John O’Brennan @JohnOBrennan2 Twitter profile

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John O’Brennan

5 months

For those interested in my piece in the Irish Times - Orban makes a mockery of the values the EU is supposed to represent.

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John O’Brennan

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3 years

You won’t see a better front page this week. Ouch.

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6 years

My God, this G7 is producing a hell of a set of images. Has Angela Merkel placed Trump on the naughty seat?

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9 months

The sheer goodness of #SineadOConner captured here in a remarkable letter. 👏

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3 years

1/ Brexit was UK’s choice 2/ U.K. is now a third country 3/ third countries do not get same benefits as members 4/ why is all this so difficult to understand?

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6 months

Hello from Ireland. I hate to remind everybody of that pesky thing called the Belfast Agreement which *requires* the jurisdiction of the ECtHR to function. Sunak cannot ‘ignore’ ECtHR without abrogating the Agreement. Can every 🇬🇧 journalist try to absorb that simple fact?

Robert Peston

@Peston

6 months

I think Rishi Sunak has just said that if parliament votes that "Rwanda is a safe country" via his planned emergency legislation - and that can't be taken for granted - he will just ignore the European Court of Human Rights if it intervenes to stop asylum seekers being expelled…

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@JohnOBrennan2

11 months

Michael Heseltine, 90 years old, leaves nothing behind as he lays into Boris Johnson on @Channel4News

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@JohnOBrennan2

3 months

Has any ex-UK Prime Minister ever done anything as embarrassing as this?

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@JohnOBrennan2

2 years

An extraordinary figure from the @FT : the poorest 20 per cent cohort of Irish people have a standard of living which is 63 per cent higher than their counterparts in the U.K. How much wider will the gap be when this ultra-Thatcherite U.K. government of Liz Truss is finished?

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3 years

Apparently, our long-suffering British friends are now being asked to embrace ‘more death’ from Covid, in the same way they were told to accept less trade and prosperity from Brexit. The rest of the world looks on, mouths agape, at these blustering anti-science blowhards.

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@SkyNews

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson says "there could be 50,000 cases detected per day by July 19" and that "we must reconcile ourselves to more deaths from COVID". Latest on #COVID19 :

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2 years

The most devastating short form critique of Brexit I have seen.

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@JohnOBrennan2

2 years

Waldorf and Statler capture the feeling of the week that was.

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@JohnOBrennan2

5 years

Erasmus appears to be over for UK Universities. young people are literally having their futures stolen away from them by Brexiters.

Denis MacShane

@DenisMacShane

5 years

Spanish universities to close Erasmus scholarships for UK as result of hard Brexit. Anyone care?

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@JohnOBrennan2

6 years

Thanks Chris. We lived in a forced marriage with you from 1169 to 1921. You didn’t treat us very well. We escaped and grew up. We forgave you. We like you. But we don’t want to be you (who would right now?)When you get over the protracted nervous breakdown, we will be friends.

Christopher Howarth

@CJCHowarth

6 years

@Mal_Contented @agentathcliath @eddietheknife @WeDoABetterFry @Paula14mcbride Re-joining the UK is the only way to reunite Ireland and the British Isles. Brexit makes Irish EU membership less logical.

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John O’Brennan

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10 months

I can’t think of another media landscape in Europe like that in UK. Offshore proprietors who pay no tax in the country ruin lives & pollute political discourse while everyone in power cowers before them. No meaningful press regulation of any kind. It is completely cancerous.

Gerry Hassan 🇺🇦

@GerryHassan

10 months

The Sun drove this story. Now they will not answer for the storm & controversy they have created. They never do. This is a paper with a record of polluting public life & telling lies from the Belgrano to Hillsborough. Why don't we hold @TheSun accountable?

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3 years

This is so demonstratively NOT what the letter said. Both BBC+ITN keep repeating the false interpretation. No democracy can survive the relentless pummelling of truth we see happening in 🇬🇧 on a daily basis. It is reprehensible for the most imp media outlets to collude with this.

Robert Peston

@Peston

3 years

. @BorisJohnson is visibly angry at the letter sent by French pm @JeanCASTEX to @vonderleyen about the fishing row which said the UK should be punished for leaving the EU. This will run

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

2 years

Since joining EU, Ireland has gone from one of the poorest countries in Europe, to one of the richest. It has a GDP per capita far in excess of the UK's. It ranks first in Europe for life expectancy. And sorry to report Irish self-respect and confidence highest it has ever been.

Arron Banks

@Arron_banks

2 years

I think they are referring to the trouble we are having leaving Hotel California that’s is the EU. Still almost done. Ireland spent centuries trying to leave English rule only to become a regional sub office of Brussels. No self respect left !

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2 years

John O’Brennan (1930-2022), a man of the sea. RIP Dad.

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@JohnOBrennan2

2 years

Priti Patel’s entirely fake migrant ‘crisis’: -UK has only half the asylum applicants it had in early 2000s -UK gets only a fraction of applications FR/GER receive -UK only hosts a fraction of displaced people poorer countries host -Fall of 4% this year

The Observer view on Priti Patel’s fake migrant crisis | Observer editorial

The home secretary fans rhetorical flames on asylum seekers and refugees, but the numbers disagree

www.theguardian.com

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@JohnOBrennan2

5 years

The Telegraph has gone full Goebbels in asserting that public opinion in UK swinging behind No Deal. This is a whopping lie. This is what happens when ideologically crazed (and greedy) owners corrupt once decent newspapers. #tomorrowspaperstoday

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

4 years

This is just laughable. The U.K. is leaving Erasmus, the biggest student exchange system in the world, to set up....erm....a new global student exchange system.

