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#WeWantAnElection
Bucket list for if I win the lotto/euro millions. In no particular order
1. Buy a house
2. A week in Center Parks
3. Fill the van with fuel
4. Pay my next utility bills
5. A night in an Irish hotel
6. Park at Dublin Airport
7. Get popcorn & pick 'n' mix at the cinema
We literally have the worst Airport in Europe in terms of connectivity & their solution is to make it even worse by charging people to drop off/pick up others. Claiming it's to promote the use of public transport might be believable if they hadn't recently cancelled the Airlink
Just said goodbye to the parents at the airport 🙈 just like to take the opportunity to say and I can't emphasise this enough 'Fuck you Fine Gael & Fianna Fail'.
#emigration
#Ireland
Why have you turned off replies to this
@SkySportsNews
? Are you afraid someone might point out the utter hypocrisy of the annual poppy fest which offends a hell of a lot more people around the globe? If one is wrong so is the other 🤷♂️
The tourist industry has destroyed itself through its own greed and gouging. Nothing to do with the weather whatsoever. This sort of disingenuous nonsense helps no one
Leo Varadkar lied to the Cervical Check women, he lied about leaking confidential state documents to a friend & now he's lying about knowing about/being involved in the latest scandal to do with nursing homes. An absolute disgrace.
#HowIrelandWorks
#WeWantAnElection
#LeoTheLiar
Leo Varadkar could literally share confidential state documents with a friend, oversee record numbers of homelessness, punch down on less well off in society, lie to women with terminal illness, oversee multiple cover ups next few days & FG, FF & Greens will still vote him in 1/2
Of all the Irish people McGregor could pick to have a go at Paul McGrath is definitely the most stupid choice but then that sums him up 🤷♂️ Paul is the nicest man you could ever meet, wouldn't wish bad on anyone & is a true Irish legend 👌🥰
This is why history is so important in schools. 2 men who were dead before Fine Gael even existed & a year that was over a decade before Fine Gael was established on pins trying to associate them incorrectly with a political party. Can't even be honest about their own history
Today is a very bad day for Irish politics with return of Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach. A big 👍 for corruption,cronyism, dishonesty & lack of standards, ethics or accountability in Irish politics. Any TD voting for him is no friend of the Irish people
#HowIrelandWorks
#VaradkarOut
Just a reminder that the Irish Women's Football team have qualified for the World Cup for the 1st time in the country's history 🥳 just a few years after they were forced to protest just to get their own tracksuit & changing room. What a group 👌🥳🥳 #
#Irish
#women
#football
If we only did things we enjoyed at school I wouldn't have gone at all. What a ridiculous statement 🙄 we should be proud of our heritage & culture. How many people are sorry they can't speak better Irish once they are a little older. I know I am
“Why should I be forced to sit in an Irish class I don’t enjoy?”
The
#RTEUpfront
audience have their say on whether Irish should be compulsory in schools.
Small bit of advice for students starting university. If there's a mature student in your class don't make a joke about them being the same age as your parents 🤷♂️ I don't particularly care but others might. I've already had 5 random people tell me I'm as old as their mam/dad 😂
This clip probably goes a long way to answering the questions of why so many people don't pay or don't want to pay a licence fee for rte and also why Rte is struggling financially.
Leo Varadkar can't recall. Martin possibly got it but might not have had time to read it properly. Amazing how they never miss the memos about giving themselves a raise or another advisor, giving their friends a job or state contract, an overseas junket, etc.
#HowIrelandWorks
Let's get this retweeted to drown out all the nonsense from those who were rightly criticised for the housing crisis they created. Good on you Michael D Higgins 👌😊 this is what the witch hunt of Sabina Higgins is all about nothing to do with the letter she wrote
#SabinaHiggins
“Housing, and the basic needs of society, should never have been left to the marketplace.”
Fiery stuff from the head of State
@presidentirl
today…
@zaraking
reports for
@VirginMediaNews
:
Took photo of the train & metro lines before I left Copenhagen. They're still building lines. Airport is fully connected by train (regional, local, inter city), metro, bus & taxi. Map below is only for metro & local trains. The longest wait I had was 8 minutes. Ireland is a joke
People protesting in Roscrea & claiming its due to a lack of infrastructure. Michael Lowry has been in the Dail since 1987. Mattie McGrath since 2007. You elected them consistently. They are responsible for the lack of infrastructure yet no protesting them. Why?
