F. M. O'Donnell
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President/GenSocIRL☘️🇮🇪🇪🇺🇻🇦🇷🇸🇲🇪 🇺🇦🇸🇰🎶 Ambassador/director/trustee/author; Fellow/World Academy https://t.co/HuNeAuG0Ip
Vienna, Dublin, & Cyberspace
Joined March 2011
Níor labhair mé mórán Gaeilge ó d’fhág mé Éire i 1976; ná ó tháinig mé go Vín 🇦🇹, le maireachtáil i mo scor de chuid na Náisiún Aontaithe🇺🇳. Nach iontach an rud é go raibh craic againn i dteach tábhairne "Long Hall" aréir, sa Ghaeltacht "Pop-Up", a d'eagraigh ambasáid na hÉireann
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This better not happen to Ireland, given the prospect of presidential v coalition disputes: political vaccillation and uncertainty in France is depressing investment & consumption, costing it 0.4-0.3% GDP loss, with growth predicted to drop to 0.7%, with unemployment rising to
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And finally, we must assume Brexit Britain benefits in more ways than just regaining its independence from the defunct UK!! (sorry to have burdened you with Northern Ireland for a century, but you asked for it!) risks mitigated: No UK clawback or trade war (enough of that Dev era
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Irish Unity - Benefits: Trade & market Integration: Seamless all-island economy doubles cross-border trade (€6 billion → €12 billion/year by 2030). Premise: in return for savings to HM Treasury, ROI gains tariff-free NI-GB access ; all-island GDP grows 3.5-5.5% above baseline
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Irish Unity costs: The primary short-term burden falls on ROI taxpayers. NI's public spending exceeds revenues by £9-10 billion annually (2023 figures), equivalent to 5-7% of ROI's GDP. IFS estimates initial one-off costs at €20-30 billion for harmonising pensions, debt (NI's
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🧵Good political analysis by Justine McCarthy on prospects leadership change in @fiannafailparty leading to possible alliance with @sinnfeinireland, But what of the economics? Here's one take, on 5-10 year scenarios: Irish reunification - integrating Northern Ireland (NI) into
irishtimes.com
The Minister for Justice is unafraid to say he wants a single sovereign state for Ireland
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Ireland falls into deserved disrepute.
OPINION: Catherine Connolly's Irish presidential win highlights how delusional the country has become when it comes to security. It should also serve as a wake-up call for other EU members in terms of the country’s unreliability on defense issues. https://t.co/NNzoRla2sd
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Think again, Vova - it seems you have a dramatic retreat on your hands, now in oil, and next in Ukraine 🇺🇦. https://t.co/oyUx3N1C9E
@TuckerCarlson @andrii_sybiha
Vladimir Putin🇷🇺: ‘US🇺🇸 elites need to understand the world has changed…the most sanctioned country in the world is Russia, yet Russia became the largest economy in Europe.’ What is the point of sanctioning Russian oil? Even if it actually works, energy prices rise in the US
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We the peoples of the United Nations, determined to honour our millions of innocent dead including multiple genocides' victims, hereby award the Order of the Gilded Zombie to the hatchet & veto-wielding powers of the permanent members of the UN Security Council, in recognition of
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Mit ihrem Gelöbnis am heutigen Nationalfeiertag leisten die Rekrutinnen & Rekruten einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Bewahrung & zum Schutz unserer liberalen demokratischen Ordnung & aller damit verbundenen Werte. Es geht letztendlich um unser höchstes Gut: unsere Freiheit! 1️⃣
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Here. Fareed Zakaria makes an excellent analysis of what ails our democracies today. Now afflicting Ireland too https://t.co/9r94hhMz4D This should be seen in tandem with Collison’s excellent article in the Irish Times @DanMulhall @patrickc @davidmcw @RMcGreevy1301 @danobrien20
edition.cnn.com
Dissatisfaction with democracy is high across the Western world. It feels like the erosion in public confidence during the 1970s, Fareed says, but with an important difference: Today, people doubt...
@DanMulhall @DavidMarra @MaryKenny4 @rte Thats a fair enough proposal. I ran for the Seanad in 2011, for NUI constituency, but living abroad, we were 27 candidates for 3 seats, which were won by two incumbents, @RonanMullen and the late Fergal Quinn, along with the popular Dr John Crown. All had name recognition in
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“The power of genocide as the dominant moral language of our time”: (framing) one target at a time: The (“military”) logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide
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By attaching a military goal to each act of killing, Israelis of all stripes could partake in the slaughter without questioning the morality of their actions.
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A warning on UN Day. 🇺🇳
NEW: France’s top general, Gen. Fabien Mandon, has warned lawmakers that the French armed forces must be ready within three to four years for a potential shock or test from Russia marking one of the starkest assessments yet from Paris. The Russians are reorganizing with one goal
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Outrage as Ireland picks ex-Meta lobbyist as new data protection chief https://t.co/T1GfkGVqyt
@rtenews @griptmedia @declanganley @catherinegalway @SimonHarrisTD @HeatherH @NewstalkFM @ShonaMurray_ @RMcGreevy1301 @collision @patrickc
euobserver.com
Civil society is outraged by Ireland data protection agency — the key one in the EU — picking a former Meta lobbyist as its new commissioner.
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Wishing you all a thoughtful and reviving United Nations Day, 24 October. It has been 80 years since its foundation. Many of us are not sure it will make it to its 100th. Below, a cheerful rendition of our global flag designed for us for an MDG campaign back in early 2000s then
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Real relative size (red) vs. Mercator projection (blue). Amazing how Britain shrinks relative to Ireland. Antarctica missing. And the biggest country, still greedy for territory, Russia, is not so dominating after all. Africa dominates, and will soon demographically
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Huge, just like next door.
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