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@alemannoEU The process of ceding the chair to another Trio partner is done informally for specific issues where the Presidency cannot be an honest broker. Digital and tax have been handled properly and fairly by all previous Irish Presidencies.

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@alemannoEU There is no procedure by which Ireland could “recuse itself”. What a Pandora’s box that would be!

Handy to have this list of self-regarding academic poseurs, many of whom are lauded as sages in Ireland precisely because they hate the Irish economic model.

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@CarlowWeather Thar map shows 19 degrees in South Dublin but 27 next door in North Wicklow. How come this massive divergence along the East Coast?

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@JamesMo77923610 @TFHBs Anyone over 60 know this for a fact. Brazil '70 lifted football to another level. Maradona did not score the goal of the century - Carlos Alberto did, againt Italy https://t.co/NsBvrowDil

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@CarlowWeather It’s been “Summer” in Ireland for over three weeks!

If the last week of August ever feels like summer in Ireland, we call it an “Indian Summer”

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@higginsdavidw Most impressive - Claude was given the essential data but made a laughable mess. There’s hope for us all.

It did get one thing right - Vote Left, Transfer Left is a strategy which only benefits the SDs . From now on, you won’t hear it from Mary Lou or Ivana.

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@globalds @just_a_guy_51 @aerockrose @grok 1. Get the interviewer to write (not right) it down. Show you’re no schmuck.

2. Take the bet if you think the interviewer is a schmuck like Steve Ballmer who can’t even bluff convincingly.

3. The moment he hesitated, she should have said 59 or 61.

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@LeonEmirali This is your best evidence for Biden?! He completely misunderstands the question (just ONE thing!), makes an outlandish attack on his neighbour, tries to recover his mistake, makes a creepy comment about his neighbour‘s wife. Was he trying to out-Trump the Donald?

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@AnMailleach No, President Higgins did the same with the Planning and Development Bill 2023 which he only signed after inviting others to challenge in Court.

Article 27 may be a dead letter or only used when the President wants the Supreme Court to ring fence favoured legislation.

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@danobrien20 Read to the very end
“Sally Rooney is a novelist”.
Superb Anagnorisis

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@danobrien20 Not keeping pace with the staggering rise in Government expenditure overall - 78.7% since 2016.

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@beansontheearth @danobrien20 Wrong - cumulative inflation over the past 10 years is 28.4%. Almost all of that is post-pandemic.

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@LiosGlas49 @danobrien20 No, no no no no. A thousand times No. There was neo-liberalism in the 60’s and 70’s with Fianna Fáil in power ( except 1973 - 77 with Labour in government). And Charlie Haughey as Finance Minister! Don’t be confusing us with your statistics!

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@danobrien20 That chart is obviously wrong but already has >5,500 likes+retweets. Ireland's public infrastructure and services are not far inferior all other EU countries. Beál Bocht 2.0?

But @davidmcw is right to call out the current malaise in public infrastructure development

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@SineadOS1 @peter_lydon @MimCotton Are you talking about wealth or income? The distinction is crucial for Ireland which was poor for so long and which experienced huge wealth destruction from 2008 - 2012.

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@SineadOS1 I've lived in many of these countries and visited them all. Each has its strengths and weaknesses which we could usefully study but Ireland is not a total laggard and in some areas we are among the best.

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@SineadOS1 Sorry - Ireland's public infrastructure and services are not far inferior to all other EU countries, most obviously not e.g. Bulgaria and Romania. Denmark's are at least equal to Germany's. And Sweden > France. Amazing how many here agree with you. Beál Bocht 2.0?

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@brianmlucey @robggill No, what legal right could the fuel suppliers assert? Of course the refineries / ports could get injunctions immediately but that solves nothing. The Gardai already have the legal power to break the blockades. The issue is political will.

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@nwl88444048 Since 2021, Ireland shares this information using SIS II (Schengen Information System) but passports stolen recently may not yet be entered in the system or the passports are only reported "stolen" afterwards.

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@AnMailleach So our courts must quash any decision by a State body which is inconsistent with these climate change objectives. Why did FG and FF allow the Greens to hold hostage every relevant State agency?

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@AnMailleach Every relevant body now must perform its functions in a manner consistent with a series of climate plans/strategies/frameworks and "the objective of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the effects of climate change in the State.”