@john_mcguirk Tonight's debacle shows the absolute state of RTE
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Michael O'Connell
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I see that the bad country that irish singers can't mingle with advanced in the singing contest too immoral to be shown on irish television. Desperate times.
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@Independent_ie RTE will fund an NGO to show this number is not representative via more accurate survey techniques
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Nearly 80pc back ending supports for Ukrainians, poll reveals buff.ly/DzhuwcZ
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@YouthYard_YT @owenjonesjourno @metpoliceuk Yes, possibly some soothing panpipe music to calm him down
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@MConnell62287 @owenjonesjourno @metpoliceuk Two social workers would have verbally de-escalated the terrorist don't you know?
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The Metropolitan Police denouncing a party leader a week before elections - over a retweet.
This is outrageous.
Forget what you think about the retweet.
If you accept this sort of police interference in our democracy, you legitimise a deeply disturbing precedent.
Metropolitan Police@metpoliceuk
“Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world.” Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley writes to Zack Polanski.
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@Paul___SW18 @owenjonesjourno @metpoliceuk Do you think a psychologist should have been present to try deal with this individual?
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@MConnell62287 @owenjonesjourno @metpoliceuk Not kick a vulnerable citizen who was already on the ground and tazzerd, in the head, several times
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@owenjonesjourno “Misleading”? We all saw what happened and the unacceptable levels of violence @metpoliceuk Why did you edit out the head kicks from the bodycam footage if you were so proud of your officers?
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PM: “If you stand alongside people who say, ‘globalise the Intifada’, you are calling for terrorism against Jews...""
Hear that noise? Its the stable door slamming months too late.
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@LNBDublin Do we know who participated in this survey ? Did they give any details on this
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RTE news : Far-right narrative not the majority view - report
rte.ie/news/ireland/2…
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@newpeteV1 @rteliveline can we get him on for commentary on London attack?
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RTE were quoting this raving lunatic as gospel as recently as October. rte.ie/news/middle-ea…
Heidi Bachram@HeidiBachram
Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey goes on a rant blaming the “only Jewish State” for the stabbing in London today. He says the “whole population” of Israel is genocidal as seeming justification for the attacks. He claims he’s not a psychopath. From what he said I’m not so sure.
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@owenjonesjourno Maybe take a day off from the hot takes given what's happened..
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This has to be said:
Seeking to ban public opposition to Arabs being slaughtered is racism.
Arab life has the same worth as any other life.
Believing that is not antisemitism.
That's why thousands of Jews joined these marches.
Jack Elsom@JackElsom
NEW: The government's terrorism tsar has called for a "moratorium" on pro-Palestine marches. Jonathan Hall KC tells @TimesRadio: "It pains me to say this, but I think we may have reached a point where we need to have a moratorium on the sorts of marches that have been happening. "It's clearly impossible at the moment for any of these pro-Palestine marches not to incubate within them some sort of anti-Semitic or demonising language."
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“It is toxic and it is violent”
Broadcaster @mehdirhasan says he has spent his ‘entire' professional career making sure that people do not ‘conflate’ Jews and Judaism with Israel and Zionism
#Peston
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Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, the European State of the Climate Report for 2025 has found
rte.ie/news/environme…
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Michael O'Connell retweetledi
THIS IS HUGE
The European Union just released its new AI model, Clause
I'm hearing that it's 10x more powerful and 1,000x more compliant than Claude
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@john_mcguirk They need more advisors on bigger salaries
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When the Taoiseach says during the week "that the vast majority of the public do not support these protests" and a reputable opinion poll the following weekend shows 56% support for protests, Government might want to consider whether their legion of advisors are worth the cash.
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Michael O'Connell retweetledi
Thanks to he who shall not be named in Tuam for making this banger. ‘The Boys of The Fuel Blockade’. #FuelProtest ☘️🇮🇪
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Michael O'Connell retweetledi
I invested 2.500 Euros into this technology 15 years ago
Today, I'm one of the richest men in Europe (€300k net worth)
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@owenjonesjourno Pretty wild you did not know the average salary of top 5% given your obsession with taxing them
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Where’s the part where I get absolutely destroyed
G R I F T Y@GriftReport
Owen Jones gets absolutely destroyed by a caller when he tries to argue about benefits and taxing the rich. Absolute car crash (yet again)
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@JohnOBrennan2 How about the outsized influence of green NGOs who consult on all aspects of public policy? Or IPRT having a say on prisons?
Are they elected?
The list goes on for quite some time..
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They have absolutely *zero mandate* to represent anybody, unlike the public representatives we elected to the Dail in 2024.
TheJournal.ie@thejournal_ie
John Dallon and a small group of other protesters have arrived and been turned away from the talks at Leinster House. They now say the protests will continue. jrnl.ie/7008524
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It's astonishing that you, a world leader who many respected for standing up to an illegal attack on your country, now support an illegal attack on another country. It completely kills your credibility.
Right now. Iran is Ukraine. You may not like to hear that but that is a fact
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський@ZelenskyyUa
It is unfortunate that the UN Security Council has once again failed to demonstrate effectiveness and act decisively in the face of such a global threat as the Iranian regime's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. No one should be allowed to block such globally significant sea lanes or undermine the security of dozens of nations through terrorist attacks against the freedom of navigation. We faced a similar challenge in the Black Sea when the Russians attempted to block our ports and civilian shipping—Russia was trying to suffocate our economy. And we found a way to solve that problem through decisive action, not inaction. Now, we see a similar problem on a global scale. The Strait of Hormuz must remain open to all vessels that sustain vital economy lifelines and maintain normal international trade. Countries in the region have spoken clearly on this, and we support the aspirations of the people of the Middle East and the Gulf for peace. Peace and security in this region directly impact stability, market predictability, and the cost of living in every single country. Such problems and this war must not be prolonged. The world needs a functional UNSC that acts more decisively to resolve acute security challenges of global magnitude.
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What happened to that Irish bloke who was being held by ICE in the US a few weeks ago? He wasn’t out of the news for about a fortnight and people were asking of Michael Martin was gonna raise his case when he met Trump. Then nothing. Is he still in custody?
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@CreativeDeduct Not sure he understands the job guarantee element of MMT..
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Polanski is on dangerously thin ice here. He's not an MMT scholar. He has picked up a few phrases to form part of an incoherent argument about how public spending shouldn't be constrained by the capital markets. This is why Modern Monetary Theory is so poisonous: it provides pseudo intellectual cover for reckless politicians. It needs to be challenged by people who understand the pitfalls of MMT's policy recommendations.
NEF@NEF
"We've got to stop equating the government's finances with a household." Zack Polanski speaking about government finances, austerity, and the problems with the UK's fiscal framework at our event this week
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