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@WestmorelandKen @MarnellRoi53898 Also the BBC Sounds app is blocked since last year

@MarnellRoi53898 BBC iPlayer is blocked everywhere outside the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. You can't access them from elsewhere even if you're a licence fee payer resident in those places. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/q…

Is it true that down South Ireland can't get the BBC Iplayer?

@Eugenome @MarnellRoi53898 Also need a decent VPN

@MarnellRoi53898 A British postcode that has a TV licence is required.

@Gaz3putt My mum died 16 years ago this very day - 1 May 2010. I regularly have moments similar to yours when I wish she was around for me to share with her. Grief doesn't have a timeline and you'll have these moments for years to come but they will get easier. Keep strong.

Not really sure why I'm even saying this, but lost my mum just over 6 months ago now. Handled it okay. On a rooftop bar in Portugal last week, on a golfing trip with the lads, I absolutely lost it because it's the sort of time I'd have sent her a photo. Grief, bloody hell.

@DiarmaidOCon @Orla_McRide Whilst the 100k may not have known who you are, they knew what you represented and chose wisely. Just accept it, Orla outsmarted you with her reply and your subsequent response proved her point.

Awh Patrick. OK, I'll break it down why it's a remedial comment. You see, to imply only that many people agreed is to imply every single voter in the constituency knew who i was and made a conscious choice to reject my ideas. That's retarded. You think 100k people in DBN know who I am, a first time candidate? That's a bit naive isn't it? So then, the statement is actually just the response of someone perpetually wiping their own drool... but look, I don't expect triggered leftists who are vassals to compute that for themselves. That'd require adult thought

Sinn Féin would make Eoin the minster for housing in a heartbeat, and what kind of man is Eoin? Does he listen to Bach and Chopin? Does he appreciate fine art and architecture? Is he a man of faith? Does he read the works of some of the greatest minds to have lived? No, he finds Kneecap inspiring... God help us.

@DiarmaidOCon @Orla_McRide You reacted to her comment. She buried you with her reply and this was the best you could do? I think Orla made her point!

@Orla_McRide You're too below the bar to be worth entertaining. Muted for having absolutely no clue 🤣

@thelaymanstake @EwanMacKenna You were doing well until you mentioned that Coveny was the real brains. Coveny was a nice, mild mannered chap with a sense of self importance. Struggled with detail and was a bit of a ditherer. Brains were not his strong point.

@EwanMacKenna That's very interesting. I didn't know you ghost wrote O'Herlihy's book. I thought nothing of him until long after he left tbh To be honest the one that I think was the real brains was Covney.

I turned 18 around the time Enda Kenny became Taoiseach. Anyone else who was an adult at the time will remember him as a generally inoffensive, unexceptionable leader who was at the helm during a crisis he didn't cause but inherited. He didn't seem to do much different on the surface, but under his leadership things didn't get worse and as the global recession ended Irelands situation naturally improved. He also was removed before things got really bad in 2020 so naturally many people have a mildly positive view of him. But the reality of his impact is clear in the last decade. He used the crisis to solidify Ireland as the globalist, neoliberal, EU run puppet state that would be totally transformed by the mild sounding but extreme in impact of policies he pushed through. Any sense of nativism and a unique Irish identity were abandoned and we were menovered into a position where dissent from the global liberal orthodoxy was beaten down. It's no coincidence then that his successor was a half Indian, globalist, Europhile, homosexual, who saw (and still sees) the Irish people as backwards children that need stand aside so they and their country can be transformed into a diverse, multicultural, vassal state of global interests. After the 2008 crash and the collapse of the Celtic tiger economy. Fine Gael with Enda Kenny at the helm had free reign to steer Ireland in any direction they wanted. The modern bureaucratic, identityless, woke, diverse, unsafe, EU controlled Ireland is a direct result of the direction Enda Kenny started us on.

@ros56701551 @JoeSmyth10 Err, Epstein's been dead for a few years now.

@JoeSmyth10 I used to think similar and gave them my vote in 24. Never again, they are taking orders from someone (eu, wef, epstein, ....) -they certainly not listening to the voters. independent Ireland.

Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael are the least worst option for many people. Any of the rest in power would sink us completely.

@pr0foundly @ciarannugent According to your profile, you're based in Afghanistan. How do you pay 60% of your salary to the government? I assume you're referring to the Irish government? If not, then your point is completely irrelevant.

