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@Polito_loco A history of drug addiction, are we talking about Eileen, she's off her rocker!!

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@john_mcguirk Hopefully they've just scored a spectacular own goal here now, drawing the attention of the RTE disciples to Gript.

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@EoinLenihan The country also offers a peaceful, green environment with , free public transport connecting the entire nation. Therefore we all know Ireland would be richer in title only. Such bullshit!! It's a kip in comparison.

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@EoinLenihan Living in Luxembourg offers a exceptionally high quality of life, characterized by very high salaries,, a strong social security system, and top-tier healthcare. Residents benefit from a safe, environment with extensive multilingual, free education and a strong work-life balance

[Lorraine Morris @MLorrM]

This scenario feels very familiar indeed.

In Ireland, we’ve already seen something strikingly parallel with Simon Harris as Tánaiste and Minister for Finance.

Harris left college (Dublin Institute of Technology, studying journalism and French) without completing his degree to dive straight into politics. He says that former Taoiseach, Enda Kenny (Mr Justice Senan Allen’s friend) encouraged him.

He was elected as a county councillor at 22, a TD at 24 (the “baby of the Dáil”), and rose through party ranks and junior ministerial roles without a university qualification, economics degree, or any background in finance or financial services.

Harris’ early experience included a stint as Minister of State at the Department of Finance (focusing on areas like public works and procurement). He was there when Irish SMEs & entrepreneurs were being slaughtered by the RBS Group via Ulster Bank & gearing up for a sham Banking Inquiry - he was clearly “following orders” by looking the other way.

He has served in high-profile roles like Health, Higher Education and Foreign Affairs, before taking on the finance brief in late 2025 after @Paschald rather rapid (but apparently planned) exit amidst @FinanceIreland_ & @PTSBIreland “controversies”. No one else wanted the brief- or perhaps no one with the Irish vice of regular independent thinking ?

Critics have and will point to the same questions raised about Rayner: does the lack of any real finance background amount to sufficient preparation for steering national finances, budgets, tax policy, debt management and market credibility?

The pattern is recognizable across both cases:

🔹Emphasis on personal narrative, rapid political ascent over formal expertise.

🔹Major reliance upon captured civil servants, advisors and institutional ballast (would be Treasury in the UK; Department of Finance in Ireland) to fill gaps - all suiting “the narrative”.

🔹An in-depth finance background might interfere with pre-agreed “strategies” about which citizens have no credible input (erosion of constitutional property rights);

There is tension between democratic representation (politicians from diverse/non-elite paths) and the technical complexity of modern economies.

However, when it comes to the keys to the national coffers, demonstrated competence in economic stewardship tends to matter more for stability and results.

🔹It is damning that Harris has witnessed the destruction of Irish SMEs and entrepreneurs via the RBS Group and remained silent.

In both countries, voters should ultimately judge by outcomes - rather than origin stories.

By those measures, Harris has been following his orders & will eventually be known for:

🔹 witnessing the systematic and covert “profit extraction” of Irish citizens post-bailout through swap & mortgage abuses and remaining silent;

🔹making multiple false promises on healthcare - in particular children’s’ healthcare;

🔹failure to protect the public finances from a giant construction company’s growing greed as they went about building the most expensive childrens’ hospital in the world - and marvelled at the soft contract & non-existent controls; &

🔹potentially his public gaffe whereby he put forward his belief that there were 18 variants of CoVID prior to CoVID 19.

[Meda Carey @IrelandMeda]

The government killed off Benefacts.
Two ministers saw to it.
Micheal McGrath and
Paschal
O’Donoghue.
Benefacts was becoming too good at showing where the €14bn was going, including uncomfortable details like executive salaries and the exact level of State dependency in certain NGOs.
They didn't just ignore the public, they ignored their own commissioned experts. Indecon found that Benefacts was highly cost effective.
They claimed other departments could take over but none stepped up. Why?
Department’s like Education, Health and Tusla plus the CSO explicitly said they used the data everyday.
Today, as Michael McGrath champions "transparency" across Europe and Paschal Donohue leads the world bank’s strategic relationships with governments, civil society, and major philanthropies worldwide, the Irish public is left without the very tool they allowed to be dismantled.
They shuttered Ireland’s transparency window only to walk into elite global jobs preaching the very openness they just dismantled.
Shameful.
https://t.co/A8frXqFx0d

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@DarrenPlymouth Thankfully those idiots in this video have to live with that shame. Even with a mask disguising them, they know themselves deep down how pathetic an individual they are. I'd say most wish a virus had of got them and ended their misery. 😂

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@griptmedia There's no denying it any more, even Sweden realises it's mistake. Recently in Copenhagen, beautiful, clean city friendly people. Tough on immigration. 20 mins across the bridge to Malmo, homeless, beggers, dirty city, bit of a kip!! Easy on immigration and it sure shows.

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@EoinLenihan @KarlMartinIrl @ardias40k @chumponabike The change is shockingly fast, lightning speed and steam rolled. From an impoverished island up to the 80's to billions squandered for IPAS in 2 generations. Never mind the exotic people. I remember the change from a 4st sack of spuds to jars of Dolmio and curry sauce. 🤣

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@karldeeter Well that sets a high bar for public sector sackable offences. Momentous failure. Meanwhile in the real world, sales people who can't make targets are let go everyday. La la land the public service. Shocking stuff.

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@paddymacc1 And spent all the money on bringing them with nothing left for supporting infrastructure. Not even intelligent enough to think, we'll take half the amount in and then invest the other half in services. A race to the bottom.

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@EoinLenihan Ireland is so rich that Dublin is frequently ranked among the slowest European cities for transport, often cited as having one of the worst-performing capital city networks due to severe congestion and a lack of high-capacity rail, with traffic speeds frequently ranked 2ndslowest

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@EoinLenihan Ireland is so rich that every bank Holiday weekend the trains don't run as something or other has to be fixed on our pathetic not fit for purpose rail network. Country littered with single track and Donegal so inaccessible that it could be another state altogether.

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@TheMandyGall @SocDems She is vile!!

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@Martin10820038 @Polito_loco This mentality blows me away, but sure we have our own, yes we do, hence why we shouldn't import more. This country has zero standards when it comes to imports. 100,000 now a year to lock up in prison now. Prevention is better than cure!

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@ManDearSir There's no such thing as integration here, its just full on dumping them in, letting them group together and then giving them interpreters for a lifetime!!

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@keira_con Has anyone noticed we can't seem to find Irish doctors, nurses, sales assistants, bus drivers etc etc etc. I bet the DEI has a LOT to do with it too. I've been in convenience stores where not a word of English spoken all over the city too. Make it make sense?!?

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@Deiscirt 100%

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@PQuinlanNP @JakeFitzsimons There's migrant nurse's Ireland too who lobby the same for themselves. Standards have been lowered in relation to IELTS, English standards lowered to cater to them, at our expense. My last visit to a gp, he took out his phone so I could spell my medication!

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@FeelinDespair There's also an Indian nurses one too!! No bother making demands. If your a nurse you're a nurse, you don't need too differentiate yourselves. But they do and make their demands. No DEI for these when they group together!!