Liam McGlinchey

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'We’re the ones paying all the bills and you’re the ones in receipt of a lot of subsidies and a lot of tax benefits that other people don’t get.' Leo Varadkar said rural Ireland doesn't provide for urban Ireland as he discussed the fuel protests jrnl.ie/7016675

@AhernHerbe8277 Don't they usually vote Fianna Fail anyway?

How could anyone in rural Ireland ever vote Fine Gael again after hearing this. They literally hate us

@ApprovedSpeak @EO_Halloran @PeterSmartpower Whats your basis for saying our inmigration/asylum is changing drastically, if not the statistics?

@EO_Halloran @PeterSmartpower That means as Ireland's immigration/asylum-welfare changes drastically, and compounding... your position isn't changing... therefore, even with tmfacts changing, your position is static - you're not a serious thinker.

A few interesting facts on immigration in Ireland: Only 10-13% of the settled, long term residence population here are foreign born. And most are EU, Britain, America etc Ireland is over 90% "white" Recent asylum seekers that will be granted residency here will be just 25-35k

@DanielJHannan @yuanyi_z I think its not these facts that are in dispute, but this conclusion these facts purport to support.

It is painful to watch the Shinner trolls having a go at @yuanyi_z simply because he is pointing out – dispassionately and without comment – some facts. Bertrand Russell astutely observed in a 1937 essay that people tend wrongly to confuse victimhood with virtue. Our own age puts an even higher value than Russell’s on being downtrodden. By tapping into this sense, Irish nationalists capture the mood of the times. Yet they also perpetrate a falsehood. There is a reason that no one ever called it the English Empire. During the 18th century, perhaps 30,000 English people settled in the Atlantic colonies, as against 75,000 Scots and 250,000 Irish. Many were pushed into emigration by poverty, of course, but numerous others were younger sons of the gentry or of professional families, seeking their fortune as planters. “Throughout the Empire,” writes the historian Kevin Kenny, “Irish Catholics served as soldiers and administrators, or worked as policemen, doctors, engineers, lawyers, journalists, or businessmen.” In 1830, when Ireland accounted for around 30 per cent of the UK’s population, it supplied (according to a study by Peter Karsten) 42 per cent of the soldiers in the British Army. Ireland also provided around half the East India Company’s recruits prior to the 1857 Mutiny. When, following that bloody business, the Crown assumed more or less direct control of India, Irishmen were no less prominent in the new administration. Universities in Cork, Galway and Belfast offered courses in Indian languages, history and geography, as did Trinity College Dublin. It wasn’t long before some English officials were grumbling that the Indian Civil Service was run by and for Irishmen. Reginald Dyer, the officer responsible for machine-gunning unarmed protesters in Amritsar in 1919, is vaguely remembered as an unfeeling English toff. In fact he was born in Punjab to an Irish father and educated in Co Cork. The Lieutenant-Governor who backed him, cracking down on the protests that followed the atrocity, was Michael O’Dwyer, a Catholic from Co Tipperary. O’Dwyer was a Home Ruler. Like most of his countrymen at the time, he saw greater Irish autonomy as perfectly compatible with participation in a global imperium. Before the horrors of 1916, most Irish nationalists backed John Redmond in wanting “home rule within the Empire”. There were, to be sure, Irish republicans in the colonies, but they were the minority. As Patrick O’Farrell put it in his history of Irish settlement in Australia, most “accepted, indeed took pride in, belonging to Australia and the empire, readily incorporating God Save the King into their annual St Patrick’s Day festivities”. None of this should be remotely surprising. Between 1801 and 1921, the years when the Empire expanded and became institutionalised, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom with representation at Westminster. None of the contemporary theorists of imperialism, including Lenin and Bukharin, saw it as a colony. Of course, many Irish Catholics suffered at this time from both legal and unofficial discrimination. It might not have been colonial oppression; but it was still oppression. And, as the psychologists Daniel Wegner and Kurt Gray have shown, we tend to categorise people as either oppressors or oppressed, agents or patients, doers or done-to. We struggle to see that all nations, like all people, are in both categories. Still, having suffered individually (as my own Irish Catholic ancestors did) does not make you a colony, let alone prevent you being a coloniser.

