@NMBI_ie It's an absolute disgrace that the "penalty fee" /restoration fee for not renewing your registration is over 3 times the original fee! Due to many personal issues and no electricity i went to pay my registration yesterday only to be told portal closed, name off register, pay 350!
@fastwayireland wheres my parcel??...tracked it and stated its been signed for....not true!!!!
This is the second time that this has happened with @fastwayireland !!!!
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Councillor @MalachySteenson announces a national mobilisation on July 13th at the Garden of Remembrance at 2pm opposing the government’s traitorous passing of the EU Migration Pact.
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ACT NOW: Put pressure on your TDs to vote against Ireland opting in to the new EU Migration and Asylum Pact. Minister Helen McEntee will this week seek agreement from government ministers for the country to sign up to the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact.
Ireland and Denmark are the only EU countries that have the legal right to opt-out of EU immigration policies under the Lisbon Treaty. There has been no national debate on whether Ireland should opt-in to the new Pact. Under Article 7.3 of our Constitution the State may exercise the opt-in provision to EU immigration policies if it is approved by both Houses of the Oireachtas.
The new Pact includes a "solidarity" Asylum and Migration Management Regulation (AMMR) whereby a minimum of 30,000 asylum seekers will be relocated across the EU per year from countries under "migration pressure". Each Member State will be responsible for accepting a quota of relocated asylum seekers based on population size and GDP, or pay €20,000 per asylum seeker applicant per annum. The Business Post has already confirmed that Ireland will be liable for more asylum seekers than most other European countries because our GDP is inflated with the presence of so many multinational corporations. The political establishment are trying to sell the new Pact to the Irish people by saying that Ireland will pay the fee of €20,000 per asylum seeker rather than accept additional applicants but we CANNOT trust these empty promises as they will do whatever they are ordered to do by their EU Paymasters. In any event, why would the Irish taxpayer pay any sum to the EU under the new PACT when we have no legal obligation to do so? We have already witnessed how they lied, concealed vital information and manipulated the Irish people to try to secure a yes vote in the Referendum, which spectacularly failed. Do NOT trust them now to serve our interests.
Our country is at breaking point and we have the highest ever recorded figures of homelessness. Denmark has exercised its right to opt out of EU immigration policies to protect social cohesion and so the government can look after its people. Denmark recorded the lowest ever level of asylum seeker applicants in 2022 whereas Ireland recorded the HIGHEST. Denmark is subject to the same international refugee laws as Ireland. Denmark has opted out of EU immigration policies because it cares about its people.
The EU relocation quotas will be in addition to the already massive influx of asylum seeker applicants into Ireland under the International Protection Act (IPA).
There is no rational, logical or justifiable reason why the State would voluntarily opt-in to a relocation pact that will place even further burden on our country.
The new Pact is a direct attack on Article 6(1) of our Constitution as the State will surrender even more Sovereignty to the EU, who will dictate the quota of relocated asylum seeker applicants Ireland must receive.
Contact your TDs today to DEMAND that they vote against Ireland opting in to the new EU Migration and Asylum Pact. Let them know that the people are watching. We must also continue to push for a Referendum on immigration as we cannot trust the corrupt political establishment to safeguard and protect our country, borders and the Irish people.
This is the truth about WHO pandemic treaty that corrupt government is trying to drag us into. 🌍😷💉🪪 An excuse to remove all human rights and freedoms forever under the guise of “Health & Safety”. A global pandemic / emergency declared indefinitely!!! 15 minute city.
The people of Ireland have had their first chance in four years to give their view as an electorate on the way they are being governed. This referendum result is their verdict on the political leadership class and it is a damning one.
Faced with secretly drawn-up proposals to dilute the significance of marriage for family life, and to dishonour women and motherhood by removing the only direct reference to their interests in Bunreacht na hEireann, and observing the ruthless way in which debate on these proposals was suppressed in the Dáil and Seanad, the people have – I think it is fair to say – snapped back. They weren’t confused. They knew what they were voting for. They didn’t like it. And they rejected it massively. The Irish people can be led. But they won’t be pushed.
