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Retired public servant, commentator on public affairs, researcher

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@Michael08483429
Michael Clarke
4 months
@Editorialz If they reject the new campsite they should not be allowed to return to Mount Street. They were moved ahead of the Scotland match as well as Paddy's Day.
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Michael Clarke
3 years
At the British Embassy, Dublin, with some friends, for Julian Assange, 20 November 2021.
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‘Heated’ rows at Cabinet between those who caused the mess on asylum via @griptmedia . It was always going to come to this. A child could have predicted it.
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3 years
Attending a vigil for Julian Assange with a friend at the Australian Embassy, Dublin, on Saturday, 13th November 2021.
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Michael Clarke
2 years
What right has Peter McVerry to call for protesters to be criminalised? via @griptmedia . None at all but that is how corporate states operate. They are first cousin to fascist states (the real fascism, not the shouted about by @fotoole kind) @PMVTrust
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2 years
@AodhanORiordain Don’t be silly. It is natural (and indeed an act of good citizenship) for people to be concerned about the differences between Europe and the Islamic world and whether or not such differences can have tragic consequences.
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1 year
The immigration genie is out of the bottle and cannot be simply wished back in . My bugbear has always been emigration not immigration but we have a housing crisis. We must cap the number of refugees temporarily and migrants must come legally @GerardHowlin
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3 months
@Editorialz Answer: The HC Bill is a foreign policy measure. The Establishment, including the MSM, knows that it cannot get another EU treaty past the voters by democratic means so democracy will have to set aside. Harris is a federalist and, I suspect, ruthless. It’s as simple as that.
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8 months
@Editorialz It’s a good decision and one I’ve suggested on Twitter. In a State company, no one should be paid more than the boss, even if they are a “star”. The inflated salaries paid to the stars (some fairly mediocre) has been a significant factor in the culture of the station.
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3 months
@JohnOBrennan2 No you’re not. You are a citizen exercising the right to demonstrate and you are also right. Our immigration policy is a mess as we saw when @MlMcNamaraTD politely took HMcE apart at an Oireachtas Cttee @griptmedia
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Michael Clarke
6 years
RTE says abortion now legal "for the first time". Not true. Abortion was permitted in the past on medical grounds. Abortion on demand is now legal for the first time.
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1 year
@pmaceinri No, Piaras, there are many people who should answer for this starting with Cameron, Sarkozy and Hilary Clinton, who destroyed Libya and set in train many subsequent disasters. This was not our doing and it is wrong to place blame on anyone here.
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4 months
@GTCost One Cabinet member gave NGOs a warning about the consequences of their not supporting the referenda. The scale of annual Exchequer support for NGOs (€6b) is a now a major, but unreported, scandal other than by @griptmedia . Corporate state gone mad.
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1 year
@GabrielShipton @dfat @SenatorWong Julian is in a category known as political prisoner. The Australian Government should be moving heaven and earth to secure his freedom. One phone from @AlboMP to Joe Biden and Julian would be home within hours @TaraCleary13 @KellieTranter
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10 months
@pb4p They are doing what the MSM should be doing. Far right protestors don’t go to libraries to remove books. Concerned parents are protesting about inappropriate material in the junior sections of libraries, which they should not have to do @griptmedia
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Michael Clarke
5 months
@john_mcguirk That was a serious @ct of discourtesy to @Ben_Scallan to @griptmedia and to the media in general. It was very likely planned. I hope GRIPt follows up with the same questions at his next press conference until he answers them @NUJofficial
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1 year
@cultfree54 Good piece by @Tom_Slater_ . It is the same here. Johnson was evil personified but Sturgeon is a saint. It is all about Brexit, which is not acceptable to elites because letting the people decide on the major issues is no longer acceptable to elites @battleforeurope @fotoole
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Michael Clarke
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@OHanlonEilis It is one of the reasons why the large annual handouts to State-funded NGOs need to be investigated by @IRLDeptPER , @IRLDeptFinance , the C&AG and the Public Accounts Committee, and indeed others, including the media @TheCountessIE @cpkeena
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11 months
@Editorialz Ukrainian males of military age should be sent home as, apparently, the Poles are doing.
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Michael Clarke
2 years
At the British Embassy, Dublin, with Tom Crilly, Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA), Roger Cole, Chairman, PANA (holding the banner), and others, 18 May 2022 @PANAIreland @shannonwatch @IrishAntiWarMvt @assange_1 @afkeoghan @AfriPeace @CNDuk @AusEmbIre @BritEmbDublin
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Michael Clarke
5 years
@DanielJHannan I hope you contacted him about it and his head of faculty and/or Vice Chancellor too. That sort of behaviour to a child (or even her father) isn't on.
