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Today I’m returning as CEO of
@WebSummit
.
When I stepped back last year, it was the first time I had taken time off in 15 years. It gave me time to think about Web Summit, its history, why I started it on my own from my bedroom and what I wanted it to be.
I took the time to…
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To repeat: War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies & should be called out for what they are.
I will not relent.
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For too long African startups have been overlooked. That’s changing
5 years ago we’d 5 African startups at
@WebSummit
&
@CollisionHQ
2019 it was >100 plus
@Korapay
in startup final
Today another alum
@theflutterwave
raised a big round
#AfricaRising
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Nearly half a decade on this is still one of the best moments in Irish television. Can never be reshared enough.
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I’m shocked at the rhetoric and actions of so many Western leaders & governments, with the exception in particular of Ireland’s government, who for once are doing the right thing. War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are.
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Almost 10 months ago New Zealand’s Prime Minister said this about Ireland. Unreal how accurate she was
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Ireland's Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe confirms he won't take a
#Coivd_19
pay cut
His basic salary is €96,189 plus €79,510 in allowances
It's just how the 1% roll. Nurses get claps, he gets cash
The end
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To the 4 nurses in Ireland who fought so hard for so many patients, but who themselves fell ill, and have now passed
RIP
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Amidst all the hot takes on Leo Varadkar in the last 24 hours, no one has ever captured who Leo Varadkar was and is better than Emmet Kirwan on the Late Late Show some 6 years ago. A true masterpiece in just 2 minutes.
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As a tiny kid I used to think being a near lone wolf at tournaments with my single handed backhand was cool
That was until aged 11 I got absolutely smoked at an U14s tournament in Spartak Moscow by some Youzhny kid. I was so upset his backhand was that good. I cried for a day!
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At 10pm in Madrid tonight the entire city, despite being on lockdown in their homes, joined together to applaud Madrid’s health workers who are busy fighting on the front lines to save lives
Humans are awesome
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Starts slow, but this 2 minutes by a new TD is powerful stuff
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.
@amitkarp
is a respected tech investor. But because he claims I “support the beheading of babies” he will never attend Web Summit. An utter lie & extreme over reaction to my perfectly reasonable & humane statement:
“War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies”
My…
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We're donating €1 million to Ireland's fight against
#Covid_19
Over to
@denisobrien_
, Larry Goodman, Dermot Desmond, JP McManus, Michael O'Leary and others to step up
We’re in this fight together. And we will only prevail by standing together
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Who owns this single handed backhand? Player in disguise. Best guess gets 2 free tix to
@WebSummit
Choices:
@rogerfederer
@stanwawrinka
@StefTsitsipas
@ThiemDomi
@GrigorDimitrov
@richardgasquet1
@denis_shapo
@feliciano_lopez
@pmouratoglou
@TommyHaas13
@gugakuerten
@JRBlake
ANO?
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Yikes. This is surreal.
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Here’s a wonderful example of a foreign journalist doing what almost no Irish journalist, bar
@vincentbrowne
, ever does: Hold FFG politicians properly to account
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I’m delighted to have collaborated with artist Spicebag to make this happen in Dublin (homeowner gave permission for mural). More to come.
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I’m sorry but this is insane. This is a news presenter of a public service broadcaster in a democratic society, Ireland, diminishing & defending cronyism and law breaking by Government ministers. This is what propaganda looks like.
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Stick this in your pipe, ye pearl clutching melts. Literally everyone sings up the Ra.
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Cost of some of the world’s largest or tallest buildings:
Petronas Towers - $1.2 billion
Tesla Giga Factory 1 - $1.3 billion
Burj Khalifa - $1.5 billion
And then there’s:
🇮🇪 Children’s Hospital - $2.4 billion
& counting
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How Ireland's 21st century likely now plays out
Next election
@sinnfeinireland
will run 60+ candidates. They'll become the largest party in 🇮🇪
There will be a border poll. The island will be united over time. SF will be the largest party for decades
FFG will merge
#GE2020
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Can someone get this video removed for An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar? It shows repeat criminal offender Leo Varadkar committing yet another criminal offence this morning by canvassing within 50m of a polling station. Please don’t share 👍
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Had the
#LeoTheLeak
story been about
@MaryLouMcDonald
leaking a contract to a pal & had I talked about it on stage at
#WebSummit
, Irish mainstream media would have hailed me as some sort of daring hero protecting democracy. Instead they’re in a meltdown👇
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I'm in beautiful, remote Donegal. I'm 200 metres from an incredible beach. I've lightening fast wifi
There are thousands of spots like this all across rural Ireland
Why would anyone want to go back to working in cramped offices in overpriced, gridlocked Dublin
Remote = Future
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Going to the Portugal V Uruguay match in Doha tonight. Can’t wait. Maybe President Marcelo will be there. My shoulder has just recovered from his legendary hand shake. Come on Portugal!
