shaggy
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Mary Regan: Taoiseach can take plaudits for now, but Trump’s war with Iran will put his leadership through another great test buff.ly/zd4j6N5
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@Independent_ie What leadership? Are you calling @MichealMartinTD a leader 🤣🤣🤣
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@businessposthq Fantasy: ireland is doing great.
Reality: we're all broke.
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S&P upgrades Ireland’s credit rating to highest level since 2009 businesspost.ie/companies/sp-u…
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@davidmcw Never believe economists.
They take fiddled gov data and try to spread it as somehow being relevant to real life society, and it's not.
It's disinformation.
It's like their line "the country is awash with money".
The gov is awash with money. The rest of us are broke.
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Ireland's job creation record is possibly the most impressive in the world, bar China.
Brendan Boyle@BrendyBoyle
“In the 35 years since Packie Bonner’s penalty save, the Irish economy has created 1.8 million extra jobs. Soon there will be three times more people working here as there were in the early 1990s.”
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One of the world’s leading credit rating agencies has upgraded its estimation of Ireland’s rating from AA to AA+, putting the country within one notch of a triple-A rating for the first time since 2009.
thejournal.ie/ireland-credit…
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@nwl88444048 Same for niall collins. I guess there'd be no problems if they were FFG politicians.
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D-Day for the 6,000 sq ft Meath home, which Meath County Council will demolish today at a cost of around €100,000. This is after spending more than €200,000 in legal costs.
But when a FG jnr minister built a 3,000 sq ft home based on fraudulent planning consent, crickets...
nwl@nwl88444048
Meath County Council is in the High Court trying to demolish this 6,000 sq ft home, left, built 15 years ago without planning permission. Wonder what Meath County Council thinks of this 3,000 sq ft home, right, built with fraudulent planning permission 13 years ago? Eh, Damo?
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Makhlouf: Ireland can weather Iran war better than rest of Europe businesspost.ie/banking/makhlo…
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@businessposthq The fact is conor mcgregor has done more for ireland than @MichealMartinTD and @SimonHarrisTD have ever done in a lifetime.
These two are lifetime state spongers.
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Micheál Martin’s US playbook: The inside story of how Ireland had Trump dancing to its tune in DC businesspost.ie/politics/miche…
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@griptmedia Ireland is a right crappy country to be living in now, all thanks to FFG. They have destroyed the country.
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JOHN MCGUIRK: The economist's annual data shows a complete slump in happiness in Ireland and other English-speaking countries - but aren't we all supposed to be more happy than ever?
gript.ie/data-confirms-…
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@Independent_ie I think the question for gov here is, if people need a place to live, why can't they build a house to live in?
This planning permission argument is very weak.
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Watch: Drone footage shows Meath home demolition underway, as owner says ‘send the bill to Mickey Mouse’ because her family can’t pay
buff.ly/SclN7wM
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@Independent_ie This is proof that FFG want higher house prices.
They want to strictly control house building so the price of houses keeps going up.
They don't want to fix the housing crisis.
They don't care a damn about homeless people.
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@thejournal_ie Irish mainstream state media disinformation isn't about telling us blatant lies.
It's about being very selective in the news the gov wants us to hear, endlessly promoting the news that makes gov look good while ignoring the news that makes the gov look bad.
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Government spent over €400,000 in 2024 and 2025 on advertising campaigns to attract construction workers back to the country.
However, despite the significant spend, no reporting metrics were gathered to track whether the campaign was successful or not jrnl.ie/6988739
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@RubacubesRubie 🤣🤣🤣 €72 euros to hold an aib bank account for a year. Bloody hell!
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@DaveKeating It's pathetic that the bar for micheal martin is so low that success is defined as he didn't mess up and he got through it.
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At the Irish embassy's St Patrick's Day gala in Brussels, there's palpable relief that the taoiseach just made it in and out of that Oval Office spray unscathed.
In fact, people are quite impressed with how he handled himself (defending Starmer).
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@Independent_ie They were probably wondering who's that meek nobody sitting with Trump in the press conference about Iran and Cuba and Venezuela and the UK.
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From ‘polite’ pushback and ‘pained smiles’ to ‘awkward’ exchanges, how world media saw Taoiseach’s encounter with Donald Trump buff.ly/thZBpbo
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@thejournal_ie So it wasn't successful because if it was they'd have figures coming out of their backsides and would be declaring it a huge success.
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@breakingnewsie The old false promises trick from gov to appease the road hauliers hoping they'll have forgotten about it by next week.
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The Government will finalise “an appropriate intervention” to rising fuel and energy prices next week, the Tánaiste has said. breakingnews.ie/ireland/energy…
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@Independent_ie Our gov politicians make "appalling failures of judgement" every day and nobody in our state media wants to talk about any of that.
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‘Appalling failure of judgement’ – ‘Epstein files’ float in Ballinrobe St Patrick’s Day parade condemned buff.ly/xYSrw3p
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@BrigidLaffan @MichealMartinTD A good day equates to getting about 5 mins speaking time to promote ireland in an hour long press conference.
Mcgregor would have got more publicity.
And it's sad that the bar is so low that success is defined as not messing up.
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The pile on to tweet mostly from people who hide their identity is one more demonstration of how easy it is for all of us to comment but how difficult it is to govern in turbulent times. @MichealMartinTD had a good day. I suspect the majority of the Irish electorate would agree
Brigid Laffan@BrigidLaffan
Despite at times vicious criticism of White House visit @MichealMartinTD has had a very good day. Defended @Keir_Starmer & European positions robustly. Support for Ukraine very important. A good day for Ireland.
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@Independent_ie Surprised they even noticed him because that press conference was all about Iran and Cuba and Venezuela and the UK and NATO.
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From ‘polite’ pushback and ‘pained smiles’ to ‘awkward’ exchanges, how world media saw Taoiseach’s encounter with Donald Trump buff.ly/kT1FIkl
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