@ciarannugent Hey dumb fuck, explain why 60% of my salary goes to the government? You’re a real eejit. You do realize you’re comparing to countries in a way that’s oranges to apples. Think about it for one second and you might just realize the fuckin obvious, but I doubt it

Yeah, but we don't. It's factually incorrect A German worker on 60k pays 37.5% income tax An Irish worker on 60k pays 25% A German worker on 90k pays 41% income tax An Irish worker on 90k pays 33% How this stuff gets by editorial process every other week is mad

@going_extinct1 @Imaginely2 @cyepler @sciencegirl Funding our protection; Perhaps if you developed a better and more effective foreign policy initiative, we wouldn't require the level of protection that we do. We're learning to be less reliant on it because we know you're intent on destroying it. 3

@going_extinct1 @Imaginely2 @cyepler @sciencegirl The beauty of travel is that it allows you to experience and embrace a culture different to your own. It also allows you to see how a world should exist when different cultures and values are combined. The fact that so few of you do shows how stilted you are as a nation. 2

Luxembourg has become the first country in the world to make all standard public transport completely free, covering buses, trams, and trains nationwide. Funded through taxes instead of fares, the policy aims to ease heavy traffic and cut emissions by encouraging people to leave their cars behind. By removing ticket costs and barriers, public transport is treated more like an essential public service, simple, accessible, and open to everyone, including visitors and cross-border commuters. The results have been noticeable: more people are using public transport, roads are less congested, and urban air quality has improved. While premium first-class rail still requires payment, everyday travel is now seamless, just get on and go. This bold approach has positioned Luxembourg as a global example of how making transport free can help shift habits toward greener, more sustainable travel.

@Imaginely2 @cyepler @sciencegirl It needed saying. I'm looking forward to the pending comeback.

@cyepler @sciencegirl You travel the world and learn nothing about other cultures and other people because you are so blinkered by your own doctrine. Hence, your constant interference and plans for regime change. Who else does that? Who else has the arrogance to nowadays except you? 2/2

@DeeCeeIRL @MLorrM @SimonHarrisTD And with the surpluses came the spending and what do we really have to show for the €160+ billion that we have acquired in Corporation Tax over the last 10 years? When a country is reliant on the profitability of 3 companies, something is seriously wrong!

@Patrick6524236 @MLorrM @SimonHarrisTD Nope. Budget got balanced and the surpluses came. Not perfect now but 08-13 was a dark time.

My opinion on ⁦@SimonHarrisTD⁩ misleading birthday greeting below. Enda Kenny did not lead Ireland THROUGH its darkest days; Instead, Kenny led the country INTO its darkest days and then he went to work for a private equity firm. Never let this be forgotten.

@DeeCeeIRL @MLorrM @SimonHarrisTD Yes, Kenny inherited a mess. Then he created an even bigger mess. His successors - Varadkar and Harris - have made that mess and lot more messier and since 2020, the party that created the mess in the first place are now helping them make this messier mess even more messier.

@MLorrM @SimonHarrisTD Boll0cks 🍒 You ARE talking through your ar5e. Kenny inherited an absolute mess. By the time he left office, the ship was off the rocks that FF had driven it on to. These are the FACTS. Wise up

@jasonmashak @JamesMelville The Strahov Monastery was used for the London library scene. The Grandhotel Pupp and Kaiserbad Spa in Karlovy Vary served as the exterior for the Casino. Although set in Montenegro, the town scenes were filmed in Loket. My favourite Bond film.

@JamesMelville I liked Casino Royale a lot, because it was filmed in Prague, released the year I moved there, and one of my friends had a cameo. Also, it was less action-driven than the rest.

I’m my opinion, the greatest James Bond movie is Skyfall. It took the franchise into deeper and darker dimensions. What do you think is the greatest James Bond film ever made?

@KMast77K @DaveHittite @JamesMelville Casino Royale is the best closely followed by Goldfinger and From Russia With Love. In my opinion, Craig's Bond was exactly how Fleming intended him to be - moody, insecure and a loner. No Time To Die was not the best but it was a fitting end to Craig's tenure.

@DaveHittite @JamesMelville No Time To Die is the worst and it isn’t even close. Skyfall was probably the 2nd best of Daniel Craig’s (Craig’s Casino Royale is a classic)

@MikeBales 'I put them with me babe, I put them with my own, can't make it all alone, I built my dreams around you'

Hello darkness, my old friend…

@disgracelands9 @MickPuck And Slash

@MickPuck That’s Van Morrison snookered as well then 😂😂

Beware. The Ivy Asia in Dublin imposes a dress code on its paying customers as if they were schoolchildren. No hats and no dark glasses allowed. I didn't even get as far as inside before I walked out. You lost a potential repeat customer, chumps.

@dalipolitial @rtenews Despite attempts by the IRA to destabilise the process - Warrington, 1993, London Docklands, 1995 and Omagh, 1998 - the British goverment persevered. The Irish now hold senior positions in law, banking and accountancy and and many other sectors. Long may it continue.

@dalipolitial @rtenews Spot on! John Major's determination to resolve the troubles and his warm relationship with Albert Reynolds paved the way. Likewise with Tony Blair's relationship with Bertie Ahern and the GFA. Mutual respect on both sides.

A new exhibition in Dublin called 'No Irish Need Apply? The Economic History of the Irish in England' is examining the lives of Irish emigrants and their descendants in England from the 19th century to the present day rte.ie/news/ireland/2…