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People don’t realise how extreme Ireland’s hate speech bill is. Up to 12 months in prison for refusing to give password to your devices if suspected of committing hate speech. 12 months for refusing to allow the State read messages between you and your spouse. It’s authoritarian.
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Increasing inheritance tax isn’t about “fairness”, it’s an assault on the family unit. People work to create a better life for themselves and their family. The idea that the State deserves to take money from families which they’ve already paid tax on is abhorrent. A tax on dying.
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Politicians are entitled to a social life but Leo Varadkar flying to London to attend a festival in the UK while his own government has decided it’s unsafe to host an event with similar restrictions in Ireland is shockingly bad leadership. Power doesn’t suit him. Tired of excuses
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In case anybody is confused by the latest NPHET advice. It’s safe to sit in a cinema on June 7th, but not safe until July for indoor dining. It’s safe to watch a movie with a runtime greater than 105 mins in June, but you have to be off your table in July after 105 mins. Science!
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Is it true RTÉ sent cameras to Dublin airport to shame Irish people flying home from Lanzarote? The same people who threw a retirement party while people weren’t allowed attend their friends funerals or open their business and nobody lost their jobs over it. They’ve some neck.
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I flew into Dublin from Italy last week. I can’t understand why the HSE haven’t announced the flight details of the person infected in NI. People who were on that plane have a right to know, for ourselves & to know whether to quarantine ourselves from family, friends & colleagues
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. We aren’t all in this together. It’s easy for somebody working from home on full pay or in secure employment in the public sector to demand perpetual lockdowns. There are tens of thousands ppl laid off who won’t have a job to return to.
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5pm hospitality closing time to be “recommended” by NPHET and another national address from the empty suit Taoiseach tomorrow. Stayed home, protected the vulnerable, got the vaccine and for what? So, Tony Holohan gets to tell me how to live my life. More scare models. Sick of it.
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83% of the country have received one dose and 68% are fully vaccinated yet we are back talking about whether schools can reopen in September. We’ve completely lost the plot. It’s insanity.
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When Varadkar gave this speech he would have been aware that the man the Gardaí had in custody for stabbing women and children in broad daylight had been before the courts on a knife charge a few months ago. Then he proceeded to use this horrific attack to push his hate speech
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says to the far-right protesters who rioted in Dublin last night 'ask everyone you know what they fear most on our streets. They're afraid of you. Afraid of your violence and your hate and how you blame others for your problems'.
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Why are we the only country who were supposed to host games for the Euros but couldn’t?
Why are we the only country in Europe not able to resume indoor dining?
Indoor dining opened in Northern Ireland on 24th May. NPHET are on a power trip. It’s an absolute joke.
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Remember when we stayed in lockdown longer than any other European country and abandoned summer because NPHET advised a slow cautious reopening so we could stay open? That went well. A country without accountability.
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Inheritance tax is the most despicable tax ever conceived and is a direct attack on the family unit. People who've worked and paid taxes all their lives to provide for their family have the State coming back for a second cut of their money. A tax on dying.
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Irish Government "We aren't attacking freedom of speech, we are legislating against hate."
"Ok, so what's the definition of hate?"
Irish Government "We cannot tell you that or it will make it harder for us to achieve convictions for hate speech. But we pinkie promise freedom of
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Am I right in saying that on the 19th July it looks likely that Irish people will be unable to dine indoors in their own country, but they will be able to fly to another European country, eat indoors and then return home without any issue? Our response is like a Monty Python skit
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I’m very slowly coming to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe the National Women’s Council of Ireland isn’t representative of all women in Ireland. Shocking!!
#Referendum2024
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Never thought I’d see the day when a journalist is being criticised on Irish TV for reporting information that everyone acknowledges is true but some people would prefer it wasn’t given to the public. Media doesn’t get to decide what the public is allowed to know.
#TonightVMTV
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“Flatten the curve”
“Protect our frontline workers”
“Protect the vulnerable”
“Vax the vulnerable”
“Vax everyone over 50”
“80% of adults need to be vaxed”
“90% of adults need to be vaxed”
92% fully vaxxed, highest % in EU. Still the same talking heads posturing for restrictions.
