Tom O’Hanlon
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Rugby & CLG fan. Love history, politics and cinema. Mechanical not digital. Always civil. Want to live in a little castle or crannóg! 🏰
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The green Harp flag was the traditional flag of Ireland from the 1640s rebellion up until 1919
The Tricolour was adopted as the flag of the Irish republic in 1919 & by the Free State in 2022
If there was a vote, which would you choose?
Like = Harp flag
Retweet = Tricolour
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Is this the moment where Varadkar singlehandedly loses the referendum for the government???
IMPORTANT: Leo Varadkar accidentally said the quiet part out loud in the below video. He has urged people not to share this clip under any circumstances. Thank you.
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What happened to Dublin……
O'Connell Street, Central Aisle, 1962
This photo is from the Dublin City Photographic Collection.
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And yet because Luke O’Neill has a Vaccine Passport QR code he was entitled to go into a bar, restaurant or gym infecting people with Covid 🦠 while a virus-free unvaccinated person is legally excluded and segregated 😔
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Population
Ireland (26/32) 🇮🇪 = 5.2 million
Denmark 🇩🇰 = 5.9 million
Asylum Applications 2023
Ireland 🇮🇪 = 13,277
Denmark 🇩🇰 = 2,482
If you create large pull factors, combined with high grant rates, high revocation rates and almost no enforcement you end up like 🇮🇪 not 🇩🇰
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A Yes campaigner on the Brendan O’Connor show this morning on RTÉ 📻 had the audacity to accuse the NO side of triumphalism
Our betters have no sense of self awareness….
YES victory 2018 ⬇️ NO victory 2024 ⬇️
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Watched the RTÉ Prime Time Referendum Debate
I’m biased but Maria Steen really was uber impressive tonight. Made very clear articulate points that really got to the heart of the issues
Martin was rattled & resorted to bully boy tactics at the end that spectacularly backfired
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If NO triumphs today I think the key reasons were:
- McDowell legal knowledge adding credibility
- AONTÚ leader Peadar Tóibín destroying Thomas Byrne on live tv
- Sen Tom Clonan’s passionate opposition to the Care ref
- Maria Steen schooling Mícheal Martin on Prime Time
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Not watching the video but feel physically sick reading about the stabbing of children in France
I don’t care what anyone calls me, anyone that arrives at Dublin airport and destroys their passport, should be held in detention indefinitely until they can be deported
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‘Hero school worker Leanne Flynn Keogh who put life on the line to save kids out of intensive care’
Great news!!
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Strong words from AONTÚ 🟧 representative for Cork North West, Becky Kealy
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Wow RTÉ news saying there was a rural area of Wexford with a 93% NO vote!!!
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@FergalBowers
@rtenews
“Most journalists who have covered Covid-19 have been fearless”
Perhaps you could point us to the quotes Fergal where you strongly questioned public officials for the medical evidence & human rights assessment that supported the introduction of Covid Passport discrimination?
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That little blue dot 🔵 in has been running Ireland for far too long now!
Help AONTÚ 🟧 bring back common sense to our country! 🇮🇪
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Hang on, is this the same guy who was mocking ordinary families who were missing flights last year because of the massive queues at Dublin airport to check their privilege, that they shouldn’t be flying?
And now he’s going on a journey around the world? 🌎✈️ ✈️ ✈️
Philip Boucher-Hayes goes on an extraordinary journey across the planet to see the effects of climate change 🌎
#RisingTides
: Ireland's Future in a Warmer World | Starts this Wednesday at 9.35pm |
@rteplayer
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“The court heard the accused works as a labourer earning €700 a week, plus €30 social welfare.”
Why is a man from a safe country, earning €700 a week, being given rent free accommodation, free meals & no bills, by the Irish state?
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@breakingnewsie
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I see Hazel Chu of the Green Party is on the
@RadioBrendanRTE
show again
What other politician who is only a county councillor is given this level of free promotion by RTÉ?
