Irish and Proud

@LeoVaradkar You had *checks notes* thirteen years in government to make these graphs look different. Thankfully only one of us teaches economics. You wouldn’t even get into my class 💁🏼‍♀️

@SineadOS1 @LeoVaradkar 👏 👏

Life expectancy measures wealth and demographics, not health infrastructure which is in here. Ireland has the highest bed occupancy in the OECD, 43% fewer beds than the EU average, 900,000 on waiting lists, and 75% of GP lists closed to new patients. Education attainment is high yes, but 35,000 of those graduates emigrated last year because they can't afford to live here. The graph measures what the state builds and delivers, not outcomes that succeed despite it.

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.

@IrishTimesOpEd No

The debate: Is it time to get religion out of the classroom? irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

@Jklunden @Ireland2020 They dont want the gravy train to stop

If a politician doesn't vote NO CONFIDENCE- they're happy with the way things are going and their loyalty and integrity will come in to question. Thanks Carol and Mattie for opposing this reckless government.

@tjmcgibnxy How else will they pay for rainbow flags in countries they cant spell or find on a map

So a double Carbon Tax hit in October just in time for the winter tank fills. F**k that.

@rtenews A woman thats never seen active service. She's just a DEI hire that will hunt her own people.

A woman will command Australia's army for the first time since its founding 125 years ago, Defence Minister Richard Marles said as he unveiled the "deeply historic" appointment rte.ie/news/newslens/…

@IrishTimes Because theres nothing left of the other billions they squandered and gave away in search of imported voters

Fuel protests: Government to raid exchequer surplus for €505m support package irishtimes.com/politics/2026/…

@Independent_ie You get to sign your name off at the bottom of whatever propaganda the government is pushing 😂😂😂

Tanya Sweeney: Journalism might have slipped down the CAO most-wanted list, but it is still a worthwhile career buff.ly/CGUlCYy

@Jklunden Excuse you - he's a princess not a ferret 🤣🤣

The little ferret can't handle balanced news - he's now run to his big brother CNAM.

@REBELC0RK Well what you don't do is contact simple Simon Harris because he will lie to your face and leave you on waiting lists for years while lecturing you that you're wrong and he's right. While he hands public purse strings to his brother and cronies

Imagine this cunt is next up to be leader of Ireland 🇮🇪 😡

@EoinLenihan @ezralevant The Gestapo weren't Nazi enough 🤣🤣

The week's coverage of the demonstrations was decidedly pro-government. Great care was taken to smear demonstration leaders, link the demonstrations to the mythical 'far right' & downplay the support for the protestors. FF/G are angry their paid-for media didn't do more. 👇👇👇

@real_eire @gnh_Eastwall But zero accountability for anyone in Gov ever

Taoiseach Micheal Martin threatens everyone out protesting today with the full force of the law.

🚨do you understand what just happened in the German parliament.. a former Pfizer chief toxicologist just testified in the Bundestag that Comirnaty should have never been approved.. didn't trend.. didn't make headlines.. most people have no idea.. long-term toxicology studies were skipped.. carcinogenicity testing never completed.. mass production used a different formula than clinical trials.. EMA knew. his estimate: up to 60,000 deaths in Germany alone. said on parliamentary record. by someone who was inside Pfizer. if the approval process was as broken as he describes - the scariest part is that nobody was supposed to find out.

@PaulTreyvaud She wont speak up until it affects Palestine

Knock knock Who’s there? Not our President

@ezralevant Maria steen and conor mcgregor, both smeared and not allowed to be voted for - because Democracy 😂

Where is the Irish version of Nigel Farage or Marine Le Pen? Or even their Giorgia Meloni? Where is the political entrepreneur to lead this grassroots rebellion?

@eurorabbit @Neither_Extreme Let me guess , she's going to tell us we are racists and too white and need to change?

The current state of Western Civilization in one picture.

@HarrachtainO Paid for by @CNaM_ie

I’ve noticed a huge number of accounts posting anti-protest propaganda are accounts that were formerly pumping out constant pro-Ukraine propaganda - many of them with few followers or interaction, but large post counts. All anonymous of course. What’s the story there I wonder?

@eoinneylon Stop giving away money. Simple as that.

One thing I've not heard anyone answer is, beyond the €250mn reduction in fuel taxes already in effect (costing the exchequer €4mn a day) where the shortfall should be made up from if we are to cut taxes substantially further? Spending on schools, hospitals, road maintenance?

Folks, this is absolutely genuine and this needs to be put on BLAST EVERYWHERE. COPY / PASTE SCREEN SHOT RT ANY PROTESTORS ARRESTED CAN CONTACT SOLICITOR, PADRAIG LANGSCH OF LANGSCH & CUNNANE. HE'S ALREADY SORTED A MAN ARRESTED IN WHITE GATE, CORK PROTEST. PUT IT IN FUCKN BLAST!! LEGALLY THEY WILL BE COVERED. I'LL EXPLAIN ON LIVE SHORTLY!! lcsols.ie

Aghada GAA club is the staging area for the Garda operation. Get ready. Wear goggles and shin pads if possible. Record, record, record. The world needs to see Garda brutality.