#HowIrelandWorks
The absolute worst nightmare of Fine Gael & Fianna Fail. We pay taxes but get next to no quality public services. Why? Because that's exactly how FG & FF want it.
#HowIrelandWorks
#WeWantAnElection
Tens of thousands march in Madrid today in support of publicly owned and provided health care - and against health service privatisation
You probably won’t see this in our media - it might give people ideas
People voted no because they want equality and recognition for carers and people with additional needs. Not because they remotely align or agree with the right wing ideology of racist & transphobic knuckledraggers like this goon
#Ref24
Worst part of the whole reinvention of Bertie Ahern by Fianna Fail & elements of the media is fact they are using the Good Friday Agreement to do so. Utterly sick. Man's a disgrace & if Ireland had any sort of ethics in politics he would be barred
#HowIrelandWorks
#bertieahern
Said this already but I'll say it again Deloitte clearly should not be allowed any role in any public or state run operations from now on. Any they are currently responsible for should be investigated immediately. They're clearly incapable of doing their job honestly
Can't be shared enough. This absolute gangster should not be getting air time or coverage in any sort of media unless its to explain his corruption. He refuses to do that. Couldn't be trusted to run a raffle.
#BertieStayAway
@gavreilly
People can dismiss it as a grudge or whatever they like. The fact of the matter is a former national political leader & current Minister is under criminal investigation yet refused to resign his position pending the result of this investigation. What other country would allow it?
This man is a truly sick individual. I hope that poor child has other family members looking out for her because your father wishing you dead or willing to sacrifice your life then using you for his own attention is seriously disturbing
Thomas Hand, the father of 9-year-old Emily, who was taken to Gaza on October 7, tells an Israeli website that he would have accepted his daughter to be killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza.
"I understood that she might be harmed by the fire of our forces, that was a price I would…
#Cblive
is wild tonight. Michael O'Flynn is blaming Sinn Fein for taxes introduced by Government. Eddie Hobbs is the go to economist & doesn't know the difference between socialism & Communism. Surprise surprise the only person Claire interrupts is the Sinn Fein representative
There's no expectation or obligation for an artist to be politically impartial 🤷♂️ there is for journalists. Ridiculously hypocritical for a biased journalist like Fionnan Sheehan to have a go at Spice Bag for his art work 🤷♂️
#HowIrelandWorks
#EvictionBan
RTE are planning to make an Irish remake of the hit TV series LOST. The plot is 1000s of 16-40yr olds trying to get off an island because there's no prospect of housing, healthcare or public transport. The show will air every day and will be titled 'The News'
#HowIrelandWorks
How fantastic would it be if there was a national protest against this government that brought Dublin to a standstill or better yet several cities & towns around the country to a standstill because everyone sick of this government came together in a united front
#WeWantAnElection
Compare & contrast: Irish political & media coverage of the Noah Donohoe case vs the Irish political & media coverage of a letter by Sabina Higgins calling for peace 🤷♂️
#HowIrelandWorks
All childbirth has now been banned within
#Roscrea
as according to local TD Mattie McGrath the town is so full that it's incapable of welcoming 3 new families. Welcoming an influx of right wing racists from outside the town to scream at children upon their arrival was no problem
"All the people here want is to be consulted, and to be listened to, that the town is full"
@mattiemcgrathtd
on the clash between protesters and Gardaí in Roscrea
#TonightVMTV
David McCullough didn't even remotely try to hide his bias. Completely dismissive of the responses to his questions. Has he ever asked anyone in Fine Gael about having a man who sexually assaulted someone in the Seanad? Typical
#rtebias
. Pathetic from the national broadcaster
Remove TD & Senators expense claims. Give them free access to public healthcare, public transport & an ordinary state pension instead. Would reduce fraud, cost to taxpayers & amount of people entering politics for the wrong reasons. It will also lead to improved public services
Not exactly a state secret that I have zero time for Leo Varadkar, in fact I think he's a disgrace. That being said what he does in his personal life is his own business. There's literally countless things people can be critical of him for. This isn't it 🤷♂️
For a fella who loves to pontificate to the world about everything & claims to be a champion of human rights & equality Bono hasn't half been silent on the genocide of Palestinians by Israel 🤔 make of that what you will
#IsraelIsAGenocideState
#Genocide
#FreeGaza
#CeasefireNOW
He really is a rotten individual. It beggars belief that his every disingenuous claim like this get printed or reported as if fact by elements of the national media. Trying to discredit organisations like Bernardos who only exist due to the failure of governments
#HowIrelandWorks
#WhereDoWeGo
?
