In Brussels automated passport control, guy next to me,not getting through.
Asks me what’s he doing wrong, I ask him, is it a European passport?
Turns out it a UK passport
He says to immigration officer that UK is in Europe
Officer replies,”did you ever hear about the Brexit”
To night as we climb into our bed 10 Irish girls/women are checking their alarm to wake them in the early morning to catch a flight to the UK to seek the healthcare they need.We can
@Together4yes
stop these lonely journeys by
#Repeal8th
May 25 VOTE YES
I’ve been in hospital for a few days. I’ve been treated by Philippino, Pakistani Nigerian, Indian, Brazilian,Ghanaian nurses and doctors.
Surely they should be able to walk home from work without fear they’ll be attacked, because of hateful hysteria coming from far right groups.
Just to remind those standing outside refugee sanctuaries, shouting at the people inside, these are some photos of what they’ve endured.
Bombed out buildings and shattered lives.
Yes,these are body bags with people inside them with their heads shot to bits.
#Humanity
If something isn’t done to tip the balance in favour of home ownership,and disadvantage Investment Funds, we will be tenants again , like we were a hundred yrs ago. The only difference is our landlords will be investment funds based in London or New York.
Sorry to break it to you
#AnnWiddecombe
but a
#UnitedIreland
is not simply an agenda. It is a deeply held aspiration of the Irish people.
As
@columeastwood
puts it, "It's still the best idea around."
I will always advocate for the peaceful unification of my nation
#Think32
Come on
@DublinAirport
11,15 am ,
Surely you can do better than this.
First impressions are best and many people on board flight were coming here for the first time
Sinn Féin in Government in NI prioritise people based on age for vaccination. In The Republic where they are in opposition, they castigate the prioritisation of people based on age. This is breathtaking hypocrisy and is a shameful cynical effort to play politics with Covid 19
Mick I don’t love the war,
but I stood in Bucha and Irpin, witnessed mass graves being opened, met women who were raped, elderly people beaten, saw thousands of homes destroyed, entire communities shattered,
This was done by Putin and Russian soldiers
Sinn Féin’s ability to U-Turn is beyond shameless.
🇪🇺 Anti-EU now Pro-EU
💶 Anti-12.5% Corp Tax now in favour
🇮🇪 Against recognising the Dáil but now in favour
🩺 Against NPHET advice but now in favour?
They will say & do anything on any given day to promote their “movement”
It is truly remarkable that you stood for Election to
@Europarl_EN
and didn’t know that Parliament sat in Strasbourg and that Strasbourg is in France and that you would have to leave England to get there.
The insanity of the journey to the EU Parliament in Strasbourg . Eight plus hours . Four trains and a huge waste of taxpayers money . We the
@brexitparty_uk
must deliver and get us out of the EU
The results of
@fiannafailparty
European Election convention may not have been what I had hoped for but this was on my old chair when I came home. Thanks to everyone for their kind words of support and to everyone who travelled to vote in Clonmel.
Mr. Ambassador
@Rus_Emb_Ireland
, leaving Cork now and will be outside your embassy in three hours and will drop you to Dublin Airport.
You’re not welcome here.
Time for you to go home!
#UkraineUnderAttack
#SlavaUkraini
Difficult to understand claims by people that Irish defence forces training Ukrainian personnel to de-mine their country,is part of NATO/EU, USA imperial expansion.
It’s about children not loosing limbs while out playing,
It’s about farmers not loosing limbs while out ploughing
At times words just fail me.
It’s hard to understand how a person who’s privileged to be elected to a democratic parliament, would side with a regime that’s oppressing and killing its own people
It is simply immoral and politically revolting to support the Iranian regime.
Lots of
#EU
Disinformation on
#Iran
- There are Peaceful Protests + far too many have been killed by the aggressive crackdown. There have also been Violence + Murders by some protesters, untold damage + destruction - It would not be tolerated Anywhere. Iran is under attack...
Ireland is in a very vulnerable position.
70% of our gas coming from UK, no gas storage facilities to stock up, and no capability to import LNG, as we have no terminal.
Our energy policy is driven by ideology, indifference and incoherence that could risk our energy security.
Our former Taoiseach is right. Whenever a Border Poll happens, we must have the answers to the questions that people north & south will legitimately ask.
That’s why I’ve tabled a motion to the FF Ard Fheis calling for a White Paper on Unity
50 yrs ago a small independent country that was economically weak and still very reliant on its previous occupier, joined the then EEC.