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Arguably no Irish political leader has been bullied more by the media than Mary Lou McDonald. She is relentlessly attacked, smeared and undermined without evidence by many in the media. Why? Because she represents change from the century old crony cartel. Bring on that change!
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It’s remarkable that government ministers were so accessible to the man charged today in connection with the seizure of €33m worth of crystal meth in Cork. Chilling. FFG are not a normal party.
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“I was queuing for hours in Dublin airport. And then 💡 ” - meet the UCD student who used his dad’s private jet to beat the queues in Dublin airport
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Can someone get this post from 2017 deleted for Simon Harris. And please don’t share it.
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First, what Hamas did is outrageous and disgusting. It is by every measure an act of monstrous evil. Israel has a right to defend itself, but it does not, as I have already stated, have a right to break international law.
Second, here’s the host of the most watched chat show in…
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Yet another Irish Government minister has been forced to resign following reporting by
@wereontheditch
revealing yet more criminality at the heart of
@FineGael
&
@fiannafailparty
Ditch is 2 journalists with a €5/month website. WTF are the combined Irish mainstream media up to?
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If Niall Collins was working as a full time taxi driver, he’d still not have driven the miles he’s claimed he was driving as a minister. This crook claims to have driven around the world more than three times in a year. In reality he’s just screwing tax payers for expenses💰
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Soon the public will be made fully aware of the deliberate actions of Gas Networks Ireland, ESB and the Govt (Eamon Ryan in particular) that have led to obscene and unprecedented energy price hikes. All done to enrich a select group of insiders.
Watch this space 💣 👮🏽♀️ 💰
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If you think RTÉ is bad, wait till you learn about the HSE.
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Good luck to our Chief Impact Officer Peter Gilmer who’s attending the
#UNGA
&
#ClimateSummit
in NY
Peter is the reason
@websummit
has a long standing track called Planet:Tech. He’s done so much work quietly behind the scenes with
@CFigueres
@algore
& tech folk over many years
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Today Varadkar ally & Fine Gael ex-councillor Sean McKiernan was sent forward for trial for 58 counts of theft of €172,000 from a charity.
RTE of course fail to mention Fine Gael whatsoever, or provide a picture of McKiernan. So I have.
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Here’s how Ireland works: Warehouse worker fired for drinking a €2 soft drink. WRC says firing was correct.
Minister found to have falsely claimed €1,140 in a single month for fake travel expenses, simply repays it with no consequences.
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If remote working in Ireland is here to stay, in some form, it might be transformative
Imagine if your company said choose anywhere to live in Ireland & work from there
We might be on the cusp of a revival of rural Ireland
I 💚 you Dublin, but you’re overpriced & gridlocked
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This never gets old. I wonder what Ryan Tubridy was thinking as Emmet Kirwan was dropping truth about Ireland and how the real crooks wear suits.
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🚨Breaking🚨
Another Chinese company readying
hundreds of thousands of masks
+
tens of thousands of testing kits
to donate and fly to Ireland
More soon
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I’m willing to call the IRA ‘terrorists’ – as soon as someone can give me a definition of a terrorist group that doesn’t also apply to the British army
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I’m back.
Thank you to everyone for their kind messages of love & support ❤️✌🏼
@lhfang
& Jack Poulson’s reporting is quite something. The last 24 hours have been wild.
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Ireland (RoI) & Singapore have almost identical populations, 5.1 million versus 5.5 million. But in terms of land mass, Ireland is 100 times larger than Singapore.
Singapore affordably houses 5.5 million people in a space smaller than Louth. Louth!!
Ireland is not full. It’s…
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It’s been a decade since I hit a ball. Rusty!
I hope the single handed backhand continues to make a comeback under the likes of
@denis_shapo
@StefTsitsipas
etc
I hope it never dies out fully, as frustrating as it is for juniors at the start.
