John McGuirk
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It will forever boggle my mind that there exists an organisation that can kidnap 1 and 3 year old babies, kill them, parade their coffins on stage to cheering crowds of civilians, and still be considered the victims by morons in the west.
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Germany basically doing what Donald Trump demanded that they do - to widespread ridicule - for the four years of his Presidency. I know it galls people to hear it, but Trump was right about some very big things.
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The new Dutch government is essentially to bin the green agenda entirely: Cuts to farming gone. Fuel taxes cut. Subsidies for heat pumps and insulation gone. Electric car subsidies cancelled. 4 new Nuclear plants. They're tossing the whole thing in the trash.
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Nova Djokovic has been in Australia what, ten days? They're not pulling his visa because he is a public health risk. They're pulling it to punish and humiliate him for a private medical decision. And people are cheering.
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Always baffled by people who pay for Ryanair's priority boarding, which grants them the right to stand in a stifling stairwell for 25 minutes.
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If you live in Coolock and somebody in Donegal is building a bungalow, you have the right to lodge a planning objection. If you live in Coolock and Government is proposing a tent encampment in your area for 1,000 migrant males, you have no legal rights at all. Thus, "unrest".
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Ireland: Where Jews get kicked out of Holocaust Memorial events so the President can criticise the Jewish state without protest. Great look, as they say, altogether.
A number of people have left, and others were removed from a Holocaust memorial event at the Mansion House in Dublin in protest over President Michael D Higgins' speech.
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The fall of Afghanistan is *precisely* the kind of global foreign policy catastrophe that really smart people used to worry would happen under Donald Trump, but never did. It's *precisely* the kind of thing that "smart" people like Biden were supposed to prevent ever happening.
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The thing about these tunnels near UN bases in Lebanon is that UNIFIL have been there nearly 50 years. At some point, UNIFIL soldiers literally had to sit there watching Hezbollah dig tunnels in a demilitarised zone, and do nothing at all about it.
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Some thoughts on the day's events, if I may:. When thousands of people protested peacefully in East Wall, and in other communities across Dublin and the country, their reward was not to be recognised or engaged with for their peaceful political participation. Their reward was.
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I dunno, and I'm not an expert, but I increasingly get the feeling that it might have been an error to allow a 16 year old girl from Sweden to set the political agenda on energy policy in the western world.
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The Irish entry to Eurovision sacked their choreographer today because, and I shit you not, their choreographer tweeted that this chap is a man.
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Kneecap are in trouble only because the nonsense tolerated and celebrated in Ireland is neither tolerated nor celebrated in other countries. They are only in trouble because they did what they did in the USA and the UK. Had they done it in Dublin they'd be the toast of the town.
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One thing I keep coming back to on Covid: In the early days there was footage from China of people falling down and collapsing in the street. People walking past dead bodies. That stoked mega fear. But nothing like it came close to happening. So where did that footage come from?.
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Serious question: If you are a country like Ireland with 90% of people fully vaccinated, and you end up having to keep or extend covid lockdown restrictions this winter, is it not absolutely fair to say that the vaccines have failed? At least in their main objective?.
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I've been pro-facemask since day one. But I'm starting to think it's time for us pro-maskers to start looking at the numbers, and confront the fact that we may have been completely wrong. If masks were designed to stop transmission, they've failed:.
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I am also told, by the way, but cannot 100% confirm, that the person who intervened to stop the attacker today was a Brazilian national. Whoever he was, a hero that should not be forgotten.
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Thoughts on the latest disgrace and international embarrassment for Ireland foisted on the country by our President:.
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This myth that "everyone loves Ireland" owes itself mainly to the fact that we're so tiny nobody ever has to choose between Ireland and their real allies. Now they do. And Israel knows exactly who the Americans et al will choose. By me on an utter folly:.
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I don't share a lot of my wife's photography on here, but this photo she took this week of a gosling greeting the morning sun is one that I'm just in love with.
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The worst thing about this video isn't actually the blatantly anti-semitic assault in Dublin by two women (one of them a People before Profit activist) who have no issue being recognised. It's all the other people sitting there and keeping their heads down, saying nothing.
