Steve Conlon
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PhD. Work in Threat Intel, Risk & Security. Tweet about national and international security issues; especially tech-related. Tweets my own.
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This is a critical thinking course that can be done for free if you’re committed enough. Some people on here need to start doing it.
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On flight Dublin to Berlin with
@AerLingus
- doors have just closed as we pull from gate:
Pilot announces that he expects some slight turbulence whilst flying over the UK. Plane erupts in sniggers.
#BrexitShambles
#brexitmehole
#Brexit
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Peak Ireland right here, charging you for your kids to emigrate.
Dublin Airport gets green light to charge drivers for dropping off and collecting friends and family
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Europe has seen one holocaust. Don’t legitimise another by ignoring what China is doing.
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Minister
@HMcEntee
probably won't see this but I need to vent and maybe a RT may bring it on her radar
International nurses who served this country for 5 years cannot get citizenship because of this stupid scorecard that requires a very short list of docs for proof of residency
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General
@robert_spalding
’s letter is required reading for those who are writing the Irish
#NationalSecurity
Strategy and those with any concerns over
#5G
- it’s not just about the technical vulnerabilities it’s about economics and freedom.
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TikTok’s plans to become a search engine should greatly worry the free world. Whilst google has been no angel, TikTok’s censorship across the world is well documented. A generation will only get one side of Tiananmen Square - “no results found”. Ban this app before it’s too late.
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A massacre happened here. Fine if you have fond memories of a trip to China buy this is the pic he went with. And this is the type of pic the CCP wants western leaders to put out there.
This is terrible taste. And not the message a government minister should be putting out.
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@roy_kinsella
@QuantumDom
Apparently he’s pushing the boundaries of science into science fiction.
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I’m going to bump this. Yesterday unarmed Gardai (Irish police) disarmed a guy openly brandishing a knife walking down Talbot street.
Unarmed police force putting themselves in harms way to protect the public. We should be applauding this when it happens
Gardai just successfully disarmed a man with a knife on Talbot Street.
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If things really do kick off in Russia the sight of Chay Bowes scrambling towards a NATO member’s repatriation flight so he can get back to Ireland needs to be immortalised in a painting.
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#Huawei
claims Chinese law is only applicable in China. Yet it would appear Zoom’s interpretation is that Chinese law is borderless?
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Exclusive: Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist - source
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Thought i'd help him out here and correct this graphic
An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for the Celtic Interconnector, a subsea link that will allow the exchange of electricity between Ireland and France.
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One minute 46 seconds in and he’s lost all credibility.
Huawei Crucified
“This is not about security, this is about trade.”
Huawei UK Communications Director Ed Brewster says the removal of the company's 5G technology from the UK is not about security, adding the company has “built trust” with customers
#Newsnight
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Man is a hero amongst the legal profession in Ireland.
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Out for breakfast. Anti-Vaxer vexed by being asked to wash her hands before seating. One of her friends retorted, “wash your hands Sharon, I’m sick of your shit every time, we’re eating outside because of you”
Sharon is sitting stewing as people asked for their certs beside her
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This guy drove the whole way up a segregated cycle lane to turn on to the Samuel Beckett Bridge. But he had hazards on so that’s ok? Must be some emergency.
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Then act on China. Now.
On the 25th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica, the entire world realises that we failed to protect those who were most in need of our protection. It is our duty to remember, speak up and act:
No more blood in the name of race or religion.
No more genocides, never again.
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Tiktok actively censoring content posted by an Australian citizen, in Australia.
TikTok, like Huawei, has one master. The CCP.
Censoring anti-CCP content outside the PRC is an another example of why TikTok is an active hybrid threat in democracies.
Update: My attempt to post anti-CCP content on TikTok is not going well
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Ireland has promised to share information on
#COVID2019
after receiving 80% compliant PPE that we paid for from China.
