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Monday: Minister Patrick O'Donovan calls for the media regulator Coimisiún na Meán to review RTÉ's coverage of the fuel protests. He is irate that protesters got more favourable airtime than the Govt. Tuesday: He backtracks after widespread backlash, with critics calling it an “authoritarian overreach” and a "threat to press freedom". Wednesday: He signs off on a €20k pay rise to CEO of RTE. Makes You Think. 🤔

@LeoVaradkar You had *checks notes* thirteen years in government to make these graphs look different. Thankfully only one of us teaches economics. You wouldn’t even get into my class 💁🏼‍♀️

Under the lights at Anfield ✊

Mother of God. The Irish Media Minister says he will be asking the Media Commission to "examine" protest coverage because it was too lopsided in favour of the farmers and truckers. The government sent in the military to break up protests and now they want to clamp down on how the media covers those protests because it made the government look bad. Ireland is gone full totalitarian.

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.

Simon Harris claims no one has the right to restrict movement of people in Ireland. Does he think we all forgot about Covid?

Actions speak louder than words, as they say.

"They went too far..." Fuel protest organiser Chris Duffy is calling for a national day of strike and protest tomorrow in response to the brutality farmers and truckers suffered at the hands of the state. We all need to support this, it's time for the Irish to stand together as one.

The Black & Tans

Irish Times are at it again! Today’s Irish Times features a piece by Ciaran O’Connor @ciaranoconnor. The Irish Times fails to disclose that O’Connor is in fact a senior analyst at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). The ISD is funded by the George Soros Open Society Foundations, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK government, and has received over $6m in US Department of State funding. Surprisingly or perhaps unsurprisingly, in 2019 following the death of Jeffrey Epstein, Ciaran O’Connor worked to “fact check” those spreading “conspiracy theories” about Epstein. Important work no doubt. It’s always interesting to scratch just below the surface on a contributor to the Irish Times, who the IT tell us is merely “a researcher and journalist who focuses on extremism and technology”.

The government has decided to pepper spray citizens before speaking to them. This government is fuelling discontent rather than reducing tensions. The opposition must call a motion of no confidence in this government.

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No sign of any real heat coming as cooler than average air is forecast over Ireland for the next 7-10 days. 500 litres of home heating oil has risen from around €480 to over €850 with approximately €50 of that increase being VAT.

Daily reminder that the State only exists for the benefit of the citizens, not the other way around.

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The government has decided to pepper spray citizens before speaking to them. This government is fuelling discontent rather than reducing tensions. The opposition should call a motion of no confidence in this government.

@Independent_ie Fuel protest opposer falsely promised life-saving surgery to children. Still takes €230,000 from taxpayer every year

Scum bag laying in kicks