@WaywardTom @itsjohncrotty @yuanyi_z Thats not the point being made. The appropriate question is how they saw themselves

@itsjohncrotty @yuanyi_z So was Ernest Shackleton Irish or English? How would you class Francis Crozier The Duke of Wellington? Countess Markievicz & her sister Eva or Boyle the chemist Cecil Alexander the Guinness Family ? James Daly a Connacht Ranger executed by British army for mutiny in India

There were no Indians in Dublin Castle, but there were Irish governors in every Indian province at some stage.

Electricity price in Ireland is mainly subject to gas price fluctuations. We badly need to decarbonise the grid. This news is huge in that regard. £2.5bn investment will power, at peak, 3mn homes for 60 years. There are 2.1mn homes in RoI per census 2022. bbc.com/news/articles/…

🚨 BREAKING: Irish authorities are hitting peaceful protesters with multiple €40 fines for the "crime" of being on a public road during a lawful assembly. One person received several fixed penalty notices all for "obstruction" while exercising constitutional rights to peaceful protest. The documents literally reference being present at a peaceful gathering. They print the right to assemble in black and white… then slap you with a stack of €40 tickets for daring to use it this isn't policing. This is financial harassment designed to make rights too expensive for ordinary people. The message from the state is loud and clear "Protest if you want but we'll bleed you with fines until you shut up and stay home. When governments turn constitutional freedoms into a costly inconvenience, those freedoms cease to exist in practice. They become privileges reserved for those who never question power. How many more citizens will be nickeled-and-dimed into silence before the public pushes back? This is soft authoritarianism death by a thousand small fines. Know your rights use your voice before it costs too much. Or watch them vanish one €40 ticket at a time. Share this if you're tired of two-tier "justice" that punishes peaceful dissent while real chaos goes unchecked. #Ireland #FuelProtest

@LewisJonathanE Therefore, 'The Irish Empire' existed?

The Irish role in the colonization of India is a comparatively little discussed topic today, largely because it goes against the "narrative" of British imperialism A similar dynamic exists for South America, where Irish soldiers and landowners worked on behalf of the settler-colonialist Spanish Empire These are important stories and they need to be told

@Sarahjdublin Seems suspiciously like the claim that western countries are being 'invaded' by refugees/immigrants

There is nobody quite as stupid as a stupid man who thinks he’s smart

@marscitizen2030 @yuanyi_z We dont say 'Scotland colonised Ulster' either.

@glinch72 @yuanyi_z Well they did colonise Ulster

Dear Irish media. This isn't going to be about tolls. Be in the room this time.

@neilojim1972 You might enjoy this

A yellow school bus?

@rinagaelriochta @EO_Halloran You want this government in charge of procuring nuclear reactors? Look how much they are spending on a hospital

@EO_Halloran Nuclear is green!

Has anyone tried nationalist green energy rhetoric? 'No more foreign oil running this country' 'Irish wind is for the Irish' 'Get the Brit(ish gas) out' Is anyone working on this??

@Paul70125772 @EO_Halloran No, he directly responded to your point. Oil, and its derivatives like diesel, are globally traded commodities. Domestically producing oil doesnt protect you from oil price spikes. Thats why he referred to Norway.

@EO_Halloran You know i was talking souly about oil. I know how it works and how its paid for in dollars ect. You just complelety avoided my whole point so you can just mantain yours.

Agricultural contractors, road hauliers and transport companies are far more affected by the war-imposed spike in fuel prices than most farmers, but holding the country in a chokehold is not justified #Echobox=1776096369-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">farmersjournal.ie/news/opinion/o…

@BligheDerek x.com/i/status/11941… "Everyone" here excludes the global scientific community

How about we just scrap the carbon tax? Everyone knows the "Climate change" story is just a tax collection and control mechanism anyway!

@LexiAIexander @AnSealgaire The farmers and hauliers were always going to get a deal. They are privileged industries. If anyone else tried to shut down the country like they did, the riot squad would be sent it on the first day, and the media would call the protest terrorism

However you feel about the fuel protests, it might be important to note that Irish activists protested peacefully for multiple causes over the last 3 years & were completely ignored by the government. Then another group comes and shuts the country down and immediately gets a deal

@Kscott_94 @BelTel

The M3 - Sydenham Bypass has been blocked by tractors, city-bound. Around 10 tractors have blocked the road close to Belfast City Airport. Traffic heading to the Airport from Belfast City remains unaffected @BelTel