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Your reminder of just how much they squandered. €1.9 trillion in 24 years. €1.3 trillion in last 15 years alone. Record revenue, record taxes, & what do we have to show for it? Housing chaos, broken services, crumbling infrastructure. They took everything & delivered nothing.
🔥 Watch this! Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael refuse to listen to people. Arrogant and incompetent. Half measures don’t cut it. We need to see the maximum reduction in fuel prices at the pumps. The people have no confidence in this useless government. They should back their bags and go.
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Major investment in our local Fire Services!
"It was alarming that for a period of days we had people, who we don't know who they are or what they're backgrounds are, that they were deciding whether that truck could go in or out, whether you could get to your hospital appointment, whether you could get petrol or fuel. "Who are they and how dare they?" - Simon Harris #FuelProtest #NoConfidenceGov
NEW: Independent TDs Sean Canney, Marian Harkin, and ‘Boxer’ Moran have confirmed they will vote confidence in the Government. Barring any backbench rebels, the Government has secured the 87 votes they need to win the vote.
Minister Patrick O'Donovan has said he will be asking Coimisiún na Meán to review RTÉ and others' coverage of the fuel protests. He suggested that coverage was "lopsided" in favour of the protest and that "carte blanche was given to some people". jrnl.ie/7011275t
Sinn Feinn’s David Cullinane tried to hijack the Waterford protest didn’t end well. Get them out including the controlled opposition 🇮🇪🇮🇪
Day 6 of fuel protests and big numbers out in Louth. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael need to listen to the people.
Day 6 of fuel protests and big numbers out in Louth. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael need to listen to the people.
Your reminder of just how much they squandered. €1.9 trillion in 24 years. €1.3 trillion in last 15 years alone. Record revenue, record taxes, & what do we have to show for it? Housing chaos, broken services, crumbling infrastructure. They took everything & delivered nothing.
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.