Josh

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[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

Good news for Man City fans in Ireland: we offer direct flights to Luton, Birmingham, Bristol, Bradford and Cardiff ⬇️

[UF @UtdFaithfuls]

Tottenham have played 5 legaue games so far. Won ZERO. Scored 2 goals, and conceded 8.

Their next game is against Man Utd at Old Trafford after the international break.

You just know we're handing Tottenham their first win of the season at our own backyard.

[Ken O’Flynn TD @kenoflynnTD]

€66.7 MILLION of your money.

You paid it at the till on bottles and cans. You never got it back.

Now the private operator Re-turn is sitting on it and says it's "not required" to tell you where it goes or what the bosses are paid.

Not good enough. I won't let it drop.

[David McWilliams @davidmcw]

Morning, @IrishTimes @IrishTimesOpEd article today is on the monumental waste of public money that plagues Ireland. The State is pissing billions away every year. The figures are startling. No one is accountable.
https://t.co/NyvbKIhqIY

[Josh @j0shuah]

@Eintrachtrob They really are useless!

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

Cyclist who gave gardaí footage of drivers' mishaps issued fine as it showed him running red light, GSOC report details

Read more: https://t.co/CjCAskeDpw

[Rob Carry @RobCarryBray]

Ireland's prices are 45% higher than the EU average, according to a new report.

The second most expensive country in the EU.

Ireland's political class are crippling ordinary working families.

Data from Eurostat.

[Scoil na nAmadán @NaAmadan]

Enoch Burke said he didn’t get tickets but he’s going to show up at the concert anyway.

[Ciara Quill ☘️🇮🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺 💚💛 @ciaraquill]

#edchatie
Teach them to cook!
Teach them to drive/rules of the road!
Teach them to swim!
Teach them to budget!
Teach them first aid!
Now
Teach them empathy!

Seriously!?!

How about the government fund schools properly & do something about the worsening teacher shortage!?

[Ciarán - Crazy House Prices @crazyhouseprice]

@NewstalkFM For the visual learners

[Gillian Sherratt @GillSherratt23]

An email sent to An Taoiseach @SimonHarrisTD this morning. I’ll keep you all posted if I hear back ❤️

Hi Simon, I am writing to you as an incredibly concerned parent of an 8.5 year old boy, Harvey. Harvey has Spina bifida and scoliosis which in itself is challenging, but when those conditions are coupled with a lack of access to therapy, a hospital that is potentially misappropriating funds, and incredibly long wait lists for urgent and life changing surgeries, then it becomes impossible to adequately care for your child. 
Harvey had an Xray in January 2024 that showed his scoliosis curve is at 110°, if you have read in to scoliosis then I am sure you are aware how this is at a point where it is detrimental to his health and quality of life. 
Harvey was under Connor Green and was listed for urgent surgery in February 2022 after repeated pneumonia infections, 30 months later he is still only on the surgical list under Connor Green as he does not have a surgeon willing to operate. 
The task force you hold in such high regard has not made contact with my family, nor is there any details online of how to contact them to enquire as to when your child will finally be treated. 
You continually tell families like ours that you care, and you have been promising to fix this since 2017. 2017 was the year we were told that Harvey’s ribs were crushing his lungs and controlling his scoliosis was life and death. 
Here we are in 2024 and nothing has changed except we now have a surgeon under investigation, longer wait lists, more children waiting, a still not complete hospital, and funds not being spent as intended and no answers yet as to where the money *we* fought for went. 
You say you care but your actions have left us feeling anything but. 
We as a family also have a child facing open heart surgery next month and this is just more stress and concern that we do not need. 
Another summer has just passed and Harvey has spent the majority in his room, often needing to go back in to bed because he is in so much pain. Is that the life you think the children of Ireland deserve? Would you accept that if it was your own child? 
Can you imagine being told your child has a potentially life threatening condition but that it will be years before it would be treated?

We need actual action, not more empty promises. 

You need to engage with all advocacy groups, not just those that are currently working with the task force. There are very valid reasons why the other groups have chosen to not engage and they need to be heard. 

We need contact details and open dialogue with the task force so that we can actually feel its existence. 

We need answers as to where the funding for scoliosis and spina bifida services went. 

Most of all, these children need to get their quality of life back before their whole childhood passes. 

I look forward to hearing from you. 

Kind Regards. 
Gillian Sherratt

[Casual Geopolitics @Casualgeopol]

What if Hämas was hiding in Israel? https://t.co/u5v2omnV1E

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

Savinho joined City Football Group owned Troyes in 2022 for €6.5m + €6m in bonuses as their record signing - should have been a key part of their side, right? Wrong.

He never played a game for them, instead loaned to PSV & City Football Group owned Girona. He plays a key role at Girona, helping them qualify for the Champions League. Troyes meanwhile, suffer back to back relegations.

Due to new regulations, players cannot transfer between clubs in the same multi-club ownership model - convenient for Savinho & CFG. Now Troyes will receive £33.7m.. from themselves. What a tough negotiation that would've been.

This is money laundering, it is cheating, it is corruption. How is football as a whole so comfortable with this?

[Joe Troy @TheRealJT23]

"One of the greatest moments in Ireland sporting history".

Let's start a thread of how many thousand events are ahead of this.

[Josh @j0shuah]

You never know where @joelycett will pop up! I never knew he played the flute in a traditional Irish Ceilí group- he’s a natural! 🪈 👏

[Gordon Ramsay @GordonRamsay]

An important #FathersDay message from me…WEAR A HELMET ! This week I had a bad accident while riding my bike in CT. I'm doing ok and I’m thankful for all the doctors, nurses and staff at @LMHospital who looked after me but most thankful for my helmet that saved my life. Be Safe

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

“The Sack of Balbriggan” on the 20th September 1920 is an often forgotten atrocity of the War of Independence. Those familiar terrorizers of civilians, the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), doled out the usual taste of British “justice” to disloyal Irish subjects.

The chief constable of the RIC Peter Burke and his brother sergeant Michael Burke were having a few jars in Smyth's pub Balbriggan. Their little session was rudely interrupted by local IRA operatives Michael Rock and John Denham.

The two paramilitaries shot both RIC men, wounding Michael but killing the chief constable Peter. This assassination precipitated that time honoured tool of British colonialism...revenge via collective punishment.

In a massively disproportionate and dishonourable response, three troop carriers full of Auxiliaries and the dreaded Black and Tans stormed into the little town. Nearby Gormanston barracks were also furious at their RIC colleagues being attacked, so they sent another 200 soldiers to join the sacking of the town. The barbarians practically razed Balbriggan to the ground.

They burned pubs, factories, and even homes to ashes. Dozens more gaffs were riddled with bullets and torn through by rabid auxillaries and Tans as scores of terrified innocent families were dragged from their beds and battered out in to the street.

The smell of burning, the sound of screams and gunshots in the air. The horror children must've experienced, the helplessness husbands and wives mustved felt, knowing the trigger happy terrifiying black and tans might put a bullet in a loved ones head, or worse.

After the violence and trauma caused by these “peacekeepers” two local IRA volunteers called John Gibbons and James Lawless were arrested and dragged to the RIC barracks in Balbriggan.

It will not surprise you that they were brutally beaten to near death before being bayoneted and shot. Their bodies were left on display for locals to see. The good people of Balbriggan and millions more Irish subjects of the crown were reminded that there truly was no chaos like British order, no terror like British peacekeeping.

[David de Gea @D_DeGea]

Manchester is and always will be RED! 🔴🔴

[Josh @j0shuah]

@Education_Ire @NormaFoleyTD1 Why was the grant cut?