Joe Smyth
@JoeSmyth10
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Centrist Dad, fond of Corrib Waterpolo, Mayo GAA & Connacht Rugby. Passionate about Galway Tech - all opinions my own. #andacyclist
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Joined April 2013
RT @barrykenny: That people like @catherinegalway parrot Kremlin talking points on Ukraine - blame NATO, “try diplomacy” with a regime that….
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People really don’t like Property Tax because it is a broad tax. People only rail against tax they have to pay, yet they think it’s fine that the marginal rate of tax at €50k is 48% and goes to 52% at €70k. This is a tax on initiative, ambition and penalises success.
A double tax hike for Dublin families! This is outrageous! Only two weeks ago, the government passed legislation to increase the Local Property Tax. Tonight, FF, FG, Labour and Green Party Councillors who control Dublin City Council will seek to hike it up again by the maximum.
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Per IPSOS/Irish Times - Half the population think we should not pass the Occupied Territories Bill or need to address the consequences before passing it vs one third want it passed and 17% don’t know. We need to halt this bill until we know a LOT more. @fiannafailparty @FineGael
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Congrats Anton. @joehas more billionaires in Europe 😱😱.
Lovable just raised $200M at a $1.8B valuation led by Accel. This all started unexpectedly with me calling my friend at 6AM to go for a walk. I've never shared this story before: (thread)
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Actually we don’t, the interconnector is not built. We do import nuclear power from the UK. But of course, we won’t be a grown up country and build any nuclear capacity of our own.
@JoeSmyth10 We import nuclear power from France.
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Meanwhile in Ireland nuclear power is illegal.
A Goldman Sachs report predicts that world nuclear capacity will increase by 200 GW by 2040, and that nuclear's share of world power will increase from 9% to 12%. Article link in reply. While the report predicts significant nuclear growth, it is somewhat disappointing, relative
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Editing out the answers to these very loaded questions is scurrilous @JohnLahart.
"It is the descent by the Israeli Government and the Israeli Defence Forces into the darkest of places that certainly motivates, as far as I can see, all members of this committee from a humanitarian perspective, and very definitely not an anti-Semitic perspective.". @JohnLahart
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RT @AMAZlNGNATURE: I honestly believe this is one of the biggest mysteries there is, Orcas are the most efficient predators on earth, yet t….
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RT @MoorcroftRico: Has ANYONE asked Catherine to clarify her position of the defence of our nation, considering one of the roles of preside….
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RT @18for0: Is it past time to look at nuclear energy?. @ESRIDublin tells Oireachtas committee that Ireland electricity prices are higher t….
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Catherine Connolly will be another anti-West President, with a 1970s Tankie outlook inconsistent with addressing the problems of the real world, but a fictional world where the West is ALWAYS wrong.
Catherine Connolly on her way to launch her presidential campaign. She said that her message is one that there is “a different way” possible to ensure the country lives up to its name as a republic.
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RT @o_mcpartlin: New @ProgressIreland paper out today!. Ireland can close its 300k-home gap but only if we tackle the three problems simult….
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This is one of the USAs most powerful senators. The occupied territories bill is about to be our “Dev’s visit to the German Embassy” moment all over again. @fiannafailparty @FineGael you need to stop and think rationally not emotionally.
I hope that Ireland will reconsider their efforts to economically isolate Israel, as they are in a fight for their very existence. I do not believe these efforts would be well received in the United States and they certainly would not go unnoticed.
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This is mad, but another obvious statement of how over-regulation and bureaucracy has throttled the West’s ability to build infrastructure.
When it was created in 1974, the NRC employed 1,970 people. There were 56 commercial reactors under construction. A recent Google search result says that the agency currently employs 4,211. There are 0 commercial and 3 research reactors under construction in the US.
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Gimme Shelter.
What is YOUR favourite THE ROLLING STONES song of ALL TIME???
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Well done to @Alanshatter on @rtenews for stating clearly why the Occupied Territories Bill is deeply flawed. If we pass this bill, it will be held against Ireland for decades to come in the same way as Dev’s visit to the German Ambassador on Hitler’s death in 1945.
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Massively important thread on housing.
WHY SMALLER APARTMENT SIZES AND LOWER STANDARDS ARE GOOD. A thread.
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RT @dantypo: I’ve spent the last year or so OBSESSED with reading and watching all I can on Lenin and Stalin. I feel like historically, Le….
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Man using data centres to read the news and comment on said news, complains about data centres.
Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan says households being forced to subsidise the costs of data centres | Irish Independent
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