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Disavowed and disdained by the Left and the Right - the seal of approval that assures you you're doing something right. 'A regime apologist' according to some.

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Joined August 2009
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10 months
@CorkBuachaill @GMCManning btw Population of Palestinians 1990, 1.9mn. Population of Palestinians 2023, 5.3mn. vs Population of: - Jews reduced by 66% between 1933 and 1945 - Tutsis in Rwanda, in 1994, reduced by 80% in 3 months - Cambodians between 75 and 79, reduced by 25% Spot the difference?
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Up the 'ra indeed. You shower of utter gobshites and gowls.
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For pointing out that Ireland couldn't intercept arms shipments in aircraft flying over Ireland and largely couldn't do anything about them..
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4 years
@AstonMartinF1 Well you've been a great Social Media Manager. Best of luck with your new ventures ahead, away from F1!! 😆
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@anon_opin This tweet brought to you by someone below the age of 22.
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@RoseFle54723126 Rule of Thumb Look at referenda on their merits, and adjudicate accordingly. Be not swayed by who speaks for or against, but by the substance of the arguments. If you find yourself aligning with one side on the basis of *who* said something, it's critical thinking revision time
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@tvcritics Do you think children can consent to puberty blockers Dáithí? Like, they can't drink, can't smoke, can't drive, can't get a tattoo as it stands.
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2 years
@ScottNover Did that a) actually happen or b) are you making stuff up to fit your own political jaundice? I reckon b). Which begs the question, why are you having to make stuff up if Musk is so terrible?
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@realMrTruthBomb I'm not the problem, you HAVE a problem. Of the mental health kind.
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3 years
@POTUS You've left behind a mess, just like the US invariably does these days. If you went in in 2001 to kick out the Taleban, and you're leaving Afghanistan now to the Taleban, what did all the people that died over there die for in the first place?
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@eoinyk I'm going to blow your mind with this one Eoin - there is a middle ground between the puerile, adolescent rebellion tripe as art, of last night, and Saudia Arabia. Mad, I know. Who would think it?
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@NewstalkFM The converse, which Clare never mentions being, that we leave Russia take over whatever country it wants to, because that's what peace is all about - letting big countries bully and beleaguer smaller countries. The lack of joined up thinking this lady displays is astonishing.
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For the 'krupt kip' brigade. Ireland is: 2nd in Press Freedom 3rd from last in Risk of Poverty in young people 5th in education in the world 3rd Most Free State in the world 10th least corrupt country in the world 1st in Good Country Index 2nd Best Quality of Life (the UN)
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2 years
@planetjedward Is there anything as unEdgy as former pop-culture characters trying to remain relevant by taking half-assed, not really any of your business anyway, hot-takes in the hope that they'll get some traction on social media. Probably not.
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@lindacooganb Dear Linda, You mind your language, and I will mind mine. Now that's inclusive. Yours sincerely, Andrew
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@davidmcw The country needs to be enabled to free itself of the parasite that is Hezbollah. Hezbollah does not have Lebanon's best interests first and foremost. It has Tehran's and the IRGC. How that happens is the exceptionally difficult issue, given the situation on the ground.
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@fatima_gunning Again Fatima, would you please explain why you think men wearing balaclavas inside an IPAS centre is an issue, but men wearing them protesting outside an IPAS centre isn't an issue. This is a clear contradiction in GRIPT 's editorial stance.
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2 years
@MattyWTF1 That Brundle grid walk is something no-one should ever have to suffer again. FIA/Liberty need to drop the celebrity nonsense ASAP. It does not serve the sport well.
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2 years
@FrankRyan1936 @donlav Why now? What stopped you remembering them all the other days of the year. Was Queen Elizabeth responsible for stuff 70 years before her time?
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@FrankRyan1936 @donlav Do you go after the Germans today for the Holocaust with such vigour? If not why not?
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10 months
@JoeBrolly1993 Fair play Joe. Every day you go lower, and just when we think you can't go any lower, that no-one could go lower, you prove us wrong again and again and again. Go get your moral compass checked, Joe. It is self-evidently stuck on self-righteous moral self-aggrandisement. Icky.
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3 years
@TheDancingYak @splatcat16 @SJbrigante If the sport was racist he wouldn't have come within an asses roar of even 1 WDC. How in the world does this need to be pointed out to you?
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1 year
@gardainfo With respect, this should be the unremarkable norm, not the stuff of photo opportunities and social media posts. The people of this country want a meaningful and visible police presence on the streets of Ireland.
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2 years
@Gearoid_80 You stripped the pictures of context to make a lazy, self-serving, ideologically-driven point. Well done you. Them getting into red high-heels was purely to ensure they got into the newspapers and the campaign highlighted. It worked. Go fret about something important.
