@Nick_Delehanty It isn't an excellent article.
It might have been an excellent article 10 years ago, but the silence, nay venom, from the Irish Times these past 10 difficult years has already been felt.
The tide turned in spite of them.
They can take their tax payer funded rag and go jump.
@IrishTimesOpEd This is real head up the arse journalism here.
Oh, we've just discovered something interesting, but its hidden behind a paywall, subscribe to read. Its about how some people hate us and the government.
All sent on a platform that has been pointing this out since early 2020.
@SDPhq Maybe Britain is defending us.
Our country is divided.
Our health system in a mess.
Our kids are no longer safe from predators.
We are being overrun by unknown men.
Our political parties are working against us.
Our media are openly lying to us.
Maybe Britain is defending us.
@Votedoesntcount@juliaca59959773 just fine. It was only the subjugated hated Irish that died in their millions. The Empire looked away. It wasn't a famine. It was hatred, a crop failure, and an attempted genocide. It was an act of such cruelty that to this day the propaganda remains strong. Read some history.
@Votedoesntcount@juliaca59959773 fields in Ireland which had been taken from the Irish and given to strangers, who frankly detested us. Irish crops. Irish fields. But always for the Empire. They set up poor houses as hellish pits of death. Years passed. The Empire ate well. The ships still sailed. W Europe was
@Votedoesntcount@juliaca59959773 There was a potato blight throughout western Europe.
There was no famine in Ireland.
Record amounts of food left Ireland for the British empire.
Most of Ireland relied solely on potatoes cos they worked the land of exporting British landlords.
Read some history.
@griptmedia Oh, a three-tier system
Irish power and those protected by power, incl. the rich, the related, and the 'new Irish'.
The Irish plebs.
Irish plebs who mess with Irish power or protected.
@IrishTimes The large tax revenues 'Ireland earns' from multinational tech companies and everything else that 'Ireland earns' has already gone to crooked 'politicians' in Ukraine, Ipas oligarchs in Ireland and over a million unknows from who knows where
France and the Irish Times know this