Brian Ward

Airplane jockey that ended up in the Middle East, Enjoys F1, Liverpool FC and a good pancake.

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@Motorsport Herta has actually done quite well so far . The standard in F2 is very high, made up of drivers that all came up through a Eurocentric background.

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@TomOHanlon17 The party along with independent Ireland must push for the nationality figures from each county council to be published. Given the social housing waiting time, citizenship should be the mimumum qualification. Data doesn’t have an agenda.

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@griptmedia @Ben_Scallan I think in future. Without expecting an answer Ben should just read out the text from the books to make these ministers feel as uncomfortable as possible.

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@TonightVMTV @DaraghCassidy All Shane could hear from that was one off housing. Shane loves high tax and hates one off housing!

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@danobrien20 @0x445352 I find it strange that every presenter when confronted with this reponds in a defensive manner to the tax regime. Their argument “ how else will we fund services”

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@higginsdavidw I don’t agree that the cheap Chinese option is way forward. Embracing this just accelerates the demise of European industry. European OEM cannot compete with Chinese component costs and in many cases have to buy the battery tech from Beijing.

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@higginsdavidw David. If the government were really serious about decarbonising why didn’t they target transport (major offender) like Norway did. Heavily subsidised EV’s and building a charging network second to none. Instead they subsidise retrofitting that only benefits higher earners.

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@OCallaghanJim @gardainfo @fiannafailparty Christ, who’s advising him?

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@TonightVMTV Government spokesman Coleman never ever mentions the wastage. The overspend.

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@NUJofficial @AontuIE “The allocation of funds” therein lies the problem. Journalism has lost the trust of the public. Short term pain of refusing government funding would go a long way to restoring credibility of the profession.

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@Independent_ie My mother has been on a trolly in UHL since Friday. Go do a few cartwheels there.

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@higginsdavidw Asking for a reduction in excise and carbon tax is hardly soviet price caps.

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@martinheydonfg You chose force over negotiation. A lot of political careers won’t recover from this

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@PaulTreyvaud @cooper_m His breakup with John Gibbons is going to be messy

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@MarkLTighe Mark. Even by the way that post was written the intent behind it is apparent. There’s a reason your profession is dying.

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@adrianweckler One of the weakest parts of the “Carbon taxes are ring fenced for climate action” argument is only the more affluent can afford the retrofits. They remain a luxury upgrade not a necessity. The very people in fuel poverty due to excise and carbon tax only dream of solar.

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@danobrien20 @KeithMillsD7 The latter cohort’s argument would stack up if the tax rate and state size corresponded to a first rate public service and infrastructure. The wastage reflects people’s the true frustration with the high tax rates.

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@ThomasByrneTD Stick it Thomas, the fact the excise and carbon tax was tolerated so long is tbe biggest disgrace

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@john_mcguirk @TomOHanlon17 It’s the standard playbook . Injustice occurs. People protest. Government make make the protest the problem. Irish media conform ( particularly the ones courting advisory work) somehow the national conversation switches to the protestors and not the reason for said protest

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@RubinReport “This wasn’t complicated. It was basic pattern recognition” It’s pretty obvious the Iranians figured that out too.