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Michael Clarke
10 months
@battleforeurope This was beginning to come into view before the war and will again when it ends, if it ends. After almost eighty years of a US military presence in western Eurasia it is time the US went home.
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Michael Clarke
5 years
Sovereignty can't be shared, Frank. We control our borders or we don't; our currency or we don't; our laws or we don't. If people want to surrender their sovereignty to a federation, fair enough. That is their right, but they can't be sovereign and not sovereign at the same time.
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5 years
@Michael08483429 You’re disingenuous there Michael. Nobody rules us, it’s shared sovereignty
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Michael Clarke
7 months
@patricej36 @libertystrikes2 No organisation has to explain its position to any Minister unless of course it is on the public payroll, which is perhaps what @rodericogorman is getting at. Corporate states are first cousin to fascist states @griptmedia @MarcPColeman @Casey5122dark
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Michael Clarke
3 years
With some friends outside the Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin, today, at the last of the four vigils for Julian Assange (in the current series). Some other good causes were also highlighted.
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Michael Clarke
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@griptmedia Good to see the editor of @griptmedia on @TonightVMTV . The nationality of the alleged assailant is in the public interest, not least because he was, I gather, scheduled for deportation but ended up getting Irish citizenship. How did that happen? @john_mcguirk @marie_sherlock
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Michael Clarke
1 year
@cultfree54 When core occupations in society “lose their way” you have to wonder where society is going.
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Michael Clarke
8 months
@TomClonan I honestly don’t know what Maynooth is referring to here. The Government has unsettled the country through the lack of a coherent and fair immigration policy. Solve that problem and the tension will subside.
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Michael Clarke
6 months
Government has lost the immigration debate – but does it matter? via @griptmedia . My guess is that, five years from now, all the parties will still be singing off the same hymn sheet about immigration but it will be a different hymn @john_mcguirk
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Michael Clarke
2 years
@michaelscat2 If he has another home to go he will go home after a while. If he hasn’t, he has now!
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Michael Clarke
1 year
@thejournal_ie I don’t think they were suggesting they were speaking fir the country although I dare say there is more support for them than there is for the current open door, open-ended policy, which is the cause of these understandable protests @SimonHarrisTD
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10 months
@Editorialz Like I say, I’m a licence payer and therefore a sucker. RTÉ should be floated off and invited to sink or swim. They would swim but in less fancy bathing costumes @cathmartingreen @DeptCultureIRL
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1 year
@rtenews RTÉ knows that this is nonsense so should publish/broadcast it with an appropriate explanation.
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Michael Clarke
7 months
@Editorialz Ronaldo doesn’t look too comfortable though.
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2 months
@SenatorMcDowell @IrishTimes This Orwellian approach to public policy is increasingly being adopted by European govts. A dangerous gap in trust is threatening to develop between govts. and people. Sadly, the MSM has all too often gone along with it @RonanMullen @Toibin1 @kevinbakhurst @Independent_ie
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@ThePhoenixMag She is the stand out candidate across all three EP constituencies @IrishTimes
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4 years
@GTCost Eamon Gilmore is the man who made the catastrophic error that has led to SF being the biggest party in the State by votes. Had Labour stayed out of government in 2011 they would now be where SF is today. Personal ambition trumped Labour's duty to their party and to the State.
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3 years
@JohnOBrennan2 It is essential that GRIPt be part of the national conversation. It is because we have, in essence, a one party state media (on many issues not just Covid) that the establishment is in danger of seeding a far right movement @john_mcguirk
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2 years
@Michael_O_Regan Is it because details of Musk’s private life were published by the station? I seem to recall some journalists being unhappy with details of LV’s private life being published.
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@Casey5122dark The failure of the political system to acknowledge immigration (until the Taoiseach did recently) could be a factor or it could be the hooliganism that seems to have deteriorated since Covid or a maybe a combination of both. The fear must be that it will not prove to be a one-off
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Michael Clarke
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@griptmedia He must live a very sheltered life, in a bubble, you might say. When the public wakes up to the billions handed out to NGOs every year (some badly in need of a moral compass), the row over Tubs.’ pay will pale into insignificance @Paschald @BrianStanleySF @mmcgrathtd
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8 months
Ireland and the fury of the cancelled . Another piece from outside IRL. They are coming thick and fast and clearly understand what is going on here. Our media needs to catch up @fergusfinlay
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Michael Clarke
3 months
@Editorialz Something needs to be done for sure, i.e., a new Minister for Justice @RTENewsAtOne
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Michael Clarke
5 months
@Ben_Scallan No, I think it’s fair to say that Roderick O’Gorman has some explaining to do.