🚨🚨🚨 Two Jewish Israelis on a business trip to Ireland were at Hardy’s Bar in Dublin 🇮🇪 where they were targeted and assaulted by two far-left, pro-terror, extremist activists: Léna Seale and Zeina Ismail. @OCallaghanJim @gardainfo @GardaTraffic @SimonHarrisTD
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Those calling for a ceasefire in Gaza really need to understand that there WAS a ceasefire, signed in June. Hamas broke it on Oct 7th. As they broke the one before that, and the one before that, and the one before that. As they will break the next one.
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The psychotic reaction to Garron Noone is very telling, I think. The desperation to shut him up isn't because the left thinks he's actually in a minority. It is because they know many people hold such views and the only way to keep them in check is to terrify them into silence.
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If you're born and raised in Tallaght, and go to school in Tallaght and Terenure, and are proud to drape yourself in the tricolour, then regardless of your race or ethnic heritage you're as Irish as I am. A smart country embraces all those who embrace it in return.
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I wore a mask when it was required throughout the pandemic, because, you know, the law. But if stupid people manage to bully the government into bringing them back, when they clearly don't work, I'll pay the fine instead. No more of this bollocks.
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The Irish Public, I am told, voted Israel in second place, with ten points. Well now.
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If the people of Coolock were opposing *any* other development - housing, infrastructure, a new road, or the Dublin metro - they would have legal options and avenues. The Government has shut off all legal avenues to challenge migration camps. Thus, well, that mess today.
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I mean say what you want about the "far right" but for all the nobel prizes and accolades and memorial lectures, the Good Friday Agreement types NEVER managed to unite working class loyalism and nationalism like this.
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I am, I must say, somewhat annoyed at myself for not asking this:. If as Ciara says here, the media have a duty to suppress facts in order "not to inflame", then what other facts are the media currently suppressing in order not to inflame?.
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Delighted for Kellie Harrington, not least because of what her country's media put her through two years ago for expressing an opinion.
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We have been told for years that migrants coming into Ireland are "vetted" and that concerns about "vetting" are a far-right myth. So how does a guy with dozens of previous convictions get in here and rape an 18 year old within three weeks of arriving?.
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To be clear, you can launch an unprovoked attack an innocent woman on the streets in Ireland, break her nose, leave her concussed, with PTSD, and brag about it on the internet afterwards. and not go to prison. For even a single day. Party of law and order @SimonHarrisTD?.
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This is the point that the Irish Government seems unwilling to accept: If it continues to label events in Gaza as a genocide (and it is going to the international courts to make that claim) then our OWN laws legally obligate us to accept every Gazan who seeks refuge.
Israel has rightly trolled Ireland and Spain that if they are going to falsely label the events in Gaza as a “genocide” then their own laws obligate them to accept asylum claims from Palestinians in Gaza and that they are willing to assist the transfer.
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I suppose the good news is that the 30 odd thousand people still without electricity cannot turn on their computers or radios to find out about this. This national obsession with Palestinians is becoming borderline demented.
Today I’m announcing an additional €20 million in funding for UNRWA to provide assistance to people in Gaza, the West Bank and Palestinian refugees across the Middle East. More details here:
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Ireland's political class has landed the country into what amounts to a hybrid war with the Israelis. They have done so almost entirely by accident, due to their belief that politics is a consequence-free game. By me:.
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I presume Ireland will now do the logical and decent thing and recognise the state of Taiwan. Given that the right to self determination and all that is so important, per the Government at its press conference.
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Kielty's silence here when asked to actually articulate a single idea is familiar to all of us who've encountered the smugness that passes for thinking in RTE.
Woke @PatricKielty (with his Trump Derangement Syndrome) tried to take on @piersmorgan on #LateLate. Morgan carried out a live execution… . TOE CURLING to watch!!
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Credit to @louiseburne_ and @JackHoJo here. That was very decent.
"I THINK WE'RE DONE": Today journalists in the Leinster House press pool slammed People Before Profit TDs Ruth Coppinger and Paul Murphy for refusing to take a question from Gript's @Ben_Scallan, and ended the press event early in protest:
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Four convictions in the UK in a single year. Comes here to claim asylum. Commits sex offence after five days. I know we're not supposed to talk about migrant crimes because not all migrants (which is evidently true) but cases like this SHOULD destroy confidence in the system.
