My sister-in-law is a Northern Irish Presbyterian. She says many of her friends would now vote for a United Ireland as they have more in common with a centrist, generous & outward looking Ireland than they do with Brexit Britain.
Brexit broke the Union. And the DUP backed it.
My aunt got v. ill last night. CareDoc arrived in 20 mins & she was rushed to hospital. They diagnosed a fatal problem they could not fix. So transferred her to another hospital 75 miles away. Surgical team waiting & 5 hours later she’s OK.
She’s 89.
This is a great country.
Baby born last Tuesday. By Friday nurses alarmed he wasn't gaining weight. X-ray revealed ill-formed oesophagus which would quickly be fatal.
Rushed to Temple St, 6 hr operation.
Now fine.
We have a 1st world health service that NEVER gets the praise it deserves.
Shameful.
Sick of this shit already.
Engineers travel to the desert for money. Then come home and carry on.
Without whingeing. The rules on increments for teachers aren't ambiguous.
Don't blame someone else for not doing your homework.
7:00am flight. Airport 16km.
Options:
23 min drive, €49 Taxi, €78 Uber or
3:45AM Bus from Ranelagh.
Tried hard not to choose drive.
I'm driving.
Who wouldn't
@EamonRyan
?
For 30 years Ireland was united in revulsion at IRA violence. Patriots of all persuasions despised them.
We must not let SF rewrite their own horrible history.
The Irish don't flee to Australia because it's a great country.
They go there because we are appalling at foreign languages.
Everything people like about Australia can be had in Europe.
With added culture.
Ray D'arcy earns more from RTE for hosting an afternoon radio chat show than Laura Kuensberg earned from the BBC as Political Editor.
Who's going to poach Ray?
Doubt anyone is interested in the experience of someone with 2 small children living 200m from the tents.
It'll only annoy you because it won't make you angry.
I've 2 sons in Trinity. Both support 🇵🇸
Neither has any time for their Student Union. Nor do their friends.
It's a performative cult where a few get paid to further their own career while not giving a flying fuck about anyone else's.
My brother, the only Catholic at a bbq in Northern Ireland last week asked how people would vote in a border poll.
7/12 Protestants said they'd vote for a United Ireland.
Nationalism needs 1 in 9. Once.
Unionism needs 9 in 9. Every time.
A bookie would pay out.
Leo's right.
A scandal in Britain is when their Chancellor pays £5m in unpaid taxes and penalties.
In Ireland a scandal is when the Finance Minister borrows a van.
We would bewilder the world if the best performing EU economy elected organised criminals to raise our standards.
So we won’t.
Gript is ranked 49th most visited News & Media website in Ireland.
Yet they get thick when not invited to ask a question at a press conference?
They shouldn't be accredited to attend.
IGNORED: Taoiseach Leo Varadkar walks out of a press briefing as
@Ben_Scallan
is mid-sentence asking about government ministers spreading referendum misinformation.
SF will introduce a €400 Second Home charge. They say it will bring in €308m.
Meaning SF think there are 770k 2nd homes in Ireland.
Can you smell it yet?
The Real IRA who bombed Omagh have far more in common with the Provisional IRA who bombed Enniskillen than either of them have with the IRA of Michael Collins.
SF know this.
They just think their base are too thick to work it out.
So far they're right.
In relation to the controversy around Minister Donohoe's election expenses,
@mattcarthy
says it is a "reason why so many people have lost faith in the political system"
Rebroadcast tonight at 22:00 on RTÉ News Channel and 23:10 on
@RTEOne
#RTETWIP
I’ve a fair amount of experience of the rental market as a tenant & small landlord.
When I first moved to Dublin I’d have been homeless if it wasn’t for the availability of cheap dingy bedsits that are no longer allowed because of regulation and standards set by the smug.
Up de ‘RA isn’t the win SF think it is. It won’t stop now. Just grow. The noise of this will drown all policy.
For years they’ve told us all to move on from the past while they glorify it.
As David Cullinane said, you can’t be SF if you’re not Up De ‘RA.
Own goal.
When talking to your census enumerator bear in mind what SF/IRA did to this one & how they still celebrate those who did it as heroes. Hopefully the feeling will stay with you all the way to the ballot box.