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Michael Clarke
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@Ben_Scallan In corporate/fascist states, the State seeks to incorporate as much of the public square as it can (in our case through paying NGOs €6b a year - well done @griptmedia for publishing this) to shut down public debate. The public square is increasingly an echo chamber @NWCI
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Michael Clarke
5 months
@Editorialz The TV sacking of the former chair was the beginning of the end of the Govt. A defeat for a wording probably sought by O’Gorman, another Green, which would be another step on the way to anarchy, would hasten its end.
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@Casey5122dark Exactly. There is no right not to be misinformed. It is an elite invention (not just here but globally) to control the narrative. It is brazen. We will be relying on the courts to protect rights that elites want to curb @ElecComm @griptmedia @ICCLtweet @IrishTimes @rtenews
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Michael Clarke
8 months
Those Who Cry “Far Right” have no comprehension of what just happened in Dublin via @griptmedia . The next election is probably the only way we have to force the establishment to face reality. It might be denial all the way until then @davidjthunder
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10 months
@PaddyJManning Yes, the Government should recommend to them that they return home. Some danger there, probably, but at least they would be able to sleep in their own beds or, if not, beds in their own country.
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Michael Clarke
2 months
@RonanMullen Exactly. Even for a society as lost as ours, this is a shocker. No Dail scrutiny.
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Michael Clarke
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@JohnJCarvill What was significant, and I thought so at the time, was how few opinion polls there were in the last week or ten days of the campaign. I suspect that was not a co-incidence,
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@john_mcguirk I’m convinced a great many members of the Dail don’t want to be re-elected. I really mean that. Good decision by @MayoCoCo to cease Co-operation with @dcediy . The Government’s obsession with being the best boy in the EU class is the problem @Independent_ie @AodhanORiordain
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Michael Clarke
1 year
@michaelscat2 Bring him/her to the vet. An animal who won't eat usually has a problem.
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Michael Clarke
10 months
@Editorialz The relevant committees could invite her again. If she refuses, they could, I think, demand a second medical opinion (committees’ choice of doctor). If she refuses to be seen by the committees’ doctor, then the committees might then have certain options open to them.
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Michael Clarke
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@Editorialz She was humiliated by McNamara. It proved conclusively, for me, that Harris kept her in position to force the HC Bill through.
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@anliathluachra @JuneTobinMaher Yes, the reference to “racists” is entirely misplaced. It would have upset people a year ago but is now ignored. Everyone knows the difference between immigrants, duly processed and welcome, and fake asylum seekers trying to jump the immigration queue without papers.
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@jasonomahony @rtenews Voting rights are there to be used. It was wrong of @CharlesMichel to say that Orban should have kept silent about his decision to let the earlier decision go through. We must remember that Orban is the adult in the European political room @tconnellyRTE @NaomiOhReally
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@battleforeurope Impressive. Germany has to live with what it did but it cannot give Israel support, when such support is unwarranted, in an attempt to expedite its guilt. Other EU states must make that clear to Germany. What is happening is too serious @normanfinkelstein @dfatirl @GERMANYinIRL
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Michael Clarke
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@Editorialz Yes, it is reckless to sign up to the Pact.
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1 year
@michaelscat2 Bring her to the vet. She is probably in shock and needs some treatment.
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1 year
@dwilliam9940 No, it isn’t. NATO has demonstrated incredible arrogance towards Russia since 1991 (despite the UK taking in gazillions in dirty R money), culminating in the US-engineered Ukr War and the US destruction of the pipeline. So, yes, Putin might strike back @Telegraph @IoWBobSeely
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@philippilk It is beginning to be visible on the streets. I’m a lifelong supporter of immigration as opposed to emigration but immigration has to be managed and we do have a housing crisis at the moment.
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1 year
@rtenews Barrett was not there as a private individual, something he should have known @cultfree54
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Michael Clarke
1 year
@irishexaminer I think there is a typographical error in your headline. What, I presume you meant to say was that “(largely) state funded NGOs (who are part of the public service and know how their bread is buttered) are having a virtue signalling rally in Dublin today” @Mickcliff
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2 years
@MichaelNBarron I take it you don’t live in East Wall today. Your former neighbours have nothing to do with the far right. They are just concerned citizens as they should be.
