Michael O'Regan
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Goodbye to a dad like no other…
A fierce, funny, giant of a man whom we’ll miss very deeply.
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The Taoiseach gives some time as a medical doctor during a pandemic that is killing people, and crippling the country, and the usual begrudgers emerge from the undergrowth. Nauseating.
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For decades, young people left this country because they had no work. Now there is the grotesque prospect of young people emigrating because they cannot afford to buy s house or rent. An appalling indictment of successive governments.
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We all have our views on the monarchy and its usefulness. But the Queen always carried out her duties with dignity. She made a very successful and reconciliatory visit to Ireland. She is 96, a mother and grandmother. Derogatory and sneering remarks on this forum appalling.
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Karen Bradley’s remarks have made a nonsense of the British apology for Bloody Sunday.
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Let’s get over ourselves. Absurd controversy over Simon Harris’s claim about the origins of the name Covid-19. This is about saving lives. He is doing a good job in very difficult circumstances.
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I’m a big GAA fan, but this turns my stomach.
Donegal GAA club hit with an 8-week ban and €500 fine for hosting a charity soccer game for a local man, who played and coached with the club, recently diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease
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It beggars belief that anybody, anybody, would contemplate holidaying abroad right now. We are still challenged by a killer virus.
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I didn’t see this live, but I looked back on it after being alerted by a friend. A huge moment in Irish television.
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My thanks to Editor Paul O’Neill and Irish Times colleagues as I retire as parliamentary correspondent. I spent nearly 40 years in The Irish Times. Great company, great colleagues.
Irish Times parliamentary correspondent Michael O’Regan retires
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The arrogance, ignorance, contempt for others, of those flying to a sun holiday at the height of a pandemic. Then dodging the Prime Time cameras at Dublin Airport.
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I’m told Dick Spring was at the Clifden golf gig. He played golf but he did not attend the dinner. Credit where credit is due. Enda Kenny, the same.
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At a time when the Catholic Church is getting a battering, let us acknowledge the work of priests at times of great tragedy. It happened today at Lyra McKee’s funeral.
Priest's impassioned plea to politicians at Lyra McKee's funeral: "Why in God's name does it take the death of a 29-year-old woman with her whole life in front of her to get us to this point?"
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Astonishing that people would visit holiday homes at a time of a killer pandemic. What is wrong with people?
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Can we get over ourselves? Unfair criticism of Eamon Ryan for nodding off at the convention centre. Exhaustion can be part of the human condition. Politicians are human. I swear it. I know many of them!
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The Government resisted zero-Covid on the basis that lockdown would go on and on. So what have we now? Today’s figures are appalling.
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I have written a long article for today’s Irish Times on my cancer diagnosis and treatment. My thanks to everybody who has helped me over 13 sometimes difficult months. Thanks to everybody for their good wishes on this forum and elsewhere.
Powerful ultimately uplifting personal essay by a great writer.....continued improving health
@MOReganIT
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Utterly inappropriate intervention by the President. He has demeaned the office.
President Michael D Higgins has described the purchase of Twitter by tech billionaire Elon Musk as a 'manifestation of an incredible and dangerous narcissism' | Read more:
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CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan suspended from Twitter. The lights are going out.
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Watching ‘Unquiet Graves’ on RTE1, again begs the question. What were the constitutional politicians doing in the Republic when there was such obvious discrimination against the nationalist population in the North?
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A tough day for the people of Kildare, Laois and Offaly. Thinking of those selfish idiots who thought house parties were acceptable in various parts of the country in recent times.
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It is hardly an imposition to produce a vaccine cert. Let’s get real.
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Irish Examiner sold out in my local shop. Journalism does matter.
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Will AIB issue a statement explaining why they hounded people who had much smaller debts than DJ Carey?
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What kind of society have we become when the RTE lunchtime news reports that some students cannot afford food because of high rents? A terrible failure of public policy.
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Another suggestion to the Government. Make Simon Harris Minister for the Rollout of the Vaccine. Give Higher Education to a junior minister for now.
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Embarrassing day for those of us who thought at the time that Sinead O’Connor might have gone too far in tearing up a picture of the Pope. She was ahead of her time.
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Simon Harris’s communications skills emerging as a powerful force in this pandemic nightmare. The failure in health has been a failure in politics. And I have covered every Minister for health since Barry Desmond. The entire political process stands indicted.
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I hate to say this, because she is a pleasant person personally. Arlene Foster is a deeply negative force in NI politics. Her criticism of media coverage of SF tributes to the Queen the last straw. What would she have said if SF behaved otherwise?
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The Irish capacity to begrudge. Some now turning on
@donie
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How, in the name of sanity, can Cheltenham go ahead? Surely no Irish person is crazy enough to travel?
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Clifford brothers lining out today with Kerry, despite their mother’s death. Dedication, bravery, courage.
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Sinn Fein is now the party, North and South. Let us scrutinise their social and economic policies, not that absurd claim about the IRA army council.
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Well done, Graham Norton.
Graham Norton responds to the idea of Boris Johnson returning as PM.
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Should the Dail not be sitting? This is a national health crisis, the biggest since the scourge of TB.
