Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail combined support is 45%.
Percentage of voters who would prefer a SF/FF coalition is 11%.
That is most significant dynamic for the general election.
Quite upset yesterday over how we shut down our city for American football.
I want to live somewhere that loves all who live there.
We have a country that exists as a playground for multinational corporations and American dollars.
I wish our city was for people, not power.
Several Sinn Fein candidates privately acknowledging that party "leader" Mary Lou's erratic media performances, general unpopularity and hysterical demeanor have hampered their election efforts. Expected to be a busy few days in store for Belfast party leaders.
#LE24
When Garda killer Pearse McAuley was released it was Sinn Fein who collected him from jail.
When he tried to kill his estranged wife Pauline Tully TD it was the Gardai who came to her aid.
She is absolutely shameless.
Blaming the guards - many of whom were injured, one seriously. Who will be back out on the streets tonight and every other night.
She is not fit to lead. Not fit to speak on our behalf. A disgrace.
@HollyCairnsTD
It's custom to set aside political rivalries for a short period and wish a person well when they leave office. This is a particularly classless and poorly judged response. 👎
@DarnelSugarfoo
Also have you noticed that planes in the sky are tiny but planes on the ground are huge. But when you're on a plane in the sky you don't feel the effects of the secret government shrinking rays. Weird.
Mary Lou absolutely rattled. I hope prospective Sinn Fein voters will be pushing for the answers she refused to give Brian Dobson. Claiming she hasn't seen and of her TD's dozens of tweets about Hamas - spoofer.
If you're a columnist with a Sunday paper writing about Robert Troy's properties and you fail to mention Johnny Guirke. If you have an issue with Troy being privately educated and you fail to mention Mary Lou, Paul Murphy et al.
We see you.
When Sinn Fein deleted hundreds of Russia related articles from their website it wasn't because they had changed their position. It was so they could hide what their position is.
Anti-EU, pro-Russia.
@KCsixtyseven
Pros: Most capped player. Leading goalscorer. Former Captain. Asst manager under Mick McCarthy a few years ago. Just won a league trophy in his first season as a manager. Last 16 in a European competition.
Cons: Failed to bring a lasting peace to the middle East. Dublin accent.
Pearse Doherty has been the SF finance spokesman since December 2010.
For reference one month later Andy Carroll signed for Liverpool.
In truth Pearse has been a shadow of his former self for a long time but yesterday was a new low. A grey, tired relic, stuck on repeat.
Mary Lou McDonald successfully blocks 1,600 homes in her own constituency. I hope people remember this when SF come looking for your vote in a couple of months.
@StreathamRovers
Club management sucking up to Americans, meanwhile season ticket holders have to deal with the sickening stench of urine from the home dugout every matchday. Obviously
#RIP
.
28 years to the day since Gerry McCabe was murdered in cold blood by IRA criminals. Please think of him today when you decide how to cast your vote - particularly in the Limerick Mayoral election. Send a message that we will never hand over our democracy to his killers.
Sinn Fein and Mary Lou are taking an absolute hiding here and no surprise. Really makes you wonder what
@SocDems
were thinking rowing in behind this ridiculous stunt.
We shouldn't forget that Mary Lou McDonald's best buddy Jonathan Dowdall visited Pearse McAuley FOURTEEN times in prison as a trusted SF messenger between the Hutch drug cartel and the IRA.
Richard Boyd Barrett screaming for intifada in Israel AND Ireland.
Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Fein sharing pictures of a single homeless individual and falsely calling him a threat to children in Parnell Sq. Trying to stir up a lynch mob.
This is your alternative government.
Irish politician Richard Boyd Barrett on the streets of Dublin today: Israel is a "filthy colonial regime"... we must "resist it, bring it down." The only answer, he says, is
#intifada
. Rhetoric like this could be plucked straight out of
#Ramallah
or
#Jenin
. Baffling that this is
@thejournal_ie
Mary Lou's best buddy Dowdall visited him 14 times in prison. Martin Ferris collected him from prison. Pauline Tully read out his prison letters to the SF Ard Fheis. Gerry Adams demanded his early release. You all gave him a standing ovation. They put a tricolour on his coffin.