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As an LP in multiple venture funds here’s my advice to VCs:
Stop writing advice threads for startups and start writing explanatory emails to your LPs as to why you deployed their capital at suddenly indefensible valuations
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I ❤️ Michael D
That he keeps referring to John Bruton as a former "PRIME MINISTER" and not Taoiseach is such an epic troll of Bruton by Michael D
Bravo, sir.
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Today is one of those days Emmet Kirwan’s incredible monologue on the Late Late Show needs to be shared once more. He hit the bullseye in a way few others ever have on Irish TV.
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Noel Kelly confirms to Oireachtas Committee that 0% vat was charged on 2 of the Renault invoices. Yet services were provided in Ireland. This is textbook VAT FRAUD.
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Here’s why Eamon Ryan gets a free pass for snoozing when Mary Lou McDonald would get attacked
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Disclaimer: I send a lot of audio or video messages on WhatsApp. They’re a quicker and sometimes more engaging way to explain something
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I’ve been ripping apart the top layer of Ireland’s corrupt & criminal cartel. It’s been fun & satisfying work - aside from the threats & smears - anyway maybe it’s time to body bag a few minions in media, civil service, charities, judiciary, private sector etc
Who’s up for it?
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I'm currently being attacked in the Irish Parliament (Dail) by the Deputy PM (tanaiste) for Web Summit's funding of two journalists who have exposed endless corruption & criminality of the current government which has led to multiple resignations of ministers. Wild
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Correct, humane decision by Irish government. Much respect. ❤️ ☮️
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I’ll pay a street artist €2,023 to paint a giant version of this brilliant piece, with the original artists permission of course, in Minister
@SimonHarrisTD
home town of Greystones. Ideally on a giant wall in the middle of Greystones. My DMs are open.
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A truly mind blowing stat:
In 2023 in Dublin “first time buyers bought just 75 new houses”. In Cork that number was just 17! FFG has destroyed a generation, and a country. Unless that is you’re a wealthy landlord or huge vulture fund.
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Oh boy, it gets better. Fionnan Sheehan wasn’t even remotely “outraged” when the Wolfe Tones played at Fine Gael’s Christmas bash in 2002.
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This morning my lawyers wrote to
@BessemerVP
partner Amit Karp. If he fails to take action he will be pursued in the High Court of Ireland.
Last Friday’s revelations by two US investigative journalists,
@lhfang
& Jack Poulson, make clear that there was a coordinated attempt to…
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Three days after the publication by
@wereontheditch
of a story detailing a government ministers criminality, a story that’s dominated social media for 3 days & been read by over one million people, not a single mainstream journalist/publication has commented on the story. Wild.
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In Ireland there’s 995km of motorways, 4,314km of national roads & 13,120km of secondary/regional roads. In one year Niall Collins claimed to drive the equivalent of every kilometre of every one of those roads FOUR times. Or more than twice what a full time taxi driver covers💰
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Very excited about the potential for a
@WebSummit
in Brazil from 2022 🇧🇷
@ArturAPereira
will be in Rio, São Paulo and Florianopolis next week
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Turns out I've a full copy of RTE's interview which was curiously edited, with lots of criticism of RTE removed. First clip below.
I first explain the background to the recording & then share a deleted segment discussing RTE's primary method of propaganda, plus
@BowesChay
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The people of Berlin just voted in favour of seizing up to 200,000 homes from private real estate companies & transferring them into public ownership.
Legends.
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That Irish media have had a multi-week melt down over the fact that Mary Lou McDonald owns her own home with her husband, but are silent about the countless undeclared rental property empires amassed by FFG politicians, should tell you all you need to know about Irish media
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Ireland’s vicious two tier society, the golden circle & everyone else, powerfully captured in less than 100 words.
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It’s 3 years old now, but it’s perhaps the truest 2 minutes of telly ever aired on RTE. And it’s as true now as it was then. Should be on the Junior and Leaving Cert Syllabi
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I run an Irish business. We employ 200+ people full time in Ireland
When
@ibec_irl
Danny says
@sinnfeinireland
manifesto could have “grave implications” for Ireland’s economy, he means “grave implications” for his crony pals in big insurers & big banks
Not the actual economy
Head of the employers group
@ibec_irl
Danny McCoy claims
@sinnfeinireland
election manifesto could have 'grave implications' for Ireland's economy. Finance spox
@PearseDoherty
replies "Our plans are fair, sensible, costed and achievable"
@rtenews
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Leo Varadkar is a failed politician. In his entire career he’s managed to achieve literally nothing of note, bar jumping on bandwagons when it was politically convenient.