Mála Spíosraí, also known as Spicebag says they've raised over €10,000 for the Eviction Poster
you can buy it here - all donations to a homeless charity
#TonightVMTV
'Using Starbucks products' 🤷♂️ so it's basically still Starbucks they just changed the name to try get around people rightly boycotting them for their disgusting support for Israel. Don't give them your business or money. Boycott them. Don't reward deception
#BoycottStarbucks
Clarification: Vista is a temporary brand. Starbucks closed in December as their contract expired. A new local ☕️ brand will permanently move into this unit in March. Until then, the new operator (using Starbucks products) will run the cafe as Vista, ensuring pax get their☕️fix.
RTE are the latest to be publicly highlighted but they're not alone. Previously we've had:
An Bord Planala
An Garda Siochana
Countless Charities
Banking sector
Insurance sector
Farming sector
HSE
Etc
& what links them all
Fine Gael & Fianna Fail governments.
#HowIrelandWorks
We had record numbers of covid 4/5 days of last week yet there wasn't a word from Michael Martin or government. Today before 10am I've seen 3 separate articles of him attacking Sinn Fein with usual speculative nonsense of "but Sinn Fein". We'd have chaos now if SF was in power 🙄
@piersmorgan
Amazing what happens when people get a chance to choose after being treated awfully for decades/centuries. Scotland wants independence too.
@caulmick
How is George Hook getting a public platform? Also Fionnan Sheehan complaining about an artist producing political motivated or biased artwork while he himself is a ridiculously biased journalist 🤷♂️ there's a professional expectation of impartiality for journalists. Not artists
How many scandals within the health service in Ireland before its finally admitted that HSE is badly managed and not fit for purpose? Successive governments bear responsibility for enabling and covering this up
Sick of hearing the lie that "people are changing the way they bank". I hope they do change how they bank by using the post office or credit union instead. Stop giving banks your money for them to screw you over
#AIB
Massive amounts of oil have been discovered off of Gaza
International law says that oil belongs to Palestine not Israel
After the genocide is completed it will be rightfully Israel's oil
The man has been Taoiseach, Tanaiste & Minister for Health to say he didn't know just isn't plausible or believable. This is at best his 3rd scandal. He's a disgrace & not fit for public office.
#WeWantAnElection
#HowIrelandWorks
Leo Varadkar has said that he 'did not know’ of state’s legal strategy on nursing home charges.
Do you believe him ?
#NHPaymentsScandal
#HowIrelandWorks
All those people shouting about us joining NATO, not being neutral & needing to stand up to Russia militarily here's your chance. Off you go and volunteer 👍 not a single one of you would go though. What you want is to send other people's children off to fight & die
Happy international
#NiallCollins
day everyone 🥳 a magical day where you can do whatever you like legal or illegal and absolutely no one from the media or politics will make any mention of it publicly 😊
#HowIrelandWorks
#WeWantAnElection
3 separate Fine Gael TDs & Senators at least purposely used a tweet from 4 years ago to misrepresent a situation in order to use current conflict in the Ukraine to try score cheap political points against a rival. An orchestrated party policy obviously. Make of it what you will
What do people not from Northern Ireland or who didn't live there for prolonged period of time actually mean when they say "I lived through the Troubles"? I mean I've seen documentaries on Ancient Rome but I didn't live through Roman times. Likewise news reports from Iraq war 🤷♀️
Your regular reminder in Fine Gael eyes Damien English's crime is getting caught. Just like Lowry, Naughten, Varadkar, Leddy, Hogan, Coveney, etc.
#HowIrelandWorks
#WeWantAnElection
Amazing how upset people are getting about this yet weren't making a peep about 1000s being forced into homelessness by the rotten parties they support or because they aren't directly affected.
