Gerry Crilly
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“Irish energy prices highest in EU” - they used to be the 2nd cheapest. So what happened? FFG created a largely private sector quasi-monopoly in energy, said quasi-monopoly - energy companies - were by design free to gouge consumers, while media who receive lots of advertising 💰 from several of these energy companies seldom if ever discuss the issue of how exactly the market has been rigged against consumers. Domestic and international crony insiders bribed various FFG politicians over the decades to privatise most of our energy market in a manner that allowed those super-rich crony insiders to rig the market and then print billions in profit over the decades, at the detriment of almost everyone. Here’s a November 2025 economic report by the Nevin Economic Research Institute: “We see in 1980, that electricity prices for this representative consumption band, notwithstanding data gaps, were among the cheapest in the EU15 comparator group. In 1980, only Greek prices were lower than those seen in Ireland” Today, energy costs are the highest in the EU. All that’s happened over time is a bunch of very rich insiders have captured billions in profit to the detriment of consumers and the economy more broadly. To do so they worked with FFG politicians to create a “legally” rigged market. You’ll find this pattern of FFG politicians working with rich cronies to rig other markets - like insurance and health. While the rich insiders and politicians make out like bandits, everyone else gets screwed. And if you protest about being screwed, you’ll be smeared by the media, beaten by the Gardai and called all manner of things. This is how Ireland works. Until that is people realise they have the collective power to change it and turf these FFG cronies and their rich pals out of power for good.
@RMcGreevy1301 @Robcass78 The "why" has a great deal to do with the Irish innate cultural malignancy of snobbery that has infested every corner of our societal structures. Those with & those with less. @anoisagency #DerelictIreland
New - Boss of Ryanair says the airline will have to cancel "5 - 10% of flights through May, June and July" if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Michael O'Leary tells @ITVJoel people should book flights for the summer "as quickly as [they] can" to avoid rising airfares.
The fridge is on, but there’s no one home.😡 The CSO in Q4 2024 has classified 70,149 dwellings (including holiday homes) as vacant, based on low electricity consumption of around 2 kWh per day (enough to power a medium-sized fridge for a day). It’s crazy that this is tolerated in the middle of a housing crisis, with yet another record of over 17,308 people in emergency accommodation last month, including 5,457 children. Plus, the Simon Community estimate as many as 290,000 people in Ireland are likely to be experiencing hidden homelessness, as friends or family are increasingly relied upon to provide accommodation for others. Hidden homelessness refers to individuals without a secure, permanent home who are not visible on the streets or in official statistics, often "couch-surfing," sharing overcrowded housing, or staying in squats. This is not normal and cannot be accepted. We need urgent action to prevent evictions and expand housing supply, and we can start by utilising these vacant houses. After all, it was called a 'national emergency' by Leo Varadkar back in 2018, when the homeless figure was 10,000. #HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland #VacantIreland #Ireland
Inside the Dublin data centres consuming an unknown amount of energy irishtimes.com/environment/20…
Government failing to consider how key policies are damaging climate, says UN expert irishtimes.com/environment/cl…
Sadly the new Residential Tenancies Bill confirms what we all already know That Politicians Make People Homeless through their policies that favour property owners & investment funds over those who need a home But who is surprised in a Government with big Landlords as Ministers