While we have many challenges, by any yardstick we have been utterly transformed economically and socially.
Ní neart go cur le chéile
Very disturbing that
@duponline
leader is meeting with LCC to decide the future of NI political institutions.
Collapsing Stormont at request of LCC who have links with Loyalist paramilitaries is a betrayal of GFA and democratic norms.
Mr Jeffrey Donaldson needs to explain this
NI protocol is working for Northern Ireland, it’s economy is growing while rest of regional UK stagnates.
The greatest fear DUP, ERG and Hardline Brexiteers have with NI protocol is that it works.
That the economy would grow because of access to
#EU
undermines Brexit Utopia.
Losing privileged access to the EU single market is not only desirable, but necessary to restore Art VI of the Act of Union.
All constituent parts of the UK must be on an equal footing in matters of treaty & trade!
This thug Filatov threatening Ireland over clearing of land mines in Ukraine is an extraordinary intervention.
The only thing that’s more difficult to understand is why politicians would oppose Irish Army getting involved in humanitarian mine clearing.
Wealthy Russians swan around Marbella, Monaco and Algarve living it up in their villas or exclusive hotels.
Meanwhile Ukrainian children and elderly people scurry down air raid shelters night after night.
It’s time to stop Europe being a Russian playground while war continues.
Today I walk into Dáil Éireann for the last time as a TD. I want to thank everyone who helped me,Family, Friends
@fiannafailparty
Thanks to the People of Cork North Central, it was a honour and privilege to represent you and one I hope I never took for granted.
Dear Sinn Féin I wish to advise you, that there’s a mistake in your press release. The “we” should read as “they” because it could be interpreted wrongly that Sinn Féin formed in 1905 is the same as the one today. And clearly even you wouldn’t like to give that impression
When Ben Dunne was kidnapped, Martin McGuinness was chief of staff of the IRA, and he would have sanctioned that operation
We acknowledge his role in peace process, but to issue a statement by leader of
@sinnfeinireland
without reference or apology for kidnapping is shallow.
It’s funny the Irish State never billed
@sinnfeinireland
for the huge amount of money spent by country on security when the PIRA were terrorising Ireland. Now McDonald says Fine Gael should pick up the bill for Coveney's State car via
@newstalkfm
I’m honoured to have been elected as a MEP for
#IrelandSouth
in
#EUelections2019
. I’m forever grateful to those that voted and supported me. Family,Friends
@fiannafailparty
members and so many wonderful people across the constituency. Hope to repay your trust. Thank You
Great to hear
@DarraghOBrienTD
has finally decided to stop running scared of a head to head media debate.
I am available anytime, anywhere should
@RTE_PrimeTime
or
@TonightVMTV
want to arrange a live TV debate with the Minister.
Mr Kacynski,
#Ireland
is a modern progressive country where people can be who they are or who they want to be.
You can be
#LGBT
& catholic, catholic & not LGBT, LGBT & not catholic, or none of the above.
Thankfully we are a pluralistic Republic and I think it’s great! 🇮🇪🏳️🌈
Confirmation that
@sinnfeinireland
policies on the major issues have always been wrong.
Even they’re embarrassed by them.
Opposition to Europe, Euro, special criminal court, multinational investment, Dáil Eireann but always supported
#Russia
If Mary & Joseph set off for Bethlehem today from Nazareth they'd cross close to 20 Israeli checkpoints & a 30ft Wall.
The only way to deliver a peaceful Middle East is through a two state solution and an end to illegal settlements.
#PeaceInTheMiddleEast
#Gaza
#WestBank
One year ago
@MaryLouMcDonald
tried to convince the People that 25% of the vote was a majority,and they had won the right to be in government. Donald Trump subsequently use these tactics when he lost US election. Sinn Féin actually started holding rallies claiming victory.
One year ago I said the worst possible outcome would be FF/FG back in government together. We knew it would be bad, we just didn’t realise it would be this bad. The desire and need for change is even stronger today.
Just to help you
@BorisJohnson
Ireland has had a Cosgrave,De Valera,Costello,Lemass,Lynch,Cosgrave,Haughey,Fitzgerald,Reynolds,Burton,Ahern,Cowen,Kenny and now a Varadkar as our Taoisigh(Prime Ministers)since independence and we never had a Murphy
Just so people don’t think that singing “Oh Ah Up the Ra” is a bit of harmless fun.
The provisional IRA killed innocent people on an industrial scale.
