Mairéad Farrell TD
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The events of the operation were so violent that two Afghan children “had to be urgently evacuated for medical treatment”.
Eighty Afghan civilians may have been summarily killed by SAS, inquiry told
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My heart is so sore for the people of Palestine tonight.
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Protest outside Irish Parliament tonight in solidarity with the people of Palestine
#GazaGenocide
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33 years ago my Aunty Mairéad & her 2 comrades Dan McCann & Seán Savage were murdered by the SAS.
The use of Shannon Airport to facilitate imperialist wars means other families will experience that same heartache.
We must call stop.
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Powerful to be in Guildhall to see
@jeremycorbyn
speaking at the memorial lecture marking the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
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Pamela Anderson saying her red line in a relationship is violence and then asked on RTÉ
"Do you think you're attracted to the wrong kind of men Pamela?"
Eh no, I thought we'd moved on from blaming women for violence inflicted on them by men 🙄
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Narrator: He was not OK
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Prime Minister of Ireland.....
Bhí mé buartha cheanna féin faoi stádas na Gaeilge faoin Taoiseach nua, níor chuir sé seo ar mo shuaimhneas mé.
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Taoiseach saying - "Just Stop" to Mary Lou McDonald after asking genuine questions on
#NMH
has a serious whiff of condescension about it.
If he's so confident on the deal what's the issue with questions being raised?
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The only person responsible for an attack is the attacker.
Victim blaming must stop.
Do better Matt.
@Claire_McGing
@gardainfo
Sorry to👂Claire. I often see girls walking alone at night while on phones in places I wouldn’t like my 15stone ripped nephew to be - situational awareness vital and also should be taught. Sorry to hear this happened in what should be a safe space - not all men are monsters!
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Standing outside the Irish Parliament in solidarity with the people of Palestine
#FreePalestine
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The Taoiseach
@MichealMartinTD
must reflect on his comments to me today.
I addressed him as a bereaved relative of the conflict, seeking a meeting with
@RelativR
as per a letter to him from 3500 bereaved relatives.
The Irish Gov is a signatory of the Stormont House Agreement.
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I’m proud to be from the northside, I’m proud to be from Cork, I’m proud to be Irish and I’m a proud Republican,” Gould said.
“I will not stand and have our nationalist identity used by those who seek to sow hate in our communities."
👏🏻
@ThomasGouldSF
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Thoughts are with the Finucane family on Pat's 33rd anniversary and their continued campaign for truth.
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I am so humbled and grateful to be elected as your TD for Galway West & South Mayo in the next Dáil.
Seasfaidh mise an fód ar son chosmhuintir na Gaillimhe agus Maigh Eo Theas, beidh mé i mo ghlór don phobal uilig.
Mairéad Farrell TD
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*Reminder* Fine Gael have been in Government for the last 10 years I'm not sure what 'overnight' means in their book 😬
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Leo Varadkar manages to turn a question about himself from Róisín Shortall about Sinn Féin.
We're just over here living rent free in the Tánaiste's head 🏠
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Marking the anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban revolution here in Galway in solidarity with the Cuban people!
#EndTheBlockade
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One vaccination centre for all of County Galway, the 2nd largest county.
It takes 1 hr 40 mins to get from Cleggan to Ballybrit!
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Disturbing reports about a racist incident in Galway City towards Chinese businesses, racism has no place in our society.
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You don't say......
The practice of appointments to State Boards made with a nod or wink has no place in open modern democracy & could damage economic recovery.
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Ag smaoineamh ar m'aintín a dúnmharaíodh 32 bliain ó shin. Thinking of my aunt Mairéad and her comrades Dan McCann & Seán Savage who were murdered 32 years ago. At 31 she was just a year older than me at the time of her death. Thinking especially of those who miss them ❤️
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Life is given only once.
Thinking of Mairéad, Dan & Seán and all those who love and miss them.
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CEO of HRI now on 190k with company car.
Head of Dept of Health given 81k increase
HSE Chief salary of 420k with military driver
Another pay increase coming for TDs.
No mention of Front Line Worker Bonus!!!
Yet "we're all in it together"
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Today we had an induction for all new members of Dáil Éireann.
I look forward to being a strong voice in this chamber for the people of Galway West and South Mayo 👍
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Delighted to make my maiden speech in Dáil Éireann to nominate
@MaryLouMcDonald
for Taoiseach.
Mary Lou is the only Taoiseach who will fight for better government, better housing and a better healthcare system.
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My Aunty Mairéad speaking on
#IWD2021
a year before her death on the issue of strip searching of women prisoners. In which she also mentions
@M_AndersonSF
& Ella O'Dwyer.
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Remembering Mairéad, Dan and Seán 35 years on.
Thinking of those who love and miss them 💚
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Eddie Hobbs says that if you've two cows Sinn Féin would take one 😂
when trying to describe a 3% solidarity tax on individual incomes over 140k just on the income over 140k
i.e. So about 300 euro additional for those on 150k
Bizarre
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€118bn through the IFSC, I've been raising it since Sept 2020,why could I not get a response from your Government?
