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Pat Flanagan

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10 months

The social contract has not just been broken, it has been ripped apart and thrown into the faces of Irish citizens

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7 months

We now know the Government and NGOs "greviously misled" the public. The Attorney General confirms "child care, immigration and social welfare" law will be impacted.

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Pat Flanagan

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10 months

Taoiseach says "wealthy" Ireland can afford to give away €225m a year by 2025. The 228,301 who rang SVP last year looking for help might disagree via @rte

Ireland will contribute €25m to climate fund - Varadkar

Ireland will contribute €25 million over the years 2024 and 2025 to the new Loss and Damage Fund, the Taoiseach has told delegates at the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai.

www.rte.ie

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8 months

As the Taoiseach finally accepts there's no room for migrants it's shameful communities are being scapegoated for the immigration fiasco his government created

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5 months

Pat Flanagan - Good luck to government party canvassers explaining to voters why the housing needs of migrants take priority over their family members

Pat Flanagan - 'The Government made this migrant crisis by ignoring reality'

'The disclosure that the Government is to buy and rent empty properties to house record numbers of migrants is further proof of that. It is almost beyond belief that the Government would take such a...

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Pat Flanagan

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7 months

Drogheda people wanted tourists but the Government gave them over 400 migrants with possibly 500 more on the way to join the couple of thouand already there. To say the locals are angry doesn't cover it, the outrage is off the scale.

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8 months

I hope this doesn't sicken anyone, especially if those with no medical card. (from my column in the Irish Daily Mirror)

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1 year

Orwell was right, it' just that Big Brother is 39 years older than predicted and speaks with an Irish accent...

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9 months

The media has a responsibility to tell the public what is happening in the country, not what the Government says is happening.

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6 months

If the Government can't find homes for the 13,841 homeless Irish how can the State secure homes for up to 16,000 migrants/asylum seekers annually?

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7 months

Irish taxpayers mauled by the dogs of war. Over €800k blown on Ukrainian's pets as a young people's counselling service faces closure over lack of state funding...

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Pat Flanagan

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9 months

"Fur coat and no knickers Government" crave international praise and attention but ignore the real issues facing the country...

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6 months

Ireland's Patron Saint being cynically used to mask the migrant mess the Government made

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7 months

To celebrate International Women's Day the Government want the words "mothers" & "women" removed from the Constitution. Proof, if needed, that the State has always hated women.

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Pat Flanagan

@realpatflanagan

7 months

Ireland's biggest town with a population of 50k and a hinterland of 100k now doesn't have a hotel where a function can be held.

LMFM RADIO

@LMFMRADIO

7 months

NEWS: D Hotel in Drogheda to become accommodation centre for international protection applicants.

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Pat Flanagan - 'The Government made this migrant crisis by ignoring reality'

'The disclosure that the Government is to buy and rent empty properties to house record numbers of migrants is further proof of that. It is almost beyond belief that the Government would take such a...

www.irishmirror.ie

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Pat Flanagan

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8 months

Government's bogus concerns about women in the home when many women, and men, have no home to go to.

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5 months

Officials warned Government it might be "impossible" to control immigration if the referendums were passed. Now ministers expect the public to believe the Migration Pact won't have similar consequences.

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Pat Flanagan

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8 months

Will Ireland join Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and become the first EU state to recognise polygamy? The Goverment can't rule it out if the referendums are passed.

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Pat Flanagan

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11 months

The only reason Leo belatedly wants limits on asylum seekers and refugees is he knows unchecked immigration is going to be a major election issue...

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Pat Flanagan

@realpatflanagan

7 months

The Taoiseach playing the ignorance card. He and his army of highly-paid advisors obviously don't read the Mirror.

Michael McNamara MEP

@MlMcNamaraTD

7 months

The Government has spent over €800,000 on Ukrainian pets brought to Ireland. I asked why.

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10 months

We have ways of ways of making you not talk. Criticism of the Government's emigration policies could faul foul of of the porposed restrictive hate speech laws....

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Pat Flanagan

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6 months

Lisa Chambers can't distance herself from her No vote controversy but she's certainly managed to distance herself from Leinster House

Lisa Chambers claiming higher expenses by taking scenic route to Leinster House

The embattled senator lives 1.8km from a constituency rival but has to travel 35km further to get to Dublin, according to her expense claims

www.irishmirror.ie

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Pat Flanagan

@realpatflanagan

6 months

You're not wrong there Ciarán but that toxicity stems from Government policies which are not in the interests of the Irish people

Irish Examiner

@irishexaminer

6 months

'There's a toxicity in politics now': Fine Gael’s Ciarán Cannon to step down at next election

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Pat Flanagan

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9 months

Instead of a referendum to give families the right to a home the Government wants the current definition of family evicted from the Constitution.

