3pm Saturday update on #StormDave with high res models showing an increase in wind gusts this evening as storm deepens a little more than forecast. Stronger gusts likely in South, Southeast and East. Orange marine warning for South now. Please share.
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I am one of the more outspoken critics of banks and vulture funds in this country. But I have paid, and continue to pay, a price for this advocacy. - @davidhall75 ( Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation )
I want to begin with a single moment that captures how lrish mortgage holders have been treated.
In 2014 the then Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, was asked about vulture funds. He said that calling them vultures was actually "a
compliment" because vultures "provide a very good service in the ecology through cleaning up dead animals that are littered across the landscape."
Today, borrowers whose loans have been sold, deal with names like Mars Capital, Pepper Finance and Link Asset Services They present themselves as lenders. They are not They present themselves as decision makers. They are not They are shopfronts.
Mars, Pepper, Link etc. are all just puppets.
Behind them sit the puppet masters -International investment funds and securitisation vehicles - #Appollo, #Cerberus, #Lonestar, #GoldmanSachs, #PIMCO, #Blackstone...I could go on. These are the entities that should be invited to appear before this Committee, but as cowards they will not accept.
#vulturefunds #bankers #HowIrelandWorks
Israeli forces are said to have dropped more explosives on Gaza than fell on London, Dresden and Hamburg combined in the Second World War. The level of destruction is hard to fathom as is the humanitarian suffering.
Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent @SecKermani looks at the damage that’s been done and the challenges of now rebuilding if the ceasefire holds.
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Midleton RFC 🆚 Bruff RFC
📍 Towns Park
⏰ Tomorrow, Sat 27th Sept | 2:30pm KO
Big opener at home — let’s pack Towns Park and get behind the lads in red! 🔴⚫ #MRFC#EnergiaAIL@FinalWhistleIE@theclubscenepod
Micheál Martin participated in PR stunt for Israel, suggesting an equivalency between damaged ceilings and the ongoing IDF campaign of genocidal violence in Gaza. Few, if any, of the people now criticising Catherine Connolly for visiting Syria as an observer during a war cared.
"A brave group of Italian football coaches has just called on FIFA to suspend Israel from the World Cup. Let’s join them — before Italy plays Israel on September 8. Sign and share now to spark a movement of resistance unlike anything sport has ever seen!"
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