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This is the perfect example of why the proposed hate speech laws are extraordinarily dangerous and an undeniable threat to freedom of speech. A significant proportion of the Irish population would deem Casey’s comment as not only correct but perfectly reasonable. Holland thinks
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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Trying my best not to laugh at the “it’s terrible that Leo Varadkar is getting criticised for a misunderstood tweet”from people who support new laws to have people thrown in jail for tweets.
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5000 deaths from Covid in Ireland.
62% (3,100) of our deaths occurred in nursing homes.
Less than 2k deaths in other settings over 15 months.
Overwhelming majority of the vulnerable vaccinated, but NPHET model 'projects' 2,000 deaths between July-September.
Absolute bullshit.
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Two phrases we never hear anymore are:
"We are all in this together" - which was obviously drivel because we aren't and never were.
"Flatten the curve" because the curve is flat and has been for months and yet we still aren't open.
Can anybody remember any of the other ones?
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Definition of anti-vax about to change yet again to encompass people who’ve had two vaccines but don’t want a third.
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Surely the most shocking revelation of the day is that Elon Musk was more in tune with the Irish people on these two questions than Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, Green Party, Social Democrats, Labour and People before Profit combined? 😂😂😂
#Referendum2024
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Encouraged by the reaction to this post so here’s another worrying aspect of the bill.
If you don’t want to be convicted then don’t commit hate speech, right? Wrong, there will be no definition of what constitutes “hate” within the bill.
According to Minister Helen McEntee
People don’t realise how extreme Ireland’s hate speech bill is. Up to 12 months in prison for refusing to give password to your devices if suspected of committing hate speech. 12 months for refusing to allow the State read messages between you and your spouse. It’s authoritarian.
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We should never forget that they sent cameras to airports, drive thrus and hardware stores to shame ordinary people going about their business. Ripped young people apart for Salthill and South William Street and yet there were no consequences for parties in Merrion and Montrose.
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Thousands of Irish people turn out in Dublin to protest lockdown and vaccine passports for admission into pubs and restaurants. Many Irish media outlets smear them as far-right and downplay the number of people in attendance. The state of our media is depressing.
#DublinProtest
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We should be talking about lifting restrictions on hospitality and actually living with Covid, not mandatory vaccination.
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I was in a random Dublin Bar after the match and Covid rules were blatantly being ignored by all. In spite of the huge number of ads and headlines the bar was full and nobody left because of it. It’s done. NPHET, Gov and the pro-lockdown national media have no authority.
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I truly believe the Hate Speech Bill which is set to become law in the next few weeks is the most draconian and illiberal piece of legislation that I’ve seen anywhere in the Western world.
The question I most often get from people who are as concerned as I am is:
“What can we do
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Notable lack of tweets from feminists who usually celebrate glass ceilings being shattered, about the inspirational tale of an Italian working-class woman becoming the first female Prime Minister of Italy, and how it will encourage many young women to enter politics. Weird.
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Ireland would be a better, happier, fairer, more informed and open society if RTÉ was shut down in the morning.
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Leo Varadkar and his supporters trying to slander Michael Healy-Rae for using a common turn of phrase which is in no way homophobic really is the lowest of the low. Varadkar should focus on significant issues facing ordinary people and stop playing the victim as a distraction.
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Stuff the 6pm national address, we’ve had enough of them. Martin should go on radio/TV at 9am and announce all restrictions will be lifted immediately. From lockdown to to lock-in in one fell swoop. It will be like Italia ‘90 around Ireland tomorrow. Pubs/restaurants deserve it.
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It’s unfortunate that Tony Holohan isn’t delivering the address tonight and instead we are stuck with the people that are pretending they’re running the country. The most spineless government in the history of the Irish state.
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Welcome to Primetime, unfortunately we’ve agreed not to interview any Ministers about the EU vaccine shambles or clusters in nursing homes and hospitals, so instead we are going to play footage from Dublin Airport of people with questionable dental appointments to make you angry.
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If you’re living outside of Ireland and are wondering how insane the political climate has become here, well for years we’ve had hysteria about the dangers of misinformation and disinformation being disseminated online, which has been used by the people who call themselves
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The biggest scam artist to ever hold the office of Taoiseach. Has been protected by Irish media at every turn. I still can’t believe he got away with flying to the UK and attending a music festival while his own government wouldn’t allow them in Ireland.