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Pat Flanagan

@realpatflanagan

7 months

Minister who invited asylum seekers here (in different languages) with promise of free housing concerned 1,000 asylum seekers have no free accommodation via @rt

Record 1,010 asylum seekers without State accommodation

There are now 1,010 recently arrived asylum seekers without any State-provided shelter.

www.rte.ie

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Pat Flanagan

@realpatflanagan

7 months

Government has spent €808,000 on pets brought to Ireland by Ukrainian refugees

Exclusive: The huge outlay is understood to have prompted a policy U-turn, and international protection applicants must now pay for their own animals

www.irishmirror.ie

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Pat Flanagan

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1 year

Micheal Martin resorting to disease terminology against the Shinners is a new low. The truth is young people are more disaffected with Fianna Fail than they are “infected” by Sinn Fein...

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1 year

Simon Harris waffling on about renewing the social contract when Fine Gael ripped it to shreads over the past 12yrs is an insult to the public.

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Pat Flanagan

@realpatflanagan

6 months

The Shinners now realise being woke is a political yoke and want the draconian Hate Speech Bill scrapped

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Pat Flanagan

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5 months

Government spent €1m a month to accommodate Ukrainian refugee pets

EXCLUSIVE: An Irish Mirror investigation can reveal that the Department of Integration picked up the tab for the accommodation of animals that had made the journey to Ireland with their owners – and...

www.irishmirror.ie

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Pat Flanagan

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1 year

Elderly and sick to be turfed out of nursing homes to free beds for asylum seekers. Satire really is dead. How could Waterford Whispers compete with that?

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Pat Flanagan

@realpatflanagan

5 months

PetGate goes from bad to worse. State stopped quarantining Ukraine pets as officials 'couldn't handle' influx exposing the country to infectious diseases

State stopped quarantining Ukraine pets as officials 'couldn't handle' influx

EXCLUSIVE: An official in the Department of Integration claimed the move breached EU regulations intended to protect the country from infectious diseases

www.irishmirror.ie

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Pat Flanagan

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8 months

It took the equivalent of nearly 14,000 licence fees (and a bit of false accounting) to cover losses of the disastrous Toy Show Musical yet no one has been held to account or even named.

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Pat Flanagan

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7 months

Brendan Gleeson's claims that Ireland is "basically America now" and should strive to double its population is a bigger fantasy than a Harry Potter movie.

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Pat Flanagan

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1 year

The new hate speech laws to act act as an electric fence to deter the public and media asking awkward questions...

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Pat Flanagan

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4 months

As mass migration becomes the dominant issue with EU voters how long will it be before they all go Dutch?

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Pat Flanagan

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6 months

While politicians, and some of the media, are trying to rewrite history, we were on the right side of it.

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Pat Flanagan

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4 months

If the political atmosphere is toxic it's because the current and the two previous government made it so...

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1 year

Why is one of the world's most corrupt countries shocked its natonal broadcaster is embroiled in a financial scandal? There are few organisations in the State that haven't been.

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Pat Flanagan

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11 months

By giving Israel the green light to slaughter civilians the West can never again condemn Russia for doing likewise...

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7 months

TDs availing of secret hotel discounts while pocketing accommodation allowance

Exclusive - Politicians are staying in some luxury Dublin hotels for just over half the cost of ordinary guests, the Irish Mirror can reveal

www.irishmirror.ie

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Pat Flanagan

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7 months

Goodbye mother, it was nice knowing you. The Chair of the Electoral Commission confirms the word "mother" will be deleted from the Constitution if the referendums are passed on March 8. via @rte

Referendums: Your questions answered

Chair of the Electoral Commission Justice Marie Baker has said if the term "durable relationships" does come to define the family unit following next month's referendum it will be "a constitutional...

www.rte.ie

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Pat Flanagan

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11 months

What Simon Harris & Fine Gael fear is not populism but the prospect of Sinn Fein ending their political world as they know it....

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Pat Flanagan

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9 months

It's going to be a long hot summer for Government party local politicians....

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Pat Flanagan

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5 months

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss promising to fix the housing crisis his party caused...

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6 months

@AodhanORiordain There was nothing progressive about any of this and Labour backed it anyway.

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Pat Flanagan

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4 months

The Euro elections will be a referendum on the Government's failed migration and housing policies.

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Pat Flanagan

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1 year

Time for a tax on the bank's windfall profits which are derived from the interest rates which could lead to another mortgage arrears crisis.

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Pat Flanagan

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1 year

Health Minister driving untaxed car. Homeless nurse sleeping in taxed car. Present day Ireland in a nutshell.

