The dirty little secret in Ireland is there is a huge cohort of Irish voters that love that house prices are going up and rents going through the roof - This system did not happen by accident.
Just been for walk by coast – absolutely packed, large groups everywhere. No masks no social distancing. Small speed boat passed with 12 lads belting out “Sweet Caroline” at top of lungs.
Seems many have decided
#Level5
is over.
#Gov
has lost the dressing room.
Michael Martin, Irish Taoiseach stood up in the Irish parliament today and declared the Irish “banks were NOT bailed out” -
It is truly extraordinary that politicians will literally say anything and there are no consequences - the pixies will still vote for them
We're at the "lets all pretend" to be shocked stage of the
#Beacon
story.
Tomorrow is the "lessons have to be learnt" , "lets do a report" phase.
Wash, rince, repeat.
#HowIrelandWorks
It looks like a major blunder by
@MichealMartinTD
regarding the Shane Ross book, likely he will need to apologise to
#RTE
, could be end of him as
#FF
leader. What a shocking use of Dail time with so many other issues, and to get it so wrong is embarrassing.
Fianna Fáil TD
@JMcGuinnessTD
says he is aware of a US manufacturer willing to supply Ireland with extra
#COVID19
vaccaine but Irish Gov has refused to engage.
This is utter madness and financially reckless.
The Irish banking system is supposed to work to oil our economic system not act as a giant leach sucking the lifeblood from it - we have learnt absolutely nothing from financial crisis.
I See headlines that bank shares plummeted due to “fears of
#Sinnfein
“
To put in contest AIB shares have fallen over 50 % “ under Fine Gael” in last 18 months !
Wondering why the body count keeps going up in
#Italy
? Just spoke to morgue owner there -inundated,overflowing with corpses - he says the young people just will not self isolate and continue to meet and congregate -Major lesson to learn
The dirty little secret many don’t seem to get regarding Ireland’s 12.5 % Corporate Tax rate is co’s don’t actually pay that rate and if increased to 15% they won’t pay that rate either.
The tax planning firms that write our laws have made sure of that
Just spoke to somebody paying an unbelievable 4% on their variable rate mortgage.(If they fix the bank offered 3.5%)
This price gouging of customers simply has to stop.
If banks do not act to help save this economy they must be forced to do so
#Lagarde
on
#Irish
TV tonight, with inflation roaring and EU economy heading into recession, will anybody ask her how she ( and her Irish economist) has been so wrong with their analysis ?
#NoChance
#LateLateShow
Ah sure how are you enjoying Ireland? Ah sure aren’t you lovely
It is crystal clear the quicker and more decisively we act now the less damage we will do to the long term economy and society. Any hesitation now will be fatal.
#coronavirus
One chilling aspect of last week’s Health press briefing was the attempt by new spin doctor of
#stephendonnelly
to muzzle journalists from asking legitimate Q's – very worrying development.
#ExitPoll
Ireland : So why ya vote for
#Green
Party ?
Well ya see last time their incompetence bankrupted the country so I thought they deserved another lash.
#EUelections2019
Just spoke to biz woman facing short term difficulty who asked AIB Friday for forbearance - NO, Payment holiday - NO,was told if money was not paid promptly would be in Default - thriving biz just
#coronavirus
issues
It is extremely worrying that
#leovaradcar
, (regardless of ure politics)the 2nd in command of the country, believes it appropriate to spend the morning on
#twitter
slagging off the opposition, especially with many likely to lose their jobs later today
DO YOUR JOB
Antidotal evidence suggests those who used to consume Irish mainstream media news / current affairs have either switched off completely or scaled back aggressively.
Ires Reit owns 3,666 apartments and made profit of 86 Million Euro in 2019 - It bought nearly 1000 apartments last year.
I wonder what coalition they would like to see ???
Just spoke to employee of USA financial firm based in Dublin, they have been instructed to disregard Irish Gov advice and report to the office full time, co outlined they not going back to employees working from home, if asked employees are to say they are essential workers
Maybe before launching
#Ireland2040
we should look back all all previous reports and see why they did not achieve their goals.
We do glossy brochures and "consultants" reports like no other - The Circus rolls on.
I am sorry but this message is simply not strong enough
#latelate
- in fact I would suggest it is completely counterproductive.
Suggesting that “in the main” people are doing enough is a “false” reassurance
627 people died TODAY in Italy
People arriving into Ireland are receiving confusing and contradictory
#COVID19
health advice on restricted movements. This needs to be rectified immediately.
Health Spokesperson:
@ColmBurkeTD
Read more:
Each and every person landing by flight from UK should be tested on landing - We are borrowing many billions to support the economy, that we have not set up a system to do this is embarrassing
#brendanrte
If your blood pressure can handle it , it worth watching
#RTEInvestigates
#rtept
to understand how dysfunctional our public bodies are. This excellent show tonight on
#OPW
sums up exactly
#HowIrelandWorks
. We can do so much better.
SF's light-touch attitude to public health is a risk to us all. Been responsible for slow decision-making, poor leadership and divided government in Northern Ireland on Covid 19. Let’s not allow their approach south of the border.
Pretty puzzling schooling is the number one priority yet teachers will get no priority in the
#vaccine
queue.
Gutting for special needs teachers and their parents particularly.
#Gov
shooting itself in foot once more - losing teachers cooperation must be a huge possibility
Ireland Consumer electricity prices are designed to confuse and hoodwink the general public - other industries would be fined and sanctioned for such practices but in Ireland they are reported without critical analysis as “good news”.