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@neasa_neasa @RSAIreland Delete your tweet. You are infantilising a nation with this perpetual victimhood guff. Enough already.
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1 year
@fmcomment I won't use the youth's phrase of this being a "real bad take", Frank, but this is certainly not a good one. It's out there. His statement is less than satisfactory. Her medical records will tell a story, and will be all that's needed to know.
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2 years
@ItaOKelly As a woman, have you taken it upon yourself to run for elected office? Have you supported another woman who ran for elected office? Have you voted for women?
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@Wagalooshie It says something about the times we live in that he's a mental health advocate whilst showing little or no ability to tolerate disagreement or contradiction. It's always dangerous to generalise but resilience seems to be a value completely eschewed by younger generations.
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@AodhanORiordain For a man that would call for the Seanad to be abolished, and then promptly use it as a lifeboat to keep his political career alive, you have more pressing things closer to home to be ashamed of, Aodhán. Your craven lack of principle for starters.
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@catherinegalway Your sympathy for an apologiser of despotic regimes across the Middle East is noted Catherine. As too is your chronic lack of judgement.
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@paulmurphy_TD Nothing stirs you more than a good old mass mobilisation, isn't that it Paul. Must be nice to command a six figure salary while still in college.
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3 years
@amnestyusa No it's not. Killing humans will never be a human right. It is the antithesis of human rights.
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2 years
People like me said this would happen. I don't want to ever hear people who supported Repeal talk about how they endorse an inclusive, pluralist society that embraces the human experience in whatever form it might come. You don't. You suppport eugenics.
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@MaryKenny4 Mother of god, what is wrong with you people? He was not in contempt of court for having a principled stance. He was in contempt of court for refusing to abide by a court order to stop harassing colleagues in his school, pending investigation into the actual substantive issue.
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@desiopstoryo @Janeausten2025 @EndWokeness That's only a reflection on where your head is at. You might want to dwell on that for a time.
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@DavQuinn Any right-thinking humane person wants it banned. There is no need for anyone in the 21st century to be taking a scalpel to the genitalia of a boy or girl, unless done so by a medical professional for medically indicated reasons. Everything else David, to be clear, is barbarism.
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@LOCthedreamer1 Ah now Luke, while I appreciate and acknowledge that you're a real expert in disgracing your home, and indeed yourself, with quite a bit of experience in it for a young lad already, I think you're wrong this time. I think it's fair to say Philly hasn't disgraced anyone.
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2 years
@crusa Her death has NOTHING to do with Ukrainian refugees. You should be ashamed of yourself.
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@Mupper41 In fairness, its good camouflage. The enemy would have absolutely no idea whether they were looking at the front of the vehicle at the back, of if even the main gun was pointing at them...
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@donalobyrne @AnthonyOD10 @drboylan I'm a non-Catholic, agnostic myself. I don't share your delicate sensibility around the self-identified religion of 78% of the population of the country (as per census 2016) being manifested in public buildings. Perhaps you might consider speaking for yourself alone.
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@FionaSmall The pathos, off the charts.
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2 months
Every day now - every single day - we have Irish Judges handing down rulings that are not fit for the society we live in, nor fit the standards of justice that our society expects. It is now the case that a TOTAL root & branch review & rebuilding of our justice system is needed.
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Uninsured rider Shane Ward (27), who drove a scrambler motorbike down a footpath and struck a pedestrian, leaving her with life-changing injuries, is to have his driving licence restored early, a judge has ruled. Gardai had strongly objected to any reduction in Ward’s driving
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@TCDSU_President @tcddublin The dildo of consequence seldom comes lubed.
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2 years
@LOCthedreamer1 What's disgusting is you pretending that that young lady didn't have access to accommodation for the night, and had to stay in the tent. That's disgusting. Nobody is refused accommodation on nights as cold as these Luke. Have a talk with yourself. Why are you lying to people?
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@AodhanORiordain Be thankful someone thinks highly enough of you to try save your hypothetically immortal soul Aodhán. There are many others who don't. There are many others who still remember you campaigning for an end to the Seanad, and you then cravenly using it as a political lifeboat.
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@RayMinehane We must be the only capital city in the world that thinks its "Georgian skyline heritage" is more important than actually living in a world that left the Georgian era behind it 200 years ago. B A N A N A S
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@RoseFle54723126 I don't like the tack, but given the fact that the electorate is being asked to buy a pig in a poke and that "durable relationships" will be decided post facto by the courts, and the Dáil, it is clearly the case that this is a diabolically badly constructed and written amendment.
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1 year
@vanillatary Cue all the good folks defending US "culture" by insisting when in Rome do as Romans do. To which one has to say - not paying your workers a living wage is not a culture, its abuse. Glad to clear that up for you.
