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[James Crombie @INPHOjames]

Unbelievable trip to Mullaghmore last night, well worth the drive! The light and lightning were absolutely incredible. I'm not sure I've ever witnessed anything like it before!

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

Ireland has the sixth highest rate of capital gains tax among 35 European countries. That's on top of the the Tax Foundation's ranking of Ireland as having the worst personal income tax system in Europe - penal 50%+ rates starting at below average income.

Imagine how healthier indigenous business would be with just mid-ranking positions on income and capital gains tax.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

Ireland's media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, has paid €83,103,429.00 in public money to broadcasters, newspapers and journalists since 2023:

Virgin Media Television Limited €2,989,200
Tyrone Productions Ltd €2,671,569
Irish Times Group €2,544,114
Macalla Teoranta €2,278,861
Bauer Media Audio Ireland €2,095,553
Iconic Media Group €1,998,484
Mediahuis Ireland €1,964,38
Animo TV Productions Limited €1,930,00
Celtic Media Group €1,256,083
Keeper Pictures Ltd €1,070,000
Loosehorse Limited €1,055,117
Meangadh Fíbín Teo €1,024,678
Dyehouse Films €996,000
Turnip & Duck Ltd. €920,000
Element Pictures (The Dry)Limited €900,000
Deadpan Pictures €870,000
Scratch Films €826,432
Hot Press €801,487
Samson Films €800,000
Studio Meala Limited €795,000
Village Magazine €33,177
Dublin Inquirer €197,385
The Journal €197,500

This raises serious questions about editorial independency.

Ireland's entire mainstream media landscape is being propped up by Govt.

Whether its current affairs or light entertainment, the Irish Govt are involved.

This is not good.

[Unpopularfootyx @Unpopularfootyx]

🚨🎙️ ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIĆ ON LIONEL MESSI'S INFLUENCE ON ARGENTINA AFTER THEIR WIN OVER AUSTRIA:

“I'm obsessed with watching Messi.

Not because he's my friend.

Not because of nostalgia.

Because after all these years, I'm still trying to understand how one player can control a football match without touching the ball every minute.

I watched Argentina today and the first thing I noticed wasn't the scoreline.

It was the way Austria reacted whenever Messi moved.

One step to the left, defenders follow.

One drop into midfield, the entire shape changes.

One glance over his shoulder panic.

That's not football.

That's psychological warfare.

And that's why I laugh when people reduce him to goals and assists.

They don't understand what they're watching.

Messi isn't just Argentina's best player.

He's Argentina's system.

He's their confidence.

He's their belief.

He's the reason every teammate walks onto the pitch thinking the impossible is possible.

People ask me about the GOAT debate.

What debate?
Seriously.

What debate?

For me, there isn't one.

The debate exists because television needs content and social media needs arguments.

When I watch football, I don't see a debate.

I see Messi.

Then I see everybody else.

That doesn't mean other legends weren't incredible.

It means I've never seen another player influence a match, a team and an entire generation of football the way Messi has.

And today was another reminder.

He didn't need a hat-trick.

He didn't need to score from 40 yards.

He just needed to be Lionel Messi.

And suddenly Argentina looked like a completely different team.

That's greatness.

Not when everything depends on you.

When everybody becomes better because you're there.

I've played against great players.

I've played with great players.

But Messi is the only player I've ever watched and genuinely thought:

'This isn't normal.'

The scary thing?

Opponents know exactly what he's going to do.

And they still can't stop it.

That's why I don't waste my time with comparisons anymore.

Some players become legends.

Some players become icons.

Messi became a category of his own.

And after today's performance, if you're still asking me who the greatest footballer of all time is...

You're asking the wrong question.

The right question is:
Will football ever produce another one like him?”

[RedAlways @PATRIOT2117]

A Texan walks into a pub in Ireland and shouts, “I hear you Irish are a bunch of hard drinkers! I’ll put down $500 to anyone who can drink 10 pints back-to-back!”

The entire pub goes silent.
Nobody moves.

Then one Irishman quietly stands up, and walks straight out the door.

About 30 minutes later, he returns, taps the Texan on the shoulder, and asks, “That bet still good?”

“Sure is!” the Texan says.

The bartender lines up ten pints — full glasses from one end of the bar to the other.

Without a blink, the Irishman downs all 10 pints in a row and slams the last one down like a champion.

The bar ERUPTS with cheers.
The Texan pays the $500 — totally stunned.

He asks, “If you don’t mind me askin’, where’d you run off to for that half hour?”

