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Ireland has money. It chooses how to spend it. In vogue is expensive military hardware. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

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These people a escaped genocidal war, how are they not qualifying for emergency accommodation?

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I've always been a big fan of the Dáil and in particular Leaders Questions, and I'm very much looking forward to when they add a slot where he actually answers some of them, rather than just sneering and having a go at the opposition.

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A Healy-Rae stands & shouts "Hoo du u tink u arr !?!" Confused, the Ceann Comhairle looks across both sides of the chamber to see which Healy-Rae posed the question & which side will answer, but alas it is folly, because the Dáil is now trapped in ... The Healy-Rae Superposition! #IrishPol

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“We have been taken out of suffering. It was as if we have been dug out of our own graves”

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@irishexaminer.bsky.social you spelled "suspected rapist, human trafficker, right wing mouthpiece and sexual abuser" wrong. That's not just a mistake that's complete abandonment of journalistic integrity.

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Michael Lowry is not an Independent TD and the Irish Times, by adopting the framing of the Govt, are leaping from reporting into editorialising.

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Whataboutery, Deflection and a Strawman Argument walk into a bar. “Good evening, Taoiseach,” says the barman.

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youtu.be/BXPl_wr2QNw?...

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An alternate way of phrasing "despite concerns that landlords are leaving the market..." would be to say "...proving baseless claims that 'landlords are leaving the market' to be false" Tomato tomato

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Richard Donner told this great moustache-related story about working with GENE HACKMAN on Superman.

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This is a huge story really

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"I'm more focused on solution-driven approaches, and all I've received in the last 3 or 4 days is 'just a great opportunity to have a go'." - Micheál Martin, who has been in government 19 out of the last 27 years. We're back to the future on housing... #HowIrelandWorks

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Gentle reminder that the European Union was established because the first four decades of our 20th century were mostly internecine war and genocide.

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Micheál Martin & Simon Harris are ingordigious people. See under MichaelLowry and greed for political power at all costs. #SpéirGorm #IrishPolitics

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"So are the opposition seriously fighting over a little over five minutes a week to a grouping of Independents in a Dáil that has 8 more TDs anyway?” Translation: We're only subverting norms a "little" bit so quit complaining.

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This authoritarian move to facilitate the Lowry and Healy-Rae groups to steal opposition time will be vigorously opposed! #LowrysLackeys #HowIrelandWorks

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Yeah but nobody is suggesting we change the Dáil speaking arrangements to give Slab Murphy a slot in leaders questions, Micheál

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I mean if you pit everything against the IRA then everything pales into insignificance but also last time I checked, the IRA wasn't backing up this coalition???????

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Right but hear me out, he does have a head on him like he used to get a helicopter to the FF tent at Galway races during the boom

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Loathe as I am to repost anything to do with Ciara Kelly, it's yet another case of reactionary eejits making any auld word-salad for deadline, without explaining anything, or showing their workings. It's the Americanised tones that get me. It's all just copypasta.

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We have Nazi salutes now because nobody said anything about Confederate flags.

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My favourite thing about a Sunday evening is watching this guy bursting into tears about an old soldier. The Irish Times should get him to write a think piece about why we should join NATO. #AR

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For the first time in over 20 years, Israel has deployed tanks in the West Bank, after expelling 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps. This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]

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Israel is delaying the release of Palestinian detainees and prisoners, disrupting the Gaza ceasefire deal, and its military is intensifying an offensive in the occupied West Bank.

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Red = lowest ecological integrity. Ireland has the great honour of being probably the most ecologically trashed nation in all Europe. 🏆 🏆 🏆

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RIP Nilay Ateşoğlu, a Queer Kurdish asylum seeker who sadly took her own life at the Cliffs of Moher. "I have no family," her note said. She asked to be buried in "a handful of soil" in Ireland. "Do not give my corpse to the oppressors." Her note was ignored & her body was sent to Turkey.

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Seen some "well it's easy for Sinn Féin to decide not go to America, they aren't part of the government" sentiments around Because there's nothing a certain sort of Irish person loves more than forgetting Northern Ireland exists

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Sunshine arriving in the West and South as heavy rain clears Northeast but a squall like hitting in Northeast with some intense rain and sudden strong gusts. A better evening ahead a good Saturday ahead.

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A recent survey of people named Stephen Collins who write for the Irish Times found that 100% of people named Stephen Collins who write for the Irish Times think Ireland's neutrality is absurd and complacent

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I genuinely don't get organisations who haven't set up accounts here and are, instead, hanging on the the bloated rapidly decomposing corpse of Twitter. Stay there if you feel you have to, but there are tens of millions of users, clients, call them what you will, all here to be interacted with...

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Wait till Stephen Collins learns about the entire history of US foreign policy.

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Honestly, this is an insane thing for a major political party to be running with. It’s mad. It’s by mad people for mad people.

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There's a claim doing the rounds among the Irish far-right that Sinn Fein are lying, they weren't invited to the Whitehouse in the first place, and once again I am simply in awe of how historically and politically illiterate these Irish patriots are. #Spéirgorm #Ireland

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Flipping least they could do.

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Incredible that the government are still going with their attempt to undermine democratic norms. It's hard to explain beyond oppositional defiant disorder at this point. Take the L and move on and stop wasting everyone's time

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Sinn Féin will not be attending events in the US White House this year for St Patrick’s Day as a “principled stance against the threat of mass expulsion of the Palestinian people from Gaza”. Mary Lou McDonald will not travel to the US at all for St Patrick’s Day events, she says. @thejournal.ie

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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 RTE news : SF leaders will not travel to White House to meet Trump www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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"Lads, I've got it! 15 years in government and, at last, I've found the solution to the housing crisis! Drinks on me!"

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