Please stop reporting the government plan to give households a €100 credit for electricity use as if it's coming out of the government's own pocket. Taxpayers are paying for it. It's basically just helping keep costs high. Stop pissing on us and telling us it's raining
Only April but Tommy Bowe is already a shoe in for Political Correspondent of the year for this interview & his previous one with Leo Varadkar where he had the audacity to ask difficult questions & not just accept nonsense answers he received 👏👏
#NiallCollins
#NiallCollinsTD
Should Niall Collins answer questions? 🤔
@TommyBowe
asks
@AnneRabbitte
if
#NiallCollins
is refusing to answer questions about the purchase of his wife's council property
An example of student lunch SAMK University in Pori
#Finland
. Cost €2.95 very healthy, delicious and the price is extremely reasonable. What would I get on any 3rd level campus in
#Ireland
for €2.95? Amazing what can be done when taxes are used for public services
#studentlife
.
@dfatirl
summoned the Russian Ambassador yesterday to express outrage at the death in prison of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, reiterate that ultimate responsibility for his death rests with Russian leadership, & call for a full, independent & transparent investigation.
@vonderleyen
@netanyahu
This is utterly bizarre even for you 🤷♂️ congratulating a war criminal on reelection and looking forward to working with them again while they continue their apartheid, war crimes, torture & murder. Not to mention the corruption 🤷♂️ pure and utter hypocrisy from you & the EU
Giving serious thoughts to emigration again past couple of weeks 🙈 haven't a clue where to go or what to do for work (I'd do pretty much any job). I'm lucky that I've decent job here, a roof over my head, food, etc but I still feel like I've no future in a sense 🙈 weird feeling
RTE can manage to cover this story from a country thousands of miles away (an appalling story by the way) which they know will encourage the usual right wing crew to spew their false equivalents & bile yet 3 days later still haven't mentioned
#NiallCollins
illegal activity
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.
Seen a few independents & TDs who've lost party whip claim that an election is not what people/their voters want. I 100% disagree as do many others. It may not change anything but it can highlight the lie. If you want a general election in Ireland retweet & use
#WeWantAnElection
Surprise surprise
@LeoVaradkar
on radio doing an interview about the covid certs and is asked is the
@HSELive
doing the certs and says no a private firm will be doing them on behalf of the HSE. Every single time a private company gets used at unnecessary extra cost to taxpayers
Bono doesn't represent the Irish people (thank god) maybe he endorses Israeli ethnic cleansing, war crimes and apartheid but the Irish people certainly don't
#FreePalestine
#FreeGaza
Varadkar video being used as a smokescreen to cover up the findings of SIPO. Media weren't covering it when it emerged originally, rightly, to not give it oxygen but now since the SIPO details emerged suddenly they're all over the story rather than SIPO story 🤷♂️
#HowIrelandWorks
Not only did some Greek politicians not clap for the speech yesterday they also walked out during it. Wonder if that will get much coverage or the reasons why? They were right to do so as well
So it's unreasonable & potentially illegal to restrict EU citizens travel within the EU according to Simon Coveney & Fine Gael yet they have restricted Irish (EU) people travelling within their own country for over a year & fine people for not obeying. Bit of a contradiction no?
Interesting to see what Ciara Kelly makes of Damien English's resignation for 14 years of failing to declare a property to cheat the system considering someone putting sealed bags of shite in front of someone is a "subversion of democracy" 🙄 I'd rather hear the shite's opinion
If according to the AG having an outside party with 200 people is perfectly fine then why were the Gardai instructed to disperse and baton charge people congregating on the streets of Dublin?
#zapponegate
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has accused Sinn Féin of ‘needing the housing crisis’ when responding to the €1bn underspend within the Department of Housing between 2020 and 2022. Figures were released in response to a PQ from Sinn Féin Housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin.
Let's face it none of the government TDs will call for Robert Troy to resign. They've all supported corruption or cronyism, if they weren't involved in it themselves, previously. Most of them are landlords. They think the only thing Troy did wrong was get caught
#HowIrelandWorks
2 journalists bemoaning the fact people are asking them why they aren't reporting allegations of illegal activity of a Minister of state. They won't even mention his name while complaining yet suggest people asking them 'exposes the dark nature of this movement' 🙄
#NiallCollins