@seanofiachra @OHanlonEilis Trying to paint her as far-right because of her views on the open borders.
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Patrick Gibbons
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@PatrickGib20807 @OHanlonEilis What was he doing? I remember a lot the media going after her. Not specifically him. He's insufferable prick, so no surprise.
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Kiran Cuddihy on Liveline having a go at "blow ins" to rural Ireland taking precedence over locals whose roots go back generations. Would he ever refer to migrants in this way? I think we know the answer!
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@DavQuinn We have considerable changes to make in how we vote here in Ireland and in who we elevate to office before we dare advise the Jewish homeland, the only democracy in the region & continuously under attack from its reprehensible enemies, how to vote in its democratic elections.
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Hamas needs to disarm to let the reconstruction of Gaza begin. The rotten Netanyahu Government needs to be voted out of power.
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@mullallyelaine @JackPosobiec Yes, protecting the protected species!
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@JackPosobiec Welcome to Irish mainstream media reporting!
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Why is there no description of the teens and why did you turn off comments?
RTÉ News@rtenews
Two 16-year-old boys have been before Dublin District Court charged with assault causing serious harm to a man in his 30s who has since died rte.ie/news/2026/0520…
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@LPerrins People who weren't awake in November, 2024 will surely vote right & transfer right at future elections to bring a disruptive correction to the system.
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Getting rid of the current government to have it replaced by Holly Cairns and Richard Boyd Barret is not a plan. Or it is a plan, but a plan for the foolish.
open.substack.com/pub/lauraperri…
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@TonightVMTV There is an Irish community feeling fear, being ignored & when they speak out they're told to go on 'anti racism courses'!
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There is a migrant community "hurting and feeling fear" - Gary Gannon TD on death of Yves Sakila.
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@TheMandyGall We look to the voters of Dublin Central with hope in 2029!
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@MattTreacy111 Yes, the elderly man was totally innocent and we wish him well.
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Gary Gannon absurdly thinks that the death of a petty criminal is evidence of "rising hate." Hopefully the elderly man who had his leg broken as the shoplifter attempted to escape makes a full recovery.
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@griptmedia I would like to know how the Irishman in his 80s who was injured during the violence of the shoplifting incident is doing. Please pass him our best wishes for a speedy and full recovery.
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@LPerrins Our taxpayers' money is wasted on foreign aid, the IPAS industry, leftist NGOs whose sole purpose is to lobby for even more tax & spend, a massively burgeoning big State with an extremely excessive number of politicians for our population (only 50 TDs justified for our size).
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Ireland’s corporation tax receipts reached €32.9 billion in 2025, marking a 17.2% increase from 2024 and contributing significantly to the Exchequer surplus. Ireland runs an exchequer surplus yet has no socialised health system, a minimum defence budget, no metro, VAT is set at 23% (UK is 20%) and the middle-class carries the second highest tax burden in the OECD. Where does it all go?
lauraperrins.substack.com/p/ireland-rip-…
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@declanganley @MaryKenny4 There were even railways in Donegal, would you believe, until the 1950s.
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@MaryKenny4 The railway went all the way out to Achill Island, my grandparents took it in their youth.
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In fairness, the British left 3,000 miles of rail track all over Ireland when they quit the Free State in 1922. The Irish state ran down the railways over the next century. Todd Andrews believed the future was with the motor car.
Michael Kelly ن@MichaelPTKelly
Another great investment in the north, helping pave the way for reunification by ensuring infrastructure long neglected by the British is upgraded. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@mullallyelaine Statements of the obvious, if ever there were any.
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Forced immigration does not work, forced diversity does not work.
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@declanganley An Irish politician spoke about helping people who get up early in the morning (the simplest way would be to leave them with more of their own money by slashing tax - that's all they ask) but these mealy-mouthed platitudes were quickly sacrificed on the alter of tax & spend.
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There’s Nigel Farage on the TV talking about representing “The people that get up early in the morning” and also “Small business”. And you wonder why the other parties just abandoned these people.
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@declanganley Fantastic insight there Declan & so true. I wish our equivalent in Ireland had somebody to vote for! The pity is that we never had a Thatcher, the trades unions were never broken & the big State has sadly come back with a vengeance to pick our pockets with massive tax & spend.
