Gavan Reilly
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Political correspondent @virginmedianews; 1/3 of The Group Chat; no.1 bestselling author of ‘'The Secret Life of Leinster House' - buy it at this link:
Dublin, Ireland
Joined May 2007
It’s out! 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 is in shops now! Arrrrrrrgh!
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Bertie Ahern has emerged as the preferred Fianna Fáil candidate in the upcoming presidential election – ahead of Taoiseach Micheál Martin.
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Labour agrees to formally support Catherine Connolly’s campaign for the presidency.
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RT @nicole_gernon: BREAKING: Conor McGregor has LOST his appeal against a High Court Jury's finding that he raped Nikita Hand . More on @Vi….
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This is why six different Irish cabinet members are on trade visits to Japan this year. Expect to see some lovebombing in Canada before the year is out.
@gavreilly Irish strategy should be: drum up trade of Irish products to BRICS nations; public should buy Irish foods, European wines, travel more to Europe/home/BRICS; withold use of Shannon airport, stop sale of warbonds. sell off state shares in Palantir asap; grow Irish industry.
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Trump banged the table and, if you overlook whatever the EU tariffs will do to increase the cost of living for Americans, he won. As so often seems to be the case, he manifested his own victory into existence.
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The price you pay for predictability. From Ireland’s perspective, having 15% as the sustainable rate - especially on pharma - is at least a firm indication of the future. It was either take this stable deterioration now, or risk a 30% rate next week and pharma uncertain.
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The ‘capitulation’ narrative on the U.S./EU deal is correct. EU exporters now have 15% tariffs where the previous average was ~5%, save for some protected sectors, plus massive commitments to buy American… while American exports are apparently treated/tariffed exactly as before.
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From @vonderleyen
🚨 @vonderleyen now confirming that the deal entails Europe agreeing (among other things) to buy more American LNG, and to have American-made AI chips powering Europe’s “gigafactories”.
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🚨 @vonderleyen now confirming that the deal entails Europe agreeing (among other things) to buy more American LNG, and to have American-made AI chips powering Europe’s “gigafactories”.
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Micheál Martin: . “It does mean that there will now be higher tariffs than there have been and this will have an impact on trade between the EU and the US, making it more expensive and more challenging. “However, it also creates a new era of stability that can hopefully.
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Simon Harris:. “While Ireland regrets that the baseline tariff of 15% is included in the agreement, it is important that we now have more certainty on the foundations for the EU-US trade relationship, which is essential for jobs, growth and investment. President von der Leyen.
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A deal which is literally worse (for Ireland) than the status quo, which is again worse than the situation as prevailed when Trump took office.
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Habemus deal… 15% tariff on Irish exports to US.
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The bus took the wrong exit from the roundabout outside Enniskillen and the Wallabies are currently en route to Markievicz Park.
Australia still haven’t arrived at the MCG… 20 minutes late. God help the bus driver when Joe Schmidt gets a hold of them. #NeverForget.
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Apropos of that Eoin Hayes news: the Irish State owns about €2m of shares in Palantir.
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Hayes had been given 7,000 shares in the company when he had worked for them earlier in his career, which were worth about $116,000 at the time of the October 7th attacks. When he sold them on July 26th - weeks after his election to Dublin City Council, not beforehand as he had.
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Eoin Hayes is back in the Social Democrats’ parliamentary party - and says he has donated $51,000 to three charities working in Gaza, a sum equivalent to the post-tax profit from the rise in his Palantir shares after October 7th 2023 @VirginMediaNews
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The Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs is to “strongly recommend” that the government’s rewrite of the Occupied Territories Bill should be expanded to include banning trade in services from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The committee has concluded its.
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