@TullMcAdoo
When she was asked how she would fund billions of extra spending and cuts to carbon taxes etc she was quick to point out that the State is overflowing with money. About 30 seconds after she had been insisting that FFG had driven the country into the ground. Which is it Mary Lou?
This was sent to me by a disgruntled Sinn Fein candidate.
Party discipline has broken down entirely - people talking about running as Independents or with the Soc Dems.
Talk of not handing over anymore of their salaries to party HQ.
#LE24
Mary Lou in RTE radio right now. She really doesn't like being questioned on anything. Very prickly, reminiscent of Brian Cowen at the end of his tenure.
Josh Brophy, possession of a knuckle duster. Bailed.
Reeves Fox, possession of knives. Bailed.
Keith Devine (28) of Fr Peter McVerry Hostel 🙄. Bailed.
Abdulwahab Salawe, possession of a knife. Bailed.
And many others. All bailed. All getting legal aid.
This is the problem.
Just Mary Lou McDonald blaming Ukrainian refugees for shortages in housing, healthcare, school places and calling for mass deportations.
Only a week into her swing to the anti-immigrant right. Imagine what she'll be saying by the time of the election?
Sinn Fein in a nutshell.
2020 they want to shut down all construction indefinitely.
2024 they want to know why it took many apprentices an extra year to complete their 4 year training.
Just a reminder that young ordinary workers are just a plaything to them - they don't care
Holly Cairns.
Elected by party, not army council.
Not embroiled in multiple legal actions.
Has never praised a Nazi.
Few, if any, connections to drug cartels.
Doesn't pretend to be working class.
Not funded by a massive money laundering operation.
Refreshing.
An absolute car crash. My particular favourite was 14 minutes in when Paddy sets out the exact agenda of the The Ditch. That would be the completely independent Ditch that he exercises no editorial direction over whatsoever.
@GaryGannonTD
Jaw droppingly bad take here.
Gary Gannon, a full time TD is wondering why the unpaid, part time chair of a local task force hasn't solved inner city crime and drug dealing.
The solution of course is a task force chair with a different skill set. Can I suggest Batman?
Mary Lou McDonald will throw vulnerable minorites under the bus if they thought it would win them ten thousand first preferences nationwide. The ONLY priority is becoming Taoiseach, everything else from housing to United Ireland is just for show.
Irish twitter is truly an insane place. Hundreds of people in the comments denying the existence of weekend breaks. Nobody they know has ever been to Paris and frankly they wouldn't go if you paid them.
Jesus lads, take a day off.
Taoiseach Simon Harris has said people of his 'generation' are 'more familiar' with Berlin and Paris than they are with Belfast or Derry in the North.
Harris made the comments as he addressed the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. Read more:
And then Soc Dems went and posted Holly's fairytale rant on their own twitter page - just to prove that Leo is entirely correct in his assessment of her.
I think the two main takeaways from the last few weeks are:
1 Sinn Fein, with an opportunity to make their case, can offer no detail other than "we need an election". Incredibly shallow stuff.
2. Mary Lou McDonald has absolutely no respect for the office she aspires to hold.
People who weren't even born at the time of the GFA giving out on twitter that a rugby song doesn't pay sufficient deference to their "LiVeD eXpeRiEnCe"
This Sinn Fein meth seizure is going to be very big news. People may start to reconsider the vigilante beatings of drug dealers in the Kerry region a decade ago and wonder if they were part of a scheme to get a monopoly on the drug trade for themselves.
Massively disappointed at Sinn Fein. They have many good reps that have been protecting minority groups, they are running candidates from diverse backgrounds, they all voted in favour of the bill at various stages. But now to turn around because doing the right thing is hard?
Many BOI customers yesterday took out cash in the good faith belief they had this money.
Some will now face high cost unauthorised overdraft fees & upcoming bills going unpaid until it is cleared.
BOI must positively engage with customers to avoid undue hardship & distress.
What would *checks notes* Des O'Malley's son know about the pressures of leading a small party attempting to grow into a truly national one while serving a constituency 100+ miles from the Dail and Dublin media.
Sinn Fein and Mary Lou have walked themselves into a corner on housing.
They have defined a housing solution that is (a) bad for the majority of people (homeowners). And (b) so lacking in detail that people who would benefit can only assume it's bullshit.
