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Half Finnish 🇫🇮 Half Portuguese 🇵🇹 Born in London 🇬🇧 Living in Dublin 🇮🇪

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#OasisLive25 #Biblical

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The one and only Fleetwood Mac.

[Music over time🎻 @Peal8888]

After this performance the band did an interview saying this was the best performance they have ever done. Just this song. Everyone was on cue. Perfect. Not a note missed by anyone. Pitch. Tone. Timing. All perfect. They said they never performed this good ever before. And you can clearly tell.❤️

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@rte Great memories of going to his gigs back in the day. Huge loss.

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Your Song. Her Song. Love Elton and Lady G!

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Lady Gaga performed Elton John’s “Your Song” in front of him and absolutely nailed it!

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@IrishRail There was an ongoing alarm and a loudspeaker announcement to leave the building and not use the lift this morning. Appears to be a false alarm at Park West train station.

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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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Sunday

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@layxsnv C

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@bushontheradio Police 5

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@bushontheradio The Smurfs 😄

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@HMRCcustomers I made an online Class 2 contribution for 2025/26 received on 17 Feb. I didn't put the reference on it, so HMRC don't know what it's for. I can't get through on the phone and want to ensure it's allocated before the current Class 2 rate expires. Please help?

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

It was very cold, and to keep themselves warm they sang Pooh’s song right through six times, Piglet doing the tiddlely-poms and Pooh doing the rest of it, and both of them thumping on the top of the gate with pieces of stick at the proper places. ~A.A.Milne

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"I climb quickly against the cold winter wind, eyes on the ground ahead of me to avoid stumbling. Not until I have reached the top of the hill and turned to face the south where the stars are brightest do I look upwards, greeting them all." C.R.Milne #WinterSolstice

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@HMRCcustomers I've read that the overseas pension contributions will now move to Class 3 for everyone. I have some very old years that aren't full, is it correct I can't buy these at the cheaper Class 2 rate if they're older than 6 years? Can I pay for 2025-26 at Class 2?

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@IrishWater any update please on discoloured mains water in Park West Dublin 12? Already logged by others: Ref Number : HM1255191125

[Not Our Fault 100% Redress @NotOurFault100]

Big issue that OMC'S are facing throughout the country non payment of annual service charges are crippling most developments @IrishTimes #housing #apartmentdefects #mudactreform

https://t.co/6wZuDwuvPP

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#OasisLive25 #Biblical

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@DublinCommuters Great to see, but everything takes so long, I'll be 74 by 2050!

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@TFIupdates LARGE number of people waiting in Ballyfermot for G1 to Red Cow. I'm waiting an hour.