
Michael Clarke
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Retired public servant, commentator on public affairs, researcher
Dublin
Joined October 2012
Government-funded NGO blocks Clare wastewater project https://t.co/QGa84n0gq4 via @griptmedia. Too many rules for activists to play with, giving them State funding is like giving matches to children and increasingly feeble governments are putting the State at risk @Ben_Scallan
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Judicial review.
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The Right Must Stand for Free Speech https://t.co/so7Tbd9a4c. The “managed democracy of Europe” sums up the situation here @compactmag_ @ICCLtweet @_IHREC @rte @IrishTimes @Independent_ie @SundayIndy @irishexaminer @ST__Ireland @businessposthq @ThePhoenixMag @john_mcguirk
compactmag.com
The past few weeks have felt unusually fraught and hectic even for the age of Trump, but some calm and closure seems to be on the horizon.
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Nationalize the Defense Industry https://t.co/XFyfcvkbBG. A piece worth reading @IndigoOlivier @compactmag_ @dfatirl @IRLDeptDefence @IrelandEmbUSA @iiea @ESRIDublin @UCDHistory @ConorGallaghe_r @conormlally @businessposthq @yvmurray @ThePhoenixMag @PANAIreland @IrelandInEU
compactmag.com
In 1934, Sen. Gerald Nye set out to investigate the “merchants of death” who had cashed in on World War I.
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New blog post Five key reasons why gloomy Europe is outperforming AI-high US https://t.co/LiEy5rR0O5
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23 male EU citizens who are serving or had served custodial sentences here were removed today on a chartered flight under the Free Movement Directive on grounds of public security. The flight landed safely this evening in Bucharest.
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Good evening from Abbeyknockmoy County Galway. A message on the launch of the https://t.co/JsbsAkOySb website. #spoilthevote #spoilyourvote #SpoilTheVote25
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Have to say, it's very much voluntary but it's a tonic, greatly encouraging to me to see how a genuinely grassroots movement like #SpoilTheVote
https://t.co/Dz2tmtEBc3 has come together and is 'snowballing' in the speed and momentum of it's growth. No giant egos getting in the
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“Ukr War is a Globalist Trap: Europe Blind to Lies” ... https://t.co/s5dFNRwESW via @YouTube. Brief talk by a cancelled Dutch politician @thierrybaudet @IrelandinNL @IrelandInEU @iiea @tconnellyRTE @jackpowerIT @sarahpcollins @petercluskey @DerekinBerlin @liamnolanRTE @DanMcL99
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https://t.co/DvJTW3iWxW. Clashes in Gaza between Hamas and a local gang (one suspects the latter put up to it by the IDF) @PANAIreland @shannonwatch @IrishAntiWarMvt @BeyondIrish @Cork_CNL_SNOW @ipsc48
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At least 27 people have been killed in one of the most violent internal confrontations since Israeli troops withdrew.
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This Thursday you can buy Matt Cooper's book about Dunnes Stores which Miriam O'Callaghan loves. Or you can reject their reciprocal fart-sniffing & buy Vandalising Ireland which Miriam O'Callaghan will not love. Two very different books, both launch Thursday. 👇👇👇
My thanks to @MiriamOCal for so generously giving me so much time this morning to talk about Dynasty, my book about the incredible story of Dunnes Stores and the people behind it. Available in book shops from Thursday.
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The Irish Establishment’s position: 1. If you don’t vote for one of the candidates we have allowed on the presidential ballot paper you are anti-democratic and unpatriotic. 2. We have given you three progressive left candidates to vote for. One of them has subsequently said
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Lots of Irish establishment commentary now scolding the Irish electorate and warning us that any voter exercising their democratic right to cast a protest vote in the form of a ‘spoiled’ ballot is somehow anti-democratic. Let me be very clear, telling people that they have to
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American Chamber of Commerces view on Irish immigration https://t.co/Hx0kfKiwhe via @griptmedia. If the population target for 2030 is to be met the houses have to be built first. If not, by implication, the projected increase in the population must be revisited @MattTreacy2
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MATT TREACY: The Budget Submission from the American Chamber of Commerce recognises Ireland’s immigration-driven housing demands. This is American Capital’s antidote to “Ireland is Full.”
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Presidential election https://t.co/XINN0vyTza via @griptmedia. There has never been an election here like this one. It has exposed the crisis in Irish democracy but it’s not over yet @john_mcguirk @fiannafailparty @FineGael @labour @SocDems @sinnfeinireland @independent_ire
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Catherine Connolly might loathe the comparison, but she is benefitting from the same dynamic as Donald Trump
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Ireland’s squeezed middle and stealthy wealthy will pick up the tab in years ahead https://t.co/sobs8E0I9w. If civil servants returned to their offices five days a week future budgets would be less chaotic @CliffTaylorIT @IRLDeptFinance @IRLDeptPER @ESRIDublin @businessposthq
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Is it politically sustainable to keep soaking income tax payers? It might have to be
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Man with Down Syndrome ‘starved to death’ in hospital https://t.co/CELDfmr4ia via @griptmedia. Something very wrong happened here @roinnslainte @HSELive @shaunabowerss @eilishor @sburx @polblonde @MaryKenny4 @OHanlonEilis @businessposthq @irish_news
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A broken culture? Adrian Poulton was being treated for a broken hip but he wasn't fed for 9 days.
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Admit it, centrists – Macron has failed https://t.co/Pz1PyWtnxB via @griptmedia. Since 1789, France has had only two sources of power - the Elysee and the street. When things go belly up again we will find out who is the stronger this time @john_mcguirk @LaraMarlowe @IrlEmbParis
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The poster boy for "centrist dad" politics finds himself embroiled in an inevitable crisis.
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EU LGBT-strategy indicates Brussels’ hate speech plans https://t.co/MaSK9pSXVB via @griptmedia. Brussels is following the Stalinist playbook (and well everybody knows it) @ICCLtweet @_IHREC
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PREMIUM: The European Commission is doubling down on tackling ‘hate speech’ directly from Brussels, according to a leaked copy of the Commission’s LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy seen by Gript and due to...
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PERRINS: Save us oh Lord from these Michaels https://t.co/kyHoAavkPw via @griptmedia. I had better tell people to start calling me Sir! @LPerrins
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The Michaels are having a very bad Irish Presidential election.
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Insta-reaction: A budget for the lobbyists https://t.co/54tCWVp6KI via @griptmedia. If we had 75 TDs, each elected in a single seat constituency, our politics would be transformed. That won’t happen though this side of a major political and economic crash @john_mcguirk
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There will come a day when Governments do not have €14billion to play with. And when that day comes, we will realise just how badly we have spent our cash.
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