AS Electric Ireland becomes the latest supplier to hike its prices, the Tánaiste has urged against portraying data centres as 'bogeymen' when it comes to rising electricity rates in Ireland.
'A report from Friends Of The Earth shows that on our current trajectory, data centres will add €1.4billion to household electricity [bills] over the next number of years.'
#Datacentres #Electricity #CostofLivingCrisis #CostofElectricity
Well this is escalating fast.
I hear they're looking for Garda over there in Australia.
Lots of Garda and doctors and nurses ended up in Australia after genociding the Irish after 2020.
I heard this Garda woman had to take down her Facebook page.
Transcript:
Shower of wankers
Gaz look at the Guards setting up their cars
I'll cut pains off them fuckin spastics with their Irish flags shove it up their holes.
Dopes thick as counrty fuckin soup dopes.
Absolute wankers
Good God.
Look at that
Shit
Ugh
Exactly five hours later. We have concluded the journey to Ballincollig. It was a long fuckin journey. It should have taken only three hours. It took five fucking hours.
Before we collect our children we're going to go for a drink.
Nope.
Are you in support of the protesters?
Not anymore, no they can fuck off.
No. They can all go and fuck themselves. Shower of pricks. And they are smirking at us as they were diverting us. To nowhere. Nope. Fuck the protesters. Give us fucking diesel, give us fucking petrol.
Yeah.
Okay.
I look like I just stepped off a plane.
Poor children involved.
Disgraceful carry on from people who are supposed to be respected by the Communities they police.
The GARDA are fuckin useless.
A local priest celebrates mass in the back of a truck at the Athlone fuel protest this morning.
The protests in Dublin, Cork and Galway may have been broken up overnight, but this movement is far from finished, with many protests still ongoing around the country today.
Hard to believe; A week ago they were commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising on O'Connell Street.
How much is it costing the State to buy this infrastructure to keep people out of their own Capital City?
#Dublin#Republic? #FuelProtest ⛽️
Micheál Martin, Irelands leader in numbers: 👇👇
17,308 homeless
Inflation up 9.6%
Food prices up 20%
Rents up 30–40%
House prices up 25–30%
Electricity prices up 50%
Wages down 4%
Fuel up 90%
Public Debt €220 billion
He has to go.... NOW... 👋👋
This is disgusting. Feet stamping a working man. Dragging him by his feet.
The Irish government needs locking up.
People are exhausted from working so hard & having the piss taken by those in power https://t.co/LI5Nn56jXv
I’m off to Ireland to report on their trucker convoy!
Just like Canada’s convoy this is a spontaneous protest against Ireland’s abusive government.
And just like Canada, Irish politicians are freaking out — deploying the army!
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You heard the man, folks!
Michael has set up a Go Fund Me and ALL funds will be used to keep the protesters going with meals in the days ahead.
Donate Here https://t.co/EsnQGct3KX
Well done Michael! Fair play!
The Black Forge Inn will be supplying food and support to the protestors in Dublin City Centre.
The heroic stand of the Irish people has just begun! 🇮🇪 🙏
#OnlyWarmingUp
🚨 A ln Irish farmer gets emotional whilst speaking to a reporter at the fuel protests 🇮🇪
“It’s very hard, we’re out here in the rain, side of the road like papers, we are just trying to get fairness, because we are FRIGHTENED!”
Heartbreaking 💔
🚨THE POLICE CONTACTED TWO TOWING COMPANIES TO HAVE THEM ON STANDBY TO REMOVE VEHICLES FROM THE FUEL PROTEST - BOTH COMPANIES REFUSED TO DO IT🚨
éiReGoBragh🙌🤝🇮🇪