David Quinn
@DavQuinn
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Columnist, Sunday Independent/Irish Catholic. Commentator on society, religion and politics since 1994. Beware of a consensus.
Joined March 2010
Question: the Kurds lack a homeland and are attacked from all sides. Why aren't they a fashionable left-wing cause?.
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Does Ireland properly understand how bad its reputation has become with Jews all over the world?.
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The footage coming out of Gaza over the last few days shows very little evidence of widespread famine. Were such reports, in fact, fake news?.
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Ireland only recognised Israel in 1963. It took until 1996 for us to open an embassy in Israel. We put the worst interpretation on everything Israel does and almost never see the Israeli point of view. We constantly criticise Israel. But note well, we are not anti-Israeli!.
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Good to see one newspaper (@Independent_ie) not beating about the bush with its headline today.
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John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten): "Hamas are basically just Jew exterminators, that’s their only real purpose".
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We are now down to fewer than 600 Covid-related cases in hospital. This big reduction happened without any new public health measures being forced on us, a fact that cannot be repeated often enough.
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Why do we always assume that we might see a return of fascism but never communism?.
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Strong words from Ashling Murphy's boyfriend: "I feel like this country is no longer the country that Ashling and I grew up in and has officially lost its innocence when a crime of this magnitude can be perpetrated in broad daylight. This country needs to wake up. This time,.
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If we don't get our boosters will we eventually be barred from many areas of society like the current unvaccinated? Will we keep having to get boosters every six months?.
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A lot of media analysis following the stabbing of the priest has focused on. the far-right, not Islamism. That is epic gas-lighting.
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Ireland is surely the most anti-Israeli country in Europe and our tiny Jewish community has felt isolated ever since Oct 7. Jews are the minority modern Ireland seems happy to forget. (My @TheSundayIndo column). @Alan__Shatter @RachelMoiselle
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Harris needs a serious reality check. Ireland has one of the most anti-Israeli political cultures in the whole of Europe, if not the most. Maybe Harris is worrying that US investors and Trump are taking note.
This is a deeply regrettable decision from the Netanyahu government. I utterly reject the assertion that Ireland is anti-Israel. Ireland is pro-peace, pro-human rights and pro-International law.
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Wow. "The Office for Budget Responsibility calculates that a low-skilled migrant by the age of 80 will, on average, have cost the taxpayer £582k and low-wage migration in general will end up producing a net fiscal cost running into the tens of billions.".
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We are still waiting to find out the identity of the "gangs of men" who rape girls in State care, just like in Rochdale etc. The lack of political and media curiosity about this is a scandal in its own right.
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Half of people who attended a Christmas party in Norway have now tested positive for Covid. Only vaccinated people were allowed in. Let's face it, most of us are going to get Covid eventually.
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Italy has one of the most revolting vaccine laws anywhere. Basically, you cannot work unless vaccinated or get tested every two days. The EU loves to challenge the likes of Hungary but this not terrible public health authoritarianism.
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Stephen Donnelly looks set to lose his seat. That is excellent news.
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A genuinely pro-child society does not vaccinate small children against a disease that poses almost no risk to them, makes them wear masks in school, and encourages them to put their social lives on hold again.
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Simon Harris says "Ireland will always speak up for human rights and in international law". This is total, hypocritical nonsense. We are happy to curry favour with serial human rights abusers like China and Saudi Arabia with hardly a peep out of us.
Ireland wants a two state solution and for Israel and Palestine to live in peace and security. Ireland will always speak up for human rights and international law. Nothing will distract from that.
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Have you noticed that many of the same people who spot racism everywhere are very slow to spot anti-Semitism? Strange, that.
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Were Jews dragged out of any other #HolocaustMemorialDay event anywhere in the world this year except ours? I doubt it very much.
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The Danes are getting rid of all Covid restrictions tomorrow. Good for them!
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2023 will go down as the year when anti-Semitism became tolerated again.
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The tourism sector is taking an absolute hammering. Serious warning sign about the state of the country.
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RTE didn't interview Maria so watch her here instead.
"It's just the best Mother's Day present ever": Campaigner Maria Steen has hailed the win of the 'No' side in #Referendum2024 as a "victory for common sense.". Laoise de Brún of The Countess says the result shows a disconnect between the public and the "NGO Industrial Complex".
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Did we ever think we would live to see such tension between a president of Ireland and our tiny Jewish community? It shows how he has totally politicised the office. So wrong.
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Outgoing Israeli ambassador to Ireland telling @RTENewsAtOne that we are the most anti-Israeli country in Europe.
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Using the courts to eliminate anti-Establishment candidates is becoming a habit in Europe.
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Disgraceful scenes at the Pro-Cathedral today as pro-Palestinian protestors disrupted the 11am Mass. I don't even know why they are doing this when the Church leans heavily towards the Palestinian cause.
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A Covid booster has now been offered to 50 to 60 year-olds (my age group). But what is not properly explained is why someone who has had Covid would need a fourth shot.
