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[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

Simon Harris recently criticised jobseekers and NGOs.

But now the Tánaiste and his parents refuse to answer questions about whether the Harrises were eligible for a state-backed housing scheme that saw their €600,000 home sold and leased back to them after they’d accumulated mortgage arrears.

Simon Harris recently came under fire after telling his Fine Gael party colleagues, “We need to have a much closer look at what’s happening with public money when it goes out to organisations that are not the government.”

He also said, “The dole is a safety net, not a way of life.”

[TU Left Forum @TUnionLeftForum]

@wereontheditch Excellent work by the Ditch serious questions need answered.

Was the Household income cap breached?

Was the House undervalued?

Did Simon advise them of the scheme’s parameters?

Just for starters

[TU Left Forum @TUnionLeftForum]

@wereontheditch Excellent work by the Ditch serious questions need answered.

Was the Household income cap breached?

Was the House undervalued?

Did Simon advise them of the scheme’s parameters?

Just for starters

[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

Simon Harris – who recently criticised jobseekers and NGOs – and his parents won’t answer questions about whether the Harrises were eligible for a state-backed housing scheme that saw their €600,000 home sold and leased back to them after they’d accumulated mortgage arrears.

https://t.co/WsdxH8SgmE

[Paul Patrick @PaulTyredagh81]

😎👍👇🇨🇺

[TU Left Forum @TUnionLeftForum]

Full details;
RTE news : Tomorrow's strike suspended as unions agree pay deal

https://t.co/pLX2WGUrrd

[TU Left Forum @TUnionLeftForum]

#Update
Thursdays Public Sector Strike has been Suspended as agreement on pay reached in the WRC.

[TU Left Forum @TUnionLeftForum]

#Update
Public Sector Strike Suspended as agreement on pay reached in tge WRC.

[TU Left Forum @TUnionLeftForum]

Show your #Solidarity with Public sector workers by joining in Thursday 12/11/26 day of action
March in the rallies scheduled to take place in:

Limerick
Galway
Sligo
Letterkenny
Waterford
Tullamore
Dublin
Cork

A victory for these workers will have a knock on effect for workers

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

Hopefully you reminded Biden that Israeli Genocide in Palestine could not have happened without his unconditional support for Genocide. Did the Irish Government consider arresting this War Criminal for the terrible Crimes he's guilty of, or are we ok with hosting War Criminals..?

[TU Left Forum @TUnionLeftForum]

Show your #Solidarity with Public sector workers by joining in Thursday 12/11/26 day of action
March in the rallies scheduled to take place in:

Limerick
Galway
Sligo
Letterkenny
Waterford
Tullamore
Dublin
Cork

A victory for these workers will have a knock on effect for workers

[Michael Taft @notesonthefront]

At the weekend, the Tánaiste could have proposed new innovative policies to help the chronically long-term unemployed into jobs. Instead, he punched down on a tiny group of extremely disadvantaged people. This is not leadership. It is political thuggery: https://t.co/J4deHP6thU

[Conradh na Gaeilge ⭕️ @CnaG]

🫵 Ráiteas Nuachta @CnaG
🫵 News Release @CnaG

[TU Left Forum @TUnionLeftForum]

@CnaG The last sting of a dying wasp

[Conradh na Gaeilge ⭕️ @CnaG]

“Today’s announcement that the DUP will deploy the Petition of Concern in the Assembly this week to block and veto the Irish Language Workforce Planning Bill is scandalous. History tells us that when the DUP is faced with an intense internal crisis, they turn to attacks on the Irish language. In 2016, they removed the cross-community Líofa Gaeltacht bursary to deflect from their RHI scandal. A decade on, and the same DUP Ministers seek to block and deny legitimate Irish Language legislation designed to support the staff and teachers in Irish Medium Schools amidst the amazing growth of that immersive education sector. There is nothing radical about legislating for equitable and equal treatment for Irish speaking schools. The basis for this bill has come directly from schools themselves, who have lobbied tirelessly for a very modest statutory process to ensure they have the staff to meet the demands of their ever-growing classrooms and staffrooms. No party should be supporting this attempt to misuse the Petition of Concern as a sectarian veto against 7,000 Irish speaking students. That will punish every school and every child in the Irish language sector. The Petition of Concern was conceived as a mechanism to protect minorities. Using it in this way is an outrageous abuse of that mechanism. We will support our schools, teachers and young people in anyway we can as the campaign to achieve genuine equality from the state continues.”

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

As Simon Harris attacks the 1% of people unemployed.

Let's look at homeless figures since FG are in power:

2011: 3,258 (749 kids)
2026: 17,885 (5830 kids)

A 400% INCREASE overall - a 678% INCREASE for kids.

The audacity to attack the lowest as you've governed over this.

[Clare Daly @ClareDalyIRL]

Schools and hospitals are frequent victims of cybersecurity incidents. Why? Because maintaining secure IT infrastructure is expensive, and schools and hospitals are underfunded in our societies, and prioritise their core function over cyber security.

Protecting our schools and hospitals from cyber security incidents can be done with policy. It is mainly a case of adequate, ring-fenced funding for trained IT staff, upgrading and updating IT infrastructure and ensuring readiness to patch critical vulnerabilities in a timely way. It is about maintenance, not cybersoldiers playing Quasar on the internet.

Whenever schools and hospitals get hacked - like the HSE ransomware hack in 2020 - "experts" are platformed by the media to vomit out war propaganda, scaring and misinforming the public into accepting the canard that governments have been "lax" on defence, that we are "sitting ducks" and that the public needs to start writing cheques to arms companies to fix it.

Meanwhile, Europe is already in a widening spiral of unprecedented defence spending, obeying decrees from Washington. The main beneficiaries of that spending are arms companies and other defence contractors. Where is the cash coming from? You guessed it. It's being stolen out of our pockets and our public services.

Not only does this mindset fail to make us safer, it actually makes us less safe, by channelling public funds out of investment in critical civilian infrastructure and shoveling them into the gaping maw of a notoriously corrupt, notoriously unproductive defence industry, parasiting on the state like a giant leach.

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

Russia has never vetoed an Irish peacekeeping mission. The only country that actually did so was the US (in August 2025, when Washington insisted on winding down the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon).

One might reasonably expect the Taoiseach to know this. Particularly when he's lecturing others about Irish neutrality.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

RTÉ Radio now with a question to a former spook "why is Russia doing this"?

Posed as factual but ZERO evidence.

Russia mentioned 16 times in 5 minutes.

This is misinformation/propaganda in the extreme, right as a they want to scrap the triple lock.

It's not public service.

[TU Left Forum @TUnionLeftForum]

@thejournal_ie @FineGael are most certainly Right & are absolutely Wrong

They are the cause of
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#HousingCrisis
#healthcrisis

They blame people on the dole

Their cure get rid of the Triple Lock & Increase Military spending

Far Right & absolutely Wrong