As sure they’re falling, isn’t it great
One very strong reaction coming from
#Italy
is that they have been let down by the rest of Europe, especially France and Germany- they feel only the Chinese have helped - this may have huge consequences for Eu project
#Level5
or
#level3
is a false argument. Without sanctions, fines, enforcement those who disregard rules will continue to do so whatever the level. - While compliant businesses shuttered, lives ruined.
The new Irish political game :
Gov party TD’s, when being interviewed, pretend to be opposition TD’s and call on the Gov to do things. That way they can be in Gov and in opposition negating the need to ever interview the actual opposition.
#Genius
#DaraCalleary
it must be noted has NOT resigned as deputy leader of Fianna Fail nor as a TD - the plan will be to lie low for awhile then get reappointed at a later date - he will be back
#liveline
It a real shame
#Vinb
not still presenting , he the only one brave enough to take on the
#INM19
story.
The silence from other presenters is disturbing.
Just spoke to small biz owner with shuttered business - 8k went out today to pay monthly insurance on closed business - he asked does his "business continuity insurance" not kick in - Insurance co : NO - Fu$k you, pay me.
In Ireland many “associations”, charities + “bodies’ have been pillaged +used as personal slush fund by those who ran them , in all cases the pixies are “shocked”, perpetrators always keep the money and often win more in the courts
This is how Ireland works
2012, new national children’s hospital expected cost €404 mil.
Time of contract €485 million.
2 yrs ago, when an application for planning permission €650 million.
Now E 1.4 Billion estimate.
The circus rolls on
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Imagine 572 jabs were available for our most vulnerable yesterday and they were not administered-
Did nobody in
#HSE
think with 40% not turning up maybe we have another major F
#ck
up on our hands
#Germany
secured 30 million doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine in September, violating the EU's vaccination strategy banning countries from conducting parallel negotiations.-Politico
"A Danish bank has launched the world’s first negative interest rate mortgage – handing out loans to homeowners where the charge is minus 0.5% a year."
( Guardian)
FFS
#Ireland
: 37% of drinking water nationally, and 33% in the Greater Dublin Area, is lost to leaks before it ever reaches our taps.
I cannot believe setting up a
#quango
did not solve this problem !
It clear collapse in
#green
vote EU wide can be attributed to attaching bottle tops and carton tops to the unit making them impossible to break off - driving everybody completely bonkers.
#ALittleKnownFact
Presume our surge testing
#covid
team and our rapid emergency response
#covid
swat testing team will immediately swarm Offaly and Donegal as numbers have spiked .....ah sure why would we ? Sure we’ve only had a year to prepare.
"At the moment, electricity bills are still around 70% to 80% above pre energy crisis levels and are among the highest in the EU. So although the levy will only be just over €40 a year including VAT, it’s adding to bills at a difficult time."
Irish Football association, Irish Farmers association, Irish Cancer society, Irish Rehab group ………The Circus rolls on ....Ah sure what can ya do..........Ah Sure , ah sure
No surprise, totally understandable people getting out to enjoy the weather, but it clear public has had enough and will do their own thing now, what
#NPHET
or
#Gov
announce is becoming less relevant. Many have decided
#Level5
is over.
I realize this is very un PC and maybe even anti-Irish but this year’s toy show is poor.
As an escape from
#Covid
why mention it every 30 sec’s , and what happened to the toys on the toy show.
#LateLateToyShow
#IWillBeCancelled
Big news:
Ireland “hopes”to administer 2% the number of vaccine’s that Israel is able to achieve each day - we’ll be starting this “huge” effort next week
#WeCanDoBetter
Great news for National Children's Hospital
#NCH
, now project can be stopped and moved to a better location- fair play to
#BAM
for helping , now stop the madness and move and build the fecking thing in a better place, it will be cheaper in long run
#Sweden
’s growing problem with gang shootings and bombings risks damaging the country’s long-term economic potential, its central bank chief has said.
I will discuss this important story regarding
#Irish
#banks
fleecing their depositors on
@NTBreakfast
at 6.50 am Monday with
@JoeBLynam
Their behaviour needs to be dealt with severely- Irish banks never miss an opportunity to do the wrong thing.
After categorically rejecting calls to recall Dail, Taoiseach has relented but has now dug a bigger hole by doing it half-arsed once more, delaying it for another two weeks.
The Dail should be recalled immediately as
#SocialDemocrats
and
#SinnFein
are calling for.
Anybody who believes the
#HSE
will be able to cope in Ireland if we get a
#coronavirus
outbreak should re listen to PBH RTE Radio 1 News report just after 6 pm - shambolic first response to a potential threat
#leovaradkar
: please do not travel outside of Dublin but you can go on holidays anywhere on the green list
The reason being these countries have lower case numbers - with that logic Dublin people should travel to other counties as THEY have lower numbers
#Rtept
Costs for new children's hospital are now simply out of control - we have learnt nothing from the crisis, our system is even more captured by "insiders".
The Circus Rolls On
This Irish
#AstraZeneca
vaccine decision has massive economic consequences, permanently erode confidence in this vaccine.
More job losses and businesses eventually going to the wall- made by those who will not be affected economically by the decision.
Our health service is disfunctional because there is so much money to be made in a system designed that way - follow the 17 E Billion per year - the
#HSE
is working exactly how vested interests want it to work
#WakeUp
#Marian
The numbers of dead in Italy from
#coronavirus
continue to be above 500 per day relentlessly, hardly a word spoken about them now - people are immune to the numbers
So incredibly tragic
#RIP
Re
#Ireland
inc :I see the populist,naive “spend more money” crowd out in force today.
If we spent 6 B on the new children’s hospital instead of 3 they would be happier.
Until we address HOW we spend money nothing will change
Spending more does NOT lead to better outcomes