Of course global warming and climate change overall is a bad thing but locally the odd extra sunny day can be considered a bonus , just stating the obvious .
Ireland went from normal to multicultural in about 20 years. Now everything is about race, ethnicity, colour, identity, culture. It has already hit crazy levels and is only going to get worse.
🚨NEWS: The Tories have agreed to ban foreign nationals from council homes in the UK
That means Restore Britain, Reform UK and The Conservatives have all now pledged to do this
When Jordan controlled the Old City (1948–1967), it ethnically cleansed every Jew, destroyed or desecrated every synagogue, and banned Jews from crossing to enter their holiest sites.
No one called it genocide. No one called it apartheid.
This feels like a good moment to remember that Ireland got rich not by producing much or innovating anything, but mostly by becoming one of the world's biggest tax havens -- by enabling large companies from other nations to hide their tax revenues from their home nations.
Apple, Microsoft and Google have routed many hundreds of billions of dollars through Ireland to shelter their profits.
Israel, in contrast, got rich by innovating at a colossal scale. It spends 6% of its GDP on R&D, the highest of any nation on Earth. 10% of its workforce works in tech.
That's why those same Apple, Microsoft and Google all built massive R&D centers in Israel, alongside 500 other multinationals. The defense tech is famous, but Israel is also a global powerhouse in water and agriculture. And it draws 10% of global deep-tech investment in medical devices and food R&D.
So a tax-cheat nation that got rich by impoverishing others now refuses a safety system meant to land planes safely in the fog from a nation that actually produces new and useful things for the world.
It's one thing not to buy arms, or to exact political costs for a war you hate. This isn't that. This is just sanctimonious narcissism.
Take the fog safety system, you preening tax-cheats. We promise to look the other way.
The Ir Times is today reporting that the Taoiseach “ has stopped short of denying reports that the Government has ordered a jet for Ministers and officials that could face difficulties landing because it does not have an Israeli-made navigational system.” In the same story he is reported as trying to launch a conspiracy theory by warning about the source of the information that has emerged about the jet. He also acknowledges the other uses of the jet, which include assisting Irish citizens in emergency circumstances.
The government is obliged to ensure a jet acquired for state & public purposes has all up to date safety & navigational. equipment. It is a specific duty also of the Defence Minister responsible for its purchase. There is also an obligation of transparency .
A responsible government not dedicated to appeasing the Israel hating BDS cult would have required the Elbit navigational system which assists landing in foggy conditions was installed. The Taoiseach shld clarify which member of cabinet as Defence Minister prescribed its exclusion & publish all technical & safety information briefed at the time of purchase. He shld also state whether the exclusion of the Elbit navigational system is recorded as a cabinet made decision.
The anti Israel obsessive Irish insanity continues.Limerick Clr,revisiting Limericks history as the only Irish city in the 20th century(1904)where there was a pogrom & boycott of its small Jewish community, wants Israel excluded from Frisbee Championship! https://t.co/YVMga3vhzd
@karldeeter Happy to criticise them around infrastructure, housing, planning etc. In interests of balance, inflation up 30% in decade. Lot of investment not discussed, childcare costs down considerably, free schoolbooks, more access to free primary healthcare, national broadband plus more
If truckers get fined £2,000 for every illegal found hidden in their trucks entering the UK,
Why don't the RNLI get fined £2,000 for every illegal they bring into the UK
They keep telling us the public has moved to the right. The public hasn’t moved anywhere. They’re standing exactly where they were in 2019, waiting for somebody to do the thing they voted for.