The arrogance, secrecy, insider-ism, and sometimes duplicity, that characterised the selling of the so-called ‘Family’ and ‘Care’ referendums, not just by the Government and their allies in State-funded NGOs but also by the main opposition parties, Sinn Féin and the parties of the Left, has got the response it deserved. This arrogancy and insider-ism has characteristed the Government’s handling of a whole range of issues in recent years – from aspects of public health management during the pandemic, to controversies in recent times around migration and gender and the pushing of ideology at children in schools. In all these areas, we see a Government that seems to be in a propaganda war against its own people, unwilling to face up to or even acknowledge the existence of hard questions, mainly backed up by opposition parties who largely share their point of view that the people are not to be trusted, and a media that seems too often worried about biting the hand that feeds it.
The result is a loss of faith among many ordinary people in our democratic institutions. And to the rise of the citizen journalist and the citizen politician. Because the people do not want faceless people, with names we don’t know and no accountability to us, shaping our destiny.
Today we see a resounding defeat for the Government, Sinn Féin and other parties (with the honourable exception of Aontú). There are lessons to be learned:
-You can’t put referendum questions to the people without properly teasing them out in the Oireachtas first. The Government must apologise to people on this specific point and the main opposition parties should acknowledge their complicity in this.
-You can’t hijack the apparatus and resources of the State to push through your own ideological agenda. In that context, the three Government parties should be pressured to fundraise to pay back between €15m and €20m of taxpayers’ money that they squandered on a standalone referendum.
You can’t ignore for years the importance of promoting marriage as the bedrock of a stable society and then try to get rid of the only Constitutional incentive to marriage. The Government must now, in the light of today’s result, commit to policies to promote marriage as an institution that serves our society well.
You can’t use a promised recognition of care as the carrot to entice people to get rid of the only bit of Constitutional support that’s there for mothers and the vital work they do for us all. The Government must reflect on what it must do in future to promote recognition for fathers and carers without diluting the special Constitutional pledge to support motherhood.
The Government must stop playing ideological games. Today’s resounding reaffirmation of family life, marriage and the role of mothers, and the rejection of NGO-sponsored groupthink means the Government should press the pause button on its culture war policies, including to name three:
-its controversial hate speech legislation, with its lack of definition of hate and its strange new definition of gender; this Bill threatens our political freedom of expression;
-the abuse of the education system to promote gender ideology;
-any legislation that would try to underpin surrogacy, which turns children into commodities.
Right now, the Independents and Aontú are the only show in town telling the truth to people. That culture wars and ideology are the Government's focus, not the real challenges that people are facing in their lives.
Finally, there are two major concerns that have arisen in this campaign. One is the extent of mistruths peddled at the highest levels of Government. This brings politics into disrepute and cannot go unchallenged. Number two is the apparent abuse of the McKenna judgement principles which forbid the spending of public money on advocating one side of a referendum. When an organisation like the National Women’s Council, which gets 95% of its staffing costs from the State, is leading one side of a referendum campaign without any consultation with ordinary women across the country, you see another blatant case of insider-ism and the abuse of taxpayers’ money.
The Government and the main opposition parties have a lot to think about. They should start by apologising to the people today.
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@TicketmasterCS unable to go to this gig, clashing with a family birthday...tickets that I cannot sell at face value or transfer...absolutely ridiculous!!!!! Nothing to state same when buying them...😡
@TicketmasterIre@PearlJam Want to sell my tickets on site at face value as cannot attend but ticketmaster won't let me transfer or resale....what the hell???
@TicketmasterCS Well that's just bull*hit....I'm stuck with tickets that I can't use or sell and I'm sure there's fans that would buy them...I'm not looking to profit....I can't use them so I just want to sell at face value!!!!!!