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Got the vaccine today. Thanks to the dedicated and hardworking medical people.
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Ireland is a proud member of the EU. It has been good for us in so many ways, not least in opening our minds on social issues. The little Englanders, pining for empire and and mindlessly following Bojo, cannot understand that.
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I am announcing my candidacy for the Presidency.I intend to nominate myself, irrespective of Constitution. My campaign will be based on my interest in free All-Ireland tickets and access to social housing in the Phoenix Park. The massive groundswell of support is heartening.
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Can we get a grip? Nobody should be taking holidays abroad, irrespective of their circumstances, given this pandemic. There should never have been a green list.
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The contrast. The well-heeled, causing traffic jams on their way to their holiday homes and breaking the law. Frontline workers risking their lives in an attempt to keep others alive. Unholy Thursday.
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Re that SF councillor’s homophobic outburst. I couldn’t care less whether a candidate is gay, straight, or whatever, whether they have children or not. I’m looking for competent, honest people. We had enough of that “family man” crap in the Ireland of the Magdalene laundries.
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I repeat what I said earlier. Those involved in house party groups, irrespective of age and group, are a disgrace. I stand over that.
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I expressed sympathy on a human and political level with the Taoiseach, who is doing a good job abroad. I make no apologies for that, and I stand over it. Those anonymous headbangers, hurling abuse at me, are wasting their time. You will be blocked, you idiots.
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I couldn’t care less about the largely anonymous abuse heaped on me because of my opposition to house parties by any age group. What I find truly disturbing is that some people think they are acceptable in the middle of dealing with a killer pandemic.
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The FG bluster about SF hard to take. Let us hear more from FG, in power for several years, about the homeless, those suffering in so many ways from the pandemic, the health services etc. FG is reducing politics to a petty pointscoring game at a time of national crisis.
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I’m sorry, Sean. Nothing personal. This is drivel.
Seán Gallagher gives his presidential pitch in 60 seconds or less
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Always intrigued by the political attacks on the Healy-Raes for their wealth, accumulated through hard work from a base of poverty in the 1940s. Interesting that nobody throws Simon Coveney’s wealth at him. Inherited wealth ok, it seems.
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My thanks to everybody for the good wishes on my health and the nice words on my article in today’s Irish Times. Greatly appreciated. I am humbled by it all, although the Editor advised me this afternoon that in his experience Kerry does not do humility.
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Hell is not hot enough, nor eternity long enough, for the HSE hackers. Attacking the ill is heinous.
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The vitriolic campaign against SF, mostly contrived to pave the way for an FG-FF government with others, is boosting the SF rallies. What about housing and health? Eoin O Broin wrote a book about housing. . Doubt it was ghostwritten by shadowy figures. This is a circus.
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We are plunging to new depths of absurdity We are in the middle of a pandemic that is killing people and leaving many in difficult circumstances. And there is a controversy about the Taoiseach consulting his notes on the Late Late so as to get his facts right. Ring Joe Duffy!
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A lot of complaints about hotel prices. A friend and her partner opting for a foreign package holiday after determining what it would cost to holiday in Ireland. Conor Pope highlighted this recently in
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Time for
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Got a call today from a nurse friend at breaking point. She wonders why this Government cannot pay student nurses but set a handsome salary for the next Sec Gen of the Department of Health.
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Reminded today of a quote from Fr John Hayes, founder of Muintir na Tire, in the 1950s. ‘Ireland is too busy being Catholic to be Christian.’
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Let’s all cool it. We ignored NPHET last December in the belief we could save Christmas. The rest is history. The CMO has no agenda except the preservation of public health.
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It is time to cease this relentless onslaught on NPHET. It is making recommendations based on public health, lives saved, illness prevented. Deeply unpleasant, but reality.
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Leo Varadkar is entitled to a social life, but there are times when symbolism is important. Attending a concert in London failed that test.
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Will we ever see the back of the Burkes? Tedious family.
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In a Dublin hospital for routine medical stuff today. Frontline health workers told me they have yet to receive the one thousand euro. Wasn’t the man who got the eighty grand, on top of his inflated salary, fortunate with the speed of it all in his case?
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The DUP, out of harmony with the majority view on various issues in Northern Ireland, whinges on. Easy to see how the late Martin McGuinness, who showed infinite patience in dealing with the peace process, finally lost that patience.
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Don’t know what shape the next government will be, but I would like to see Eoin O Broin get a run as housing minister. Nobody worked harder in opposition on the issue.
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So it seems FF and FG have discovered this week that there is a housing crisis. Glory be!
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No time for Philip Schofield, but Éamonn Holmes coming across as a bitter little man with his own agenda. Why did he not speak out when they were colleagues? Hint of homophobia also.
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A thought for Joe Biden. Appoint Hillary Clinton ambassador to Ireland. She understands the Good Friday Agreement.
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Showing some American visitors around Dublin city centre. They are unimpressed, to put it mildly. They have also been reading about the attacks on tourists. Dreadful image.
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On this evening, let us remember the many fine and idealistic rank-and-file members of religious orders, some cousins of mine. One, a missionary nun in her 80s, is still working with the poor in Ecuador. She was never afraid to challenge authority. There are many like her.