An asylum seeker who days after arriving in Ireland sexually assaulted a young woman in Dublin city centre after following her for up to half an hour as she tried to get away from him has been jailed for two years and three months. Adel Kerai (26) had arrived in Ireland just
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Huw Edwards gets a six month suspended sentence for viewing child abuse images involving boys as young as seven. It's a good job he didn't send an intemperate tweet during the recent UK riots, or he could have been facing up to three years in prison. Two-tier justice is real.
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Mitt Romney got 60.9 million votes and lost. Trump has 58.1million and is winning a landslide. Democrats stayed at home.
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When Margaret Buttimer went to court, charged with not wearing a facemask in public, the Judge said it was bad enough that she didn't wear one, but worse again, she was smiling. He sent her to jail. If only she'd battered an innocent woman on the street.
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Joe Biden literally just did this exact thing and not one hack in the world gives a shit.
As we reported on Sunday, President Trump has been privately talking about declaring victory tonight even if outcome is uncertain and many votes uncounted.
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If the UL students had wanted to avoid the possibility of expulsion, and had people talk about how important it is to give them a second chance, they should really have held their party in the reception area of RTE.
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This is an exchange, I'd argue, that every citizen should watch.
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It's unfortunate today that after four long years, and tens of thousands of published articles, we can finally get other media outlets in Ireland to cite and reference Gript Media's reporting. It's obviously been a bad morning. We got something wrong, and that is my.
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We'll take it as the compliment it is.
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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On the McGregor verdict, it doesn't really matter whether you agree with the jury or not. His own case - the very best argument he could make for himself - showed him to be an awful human being. By me:.
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I'm not sure there has ever been a dumber or more embarrassing spectacle in Irish politics than the Dáil being unable to resume because they can't agree who gets to talk, while 74,000 homes are entering a ninth or tenth night without electricity.
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This photograph was taken by one of our reporters at an event inside Leinster House this morning. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask - given that it's not even Pride Month - why rainbow flags appear to take precedence over the national flag in so much of Irish public space.
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I hear that "the last straw" was Ireland's announcement that it is seeking to have the interpretation of the word "genocide" changed in international law so that Israel can be found retroactively guilty of a crime. Seen as base dishonesty and dishonour in Jerusalem.
The Israeli state is closing its embassy in Dublin, and withdrawing all diplomats, on foot of the "extreme" position of the Irish Government. A significant step which will garner attention around the world.
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The Gardai tried to get access to Gript Media's data and private messages via court order. They failed. Read more:.
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The hate speech bill would be law today, had the public been reliant on mainstream and taxpayer-funded media outlets to interrogate it and examine it and seek political comment on it.
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Three weeks ago the Irish Times reported - citing palestinian sources - that Al Shifa hospital only had fuel for four more days, after which generators would fail and the lights would go out. This report lead to several Irish politicians decrying a "genocidal" siege. That, it.
Hamas held a screening for their supporters at the #AlShifaHospital last night. Note:.1. Plenty of electricity. 2. The generator obviously wasn't shut down. 3. Hamas doesn’t lack fuel for the things they prioritize. #NoMasHamas
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Whoever told him this was a good line should be fired. No Leo, it doesn't make the public rethink their views. It just makes you sound like a supercilious 14 year old telling your parents that you're smarter than they are.
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Spoke to someone today working in the construction trade. They've missed two months rent, borrowed a third month off a friend, and their landlord is sticking by them, but the stress is getting to them. I don't think half the country knows what the other half is going through.
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I haven't read the article but I know the media well enough to know this was Hezbollah. The key is the first word being "rocket" and not "Israel". As we know, Hezbollah rockets are fired passively - "rocket strikes base" - unless fired by Israel. "Israel strikes base".
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People are not coming to Ireland in large numbers because of UK immigration policy. They are coming to Ireland in large numbers because of Irish immigration policy. That this needs to be said is astonishing.
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Listening to Fergus Finlay whining on the radio this morning about Gript reporting the alleged assailants nationality confirms to me that we did the right thing. For one thing, it has forced the many, many people in the media who seem to believe their job is to cover up the news.
