David O'Sullivan
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A local Dublin City councillor has a message for Zelenskys officials and their comments on Irish domestic issues.
"This Cheeky Grifter from over in Ukraine"
Some are still unafraid to speak out for the ordinary people in Ireland.
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🇫🇷 🇮🇪 Celtic Interconnector : première interconnexion électrique directe entre la France et l’Irlande.
⚡ Le navire câblier Calypso a commencé le déroulage de deux câbles électriques de 98 km chacun depuis Cléder, en Bretagne.
🚢 Ces câbles, fabriqués par Nexans, seront posés sur 497 km en mer dans le cadre d’une liaison totale de 575 km.
🔌 Le projet de 700 MW permettra d’alimenter l’équivalent de 450 000 foyers.
📅 Mise en service prévue en 2028, pour un coût total de 1,623 milliard d’euros, avec une vingtaine de navires mobilisés sur l’ensemble du chantier.
lemarin.ouest-france.fr/energie/energi…
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@Muinchille Any Irish unification deal will be tricky, NI was critical in WWII air power projection into the Atlantic and the spook perception is its a back door for the baddies.
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Drop it, loser. Nobody's listenjng. And while you're at it, has it occurred to you that Britain currently has more enemies than its budget will allow?
RTÉ News@rtenews
The island of Ireland is in an "absolutely critical position" amid tensions with Russia, the joint military commander in Northern Ireland has said rte.ie/news/2026/0427…
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David O'Sullivan retweetledi
Did you know that Dr Hussam Abu Afiya, the heroic doctor who stayed until the last moment in his bombed out hospital saving lives, and who the Israeli army abducted illegally, is STILL kept in chains? Now, Israel seeks to extend his illegal detention. Speak out!
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@RoyalOmanFamily Nice Omani head wrap there, I can only manage a Yemeni fold meself but sure tis what I was reared.
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📹 جلالةُ السُّلطان المُعظّم/حفظهُ اللهُ ورعاهُ/ يستقبلُ بقصر البركة العامر معالي الدّكتور سيد عبّاس عراقجي وزير خارجيّة الجمهوريّة الإسلاميّة الإيرانيّة.
Royal Oman Family@RoyalOmanFamily
جلالةُ السُّلطان المُعظّم/حفظهُ اللهُ ورعاهُ/ يستقبلُ بقصر البركة العامر معالي الدّكتور وزير الخارجية الإيراني، جرى خلال المقابلة التّشاورُ حول مُستجدّات الأوضاع في المنطقة، وجهود الوساطة والمساعي الرّامية إلى إنهاء النّزاعات، حيث اطّلع جلالةُ السُّلطان على وجهات نظر الجانب الإيراني حيال تلك التّطورات. فيما استمع معالي الوزير إلى مرئيّات جلالتِه بشأن سُبل الدّفع بهذه الجهود بما يعزّز فرص التوصّل إلى حلول سياسيّة مُستدامة ويحدّ من تداعيات الأزمات على شعوب المنطقة، مؤكدًا جلالةُ السُّلطان على أهمية تغليب لغة الحوار والدّبلوماسية في معالجة القضايا، بما يُسهم في ترسيخ دعائم السّلام. من جانبه أعرب معالي الدّكتور وزيرُ الخارجية الإيراني عن تقدير بلاده لمواقف #سلطنة_عُمان بقيادة جلالتِه في دعم جهود الحوار وتعزيز مساعي الأمن والاستقرار في المنطقة، خاصة في ظل التحدّيات الإقليميّة الرّاهنة.
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@Muinchille @nwl88444048 Oh God, quite the procession of spooks for eroding neutrality and promoting NATO membership.
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Brendan O'Connor guest list, courtesy of @nwl88444048. Some names you'd be familiar with from TwitterX.
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@ProfessorPape Some years ago entering a University campus in Chicago I was met with the signage at the door, sort of an obvious access to weapons problem going on here.
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We need true bipartisan investigations
Otherwise, the cycle repeats ... and repeats...
