Richard Murtagh

Coventry City fan. Remember 87!

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What timing! Under Armorin radar might go unnoticed. Armorin given time and money, Nancy neither. Brought in to flog a dead horse, now departing with damaged reputation. How different if he had a centre forward, costly, against Rangers would, have been out of sight by HT.

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Gaza doctor whose nine children were killed in Israeli strike dies from wounds from same attack https://t.co/QYLXUGNP1h

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@gazanotice You are correct. No expletive needed.

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@gazanotice What is the nature of the society to which these men and women return after their "duty" in Gaza. How do they face their families?

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@gazanotice To my earlier. There are two components of warfare, the physical and the moral. The IDF has one in abundance and has lost the other.

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Worthy adversaries tonight in Helsinki but long standing allies in UNIFIL. Stronger together.

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@_IDFOC What a soul destroying duty this was. Many young soldiers, particularly of S Comd driven out by the boredom and tedium of serial deployment. Also given current retention crisis withdrawal is well timed.

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@_IDFOC They are the elite of an ever decreasing pool. What of them, and of us all, when that pool inevitably dries up?

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@DanMulhall @rhasidatadeleke Absolutely agree. What a wonderful Ambassador for Ireland.

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@CarrollJennifer Congratulations on your appointment. An appropriate synergy in linking Defence and European Affairs portfolios, ever more intertwining. Good luck.

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@irishpolbatt A fitting tribute to a fallen comrade.

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@westhamfootball Beginning to look quite bloated! Was he really training at West Ham or gorging on jellied eels. Personally sad to witness so many former good players heading to the Saudi League.

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@LeoVaradkar Admire Zelensky in not equating Irish neutrality with "indifference". When words matter why can we not say this ourselves. Pity Taoiseach could not have said so. Visit does show political commitment at least. But we are only "militarily" neutral, so all in order!

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@NoelO832597 @defenceforces @MichealMartinTD @Andy_Scollick @RobGilbey @IRLDeptDefence Totally agree. This smacks to me as window dressing when real problem is recruitment and thereafter, and more importantly retention. Then think of protection.

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@JacobusMagnusI @McNamara_Eoin To my mind this is the first public debate on Irish security policy. The rear difficulty will be to shed the "perception of neutrality" that currently pertains. That perception clouds any meaningful modern debate on security and defence.

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@Ronaldofansacct Ronaldo wonderful footballer *enjoying" life in Saudi or maybe not really. Are you aware of Salma al-Shehab currently serving 34 year prison sentence in that same jurisdiction. Call it out!

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@McNamara_Eoin Couldn't agree more. But why would he allow us to offload the "self inflicted" triple lock. Keeping it in the news is constant reminder of our indecisiveness. Let's take control of our security.

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"In the great migration I love you more". Who better than PAL poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941/08) to give expr to the great tragedy (NAKBA) of the PAL people. UN, this yr marks this event, 15/05 as a "historical wrong". I wd say of "injustice" and for PAL everywhere, an enduring one.

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@mark_mellett @vincentguerend Many congratulations Mark.

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@JCS_1956 @duncan_morrow @ShenziJo In a nutshell! Well said. So a lot yet to do in changing that mindset in UK.