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@WAGardengal @keira_con @Pontifex Me too but i'm sure there have been changes or clarifications to proper grammar since my schooldays. Often hear BBC newsreaders say similar things that sound wrong

@keira_con @Pontifex Drives me nuts to hear people saying "Me and so and so..." I was always taught that it was "So and so and I..." not only as a matter of respect but that putting oneself first was very bad form.

This is why Ireland is in the trouble that it is, A respectful man with a grasp of the english language would say "Sinéad and I were honoured to meet @Pontifex yesterday in #Rome"

@TomRoseIndy He actually did ask Europe to fight and after getting a NO, he then asked you use the bases. To be clear. If Trump stood for election in Europe, I doubt he'd even get 1% of the votes.

If Europe cannot see Iran as a direct threat, then why should Americans be expected to treat it as one on Europe’s behalf? Europe is quick to sound tough, and slow to act. They know what Iran is and the threat it poses, but lack the guts, not to mention the capability to defend themselves. They know Iran is controlled by a fanatical Islamist regime with a half-century record of apocalyptic terrorism, that murders tens of thousands of its own people, openly calls for the destruction of Israel and “death to America,” and continues building ballistic missiles to shield a nuclear program. And let’s be clear—@POTUS never asked Europe to fight with us. All @DonaldTrump wanted was permission to use the airfields and bases we paid for, manned, and maintained to defend Europe. Not troops. Not escalation. Just access. Even that proved too much. Alliances don’t hold when one side sees refuses to help the other. G-d Bless the men and women who keep #America safe and free

@pod74 @danobrien20 True, and the reason for that is very few politicians have any business experience. No more Albert Reynolds , Fergal Quinn or Ivan Yates who knew how business worked

@danobrien20 As a business owner for over 25 years. The greatest problem I see with politicians and with the public sector in general is they are never proactive, it's always reactive. That's why there is so little change. It's never real leadership.

Ireland's personal taxation regime is the second worst among 38 peer countries according to the Tax Foundation. High marginal taxes (paid at very modest thresholds) have been in place since 2008. There has been almost no improvement over two decades despite having the resources to do so - a relentless rise in government expenditure has been prioritised year after year. A simple example illustrates how bad it is. The average electrician or plumber working for construction company will be on the top marginal rate, whereby the state takes more of every additional euro than the person gets to keep. If he/she wants to earn self employed income, the government will take more than the worker, and a tax return will have to be filed, involving time and/or accountancy fees. Is it any wonder finding tradespeople is hard?

@Delmonicos_1791 @mikepompeo Are you sick of funding Israel too ?

Ummm...nope. AMERICA has been the key to securing our superpower status! We've also supplied (oversupplied) other nations when they didn't bother to pony up for their own security. Those days are over!!! PERIOD!! I'm sick of working my arss off to pay for nations that didn't give a rats arss about America's interest. No more, jack! They've enriched themselves far too long with our blood, sweat, and tears. Relics like you let them do it.

NATO has been a key instrument in securing America's superpower status. We have every right to insist that our NATO allies pull their weight, but should always remember the principal reason we've invested so heavily in the alliance to begin with: advancing our own interests.

@GuntherEagleman I'm just curious why ? is it to save money or is it to punish Europe or another reason

NATO ON BORROWED TIME: The world is watching as every so-called ally sits back and does NOTHING while the U.S. Military decimates Iran. Everyone sees the writing on the wall. I support leaving NATO 1000%.

@Ghostofcynthia Your very first word tells me all I need you know about you

Fucking cowards in England and Australia slithering out today in unison like the spineless fucking cucks they are. Look at these gutless wonders, too fucking terrified to stand for anything real. Spineless jellyfish with no balls, no backbone, just a collective circle jerk of weakness. England and Australia, both bending the knee in perfect sync like the pathetic beta bitches they've become. Disgusting. Absolute fucking cowards, every last one of you. The world sees you for what you are: soft, sniveling, spineless cucks who couldn't grow a spine if it was handed to you on a silver platter. Hide in your safe little islands, you worthless pricks. History will remember you as the generation that folded like cheap lawn chairs. America will never forget! Pathetic. Absolutely fucking pathetic.

@GrahamAllen another sulk. grow up and deal with differences of opinion like an adult

Not a single American dollar should go to NATO or Ukraine again…

@glennbeck Tax refund for Americans 🙈🙈🙈. Aren't you forgetting your €39 trillion national debt

France, Italy, Spain & more just blocked our military flights for the Iran war. They don’t want us there? Perfect. President Trump — bring our troops AND our nukes HOME from these failing NATO countries NOW. Soon they’ll be Islamic nations anyway — they CANNOT have our nukes. Let Europe defend itself. Use the savings to root out DC corruption, pay our TSA & DHS, and give every American a HUUUUGE tax refund! America First means America SAFE at home. Let’s go! 🇺🇸@realDonaldTrump

@MikeNew19512115 Allies of USA yes, of Trump no

Close down all US bases in Europe. Leave NATO. France, Spain and UK are no longer our allies.

@Alan__Shatter I suppose we expect terrorists(Hezbollah) to use terror . We expect states to be lawful

Morning Ireland on RTE interviewed this morning a senior officer in our defence forces on the observation & monitoring role of our UNIFIL contingent & their safety. Multiple questions asked about Israeli forces. And all appropriate. But not a single question about Hezbollah missiles & the activities of Hezbollah. It is as if Hezbollah does not exist.