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@Independent_ie Dear Tanya, it is not him being obese and non-binary that bothers people about this video. It is the fact that it can be seen on youtube by five year olds, complete with hyper-sexualised dancing and golden showers. That just might be what people are on about. Crazy, I know.
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@PPFA believe that the humanity of another begins when someone says it does.
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@Independent_ie He's not wrong, in fairness.
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Our sleveen attitude to our own defence is being noticed and it is not a good look. How long can this maintain @MichealMartinTD ? This is an atrocious level of systemic dysfunction.
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Irish Examiner reports RN frigate and helicopter "chased off" a Russian submarine detected just outside the 12-mile limit off Cork Harbour. 🇮🇪 @defenceforces have no ASW capability
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@alancasey1 @JonWalters19 There are no medals for being a decent human being. I don't know why you'd expect anyone to have one.
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3 years
@imUrB00gieman With a hot take like that, I'd suggest you only have to go looking in the mirror if you want to find something pretty simple.
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@paulmurphy_TD Why am I not surprised that that should delight you?
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@TheOtherGordon The existence of NGOs that actually provide services to people is a testament to Govt. failure. They are picking up the slack left by Govt. All NGOs that provide services need to be kept. Not all NGOs provide services however. Some are simply advocacy bodies, such as the NWCI.
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@davidhedleytodd @campbellclaret If you care to read other comments you will see that others are being asked if they 'still have Downs Syndrome' while Dominic was asked if he still had Cerebral Palsy. Not sure how good your GP is, but mine certainly can't cure them conditions.
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@PaulByrne_1 @VirginMediaNews 40 years no parole, and stick him on the plane back to Brazil when he's done. No let off for good behaviour.
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@Nic21121970 Am going to blow your mind here and tell you no-one did. Human reality is that centres of wealth will always attract the poor. It doesn't require hands on levers. It's a natural human behaviour as old as time itself.
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@MickBarryTD @GMCManning No business owes anyone a good time unless they were contracted to provide one. Mick needs to cop on.
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@MrLukjit @kierancuddihy Ah no, it hasn't really. The clue is in the words.
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@griptmedia @fatima_gunning Le sigh. A journalist doesn't stand in the middle of the trouble. A journalist stands at the margins, observing and recording facts. Fatima, this has all the hallmarks of you wanting to be the story, not reporting the story.
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@hazechu This has all the bang of nobody can criticise a woman, Hazel. Not a good look. Just like Lynn yesterday.
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After today, clearly the unvetted males (and females) we have to worry about are all the white indigenous ones. Grown men and women hassling children is exactly the thing you would want to keep out of your country.
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@Turloughc @DavQuinn You're being dishonest Turlough. You know full well the opinion pages overflowed with pieces on the Aisling Murphy case, while there was precious little on the Moffet and Snee cases. A blind man on a galloping horse could see the difference in the coverage.
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@paulmurphy_TD And the Palestinian Ambassador Paul? The one that refused to condemn the attacks on 7/10? Her too, yes? Because you're all about neutrality? Right Paul? Right? Paul? Paul? Paul?
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@ElmaRyder That's a bit disingenuous. The Irish Times is an avowedly left wing news outlets. As objectionable as GRIPT can be, it's existence is largly down to the fact that radio and print media here feel no obligation to carry conservative viewpoints, and rarely do.
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2 years
@martinbeanz @LeoVaradkar The shifting isn't the problem Martin. Or that it might not have been his partner. They are private. Unfortunately, it attests to the his judgement, and his judgement is something which very much is the business of every citizen of the State, given he is soon to be Taoiseach.
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1 year
@irishexaminer Does the councillor honestly think the teen "accidentally" drove down an off-ramp? Really? The councillor needs to resign. He clearly hasn't the requisite sound judgement for the job.
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@CiaranCuffe Ciaran, please do not insult the electorate's intelligence. You are voting yes/yes because you are member of one of the parties that make up the Govt., and for you to do otherwise would amongst other things, give you a very real internal political problem.
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@ShaneBeattyNews @paulmurphy_TD @jenhoganjourno This is not about the child, and his needs. This is about the parents and their wants. Any parent who finds themselves putting themselves ahead of their child's needs, should take a long hard look in the mirror and consider their priorities.
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@Gabi_Chivas This your best buddy @paddycosgrave ?
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@EmerTheScreamer Well given that folks like you Emer, are now busy trying to increase abortion access above and beyond what was suggested in the Repeal debate, it would appear entirely accurate to state that people didn't know what they were voting for.
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2 years
@fatima_gunning They don't care. Ireland's post-catholics are still fighting the very thing they claim to not believe in anymore. A most peculiar phenomenon. Therapists would have a field day.
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@JohnOBrennan2 This is almost a frame for frame redux of the Downfall bunker scene for an Irish audience. Someone with the time should overlay the two.