Meanwhile China:
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There seems to a small but growing movement of house sellers requiring estate agents to sell to families and mortgaged purchasers thanks to
@crazyhouseprice
- I am sure some greedy estate agents will cop on to this soon and start lying to their clients.
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Data centres:
- Since 2010 they’ve probably generated close to €7.5billion.
- 2k people work directly in them, a further 2k indirectly.
- Leads to more hardened critical infrastructure
- Skillset of Irish firms involved in their construction sought all over the world
We need to bring in real constraints on these centres. They don't bring jobs, they are not essential for our economy and we have no idea how much of what they do is socially good or necessary. Their continued proliferation will destroy our climate targets.
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I have literally spent every free moment I can getting this right over the last few days. I don’t often share art on open social media platforms but I present my niece
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My letter in today’s Irish Times calling for cross party consensus to suspend Ireland’s extradition treaty with Hong Kong.
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A supermarket in Dublin is registered as a Fuzhou Public Security Bureau CCP office.
We need a civilian intelligence agency.
We need a Foreign Agents Registration Act.
We need a National Security Strategy.
A Chinese police bureau has set up dozens of “service stations” overseas, including 3 in the
#UnitedKingdom
and 1 in
#Ireland
, according to a new report.
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I don’t speak Irish. Occasional interest in learning it; but fades. I do see the passion those who love it have and those for whom it’s an integral part of their identity. Of course it is; it’s their language. Whilst I too have been flippant in the past in its support we are
"I couldn't be arsed to learn
#Irish
,all this money we've put into it & there's 16,000 people in the speaking it says Ivan Yates ".
Astounding ignorance on the
@SixOClockShow
#Ireland
#Gaelige
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The report says Huawei refused to close down the paths. REFUSED.
And now with the CCP National Security Law who do we think Huawei leadership will listen to?
If you’re an ex-politician working with this company you need to take a long hard look at yourself and your allegiances.
It is imperative we understand if our networks (both wireless and fixed) have been compromised in such a way. Carriers are critical Infrastructure providers with an obligation to national security not shareholders.
Who is really running our networks? And from where ?
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Extraordinary how many news outlets are glossing over the fact that
#Huawei
Meng Wanzhou has “taken responsibility” for her role in fraudulently deceiving a global financial institution into doing business with a Huawei subsidiary in Iran in violation of U.S. law.
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So, maybe nobody cares, but
@MichaelDHiggins
thinks he should have probably mentioned Fidel Castro's human rights abuses. I won't probably mention them: I am going to list quite a few of them in this thread. The Head of State may not believe these are worthy of note ...
#Aras18
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The Aras is not the personal platform for the Higgins Clann. The line was not just crossed, it was pole vaulted over.
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I can’t even begin to explain this Taxi driver’s logic for this.
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@JohnOBrennan2
That's one of the McEniff's if I am not mistaken. Major Donegal FF family. Big employing family in that neck of the woods. Fair play to him.
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A neighbour just marched out into the street in a old Mayo jersey and boxers with a hurling stick, roaring at two cans rattling around the street in the wind and made utter carnage out of them. That’s how a culchie in Dublin deals with
#StormHector
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Signed a contract to buy a new build 4 bed house today which is cheaper than the rent on my three bed apt. The exhausting gauntlet of paperwork the bank made me go through to prove was exhausting. The Home Buyers Guide from
@crazyhouseprice
was my Bible. Kudos to him and the team
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Look at this extraordinary prick. Has taken this truck and parked up on the only pedestrian entrance to my estate and completely blocked it. Taken the entire footpath forcing pedestrians to walk on a super busy road. Gardai in squad car shrugged.
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Utterly shaking with anger and nerves. Cycling home and and this idiot in a UK car turned without signalling. Went straight into side of his car. HE KEPT GOING. Garda Armed car was on junction, gave chase with lights and sirens: refused to stop out of my sight into East Wall
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My grandmother passed today, at home, with family to say goodbye and family who had departed before to welcome her. Their presence was her final observation in this world, and a profound gift of comfort. So to those who wonder, believe or hope, I pass that gift on to you too. RIP
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WSJ Investigation: Embedded Huawei technicians helped cyber-surveillance units in Africa snoop on political opponents.