SF members have done time for murder, kidnapping, torture, robbery, drug dealing, smuggling, spying & tax evasion since the GFA.
So when did they stop?
Sinn Féin has ‘no links’ to criminality, says health spokesperson
"Apparently he read a book once":
Paschal & Paddy studied for the same degree in the same university.
One got there via the most expensive boarding school in Ireland.
The other via a scholarship & CBS Cabra.
Selective memory indeed.
My choice for the next leader of
@FineGael
is Paschal O’Dodgy. O’Dodgy had no idea how all his posters got put up in the last election. And that’s just the type of selective memory that makes him right for the job. Oh and apparently he read a book once.
The “premature explosion” also killed an 18 y/o boy but SF don’t count him. The “mature bomb” was meant for a pub full of Protestants on Christmas Eve.
There’s only 1 SF and this is it.
Remembering Volunteers Brendan Quinn and Eddie Grant who died in a premature explosion on this day 24th December, Christmas Eve 1973
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anam
The SF Ard Feis gave a standing ovation to the man who killed a Garda. And then expelled him for beating his wife.
They have a different moral compass to the rest of us.
Or none.
‘No comparison’ between IRA and gangland violence - Mary Lou McDonald
Considering Zombie was written to express our collective revulsion at the Warrington bomb that killed 2 boys this is quite the take.
Those of us who remember that sense of revulsion won't ever allow either the Provos or the Neo Plastic Provos rewrite our history.
What has 'zombie' got to do with Ireland, a song mocking the men and women of Easter week and telling the nationalist people of the 'six counties' it was all in their head....sorry not for me but sums up an element of the Irish rugby support ....
When the Royal Family became aware Prince Andrew had sex with a 17 y/o they removed him from public life immediately.
When SF became aware Liam Adams raped his daughter they did nothing for 22 years.
True story.
Earn €18k per year in Denmark and pay 26% income tax.
Earn €18k in Ireland and be among the 35% who pay no income tax whatsoever.
Good luck getting them to pay their share Joe!
I've said it many times - SF's blind loyalty to 🇵🇸ISIS will cost them dearly.
When push comes to shove the Irish care deeply what the world thinks of us.
And the world outside of SF HQ hasn't the stomach for Hamas.
On April 7th 2023 The Ditch lodged an Annual Return with CRO where one director gave a property he was forced to vacate in January 2023 as his home address.
SF "Solidarity Tax" of 3% on earnings over €140k:
About 30k people earn over €140k. SF say this tax will bring in €386m.
Or, €13k per worker earning over €140k.
If 3% = €13k then SF think the AVERAGE income of these 30k people is €570k.
Can you smell it?
Up Fintan, who speaks for the 98% of us who wouldn’t vote SF then & the 67% of us who won’t now either as they gaslight us about those horrible days.
Fintan O’Toole: The full, unexpurgated version of ‘Up the ‘Ra’
Today the Irish Women apologised for singing a song a SF govt would praise them for singing. We know this because they sing it themselves.
The biggest change a SF govt bring us is to our reputation.
Show me a country that hasn’t the same problems as Ireland and I’ll show you a country with much bigger problems.
Think Ireland is shit? What country do you want us to be like?
I remember friends in the 80s heading to the US to work on a holiday visa wouldn't pack winter clothes in case their bags were searched.
Migration is human.
We didn't demonise migrants when we were them.
And we didn't call Americans racists for not letting us in.
I will have 3 children in university next year. If SF get their way all 3 must take a year out as the house we bought for this purpose is confiscated by the State.
SF won’t reduce homelessness. Just change who is homeless.
Closing the economy to new entrants hammers the young.
Govt must extend the eviction ban.
Join the
@RTRHomesForAll
protest at the Dáil on Tuesday March 21st at 5pm.
E-mail all your local TDs & urge them to support the SF motion calling for the eviction ban to be extended.
The party that has No Confidence in the Minister for Justice rose in a standing ovation for a man who murdered a Garda, then expelled him for wife-beating.
If you ever wondered how your life would work out if you bailed from school before your Junior Cert have a listen to Anto.
The nasty tend to be thick. They can't help that.
SF will talk about “standards” a lot this week.
