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Elon Musk, Twitter’s chief executive, has criticised proposed Irish laws on hate speech as "a massive attack on freedom of speech"
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X has instructed staff not to suspend users that post explicitly racist, sexist and homophobic content, or who send sexual material to another person, as part of a new policy that has radically stripped back the company’s moderation of abusive material.
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President: We must not drift into Nato and become buried in other people's agendas
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In an exclusive interview with the Business Post, President Higgins has given a strongly worded warning about deviating from Ireland’s traditional policy of “positive neutrality”.
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Three quarters of people think Ireland ‘taking in too many refugees'
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‘People must decide do they want a puppet or a President’ - Michael D Higgins
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Red C poll: three out of four think Ireland has taken too many refugees
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Michael O’Leary says he’d ‘happily’ offer UK deportation flights to Rwanda
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Elon Musk has criticised proposed Irish laws on hate speech as "a massive attack on freedom of speech."
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Mary Lou McDonald has hit back at Leo Varadkar’s criticism of Sinn Féin policy changes as “politics for slow learners”, saying she doesn’t think such a remark should be dignified with a response.
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A new study has found that the €220 per week paid to Ukrainian refugees without employment in Ireland is the highest of any EU country
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President warns against getting involved ‘in other people's agendas' and is critical of the European Union for its increasing military posturing
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Broadcaster Niall Boylan to contest Dublin seat in EU elections
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Bartra Capital has started to advertise its first shared living units in Ireland at €1,880 a month, which is nearly €800 more than it told planning authorities the units would cost to rent.
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Clerys owner: “Dublin is actually heading down the sewer... there are streets where retailers have hired private security to patrol the streets for these reasons... Dublin is circling the drain at the moment in the context of the anti-social behaviour.”
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Elon Musk’s X has cancelled a trust and safety contract with an Irish outsourcing company, resulting in 72 redundancies
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Red C Poll: Three in five say Ireland has too many Ukrainian war refugees
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Minister Eamon Ryan must resign insists Ryanair over Dublin Airport passenger cap chaos
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Exclusive interview with Caitríona Balfe - cover star of
@IrishTatler
free with the Business Post this Sunday - on motherhood, the new Oscar-tipped film
#Belfast
, another season of hit show
#Outlander
, and environmental campaigning with
#ProjectCaiTREEna
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Peter McVerry: The government is ‘running an economy, not a ‘society’
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Ryanair has called on Transport Minister Eamon Ryan to resign, after a number of Green Party TDs, including Junior Ministers in his own party and MEP’s, raised objections to the lifting of the 32 million passenger cap at Dublin Airport
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Married to the truth: Is Julian Assange’s incarceration coming to an end?
Stella Assange spoke to this newspaper in a sit-down interview at the European Parliament in Strasbourg last month
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Matt Cooper (
@cooper_m
): Despite JP McManus' Robin Hood status in his native region, the truth is that his decision to be a tax resident in Switzerland deprives this country of huge amounts of money
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Michael McNamara, the Independent TD for Clare, told the Business Post that the country’s economy could not sustain another sustained shutdown and the public would “snap” if they were required to do so. Larissa Nolan reports
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Tomorrow’s front page. Pick up a copy in stores or subscribe at
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The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is seeking changes to the government’s hate crime bill to deliver “stronger protection” for people’s constitutional right to freedom of expression.
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.
@TheNotoriousMMA
could ask for stake if $4bn
@ufc
sold to new owners, writes
@TomLyonsBiz
@
@John_Kavanagh
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Fine Gael TD John Paul Phelan has admitted that a Dublin rental property he part-owns is not currently registered with the Residential Tenancies Board
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Elaine Byrne: Don't let the Bertie-speak obscure why Ahern is not fit to hold the office of president
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The Irish government has paid more than €11 million ($12 million) to buy one of the most expensive homes in Washington DC to be used as the new residence for Geraldine Byrne Nason, the Irish ambassador to the US, the Business Post can reveal.
