Cormac Laffan 🇮🇪
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Est 1969, Wexford, Ireland. A 2 kid dad. Engineer.
Wexford, Ireland
Joined July 2011
"The most depressing, rage inducing thing I've heard in a while": Sarah Ryan on the Mayo Hospice for dying children that needs to raise €14m just to get off the ground, while Government sits idly by: https://t.co/OjGi9xTCiz
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Manhunt for teacher at centre of row over transgender student Read more🔗 https://t.co/KDhAI26XOW
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220 million Christians are persecuted for their faith. ALL media outlets in Dublin were invited to the launch of a report in this horrific human rights abuse. Only @griptmedia could be bothered. The others’ claim to care about human rights ring hollow.
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Something very strange is going on.
Unemployment is at its highest level since 2021, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). https://t.co/UoqfwdV7Bu
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Because we can only do one thing at a time. 🙄
Ireland’s focus should not be pensions for the old but homes for the young -
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Average Irish nurse emigrating to Australia: €92k starting salary + housing help. Average ‘doctor’ from Pakistan in here on a stamp 4: €400k salary in a direct provision clinic. Tell me again why our health service is collapsing?
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😂 Why are Irish journalists like this? "Mismatched to the moment.."
Simon Harris is not unintelligent, incapable or ill-intentioned. He is simply mismatched to the moment. And the moment is too consequential to be led by people who must learn on the job, writes Sinéad O'Sullivan
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I guess this is one of my more controversial views. I actually think a night of rioting was a modest response to what happened. I don't condone it but it was a reaction to an event of abominable evil In the US they burned cities for months for BLM and we clapped like seals at it
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The family of the young girl stabbed by a Muslim foreigner outside a school have released a their final statement. “The joy I see in my little girl’s eyes is enough to chip away any ache my heart carries,” the mother said in the post. “I do cry still, but not as often or as
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Christine Lagarde speaking to Simon Harris on the “introduction of a digital euro”….
🧵 Good to speak with the President of the ECB @Lagarde tonight on a range of issues. Very much look forward to working together. Grateful to the UK Chancellor @RachelReevesMP for contacting me today and we have agreed to meet in person soon. 1/2
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Enoch is on the run 💪😆 He should get himself down to the American embassy and claim asylum from religious persecution in Ireland.
Secondary school teacher Enoch Burke has not yet been arrested by gardaí, despite an order issued by the High Court two days ago, directing his imprisonment for contempt of court https://t.co/syfxrBUIz6
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The US State Dept Have Spoken About Ireland
US Administration speaks publicly for the first time on the dangerous and divisive Boycott Bill currently being advanced in Dáil Éireann. "This legislation is unhelpful virtue-signaling. It does not serve the cause of peace in the Middle East.”👇 https://t.co/IqeTFSPsO6
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Africa’s population has grown from 85 million in 1800 to 1.5 billion today and is projected to increase by another billion within a generation. That transformation would not have been possible without Western aid, medicine and technology.
africa is not underdeveloped it is over exploited! africa is not underdeveloped it is over exploited! africa is not underdeveloped it is over exploited! africa is not underdeveloped it is over exploited!
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CONTACT YOUR TDs NOW!
@Swee22523S89 @TheMandyGall Yes, Ireland can potentially exit the EU Migration and Asylum Pact by exercising its opt-out rights under Protocol 21 of the Lisbon Treaty, which allows flexibility on justice and home affairs measures. Having opted in July 2024, reversal would require a new government to notify
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These are facts that show you are being deceptive
Ireland's murder rate has almost halved in a decade and is one of the lowest in Europe. While there can be downsides to high levels of immigration, the claim that serious crime rates have increased as a result of immigration in Ireland is not supported by fact.
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