So here’s a double standard:
When Pearse McAuley got 12 years for beating up his wife SF said it was too lenient.
When Pearse McAuley got 14 years for shooting a Garda dead SF demanded he be released 9 years early.
True story.
Odd headline. This trial has told SF nothing they didn’t already know.
IRA involvement in organised crime as obvious as the balls on a dog for decades.
Vote SF. Get Slab.
Trial evidence makes uncomfortable listening for Sinn Féin
Of all the dumb reasons people are supporting SF, outrage with the national debt is the most farcical.
Not even SF have committed to reducing it. Though if there’s a vote in it they’ll promise that too.
And uniting Ireland would make our current debt feel like a car loan.
This country has thrived over the last 25 years. If you think it’s a kip then you’ve never known one.
Ireland was indeed a kip over the previous 25 years. Which so happens to coincide with when SF had most influence over our life.
And for many, their death.
Mary-Lou’s demand of consultation with communities before sending immigrants there is a pivot to support immigrants the same way they support housing.
“Yes” in theory. “Not here” in practice.
SF keep referring to 2 parties as 1. Except when an opinion poll comes out and they want to say they’re the largest party.
Now that Mary-Lou has said her preference is coalition with PBP I’ll refer to SF as SF/PBP from now on.
It’s what a vote for either is going to give you.
Every conversation with my son on his CAO form begins "if we get our house back".
That we have to say that about our own house, rented for 1 yr is ridiculous.
Today is SF's last chance to confiscate our house because we will NEVER rent it again.
Next Erasmus it stays empty.
I know many will argue that every hospital must have every available skill for whatever time of day or night it is needed.
However, in the real world there’s no such thing as Santa Claus and we do what we can.
We don’t do everything. But we do loads.
Calling an IRA murderer a hero one day, calling Paschal Donohue corrupt the next.
SF are drowning in illgotten gains.
What other political party in the world buys buildings?
In relation to the controversy around Minister Donohoe's election expenses,
@mattcarthy
says it is a "reason why so many people have lost faith in the political system"
Rebroadcast tonight at 22:00 on RTÉ News Channel and 23:10 on
@RTEOne
#RTETWIP
It’s strange to see people criticise Eoin O’Broin - have ye forgotten or did ye never know?
You can’t be for SF & for the Gardai.
You never could. Ask any Garda.
Every week an official SF account honours those who died murdering others. If Mary-Lou wants us all to only look forward she must put a stop to it.
But the men who went to jail don’t take orders from the woman who went to Notre Dame des Missions.
Vote SF. Get Slab.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has refused to condemn IRA attacks on security forces in Northern Ireland, saying that “refighting battles” does not achieve a lot.
Might take a while before SF realise that the rules are for them too. They’re not used to games like that.
Contradictions in Sinn Féin’s financial statements being investigated by Sipo
If our level of corruption is now a councillor not absenting himself from a unanimous vote 16 years ago then The Ditch has commercial reasons to need a change of govt.
This well is running dry.
Hang in there lads - the next is going to be a gusher!
SF today: Provos = Old IRA.
SF 2014:
"We have a message for the British Government, for the Irish Government: we haven't gone away, you know."
The old IRA fought to ensure the expressed democratic wish of the Irish people was respected.
The Provos did the very opposite.
SF Housing Policy:
"100% redress no less for Donegal."
= Inflated labour costs.
But they'll reduce the average house price by 32%.
Are SF supporters as thick as SF think they are?
What a month looks like for 2 people working on 6 month placements in Ireland & Germany:
Ireland:
€2165 gross.
€2078 net.
€465 rent.
Germany:
€2300 gross.
€1670 net.
€435 rent.
If you think 1m workers paying €0 income tax is sustainable you'll fix nothing.
Top 7.7% of earners now paying more than half all Irish income tax and USC.
Top 10 multinational groups account for 60 per cent of corporate income tax.
This level of concentration is insane, and the extreme opposite of fiscal responsibility.
I’m glad Lynn liked this abuse.
Lynn is a Dub married to a Dub & went to UCD.
She confirms that SF are a party for the Dubs & have no idea what those who don’t live near a university have to do for their children to be able to get what she hopped on a bus to get.
This "corrupt govt" nonsense is getting very close to the "drain the swamp" MAGA rednecks ruining the USA.