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Elon Musk’s X hits out at Helen McEntee for ‘inaccurate’ claim about Garda contact over Dublin riots
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Red C Poll: Three in five say Ireland has too many Ukrainian war refugees
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It is ‘not appropriate’ for election candidates to present radio shows - broadcasting regulator
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Several Independent TDs who have previously supported the government have indicated that they won’t support Harris in the vote for Taoiseach
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‘They are not republicans’ – Mary Lou McDonald calls out far-right’s use of tricolour and nationalist language
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Ireland gets zero votes in bid to host EU anti-money laundering agency
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‘I felt safer in India than walking home alone in Dublin’
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Jim O'Callaghan: Hate Speech law is deeply problematic and confusing for our courts and Gardai
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Red C poll: Two-thirds of public think Ireland has taken in too many refugees
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Analyis: Roderic O’Gorman’s error about number of children missing from state care is a serious matter
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The latest BP/Red C poll shows that 75% of people feel 'Ireland has now taken in too many refugees'.
Govt has been at pains to dismiss the “Ireland is full” sentiment - but research signifies the same attitude hasn’t trickled down to the public. How did we get here? A 🧵
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'Ireland is by far the most successful country in the EU at integrating migrants, and it’s vital that debate on the issue is not allowed to descend into emotional soundbites'.
@stephenkinsella
on immigration.
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Sinn Féin’s support has surged to a record high as Fine Gael lose ground, in the latest Business Post/Red C poll.
@obraonain
reports
Read more in tomorrow's Business Post or subscribe at
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Daniel McConnell appointed editor of the Business Post
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Alan Kelly: People of Ireland ‘outraged’ at prosecution of Garda over fatal burglary gang crash
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Shane Coleman: ‘Farmers hate them, the working class think they're shite' – it's tough being a Green
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A large majority of voters, seven out of every ten, is demanding the abolition of the €5 billion a year Universal Social Charge before the next General Election, according to the latest Business Post/Red C poll.
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Deirdre Heenan: No matter what Biden said, the DUP would have spit the dummy
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Sinn Féin has extended its lead over the government parties since the release of the budget, in its strongest ever performance in a Business Post
@REDCResearch
poll.
@obraonain
reports.
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Car lanes will begin to be phased out of College Green from next year as part of wider plans to remove traffic from Dublin city centre over the next three years, the Minister for Transport has said.
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Meta’s data centre in County Meath used the same amount of electricity, and emitted carbon at the same rate, as roughly 151,000 Irish homes in 2021.
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Google confirms withdrawal from Web Summit
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Red C poll: No ‘freedom day’ bounce for coalition as SF retains commanding lead –
@obraonain
reports.
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Exclusive: Intel and Siemens withdraw from Web Summit following Paddy Cosgrave’s Israel tweet
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Sinn Féin should fret as 18-34-year-old age group begins to slip away from it
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Thousands of migrants will be detained, processed and deported before ever gaining access to the state at new border centres which are likely to be located near airports
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“Michael D Higgins’s presidency has become obsessive in its pioneering of a jaded and dangerous Marxist ideology that caused endless misery, deprivation and disaster wherever it was tried.”
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Red C poll: Sinn Féin back down to 25% as independents surpass Fianna Fáil
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RTÉ’s head of human resources has admitted she signed off on an arrangement that meant a former senior executive at the broadcaster got a €450,000 exit package without approval from its executive board.
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National debt one of world’s highest at €42,000 per person
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Mary Lou McDonald’s party is up two points to 29 per cent, putting it level with Fine Gael.
@obraonain
reports.
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Health spending requires same level of scrutiny as RTÉ finances
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Shane Coleman: Sinn Féin rallying cry of ‘Tiocfaidh ár lawsuit’ poses serious questions for party
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Sinn Féin leads in Red C poll for the first time, the first time Sinn Féin has led the poll since Red C began its tracking for the Business Post in 2003, reports
@obraonain
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Ireland mulls joining Nato subsea group after Russian boat activity
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Migration top priority for Irish voters ahead of EU elections
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Mark Ruffalo urges Eamon Ryan to assess risk of terrorist attack on LNG terminals
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“Fingal County Council needs to withdraw this stupid enforcement notice. You can’t have local government setting national transport policy. It’s the definition of the tail wagging the dog.”
