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@pvica2 @EuropaeDraconis @TheEuropeansHQ the EU is a belief in the core principles of what the EU stands for. If you don't want that, no problem, you can vote like the UK to leave.

@pvica2 @EuropaeDraconis @TheEuropeansHQ I know it's a parliamentary election but effectively it's a referendum on Orban/Russia v Magyar/EU. That choice is yours, but it's clear the EU have had enough. If you hate the EU, fine, we're not going to go all Russia from stopping you leaving ? The entire point of being in

🇪🇺 A major line has been crossed 🚨 🇵🇱 Poland’s PM Donald Tusk is the first EU leader to confirm that European Council discussions were directly leaked to Moscow via 🇭🇺 Orbán’s circle. This would mark an unprecedented breach within the EU: a Member State covertly working with an hostile foreign power to undermine European interests.

@Valhalla322 @Frank_Connolly_ a disaster for us, aside from who he was, his economic isolationism stunted our growth until Lemass/Whitaker in the 60s, and another 30 years after that.

@Valhalla322 @Frank_Connolly_ I could imagine unionists at the time would have been delighted with the south in a civil war, so it's logical the British government would have been similarly happy, however the result meant a bitterly divided south, stuck in civil war politics for 90 years after. DeValera was

Why do free staters think 1920s RA good, 1970s-1990s RA bad? I need serious and sincere answers to this question from actual free staters/west brits/jackeens.

@MartinG1492 @davidmcw And NI is still hugely sectarian, with 12,500 loyalist paramilitaries. Even beyond that the Republic's towns and cities will be relegating themselves behind Belfast and even Derry. The gain is all for NI not us.

@davidmcw before having a Border Poll oh my word, they react as if the sky is falling on their heads.

Ireland's job creation record is possibly the most impressive in the world, bar China.

@Valhalla322 @Frank_Connolly_ We'll never know what might have happened had Collins lived, but bear in mind we were in rag order after the civil war. That said, it's 100 years on.

@pointMF @Frank_Connolly_ Brits didn't want to give 32 county home rule because if the unionists could work with republicanism for the betterment of all, there was the possibility that ireland would declare a republic and be lost to the Brits, two weak states were supposed to fail and return to the UK.

@lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ I'm not a fan of NI republicans but there was widespread discrimination against Catholics, not apartheid but I stand by the apartheid of sorts. If everyone was treated equally, you wouldn't have had the civil rights campaign. The problem was the nutjobs using that for murder.

@pointMF @Frank_Connolly_ It wasn't an apartheid state of sorts.

@IlvesToomas @PhillipsPOBrien Because Netanyahu is helping Netanyahu by helping a fellow autocrat.

Netanyahu endorsing Orban is an incredibly dumb move 1. Why should Ukraine keep its world class anti-drone teams in the Middle East helping Israel, when both the US and Israel support the most anti-Ukrainian leader in the EU, a man who, reneging on a unanimous EU decision to lend €90M has caused major damage to Ukraine? Why keep its experts in the Middle East to help virulently anti-Ukrainians? 2. The Iranian war is not top of mind for Europeans, it is not an existential threat on the order of Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. Why further alienate the EU to support an avowed enemy of Ukraine? 3. The countries in the EU most worried about the Russian invasion, the CEE, have also been the strongest supporters of Israel. Why alienate them? Will they support Israel the next time there is an anti-Israel resolution in the UN? Or will they abstain? This was a completely unnecessary move by Netanyahu.

@pvica2 @EuropaeDraconis @TheEuropeansHQ Milk ?

@pointMF @EuropaeDraconis @TheEuropeansHQ Miért? 🤔

@Frank_Connolly_ @seadtrag @lawrenson_40883 that would happen there is a sell off of NI assets to pay it back, there's no free lunch. If the Republic pays, then it means tax increases for us, public service cuts because it won't be the rich paying for it. Infrastructure investment would be diverted too.

@Frank_Connolly_ @seadtrag @lawrenson_40883 It's the GETTING to one economy that is the problem Frank! Our economy is hugely superior to NI, and I'm sure all in NI would be demanding that NI be brought up to the Republic's level. I've seen loads of Pollyanna suggestions that the UK/EU/US will pay for it but the only thing

@seadtrag @lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ How does dwelling on the past put food on the table of the poor and the paye worker ? You should be rejoicing if anything that the UK are outside the EU and the Republic is benefitting from it. That's far more relevant to people.

@pointMF @lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ Millions of Irish dead, millions upon millions worldwide for the vanity and greed of the Saxon. And you have the fucking gall to try and point the finger at us?

@seadtrag @lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ Change through peaceful means isn't an "Oprahism" 😂

@pointMF @lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ You have no argument left so you're falling back on Oprahisms.

@seadtrag @lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ the Republic figure out what we'd be expected to take on in terms of cost, unresolved sectarianism and the diminished status of the Republic's towns and cities. Expecting us to fall over to vote for that, isn't the gimme you think it is.

@seadtrag @lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ Yes absolutely an apartheid state of sorts was created, but it is the method of "fighting back" that is the issue. And your problem is that the path republicans chose, has screwed up any chance of reconciliation for generations. More importantly for you, when the rest of us in

@seadtrag @lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ As if that mattered, taking of human life was never justified then, even less so now.

@pointMF @lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ They were. The biggest difference between the sides was that, while the republican side always had many protestant members, the unionist side were anti-Catholic and committed sectarian attacks against random catholics because they were catholics.

@seadtrag @lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ You're in a great position, alive, to be pontificating on the deaths of 3000 people, of whom 2000 were murdered by republicans. People like John Hume were 100 times better than scum like Adams.

@pointMF @lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ And let us be clear, here: the Irish have never invaded anyone, colonised anyone, never fought a war in anyone else's country. This was a war against a settler culture and a colonial power, an illegitimate occupation. You don't discard context to manufacture moral standing.

@seadtrag @lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ "overwhelmingly by accident", wow that must make you feel great.

@pointMF @lawrenson_40883 @Frank_Connolly_ 35% of deaths attributable to Republicans were civilians, overwhelmingly by accident when warnign calls weren't heeded or people were caught in the crossfire. 55 percent for UK forces, almost 90 for loyalist paramiliaries, overwhelmingly on purpose.

@Bobb_95 @BrophShane Hopefully it will be someone aligned with McMillan, although there were initial rumours of Mossie Lawler.

@BrophShane I have a feeling it will be Roger Randal from the Chiefs, McMillan brought up the team manager and the S&C coach last summer if I’m not mistaken.

Have Munster ever been as low. Only missing Crowley and Beirne. Unlikely to move on from McMillan after one season but it needs major rejuvenation.

@lawrenson_40883 @seadtrag @Frank_Connolly_ True, and there was never a justification for the murder of 3000 people.

@seadtrag @Frank_Connolly_ No they didn't. They didn't have a mandate at all. Liar.