Micheál Martin spent €70,000 on canapés and wine on 1 July while telling dying Irish children the medicine is too expensive.
€11,750 on high-end canapés.
€8,600 on drinks.
€45–€47 a bottle.
Skyclarys — a drug that could slow a progressive disease for around 200 Irish people?
Too expensive.
Hundreds of millions for foreign governments and international protection?
No problem.
The State can always find money for the canapés.
It just can’t find it for its own people.
Irish lives are negotiable.
Everything else is urgent.
#TwoTierIreland #IrelandFirst #Ireland
It was a neat move.
Join the EU and shift the Irish economy to American FDI in the early 70s.
Get Irish farming hooked on EU subsidies and let it wither.
As Irish people moved in their droves to urban areas to work in American factories the farmer could still sell his fruit and veg in the supermarkets a for a livable wage.
Let a couple of generations pass.
International supermarkets take the place of the grocer and import their fruit and veg at exploitative prices from other countries undercutting Irish farmers who cannot produce for peanuts because they need to live - and because of Varadkar and co.'s mismanagement of infrastructure from water supply, to electricity, to inflation, to taxation crippled them.
Varadkar then sits smugly in a podcast studio and says 'We’re (urban people) the ones paying all the bills and you’re the ones in receipt of a lot of subsidies and a lot of tax benefits that other people don’t get.'
The obvious irony is that the "we" he talks about - urban areas - are propped up by American multinational corporation tax receipts. There is no Irish indigenous industry. Like farming, FF/G have left it to wither for 50 years. If US corporations didn't receive tax breaks bordering on tax haven status, there would also be no urban wealth.
Ireland is a nation propped up from outside - farmers by the EU, urban areas by US FDI. Varadkar has leaned into this FDI dependency more than any other leader before him and has left the nation - for farmers and for native industrialists - a place where free enterprise cannot survive.
To make his comments more absurd, Varadkar, as a lifelong politician has been subsidised by the Irish taxpayer - rural and urban - his entire life.
Varadkar seems to think attacking rural Ireland will take the focus off the fact that he led this country and the failures within lie on his shoulders. This man has less dignity than he does political nous. He should shuffle off into obscurity.
@SkySports_Keith All staff and physios aren't in korea , u21 team and below would still need staff at the training ground so he could easily use them too , no need to be anywhere else
This is the new wall Wicklow Co Co built around the home of former FF Minister Stephen Donnelly in Kilcoole. This replaces the fence built by the OPW. It includes a new electric gate and groundwork a costing the tax payers €80,000. Donnelly lost his seat last November.
What did I just watch.
The shit they put on Irish TV never fails to baffle me.
This poor man went down the "Jordan Peterson rabbit hole" and ended up watching Joe Rogan!
Amazed he saved himself by seeing a man in a dress, we nearly lost him!