Padraic Buckley

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[Padraic Buckley @KingPidge]

@kevinmccaul23 @Nick_Delehanty Unbelievable accurate

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

Boycott Re-Turn
Let the money pile-up

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

I hadn’t realised this.

Re-Turn is making bin charges more expensive.

Bin companies are losing €15m in revenue from aluminium cans and PET bottles. The cans are worth €800 - €1400 a tonne & bottles €500.

So we are paying twice!
Deposit charge + higher bin charge.

I think we need to start a Boycott.

[Luke Paton @Golfpunter1]

The discourse around the Eze penalty last night is fascinating. If nothing else it provides Arteta with an excuse as to how his team has been hard done by and robbed. He loves excuses.

It’s a fascinating situation because I actually think the right outcome was reached albeit through the wrong process. Once given on the field under the current rules it shouldn't have been overturned. For that Arsenal can feel aggrieved. Don't forget Arsenal were the beneficiaries of an incredibly soft penalty in Leverkusen. It wasn’t overturned.

I find the attached video interesting because it clearly shows how minimal the contact is. The defender doesn’t pin Ezes foot to the ground. Doesn’t smash into it. It brushes down the side of it. It’s where the still pictures of it were wildly misleading.

Are we really saying that contact such as that is worthy of a penalty? What’s clear in the video is that Eze has absolutely made the most of the slight contact. I love the straight left leg. A very natural position. It’s a brilliant dive and normally it would have been rewarded.

By saying that is a stone wall penalty all we are doing is encouraging such theatrics and cheating. Whenever you hear the words “that was clever” by a commentator they are intimating the player has cheated/made the most of it.

We complain about refs all the time but what chance do they have when players are doing stuff like this. Until players are punished properly there is no disincentive for players to keep doing this stuff.

I also find it fascinating when you have a foot brushed like this. When you compare it to all the holding/pushing/grappling at other times. Sometimes a contact sport and others not. Is this really what football has become?

[Paddy McKenna @paddymacc1]

It takes real courage to raise your voice above the parapet and say what the begrudgers don't want to hear, and the easiest thing in the world for cowards to do is publish insults on SM
Ryan Casey has skin in the game and is entitled to voice his opinion.

I support him, do you

[gript @griptmedia]

‘By the 1950s, Europe successfully managed to produce enough food domestically to feed itself…now, we are unlearning the lessons of the past, and making ourselves more dependent on foreign food sources halfway across the world once again.’ Ben Scallan slams the Mercosur deal.

[BUBBLEZ @eire4life]

we fight or we die, not for the EU , the fighting irish are done with globalisn and its shittshow

[Pavel Durov @durov]

🇪🇺 Telegram sent this message to all its users in France regarding Chat Control. People must know the names of those who try to steal their freedoms:

Today, the European Union nearly banned your right to privacy. It was set to vote on a law that would force apps to scan every private message, turning everyone’s phone into a spying tool.

France led the push for this authoritarian law. Both former and current Interior Ministers, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Nuñez, supported it. Last March, they declared that police should see French citizens’ private messages. The Republicans and Macron’s Renaissance group voted for it.

Such measures are supposed to “fight crime”, but their real target is regular people. It wouldn’t stop criminals — they could just use VPNs or special websites to hide. Officials’ and police messages wouldn’t be scanned either, since the law conveniently exempts them from surveillance. Only YOU — ordinary citizens — would face the danger of your private messages and photos being compromised.

Today, we defended privacy: Germany’s sudden stand saved our rights. But freedoms are still threatened. While French leaders push for total access to private messages, the basic rights of French people — and all Europeans — remain in danger.

[Padraic Buckley @KingPidge]

@BustToBoom €20 for two rolls and two bottles of water #weareback

[Padraic Buckley @KingPidge]

@Cathalain @Timcast Yes but on Tim’s podcast he was described as British just letting him know

[NewstalkFM @NewstalkFM]

'Genuinely, we're so angry with what happened. And we just don't want to see any other kids go through the same thing.'

The grieving father of Harvey Morrison Sherratt has said his was repeatedly failed by the health service.

He spoke with @kierancuddihy, on @TheHardShoulder

[Padraic Buckley @KingPidge]

@FineGael Absolutely sickening . You should be ashamed of yourself every last one of you

[Damian @raggedlines]

A journalist realising he was caught up in a mob hysteria after 5 years is, of course, entirely useless. Akin to a police officer realising a crime took place 30 mins after he might have stopped it.

Of course, in this case, the police officer was actually cheering the crime on.

[Padraic Buckley @KingPidge]

@Nick_Delehanty 👏

[Racing TV @RacingTV]

🟢🟡 Charlie O'Dwyer - outstanding 👏

[Ben Scallan 🇮🇪 @Ben_Scallan]

Tell that to successive Irish governments who succesfully kept this country out of WW2, the Cold War, and many other periods of global turbulence that other countries were sucked into to their detriment. We were one of just 14 countries in the entire world to not formally participate in WW2, and thank God we didn't.

We've dodged many bullets through neutrality over decades, and all you can say is "It's a fantasy, get real" because there's no coherent argument for changing it. So you have to just act like it's gone already and treat the whole thing like a fait accomplis so people accept the change out of grim resignation and say "Oh well, I guess it's been an illusion all along." When it isn't - it's a real policy with measurable benefits that has served us well in the past and continues to do so.

[Joe Dwyer @JoeEDwyer]

Reminder of Fianna Fáil’s style of good government…

#GE24

[Padraic Buckley @KingPidge]

@KildareFan2024 What’s second prize ? 2 homes in Newbridge

[Padraic Buckley @KingPidge]

MAGA 🇺🇸