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@DefenceHQ @DanJarvisMBE @HMcEntee Yeah, the UK defends Ireland. Ireland hide behind them.

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@Dublinmarti What a bigoted scumbag he is.

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@unlimited_ls Throw their towels in the pool.

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@War_Radar2 Ok then putrid. Attack a NATO country.

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@irelandbattles That didn’t go so well. Scullabogoe changed everything.

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@rtenews Also known as Doctor Death. Known for injecting air in to the veins of Israeli children to ensure a slow painful death.

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@Glinner Hatred of Jews and Prods is ingrained in so many Irish minds. Children become radicalised by their parents and this gets reinforced by some politicians. All Prods and Jews are bad.

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@EliAfriatISR Cnut

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@seanhannity @JDVance

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@EoinLenihan Irish carers means tested while foreigners arrive and are handed everything free.

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Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters.

Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences.

Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning.

Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers.

You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional.

Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.

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@rtenews Would this be one of the Gaza doctors who injected air into the veins of Jewish hostages?

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@Glinner They are fukin obsessed.

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@MiguelDelaney Great to see these red white n blue flying in Dublin! 🤣

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@rtenews No surprise that Ireland is supporting Russia in this way. They stand by all the scummiest nations on earth.

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@TadhgCalbhaigh Right up there with the abomination that represented us in Eurovision last year.

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@rtenews I’ve often seen it waved aggressively in the face of unionists.

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@mouw5284 DEMONlished

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@IfindRetards Bigoted cnuts

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@SeanDubIreland If you want fun then go to Scotland, if you want racism, sectarianism and antisemitism, go to Ireland