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So you know what would be helpful
@jack
/
@Twitter
- a medical professional verified tick. Make it green or a medical symbol. To highlight a qualified medical professional. Some muppets here with verified accounts Spreading dangerous nonsense.
#COVID19
#COVID2019IRELAND
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There is a serious amount of nasty commentary on her towards Katie. It is unnecessary. Such a campaign would be mentally taxing to the extreme. So if tonight is an impeachment just take the win and leave it at that
#impeachmentreferendum
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It is likely Huawei will now look to release the OS it has kept secret. The one where you will have to use Chinese payment platforms and well, the ULTIMATE spyware.
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CCP threatens the media of an independent western nation for daring to defy their playbook.
Stockholm tells Beijing: our 10 million people have shown you nothing but kindness all along, but their patience has been severely strained, and no one should expect us to put up with national humiliation.
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Years ago I worked as a 999 dispatcher. An elderly man in rural Ireland rang and I answered. All he could say it was ‘so cold’. We traced his no. and Gardaí went to his house. His heating had stopped working. Local Gardaí saved that man’s life. Rural stations are vital services.
We are regularly visiting and assisting vulnerable citizens across the country in these difficult times.
Don't be afraid to ring us, day or night, if you need assistance.
#CommunityPolicing
#COVID
ー19
#Garda
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If we EVER get to the point of a referendum on NATO membership the likes of Paul Murphy will be the reason we join. If the far-left had any sense they’d find far more relatable spokespersons who know how to engage a wider demographic. And I would exclude Ming Flanagan too.
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Hold a Home Coming for all our Olympians in Croke Park. Invite their families, their trainers, and whoever they want there.
Televise it for the rest of us.
We’ll all watch gladly.
People are going to make Kellie's homecoming into some type of political spat and probably forget to ask Kellie what she wants. Do we need to go here again 🤷♂️
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Here's the CCP Embassy in Ireland reminding politicians what is at risk if you choose to restrict their surveillance technology for national security reasons.
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The Chinese embassy in France has started to pick a fight with the French. It’s not going well for the PRC as it attempts to wield its “expertise” in pandemic management and PPE-diplomacy. Their shill in Ireland has kept his mouth shut of late too.
Bloody hell...
“Since the Chinese Embassy wants to play, let's play. Is it a secret that China IMPORTED 2.02 BILLION MASKS between January 24 and February 29? It is the Chinese Customs which say it”: …
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@donlav
@damienwlr
Those events have a mentality about them that makes me uncomfortable. A certain culture of invincibility permeates the training and prep etc. sometimes bordering on reckless training with dumb exercises. No idea what they were thinking. But an investigation is warranted.
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When I was a kid there were quite a few jokes about the FCA, now the Reserve Defence Forces. But there was actually respect too. Joining the RDF was admired. I remember neighbours going off for training. One particular neighbour so inspired his daughters that both they joined the
“Neutrality doesn’t protect you - neutrality makes you a target.”
- Independent TD Cathal Berry speaks about Ireland’s neutrality at an event held by The Journal and
@DCU_Brexit_Inst
ahead of the European Elections.
#EP2024
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They always have man buns. Though that one is more a like cinnaman swirl
Breaking: Tánaiste Micheal Martin barely started his speech before anti-NATO protestors completely disrupted the forum in UCC.
A number of protestors have been hauled away by Gardaí after a row with the Tánaiste.
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If you can’t wish the new Taoiseach well, for the sake of the country, you’ve no business claiming you represent anyone. You’re a chancer, a terminal complainer and soapboxer who’d rather see your own supporters suffer to galvanise them more. Despicable.
Wishing
@SimonHarrisTD
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A doctor can use a "Medical Practitioner Employment History Summary" but a nurse cannot. No offence to doctors, but nurses work as hard as they do, if not more at times. They deserve similar recognition.