He’s a crony who’ll be remembered for wrecking health & housing. Oh and leaking contracts to pals. The end.
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Here are the last four photos of Irish political party leaders posted by
@IrishTimes
on Instagram: Micheal Martin, Alan Kelly, Leo Varadkar & MLM. Notice anything? Three friendly faces and then suddenly! Yup, how pathetic.
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Thanks for the messages. I’m proud of what I have repeatedly stated.
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Ah the good auld days when “former Wolfe Tones frontman Derek Warfield headlined Enda Kenny’s Fine Gael bash”. “Songs belted out… at the FG bash included lines ‘ooh ah, up the Ra’”.
Put that in your pipe pearl clutching, curtain twitching, revisionist, windbags.
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Stephen Donnelly lobbied for better tax treatment for accidental landlords, while he himself was one. He sought changes in four successive Finance Bills through which he himself stood to benefit.
Stephen Donnelly should resign.
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I’ve never been more positive that Ireland is on the cusp of momentous political, cultural, social and geographic change.
There’s an entire generation now demanding a more decent & progressive society & economy. It’s inspiring to watch. Change is coming.
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It’s tough being so right about how Ireland works. Tubridy was clearly playing coy back in 2018… “why are you trying to confront corruption in Ireland!!!”
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That neither RTE nor Virgin Media have interviewed the journalists from
@wereontheditch
who broke the Robert Troy story and pursued it for four weeks should tell you just how broken Irish media is.
Irish media is a cesspit of Government propagandists pretending to be journalists
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Thinking of locating your company/assets in Ireland? Well, Ireland now has a huge new range of tax structures that allow you to avoid all taxes whatsoever, never file public accounts, enjoy no touch regulation, and best of all you can get set up within 24 hours. Gather round..
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Fianna Fáil now presenting their TDs children as randomers to promote the party 🤣
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I just cannot process the levels of public outrage from certain figures to oh ah up the ra.
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Tommy Bowe raises questions no RTE current affairs broadcaster dares. Respect to the man.
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I think it's great having an out-of-touch South Dublin aristocrat presenting the Late Late
It's the most powerful reminder at the end of every week of just how biased, useless, and detached from reality RTE has become
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Fine Gael’s Regina Doherty more concerned with catching the leaker of the AG’s advice, than the fact the Government lied to the people. These people are utterly out of touch.
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Robert Troy has resigned. He follows in the footsteps of ABP’s Paul Hyde who resigned last month.
Eoghan & Roman at
@wereontheditch
are doing the country an incredible service. Consider buying them a pint or even supporting Ditch’s work. Well done lads.
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Bye for now. Need some time off this platform. 👋 😢 ✌🏼 ❤️
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In 1665, Cambridge University closed because of the plague
Issac Newton decided to work from home
He discovered calculus & the laws of motion
Just saying
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A student publication in Ireland has become the first publication, 6 days after
@wereontheditch
expose, to confirm the Minister Niall Collins corruption story
Their website has crashed from traffic. It’s a damning indictment of Ireland’s toothless & servile media
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Here’s Ryan Tubridy publicising his pay cut to Irish media, while weaponising children in poverty to garner some sort of kudos for himself. It’s gross as in reality he later received a letter from RTÉ’s DG promising that he would not have his pay cut. Tubridy lied to the public.
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Let me translate: PwC Ireland’s private clients are among the very richest Irish. When PwC say Sinn Fein are a threat to the economy, what PwC mean is that Sinn Fein are a threat to the very richest who have been riding the largely tax free FFG gravy train for years.
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“Ireland will be the first European country after Italy to be sent medical equipment by China’s
@Huawei
”
As a donation!
Thanks
@JijayShen
and Guo Ping ❤️🇮🇪👍🙏
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This is why
@WebSummit
funded
@wereontheditch
While mainstream media is busy promoting Paschal Donohoe’s new diary column, The Ditch is holding power to account.
I’ve paid a high price for challenging cronyism & political unaccountability, but I’d do it again in a heartbeat.
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Gardai dragged a woman from her home in front of her children for not paying her TV licence. Meanwhile Gardai never spoke to crooked planning chief & best pal of Simon Coveney. That’s two tier Ireland for you. Them be the laws.
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This man should have resigned three years ago. He should absolutely resign now.
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