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Father. Husband.

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Eamonn Nolan, who murdered innocent civilian Eamon Ryan during an IRA bank robbery in Tramore, shooting him in front of his three-year-old son, was pictured canvassing this week for Janice Boylan.
I wrote about why Sinn Féin/IRA want you to forget Ryan
https://t.co/iOnFGhYFaN

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@DRegan2025 @garrethmcdaid No it’s not. Renewables advocates never include the cost of the enormous grid investment required to run renewables, as they are disperse, non-synchronous therefore a backup synchronous energy supply (i.e. gas/coal etc) is required to be on standby. See👇
https://t.co/C94KUwTBOZ

[nwl @nwl88444048]

Govt has lost the battle on asylum. Look at the mountain of appeals they have allowed build up - 20,000 appeals now pending. These will never be cleared, and an amnesty is the only feasible solution.

Look at the Belfast-Dublin train on which there is brazen people trafficking and not a Garda to be seen, with Somalia arriving from Britain now making up 30% of all "arrivals".

Look at the deportation of failed asylum seekers. We were promised one charter flight a month in 2026. Yet four months in, there has been just one.

Look at the trafficking gangs making €5m a week in networks involving bent officialdom, transport workers, shepherds, solicitors and even employers. The last time a gang was dismantled was in 2023, and that was under Europol supervision.

The secret proposals reported in the Mail today (I'm fingering Mrs John Clifford Lee as the source) are civil service "we're doing something" hooey.

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@IrishTimes Drivel

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

Cut income tax - today's @thecurrency column.

Punitive personal taxes were introduced in Ireland 18 years ago to address a fiscal crisis that is long over.

Last year the government took in almost €45 billion in personal income taxes, up from €15 billion in 2010.

How has it used that three-fold increase (yes, that's a trebling) of income tax, USC and PRSI revenues?

Annual social expenditure rose by €25 billion 2015-2025, when the economy was growing strongly.

Having kept the lid on public sector pay from 2008-2016, when it stood at around €20 billion, it has since soared by €16 billion to €36 billion last year.

What scrutiny there is of government spending is too focused on one-offs (hospitals and bike sheds). There is little examination of annual recurring spending, of almost €50 billion on social spending and the €36 billion spent on the public service pay bill. Both rise by additional billions every year, as does almost every other spending line.

Ireland badly needs a Taxpayers' Alliance, because politicians are certainly not standing up for taxpayers. Across the political spectrum, parties all want ever more spending. None is calling for fundamental reform of one of the most punitive personal tax regimes in the world (ranked second worst in the OECD by the Tax Foundation).

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@hynessl @CiardhaMorgan Solar and wind are intermittent, low-density, geographically distributed generating technologies. No modern economy could rely solely upon them. There has to be back-up. This back-up is an additional cost of renewables. Which is hidden as it gets billed as a grid cost.

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@hynessl @CiardhaMorgan This is why - renewables advocates never include the cost of the enormous investment in the grid required to run renewables, as they are disperse, non-synchronous therefore a backup synchronous energy supply (i.e. gas/coal etc) is required to be on standby https://t.co/C94KUwTBOZ

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@joehas @rayofoghlu ISIF has invested in the latest round i.e. millions of euros of taxpayers money is going straight into the company - hard to say the states not supporting it.

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@TacticALmover @Keyes No it’s not. You need to factor in the cost of having backup gas on standby for when the wind doesn’t blow. And the costs to the grid of managing disperse connections of non synchronous energy. Also Spain has far more ☀️!

https://t.co/C94KUwTBOZ

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@M_C_Klein @Brad_Setser This is the result of US tax law, not Irish tax law. A relatively small amount of money in US budget terms, so not sure why he keeps banging this drum - just seems to have a strong desire to damage Ireland.

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@IrishTimesOpEd https://t.co/C94KUwTBOZ

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@IrishTimesOpEd This is bullshit. It’s impossible to have a fully renewable power grid. What happens when wind isn’t blowing ? We need gas to supply power. And requiring a permanent gas backup as well as upgrading the grid for renewables costs a fortune hence our electricity prices are so high.

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@IrishTimesOpEd https://t.co/KYQGkMiTPJ

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@jgeoghegantd How long did FG hold the justice ministry over the past 15 years!? You are responsible for the rise in violent thuggery

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@utdreport Shaw and Martinez terrible

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@Newrygal1 @DavQuinn I’m not. But if you read the report, you’ll see the nuns in Tuam did their very best for these people in horrendous circumstances. And it’s wrong that these Tuam nuns are being portrayed as child killers and slave traders.

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@HanM97x https://t.co/vXO77POvgx

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@HanM97x @DavQuinn They didnt murder anyone. The nuns at Tuam tried their best to help these poor mums and babies. Read the official investigation report: https://t.co/vXO77PP365

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@Newrygal1 @DavQuinn https://t.co/vXO77PP365