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There is much talk about the influence of Jewish money. There is much less about the influence of Arab (Saudi/Gulf states) money.
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As I say in my column this week, the message of that schoolbook is basically as follows; the less Irish we are, the better we are. What a strange thing to be teaching Irish kids.
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There flat out has to be a Jewish State. The Jews have never been safe anywhere for long and who know what things will be like for them even in the US, in say, 2124? Europe is already becoming unsafe again.
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Maria Steen was at Dublin Castle to do a couple of media interviews. Did RTE interview her? You must be joking.
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From an Israeli friend re the Mansion House address: "I must say, David, that the behaviour of Higgins was a total disgrace. The disdain for Ireland in Israel is immense! The mind boggles at the fact that at the turn of the century Ireland was the most visited country by.
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As a friend said to me tonight, Vance's speech in Munich was the equivalent of Ricky Gervais's at the Golden Globes a few years ago.
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No mention of the fact that the attempted killer is an ISIS sympathiser.
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Our Castro-loving, Chavez-loving and Iran-leaning president strikes again, and once again attacks Israel. (RTE have pictured him with the Palestinian representative here).
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In the name of 'public health' we are basically teaching small children to live in fear and to take a zero risk approach to life, which is a really terrible life lesson, by the way. We are doing this mainly for the adults.
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This will only confirm for Israelis that we are the most anti-Israeli country in Europe. It will not cause the necessary outcry here.
🚨🚨🚨 Two Jewish Israelis on a business trip to Ireland were at Hardy’s Bar in Dublin 🇮🇪 where they were targeted and assaulted by two far-left, pro-terror, extremist activists: Léna Seale and Zeina Ismail. @OCallaghanJim @gardainfo @GardaTraffic @SimonHarrisTD
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Four years ago we were moving towards the first lockdown and being warned that up to 80,000 people could die. This was one of the greatest pieces of misinformation ever foisted on the Irish people by a Government.
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Where does this leave Hollywood and most of the American media and their influence? Where does it leave all the giant donors who poured their money into the Harris campaign? Where does it leave all the Irish commentators who demonised Trump's supporters and utterly failed to give.
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He says Ireland is all about human rights but we ceaselessly suck up to the likes of China and Saudi Arabia and put very little pressure on Iran over Hamas and Hezbollah.
Ireland wants a two state solution and for Israel and Palestine to live in peace and security. Ireland will always speak up for human rights and international law. Nothing will distract from that.
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Given the stabbings in the city centre today and what is going on there right now, it is clear something is going very badly wrong in this country. An open and HONEST debate is needed about the social, economic and political causes of it all.
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Very strong words yesterday from Denmark's Social Democrat PM: “I consider this mass migration into Europe as a threat to the daily life in Europe".
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The Irish Government was firmly in Camp Kamala. Where does that leave them now Trump has won? Where does it leave our corporate tax rate?.
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The absolute low-point of the campaign for @MichealMartinTD was on Prime Time when he launched that snide personalised attack on Maria Steen.
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Wow. Michael D Higgins' speech for #HolocaustRemembranceDay has actually made his relations with our Jewish community worse (See below). I didn't think it was possible, but he did it.
Our statement regarding today's Holocaust Memorial Commemoration at The Mansion House in Dublin.
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This was considered to be far-right until like, yesterday.
A fair and firm migration system must ensure deportations are effective and efficient. Today our country recommenced the use of charter flights for deportations. If you don’t have a legal right to be here, our system must act and today is evidence that it is and it will.
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Big protest by farmers outside the European Parliament today. Didn't see this on the Six One News.
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This is BIG. A former NPHET member has broken the code of silence. He criticises keeping schools and nursing homes closed so long, overuse of fear, the mask mandate, and misuse of the 'follow the science' mantra. Can we please have a proper debate now?
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A view of the huge crowd in the National Boxing Stadium tonight attending a meeting about the new #SPHE curriculum. A rebellion is brewing. Many here are from the 'New Ireland'. @NormaFoleyTD1 @MichealMartinTD
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Once again RTE leaves out the very relevant fact that Private Rooney was killed by Hezbollah.
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Astounding beyond belief. A former EU Commissioner is flagging the possibility of annulling the result of the coming German election, like they did in Romania, if they can claim 'foreign interference'. This is becoming the new anti-democratic playbook.
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The State is about to ditch the aim of "fostering a sense of Irish identity" from the primary school curriculum, which prompts the question; if Ireland won't foster a sense of Irishness, then who will?.
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Unless they tell us each day how many are in hospital because of Covid as distinct from with Covid, it is misleading information that unnecessarily frightens.
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An Israeli employee of a big tech company was telling me that a lot of Israelis working here are now quitting their jobs because they find the atmosphere in Ireland so hostile.
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Last year a de facto social contract was agreed between young and old people. Young people agreed to put their lives on hold to protect the vulnerable. But now the vulnerable are vaccinated, and the young are still expected by the State to keep their lives on hold.
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Jim O'Callaghan was very honest in admitting on @thisweekrte just now that many of those claiming asylum here are doing so falsely. Fair play to him.