@kilroy1067 @EricLDaugh Geoff, leaving NATO will play right in to the hands of Putin. While at the same time USA is making enemies out of Canada and the EU. That doesn't make sense to me

@EricLDaugh The US should just leave NATO, they have been screwing the US for decades.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! SecWar Pete Hegseth just dropped a truth nuke on NATO “You don't have much of an ALLIANCE if you have countries that are not willing to STAND with you when you need them!” NATO is officially on notice. President Trump never forgets.

@Meta4icall @BrianGarrigan And convictions

@BrianGarrigan any arrests?

Girls are not safe anymore in Dublin, Lawless Ireland

@Alan__Shatter Well said Alan

Yet again despicable behaviour by Ben Gvir. Significant likelihood that the Israeli courts will determine the death penalty law yesterday enacted by the Knesset to be invalid. Its enactment & repetitive extremist attacks on Palestinians on the West Bank indicative of the corrosive impact on Israeli politics of Oct 7 & everything that has happened since.

@WillieMaleyCSC I hear you but if MON likes him, thats enough for me. Besides, we are so poor up front now, he is bound to give us a boost

Im sorry But on what universe is this boy a massive boost He scored 1 goal against a 10 man rangers Agreed signs were promising But if you think callum osmand is the answer to our issue then your a fool

@DanMulhall The Czech keeper play very well during the game and in the shoot out. It's very fine lines that decide these things. For example, Kellegher got a hand to the first Czech penalty and almost saved it. Smodics would probably have taken a penalty ahead of Azaz as he a striker

A disastrous penalty shoot out. Two very poor penalties. It was a good Irish performance overall tonight, but the final act was disappointing. #Czechia wins on penalties.

@benotti69 @EwanMacKenna I disagree. We are quite good playing at home and recently beat Portugal who must be 50 places above us. Regardless of a result, it would have been a great occasion for everyone especially the young fans. Besides, the FAI could have done with the money (millions €)

@EwanMacKenna If Ireland somehow managed to beat the Czech's, 15 places above them in world rankings, on tonight's efforts, there is no way they win the next game........Denmark, 38 places above them in the rankings.

I laugh at Irish rugby a lot. Been right over and over. But that is up there with greatest chokes in Irish sport history. It's pathetic and Irish soccer fans defend it like rugby fans. Won't get that in Irish media anymore either because they're soft too. But we are a soft nation it seems. Genuinely think no one has to work for it anymore. And talk about that being old school game but that was the most antiquated shite game of football ever. A soft nation.

@GBNT1952 While I agree with lots of your post, the fact you describe people with a different opinion as Morons discredits you

To all of you morons saying “I’m not dying for (insert country),” or “I didn’t vote for us to go to war for (insert country),” let me explain to you why you are stupid. Isolationism sounds appealing if one has never stepped outside the comfort of their own homes (or if you have the IQ of a cockroach). I have spent a decade and a half operating in the shadows of the world’s fault lines, where the reality is brutally clear: power vacuums do not remain empty. They are always filled—and rarely by benevolent actors. If the United States withdraws from the global stage, China, Russia, and every opportunistic authoritarian regime in existence will rush to occupy the ground we abandon. They will shape trade routes, control supply chains, dictate technological standards, and dominate the security architecture of entire regions. That is not speculation. It is how geopolitics has always worked. The global order that allows Americans to live in relative prosperity and security is not an accident; it exists because the United States underwrites it. Remove that foundation and the structure collapses. The fantasy of isolation ignores the fact that our economy, our security, and our alliances are interwoven across the planet. If we retreat, we do not become safer or freer. We become strategically blind while hostile powers consolidate influence over the very systems that sustain our way of life. In other words, isolationism would not protect the United States. It would guarantee that the future world order is written by nations that do not share our interests or values, and once that order solidifies, reclaiming it would cost far more than maintaining it ever did. So, if you get your geopolitical knowledge from a former Vogue intern, a former pizza delivery guy, a closeted gay Nazi, or any other grifter with a live stream that is being paid to post their nonsense, please wake up and embrace reality with the rest of us.

@OutsiderWatch @zarahussain999 IMO they should stay in America and take care of America. For example the US money spent on Israel would be better spent on USA health care of Americans

@martinwfarrell @zarahussain999 Why would American Jews go anywhere else?

A group of aggressive Jewish men intimidate a Muslim Al Jazeera journalist who was there to report on the Golders Green ambulance incident. They shout “Al Jazeera off our streets,” “Go home,” and “terrorist.” Their behaviour is a disgrace. If a group of Muslim men behaved like this towards a Jewish journalist, the reaction on social media would be different. Islamophobia is unacceptable.

@OutsiderWatch @zarahussain999 I have nothing against Jews at all. You said to Muslims that they should look after their home countries (which i agreed with). I just said that the same thing could be said of America Jews. Is it not a reasonable or at least comparable to say that.

So Americans who are Jewish and don’t have dual citizenship are still Israeli? What? And even if that were the case, there are 6 million Jews in America, out of 15 million Jews in the world. No, I do not think 0.2% of the world’s population has ever shown me anything to be fearful of.

@OutsiderWatch @zarahussain999 I suppose it could be said they prioritise another country over their home country (in the context of the original comment above)

@martinwfarrell @zarahussain999 What do Jews in America do that is so harmful.