Barry Murphy

Business Owner. SAFC Supporter. Runner. Gardener. Love IT, Travel, Photography, Cooking & Craft Beer

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

But you can’t use social media until you’re 16.

[Barry Murphy @Barrymurph]

@eoghan @Clearpreso @salesforce @fin_ai Congratulations. Epic achievement

[John McGuirk @john_mcguirk]

A message for Gript Media readers and subscribers.

[Something Different with John and Sarah @JohnandSarahIrl]

Episode One is available on Youtube: John's Resignation, Fianna Fáil's troubles, the fuel protests, and Tommy Fleming leaves the closet:

https://t.co/TonQFxJ8Sl

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Episode One, coming tomorrow:

[Barry Murphy @Barrymurph]

@cahillbooks A busted flush without a doubt!

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@davecoughlan80 Meanwhile in Ireland….we think they genuinely fix phones….currently 5 shops in our town with a population of 3500!!!

[Barry Murphy @Barrymurph]

@ZzVvbbbbn I’ll be watching it on BBC!

[Barry Murphy @Barrymurph]

@Clearpreso @irishexaminer Do BAM do prisons? No problem so 😅

[Sinéad O’Sullivan @SineadOS1]

Link: https://t.co/r6fhlNHcuz

[Barry Murphy @Barrymurph]

@KeithMillsD7 I suspect we are watching the beginning of the end of this government.

[Caoimhín 🇮🇪 @Caoimhinn55]

Fuel Protest Spokesman Christopher Duffy speaks about Helen McEntee, his local TD, who he knows since she was a child.. Well worth a listen 💥👇👇

[Napaleo @newpeteV1]

The fuel protests have significantly weakened Sinn Fein. They will try to frame it as SF leading a takeover of government.

In fact it is Aontu/Independent Ireland etc leading a takeover of the opposition.

[Laoise de Brún | Barrister | Seanad Candidate @laoisedebrun]

IRELAND PROTEST ANALYSIS

Is this the beginning of the end for the hundred years of FFFG hegemony? The disconnect between the nation and the state has never been greater. The protests and their handling reflected many things for me;

1. Our model of taxing and taxing and taxing working people into oblivion is not sustainable and never was.

2. Coupled with all the craven virtue-signalling, cronyism, and waste of public money, this is unforgivable.

3. Our politicians simply take their orders from Europe hence throwing money at Ukraine without receipts and in contravention of our neutrality, climate policy, immigration policy and trans, none of which we got to vote on, or want.

4. Ireland is a country of insiders and outsiders and those on the inside offer a veneer of democratic process hence the government’s unwillingness to speak to protestors and preference for representative bodies who do their bidding.

5. This is not a political observation but a cultural one. The protesters modelled more masculinity, the good sort, the kind we need more than ever, than I’ve seen in the past ten years in the public sphere. Despite the smears and switch and bait, they remained calm, centred and authentic in the media, they escorted people going to hospital, kept the bus lanes open for emergency vehicles and generally showed a level of respect, restraint, leadership and organisation that was unprecedented for a grassroots, organic movement. Unsurprisingly this was very attractive to young women who joked on social media about going to support the protest, asking what they should wear and that not even the army could keep away a generation of women “battle-scarred by the Apps.” Society needs to differentiate between toxic masculinity and good masculinity and we need more of the latter. Men need to take note and take heart.

[Michael Kelly ن @MichaelPTKelly]

FF and FG have largely infantilised their cumann structure, and reduced them to raffle ticket sellers. The parties are run by taxpayer-funded advisers beholden to NGOs, zero connection to grassroots. That’s why they’re tone deaf to wider unease, and see the far-right everywhere.

[Barry Murphy @Barrymurph]

@danobrien20 @robertburke84 1.) It’s not just fuel prices….outside of the dominant left wing media/political/NGO/ bubble - ppl are very unhappy. No reward for hard work, too much tax, too much virtue signaling on Gaza and elsewhere, too much welfare, too much gov waste, no fixing of housing crisis…

[Eoin O'Malley @AnMailleach]

Sinn Féin takes a stand (after seeing an opinion poll).

[Jimmy Stafford @JimmystaffordDJ]

This is a must read from @davidmcw “Is Ireland the worst run country in Europe?”
The figures in this article are mind blowing . No accountability in the Senior echelons of Public Service. No wonder people are angry. #fuelprotests

[Barry Murphy @Barrymurph]

@davidhall75 Total disaster and they are not finished yet!!! Utterly tone deaf government. I voted for this Gov…never again.

[Barry Murphy @Barrymurph]

@declanganley @danobrien20 2. Less welfare, less climate taxes….all middle of the road views in other countries. Who do I vote for?

[Barry Murphy @Barrymurph]

@declanganley @danobrien20 1. There is no diversity of political opinion in Ireland. Our media/representative bodies/NGO’s are the same - all the same people talking to themselves. I’m a small business owner, who believes in lower taxes and a smaller hugely more efficient competent State, less immigration,