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6 months

These NGOs must drop the 'N' because after the referendum debacle they are little more than quasi-government organisations via @rte

NWCI says it spent around €50,000 on Yes campaigns

The National Women's Council of Ireland spent around €50,000 campaigning for Yes votes in last week's referendums on Family and Care which were rejected by voters.

www.rte.ie

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@realpatflanagan

7 months

Politicians not being charged 15c 'deposit' on cans in Leinster house

EXCLUSIVE: The Oireachtas confirmed to the Irish Mirror that it will not be installing a reverse vending machine on its campus and has been granted a “take back” exemption from Re-Turn Ireland

www.irishmirror.ie

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Pat Flanagan

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5 months

'Reflects who we are' - Tanaiste. No it reflects a Government squandering taxpayers money on foreign cats & dogs while refusing to adequately fund childcare

The Irish Times

@IrishTimes

5 months

Tánaiste defends State’s payment of up to €1m a month for Ukrainian pets

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Pat Flanagan

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1 year

Try driving around in an untaxed car for eight months like our Health Minister did and see what happens...

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Pat Flanagan

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7 months

Complete nonsense. The Attorney General has confirmed he was dead right.

Irish Independent

@Independent_ie

7 months

Helen McEntee says junior minister was wrong on immigration impacts of referendum

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Pat Flanagan

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6 months

Ex-RTE chair views €3m mansions in first public sighting since Oireachtas snub

Moya Doherty viewed two houses valued at over €3 million over the weekend, spotted for the first time since refusing to appear before the Oireachtas Media Committee for "personal and family reasons"

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Pat Flanagan

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4 months

The Government can recognise Palestine but refuses to recognise its policies are responsible for the housing crisis...

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Pat Flanagan

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1 year

More empty talk from arch-spoofer Simon Harris. Every worker is paying USC because of the rogue banks and now the Goverment is looking on as they screw us again via @rte

'Laggard' banks criticised over rate rises for savers

The Minister for Further and Higher Education has said it is "utterly offensive" for Irish banks to be "complete and utter laggards" in passing on interest rate increases to savers.

www.rte.ie

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Pat Flanagan

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4 months

Government candidates talking tough on the migrant crisis their parties created then it's back to chaos as normal after June 7.

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Pat Flanagan

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6 months

What a f***** up country. Gardai desperately need a naval vessel for a maritime drugs search but the only one available is taking part in St Pats day celebrations in Dun Laoghaire.

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Pat Flanagan

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1 year

If other Irish institutions were subjected to any kind of scrutiny we'd find corruption and cronyism is rife. @IrishMirror

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Pat Flanagan

@realpatflanagan

7 months

The protest in Drogheda from today's Sunday Mirror.

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Pat Flanagan

@realpatflanagan

1 year

And unlike Donnelly's, her car is taxed

Mick Caul

@caulmick

1 year

#WhereDoWeGo ? Stephen Donnelly said I was a hero working at vaccine centre - now I'm homeless and living in my car' With nowhere else left to turn to Lauren emailed Stephen Donnelly three months ago explaining her situation and pleading for help

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1 year

It's surreal that a government depending on the RAF for protection believes that the biggest threat to the country is Sinn Fein....

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1 year

If health warnings are being put on anything it should be Fine Gael and Fianna Fail...

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1 year

It appears that inside many TDs is a landlord trying to get out...

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Pat Flanagan

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6 months

You are right Mick. Then again, there are some hacks that you'd think were working for the Government and they are not even on the payroll.....yet.

Michael O’Toole

@mickthehack

6 months

I dunno. On a personal level, fair play to someone getting a well paid job. But I really don’t like the idea of a hack going from holding ministers to account to defending them. I’m sure other hacks will disagree with me, but that’s my opinion. And I know some hacks do agree.

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5 months

Ireland’s hidden "class divide" laid bare by the Stardust families decades long wait for justice.

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9 months

@thepainterflynn Great post. If that happened now it would be blamed on climate change and we'd be hit with more taxes to counter it.

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1 year

Leader of a country with a third world health service where poverty is rife wants to eradicate world poverty and save the planet.

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Pat Flanagan

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7 months

@JosephL32949820 I agree. The hate speech bill is a real threat to freedom of speech and have written about it in the past and will do so again.

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1 year

@DrHaroldNews Hang on Harold, not all columnists. I may have my head up my ass but never in the sand. From today's Irish Mirror.

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1 year

Who's running the country, the supermarkets or the Government?

Eamon Melia

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12 years in Govt. They have destroyed the country.