On Nov 21st 1974 The PIRA bombed two city-centre pubs in Birmingham, killing 21 people and injuring over 160.
Our
#LGBTQI
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️communities are under attack.
All citizens should be free to live their lives free from persecution and bigotry.
As 🇪🇺s, we should never forget what happens when minorities are “othered” - it doesn’t end well for anyone!
We must oppose far right attacks.
🇮🇱 is systematically attempting to dismantle the 🇵🇸 State. The 🇪🇺 is shamefully sitting on its hands & doing nothing to sanction Israel.
Debate on
#RuleOfLaw
in 🇮🇱 had three 🇮🇪 speakers:
@BarryAndrewsMEP
,
@GraceOSllvn
& I showing strong 🇮🇪 interest in this human rights issue.
As we enter the second century of partition on this island,
@fiannafailparty
must commit to, and prepare for, a
#UnitedIreland
.
Next year I will table a substantive motion to party Ard Fheis reaffirming our unapologetic commitment to a United Ireland.
Two fools who fool the fools.
@TuckerCarlson
and Steve Bannon discussing something they factually and literally know nothing about.
It hasn’t stopped them before, so I’m not surprised, but their words and actions have consequences and that’s the problem
Where
@sinnfeinireland
have a minister in charge of housing, they have been an abject failure.
Where they have never been in government, they have all the answers to all the problems.
Russian navy was carrying out manoeuvres off Ireland in January 2022
At the time many people said they were there mapping undersea communication cables, between EU and USA.
Attack on gas pipelines in Baltic Sea today leads me to believe that Russia would sabotage these cables.
Imagine if Sinn Féin had been in government over the past four years....
They would have rolled over within minutes on the
#AppleTax
case risking thousands of well paying jobs.
It’s easy to be populist - never forget that their sole concern is their party and not our economy.
DUP Leader
@J_Donaldson_MP
must explain his actions.
Meeting proscribed groups linked to terrorist activity to decide the fate of democratic institutions is unacceptable
No party should be allowing proscribed organisations influence their decisions.
@fiannafailparty
@SDLPlive
Putin’s Russia is literally killing the opposition, and closing down independent voices and media outlets.
This thuggery must be called out.
#EU
should use
#MagnitskyAct
sanctions against those at the top of Putins autocratic regime.
@Billbrowder
@RenewEurope
I’m at a loss to understand
@MaryLouMcDonald
and
@sinnfeinireland
claiming
@fiannafailparty
and
@FineGael
monopolised power after State was formed. If my history is right, Sinn Fein didn’t involve themselves in democracy until 1986.They actively supported anti democratic policies
It’s as legitimate for a Nationalist to campaign for a United Ireland, as it is for a Unionist to campaign for a United Kingdom.
Parity of esteem is essential in this constitutional debate.
I cannot be apologetic for what’s in Ireland’s Constitution.
Joe I’m just posing this question to you.
When the IRA were killing, bombing. torturing people, Sinn Féin got 13% in the North and 4% Ireland.
Sinn Féin supported the IRA terror campaign, in our name without our consent.
Was that not casual contempt for every community ???
Jesus Christ. Imagine saying this about the 90% of northern nationalists & the 35% of people in the south who support SF? The casual contempt for people from our community is shocking.
Fellow MEPs are in awe of influence Irish people have in 🇺🇸
@MichealMartinTD
should visit White House, subject to public health advice, on
#StPatricksDay
to cement 🇮🇪🇺🇸relations under new Admin
An Taoiseach representing 🇮🇪 to leader of the world’s 💪🏻 economy is essential work
You think you’re prepared for the dunderheaded buffoonery of the Brexit Party, but they’re actually worse in real life...turning their back on EU anthem in
@Europarl_EN
this morning.
They really are a pretty pathetic bunch.
Congratulations
@Billbrowder
your perseverance on this issue has been successful. Now
#EU
must ensure swift action on politically corrupt despots who violate international laws and flout democracy. There must be no hiding place for their loot.
BREAKING: It’s now official. The EU now has its own Magnitsky Act. It was just passed by 27 EU foreign ministers. It took ten years but we now have added 27 countries to the Global Magnitsky Justice movement. A monumental and historic day!
It’s clearly a strategy of Sinn Féin to object to social and affordable housing at local level, so housing crisis can be exploited at national level.
Sinn Féin haven’t built one house in this country, but have stopped or delayed thousands being constructed.
Sickening hypocrisy
This Government has failed to spend 1 billion euro on housing. That is 4,000 social and afforadble homes that should have been built.
