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@Nick_Delehanty Until the make a move, they’re just mouthin off to save their seats.

Is this the moment ?

@Anti_Fragilis @irishexaminer Page 9 FF manifesto.

@irishexaminer "The three TDs, who are among the youngest in the parliamentary party, said their peers do not see a connection “between what happens at the ballot box and what follows in government”." They're not wrong. Who voted for mass immigration? Anyone?

Young Fianna Fáil TDs warn social contract ‘strained to breaking point’ irishexaminer.com/news/politics/…

@RightInCorduroy @MHealyRae And if you don’t like those principles, he has others. Get off the stage.

@MHealyRae Don’t agree with you on everything, Michael, but you have principles, which many politicians lack.

I’ll always stand with the people, because I’ll never forget where I came from. For the people and by the people regardless of positions or titles.

@LeoVaradkar @SineadOS1 I’d like to know who these Irish grads are returning home. Eg do they own property? As for overseas grads. Are they leaving third world shit holes like India? That’s called putting up with what we’re selling cos all things are relative. You’ve sold out our young Leo

What you've done is blatantly obvious. Picked the data points that suited the outcome you wanted and ignored those that don't. YES c. 35k irish grads left last year BUT roughly the same number returned AND with grads from overseas we had a net 'brain gain'. You'd fail my class

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.

@danobrien20 A perfect storm of affluence homelessness selfishness and social media.

@Northern_Rich @MartinSLewis No they didn’t. In fact we chose quite the opposite in the general election of 1918. A small group of planters at the north east of our country had a border drawn up under the threat of violence in 1921. Read your history.

@diddy2019 @MartinSLewis Occupied? You know they chose of their own volition to remain part of the UK right?

Loving the leaderboard... UK, UK, US, UK, US, US... #themasters

@Northern_Rich @MartinSLewis Look pal, the rules are clear. It’s a grey area, people born in the north can choose a British passport or an Irish passport or both. But yes the north remains occupied by the U.K.. this is true.

@diddy2019 @MartinSLewis Only in sports where the specific country you represent is relevant, which is basically only the Olympics. And he does it because as a child that's who he represented so he remained that way. He's spoken of his annoyance of having to choose between Team GB or Ireland

@Northern_Rich @CryptoIre @MartinSLewis Mary peters. You fool.

@CryptoIre @MartinSLewis You understand I'm the Olympics it's not the UK right? It's Great Britain which doesn't include Northern Ireland, that's not part of this conversation.

@Northern_Rich @MartinSLewis Not in sport. Mcilroy plays for Ireland. 🇮🇪

@MartinSLewis Not sure why the Irish people decide to forget Northern Ireland is part of the UK, especially when all people are trying to do is support a good guy and sportsman in Rory McIlroy

@danobrien20 People are fleeing war, international obligations, let’s talk about what unites us not let the far right divide us, new to the parish. All salt in the wounds of the working have nots born in their own land 25 years ago.

Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks polls found 56% support for the fuel price protests, suggesting very widespread discontent, particularly given all peer countries have suffered similar price hikes. Its editorial below. It raises a wider question as to whether government has lost touch with voters. If there is any upside to Ireland's near unique electoral system, it should be that its local bias keep politicians in close touch with voters. Maybe this is less the case these days - one politician told me recently that TDs hold fewer clinics than before. But something is going on beneath the surface, as suggested by recent electoral surprises 1) Sinn Fein surge in 2020 2) Huge rejection of 2024 referendums 3) Election of a far left president in 2025

@RourkeTony Wanker

My terminally wife was late for a radiation treatment because of the blockade. How could you sympathise with any group capable of endangering life. There are no words words to describe such behaviour. Trust me , given my anger, it is better that I don’t try #fuelprotest

@ger_cosgrove Wanker

When one of your relatives dies while waiting for an ambulance, on in the back of an ambulance or your pregnant wife hemorrhages in the back seat of your car, because you were blocked by an illegal truck or tractor. This is the individual you need to come looking for.

@jshocds In a globalist economic system the Irish taxpayer must pay for the welfare of people who two years ago were living in a tin hut in nigeria. How can a welfare state work without borders father?

Tax is imposed on citizens to run their country, provide services &, in a welfare state, assist citizens in poverty. Governments must respect boundaries when it comes to taxing citizens in order to be just & maintain a healthy & legitimate contract with the people. Governments must also use that money prudently. When governments breach those boundaries, the implementation of new taxes, in my opinion, becomes unethical.

@Sportsfileray Wanker

How many cars were clamped in Dublin today for not paying parking fees while we have trucks and tractors parked in the capitals O’Connell Street and no action. #Stopthemadness

@EO_Halloran Patronising wanker

Its frightening thinking about the media environment a lot of these protesters exist in. Their opinions and feelings come from online hysteria mixed with half truths that give them revolutionary complexes that makes them completely impossible to engage with #fuelProtest

@Bate_Kevin @Polito_loco Wanker

🗣 "They've taken your money and buried it into corruption, spending it all on fuckin Ukrainians and building houses for foreigners, adn forgotten about the whole let of ye. And if you leave this blockade tonight and let the Gardai in it's fuckin over, forever!" Michael Collins would be proud of this man, whoever he is. I'd follow him into war.

@WeTheRomans @Polito_loco Wanker

@Polito_loco Irish sub humans can't protest against brown rapists and invaders without shitting on "fuckin Ukrainians" who are defending their country from Russian invasion.

@SammyJanki60365 @Polito_loco Wanker

@Polito_loco Follow him to war!?🤣🤣🤣🤣 You’re a wet wipe kirk,you’d be in your bedroom been a keyboard warrior while others fought this make believe war & you know it.

@MATIE202020 @Polito_loco Wanker

@Polito_loco My great grandfather schooled Gen. Michael Collins in Irish. Take his name out of your mouth.

@higginsdavidw David, it’s just the straw. Mass immigration with no planning for it, earning a good wage and living with your parents, the end of the university experience for students in Dublin and cork. All due to the policies of this government.

The fuel debate has several economic and data sins at once: ❌ Comparing Spain fuel prices to Ireland without comparing wages ❌ Sharing the % of taxes on diesel before the March 25th excise cut (now a lower %) ❌ Thinking farmers are hit by headline diesel prices (they pay much lower taxes on marked gas oil). ❌ Claiming farmers are going out of business by taxes. They are (rightly) in receipt of massive EU subsidies so food is affordable for all households.