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Maybe it’s just me, but amid all of the Biden cringe I still think our head of state, Mary McAleese, mouthing 'WOW' when the queen of Britain spoke a couple of words in Irish on a visit here was the most cringeworthy of all
Why do we crave foreign approval & affirmation so much?
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“One of them is a violent and dangerous criminal in his 20s who was charged with a serious offence five weeks ago and was out on bail.”
Why was a “violent and dangerous criminal” out on bail after being charged with a serious offence?? 😡
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@rte
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How to fix Dublin:
- Flood city centre with permanent large visible Garda foot patrols
- Build Thornton Hall prison
- Remove any Judge who consistently under sentences violent/repeat offenders
- Government fund DCC/Gardaí to implement broken window/zero tolerance policy
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“We are becoming a society where Dr. Holohan, and people like him, wish to ban us from living, in case we might die” 😔
Well said Mr.
@john_mcguirk
via
@griptmedia
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“He was due to be deported 20 years ago, but fought the order for five years. He eventually obtained an Irish passport.” - The Times
I wonder what the court’s reason for overturning the Deportation Order was?
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Fair play to
@lidl_ireland
🇮🇪 for staying closed today on St Stephen’s Day, so their staff could have a proper Christmas with their family & friends 🎄👏
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Heard on
@RyanTubridyShow
that hearing impaired kids could be exempt from wearing masks,or they could wear visors instead,to facilitate lip reading that they depend on for normal living.
Surely those kids need to be able to see other children’s faces to lip read,not their own?
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This is ridiculous, are we going to barricade the whole city??
Just start relentlessly enforcing Deportation Orders
The Grand Canal has been cleared of tents, and barricades have been erected along the south side, more being put in place along the north side of the canal
#GrandCanalOperation
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Seeing a lot of politicians & media types tweeting about the riot
But when I check their timeline there is nothing about the stabbing of primary school children in broad daylight
The riot was criminal but the child stabbings were something I never thought I’d see in Ireland 😔
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“U14 boys GAA team mugged at knifepoint”
No details on how many mugger/muggers, no approximate ages of the muggers given, no description of the muggers given, no appeal for witnesses?
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@rte
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The Lidlisation of our Garda Síochána 👮🏻♀️ uniform continues apace
The cheapening of the uniform just leads to less respect & authority for the wearers unfortunately
How did we go from this to this?
👇 👇
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Ashling Murphy's sister, Amy Murphy, told Josef Puska in her Victim Impact Statement:
"You were given an Irish welcome and support by the State. You repaid this by brutally murdering a beautiful and talented girl who contributed so much to society.”
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How did a 22 year old Iraqi man in Sligo, supposedly acting alone, have a hidden six figure sum of cash in his house?
‘Cash seized at home of Yousef Palani is being investigated by CAB’
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Wow this is explosive….every government Minister that has appeared on TV 📺 during the Referendum campaign had actually been told by the AG that it was not certain that single parent families would be covered by “durable relationships”……..😳
🚨Here is attorney general Rossa Fanning’s advice to government on tomorrow’s two referenda in full🚨
Download here:
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If spouse dies after 10 year of marriage & widow wants to ensure that their kids inherit the house when they themselves die does this mean that they have to avoid any type of relationship in case its classified as a “durable relationship” which would give a claim on their assets?
The second largest farmers organisation in the State, the ICMSA, wants the Government to clarify what a "durable relationship" means ahead of the referendum vote on 8 March
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Free Movement Regs says an EU citizen 🇪🇺 only has a right to reside in another EU state for longer than 3 months if they are a worker,or have sufficient funds to support them so that they don’t become a burden on the social welfare system of Ireland 🇮🇪
"There are various entitlements": Micheál Martin responds to a question by Ryan Casey, boyfriend of Ashling Murphy, about how Slovak killer Jozef Puska came to Ireland to be jobless on welfare for a decade. Question by
@Ben_Scallan
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#gript
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I hope people in coming years recognise how wrong this was!