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This was the heartland of the 'can do' 1980's new Conservative. The children and grandchildren of the East Enders who moved out to Essex after the war. The strivers who wanted to get ahead, who had little to lose and wanted opportunity. The type who were ridiculed a 'barrow boys' (which should really be a badge of honour), who were the tradesmen and risk takers that worked on rebuilding the docklands and who populated the City's trading floors, those that bust their backsides to get the deposit for their first house and worked two jobs to get it. The escort RS turbo or Golf GTI as their first step at status, the sort that Harry Enfield's 'Loadsamoney' took the piss out of. These voters are now Reform voters and I doubt they're going back. They believed in Boris and he blew it spectacularly. Job done, interesting time for British politics.
Matt Goodwin@GoodwinMJ
Reform have won FULL control of Essex County Council 🇬🇧
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@TraceyOMahony81 I find that leftists attack the odd person who does speak out for having the temerity to actually voice a view not in line with the woke consensus. It's incredible how intolerant they are.
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If you want change, you must speak out.
Dunning Kruger Effect
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@OHanlonEilis The real reason we're so annoyed is that we're tired of paying the highest income tax in the OECD to subsidise the world arriving here & even for those who are yet to arrive by way of foreign aid plus the plethora of NGOs designed to elicit even more government expenditure.
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Have written today about a new poll showing 80 per cent of Irish people back ending financial support for Ukrainian exiles in Ireland. We welcomed them, and now we're bored of the war and want them to bog off home. So much for compassionate Ireland! independent.ie/opinion/commen…
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@danobrien20 The phrase 'gone nuclear' will have to be replaced with something more extreme.
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Hefty majority for considering nuclear power.
If, as looks likely, the technology advances and modular reactors small enough to be trucked into place - to be used in factories and data centres etc - energy/climate worries would be a thing of the past.
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Dan O’Brien is absolutely right. Ireland’s hard-working families and businesses are being hammered by crisis-era taxes that were never unwound, even as revenues have tripled and the public payroll and social spending have exploded by tens of billions with precious little to show for it in services or value for money.
This is fiscal madness dressed up as “fairness.” It’s time we, who are gouged for it, stopped accepting it. We must fight, and fight hard, for serious, structural tax cuts in Ireland now; lower rates, real reform, and an end to the tax-and-spend culture that is holding Ireland back. Enough is enough.
Dan O'Brien@danobrien20
Cut income tax - today's @thecurrency column. Punitive personal taxes were introduced in Ireland 18 years ago to address a fiscal crisis that is long over. Last year the government took in almost €45 billion in personal income taxes, up from €15 billion in 2010. How has it used that three-fold increase (yes, that's a trebling) of income tax, USC and PRSI revenues? Annual social expenditure rose by €25 billion 2015-2025, when the economy was growing strongly. Having kept the lid on public sector pay from 2008-2016, when it stood at around €20 billion, it has since soared by €16 billion to €36 billion last year. What scrutiny there is of government spending is too focused on one-offs (hospitals and bike sheds). There is little examination of annual recurring spending, of almost €50 billion on social spending and the €36 billion spent on the public service pay bill. Both rise by additional billions every year, as does almost every other spending line. Ireland badly needs a Taxpayers' Alliance, because politicians are certainly not standing up for taxpayers. Across the political spectrum, parties all want ever more spending. None is calling for fundamental reform of one of the most punitive personal tax regimes in the world (ranked second worst in the OECD by the Tax Foundation).
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Every word common sense. Well said @danobrien20.
Dan O'Brien@danobrien20
Cut income tax - today's @thecurrency column. Punitive personal taxes were introduced in Ireland 18 years ago to address a fiscal crisis that is long over. Last year the government took in almost €45 billion in personal income taxes, up from €15 billion in 2010. How has it used that three-fold increase (yes, that's a trebling) of income tax, USC and PRSI revenues? Annual social expenditure rose by €25 billion 2015-2025, when the economy was growing strongly. Having kept the lid on public sector pay from 2008-2016, when it stood at around €20 billion, it has since soared by €16 billion to €36 billion last year. What scrutiny there is of government spending is too focused on one-offs (hospitals and bike sheds). There is little examination of annual recurring spending, of almost €50 billion on social spending and the €36 billion spent on the public service pay bill. Both rise by additional billions every year, as does almost every other spending line. Ireland badly needs a Taxpayers' Alliance, because politicians are certainly not standing up for taxpayers. Across the political spectrum, parties all want ever more spending. None is calling for fundamental reform of one of the most punitive personal tax regimes in the world (ranked second worst in the OECD by the Tax Foundation).
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We have left-wing organisations here 'observing' the far-right. How about an organisation to observe the far-left (and their Islamist chums)?
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