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In China mortgage sizes can be x20 to x35 times your annual income. This will end terribly, for the world, not just China.
In Shanghai or Beijing the earning to loan ratio is more like x49 times.
“买了三套买四套”
This has gone viral on Chinese internet.
“I call on every comrade to take the lead to buy a property.
If you are on your 1st property, then buy a 2nd one; if on 2nd, then buy a 3rd; already on 3rd? There’s always room for the 4th.”
Now let the buying begin.
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Is it just me or is he in breach of his own Harassment Policy?
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Cheers and claps, whistles and hugs in
@PantiBliss
bar as that's it. The polls close. It's over. Thank you Ireland.
@YesEquality2015
#MarRef
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Since May 14 staff of
@ncsc_gov_ie
have been working 7 days a week 12-18 hours a day to recover from a devastating attack on our critical infrastructure.
Members of the
@gardainfo
,
@defenceforces
have equally worked insane hours and some of those are reserve members.
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Currently in Turkey. And we’re in the news for our defence spending. Or lack thereof.
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Sinn Fein wanting the UK to have a veto on our sovereignty.
The new Ireland ?
Micheál Martin has just announced a fundamental shift in Irish Foreign Policy stating he will abolish the Triple-lock which underpins our neutrality.
Removing UN mandate for engagement in military missions will undermine the neutrality that Irish people overwhelmingly value.
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You can be guaranteed if this was any other country the army and water cannons would be out.
The commissioner and minister must go. Fine Gael must be removed from Justice. Completely.
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Journalists have one job here today. Ask why her letter was published on the Aras website.
President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina Higgins have arrived in Mullingar to open
#Fleadh2022
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ByteDance (owners of
#TikTok
) allegedly censored anti-China content in Indonesia until mid-2020. We have no hybrid threat monitoring or counter capacity in Ireland yet TikTok are going to be setting up a data center and likely a HQ here.
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Concentration camps are indeed man-made and are indeed obstacles I suppose,
@simoncoveney
#CAI
Although
#CAI
was put into the freezer by EU Parliament, Irish FM
@simoncoveney
acc to 🇨🇳official statement, in mtg w/ Wang Yi stated: "If Europe & China drift away bcuz of some man-made obstacles, it will be a historic mistake. 1/2
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BT boss warns it would take seven years to remove
#Huawei
from all UK infrastructure.
And exactly who got the UK into this mess requiring the HCSEC in the first place? The brass neck of BT.
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Countries like Germany have fuelled CCP arrogance, leading to situations like this.
Normally I would say “reap what you sow”. But all of Europe will suffer here.
It’s time we stood up to CCP bullying. China cannot afford our push-back.
Federation of German Industries doesn‘t mince words on Beijing‘s economic coercion of EU companies as part of crusade against Lithuania. Crystal clear statement by
@Der_BDI
should inspire German government response.
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Our tankies must be livid.
At Shannon Airport, I held an unscheduled meeting with President of the Transitional Sovereign Council of Sudan Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
I am grateful for Sudan's consistent support of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
We discussed common security challenges,
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This isn't some bloody law. It some daft excel spreadsheet score card clearly written by someone with no clue what it is like to immigrate to Ireland and how you can't get mortgages or credit cards in year one.
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My thoughts are with those who fled to Ireland from the murderous, war mongering , oppressive regime of Iran. Discovering that our, and indeed your President felt the need to pen this must be gut wrenching.
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I have never been more supportive of putting Mick Wallace on RTE now. Let the cretin justify this war crime so his electorate can see him for the puppet he is.
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We will hand citizenship to millionaires but we make our frontline nurses beg, and stress, and break their hearts over a fucking fishing license.
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6 years ago I lived in a double room en suite in Dublin 1. In Mayor Square. I paid €550 per month. It’s now advertised at €1200 per month.
