Ireland want to be at that neutral point.
Cut the bullshit indeed.
Clare Daly is a mouthpiece of the Putin regime. Both she and Mick Wallace are a disgrace to this country.
๐ฎ๐ช๐บ๐ฆ๐ช๐บ
Cut the bullshit. Whether it's a "training mission" makes zero difference to the reality: military support to one side in a hot war. Irish participation - in any way - in the EU Military Assistance Mission shreds our neutrality. Shame on FF/FG/Greens.
@richardtgarland
Whataboutism isn't politics
Why does the burning of the flag of my country need contextualising at all Richard ?
If someone burnt a Union Jack my only comment would be "that is wrong"
@TadhgHickey
Nope.
I'm 41 and remember watching the bodies being pulled from the rubble of Enniskillen. IRA actions were "justified" according to most expensive private girls school on the island educated Mary Lou.
Nothing more jarring than her D6 accent telling us plebs in D1 about d'workers
@Ray_Cooke
any chance you could stop parking your
@Wankpanzer
on the pavement in
#glasnevin
?
Really adds icing to the cake that these gigantic Land Rovers your employees park on the pavement have to be driven up/down the sight impaired pedestrian crossing.
Let's recall
@sinnfeinireland
and it's "leader"
@maryloumcdonald
calls IRA actions justified, including this one.
Deluded millennials need to wake up pronto. MLMD was 14 when this happened.
More than old enough to know there was no justification at all.
This day 37 years ago โ 16 December 1983 โ Irish soldier Patrick Kelly and Garda recruit Gary Sheehan were both shot dead by the Provisional IRA in Co Leitrim, during the rescue of Quinnsworth boss Don Tidey, who had been kidnapped on 24 November.
Kelly was 35; Sheehan was 23.
@cooper_m
If I have my maths right.
Ireland is at 148 deaths per million
UK is at 618 deaths per million.
Is this what
@BorisJohnson
meant by "take it on the chin" ?
Does the UK have the capacity to charge a sitting Prime Minister for treason ?