We all have them. And they're an embarrassment.
Richest 20% of people in Ireland had 4 times the income of the poorest 20% in 2022
Up from 3.8 times in 2021
Ireland has a major problem with worsening inequality & deprivation
Were becoming a more divided country
Unequal societies are bad for everyone
Major policy shift needed
Sinn Féin housing spokesperson
@EOBroin
tells
@morningireland
Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
@Paschald
is not owed an apology after it emerged Sinn Féin did not declare expenses for several events |
When I first moved to the town I now live in I was warned to keep my opinions about SF to myself.
We may chose to elect a cult. But let’s not deny what SF are.
If de ‘RA really were gone Uptown Girl Mary Lou wouldn’t justify them the way she does.
Vote SF. Get Slab.
Scoop from
@fionnansheahan
: The alleged shocking calls made by Sinn Féin activist to Fine Gael TD – ‘You’re a c***. With Sinn Féin coming into power, I will f***in’ go after you’
I got suddenly very ill last week. Got to see on-call GP at 3:00AM, then my own GP later that day.
It can take 2 weeks to get a phone call with a GP in Britain.
Our wish to have an Irish NHS is a national inferiority complex.
Be careful what you wish for.
Just a former health secretary openly calling for £20 charges per GP visit & £66 per trip to A&E.
This has always, always been the government’s NHS agenda. Outsource, privatise, make you pay (again).
Anyone seriously believe Sunak doesn’t want the same?
How much of young tax payers money should SF spend backdating payments for things that happened before young tax payers were born for services no tax payer alive will get?
Can’t @ them to ask because SF & their Presidente have blocked me, being the democrats I know them to be.
SF opposed joining, opposed allowing former Soviet countries joining, opposed the single market that removed the customs border in Ireland & opposed the Euro.
They even campaigned for Irexit once.
Eurosceptism was invented by SF.
"Up here we sacrifice our children
To feed the worn-out dreams of yesterday
And teach them dying will lead us into glory..."
Is Paul Brady's The Island next on the Plastic Provo's banned list?
@castlvillageman
It’s another border that will end up in the Irish Sea & the DUP supported it because it would hurt nationalists more than them.
The reality of the Bill will only dawn on the bigots when they have to bring their passports to get to a Rangers game.
My niece among them.
She had a good job. Own apartment. A degree & no debt.
She decided she wanted to see the world so moved to Aus for a worse job so is back in a house share.
She knows she will walk into a job when she comes home.
Typical SF to paint success as failure.
The equivalent of the population of Sligo Town or Letterkenny have left Ireland to work in Australia in just ONE year. This is the cost of the utter Government failure to make rent and housing affordable for our young people!
Much of the fascist
#IrelandIsFull
activity is driven by SF's former comrades in the New IRA. It shows that the journey from hard-left to hard-right doesn't cross the centre.
Very Sorcha O'Carroll-Kelly for a woman who went to Alexandra College to use the term "Comrade".
The Left in Ireland is stuffed with bored middle class guilt.
Under a FF led government Pearse McAuley served 10 years for killing a Garda.
It's a verifiable fact that under any SF led govt he would not have served a day for that crime.
Times change. People don't.
Vote SF. Get Slab.
Anyone wondering why serious media don't jump on a 🏴☠️ bandwagon have short memories.
Paddy Cosgrave apologises to INMO and HSE after tweeting four nurses died from Covid-19
Between 2016 & 2022 the population of Ireland grew by 400k.
Yet the population of Roscrea dropped over the same period.
Tells you all you need to know about the town is full of.
SF purged their website of previous support for Russia after they invaded Ukraine.
Purging their support for Hamas will be more difficult.
The Sinn Féin formula on the Middle East? Talk to Hamas, boycott Israel
Where would she be if the performative motion to expel the 🇮🇱 ambassador carried?
Any TD that voted to make an 🇮🇪 passport less valuable for their own sake is dangerous.
Fantastic news. After 50 days in captivity, 9-year-old, Israeli-Irish Emily Hand is on her way home after being seized on October 7th by Hamas. Emily was released as part of a deal under which 50 Israeli children, mothers and elderly women are to be freed over a 4-day period,