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Michael O' Leary was on fire this morning. I’d recommend people listen to it. Byrne repeatedly ignores that every other EU member state and UK aren’t implementing our restrictions and instead pushes her own opinion. That’s not public service broadcasting.
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Hazel Chu is a walking advertisement for directly elected Mayors. She has little to no interest in making Dublin a safer or better place, she just wants to use her office to acquire a national platform and a more influential job. Second election campaign in a matter of weeks.
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For those who missed the 6.1. News for the first time in 18 months RTÉ news managed to find ordinary people on the street who supported lifting restrictions. Peculiar
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I voted No No earlier. The fact the govt knowingly misled voters throughout the campaign and the AG advice was leaked after the broadcaster moratorium was in effect would leave a bad taste in your mouth. They deserve to be eviscerated today for their dishonesty. Get out and vote.
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Am I right in saying the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner and others all ignored the protest in East Wall? It’s no small wonder why trust in media is collapsing when legacy media orgs pick and choose which protests to cover to advance their own political agenda.
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So there’s no vaccine bonus. NPHET and Gov can impose MHQ on a whim, hospitality closed at 12, vax passport creeping into more areas of society, negative test required for international travel and now young kids are being masked. Public good will is being abused by the power mad.
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Why aren’t NPHET ever asked about their many failures throughout the pandemic? Why aren’t they asked how their modelling has been laughably wrong on many occasions? Why aren’t they asked about their advice on capacity? Why does their “advice” supersede civil liberties? Media??
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Genuinely stomach churning reading the breaking reports and seeing the images of the incident in Parnell Square. PR videos of Ministers walking through the streets of Dublin escorted by Gardaí isn't going to cut it. Deterioration of Law and Order under this Govt is a disgrace.
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Hard to believe it was this time last year that Tony Holohan was driving around Dublin tweeting his disapproval of people enjoying themselves and then a week later people were dispersed by baton charge on South William Street. Outrageous to look back on the over the top reaction
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Sinn Féin supported the Govt on Covid, hate speech laws, all their social policies, climate policicies, backed their failed referendum bids, have been invisible on migration challenges, and now they’re acting surprised people didn’t see them as a vehicle for change. They aren’t.
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You love to see the drop in support for Sinn Féin who are the worst opposition in the history of the state. They spent the last four and a half years opposing nothing, betrayed their base to pander to the open border left and were paralysed by fear of upsetting them.
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Full lockdown back on the cards in one of the most vaccinated countries on earth. Advisers who brought us hear are unaccountable and treated as infallible, political leaders under no pressure from a compliant media, opposition might as well be in Gov. Ireland inc in all its glory
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After months of falsely saying that “we’re all in this together”, the Irish Gov moves ahead with plans to exclude the non-vaccinated from indoor dining. The thanks people get for giving up months of their lives is that eventhough the vulnerable are vaccinated they’ll be excluded.
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The Varadkar/Healy-Rae spat is another example of why the proposed hate speech legislation is a terrible idea. One person using a common turn of phrase with no homophobic connotations being accused of making a homophobic remark because the person he was arguing with took offence.
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Staggering numbers. 250,000 people, approx 5% of our population in a single year. How anyone believes a nation of our size can absorb these numbers without profound impacts on housing, wages, healthcare, and availability of frontline services is beyond me. Entirely unsustainable.
"In 2022 alone the foreign population of Ireland rose by a quarter of a million.. my hunch is it's gone too far"
Dan O’Brien, Chief Economist, Institute of International and European Affairs
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Why don’t we just bring back the miracle €9 substantial meals for indoor dining to prevent the spread of Covid? I seem to recall that was following the science last year.
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This is beyond belief. The govt are bringing in draconian "hate speech" laws, we've had a week of lectures about incitement and a FF Cllr calls for people to be shot in the head or beaten to death in public and the response from Govt is 'we'll have a chat with him'.
Fianna Fáil to 'engage' with Cllr who said Dublin rioters should be 'shot in the head' - Chambers.
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I’m old enough to remember when we had news stories about the trolley crisis in our hospitals every year without shutting the country down at 8pm.
