Peter Donnelly
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Peter Donnelly
@PetersReceipts
Independent analyst of elite networks & knowledge production. Check out my substack for long format dives: https://t.co/SJGoUW1gSq



Diesel has suddenly become less affordable in Ireland. A two-income couple could once afford >1,000 litres per week, now it's 878. Despite this, we are the second most affordable in the EU and we haven't yet fallen below the EU average from one year ago. The extra 10 cent off diesel has yet to be reflected in this data. Spain, often compared to Ireland is much less affordable because of lower average wages. Poland, despite cutting VAT, is still an expensive place when you compare local diesel prices to local net wages (less taxes and transfers). Malta, even with diesel capped at €1.21 / litre, doesn't beat us on affordability. Wages matter hugely in this debate.

No true Irish nationalist or Republican can avoid the call of Irish labour. No true Irish socialist can avoid the call of the nation. Anyone who claims to be one without the other is simply in the process of becoming both, or neither.

We want * cheap fuel - we cut supplies * Ireland for the Irish - our family are migrants * FFFG gone - we keep voting for them * LAW AND ORDER - not directed to us. Did I miss anything from the protesters demands?

A government that extorts its farmers and burdens them with crushing costs just to grow food is pure evil. A cabal of tyrants who deliberately starve their own people.





With men like these two, the Irish can’t lose.




Most of the tractors in that video cost between €150,000 and €200,000. That's no poor farmers protest. Living in Louth 20 years, I've never seen a poor farmer. They have the best land on the planet with the highest yields around the Boyne valley 🧐

In my column today, I set out why financial support for Ukraine is 100% in our own self-interest. If Putin wins there'll be more refugees, more wars and price shocks. I also set out why the carbon tax and climate action can free the next generation from the roller coaster of fossil fuel prices we've had to deal with since the 1970's




No. I can’t picket your house or impede your access to it as a protest. There is a constitutional right to peaceful assembly subject to public order. That does not include preventing other persons from exercising their rights or being disorderly in a manner that interferes with the rights of others to go to work, to move freely across the state or to conduct their lawful business.



