Anthony Armstrong @AntTheArchiTech

@Nick_Delehanty Or maybe its how she frames how this new wave of immigration will likely start to pinch the upper and middle classes, and sure "we cant be having that" (it was all fine and dandy when immigration was only having an adverse affect on the working class)

Ireland has not built a society, it has built a tax jurisdiction. Ireland’s population is told it has never been richer, yet it has never felt poorer ✍️Sinéad O'Sullivan @SineadOS1 Ireland has failed to answer this question of what to use its wealth for, as it seems we did not know the question existed. For over a decade, as the corporate tax take rose relentlessly to reach €35 billion – not far off half of it accounted for by three big US companies – the country has behaved as though this bounty was a durable feature of the economy rather than short-term luck. The Irish surplus is the largest in the EU per capita, yet our infrastructure index is below Poland’s The 35,000 graduates who left last year because they could not afford to live here are not evidence of the system working. They are proof of the opposite. (When I pointed this out to Varadkar, his response was: “You’d fail my class.” Before members of the political class lecture the country on economics, they might consult the textbook – specifically the well-known chapter on how small states handed unearned windfalls squandered every one of them. Ireland has not built a society, it has built a tax jurisdiction #FFG #HowIrelandWorks #Society #IrelandisBroken irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

@Johngodwyer1 @nollaigobuachal 'Linking the North of Ireland and the Reublic of Ireland' there fixed it for ya 😀 "Southern Ireland" is Waterford/Cork and that'd be some green way 🤣 lol

This 👇 ALL of this 👇

Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1

2 months ago

The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile. That visual gap

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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Fuel Protest spokesman responds to over 300 Gardai taking O’Connell Street by force around 3 AM and shutting off all street access.

@LkennyCathQtr This is great to see

BREAKING: CHINA DESTROYS TRUMP Trump: We need $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz China's FM Senator: But the Strait of Hormuz was already open before the war? The root cause of this disruption is your illegal military operations against Iran. You have created a Global Crisis OUT OF NOTHING”

In total, 130,469 houses and 32,964 apartments (including bed-sits and excluding holiday homes) were vacant on the night of the census in 2022, while 66,956 holiday homes were counted as vacant. Crazy that this is tolerated in the middle of a housing crisis, with yet another record of over 17,300 people in emergency accommodation last month, including 5,457 children. This is not normal and cannot be accepted. We need urgent action to prevent evictions and expand housing supply, and we can start by utilising these vacant houses. After all, it was called a 'national emergency' by Leo Varadkar back in 2018 when the homeless figure was 10,000. #DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #Ireland

@CiaranCuffe Or the world leaders could stop sending armys around the world, blowing up infrastructure and taking pivate jets every few hours, might have a similar impect to Joe Bloggs taking the bus once a week 😳

Hi There are a lot of deepfakes going around about me. These are scams. Please don't be hood winked into parting with cash. Also as they are targeting older people who are not as savvy, can you tell your mother, granny, grandad etc if they ask you, that these are hoaxes. Thanks

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President Catherine Connolly has warned the catastrophic consequences of violating the UN Charter cannot be ignored. 🧵 [1/2]

@nigelreynolds @allenanalysis "Protagonists" I think you mean Antagonists...

@Timalloy5 @dubcivictrust Report it to Dublin City Council for planning enforcement

ON IRELAND’S TRIPLE LOCK -PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO LISTEN TO THIS -There Is A Concerted Campaign -Contrary To Will Of Irish People -To Abolish Our Triple Lock & To Erode Our Military #Neutrality -Here I Highlight The Misinformation Being Peddled By Govt -PLEASE PLEASE SHARE WIDELY

They shot a 14 year old child. Then blocked the ambulance reaching him. Then laughed as they watched him die. This is what the IOF does every day - murder children with impunity and laugh as they do it.

BBC News (World) @BBCWorld

4 months ago

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows bbc.in/4aCqtyj

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@paddycosgrave The fact that car insurance is mandated by law, there should be a publicly/state run non -profit insurance body where people who dont want you use private (expensive) insurance can use the public one instead

The day government condemned the proposed renaming of Herzog Park the Irish embassy in Tel Aviv was making repeated contact with the Israeli Office of the President. The Department of Foreign Affairs was also in touch with embassies in DC and Tel Aviv. ontheditch.com/irish-embassy-…

France has made planned obsolescence a criminal offense, becoming one of the first countries in the world to treat deliberate product shortening as a serious crime. Manufacturers caught intentionally designing electronics, appliances, or other goods to fail prematurely or become unusable—whether through hardware flaws, software updates that slow performance, or other engineered limitations—now face steep penalties: up to 2 years in prison and fines reaching €300,000, or as high as 5% of their average annual turnover in the most serious cases. This landmark law, building on France’s earlier consumer-protection framework and reinforced by high-profile scandals (such as the 2017–2018 investigations into smartphone “battery-gate” slowdowns), explicitly targets both physical and digital tactics used to push consumers toward frequent replacements. The legislation is more than just punishment—it’s a cornerstone of France’s broader “right to repair” agenda. By criminalizing practices that drive premature disposal, the government aims to: - Slash the massive environmental footprint of electronic waste, - Protect consumers from hidden “forced upgrades,” - Encourage manufacturers to prioritize durability, repairability, and longer-lasting support. France’s tough stance sends a clear message to global tech and appliance companies: the era of disposable-by-design products is ending. By leading the charge on sustainability and consumer rights, the country is helping shift the world toward a more circular economy—one where goods are built to last, repaired when needed, and discarded only when truly necessary.