Roy O'Rourke
@Roy_O_Rourke
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LFC fan. Dad. Sick of corruption and the nonsense that goes with politics.
Dublin, Ireland
Joined May 2011
This is why they hate X. Social Media is by no means perfect but its an amazing tool against mainstream narratives. A large cohort of mainstream journalists & politicians left X this week. Burying their heads in the sand, using Grok as the excuse. The truth is, all we want is
Not a single article in the Sunday papers about Paschal Donohoe's World Bank Job (€600k) this morning. Not even one outraged #Columnists
#HowIrelandWorks
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A funeral director in Dundalk in Co. Louth has appealed to the public to help them find a funeral set of our Brass crucifix, Brass candle holders and candles and a coffin trolley cover that was taken from outside their premises. McGeoughs Funeral Directors took to social media
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Wow this is the coolest thing I have seen this year.
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@griptmedia One of many lies about the EU. Remember the single market? Remember scrapping VRT for European cars? Remember Ireland getting an opt out on immigration. Remember the promises to the fishing industry? All bollox
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JOHN MCGUIRK: During the Lisbon Treaty referenda of 2008 and 2009, the Irish Farmers Association explicitly told its members Ireland would retain a veto over trade deals. That was a lie: And it's a lie the IFA says might now destroy Irish farming. https://t.co/0obNAhiEeb
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"The IFA says there is a veto power and has called on the Government to use it."
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Digital ID is not just an ID card. It has the ability to connect to your health data, your spending history, your social media activity, and your bank account. Now think about what has happened over the last five years. Think about how many people opted out of government
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🚨 JUST IN: Poland's right-wing President Karol Nawrocki just VETOED a bill that would implement the European Union's censorship "Digital Services Act" "The state is supposed to GUARANTEE freedom, not restrict it!" 💯 We need MORE countries like Poland! 🇺🇸🇵🇱
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Diary of a small business owner 📒 First January payroll under Budget 2026: • Wages up 5% • Employees take home only ~2% extra • But the cost to the employer rises by 7.6% !! Due to layers of tax, pay rises increasingly benefit the system more than the worker... while
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🇮🇪🚨 The Irish government will now export our top-quality beef to China, while importing hormone-injected beef from Brazil - all so Germany can sell cars in South America. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael continue to prove, in ever new ways, how they've sold out Ireland.
The confirmation today that the Chinese market will reopen for Irish beef is a very important and positive development in our bilateral agri-food trade with China.
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🚨 HOLY CRAP… Nick Shirley went to the UK and came back with a WARNING for America. He says after seeing what’s happening over there, he knew the same playbook was coming to the United States — and now we’re watching it unfold. According to Nick, this is how Keir Starmer +
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How do you land a job with a salary of €600,000? Well you just buy your future employer (World Bank) off with an additional €10 million of Irish taxpayers money, right after you leave the peasants with a budget that benefited nobody. Fine Gael should be made answer how this
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‘By the 1950s, Europe successfully managed to produce enough food domestically to feed itself…now, we are unlearning the lessons of the past, and making ourselves more dependent on foreign food sources halfway across the world once again.’ Ben Scallan slams the Mercosur deal.
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Harris and Martin are announcing at the last minute that they will be voting againsty the Mercosor trade deal and they are only voting no because it has already got enough support. Both of these men are cowards who do not represent the best interests of this country.
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⚠️🇪🇺🇮🇪 EU ambassadors have approved the Mercosur deal by qualified majority. France, Poland, Austria, Ireland, and Hungary opposed it. Belgium abstained. Every other Member State voted in favour. This outcome was baked in by the Lisbon Treaty, which removed unanimity (Irelands
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FF was for Mercosur yesterday & is against it today. The change has happened because Italy voting for it giving FFG & the independents cover. Mercosur will bring beef full of banned hormones & antibiotics into Ireland. https://t.co/Idlo8r9UbY
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The Government has confirmed that Ireland will vote tomorrow against the Mercosur free trade agreement between the European Union and a number of South American countries.
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The Government start off saying it's for 'hate thought/speech'... Next it's *really* for citizen journalists types... then all journalists... then everybody. Kiss your privacy goodbye.
GARDAÍ would be granted powers to seize phones and laptops belonging to journalists under controversial planned legislation - Brian Mahon @irishdailymail Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan quietly published the Garda Síochána (Power) Bill on December 27. two days after
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🧵THREAD: The CSO has published its 2025 figures. They are devastating for Irish workers. This is not opinion. It is the State’s own data. Ireland looks rich on paper. In reality, working people are being slowly crushed. Let’s go through what the data shows.
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Imagine watching your dad break his back working his entire life to pay off his house. Cutting the grass every week, painting the exterior and cleaning the gutters. He dies at 75 happy and content that the house he cared for and paid for will go to his son. Maybe his son
Inheritance tax is the most evil tax ever imagined by dictatorial governments. Notice every country estate, every stately home, every castle, every listed property is currently for sale, and cheap. Nobody is buying and I don’t blame them. The young people used to strive to get
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Scandalous that in the grip of a housing crisis that will impact on Irish society for decades that: - Our government hands out our Social Housing to non-citizens - Our government allows non-EEA citizens to buy houses here when our young people see no chance of ever owning a home
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They made millions during COVID, and recruited basically none via no tender contract, as I regularly highlighted. Had FG minister threaten to sue me over bringing it up. But sure why would using ministerial positions to enrich your family need any accountability? @CarrollJennifer
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