Michael O’Leary has never been a man to mince his words.
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Daniel McConnell appointed editor of the Business Post
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Editorial: Hate speech laws must not curtail freedom of expression
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Eamon Ryan, the Minister for the Environment, is planning to speed up the introduction of bus-only sections on public roads in an attempt to force more drivers out of their cars.
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Married to the truth: Is Julian Assange’s incarceration coming to an end?
Stella Assange spoke to this newspaper in a sit-down interview at the European Parliament in Strasbourg last month
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Tánaiste Micheál Martin has launched an attack on The Ditch website in the Dáil by saying that it is a “political organisation” and not an “independent media organisation"
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Tomorrow's front page. Pick up a copy in stores or subscribe at :
🗞️ Sinn Féin support plummets in latest poll
🗞️ State spends almost €2bn housing migrants since 2021
🗞️ More upheaval at Web Summit as senior figures depart
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Ireland should consider small nuclear power plants – French ambassador
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Sinn Féin would tax people fairly and spend wisely if elected, says Pearse Doherty
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Lucinda Creighton: UN leader Guterres should stand down, and western leaders must support Israel
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Bill to ban private planes in Ireland passes first stage in Dáil
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Jim O’Callaghan: Hate Speech law is deeply problematic and confusing for our courts and Gardai
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Leo Varadkar has said he was not party to an alleged legal strategy on minimising public payouts for “illegal” nursing home charges.
This is despite his time spent as Minister for Health.
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Michael O'Leary was hit in the face with a pie by environmentalists in Brussels, where he is protesting against the impact of French air traffic control strikes on European overflights
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The state has spent almost €2 billion on housing asylum seekers and Ukrainians in just two-and-a-half years, eclipsing its equivalent spend in the previous two decades combined
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Puma Ends Sponsorship of Israel’s National Football Team
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2022 in Review: Car lanes will begin to be phased out of College Green from next year as part of wider plans to remove traffic from Dublin city centre over the next three years, the Minister for Transport has said.
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Irish Times and Examiner parent firm records loss of €1.1m
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Ryanair now world's largest airline by market cap as value surpasses that of Delta Airlines and Southwest Airlines, two of the major US carriers
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Shane Coleman: Forget the failed state guff - Ireland is a great country with issues like any other
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Writing in
@sundaybusiness
@nntaleb
warns the world has learned absolutely nothing from the economic crisis
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The Minister for Children’s claim that only two children were missing from state care was not just wrong - the opposite was true: the majority were still unaccounted for, Daniel Murray writes
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Isme: ‘Dublin retailers don’t fear immigrants, they fear thugs’
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Reporters Without Borders accuse Sinn Féin of creating ‘chilling effect’ among Irish journalists
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Eamon Ryan to phase out free car parking for Department of Transport staff
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The Business Post's view: Filthy streets and open drug-taking are laying waste to our capital’s reputation
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The government is abolishing Vat on solar panels in a move which will reduce the typical cost for homeowners by €1,000.
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People will not stop flying because of climate change concerns, says Ryanair’s O’Leary
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Economists in Ireland have been found to “exhibit the largest ideological bias” in the world, new academic research has shown.
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X advised staff not to suspend users who posted racist slurs during the Dublin riots, including accounts that called immigrants “scum” and Muslims “filthy”, the Business Post can reveal.
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“He spends 20 hours-plus a day in his cell," says Stella Assange, the wife of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
"A friend of his in prison committed suicide in 2020, and last year he had a mini-stroke. He is fighting for his life."
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The government moved to reassure US multinationals that the country can address the housing crisis, after American firms identified it as the biggest obstacle to further investment in Ireland
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