Finbar O'Brien

Celtic, European citizen, Bruce Springsteen and ESB any order..

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

@JohnWight1 More likely to be unemployed, on benefits with an addiction use. Also probably been done for domestic abuse. Looking for an identity and doesn’t know anything that’s going on in the world. Just a guess..

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

Rangers top on, says it all really.

[Albie @MyDugAlbie]

Tempers fly when a police van knocks over a guy blocks the road.

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

I can live with punctures in the summer🌞

[Sarah | ROADMAN CYCLING PODCAST @SarahAnnEgan]

LOADS of cyclists stopped to ask were we ok, did we have everything we needed to fix this flat. Made my heart warm. We had everything under control but it was still nice to be asked! Thank you fellow cyclists! ❤️😍🥰💋

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

£250k a year after being seriously injured could be viewed as generous!

[Football Away Days @AwayDaysFB]

Michail Antonio on the contract West Ham offered him when he was recovering from his car crash:

“Karren Brady told me she’d offer £5k-a-week with the under-21s. I said, 'How can you offer that when the under-21s are on more than that and I’ve been at this club for 10 years?'

Her response was, 'Well, they haven’t been in a car crash and shattered their leg."

What an absolute horrid way to treat a club legend who had a life altering crash...

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

Gerald Ratner has been outdone at last 🤣🤣

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Not sure a political stunt has ever backfired as spectacularly as Nigel Farage triggering a by-election and going head to head with Count Binface.

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

Back in the saddle, well done you👍👍

[Emma Vardy @EmmaVardyTV]

Well that’s a glorious maternity leave over. A beautiful, exhausting, unforgettable few months that I’ll treasure forever with both my boys. Here’s to all the working mums juggling the night feeds, the nursery drop offs and the return to the office. We go again ❤️

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

@StanCollymore Lucky to get away with only 1-0. Terrible first half, better second. IMO, solid shout for penalty for Scotland. Need to get the shooting boots on for Brazil as we lacked an edge in final third.

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

Not all pensioners “paid” into the state pension. Those who didn’t probably need it more than those who worked and have other pensionable income. The pension should increase annually but the triple locks needs to go.

[joe-lincs @lincslincs]

The full UK State Pension is now worth around £12,548 a year. That's less than half the earnings of someone working full-time on the National Minimum Wage, despite many pensioners paying taxes and National Insurance for 40, 50 or even 60 years.

Yet every time the Treasury needs money, the same voices appear demanding the Triple Lock be scrapped.

Why?

State pension spending is forecast at around £154 billion this year, but that supports over 13 million pensioners, many of whom rely on it as their primary income. Meanwhile, billions continue to disappear into failed projects, government waste, bureaucracy, consultants, quangos and policies that deliver little value to ordinary taxpayers.

The Triple Lock isn't some gold-plated luxury. It exists because politicians allowed the State Pension to fall behind for decades. Even today, a full State Pension is barely above the poverty line and is nowhere near a typical working wage.

If politicians want to save money, start with waste, inefficiency and failed spending programmes.

Leave pensioners alone.

They worked, they paid in, they built this country and they deserve dignity in retirement, not another raid on their income.

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

Another idiot fanning the flames under the guise of journalism.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Horrific incident, and a very disturbing revelation about the attacker’s immigration status. Who gave this murderous maniac leave to remain in UK?

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

Get him sacked, total throbber.

[Tom Jamieson @jamiesont]

Screaming foul mouthed abuse at a woman in the street isn't British.

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

@TimesRadio
Any chance we could get some other “news” today other than the three hour soap opera on the John Pienaar show last night?

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

I initially read that as “taken apart”

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

I expect to be taking part in a debate on Ukraine at the Oxford Union tonight at 8.30

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

Don’t think there “knowledge” of history stretches that far back.

[Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah]

I do wonder whether all these white-faced, furious self-righteous TRumpoid anti-Iran warmongers even *know* that the Reagan administration actually supplied arms to Iran in the 1980s.

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

Poor sex workers

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: Lindsey Graham is accused of hiring gay sex workers

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

If only he could stop his own war with Iran, it would be great, but he can’t, why, because ultimately he’s so f@£”ing dumb. The end.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump: “When I didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. You gotta understand, I don't care. Norway has lost so credible. I stopped 8 wars… I do it the best. I stopped wars that nobody thought—President Putin called me, he said, 'I can't believe you stopped this one and this one.’”

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

“You’re” government up to ten minutes ago!

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Britain has paid Norway over £100 billion for gas since 2021.

For gas they’re drilling in the North Sea, the same sea Ed Miliband has banned new drilling in on the British side.

Madness.

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

@piersmorgan TBH, I am more concerned being bombed by our closest friends…

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

John Cleese has went old man daft, no one listens to him much.

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

John, you made a career mocking the ignorant. It's sad to see you now joining their ranks.

Islam does not teach Muslims to kill all non-Muslims. In fact, the Quran explicitly commands kindness and justice towards those of other faiths.

Can you go back to being funny please?

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

You are a year early, maybe that’s the demo you’re hearing😉

[Mike Scott @MickPuck]

Rod's 1982 hit Baby Jane is playing in this cafe. His voice is so harsh and ragged it's like a dragon on lead vocals.

[Finbar O'Brien @brien_finbar]

The world is laughing at how stupid you and your followers are, stereotypical dumb, daft Americans!

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

BREAKING: Trump says “the world respects us right now more than they have ever respected us before"