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Six One News report on RTE tonight about the stabbing managed not to mention ISIS, or online radicalisation. Interviewed no politicians. No analysis of a possible wider problem. Nothing.
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Dana Erlich on what she encountered here: "The vilification, the hatred and incitement personally against me. It is something that we haven’t seen in any other country. No other ambassador has come under this direct attack." We need a reality check.
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Ireland is one of the most starry-eyed of all EU member-states, unlike say, the more cool-eyed Danes. This stems from a lack of national self-confidence that makes us dangerously blind to the EU's faults, I argue in @TheSundayIndo today.
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Simon Harris said on RTE today that Nethanyahu would be arrested if he came here. The Americans would return our economy to the 1980s in response.
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Just to say, this is vastly worse than anything the Burkes have done so far and has got about 1pc of the reaction. (Lena Seale is a People Before Profit candidate, btw).
🚨🚨🚨 Two Jewish Israelis on a business trip to Ireland were at Hardy’s Bar in Dublin 🇮🇪 where they were targeted and assaulted by two far-left, pro-terror, extremist activists: Léna Seale and Zeina Ismail. @OCallaghanJim @gardainfo @GardaTraffic @SimonHarrisTD
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If Michael McDowell's arguments reach enough voters, both referendums will be defeated. @SenatorMcDowell.
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Spreading misinformation during the referendums has proved no obstacle to advancement for Roderic O'Gorman and is clearly acceptable to a majority of Green party members.
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This really is total, unadulterated bullsh*t. The Council of Europe has agreed to extend the Covid digital pass until June 2023. The Orwellian twist is that it is in the name of 'free movement'.
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Is this vaccine roll-out for children proportionate? No deaths in Ireland among the under 12s since the start of the pandemic as a doctor just said on @SaturdayRTE.
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Why isn't Maria Steen on #rteupfront tonight? She has not been invited on to a single RTE programme since the result came out even though she is very high impact whenever she is on anything .
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Very weird that a piece of fiction like Adolescence caused way more reaction within big sections of media and politics than the real-life grooming scandals.
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Anyone who thinks fast population growth and a squeeze on housing are unrelated is basically a flat-earther.
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I don't like this at all. I am double vaccinated but don't want being triple (or quadruple?) vaccinated becoming a condition of travel indefinitely.
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Once again our politicians won't discuss the elephant in the room; our population is growing too fast.
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Ireland has been a consistently ferocious critic of Israel for decades. but at the same time is not at all anti-Israeli. That is some level of self-delusion.
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Michael McDowell's criticism of the amendments is now 100pc vindicated by the AG's advice which the Government would not reveal. They deserve to be totally annihilated tomorrow for their dishonesty alone. #VoteNoNo @SenatorMcDowell.
‘In the absence of clear guidance within the constitutional text or by way of legislation, it is difficult to predict with certainty how the Irish courts would interpret the concept of “other durable relationships.”’. - Attorney general to government .
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Much worse than the Ryan Tubridy business is RTE's general attitude to debates. American politics: none. The EU: none. Immigration: none. Gender ideology: none. Climate policy: none. The hate crime bill: none. Fair and impartial? No.
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She presents absolutely no evidence for her claim here. Polls show the opposite. The demand for the 'hate speech' law comes from NGOs, not the public and McEntee must know this.
Justice Minister Helen McEntee says that "the vast majority of people" want hate speech laws. #gript
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Has Ireland ever felt any real affinity for the Jewish people? I don't think so, not even in the immediate aftermath of October 7, for reasons I explain in my @IrishCathNews piece this week.
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'Roderic O’Gorman criticised for breaking Freedom of Information rules'. Those referendums were sustained misinformation campaigns by the Government.
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Just as Ireland was the last Catholic bastion in the West, so it will be the last Woke bastion.
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I've booked a table in a restaurant tomorrow out of solidarity with a very hard-pressed sector. You should do the same.
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Well, it turns out that riot a year ago was racially diverse, which rather complicates the narrative about what happened and why.
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When it was believed the killer was Irish, we were lectured to about 'toxic masculinity'. We were even told young men should be 'licensed' before being let out. There will be much less commentary this time, even with a guilty verdict in.
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My daughter (who hardly ever paints) painted this in one hour yesterday.
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Ireland is starting to become a by-word internationally for liberal authoritarianism. "The ferocious desire of Ireland’s myopic and feckless governing class to crack down on speech that it considers 'hateful' seems at last to be reaching fruition."
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It's a pretty neat trick to write an article as long as this about rising crime in Sweden and hardly mention immigration at all.
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There are not enough people using the bike lane going through Fairview and North Strand to remotely justify the money put into them and the disruption caused.
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Is Ireland even collecting data of this sort? If not, it amounts to deliberate blindness.
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Leo Varadkar wants an informed debate on asylum-seeking that's based on facts. Well, here's one we rarely hear; Ireland has one of the lowest refusal rates for asylum applications in the EU. Is it because we're a 'soft touch'? (My @TheSundayIndo column).
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