Micheal Prendergast

[Micheal Prendergast @macemick]

@SnowbieWx Just for comparison, Claremorris got that in 24 hours in June 2012

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@VirginVoyages how can one change a payment method?

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@EddiePunch @rtenews There'll be no headline about that though @EddiePunch!

[Micheal Prendergast @macemick]

@lstwrd good to see that @think_or_swim is as clueless as plug in hybrids as he is about beef farming.

[Asim Husain Khan @AHK_75]

@OptaJoe Best team on the pitch won.

Arsenal only knows how to do low block

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@anspailpin @PremierviewPod Is it not the provincial board, in our case JP?

[Micheal Prendergast @macemick]

@anspailpin Easiest way to find out is to suggest that it's a particular high profile one who is in the news at the moment.

[Micheal Prendergast @macemick]

@anspailpin RTE have regularly rolled out George Lee when the government needed to bury something too. Most notably the time Frank McBrearty died.

[Micheal Prendergast @macemick]

@anspailpin We used to have capable politicians. Remember Haughey,Bertie, Garrett, Enda and even Patrick Hillary. Never showed fear. Bear in mind that Peter Burke couldn't debate a mirror.
And back then, RTE weren't clearly pro government either, which they have been since 2011 at least!

[Micheal Prendergast @macemick]

@EwanMacKenna Farmers got nothing except a headline saying they got something.

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@GCIIMessi Leeds

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@EwanMacKenna Based on package so far, the farmers got least. So sounds like you're a pro government propaganda artist today. Whatever changed since Friday when you were more willing to understand the issues

[Micheal Prendergast @macemick]

@shalke_90 @EwanMacKenna Kinda wondered the same. Major volce face in the past 24hrs.

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@EwanMacKenna Some of the negotiators on the protesters side have been in this before. They've learnt a lot. Their main issue is the idiots joining in that don't have a cause except trouble

[Micheal Prendergast @macemick]

@KeithMillsD7 1000%.
Prob wouldn't even have started cos he'd gave dealt with it early. This crowd breaking the blockade but going to suffer (hopefully! )

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@EwanMacKenna Why are the army in now when they haven't been introduced against protests in the past? Why weren't they minding Mary Harney etc? Is it because the water meters was an urban issue and high tax on fuel is a rural one?

[Micheal Prendergast @macemick]

@EwanMacKenna Green diesel went from 1.04 to 1.65, a 50% increase. Government reduced by 3c. White diesel went from 1.79 to 2.25, c25% increase. Govt reduced by 20c and said reduce driving. Users of Agri diesel had a larger increase in costs and no option of reducing discretionary use.

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@culladgh He's ignoring Agri diesel, showing that he's cherry picking facts to suit the story.

[Micheal Prendergast @macemick]

@higginsdavidw Agri diesel has gone from 1.04 to 1.65 in 8 weeks. It's not a discretionary spend. Farming is a marginal income. The subsidies are purely to maintain low food prices. Your tweet is a summary of why there's protests. Many share your views but don't understand the issues.

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@anspailpin @Kazoochka @morningireland Using agri fuel isn't discretionary, therefore it's a 50% rise in costs that the government ignore cos it's not an urban issue.

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@anspailpin @Kazoochka @morningireland 1/2
Is it not a case that they're out of touch/ don't give a monkeys about rural Ireland? They took 20c/l off white diesel vs 3c off agri diesel. Yet agri diesel went up 50% (1.04 to 1.65) in 3 weeks vs white going up c30%. And the 'answer' is 'drive less'.