If Paul Murphy likes peace so much why doesn't he travel to Russia and stand in front of the Kremlin with a sign that says PEACE?
I'm sure we could all chip in a few euro to cover his flight.
Mary Lou was quick to call the Guards (and rightly so) when some eejit posted a video threatening her.
But when actual serving Guards are actually assaulted by actual rioters she can't find it in herself to condemn their actions.
Holly Cairns (Blazer €550, Trousers €390 both sharonsweeney .ie) believes government ministers ‘don’t understand’ cost-of-living crisis because they can ‘pay for everything on their salaries"
"Cork house where woman lay dead for over a year goes on market for €300k"
19 months where nobody checked in on their elderly relative.
6 weeks to get the property onto the market.
Spotted this tree in the Dáil this evening just after speaking on homelessness in the Dáil, shame on the Government for making people homeless in the run up to Christmas, thinking of the families who can't put up a tree this year, shame on this Government
Imagine waking up one day and deciding your going to believe the McDonalds in Cork is committing genocide. And then making that your entire personality.
This is an astonishingly crass in intervention from the Sinn Fein front bench. How much longer will the electorate ignore Russian sympathisers among the Irish left?
These people don't actually want a united Ireland, I am convinced of that. They just want an excuse to be angry and portray themselves as victims. it's incredibly tiresome.
Speaking to an audience in the south of Ireland, Bernadette Devlin says, ‘We don’t intend on joining you’.
‘If you think we spent two generations, and traumatised two more yet to come, by what we’ve been through to live in this godforsaken state, you have another thing coming.
SF TD Pat Buckley has been charged with verbally abusing gardai and engaging in threatening and abusive behavior while drunk. He was charged with two counts of engaging in threatening and abusive behavior towards gardai. He escaped conviction after pleading guilty to the charges.
🚨BREAKING: Executive agrees to raise the regional rate by 4% for the next financial year.
🗣FM
@moneillsf
& DFM
@little_pengelly
say they recognise the extreme pressure households & businesses are under.
📍Our Political Reporter
@jamesgould23
is at Stormont Castle.
NEW: A senior manager in the Health Service Executive sold a privately owned apartment to the Peter McVerry Trust shortly after he signed off on funding for the housing charity.
Read more from
@conncorrigan
:
Watch at 9.35pm.
#rteinvestigates
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@rtenews
I see Mary Lou is speaking about the Stardust tragedy in the Dail. Anything that party says about sympathy for victims should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Leading economist, Seamus McGuinness, talks about the stark contrasts North and South in living standards, education, health and economic growth.
“Life expectancy in the Republic is 1.3 years higher than the North… this captures the differences in living standards.”
#Feile35
This was only two months ago. Amazing how quickly this woman has dragged her party over to the far-right. Only problem is the far-right don't want anything to do with her.
@RoryHearneGaffs
Can you list maybe five crucial votes over the last European parliament term that related to Irish housing and where you would have voted differently to the FF/FF MEPs?
Can you name one vote?
Mary Lou McDonald: "Our history of oppression, colonisation, and dispossession means we are uniquely placed to make a real difference"
#IsraelPalestineConflict
An All Ireland team, with fans from North and South belting out a song that unites the whole country in our shared revulsion of IRA atrocities.
Tell me again how a few pissed up whingers at a Wolfe Tone gig are the majority.
Rugby fans should try to be more considerate to the feelings of terminally online republicans who take offence if you suggest, even indirectly, that bombing children is in fact bad.
Sinn Fein foreign policy has been tried by Paddy Cosgrave - and led to an exodus from Web Summit of major FDI employers.
SF housing policy has been tried by PMVT - which is now insolvent.
SF financial policy has been tried by Syriza and Greece lost access to the bond market.
It has generated very little mention in Ireland that our head of government was close to being replaced after a scandal manufactured and pushed by individual/s who are now quite obviously Russian stooges. And the entirety of our media went along with it.
Can Mary Lou not express condolences on the passing of one of SF/IRA's most lucrative "donors" without you lot jumping down her throat!
Let the woman grieve.
Sorry now and not to harp on about this (I will, actually). It is interesting that the same police force who can't enforce anything they are asked to do for public good is well able to produce riot squads, helicopters, and now it seems private security for capitalist interests 🤔