Pat Somers

BL. Legal Panel Member IPO. Former Editor Leinster Express/LaoisLive, Leinster Leader & Offaly Express

[Pat Somers @PatSomers]

State’s authority will be challenged again. We need to be ready

https://t.co/UZLNbm4NT7

[Peter Ryan @_PeterRyan]

Toibin is just lying here.

Increased prices didn’t cause pumps to run dry. The blockades did.

Had no reply once refuted.

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

John Gibbons on carbon tax: It may be unpopular, but we need it to avoid a far more expensive future - the government was wrong to cave in after protests.

https://t.co/fS1I93byI8

[Tina D @Dublinmarti]

The pumps ran dry because a shower of bully boys staged an illegal blockade.
That's the truth of the matter. 🙄🙄

[Pat Somers @PatSomers]

Man charged with dangerous driving following incident near Whitegate oil refinery protest

https://t.co/ZxOcoYF0XT

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible

[Pat Somers @PatSomers]

Fuel protesters appear in court over alleged dangerous driving on M1 in Co Louth

https://t.co/GxZPNvuqDg

[Colin MUFC🇮🇪🇵🇸 @colinmufc2]

I can’t stand this abuse to the Gardai

In all honesty, what are they supposed to do?

& if the same ones giving them dogs abuse had PETA or climate activists blockading their farms & premises then they’d expect the Gardai to move them on to let them get on with their business

[The Irish Politics Newsletter @TullMcAdoo]

Lads giving out to the gardai that they pay their wages while shutting the country down and looking for a bailout from the Irish taxpayers is very Irish.

[Brian Ó Mealláin 🇵🇸🇮🇪 @MallonMeathEast]

“There’s not a businessman in this country that doesn’t owe the revenue money”

Really Sharon Keogan? I know a lot of business owners who work hard and are tax compliant?

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Pope Leo against Donald Trump!

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

President Trump has posted this picture on social media of himself as Christ healing the sick. I’ve long given up saying how hard it is to think of any previous US president who behaved like Donald Trump, but comparing himself to Jesus puts him on another level altogether.

[Pat Somers @PatSomers]

Fuel protests leader James Geoghegan pursued by Revenue for debts totalling almost €550,000

https://t.co/ItAp4zv6Yi

[Niall O’Connor @NiallJournal_ie]

Another convoy of trucks has gone in to Whitegate Refinery. Safe to say blockade is no more.
And there is the famed army “beast” tow truck.
Despite disinfo online about it - no group of troops deployed. It wasn’t used. The protestors gave their keys to Gardaí. @thejournal_ie

[Brigid Laffan @BrigidLaffan]

@griptmedia Refusing to give a urine sample to the guards 3 times is total and utter disgrace

[maura @curlymo_99]

Shame the morons protesting are unable or unwilling to understand this. They are making an already difficult fuel situation (directly caused by Trump) into a disaster. Bannon’s toxic bullshit all over this mess.

[🆂🅺 🌻 @SK_00001]

For the slow ones (and they are a lot of them)
- Irish taxes on diesel are not particularly high in EU
- No one was protesting about these a month ago
- Trump started a war which spiked prices
- Protests started (funnily only in Ireland)
So the trigger is the problem.

[Brigid Laffan @BrigidLaffan]

@ciaranmullooly @GovIE You were entirely wrong in your statements -as a professional
Journalist you let the side down. More importantly as a politician you always opt for the extreme on all issues. Ranting & raving which is what you were doing is just plain wrong.

[Brigid Laffan @BrigidLaffan]

@laoisedebrun So you as a barrister have sympathy for someone who has had 500,000 Euro tax charges against him. Some barrister

[Pat Somers @PatSomers]

When you stumble across an Irish ukulele jamming session on a Friday afternoon in Portugal