Imagine an
@rtenews
headline ‘warning’ that:
“Travellers finding places they can get in”
“Trans people finding places they can get in”
“Black people finding places they can get in”
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@rtenews
State expenditure is currently about €110 Billion every year
If we are to reintegrate 20% of the national territory & nearly 40% of the national population for a cost of only an additional 18% (€20 Billion) expenditure per year that sounds like great value for money to me 👍
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@JRD0000
History will not remember you kindly
@gerryhorkan
Discrimination and segregation is always wrong 😔
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This is a remarkable statement
For years anyone reasonably pointing out that huge population increase could be a significant factor in the housing shortage or pressure on the provision of state services was called an extremist
Then the Tánaiste basically says the same things
Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said a "significant increase in population" is likely to result in a challenging Budget.
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Any representative group for Carers that still advocates for a Yes vote after watching this ⬇️ has been bought and paid for
#V
ótáilNílNíl
Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) says he believes it is not the responsibility of the state to look after people living with disabilities.
In what can only be described as comments made by a man adrift from the realities of life for many carers, Varadkar went on to talk about
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When Mattie McGrath said there were similarities to early 30s Germany he was condemned by Irish media/politicians
Yet when the High Priestess of Official Ireland Fintan O’Toole effectively writes that people who don’t take an injection are potential Nazis nothing is said?
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“freedoms for the fully vaccinated”
A very dangerous step towards discrimination by the Irish government today
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I thought when I looked about a week or two ago
@griptmedia
had something like 47,000 followers on Twitter
I see it’s now up to 62,300 followers!
The Examiner is on 275,000 followers. Lets help Gript overtake it!
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@Independent_ie
I don’t like name calling but Ms Ryan’s own behaviour was absolutely shameful
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This is simply jaw-dropping……
Michael McNamara TD grills Justice Minister Helen McEntee on asylum seeker returns:
"The other country accepted responsibility, accepted they would take them back, a decision was made to transfer them, and you transferred 3 of those 188 [asylum seekers]. Where's the problem?"
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Two weeks ago we had the usual suspects clamouring for schools to stay shut or there would be a disaster
Schools opened and everything is fine
We have to stop listening to the professional scaremongers
Lift all restrictions now for the sake of society
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Peadar Tóibín: Can I finish my sentence at least?
Gov Minister: “No, I will finish it for you!”
This line sums up the Irish government’s dismissive attitude to people’s legitimate concerns regarding the current immigration crisis
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If Martin says we are in “a much better place” again I’ll explode
How are we in a “better place” to last Christmas?
- More cases
- More hospitalisations
- More deaths
- More restrictions
- A Vaccine Passport society
- Discrimination
- Masks on kids
- Massive national debt
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What background checks were conducted on the Afghan national who has been charged with her brutal murder before he was allowed out into the community in Ireland?
Under what circumstances did he enter Ireland in the first place?
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‘It nearly feels like a bullying campaign’ – Shay Given gives backing to Callum Robinson over Covid vaccine choice
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For once I think our proximity to England has helped us to get our freedoms back
Would we be moving to drop restrictions if our nearest neighbours were fascist Austria or Canada instead of England?
So thank you to the Tory backbenchers that pushed the cause of civil liberties
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So thousands of Irish families are homeless and living in very unsuitable and insecure Emergency Accommodation, but at the same time we are building hundreds of actual homes & giving them to one specific nationality instead??
Shame on the Government
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Irish media warn about disinformation then print a misleading headline like the one below that just makes people not trust them.