This shows inccompetence and a failure to grasp the uregency needed in addressing the housing emergency.
@PearseDoherty
Will Sinn Féin ban the massive amounts of money this Socialist Party take from Corporate America. They have gorged themselves in the Banquet Halls of New York with the biggest financiers and business people.Sinn Féin will suckle on the Wall Street Teat while they lecture others
Sinn Féin TDs Pearse Doherty and Mairéad Farrell have today published legislation to close the revolving door between Government and big business
@PearseDoherty
@Farrell_Mairead
No Nigel he doesn’t hate the
#UK
he’s just proud of his Irish heritage. But I also believe he hates what you stand for, which is divisive populist nasty politics
As you can see from this clip, Biden hates the UK.
The Conservatives had 4 years to do a trade deal with the USA and pro-UK President, and they failed.
There is no chance now.
For Government to commemorate the RIC is to distort the reality of War of Independence.The General Election 1918 was a Referendum on Ireland’s right to self determination.The Royal Irish Constabulary acted against the expressed wishes of the Irish People.
@fiannafailparty
What happened in 1980s Ireland due to our pro enterprise tax policies?
🍏Apple sets up in 1980
💊Eli Lilly opens manufacturing plant in 1981
🖥️Microsoft establishes in 1985
What were Sinn Féin doing in the 1980s?
🔫💣🪦 ...... Enough said!
#AppleTax
Disappointed at the outcome of today’s ECON-ENVI 🗳 on the taxonomy objection.
Nuclear needs to be part of 🇪🇺’s energy future.
50% of all carbon-free ⚡️ is generated by nuclear. Without it, we won’t make our 2050 targets.
Onwards to July II plenary.
When people are using emotive insensitive language in the debate on
#repealthe8th
they could be hurting their sister,friend ,daughter or their friends daughter or the girl sitting next to you in the departure lounge in Dublin or Cork Airport.
@Together4yes
.
@fiannafailparty
#DublinBaySouth
by-election is dictating the issues that Sinn Féin are going to highlight over next few weeks.
Abolishing property tax,
Pension age 65yrs
Free housing for everyone
If there were tillage farmers in DBS constituency they’d be promising good weather for the harvest
So
@paulmurphy_TD
and
@sinnfeinireland
and other fools who cravenly supported Putin, should now ask that the threats to wipe out Ireland be withdrawn.
Russian state TV encouraged the use of nuclear weapons to wipe out Ireland.
Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are
🇮🇪 should take the lead and kick the Russian Ambassador out of our country.
🇪🇺 member states should also do the same. The Russian dictator and his apparatchiks need to be told in no uncertain terms they aren’t welcome in our Union.
The journey to the polling station to vote
@Together4yes
#repealth8th
is the most important journey to end all the journeys that Irish girls/women have been forced to make since 1983. So make that journey to vote YES tomorrow to end all those lonely journeys in the future
Labhair mé don 1ú uair as
#Gaeilge
sa
@Europarl_GA
Bhí díospóireacht againn faoi chearta an linbh. Labhair mé faoin méid leanbh gan dídine in Éirinn.
1st speech in Irish today on child homelessness in Ireland. Will do my best to use our national language 🇮🇪 as much as possible
Four Russian vessels observed off Irish coast reinforces EU concerns, that Ireland is a weak link in security of critical subsea cables.
The amount of data, financial transactions and critical information flowing through these cables makes them a target.
The Irish People consistently rejected Provisional IRA violence.
Until PIRA announced an end to terror campaign, and Good Friday Agreement signed, Sinn Féin were consistently rejected by the Irish People.
Deputy McDonald the PIRA acted against the wishes of The Irish People
Asked whether she believes IRA violence was justified, Sinn Féin President
@MaryLouMcDonald
says the Irish people were justified to stand against British imperialism.
Watch the full interview on View From Stormont tonight at 11.05PM on
@UTV
.
It is really sad that families of victims of IRA murders and atrocities seem to only ever get apologies from
@sinnfeinireland
if the issue is going to cause electoral damage.If they claim to be different now, they should stop being IRA apologists and apologize to IRA victims
Planning permission granted for largest investor build in Belfast.
I presume
@sinnfeinireland
did everything possible to stop this development.
Surely this is against
@EOBroin
housing policies.
Nobody in Belfast must have read his book
Really disappointed at An Bord Pleanála’s decision to reject planning app for an
#LNG
facility in the Shannon region.
Very shortsighted and endemic of Ireland’s woeful
#energy
policy.
