The shed housing plan is the ultimate example of the governing Irish political ideology that everything must be set up for someone to make money from it.
Here's a national crisis being converted into an opportunity for people who're unaffected by it to screw money out of those who are.
A new low.
The TD who did this needs to resign. 👍
Amazing how white men whether Australian, British or American, are given extensive airtime by media to deny war crimes. Where are the victims families? Two don’t even have names. Mere Afghans.
Hames Bond himself.
Shaken and stirred.
Pine Marten (Martes martes) at a site in Co. Tipperary, April 2026. Once greatly reduced in range and abundance in Ireland due to deforestation and persecution, this species has made a strong and ongoing recovery over recent decades.
I found it so funny that he repeatedly said he had no regrets. The two lads tbf to them are coming at it from a sports pundit perspective but I found it so funny that they didn’t once say, no regrets Jim? Strange considering you owed a tenant so much money and clearly didn’t feel it was wrong.
Farmers and small business owners are the only ones who "get up early in the morning," or "worry about supporting their families." They're also the only men deserving of sympathy when they cry. If someone cries because they've nowhere to live they're just a loser.
Source: Irish Media Handbook.
You'd solve a lot of Ireland's problems just by shutting down Facebook
They couldn’t give people with disabilities a €400 emergency payment.
Nail on the head! I really hated seeing Paul Murphy try to align with these gobshites
There is not a snowball’s chance in hell of any of these payments actually helping ordinary people with the cost of living, but they will embolden the company owners to demand even further concessions to line their own pockets.
Slow clap to everyone who scolded the left for not supporting them
Via the @corkbeo.bsky.social live blog at Whitegate:
"The protestors who were handcuffed earlier were detained and simply escorted by Gardaí to the cordon and released."
The difference in methods here, compared to if you put paint on a war plane speaks volumes.
#IrishPol
I'm not getting a bang of 'standing up for the working people' off this tbh.
More a stench of invested interests getting special treatment after holding the entire county to ransom.
#IrishPolitics #Spéirghorm
So much for all that hot air about "the People of Ireland".
The only way to achieve that is local organisation & support building for parties that want equality for all, climate action, prosperity not based in exploitation, & social democracy.
You don't hold the country to ransom & shout gov out with no plan coz it makes you feel like the big man
#IrishPol
Exactly this.
We need ambitious gov policy to build the physical & societal infra that has been poisoned by austerity & left to rot because of neoliberal decisions that put profit & capital 1st.
FFG cannot deliver that.
Neither can Aontú, Indy Ireland & their ilk.
#IrishPol
Protestors: The government refuses to acknowledge our concerns
Me: Holy shit! So they're not meeting with Farmers & Hauliers?
Protestor: LOL no. They are
Me: So...they're not discussing fuel subsidies?
Protestor: Haha no they are
Me: Which concerns, exactly?
Protestor: Oh, you know the ones
I’ve heard from lots of coworkers, family members who support the protest and the protestors that they r“doing it for all of us”, will anyone be surprised when this all ends with the protestors secure a huge pay day for hauliers and farmers and the rest of us continue to get fucked by cost of livin
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But they are? And the Garda are actually going along with it
Tomorrow morning we'll have a deep dive about how a militant group of outsiders managed to take control of a national movement and bring the country to a standstill. There's a lot of swearing in it.
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Fucking hell
The self-appointed "leaders" of the Fuel Protests are truly scum of the Earth.
Why our media choose to interview the likes of Duffy here re the protests is beyond me. Do they really think he cares one iota about anyone but his own self?
Wonder will any media actually put this stuff to them? Instead of pretending any of this is just about fuel
Government currently in their side show bob era #speirgorm
That the statement "rising costs are making it hard for my business to keep going," is seen as worthy of respect in a way that, "I can't afford a place to live," isn't tells you everything about the prevailing values of the Irish media.
Some people matter, some people don't.
Fuel protest leader James Geoghegan has animal cruelty convictions and Revenue judgments
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
