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[Røb @someRobguyidk]

12 years on from Vettel winning in a Toro Rosso in what was my favourite sporting moment of all time and made me fall in love with the sport, Pierre Gasly does it for the same team, at the same track, from fucking nowhere
I'm not sure it tops '08, but it's damn close #ItalianGP

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

Must be funny being an economist because you still have to pretend this is real and actually means something to the average consumer

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

And there we have it...Irish GDP decline in Q1 caused the eurozone economy to contract.

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

@IrishArtist2025 "I never see people who don't speak English complain like a country that does"

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

@RTENewsPaulC @FineGael @rtenews

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

@Mediokratos @jhallwood It's more for anyone that has the misfortune to stumble across this thread, I know well I'm not changing this lad's mind

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

@jhallwood It's always been the public, not the corrupt politicians that have done it.
Same with the Dunnes strike against apartheid, politicians and media flamed them before eventually caving because it was bad for business, not out of some deep seated need to support Mandela & co.

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

MEP from a government party btw

[Regina Doherty MEP @ReginaDo]

Deeply concerning reports regarding Aughinish Alumina.

At a time when Ukraine continues to suffer the consequences of Russia’s aggression, it is vital that the investigation is concluded rapidly and the facts established. There can be no room for ambiguity on matters like this.

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

@greenlightbabe @WalleyVision Nope, that's a small subsection on twitter. We had 2 MEPs come out backing Russia since 2022. We now have none.

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

@MichaelJecks We already have blood on our hands. This is no less horrific than Israeli weapons continuing to flow through Shannon airport. Our politicians follow the Almighty Dollar regardless of alliances or public opinion.

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

@blagden_david My question is: why is anyone surprised? Israel used irish passports in an assassination, told us they couldn't guarantee they wouldn't do it again and are now committing genocide but our politicians won't sanction them. They are bought and paid for, much as any other country.

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

Love that the fact there's a toxic cesspool at Aughinish just waiting to burst it's banks after a corrupt and self serving investigation into it but no one mentions that either for some reason https://t.co/HajZsDojBs

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

No, I'm sure the neutrality people are delighted we're assisting (another) foreign war machine.
It's definitely not the people in power that are double crossing the EU, Ukraine and the public at large by allowing this to happen!

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

Have the neutrality fetishists had anything to say about this?

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

@willocallaghan With all of the good that's come from the format change, it's really depressing that the RTÉ/GAA+ subplot will take all of the attention from it. Such a shame.

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

I think the reason this style of attacking the reasons the argument is being made and not the actual argument is why this doesn't work anymore.
You can only take out the man and not the ball so many times before people realise you just can't get the ball in the first place.

[Henrik Dahl @SociologenHD]

If a country sitting on a rock in the North Atlantic comes to regard a conflict nearly 4,000 kilometres away as more important than almost anything else, it is worth asking why.

I like Ireland. It is a small country living next to a much larger neighbour. A country that has never been afraid to speak its mind or stand on its own feet. In that respect, it reminds me of something.

But Ireland's apparent obsession with condemning Israel at every opportunity is not healthy. Especially when many of the arguments involved turn out to be the same exaggerations, distortions and manipulations that have long been commonplace in Middle Eastern politics.

Why is it not the starting point of public debate in Ireland that Israel, as a state, has every right to exist?

Why is it not the starting point that Israel has repeatedly been attacked by opponents who have never reconciled themselves to the establishment of a Jewish state nearly eighty years ago?

Why is it not the starting point that the current war began when Hamas committed the worst massacre of Jews since the Second World War on 7 October 2023?

Why are so many people in Ireland willing to accept even the most extravagant accusations coming from the Palestinian side, while showing remarkably little interest in hearing the counterarguments?

And then there is the critical question.

If Israel were to lose this war against Hamas - an outcome that some voices in Ireland seem surprisingly relaxed about - what exactly would follow?

Hamas is not a liberal democratic movement. It is an Islamist movement whose ideology has far more in common with groups such as ISIS than with any Western political tradition. An Israeli defeat would be celebrated as a major victory by Hamas and by the Iranian regime, a regime that has spent decades repressing its own citizens and destabilising the wider region.

I do not believe that many Irish people genuinely wish to see Hamas achieve its political objectives. Nor do I believe that many Irish people would welcome a major strategic victory for Iran.

Or rather, I hope not.

Because if there really is a large majority in Ireland that believes a victory for Hamas and Iran over Israel would be a positive development, then the discussion should no longer be about Israel alone.

It should also be about Ireland itself - and about what role Ireland wishes to play in Europe.

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

Is there no concussion protocol or #PSGARS

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

@danobrien20 Finally crossed the line from being a government propagandist into an Israeli one. Glad you're finally being yourself.

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

This is the fundamental problem our media and politicians have now. They can try and whitewash (or in this case, straight up sportswash) Israel's crimes, but we, as a country, are more against this than almost any other.

[Y @tinscognito__]

Incredible. If an English broadcasting company did this Starmer would launch a missile

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

Does that mean everyone's just going to go back to ignoring the environmental catastrophe on a scale that we've never seen in this country waiting to happen there or....

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

The European Commission has decided not to propose sanctions at this time on Aughinish Alumina, the Shannon-based plant owned by a Russian company, which has been accused of exporting alumina that has ended up in Russian weapons and armaments used against civilian targets in Ukraine https://t.co/lYompshJOi

[Røb @someRobguyidk]

@caulmick This is actually him trying to make people demonise data centers instead of questioning why the 97% state owned electricity provider is doing price gouging
Don't fall for it, both are bad.