The Irishman grins, “Oh, I just popped down to the pub around the corner to see if I could do it first.”

[Ger @murphyglebeger]

@derekryan2026 @TomOHanlon17 In the scenario that financially shit hits the fan, I really worry for how many additional ways they will tax the working people when we’re being currently rode with tax.
Realistically, they will target inheritance and change the taxation on assets.

[Jimbo @Fireblade_Jim]

He’s a National treasure.

As Funny as any comedian.

Doesn’t give a fuck who he insults.

The best tv personality to ever live for me.

Top gear, grand tour, clarksons farm, speed, the war documentaries and everything else in between. Brought so much joy to so many people!

[Máire 🇮🇪 @mochara57]

I’m worried about Ireland🇮🇪
Look at Denmark, in 1992 they took in 321 Palestinian refugees. Their second-generation descendants now number 999 with 34% (337) have criminal convictions. 37% (372) are on welfare. Ireland’s rapid non-Western immigration, on top of our housing crisis, is already breaking services. Irish taxpayers are paying for more welfare, more crime, more pressure on housing & infrastructure, while the Gov. brands us “racists” for noticing. The Gov. are ignoring cultures that reject integration, show open hostility to native Irish people, treat women & children as fair game & disrespect our culture & heritage sites. This is a ticking time bomb. We need honest debate now. 🇮🇪

[The Overlap @WeAreTheOverlap]

"They don't do it at Old Trafford or Anfield every week!"

It's time for another room 101 from Roy 😂🥁

[Ger @murphyglebeger]

@Nick_Delehanty Forget about the left and right just for a moment.
Our own government issue the highest level to Irish citizens to not travel to Somalia and they think it’s perfectly fine to allow undocumented many single men come to Ireland?
Is it actually government incompetence or them asleep

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

Video of a man pursuing a snake has caused a stir online

[Handre @Handre]

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.

[Johnny B. Good @Cat5SMASHICANE]

I've run Bobcats many times and worked around them even more. There are several attachments you can put on the front of them, but this has to be the most handy and baddass thing there is. After cutting it into manageable lengths she pushes it through an X splitter. So damn cool.

[NEW【テクノロジーニュース】 @sutoroveli_news]

【発明】空飛ぶ浮き輪が誕生した。溺れた人をGPSで追跡し時速50kmで水面すれすれを飛んで駆けつけ手の届く位置に着水する。救助隊が到着するまでの数分間を命綱に変える装置として水難救助の現場で実用化が始まっている。

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

A brave British woman tells it like it is to a Muslim man and a fake priest:

“One million British children have been raped by Muslim men in the last 20 years. How are we supposed to reconcile and accept that?”

[Ger @murphyglebeger]

@Jay63836365161 @TheMandyGall @rtenews How long more do you think it’ll take for this to happen? I’m being serious too because the sooner it happens the better for all of our sakes. I think there will be disruption of some sort over the next 12 months especially if the EU completely overload us with migrants.

[Ger @murphyglebeger]

Never a truer word spoken. This will significantly impact every single existing person working and contributing to the Irish economy.
The country will go broke, erupt into chaos or both.

[TheIrishWatchdog @WatchdogTh96012]

On the June 12th this year, the Ireland we know and love will be no more. From that day on we will be just a colony controlled by the corrupt EU elite. Sold out by a traitorous Irish Government. 79 traitors who will be vilified in Irish history. #OptOutNow #EUMigrationPact

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

The audacity here is actually off the charts.

Return is a “Not-for-profit” funded by the public. They made €100m in year one.

This money stays on their balance sheet. It doesn’t go back to the State.

But €100m isn’t enough. They wanted tax exemptions too.

So using your money they hired a Fine Gael councillor to go and lobby his Fine Gael colleague who was Minister for State.

Both the councillor & Minister also paid entirely by you.

Throughout this chain of events Not a single extra euro in value was generated for the State.

No innovation,
No entrepreneurship
Just leeching & looting of the taxpayer.

Does anyone care ???

[Rob Carry @RobCarryBray]

Current inward migration in Ireland has averaged 140,000 over the past three years.

For context in Britain - where migration is the single biggest political issue - the current annual rate is 171,000.

They also have a population 10 times the size of ours.

[Michael Murphy @michaelmurph_y]

Ireland has a shortage of 250,000 homes and its politicians will look you in the eye and tell you mass migration has no effect on housing supply. The Flat Earth society doesn’t have this level of brass neck.