Andrew Lyons

@Muinchille Specific/ speciality trades have special requirements above those set out by the working conditions and terms mandated by government legislation. Occasionally different unions unite on issues

@AndyDrewLyons But they only protect certain workers.

There's people who make a big fuss about NGOs. Fair enough, they're unaccountable, outside democratic process, or the legal structures of the civil and public service, but isn't the sane true of trades unions? How deep are they in with the NGOs? Are they privileged clubs?

@DarraghOBrienTD its a over taxing overspending crisis

In the Dáil today, I supported the motion of confidence and thanked frontline workers and bus drivers for their efforts in recent weeks. This is a global crisis, and we must work together to support households and businesses with practical measures, not political point scoring.

@h_swanson1 @JohnCleese Who was paid

@AndyDrewLyons @JohnCleese Lost? No we paid to free the slaves. And thousands of British sailors died stopping Africas international slave trade.

A history lesson for those who think slavery was a Western invention

@rtenews The cost of the government giving €27bn in optional fines to the EC

Irish electricity prices were the eighth most expensive in Europe in 2024, according to research from the Economic and Social Research Institute rte.ie/news/business/…

@pulse_carbon @GavinTobin @tbald101 Interesting, AI told me about 30GW wind would be needed plus batteries. Then EC announced similar

@AndyDrewLyons @GavinTobin @tbald101 Its worse than that - we'd need 10x current wind capacity if we just did wind (see my calculator). So we cant stay on fossil fuels, and the official plan (switch in wind & solar no problemo) is obviously unworkable. No easy answers. I look to Transition Engineering.

Why should carbon taxes even exist? Energy is an inelastic product meaning it will be used regardless of price. If the goal is to reduce consumption, then it's pointless. If the goal is to raise revenue, the State already has a surplus so why bother?

@pulse_carbon @GavinTobin @tbald101 Did you account for AI power usage abd population increase?

@AndyDrewLyons @GavinTobin @tbald101 Well, I am certain we are moving to a significantly lower energy future, landing at about 25% of the energy we use now (so lower living standards etc). Heres some software I wrote to estimate the whole energy system transition per country: wind-and-solar.vercel.app

@pulse_carbon @GavinTobin @tbald101 Overbuilding renewables just to provide in winter is really poor design unless you use the excess. Ireland can go 6-8months carbon neutral, outside of winter, fairly easily. What do the excess wind and solar produce in summer? I Propose fertilizer chemicals. Time is a killer

@pulse_carbon @GavinTobin @tbald101 Yes phase out should be planned. Biomass releases CO2 but is not a fossil fuel and can be sustainable. Wind turbines capacity that took 20+years to build, Ireland needs 5times this amount, when can this be achieved 30years? Not something thing that happens in one generation.

@Ashkan_Atheist @jacobsladder178 @NoaMagid Pretty sure Israel was much better like 15years ago

@jacobsladder178 @NoaMagid You missed my point completely. I was saying Israel is fortunate to have the strength to defend itself. Without Bibi, Mossad, and the IDF, things could have been far worse.

Between 1939–1945, children in concentration and labor camps were stripped of their names - turned into numbers. (Holocaust in Color) We will never forget.

@RabbiPoupko Golden Age no 2 coming to Spain?

Expell Spain from all Western international institutions.

@Lyd1R @visegrad24 Does the latter cause the former?

@visegrad24 Not much of a surprise. Antisemitism and corruption are the conjoined twins of human history.

🇪🇸 Spanish PM Sanchez’s wife charged with corruption Begoña Gómez, the wife of Spanish far-left Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, has been formally charged with multiple corruption-related offenses, including influence peddling, business corruption, embezzlement, and misappropriation. The investigation began in April 2024 following a complaint by the anti-corruption group Manos Limpias, which accused Gómez of using her position to influence public contracts and secure university sponsorships. At the time, Pedro Sánchez took a five-day “period of reflection” to consider resigning over the allegations before ultimately deciding to remain in office.

@IrishTimes Will the government form a committee to give a little tax back to specific people? Perhaps scraps the spending on commitees and reduce taxes

More than 2,000 frontline ambulance staff set to strike over pay irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/0…

@rtenews Politicians' prize is a job in Brussels after Irish politics

The Irish Government is looking for a range of flexibilities under EU law in order to help tackle the fuel crisis, RTÉ News understands rte.ie/news/2026/0413…

@57timj @tiberiusfiles @C_3C_3 "to compensate slave owners for the loss of "property," rather than compensating the enslaved. This loan, equivalent to roughly £17 billion today, was paid off by British taxpayers through taxes until 2015. " Ancestors of slaves may have paid off slave owners compensation by tax

@tiberiusfiles @C_3C_3 The slave owners of the UK were only persuaded to give up their slaves because the government gave them financial reparations (which were still being paid in the 1990s i believe)! The “freed” slaves, of course, received no reparations! Justice UK style!

Want some truth? There are ~195 sovereign countries in the World and all 195 have had slavery. But… Out of those 195 countries the United States is the only one that fought a full scale Civil War to end it.

@C_3C_3 The US is the only country to fight a civil war with one side wanting to keep slavery?

@thejournal_ie They all want jobs in Brussels after Irish politics, it should be considered a conflict of interest

Fianna Fáil politicians tell Taoiseach that life-long party supporters have said they will never vote for the party again after the government's handling of the fuel protests jrnl.ie/7011568

@griptmedia They need money to pay €27bn in fines they voluntarily signed up to

PETER CADDLE: LEAK: Fine Gael document says EU climate targets will remain despite public uproar gript.ie/leak-green-age…

@Mark_J_Henry @EU_Eurostat Should the Irish government tax health, they tax savers

Elderly people in Ireland are the healthiest in the EU. Among those aged 65+, Ireland has the highest share who rate their health as very good or good (62%). Beyond the European Union, only the Swiss and the Swedes claim a healthier proportion. 🇮🇪👴👵 ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/we…