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@anliathluachra Extraordinary. What has happened here is that the law is being ignored. Policy is being driven by extremists, who are going beyond the law and have the power to do so.
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Michael Clarke
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@griptmedia Any country could succumb to narco-terrorism or narco-caused state breakdown. We need to be careful. A weak state with a weak Government is easily exploited.
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@PeterPaulGuy It’s not rocket science. If a sensible approach had been adopted from the beginning most of the trouble would have been avoided.
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Michael Clarke
3 years
@devzoy @emzanotti Sadly, it is hard to disagree with this.
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1 year
@paulmurphy_TD There might be if NGOs did not get so much money from the Exchequer. Indeed, the scale of Exchequer support for NGOs is approaching (i.e., gone beyond) a scandal. It is going to become a political and campaigning issue.
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@PaddyJManning Varadkar and Coveney were, without doubt, the worse head of government/foreign minister combination since 1922.
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Michael Clarke
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@Aidan_Regan The Government, supported by the MSM and the entire Establishment, adopted a very aggressive approach to Brexit after the British referendum. It was obvious that the UK, which is a much stronger state than IRL, would wait for a payback moment. They have now found it.
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More PPS numbers issued to Ukrainians than Irish citizens in 2022 – including Irish births via @griptmedia . Sooner or later unstoppable force is going to meet immovable object.
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@griptmedia The reasons the Government wants to go full term are to enact the HC Bill and end the Triple Lock @PANAIreland
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@john_mcguirk @PatLeahyIT And not just the Hate Crime Bill. Other bizarre (or worse) policies, including in the gender area, need revisiting. The Exchequer-funded NGO sector is a problem. The three Govt. party leaders + Mary Lou, Ivana and HC have all been discovered to have feet of clay. All changed …?
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A low point in Irish diplomacy. Varadkar is a problem child and Coveney does not have the ability required of a foreign minister.
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@Editorialz Is the Government aware of this? I agree with you, by the way, about marriages between people from very different cultures. They can work but it takes a lot of trust, intelligence and give and take to make them work.
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With Elizabeth at a vigil for Julian Assange, Australian Embassy, Dublin, 11 February 2023, to coincide with a Carnival for Julian in London, also on 11 February @DEAcampaign @assange_1 @TaraCleary13 @dfatirl @AusEmbIre @irlembaustralia @IrishAntiWarMvt @IrishTimes @PANAIreland
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@IrishTimes A former President should behave with more decorum @PMaryMcAleese
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@DanielJHannan And reduce their salaries by 50% until they return to school. Same here.
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@ajamubaraka When you control the media, you control the narrative and when you control the narrative you control what people think. If Joe Goebbels was around today he would be mightily impressed by how the Western powers that defeated Nazism have copied it since 1945.
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Dutch farmers' party secures landslide victory  @UnHerd . Lesson here: Short cuts by Governments won’t be tolerated. Nor will sectors perceived as easy targets (while, say, mass tourism continues) accept their status @Bozstar @think_or_swim
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@pmaceinri They are not haters and racist, Piaras, just your fellow citizens who are much put upon by the Govt. Someone criticised the Government today for not acting fast enough to deal with refugees. In fact, they acted too quickly. They didn’t give themselves time to think it through.
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@AnMailleach Someone is going to have to break ranks in the media and point out that the way out of this is not Level 5 (or 50) but to let the virus run. The death toll over two years will be the same as over ten but without the collateral damage @PatLeahyIT
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@BenLowry2 Irish criticism of the UK is (perhaps subconsciously) a way of avoiding having to face up to our own problems. We need a Freudian expert here @laineydoyle
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@cultfree54 The Os should have walked out. I saw people doing it. I stopped coming to Edinburgh. I hope the Os sent a stiff letter to the @edfringe when they got home. Too many shows, too expensive, no quality control, many with zero artistic content and now woke control @edintfest @DCMS
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@DavQuinn It was what I would have expected from @rtenews but I expect better from @kevinbakhurst so I hope he reviews what was a blatantly one-sided piece.
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@MichaelPTKelly It is probably also fair to say though that many Jews would not accept a family member marrying a gentile.
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1 year
Hemingway: New bombshell discoveries reveal how Facebook CEO Zuckerberg helped swing 2020 election for Democrats #FoxNews . Her book took the breath away from everyone who read it, which is why nobody heard about it @TuckerCarlson @MZHemingway
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@AodhanORiordain @thejournal_ie Leave literature alone.
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