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Sunday Business Post poll today asks "has Ireland taken in too many refugees?". 66% say yes.16% say no. Yet the 16% manage to have their views represented by every major political party, every NGO with a view on the matter, and the overwhelming preponderance of media coverage.
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Regardless of the referendum outcome tomorrow, the Attorney General's leaked advice to the Government makes clear beyond any reasonable doubt, in my view, that Ministers actively mislead the public about the potential legal consequences of a Yes vote.
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The extraordinary thing here isn't so much the abhorrent characterisation of Mr. Casey's comments, revolting though that is. It's the phrase, when asked why the comments were not covered, that "I don't think they were helpful". Helpful to who?. Isn't it reasonable in the light of.
Irish Times journalist Kitty Holland says the Irish media "were right" to not publish the full comments of Ryan Casey, boyfriend of murdered 23-year-old Ashling Murphy, claiming that his remarks were "incitement to hatred" and that it wouldn't be "helpful" to share them. #gript
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Fintan O'Toole's weekly column in the Irish Times today explicitly calls for Elon Musk to be criminally prosecuted for saying things Fintan doesn't think should be said, if you're wondering how the tolerant and liberal Ireland he's spent a life championing is going in 2024.
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John Mooney in the Sunday Times today reports that the person of interest in Thursday's stabbing was served with a deportation order in 2008. He was subsequently granted leave to remain. I understand that he has never worked while in Ireland.
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Do these people think that our skills shortages are going to be met by having 1000 people living in tents in a field in Clonmel?. People watching at home know this is all bollocks.
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I think it is fairly obvious that if that McNamara vs McEntee exchange were played in full on the nine o'clock news, the Government would be in significant trouble. I also think it blindingly obvious that said exchange will not appear, ever, on the nine o'clock news.
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Just to say: @Ben_Scallan worked his ass off to get that interview, even when at times I told him it probably wasn't going to happen. And he got to ask questions, and get answers, that many Irish journalists would kill to ask. I'm glad he's on our team. Irrepressible.
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Very hard to estimate the size of these things from ground level but certainly a substantial crowd. If this were a Gaza march the media would be comfortable saying "thousands".
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In fairness to Sinn Fein, they won't take this oath so they don't take their seats. Which is infinitely more principled than this.
To be sworn in as an MP, you have to make an oath to the King. This is what I decided to say, in protest.
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The Hiroshima death toll was 140,000 people killed. Nagasaki, 80,000. Gerry is saying that in deploying 5 times that explosive power, the Israeli military has produced fewer than 50,000 deaths, most of which are Hamas combatants.
The Israeli army threw more than 100,000 tons of explosives on Gaza. 5 times the explosive power of each of the nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in world war 2. According 2 Israeli newspaper Haaretz there were 40,000 air strikes on Gaza from Oct 2023 to end of 2024.
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"A fully suspended sentence". A lad with 276 videos of child rape, who's clearly quite interested in that sort of thing. A fully suspended sentence. Out on the streets. Why do Gardai bother?.
Eoin Prizeman (35), who uploaded a video of a man raping a young boy to his own Facebook page and was caught with 276 videos of child abuse has been given a fully suspended sentence.
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Rarely has a photograph more accurately depicted the governance of a nation.
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Home safe from my telling off. Who knew that reporting entirely factual stories about Government spending on immigration was in fact dangerous dog-whistling?. Oh well. That'll teach us.
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This is overt anti-semitism by an Irish newspaper columnist. But we don't have a problem with anti semitism in Ireland. Nope.
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We are now almost a week into the story and still the Irish Government, with the full resources of the state at its disposal, has been unable to identify the person or persons who approved a €336,000 outlay on a bike stand.
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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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In Ireland, inflation is at 9.6%, rents are up 11% this year, diesel is over €2, almost 4,000 evictions in the last year, and well, you could go on. Meanwhile, Irish media and politicians are universally focused on holding Boris Johnson accountable.
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If, six months ago, you had called for welfare for Ukrainians to be slashed by 80% or more, and for them to receive €200 less per week, you'd have been the most heartless far right extremist bastard in the country. It's now Government policy.
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After today's results, how can the state say that the @NWCI reflects the views of Irish women, and keep funding it to do so? On these referendums, which they claimed were vital for women, women have made clear they disagree.