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I hope the Government has a large dose of cop on with their pancakes. Attempting to bar some journalists from a health briefing was redolent of Trump and BoJo. The Taoiseach must severely reprimand the Minister for Health.
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What is the big deal about the SF rallies? I recall huge rallies held by the now defunct PDs in the 1980s. It is called politics!
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I don’t get Mrs Brown’s Boys. Not remotely funny. I tried again on this New Year’s Eve and failed. Sad, I know!
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A friend of mine is a landlord with one property. Self-employed, it is his pension and security for the advancing years. Some of his tenants are mature single people who are unable to buy their own place. They have been his tenants for years. He is not the problem.
#housing
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Still no explanation from Electric Ireland on why they have reduced bills for businesses but not consumers. Their bills have rocketed. This smacks of exploitation.
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Katherine Zappone is in receipt of a generous Oireachtas pension funded by taxpayers. She owes it to the Irish people to attend the committee meeting.
Committee is also set to invite Martin Fraser, the State’s highest-ranking civil servant, to appear
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The Taoiseach gets ill in the US and there is gloating from some quarters. The Tanaiste and his partner offer accommodation to Ukrainians and there is sneering from some quarters. Nasty.
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I recall meeting John Hume at the height of the vitriol he suffered during the Hume-Adams talks. He was a broken man. Perhaps those responsible might now apologise.
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Will the Government introduce a new super-nurse grade in hospitals, paying 16,000 euro extra? After all, they did it effortlessly when it came to their own super junior ministers.
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I don’t wish to be personal, but every time I read about the Burke family, I see the ethos of Ireland in the 1950s. Thankfully, we emerged from that, with some kicking and screaming.
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What a PR disaster. Government announces another ten advisors on a day when people are getting reduced PUP payments and Ireland is battered from the pandemic fallout.
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Well done.
For anyone concerned about the donkey being dragged by a car in the video shared yesterday afternoon, we can confirm that we assisted with the seizure of this animal, & 6 others. Edenderry Garda ask witnesses to contact Tullamore Garda Station on 057 932 7600
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I read this letter early this morning. I read it again a short time ago. I can’t get it out of my head. It is the saddest Christmas piece I have read in decades. Superbly written.
This letter in today’s Irish Times is one of the saddest things I’ve ever read in the pages of the newspaper. Life can be unspeakably cruel. The letter also makes me feel infinitely privileged for all that I have.
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People are losing their lives in a pandemic, others are in difficult circumstances, people have lost their jobs, businesses have closed. And Eamon O Cuiv is talking about the Irish language. Mr O Cuiv has a large public service salary and can look forward to a handsome pension.
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The DUP were a pathetic sight in the North today.
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I was in a Dublin hospital yesterday. I’m back there later today. Routine stuff. Overwhelmed by the commitment of the medical staff. Pay the nurses properly, for Christ’s sake. This is a disgrace.
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Strong performance by Simon Coveney and Simon Harris today. The selfishness of some young people breathtaking. Where are their parents?
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The Burkes are insufferable. The daily sight of that tragic figure outside a midlands school gives me the creeps.
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Catherine Corless, in her work on the Tuam babies’ scandal, has done more than any cleric in this country in any sphere.
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Apologies to everybody. I thought I had this cursed virus. A doctor friend has assured me I have not! Kerry angst! It is all about us!
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For decades, Unionist politicians denied nationalists basic rights in jobs, housing etc. Now they are refusing to recognise the democratic process.
#DUP
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Ryan Tubridy has been an inspiration since this nightmare virus came upon us, hitting the right note on radio and television. Best wishes for a speedy return to full health.
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FG and FF still don’t get it. They jumped on and distorted perfectly reasonable comments by Mary Lou McDonald on the civil service. SF’s rise in the polls is due to failures on the part of FG and FF in areas like housing and the health services. Will they ever learn?
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RTE’s Morning Ireland reporting on house parties in Cork. Are people brain dead, apart from being utterly irresponsible?
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I don’t get it. What is the self-destruct button in our national psyche? Why are there crowded pubs and restaurants at a time of a national pandemic?
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Incredible that some unionists are flying the Parachute Regiment’s flag on the 50th anniversary of mass murder in Derry.
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Please, spare us the smugness about the Taoiseach’s bad luck in getting Covid. Could be any of us.
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The revelation that Sinead O’Connor died from natural causes is a reminder to us all not to engage in idle speculation.
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Time to cut out this nonsense about saving Christmas and focus instead on saving lives, health, jobs and incomes now. That means dealing ruthlessly with those deliberately breaking the rules who have brought us to this sorry pass.
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This is quite a gesture.
At a time when so many people have lost their jobs & funding is needed for front line health & care services I cant accept a wage increase.
I am again returning the full post FEMPI pay restoration & increase (€8188.44) to the exchequer. I am paid more than enough.
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I find the negative comment about David Clifford offensive. A brilliant young footballer, who has had to deal with personal tragedy, he is a role model. No Kerry footballer, since the Mick O’Connell of my youth, has made such an impact.
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