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The national conversation about lockdown in Ireland is dominated by people who earn many times the average salary, are in secure employment in the public sector and who aren’t enduring the state mandated closure of their business or place of work. ‘We know how hard it is’. BS
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Ireland rushed through legislation on vax pass. The lack of debate and discriminatory nature of it was dismissed because it was a short term policy for a number of weeks and would only apply to hospitality. Now it’s evolved into more areas and been extended again. It’s a disgrace
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Varadkar using the knife attack yesterday and riots in Dublin last night to renew the push for this governments faltering hate speech bill is repugnant. Citizens don’t lose their rights because of the actions of others. Such crass opportunism at a moment like this.
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Two photos of Dublin taken 7 days apart.
One group celebrated, the other castigated.
No consistency. It’s gone beyond a joke at this stage. Hypocrisy and glaring double standards everywhere.
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Paschal Donohoe is right. Fine Gael definitely didn’t say they’d abolish USC.
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Fascinating timeline emerging from the appearance of RTÉ executives at the media committee yesterday.
March 2023
Early March - Deloitte flagged issue regarding payment to Ryan Tubridy to CFO Richard Collins. DG Dee Forbes was informed around the same time. CFO said he had no
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Owen Keegan saying that if the city council empty bins more often and provide public toilet facilities, it might cause more people to travel into the city to use them, is probably the funniest thing ever uttered by a city manager. It's literally beyond parody. Only in Ireland.
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There isn’t enough backlash against FG/FF/Greens for bringing in minimum pricing for alcohol. A nanny state policy to make people poorer at a time of high inflation, and it will disproportionately impact poorer people. These parties deserve to be decimated at the next election.
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If people are going to be smeared as far-right for opposing their own government on any number of issues then it would appear Ireland is moving toward becoming a Stalinist state. What is happening in Leinster House and why is nobody shouting stop?
Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee, when asked for a definition of "the far-right", replies "I'm not sure there is a definition."
She then goes on to list typical attributes of the "far-right" as she sees it, including being "anti-immigration" and "anti-government."
#gript
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It's already tedious to say it, but we're 20 months in, we've had massive public buy in, unprecedented restrictions on civil liberties, 95% vaxxed and tens of billions of euro spent. It's a farce we're on the precipice of another lockdown and scapegoating the public is so wrong.
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Remember when we abandoned a Summer reopening in favour of a really slow phased reopening so we wouldn’t have to reintroduce restrictions. Solid advice.
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An Irish ZeroCovid pressure group, who've undoubtedly been given the largest platform in the national media have been exposed for deliberately trying to sow anxiety & uncertainty to achieve their aims. It should be a national story. It would be if it was a fringe right wing group
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I can’t fathom that we are even considering more restrictions despite beating NPHETs most optimistic model by a fair margin. Hospitalisations stable, yet Covid is now being used as an excuse for our annual winter trolley crisis. So many have had the sense scared out of them. Sad.
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At this rate you won’t be allowed to disagree with the Irish govt on anything without being accused of spreading misinformation or disinformation. It’s outrageous at this stage. Varadkar isn’t the authority on truth regardless of how much he’d like to be.
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The revival of the Green Party over the course of the last decade is probably one of the worst things to happen to Irish politics in recent years. An out of touch, elitist, and unrealistic bunch of spoofers being allowed to implement moronic policies only to keep FG/FF in office.
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So, every state in the United States is open, every country in Europe is open for indoor dining, only Ireland remains in lockdown. The country with the longest and most severe lockdown in the Western World. To say that we are an outlier at this point doesn't do it justice.
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When you look at the cost of motor tax on old cars, minimum pricing on alcohol, steady tax increases on carbon and even a sugar tax on soft drinks, the Irish solution to many of our perceived problems is to make everything more expensive and difficult for lower income individuals
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Since Ireland’s hate speech bill is drawing worldwide attention, here is an excerpt from a speech delivered by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in November 2016 reminding us all that “speech should never be gagged or throttled.”
“How a country that was once one of the most conservative
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Vaccine passports to stay for Winter. Applauded by the majority who only want to interact with unvaccinated people in pubs or restaurants if they’re serving them food.
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“I can do everything I used to do, stop criticising NPHET” all week and then Tony Holohan emerges to tell people to have ‘5 people over for dinner instead of ten’, or ‘go out once instead of twice’. It’s over the top interference from an unelected bureaucrat and it needs to stop.
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Leaving aside the gaslighting from Leo Varadkar, it's actually repugnant that he would use the patron saint of Ireland, who was taken as a slave to Ireland at the age of 16 against his will, to push the disastrous open-border policies of his govt in an international forum.