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As I've said for some time, if you want an accurate definition of "far right" in Ireland, you can't do any better than this:. "Far Right": A person who believes about immigration, taxation, social policy, and criminal justice in 2023 exactly what Leo Varadkar believed in 2008.
On February 14th 2008, Leo Varadkar said that "very quick" immigration into Ireland had caused "difficulties" in "criminal justice" and "integration.". He added: "It's important that where people are looking to attribute blame, they blame the right people. the government."
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Look I'm no expert but I'm not sure the scenes of massed Gardai forcing asylum applicants into a recently closed hotel in Roscrea over the objections of locals bodes well for Government candidates in the region in the upcoming local and EU elections.
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A member of the @griptmedia team in Newtownmountkennedy this evening, having clearly, audibly, and repeatedly identified herself as a journalist, and while posing absolutely no threat to public order or public safety, was nevertheless pepper sprayed directly in the face by a.
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It's not so long since we were being assured weekly that these protests were just the same "far right" people travelling from town to town. Take a look at the demographics in this video: All ages, normal people, opposed to something happening in their town.
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The Israeli state is closing its embassy in Dublin, and withdrawing all diplomats, on foot of the "extreme" position of the Irish Government. A significant step which will garner attention around the world.
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Apparently Deputies Coppinger and Murphy are now into minute 27 of a press conference denouncing Gript Media. I do hope other Media outlets know that this is a preview of life under PbP: Toe the line or be denounced as wrongthinkers. We'll wear it as a badge of honour.
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Gript Media's editorial on the events of last night, in full:. In Newtownmountkennedy, the State has crossed the rubicon. At about six minutes into this video footage from events in Newtownmountkennedy last night, April 25th, a man can be seen walking slowly towards the advancing.
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Please be patient with the Gript site at the moment, it's not really built for tens of thousands of people logging on all at once. We're adding all the resources we can.
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It's absolutely bananas to me that the Irish hate speech bill is getting more critical scrutiny from overseas commentators and news outlets than it is from the Irish media or the Irish opposition. What are you for? What's the point of you?.
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Niall Boylan has a reasonable case to argue that by omitting him from the TV debate, our overlords in RTE have swung yet another criticial election.
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Had the misfortune of listening to half an hour of Pat Kenny on the US election. There's no other word for it other than outright propaganda. If the BAI had any standards that show would be raked over the coals.
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I'm retweeting this only to make the point that the Irish Times assigned a reporter to cover this event. That reporter, who I'm sure is a fine fellow, stood and watched these people go past him, and estimated the crowd at about 300 people.
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The constitution does not, in fact, say this.
Nobody would say parents with a child aren't a family just because they're not married. Yet that's what our Constitution says. On March 8th, you have the opportunity to change that by voting #YesYes.
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This kind of thing should be making us ask big questions about the quality of our national infrastructure.
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If this incident had been directed at any other minority group - gay people, travellers, etc - or if it had been committed by anti migrant protestors against Africans, the airwaves would be clogged with politicians seeking their go at condemnation. We all know it.
Hey Ireland. You know those Israeli tourists who were publicly abused and spat on - and then abandoned by the police?. Have any of your top officials condemned this yet? The Irish PM? Ministers? . Or do they just not care because the victims were Jews?. Asking for a friend.
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Claire Byrne is paid €250,000 per year to ask questions of politicians on behalf of the public. She had the Taoiseach for half an hour this morning and not once did she ask him a single question on behalf of people whose businesses have been closed for 15 months.
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The four people charged yesterday all have addresses in Newtownmountkennedy. What on earth could have made so many residents of one very small town "far right"?.
Far right attacks on gardaí 'are a threat to the State' — Micheál Martin
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A woman in Roscrea says she no longer feels safe in her town because of an influx of single men she doesn't know, the media treats her with skepticism. A Taoiseach with 24/7 security gets a threat online, the media treats it as the end of civilisation. There's an inequity.
@john_mcguirk Humbug and sophistry. You equate threats to the elected head of government, his wife and children with anxiety in some communities about migrants. Shameful, just shameful. You should delete.
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Misinformation, confusion, Miriam O'Callaghan's taxi driver told her he didn't understand it. This isn't news. It's not public service broadcasting. It's an establishment cope circle. You're a mug if you pay these people a cent.
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