Ireland spends less than 0.3% of GDP on defence - the lowest in the EU by far. Irish GDP growth last year was more than 13%. We can afford to properly fund our defence forces.
Brilliant! @roisiningle returns fire on the Sandymount cycle route and invents a new (and better!) word for crotchety, stick waving nimbyism. #mannixed
Róisín Ingle: We should give thanks that the Dart wasn’t Mannixed back in the day
https://t.co/bGkFeeWSHp
Have just found out that Donald Ray Pollock's dark, Gothic and utterly brilliant The Devil All the Time has been made into a Netflix movie. And it's on in Ireland! That's my night sorted.
The Streisand effect is working like clockwork. Well done to @VanMoof (and the French advertising watchdog) for gaining more oxygen for this bicycle advert than they could ever have possibly imagined.
https://t.co/Z3646VnJmd
What makes James Mattis's statement so powerful to me is that he has consistently refused to be drawn into any criticism of Donald Trump since retiring as US Secretary of Defence in 2018. Seems everyone has their limits though. This is the full text:
https://t.co/nhiwtjFoEi
Heard Paul Nolan from Dawn Meats on @RTECountryWide. He's a great PR and it sounds like they're doing good by their staff, but when they talked about boning halls and quartering animals I put rashers back in the fridge. If abattoirs had glass walls how much meat would we eat?
Listening to @GeorgeLeeRTE on Morning Ireland just now made me absolutely bloody furious. Your supposed to be a journalist George, not a politician. Give it a shot and actually report it like it is.
The best way to ensure that people panic buy is to tell them not to panic buy... 'We shouldn't stockpile': Ministers Harris and Humphreys warn against coronavirus panic-buying (via @thejournal_ie) https://t.co/dkCj8Jvvd7