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2 years
@Richard92915792 @the_fashionball Clickbait and the evils of it.
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3 years
@joesaward @AndyTails If last Sunday doesn't change your opinion about Masi's competence and lack thereof, Joe, nothing will. I had no strong opinions of the man and his job before last Sunday, and I cared not a jot whether Max or Lewis won. What I do care about is F1 not descending into WWFarce.
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@paulmurphy_TD More people were killed in Israel on Saturday than you had turn up today. More people were killed in Gaza today and yesterday, than you had turn up today. Your student politics view of the world is irrelevant Paul. Time to fold up the tent, go home, and get a real job.
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@BREAKZCODE1 @geoallison And there are ways and means of doing it. Rocking up to the ship talking in a language that is foreign to the visiting sailors is not going to get you the information that you are looking for. What it will get you is a publicity stunt. Which he achieved. Yay for him, the Gobshite
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@Dermcares @jordanbpeterson @Microsoft @Twitter If twitter thinks this is heavy, wait 'til they see the conversation had between end user DJP2021 and MS tech support - "...this archetypal matriarchal control, commonly currently referred to as helicopter parting needs to end MS! It is impinging on every endusers will to power!"
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@normcos The Holocaust, and the extent of the depravity of it, was not widely known about for much of the war. A bit unfair to blame a nation for not fighting something they didn't know about. It is fair to label neutrality as abjectly cowardly in the face of the known Fascism however.
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@Rubberbandits @PaulFeldstein Is this the latest version of "Be kind"?
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@paddycosgrave You've never been pictured with a colleague Paddy? Don't make me prove you wrong.
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@catherinegalway Peace cannot be built on injustice Catherine. And all your talk about peace is seeking to do just that. Enough already. Get Russia out of Ukraine.
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2 years
@frankmcdonald60 @BridgetGoulding @DubCityCouncil @Gilleeece @Emmett_Scanlon Have you totally lost the plot Frank? There is NOTHING redeemable about that building. Very few buildings from that era merit conservation. You would do well to remember that Dublin is a city for humans to live in. Not something for you to preserve and put on your mantlepiece.
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@glennpolley Just don't send out the lifeboats. It's not like he got there by accident. He endangered his own life. He does not get to endanger others'.
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3 years
@fesshole The fact that you are still processing this is remarkable.
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7 months
Have just seen two politicians (one Irish, one Scottish) make statements on and about Holocaust Day without once referencing Jews. What the hell is wrong with people?
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3 years
@bonsall_gary @karunchandhok Yes, that is an opinion.
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6 months
@LionChief101 Have I missed an episode or two of Ireland Inc. where everyone was off their heads on booze and gear and talking absolute shite? There is NO, NADA, ZERO, ZILCH, evidence of any kind of conversation about Ireland leaving the EU happening in Ireland.
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@SenatorKeogan Defending a facilitator of child porn is it now, Senator? Amazing the places a simplistic, binary, the enemy of my enemy is my friend view of the world, will take you, isn't it? Would you say you ever imagined yourself here at this lark, a few years ago?
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@therealmarilee You folks are consistent if nothing else: when push comes to shove you'll always use violence to get your way. Be advised, you will find inflicting violence on humans able to defend themselves a lot more difficult than inflicting it on those that can't (the way you usually go).
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@JamesMFKearney Ireland is not racist. Some elements of the population are, just like everywhere else. I'd be grateful if you didn't traduce my character, and that of many others, just so you can virtue signal to those of a like mind as yourself.
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@prolifejewess "ruin her future" Some folks hold everyone else in low esteem just so they can have an easy and quick get out clause for themselves. A child is never a problem. The problem always lies with the parents and the circumstances they've found themselves in, or put themselves in.
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2 years
@DavQuinn Yet again, David, A very not Christian take by you. There is one aggressor in this and all your energy seems to be spent trying to deny this fact. This war stops as soon as Russia goes home. It is that simple.
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@MikeyCycling On the plus side, it was three or four hours on the roads where everyone was safer from a cyclist who spends more time Miss Marpling other people's behaviour while stationary, than looking where he's going and generally conducting himself in an unsafe manner on public roads....
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@CormacMalo9204 You are clearly not across this issue. 1) It was an Israeli aircraft. 2) It didn't stop in Shannon. It over flew Ireland. 3) If the aircraft turned off it's transponder we wouldn't even know it's there. 4) Even if we knew it was doing something illegal, we couldn't stop it.
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@TomONeill_livin How did we help in a genocide, Tom? I'm intrigued.
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2 years
@SenatorKeogan They got paid good money for their trouble. And it was in their own interest to help keep us afloat. Remember that too Senator.
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3 years
@DHalpin9 @rtenews 14th richest country in the world. We CHOOSE not to look after our own.
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