DengiDosh
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Delighted to welcome @alain_berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, to Iveagh House.
Ireland fully supports the Council of Europe in its mission to promote human rights, democracy, and the rule of law across Europe.
For more info: gov.ie/en/department-…
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@REDDOWNEY @SeanKellyMEP Are you surprised? He comes out with these clangers regularly!
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@SeanKellyMEP If u truly believe Brexit was wrong why are laughing at the guy changing his mind?
That's not very diplomatic now @SeanKellyMEP is it.
Childish carry-on from a Member of the European Parliament.
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@LOCthedreamer2 @IrexitFreedom Coming from this clown just shows how determined FG are to bury themselves! Having failed on most measures since Varadkar came on board now with Empty Space Harris , heading downhill rapidly !
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They don't want to "tackle misinformation".
They want to supress information they don't like.
#HowIrelandWorks
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@eoin_murchu @CiaranCuffe And thank You Mother Ireland for your mindless generosity giving us your taxpayers monies. Thank you FFG and Looney lefties!
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@CiaranCuffe Are you insane or just dishonest? There is not the slightest chance of Russia 'picking up the tab'. This 'loan' will never be repaid. It's money down the drain or into Zelensky pocket - money we need for our own people.
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Good news for Ukraine: with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán voted out, EU money will now flow to Ukraine, and Russia will pick up the tab. euobserver.com/213191/eu-hits…
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@BowesChay @CiaranCuffe This failed Green is an empty head. He needed to say something to try to be relevant. He knows zero about the Ukraine Russia conflict !
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@CiaranCuffe Russia will never pay a cent for a War started in Washington and London that used Ukraine as a battering ram.
That delusion may be comforting to you as billions more wash down the Golden toilet in Kiev. But the reality is very different.
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@CiaranCuffe What a useless brainless comment from another failed Green. “Green” is such an appropriate title for you empty headed clowns. With all the problems we have in Ireland this flowing of Irish taxpayers funds (not Governments funds) to an endless war is all you can comment on!
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@griptmedia FG are daily getting bigger and bigger shovels to did their grave ! Well done Martin.
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WATCH: A Senator has called for the Government to take action on "hate speech" and "misinformation" online, citing the response to Senator Eileen Flynn in the past week and the fact that users were "let away with it" by social media platforms:
gript.ie/call-for-actio…
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@HarrachtainO Why not Head of FF or FG or both at the same time ! Sure, why not !!!!
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While we’re at it, I would now like to address calls for me to run as pope, miss universe, head of my local FF cumann, and president of the Green Party.
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@LPerrins I wonder what Fintan’s neighbours in Ballyvaughan (where he has a large holiday home) will think of him labelling them fascists because they deign to object to their incomes and way of life being wiped out.
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Fintan O’Toole needed to sit down with some smelling salts. He was I assume – unlike the farmers who work the land – already sitting down and typing on his laptop when he wrote “Welcome to the dictatorship of the breakfast roll-atariat! All power to the HGV Soviets!” This was “big wheels being driven over democratic norms.” He declared “this is arguably the most serious insurrection the State has experienced in a century.” An insurrection!
lauraperrins.substack.com/p/irish-govern…
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@EoinLenihan Varadkar is a Has Been-focus now shd be to bury his legacy ie FG at least in Rural Ireland together with FF whose Leader Martin& O Callaghan used the Gardai to beat the mainly rural protesters. Let FG hammer it out with SocDems in the cities but Rural Ireland must now bury FFG !
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Varadkar likes living in an area where the majority are non-Irish. He would like that for everyone else too.
Regardless of whether they like it or not.
Irishman@IrishmanIRL
"I live in an area where the majority are not Irish and I like that" "If Ukraine is defeated - tens, maby hundreds of thousands will arrive in Ireland and they will have to be accommodated" Leo Varadkar and Matt Cooper talk about migrants in rural Ireland and Ukrainians flooding into Ireland on Path to Power
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@LOCthedreamer2 @Nick_Delehanty I would not be over pessimistic! EP is changing quickly to more right thinking ! Macron is finished, big protest vs Merz yesterday in Germany, Hungary even more negative under Magyar, a lot of good change happening! Let’s hope! Our dopes in EP count for zero, lapdogs!
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@Nick_Delehanty You would be locked into a club that would take economic decisions diametrically opposed to your national interest, with no way of addressing the situation.
It is madness what FF/FG representatives are comfortable with.
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The leader of Fine Gael in the EU parliament, Seán Kelly MEP, today suggested in an article in the Sunday Independent, that Ireland should support the end of the veto for EU member states at European Council level.
This would mean the end of any meaningful national democracy, not just for Ireland, but for the whole of Europe. The direction of our nations would be decided by unelected bureaucrats in the EU commission. And our elections at national level would cease to have any meaning whatsoever.
Irish neutrality would die on the altar of "international obligations" and we would almost certainly be drawn into global conflicts that the EU felt suit their economic interests.
He stresses that this must be forced through quickly and without much scrutiny, so as to reduce the possibility of any country electing a leader on the populist right or left who might disagree with this course of action. This is nothing but disdain for national sovereignty and the democratic decisionmaking of ordinary citizens.
Mr. Kelly feels that the Irish population are so overwhelmingy pro- EU that none of this would matter to them. He cites EU funded Eurobarometer polling. If he is so sure that this is the case, he should be advocating a referendum to decide the matter.
I cannot believe the current state of our politicians who have so much disdain for democracy. They should hang their heads in shame.