At the very end of the article it states the offender is actually an Albanian national, not a Wexford man
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Unbelievable...Eamon Ryan is on
@morningireland
to speak about the lifting of Covid restrictions but instead of questioning the delay in reopening the RTÉ presenter was pushing him to retain domestic Vaccine Passports beyond March, and to add a booster requirement to them 🤬
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It’s good to see a small business take a principled stand against state imposed discrimination
“Galway restaurant is first business to challenge Covid cert atcourt”
via
@breakingnewsie
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“More storm names will be gender-neutral in future, as the tradition of swapping between girls' and boys' names is old fashioned, Evelyn Cusack has said”
Is anyone else sick of this never ending woke bolloxology? 🙄
#Aont
úArdFheis
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McNamara demolishes Donnelly here 👏
Michael McNamara counters Stephen Donnelly's claims that TDs against restrictions are reckless by pointing out the gov's own reckless behaviour neglecting health and ignoring science on vax waning and masks.
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“Puberty blockers: Sinn Fein calls for a guarantee in law that trans drugs can be given to children”
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“Achill Island boy (14) died three weeks after getting first dose of Pfizer Covid vaccine, inquest hears”
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“Claire Byrne is down 29,000 listeners”
Who could have guessed that a daily marathon of Covid hysteria would be a turn off for listeners....🤔
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You would never be able to build an apartment block or student accommodation without planning permission, to which citizens can lodge objections
However large numbers of men can be put into a small village overnight without any planning permission or proper process.That is wrong
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AONTÚ 🟧 call for the sacking of Roderic O’Gorman
Government neglect is placing vulnerable children in real danger.
Minister Roderic O Gorman's dept is putting children in unregulated accommodation with unvetted staff.
We have no confidence in him. O' Gorman has to go.
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My take:
- The Palestinians have a right to fight back militarily against Israel
- However stripping & parading around the dead naked body of an Israeli woman is disgusting and will sicken the bulk of ordinary people,& make people want to have nothing to do with their cause
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@lukeming
Maybe he just cares more about the future of his country than about the legalisation of cannabis?? 🤔
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AONTÚ 🟧 leader Peadar Tóibín
@Toibin1
has just announced on RTÉ radio’s
@thisweekrte
show that Aontú will contest EVERY CONSTITUENCY in the next general election!!! 👊
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That’s shocking bad manners!
Surely you see how bad that makes you look?
@LeoVaradkar
@EamonRyan
@MichealMartinTD
IGNORED: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar walks out of a press briefing as
@Ben_Scallan
is mid-sentence asking about government ministers spreading referendum misinformation.
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@loraob
Just biological males are restricted from the female category Lora, so you are fine to participate if you wish to
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Currently the Constitution says that the Gov has to support mothers so that they aren’t forced into work due to economic hardship
There is a Supreme Court case in April where a mother of a disabled son is seeking to rely on this protection
Now Gov want to scrap it in March 🤔
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I assume that Shane Coleman also told the likes of Chuck Feeney and George Soros to butt out when they were pumping large amounts foreign money into left wing lobby groups here to influence government policy?
Shane Coleman to Elon Musk: 'We don't need you butting in'.
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While Irish families 👨👩👧👦 are struggling to pay their household bills the Green Party 🟩 are literally bragging about how much if YOUR money they are giving away to other countries!!! 😡
I’m proud Ireland has pledged one of the highest per capita contributions to the new
#LossandDamage
fund.
#COP28
has started well but we now needs to focus on how we can raise the trillions needed, especially in the developing world, to meet our climate challenge.
#climatejustice
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Apparently from reports online the Ard Fheis of a registered political party in Ireland was violently attacked today by a group armed with weapons.
I don’t care how strongly you disagree with a party’s policies, if you are the one imposing violence then you are the violent thug
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@thejournal_ie
What sort of country gives actual houses to non citizens when it has thousands of homeless citizens of it’s own?
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@irishexaminer
This is ridiculous, how can they be fleeing somewhere in fear of their lives but are then going back there for some Christmas holidays?
And we are paying for all this
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Good to see the Irish public giving the
@IrishTimes
a proper ratio after they tried another hatchet job on
@SenatorKeogan
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My red lines for voting in any election are now: 🗳
- Opposition to Covid Passes🗽
- Common Sense not woke 🟧
- Pro Life 👣
- Pro Gaeilge ☘️
- Basic decency 🤝
What are other people’s priorities?