And we are all worse off
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Why do assassination attempts keep happening in the U.S.?
Everyone is asking about motive
That’s the wrong question
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Dublin about to see one of its few beautiful modern buildings destroyed for this purile shite.
Brown envelopes rule.
Developers always get their way.
No one gives a fuck about our city.
Revamp of St #StephensGreenShoppingCentre gets green light irishtimes.com/business/2026/…
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@sinnfeinireland @LNBDublin Thank you @sinnfeinireland for standing for what is just for those the EU seems to have forgotten.
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David O'Sullivan retweetledi
Since last summer - 248 unreported US military flights over Ireland including military transport aircraft, troop carriers & surveillance aircraft.
Shocking that these are not being tracked by the Irish gov. Complicity in illegal warfare being ignored.
irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/0…
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David O'Sullivan retweetledi
Chuck Schumer : "Of course we say it's our land, the Torah says it. But [the Palestinians] don't believe in the Torah. So, that's the reason there is not peace."
The fact that this monstrous genocidal maniac is the minority leader in the senate is a disgrace and an embarrassment
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David O'Sullivan retweetledi
Under international law leaders who have aided and assisted the commission of internationally wrongful acts that amount to international crimes should be investigated and prosecuted.
Kaja Kallas@kajakallas
Under international law, transit through waterways like the Strait of Hormuz must remain open and free of charge. This is what leaders made clear in their call on reopening the Strait today. Any pay-for-passage scheme will set a dangerous precedent for global maritime routes. Iran has to abandon any plan to levy transit fees. Europe will play its part in restoring the free flow of energy and trade, once a ceasefire takes hold. The EU’s Aspides naval mission is already operating in the Red Sea and can be quickly strengthened to protect shipping across the region. This could be the fastest way to provide support.
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David O'Sullivan retweetledi
Trump announces he is "permanently opening" the Strait of Hormuz.
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@tconnellyRTE Prussia's Glory marching tune, have I heard that one 🤔
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German guard of honour prepares for Taoiseach Micheál Martin’s arrival at the Berlin Chancellery for his meeting with Chancellor Friedrich Merz
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Leo Varadkar on Instagram, still unable to cope with being called out for being such an utter rubbish Taoiseach. Having a go at an article at 2 am. Such a sociopath
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Watch Varadkar over the next few years, he is in stage 2 Alan Shatterness.
Leo Varadkar@LeoVaradkar
I think Dan is spot on. Only 5 metrics were selected to score countries out of 20 or 30 that should/could have been (eg literacy, life expectancy, stroke survival, maternal mortality, school completion, broadband access etc etc etc...). Of the 5 used, 2 are wrong. 👋
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Lidl is putting Irish farmers out of business. Expect plenty more imported processed junk in the future.
rte.ie/news/regional/…
Lidl Ireland@lidl_ireland
Yes
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@lidl_ireland Lidl is putting Irish farmers out of business. Expect plenty more imported processed junk in the future.
rte.ie/news/regional/…
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Why this chart is wrong.
Five metrics are used to measure 'infrastructure and public services', as per the first image, which shows Ireland to be a total outlier.
Start with public capital spending as share of total govt expenditure. (Unfortunately) rich world governments spend only single digit percentages of total government expenditure on capital spending. As it happens, Ireland has the highest share in western Europe. The actual Eurostat data are charted in the second image.
What about doctor density? Unlike public expenditure, where I'd claim some expertise, I'm certainly not an expert in health economics. But I've spent enough time looking at the numbers over the years to know that Ireland is not an outlier in the number of doctors it has relative population. Even the OECD healthcare at a glance report that is referenced as a source shows that. The table from the report is the third image.
Finally, Ireland has almost no electrified rail. These figures seem correct, but is the energy source of your rail system indicative of the quality of overall infrastructure? I'd argue no, but that's a judgement call.
So, two of the five metrics are completely wrong and the inclusion of a third (which happens to show Ireland by far the worst performer in west Europe) is questionable.
Sinéad O’Sullivan@SineadOS1
The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile. That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap. That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel. People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.
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