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Dublin is on fire and RTÉ News now is running with a press conference about the Irish women’s football team. Keep paying that license fee
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It’s been a confusing few days so just to clarify for everyone, we’re still following the science, it’s just the science is being updated in accordance with the need to rescue Leo Varadkar’s political career. We’re all in this together.
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Think the cost of petrol/diesel is too high? In Ireland the majority of what you pay for filling up your tank goes to the government. They could lower the price tomorrow if they wanted to. They don't want to. It's a deliberate policy to punish you for driving.
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What planet do these people live on? Open your own pub if you don’t like it.
😂😂
What a night in Cork! More than 500 members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies put the Rearden's Group to shame over their decision to close the city's only queer venue.
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Many people have been asking for a link to the bill so here it is. Read it for yourself
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The most emotionally manipulative phrase of the pandemic is 'slap in the face to our frontline workers' whenever anybody breaches one of the guidelines. Yet it's never a slap in the face to our elderly or SMEs when the Government misses a vaccine target or makes a mistake.
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Below is a statement from Tánaiste Micheál Martin made in the Dáil after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in 2015. It was as clear then as it is now that he fully understands freedom of speech encompasses “the right of people to say things even if one does not like their saying it.”
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Unquestionably the most toxic and divisive individual to ever hold the office of Taoiseach. Varadkar clearly stating that he believes the Irish civil service is “very white” and “that needs to change”. He wants racial quotas for State jobs. This is what’s sold as ‘progress’. Sad
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Remember when RTÉ published the names and addresses of ten people charged mostly with failing to provide the Gardaí with names and addresses at an anti-lockdown protest. Irish elite who attended Golfgate and Merrion bash remain largely unknown. Truly holding power to account.
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Hugely encouraging to see
@SenatorMcDowell
raising this. A good man who rightly recognises the danger of not defining hate within the bill.
Former Justice Minister,
@SenatorMcDowell
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@HMcEntee
previously admitted that she has not included a definition of 'hate' in order to ensure easier convictions. This is retrograde lawmaking to say the least.
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The Green Party deserve to be wiped out at the next election and it can’t come soon enough.
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@garrettmullan
Please elaborate Garrett, why should my social media activity be scrutinised? What actions of mine?
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The “science” saying we couldn’t open up hospitality until the bank holiday Monday was bullshit. It’s an anti-drink lobby who’ve been given enormous power and big heads. Gardaí baton charging people for drinking in the areas they’re “allowed” to. It’s gone too far, disband NPHET.
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Micheál Martin is an imposter and he’s by far the worst person to ever hold the office of Taoiseach. Anybody who pretends otherwise is a party political hack. As for Leo Varadkar being the future of Ireland, give me a break, an empty chair.
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Two women travelling overseas to get a boob job became the subject of national conversation but people aren't supposed to talk about the Tánaiste attending a festival in the UK when the reason they're not taking place in Ireland is because of his own Gov's decision. What a joke.
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You’d feel very sorry for the pub under Garda investigation near Croke Park. If only Leo Varadkar was in attendance our Attorney General would step in to assure everyone that everything was above board.
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It’s looking inevitable that the reopening of indoor dining in pubs and restaurants will be delayed again, so a little reminder that it’s been safe to dine indoors for weeks provided you book an overnight stay in a hotel. Covid knows if you’ve spent a few hundred quid on a hotel.
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There's something sinister in rolling out a discriminatory vaccine passport system and justifying it on the basis of it being used solely for hospitality and for a few short weeks and then expanding it to other areas of society for many months more at a minimum. It's disgraceful.
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Green Party lose half their Council seats and both MEPs. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the Green agenda isn't anywhere near as popular as it's made out to be.
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With the exception of a 3 week hiatus in Dec, Ireland has been in lockdown since the first week of Oct. Still no concrete plan for reopening, only a persistent drip feed of leaks to the media with promises of eased restrictions over next two months to keep people on side. Farce!
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AA Survey on avg retail Petrol/Diesel prices:
Petrol Pump Price: 175.5c
Price before taxes: 77.912c
Total taxes: 95.588c
Diesel Pump Price: 166.1c
Price before taxes: 81.134
Total taxes: 84.961c
It's hard to "shop around" when it's the government fleecing people at every pump.
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