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Women of Ireland 👩🏻🦰🇮🇪
This is what Sinn Féin candidates think of you. Woman is just a gender identity, and both males 👨🏻 & females 👩🏻 can be a woman 👩🏻👨🏻 ⬇️⬇️
How can they be trusted to run the country when basic biology is a challenge?
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If he is a convicted rapist on the run why has his name and photo not been released?
“Gardaí launch manhunt amid fears rapist 'accidently released' from prison”
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The is just car crash utterly bizarre level nonsense
“Clearly, there's a great need for the facilities that a hotel offers to the community.”
Minister for State
@ThomasByrneTD
speaks to
@MiriamOCal
about government plans to establish a "community-owned" hotel in Roscrea.
@rtenews
|
#rtept
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@offtheball
I assume Off The Ball will now review the previous twitter history of all their sports guests prior to interviews and will challenge them on any previous tweets that a significant proportion of people would disagree with?
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One of these young people is a controversial and fearless anti-establishment figure in Ireland, the subject of protest, impeachment and much vitriol
The other calls herself Bambie Thug
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I don’t agree with Paul Murphy on many things at all
But he is 100% correct here. This legislation criminalises people for their private thoughts
Yet there is absolutely no coverage in the Irish media of this draconian legislation being passed in the Dáil yesterday
Legislating for "the creation of a thought crime."
Congratulations to
@paulmurphy_TD
for this outstanding defence of Free Speech today in Dáil Éireann.
We need more opposition TDs to stand up the dystopian repercussions of this Hate Speech bill.
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@irishexaminer
What sort of government actively works against the interests of its own citizens
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This is insane….how can a government discriminate against its own citizens so blatantly?…..and mugs will still vote for them!!!
While Irish students, after means test, are eligible for a grant of €3,099 if they live within 30km of the college, Ukrainian students receive on average €10,236 without means testing and regardless of distance. Their registration fee is also waived.
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@DarranMarshall
@bbctheview
@hazechu
@MarkCarruthers7
What’s the point of having several people on the panel to discuss an issue when all of them hold the same ideological view on that issue?
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Is he a reporter or an activist?
RTÉ’s
@GeorgeLeeRTE
imploring the 🇮🇪 government to get it finger out and do something to bring down our greenhouse gas emissions💨
If we don’t get our act together, we’ll have to pay out a fortune 💶 in fines… And we’ll still have to get our act together thereafter! 🤦🏻♂️
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In the face of an acute Housing Crisis the Australian government has announced that they will:
- Reduce incoming immigration to Australia by 50%
- Triple the fees for foreign homebuyers
What action is the Irish government taking to reduce demand?
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What overwhelming medical evidence did NPHET present to the cabinet to justify the unprecedented step of implementing legalised discrimination & segregation in Irish society?
If there was none then those who made that recommendation & decision should face legal consequences
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Is this the second time recently that far-left students have blocked access to the Book of Kells? 📖
If Trinity College cannot secure a crucial element of Irish heritage then it should be removed from their custody and placed in the National History Museum
We have shut down the Book of Kells in protest of Trinity's complicity in genocide in Gaza!
@tcd_bds
@tcdsu
@tcddublin
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Whatever ones opinion is on Mr Musk this is a very impressive scoop by growing Irish media outlet
@griptmedia
to get an interview with one of the most influential people in the world
Elon Musk exclusively tells
@griptmedia
: He will challenge an Irish hate speech law in court, and pay legal bills of any Irish person who is prosecuted under it.
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@fiannafailparty
@DonnellyStephen
He is bragging about the Irish government giving out 50,000 medical cards to people with no connection to Ireland while tens of thousands of Irish citizens don’t qualify for a medical card but can’t afford private medical insurance?
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