Hemerson Macalão

Born in the year of Our Lord 1982 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Opinions are my own. I'm quite sarcastic, so Likes and Retweets are not necessarily endorsements.

[Hemerson Macalão @macalao]

@IrishRail This beauty has just arrived, thank you CL!

[Hemerson Macalão @macalao]

@IrishRail hi guys, is the 18:59 GCD to Drogheda currently expected to depart from GCD? A departure from Connolly would sincerely make me cry... 😂😂

Thank you!

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

🚨 SHOCKING — These are the exact same Reform activists who flood X every day screaming, lecturing, and telling everyone how Britain should be run…

Yet 24 hours after getting elected in Kirklees, they stand up in full council and admit:

“I don’t understand the Constitution…
I don’t understand standing orders…
I don’t understand what an amendment is.”

Then they whine it’s “not democratic” they might vote on things they don’t understand

This is the terrifying danger of populist rage politics: loud online warriors with ZERO clue how to actually govern.

Handing real power to people who don’t even know where to start is how countries collapse.
Watch this embarrassment 👇👇👇👇CC: @LesTrumpeter

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has just called to congratulate us on our victory.

[An Coimisiún Toghcháin, The Electoral Commission @ElecCommIRL]

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[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Are world leaders planning to intervene? https://t.co/upDhXehTok

[Dún Laoghaire Central Residents Association @dunlaoghairecra]

Planning was submitted yesterday, it will be an improvement to see these empty shop units filled. So many of them have been empty for years.

[Hemerson Macalão @macalao]

Momentum is building for a direct Ireland–Brazil flight, at last...

[Darragh O'Brien @DarraghOBrienTD]

Great to join Vice Governor Felício Ramuth and his team in São Paulo to discuss the growing links between Ireland and Brazil 🇧🇷

[Darragh O'Brien @DarraghOBrienTD]

Great to meet with the team at LATAM Airlines here in São Paulo today. 🇧🇷✈️

We had a really positive discussion about potential connectivity opportunities and the growing links between Brazil and Ireland through our businesses and our people.
@IEAmbBrazil @irlandanobrasil

[Lars Christensen @MaMoMVPY]

That post from Ursula von der Leyen is getting quite a bit of attention on social media. It's mostly people poking fun at Europeans for not wanting to work at weekends (often from self-loathing Europeans).

But seriously – what are Europeans supposed to say? The US and Israel have launched an attack on Iran. An attack that in no way adheres to international rules. And the Europeans were not consulted in the slightest.

In Europe, we have a war – Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine. That should be our focus. The US has demonstrated time and again that it has no respect for Europe. So why should we even have any opinion on this whatsoever?

Europe's view of the Iranian regime is crystal clear and always has been. That hasn't changed – and everyone ought to know it.

Foreign policy is not conducted on social media – and it is exceedingly rare that a decades-long problem can be fixed with missiles over a weekend. It has never happened.

It is therefore completely irrelevant what the Europeans might have to say in the middle of an attack whose outcome nobody can predict.

So yes, it is perfectly reasonable to announce that we in the EU will meet on Monday – and yes, there has undoubtedly been a great deal of inter-European communication in the run-up to this attack and over the weekend, but political decisions are simply best taken when proper procedures are followed and a strategy is put in place.

Trump may well believe that problems are solved with bombs and idiotic pronouncements on social media, but day by day the long-term costs of this behaviour are mounting – geopolitically and economically.

And yes, when the time comes to clean up after Trump's mess, I rather suspect the Americans will come expecting the Europeans to muck in with the clean-up.

That'll be a no from us.

[SMART BALBRIGGAN @smartbalbriggan]

Delighted to share from Brussels the energising kick off to periASTY, a 3-year EU funded project!

Inspiring parnters across Europe and in Ireland

Balbriggan Sustainable Energy Community @secbalbriggan
@ucddublin
@Fingalcoco
@BleeperActive

with support from Smart Balbriggan

[Taylor Hill Balbriggan @THRA_Balbriggan]

Ireland’s first National Strategy for Improving Community Safety is being developed by the National Office for Community Safety.

Let’s make sure the voices of people living in Taylor Hill and across Balbriggan are part of it.

📅 Open until 27/2

Link 👉 https://t.co/fqNhhy5s2C

[Hemerson Macalão @macalao]

@DublinAirport ❤️

[Victor @DegenTropics]

@SnowbieWx

[Hemerson Macalão @macalao]

@IrishRail Hi guys... in Lansdowne Road now, the Drogheda train is no more. Ceased to exist. How do I get home to Balbriggan now?! What's the next departure from Pearse or GCD?

[Hemerson Macalão @macalao]

@IrishRail Changed now, thanks again! 💚🧡

[Hemerson Macalão @macalao]

@IrishRail hi guys, the train which just departed from Balbriggan at 7:27 should be going to Bray, but the destination sign is saying Pearse? Could you clarify, please? We're arriving in Skerries in 3 min) Thanks!

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Is cloch mhíle shuntasach inár gcaidrimh é conchlúid an  Chomhaontaithe Saorthrádála idir An India agus an tAontas Eorpach inniu. Gabhaim buíochas le ceannairí uile na hEorpa thar na blianta as a spiorad cuiditheach agus as a dtiomantas a rinne an éacht seo indéanta. Neartóidh an comhaontú seo na ceangail eacnamaíocha, cruthóidh sé deiseanna dár muintir agus daingneoidh sé an chomhpháirtíocht idir an India agus an Eoraip ar mhaithe le todhchaí rathúil.

[Tom Nuttall @tom_nuttall]

The European Parliament never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

For anyone who would like to hear Mark Carney’s outstanding Davos speech in full here it is. This is what true global leadership looks like.

Canada should be immensely proud today, because they are leading the fight back when others dare not.

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