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Students in Mount Temple School were unimpressed with no posters outside their gate so ...
#HateShallNotPass
#MarRef
http://t.co/g4J1Qh6pV0
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Two Gardai now off-duty because of this little prick.
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A friend handed this to me today. This anti
#marriagequality
leaflet was being handed out yesterday - no words.
http://t.co/Jnk5A6m7Eb
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It is an absolute smack in the face to nurses given all they did for us especially in the last two years that our immigrant nurses who want to become Irish citizens are going to have to wait at least two more years even though they qualify.
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Just pageantry, optics and theatrics.
Pay Gardai more.
Equip Gardai properly.
Encourage return of resigned members.
Much harsher sentences.
Free Gardai from paperwork.
Expand civilian roles in Gardai
There is no excuse for violence on our streets and those responsible will be brought to justice. I was briefed by Gardaí in Store Street today, and we also discussed how we are:
🔹Recruiting more Gardaí
🔹Introducing tougher sentences
🔹Giving Gardaí the tools to fight crime
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Overheard in Dublin as someone being thrown out of a phone shop: “hands of me, fookin guardian of dah galaxies”. I’m dead.
@OverheardDublin
🤣
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We have so many on the left silent on HK and on the concentration camps in China because their ideological support for the concept of communism makes them blind to a system where human life a state currency and commodity measured in loyalty and traded for privileged liberties
Communism at its finest. Democracy all but gone in Hong Kong.
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The Irish gov has released its Electronic Communications Security Measures (ECSMs), effectively a reaction to risks in
#5G
technologies and networks. Here's a summary of what it does say ....
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#Huawei
is at it again. They’ve been recruiting more European Parliament policy advisors moving on after the elections. How are there no cooling-off periods for policy advisors moving into lobbying for corporations from the EU institutions?
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We are doomed. This polluting contraption to water some plants.
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China directing the elected members of a sovereign nation on how to exercise their foreign policy. The scary thing is that in some countries this works. And certainly in some private sectors and in the higher education sector globally.
Another own goal for Chinese diplomacy, this time in Brazil. The Chinese embassy there sent a letter telling members of parliament not to congratulate Tsai Ing-wen on her recent inauguration. It was leaked, spawning the
#VivaTaiwan
hashtag now trending.
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Correct. Paul is an advocate for nothing that can be described as neutral in the modern sense - the only sense that matters. He wants us defenceless, with no deterrent. Suppose its necessary for the socialist revolution. Or something.
Why does the media constantly refer to
@paulmurphy_TD
to advocate for neutrality to counter moderate points made on Irish security policy?
It's akin to having a debate on mixed sex education and including the Taliban for balance.
We need expertise, not extremism.
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Maybe everyone else can see past this, and that's fine, but it's a point of principle for me - the president should remember he speaks on behalf of us all and draw a line between his political beliefs where they allow him to make victims invisible.
#Aras18
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A full investigation needs to happen about whether Bank of Ireland’s IT system meets its requirements under CER (etc). We also need transparency around whether this was incompetence, simple human error or a cyber attack.
Also BOI needs to pay the State for Garda hours to
Following the outage yesterday, the App and 3650nline are back working again. Overnight payments to accounts may appear throughout the day. We sincerely apologise for the disruption this outage caused - we know it fell far below the standards our customers expect from us.
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Look at this extraordinary parking achievement. The store cannot accommodate wheelchair users or prams now.
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For those making snide comments about who’d spy on him, his portfolio covers areas the CCP want as much intel as possible both at Ireland and EU level. Your parochial narrow minded views are part of the problem.
Mind you the CCP has more useful idiots inside Leinster House
Eamon Ryan and his officials travelling to China for St Patrick’s Day have been issued with “burner phones“ and have been ordered to leave devices used for state business at home due to concerns about surveillance by the Chinese state.
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It’s as if their elites are no longer worth the money they’ve paid for them.
To quote
@Lord_Sugar
- you’re fired?!?
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