Gas will always be part of our energy mix for the days the wind doesn’t blow!
Sinn Féin, in opposition in the South, seem to have all the answers on housing.
Whereas, in the North where they hold the Housing Ministry, they are failing miserably.
SF in Govt will not be the utopia that they would lead you to believe it will be.
We know that when SF go to the US on St Patrick’s Day it’s usually to fill their coffers at €500/plate dinners with corporate America.
An Taoiseach going for a bilateral meeting with US President is essential work on behalf of our nation.
WATCH: A Government TD has defended the idea of the Taoiseach going to Washington to meet President Biden for St. Patrick's Day. Sinn Féin says such a visit should not go ahead
@nealerichmond
@loreillysf
#TonightVMTV
Sinn Féin policy over the years
Against EU, now for EU,
Against Dáil Éireann, now for Dáil Éireann,
Against low Corporate rates, now for low Corporate tax rates.
For Russia, then against Russia,
Against Ukraine, now for Ukraine,
Could
@sinnfeinireland
be consistent?😂😂
Taoiseach
@campaignforleo
on the way to Cork to claim credit for the rain Government spokesperson said Mr Varadkar worked tirelessly behind the scenes and hoped that a
#FakeNewsMedia
would report his efforts accurately
An yet Sinn Féin will be over in the US with their noses in the trough of Corporate America.
Every year Sinn Féin gorge themselves on globalist dollars.
It proves that the Radical of today, is the Conservative of tomorrow.
I don’t know Paschal Donohue well, I spoke to him as a Dáil colleague, like I spoke to many TDs
I would have spoken to Aengus O Snodaigh.
Sinn Fein poster man jailed for IRA membership.
Would people keep a bit of perspective and proportionality please.
The Good Friday Agreement is clear. People born in NI can claim Irish or British citizenship or both.
It’s an international treaty. The British government cannot pick and choose which parts to implement/recognise.
We don't "identify" as Irish- we are Irish
That the Home Office continues to make this distinction indicates that the message has not got through and will yet again raise concerns over the citizenship and identity provisions of the Good Friday Agreement
This is Asha Chopra. She was murdered by the IRA on this day in 1974. She was eight months pregnant.
Like most victims of the Troubles, Asha has been all but forgotten by the public, and those who wish to whitewash the past.
Please share this to remind people her life mattered.
This is a scandalous attack on the freedom of the press. However, China has rarely, if ever, cared about the rights of anyone.
China gets away with so much simply because of its economic power. It has to stop.
Irish journalist Yvonne Murray, who reports for RTÉ News and Current Affairs from China, has been forced to leave the country because of mounting pressure from the Chinese authorities.
I’ve contacted
@mmcgrathtd
as Minister for Public Expenditure requesting that the Irish Govt make a contribution towards the legal fees of
@EmmandJDeSouza
arising from her cases against the British Govt to defend her and her husband’s rights under the
#GoodFridayAgreement
Sinn Féin has dropped its pledges to withdraw from the EU common defence arrangement known as Pesco and from Nato’s Partnership for Peace project, the party has confirmed.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and
@duponline
are trying to outdo
@JamieBrysonCPNI
and Loyalist Communities Council in stoking up fears/concerns about Protocol.
Many claims being made are inaccurate, untrue or misleading.
There is goodwill in EU to honestly address the difficulties.
Here in
#Ukraine
with
@timmydooley
to review reconstruction progress and to see how we can support the country to enable its people return home both ASAP & safely.
Came across these rapid build modular homes. They will house 400 people & have been built in less than 4 weeks.
It’s obvious Sinn Féin see the COVID-19 pandemic as a political opportunity to be exploited. They don’t even pretend to be concerned about public health or the economy. It’s just a case of deliberately sowing confusing and anger to undermine the collective effort of the people
Came across a thesis on political ideology today. There is no difference between the Far Right and the Extreme Left. Both are completely intolerant of other views and engage in threatening and sometimes violent behaviour, to further their warped political ideology. 2 sides 1 coin
Surely no court in the land would convict me for firing the staff member who brought these into my office?
Fairly confident
@DeirdreCluneMEP
will agree with me 😂
#BarrysIsBest
(only when it comes to tea though)
Checked in
@CorkAirport
this morning at 9,58am for AirFrance flight to Paris, through security and sitting in departures area by 10,03am.
Really believe that Cork and Shannon Airports should be be used more strategically.
Efficient use of critical infrastructure is the key.