lara lara

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

This Santa learns that this little girl is deaf and starts talking to her in sign language! ❤️

[Positive Side Of X @ssmb291_]

@historyinmemes Surya Bonaly: They Did Everything To Break Her

[Anna @mollykobi]

@PeterPaulGuy health minister Jennifer Carroll-McNeill family-related recruitment business CPL is making €11,000 per head for each nurse that it recruits overseas. Probably €1bn+ per annum.
Irish graduate nurses forced to emigrate due to lack of housing and cost of living.

[Iris Seraphina  @iris_seraphina]

He was so grateful at the end 🥹

[Puppies & Positivity @Puppieslover]

This is just too adorable 🥰

[Kathryn J Bermingham @KJBermingham]

No election this year — so no need to “buy votes.”
That’s the message behind this Budget. The Government isn’t incentivising because it doesn’t have to. Ordinary people are left to carry the cost.

For years Micheál Martin and his Government have promised “to reward workers, protect the vulnerable and tackle the housing crisis.”
Instead, they’ve delivered stealth taxes, rising living costs and record homelessness.

Tax and PAYE reality:
PAYE workers — the backbone of this country — continue to be hit. PRSI is going up again by 0.1 % this year (to 4.2 %), with further increases already baked in for 2026-2028.
There are no changes to the 20 % and 40 % income-tax bands, meaning wage rises just push people into higher brackets.
The only headline change — a slight USC band adjustment — barely covers inflation.
For working people, that’s not “rewarding effort,” it’s taxing it.

Inflation and cost of living:
Since 2019, inflation has risen more than 20 %, and everyday essentials — food, rent, energy, transport — have soared.
Fuel prices are up more than 40 % compared to six years ago.
Meanwhile, disposable incomes have been eroded year after year by these “stealth” increases and the withdrawal of temporary supports.
Government one-off payments made good headlines, but nothing structural changed. People’s bills did not shrink. Their pay packets did.

Housing and homelessness:
Homelessness now stands at 15,915 people, including almost 5,000 children — the highest ever recorded.
Government after government has promised to “end homelessness” and “build affordable homes.”
But targets are missed, rents keep rising, and young families are priced out or forced into emergency accommodation.
Buying a home is a fantasy for many, and renting is now more expensive than most mortgages.

Health and support services:
Our health system is still in permanent crisis. Waiting lists are longer than ever. Mental-health supports are threadbare.
And for children, the withdrawal and shortage of Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) has left families struggling, schools overstretched, and vulnerable children left behind.
Promises of “inclusion” and “support for every child” ring hollow when those supports are cut on the ground.

Broken promises:
This is the same government that vowed to “reduce the tax burden,” “protect workers,” “build homes,” and “strengthen public services.”
Instead, we have:
• Higher PRSI and USC burdens on PAYE workers.
• Record homelessness and unaffordable housing.
• Inflation wiping out pay increases.
• Crumbling healthcare and lost SNAs.
• Vanishing supports for those most in need.

If there were a General Election next month, we’d be hearing about “rewarding work” and “putting money back in your pocket.”
But because there isn’t, we get restraint, cuts, and spin.
That tells you everything you need to know.

This Budget isn’t about fairness or prudence — it’s about complacency.
When people needed relief, they got rhetoric.
When workers needed reward, they got another PRSI hike.
When families needed homes, they got record homelessness.
When children needed help, they lost their SNAs.
When the vulnerable needed protection, they were told to tighten their belts.

Ireland deserves better than a government that governs only when elections loom.
We need budgets that build homes, not excuses.
We need investment in health, education, and care — not stealth taxes on PAYE earners.
We need fairness, not fear of fiscal headlines.
We need delivery, not delay.

No incentives, no vision, no leadership.
Just another year of the same.
And people are paying the price — literally.

#Budget2026 #PAYE #PRSI #USC #CostOfLiving #Homelessness #Healthcare #Education #Ireland

[Lee Patriot Hood @Mofoman360]

Keir Starmer Sadiq Khan and Ed Davey all have something in common they all have Knighthoods which they don’t deserve

They should be removed

Do you agree?

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

#ResignHarris was trending 19th an hour and a half ago when I posted this

There’s been literally hundreds if not thousands of tweets now since, using the same hashtag in the last 90 minutes

It’s has now completely VANISHED from the top 30 trends. This is impossible unless……

What have we uncovered here @elonmusk It’s a dark day for Irish politics if a simple experiment can expose something as simple as this

What else is being hidden from us

#JusticeForHarvey

[Little Green @thelittlegreen6]

“We asked 100 people to name something children with scoliosis desperately need?

You said, another selfie…”

#JusticeForHarvey #ResignHarris

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

Ok. Today, we need to prove a point here. A very worrying one it would seem. It appears that @elonmusk office here in Dublin, unbeknownst to him, is suppressing and censoring information and preventing hashtags from trending here in Ireland

We need to get as many people as possible to tweet and retweet/quote tweet using the hashtags

#JusticeForHarvey and #ResignHarris

If this doesn’t get both trending in the top five trends here in Ireland, well then we must ask ourselves what (and who) else are they censoring from us

Do your thing…..

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

Budget 2025 did not allocate any new funding for scoliosis surgery.

What is the point of having record tax surplus if it is not used to make the lives of sick children & their families better?

The Department of Children has been ransacked. Over the last 5 years it became a proxy for funnelling billions to IPAS Kingpins.

Children & families have been pushed aside. Where are the planning exemptions for new crèches or schools?

Children’s Health Ireland is in chaos.
Irish family sizes have never been smaller because raising a family is seen as too expensive.

What is the point of a nation if it doesn’t put family at its core? Honestly… What is the point??

Family must be at the heart of everything we do because family is the only thing that truly matters.

#JusticeForHarvey

[lara lara @PitkinLara]

@msparky15 @LimerickCeltic @dunnesstores @CCPCIreland @MaryLouMcDonald @CWeston_Indo @nealerichmond Same shopping minimum of 25% cheaper in Lidl Paris …. We can’t blame everything on delivery costs …. 🤔

[Mark. @msparky15]

@LimerickCeltic @dunnesstores @CCPCIreland @MaryLouMcDonald @CWeston_Indo @nealerichmond All in it together,a shopping cartel is now operating in Ireland

[lara lara @PitkinLara]

@LimerickCeltic @dunnesstores @CCPCIreland @MaryLouMcDonald @CWeston_Indo @nealerichmond And what about the price of the use today food, most of those items are ridiculously high priced, some of it doesn’t even look edible and comes with a 4€ tag,

[Kev L Films @Kev_L_Smith]

Fun start the diving season here in Clare

[lara lara @PitkinLara]

@MarkNesbitt1888 @3ArenaDublin @TicketmasterIre @TMIrelandHelp Piss take. Crazy set change with unnecessary stapled on tablecloths no apologies for the delay, and walk off stage with no thanks, April fools was last week 😳

[Paddy McKenna @paddymacc1]

#Friday food for thought
👇
78.1% of Irish voters did not vote for @MichealMartinTD or his @fiannafailparty in the recent general election

[Jacks 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💚🤍🧡☘️☘️☘️ @JackieLennox3]

@MichealMartinTD Boo hoo nobody cares what you have to say.resign

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

🚨 SHE KNOWS 🚨