A bad article?? What is it with Sinn Fein and Putin/Russia. The man is an evil murdering dictator. How/why is that be ignored by SF
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En route back to Galway after voting against the Taoiseach rotation.
We need a change of Government not a Taoiseach swap.
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Yesterday myself and
@chrisandrews64
again raised Julian Assange in the Dáil.
It is high time that Assange is freed.
#JulianAssange
#FreeAssange
@StellaMoris1
@wikileaks
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At the start of the Palestine March in London 🙌🏻
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Hugely honoured to be a Sinn Féin TD and member of the 33rd Dáil.
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#FreeAssange
stall in Galway, Ireland today sending solidarity to Julian Assange as others do same in cities across the world.
@wikileaks
@StellaMoris1
@freeassangeire1
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This week I again raised the issue of
#JulianAssange
with the Irish Government.
In light of last week's court ruling I urged the Government to finally and urgently speak out on his behalf
#FreeAssangeNOW
#FreeAssange
@wikileaks
@StellaMoris1
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Always surprised how Sinn Féin seems to be left out of analysis on Dublin Bay South bye election
Sinn Féin took second seat with 16% of vote, some other parties always mentioned in the analysis on less than 10%
#TWiP
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€550 to share a room in Galway City 😡
If it angers you like it angers me then join us on Saturday for a socially distanced rally organised by The Galway Homeless and Housing Coalition!
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Life is given but once.
Remembering Mairéad, Dan and Seán.
Thinking of all those who love and miss them ❤️
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At a time when tens of thousands of workers and families are struggling we should be reducing Ministers pay, not increasing it.
Sinn Féin will oppose this legislation 👇
#Clueless
The Cabinet is expected to sign off on legislation tonight which will allow them give THREE ministers of state who sit at Cabinet pay increases.
Under current laws, they can only pay the €16k allowance to two ministers of state.
#priorities
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Simon Coveney's bungling excuses on the News At One about the 'process' behind the Katherine Zappone debacle were so extraordinarily bad that I thought it was a gratuitous Callan's Kicks skit.
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This day last year I was elected as a Sinn Féin TD for Galway West & what an honour it has been.
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A little bit of history 😊
100 years ago, my Great Grandad, John Gaffney, an IRA Volunteer and a train driver from Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, refused to drive four IRA volunteers to Sligo Jail for the RIC.
He was interned for his actions.
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3 Galway Independents now voting for Simon Harris to be Taoiseach.
They are voting to continue this Gov's failed policies in housing & health, that are causing real hardship for people across Galway.
We need a General Election.
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Just got confirmation (great timing) my FOI (Amendment) Bill is ready for introduction.
@mmcgrathtd
said in June FOI regime was ‘robust & functioning well’.
#merriongate
+ Varadkar + Coveney = deleted texts, hacks and stinks of cronyism.
End the FOI crisis, support my bill!
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Incredible honour to speak in Calvary Cemetery, New York, this morning.
As we gathered and remembered our patriot dead.
It was reinvigorating to meet fellow Uniting Irelanders from across the water 💚
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Fianna Fáil not content with a crisis in our housing and health care are now seeking to erode our neutrality. Outrageous.
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As someone of his generation and even with a mother from Berlin, I can say it's simply not the case.
Taoiseach Simon Harris has said people of his 'generation' are 'more familiar' with Berlin and Paris than they are with Belfast or Derry in the North.
Harris made the comments as he addressed the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. Read more:
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"Shrill tones"
Hate to break it to ya, the era of women being seen & not heard is long gone
Harris firmly on the button here on Sinn Fein shrill tones & the inflammatory politics of strident populist negativity and blame.
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This is how my best friend's dog greets his neighbouring horses every day and it's the cutest thing ever ☺️🥰
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This is very concerning and clarification is urgently needed.
I had been advised by NUIG that capacity in the Bailey Allen would be 36%, will follow up.
Just done my first exam in the Bailey Allen Nuig. The tables are so tight together it’s almost impossible to sit in the chair. It’s full capacity! If we don’t all catch covid it’ll be a Christmas miracle!
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Imagine the neck of those who ran on a
#voteleft
#TransferLeft
platform and just voted for for Mícheál Martin as Taoiseach & Leo Varadkar as Tánaiste 🤷♀️
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It's said that all involved had underlying wealth conditions
#thebeacon
The Taoiseach has called for the board of the Beacon Hospital to hold the CEO 'accountable for his actions'
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The World = “Ireland’s GDP is leprechaun economics”
Fine Gael = “Irish GDP grew the most in the EU😊”
Sinn Féin = "If we use GDP to determine how much pandemic emergency funds we get we’re in trouble"
The outcome 👇
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"While this coalition of inequality may delay change, it will not stop it"
Honoured to second the nomination of
@MaryLouMcDonald
as Taoiseach.