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Pat Flanagan

@realpatflanagan

7 months

Drogheda protest held to oppose conversion of hotel into asylum seeker centre

During the week it was revealed that up to 500 people who claim they are seeking international protection will be housed in the D Hotel in the centre of the town

www.irishmirror.ie

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1 year

Pensioners living it large on €250 a week according to @RadioBrendanRTE . A touch of the Joe Jacob's or Pee Flynn about that coversation.

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11 months

It’s a perverse country that won't "adequately" fund its health service but will spend more on asylum seekers than on its barely-functioning Defence Forces...

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1 year

Like paying taxes, paying for climate change is only for the little people....

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1 year

Seems like the supermarkets are running a country that has become a British protectorate.....

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10 months

Are you ready for the new property crash?

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Pat Flanagan

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6 months

She doesn't like the ref results or the great work Senator McDowell did to help bring them about...

Pat O'Connor

@ProfPatOConnor

6 months

I see that Michael Mc Dowell has his 4th opinion piece in the Irish Times in as many weeks. Very strange….So much for the absence of bias in the paper of record… No one else in the country able to write an opinion piece?? @IrishTimes

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1 year

As someone who has worked as a news editor for nearly 20 years I know anyone can got hoaxed. What I can't understand is why the IT published such absolute nonsense, which the hoaxer now admits was to "stir the s***".

Irish Times editor apologises for 'breach of trust'

The Editor of the Irish Times has apologised for what he described as a "breach of trust" between the newspaper and its readers and said it needs to make its pre-publication procedures more robust.

www.rte.ie

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1 year

Polish man caught with €141,000 gets free legal aid. We really are a great little country via @rte

Man in court charged over money laundering offence

A Polish man has been remanded in custody after gardaí charged him over a seizure of almost €141,000 in suspected crime proceeds.

www.rte.ie

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1 year

Big pay rise for politicans but only empty words of praise for "decimated" Defence Forces and our one ship navy.

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1 year

RTE might believe it's a bastion of impartiality but a lot of Sinn Fein licence payers don't see it that way...

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1 year

Never thought I'd see the day when I'd agree with anything Senator @RonanMullen said. But he's spot on here.

TonightVMTV

@TonightVMTV

1 year

"There's a chilling effect on them expressing their legitimate point of view, whether it's right or wrong" - Senator @RonanMullen on proposed new hate speech legislation #TonightVMTV

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7 months

@daithi84 It is, or was, a great town and the gateway to the Boyne Valley and the world heritage site at Newgrange. But I must admit, who will want to go there now.

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1 year

Don't blame peacefull protestors. Blame the Government which won't put a cap on the number of asylum seekers coming here.

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1 year

Geezer paid 500 grand a year for his supposed communications "talent" suffers breakdown in commuications via @rte

Tubridy didn't intend 'causing difficulty' in statement

Representatives of Ryan Tubridy told RTÉ's Director General yesterday that the presenter did not intend on "causing any difficulty for RTÉ" when he published a statement on Wednesday.

www.rte.ie

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Pat Flanagan

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11 months

He's boasting about giving away more billions and refuses to adaquately fund the health service...

RTÉ News

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11 months

Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe has said Ireland is now one of the largest net contributors per capita to the EU budget and hinted that the contribution will grow

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6 months

A year since my old X (Twitter) account was hacked and a new one started #MyXAnniversary

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Pat Flanagan

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7 months

@helerina Tell me about it, Hélène. Not long ago I was branded far left and even a communist (I'm a socialist and a trade unionist) but also a realist. I'm getting disorientated with all this political shapeshifting

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1 year

Cashless Electric Picnic will see 70K popele take part in an experiment as digital lab monkeys dancing to the tune of the banks and big corporations.

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Pat Flanagan

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7 months

@NWoulfeWriter Thanks Nuala. I spent many happy hours in the D. We once held the Mirror's Christmas party there and the Mirror's former editor John Kierans had his book launch there. Not any more, it's closure is an absolute outrage.

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1 year

@noshyteplease I know, that's why I did my column on it because no one seems to realise what's going on or are afraid to say so if they do.

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Pat Flanagan

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8 months

Just hours after the Government voted to allow the vulture funds to continue to buy up familiy homes we get this

RTÉ Prime Time

@RTE_PrimeTime

8 months

“It’s understandable from Ryanair’s perspective” @lorcansirr from @uniofgalway tells @franmcnulty that there’s a long tradition of companies like Ryanair buying houses for staff after the airline bought most of the homes in a new estate close to Dublin Airport. #rtept

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Six months ago those who said Ireland can't take any more refugees and asylum seekers were branded right wing extremists. It has obvously become an election issue when the Taoiseach agrees...

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