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@HarrachtainO @EmbrayHotay They feel very important and entitled &’of course talking highbrow drivel with others of their privileged group. Above all they are away from the mundane tasks of the home country & feel they are dealing with very “important’ things ! A true Air Head losing “the run of himself “
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It is remarkable how every Irish politician who spends any length of time in the EU parliament turns into an anti-democracy activist. Is it the lifestyle, a feeling of inadequacy, or some form of brainwashing?
Luke O' Connor@LOCthedreamer2
The leader of Fine Gael in the EU parliament, Seán Kelly MEP, today suggested in an article in the Sunday Independent, that Ireland should support the end of the veto for EU member states at European Council level. This would mean the end of any meaningful national democracy, not just for Ireland, but for the whole of Europe. The direction of our nations would be decided by unelected bureaucrats in the EU commission. And our elections at national level would cease to have any meaning whatsoever. Irish neutrality would die on the altar of "international obligations" and we would almost certainly be drawn into global conflicts that the EU felt suit their economic interests. He stresses that this must be forced through quickly and without much scrutiny, so as to reduce the possibility of any country electing a leader on the populist right or left who might disagree with this course of action. This is nothing but disdain for national sovereignty and the democratic decisionmaking of ordinary citizens. Mr. Kelly feels that the Irish population are so overwhelmingy pro- EU that none of this would matter to them. He cites EU funded Eurobarometer polling. If he is so sure that this is the case, he should be advocating a referendum to decide the matter. I cannot believe the current state of our politicians who have so much disdain for democracy. They should hang their heads in shame.
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@LOCthedreamer2 @EmbrayHotay PM in Slovakia is taking a Legal Challenge to that and if Kelly / FG were true Irish they would do the same ! The money for Sean et al is so good that he has lost his objectivity ! One just has to think of Mercosur ! FG nearly worse than SF now!
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Leo Varadkar is the epitome of all that is wrong with Irish politics. He rose to the top of Fine Gael by ingratiating himself with the Fine Gael grassroots in rural Ireland that he now disparages.
He is embodying the arrogance and lack of care that this FF/FG government showed towards farmers, hauliers and small contractors during the fuel protests.
He now decries the tax incentives given to farmers which he once championed as a benefit of EU membership.
In reality the EU regulations are crippling rural Ireland and FF/FG are letting it happen.
Varadkar is a shameless hypocrite, who has displayed exactly what his former colleagues think of you.
#HowIrelandWorks
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@EddiePunch No real surprise there , just those who stupidly continue to vote FG “ coz We always voted FG” …need to wake up if it’s still not obvious what Harris and his crew think of Rural Ireland!
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Shocking intervention from the former Taoiseach. He has let the mask slip about what he really thinks about farmers. Going by 2026 events, is this a wider view in FG/FF circles?
gript@griptmedia
"[Farmers] still see themselves as the people who bring money and jobs into Ireland, where actually a lot of the time they bring costs on Ireland...[Urban Ireland] are the ones paying all the bills", Varadkar said: gript.ie/varadkar-says-…
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@PaulTreyvaud @LeoVaradkar @FineGael @SimonHarrisTD It’s obvious that current FG under weakling Harris, ie whats left of them after Varadkars success in changing them, have zero interest in anything or anyone outside the Urban bubble & want to be The Soc Dems- the “uncouth “ Farmers et al just need to realise that.
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Here’s @LeoVaradkar letting the people of rural Ireland know exactly what @FineGael thinks of them.
I wonder how @SimonHarrisTD feels about how his former mentor is trying his level to lose a lot of rural votes for the party he so clearly wants to destroy.
Surely Leo’s tweet deserves a response from SH at the very least.
Unless, of course, that he is trying to destroy his party too?
TheJournal.ie@thejournal_ie
'We’re the ones paying all the bills and you’re the ones in receipt of a lot of subsidies and a lot of tax benefits that other people don’t get.' Leo Varadkar said rural Ireland doesn't provide for urban Ireland as he discussed the fuel protests jrnl.ie/7016675
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@SuzieD755164 @lukeming Flanagan is clever enough to get sufficient fools to vote him into the EP where he is a very cosseted leftie, removed from the daily pressures real working people face back home. He taunts the US whose cos provide badly needed jobs & super taxes in Ireland. HeTakes/others Give!
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@lukeming It never ceases to amaze me how radical leftists display such blatant hypocrisy with no sense of shame about it.
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@OffgridIreland Towns and Villages flooded with Illegals are also Far Right, Fishermen are Far Right, Taxi Drivers are Far Right …The Bars and Restaurant owners are Far Right .., so many ..no wonder the Island is tipping over to the Right!
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@SeanDubIreland @IrishTimesPol @fitzfromdublin Just like his Tik Tok leader and disaster McEntee , they should join the SocDems and take their sensitive touchy egos with them ! They can all whine together about the Hurty Uncouth “far right.”!
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@IrishTimesPol @fitzfromdublin Someone needs to stick a muzzle on O’Donovan.
Actually, come to think of it, give him a microphone, he doesn’t know when to stop
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Ivana Bacik would not have made Viktor Orbán jibe ‘if I was a woman’, says Patrick O’Donovan irishtimes.com/politics/2026/… via @IrishTimesPol
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@lomady12 @HarrachtainO That’s going to add speed to the rural collapse for FG big time ! Good man Leo , aiding Tik Tok on his way down !
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Leo is really letting his true colours show since he left office. Many of us saw through him all along, I hope the rest can now.
TheJournal.ie@thejournal_ie
'We’re the ones paying all the bills and you’re the ones in receipt of a lot of subsidies and a lot of tax benefits that other people don’t get.' Leo Varadkar said rural Ireland doesn't provide for urban Ireland as he discussed the fuel protests jrnl.ie/7016675
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