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Today after 36 years at
@GMITOfficial
my mother gave her last lecture ☺️ not fully finished yet but a milestone all the same!
Meine Mama ist die Beste 🥰
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I think what angered people the most was how brazen this 81k increase was
Most people will never see a salary of 81k let alone a pay increase of that size
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Powerful Irish Famine Memorial in Philadelphia
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In solidarity of all families who are
#NeverGivingUp
and who are united against the British Government's legacy bill.
@RelsForJustice
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Stopped at Aidan McAnespie's memorial on my way to Derry today.
Thinking of his mother Lizzie and sister Eilis who long campaigned for justice for Aidan & are no longer with us to see the news this week.
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This Government is completely out of touch, 81k pay increase while we're apparently "all in this together"
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This a struggle between a colonizer and the oppressed.
This is a struggle for self determination versus a harsh and brutal system of apartheid.
#FreePalestine
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Thinking of Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh, Thomas McErlean and John Murray who went to a funeral in Miltown Cemetery 33 years ago today and never came home.
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Since September 2020 I have raised THREE TIMES the issue of the funnelling of €188 billion through the IFSC using Section 110 of the Tax Code 👇
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The "Lessons have to be learned" mantra is getting old from this Government.
Get yer house in order for God's sake 🙄
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To hell or to Connacht
Amihai Eliyahu is an Israeli cabinet minister. Israel is refusing to allow Irish citizens to leave Gaza because of Ireland’s call for an immediate ceasefire. Israel’s ambassador
@DanaErlich
was an invited guest at this weekend’s Fianna Fáil party conference.
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Huge turnout of solidarity with Palestine on the streets of Dublin, Ireland today
#Gaza
#Palestine
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Irish neutrality is something to be cherished
We are proud of our contribution to peace keeping,aid & disarmament
I attended the Consultative Forum with SF colleagues in defence of neutrality which serves to maximise the positive impact we can have on peace & security worldwide
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Go raibh maith agat
@moneillsf
😊
Tomorrow polling stations open at 7am, if you want change, vote Sinn Féin.
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An incredible honour to speak at the Republican Plot in Milltown Cemetery today in memory of those killed in Gibraltar &Milltown
The period of grief & trauma after the killings in Gibraltar is something which for me, who was not alive then, is unimaginable.
Cuimhnímis orthu 💚
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More than 21,000 visas for Australia were granted to Irish citizens, double the amount of the previous year.
We need to build a society that gives a future here for our young people, tackling the housing crisis is key. Delivering affordable homes.
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Today I asked
@MichealMartinTD
to meet with
@RelsForJustice
and bereaved families, to ensure full implementation of Stormont House Agreement.
Instead of agreeing to meet he turned it into a political football.
That is outrageous and deeply hurtful for all of us.
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Delighted to be in Roscommon with newly elected Roscommon Galway Sinn Féin TD
@ClaireKerrane
😊
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I raised the derelict site at the former Corrib Great Southern Hotel with the Minister in the Dáil today
There needs to be full transparency on the derelict site levy and the vacant site levy.
27 Councils did not collect over €9 million in Vacant Site Levies, this is outrageous
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Elected to Galway City Council 7 years ago today 😊
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Just looking through docs ahead of Finance Committee with McGrath tomorrow, serious questions why Minister chose to increase the salary by 81k while there were 3 other options on the table
Big questions to answer tomorrow.
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Today marks the ten year anniversary of the final report of the Moriarty tribunal. A decade on and we’ve since had the likes of the Maurice McCabe saga, vote gate, golfgate, Leotheleak, etc. The wait for high standards in public office goes on
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Glad that the Finance Committee has accepted my proposal to seek compelibility powers to compel Robert Watt to appear before it.
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This is what apartheid looks like 👇🏻
"The Israeli army is asking people if they are Christian or Muslim. If you’re Muslim you weren’t allowed in." -
@ajimran
Israeli occupation forces are attacking Palestinians during the funeral of killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
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Myself and
@chrisandrews64
raised
#JulianAssange
continued detention with Leo Varadkar in the Dáil today.
I quoted
@NUJofficial
concerns and asked him to raise it directly with the British Ambassador & the US administration.
@wikileaks
#FreeJulianAssange
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"It is given only once, it must be lived so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, (...) so live that,dying you had a right to say:all my life,all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world—the fight for the Liberation of Humankind"
Suaimhneas síoraí
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Excited to be appointed
@sinnfeinireland
Spokesperson for Further & Higher Education building on
@conwaywalsh
work.
Started today as I mean to go on!
Met with Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh of
@uniofgalway
& students from
@SFOEGaillimh
.
Will meet
@UniOfGalwaySU
when back from
#USI23
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Looking forward to bring the conversation of Irish Unity to New York tomorrow 👇
If you're around pop in ☺️
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