Britain preps global alternative to EU’s Erasmus scheme

With no sign of a deal on membership, ‘Global Britain’ is looking beyond Brussels.

www.politico.eu

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

3 months

This is the most glorious three minutes of TV I’ve watched in years. Watch @Jacob_Rees_Mogg get his faux aristocratic bottom handed to him on a farmer’s plate.

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@JohnOBrennan2

5 months

The stars of Christmas 2023 - these brave young Serbs who simply want what most of us take for granted.

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@JohnOBrennan2

3 months

These poor far right grifters keep encountering Irish people who make them look like the crazed, lying reprobates they are. Kudos to this Bundoran man

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@JohnOBrennan2

1 year

A new low even for the gutter merchants at GB News. They should be taken off the air immediately.

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@JohnOBrennan2

2 years

Just when you think the brutality and casual heartlessness of Putin’s forces can’t get worse, You see something like this.

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

5 years

Penny Mordaunt has been appointed UK Secretary of State for Defence. A reminder that this is the person who, during the Brexit referendum in 2016,repeatedly lied that Turkey was about to join the European Union. That’s the calibre of person now appointed to high office in the UK.

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6 years

I think it may be time to roll this one out. #DowJones #StockMarket

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2 years

The value of first class journalism: @mcculld refuses to settle for the recurring lies of the Russian ambassador to Ireland. This is how to confront apologists for murder.

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@JohnOBrennan2

1 year

Hugh Grant’s utter contempt for the Oscars circus is a thing of beauty (esp ‘What are you wearing’)

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

9 months

One of the most remarkable two minutes public address by a US official in modern history. Watch/ listen to every word.

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@JohnOBrennan2

3 months

The brilliant Jon Stewart is back and watching him defenestrate Tucker Carlson for his crude Russian propaganda is a thing of beauty.

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4 years

What kind of person would contemplate a ‘No Deal’ Brexit when the economy is already heading for the worst recession in 300 years?

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@JohnOBrennan2

6 years

John McCain is on his deathbed. But still found time to release this statement. He doesn’t hold back.

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@JohnOBrennan2

1 year

Must read- ‘Ireland booms while Brexit Britain whimpers next door’ writes @nichferris @NewStatesman The divergence in economic performance between Ireland and the UK is increasingly clear and demonstrates the catastrophe Brexiteers brought on 🇬🇧 economy.

Ireland booms while Brexit Britain whimpers next door

While Joe Biden visits Ireland, Brexiteers said their closest EU neighbour would be “doomed” – now it’s set to be the top-performing economy in Europe this year.

www.newstatesman.com

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5 years

I really - really - don’t know how Scottish MPs can remain so dignified in the face of the contempt shown them by the Tory party in recent years. Yet another example today.

Harvest Moon Radio

@HMRadioScot

5 years

In case anyone has any doubt how much Scotland matters to England, just watch this disgusting scenes in Westminster as Ian Blackford rises to speak on the Queens speech @IanBlackfordMP

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6 months

This is completely inappropriate from the German embassy in Ireland. There is no anti-semitism in Ireland’s approach to this. None. Opposition to Israeli atrocities against Palestinians does NOT equate to anti-semitism.

German Embassy Dublin

@GERMANYinIRL

6 months

"Anticolonialism must not lead to antisemitism" - an important and timely reminder from Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, both for Germany and Ireland.

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John O’Brennan

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1 year

Another idiot Brexiteer gets blown out of the water, this time by @MarinaPurkiss 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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4 years

Most of Ireland’s far right candidates are polling below 1% in their individual constituencies. This despite Ireland having one of the highest rates of inward migration in Europe.

Naomi O'Leary

@NaomiOhReally

4 years

Attempts to establish right-wing nativist politics as a force in Ireland look to have flopped again, as only 1% of 5,300 voters polled say immigration was an important factor in deciding how to vote.

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2 years

Contrasts in leadership: While Boris Johnson spent yesterday fending off allegations of lying about Covid parties in his home and sponging off Tory donors to put up that ghastly wallpaper, In Ireland the Taoiseach quietly queued with other citizens to get his booster shot.

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

7 years

-UK exports to EU = 48% -EU exports to U.K. = 8 % -RoI exports to UK = 14% -RoI exports to EU = 50% Jim, can you do basic sums?

Jim Allister

@JimAllister

7 years

Arrogant Verhofstadt in Europhile denial: EU needs a deal more than UK - they export more to us than we do to them. Same for UK reliant ROI.

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3 months

Guess which great defenders of freedom have yet to utter a single word about the murder of Alexy Navalny?

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1 year

What’s wrong with Britain in one single story.

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@JohnOBrennan2

3 years

On this day,1 Jan 1973,Ireland took a giant step to achieving meaningful sovereignty by joining the EEC. We understood that sovereignty could be shared with our neighbours. In pooling sovereignty we finally took our place among the nations of the earth. We’ve never looked back.

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@JohnOBrennan2

4 months

Huge demonstration in Belgrade, in protest at stolen election. The EU really needs to pay attention to this and change policy toward Vucic regime ASAP

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

4 years

So, Dublin’s two most famous freedom fighters escaped to Tipperary today. They pitched up at my friend’s restaurant. When my friend asked them to fill out a contact tracing form before eating they refused to do so. So she politely asked them to leave.

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John O’Brennan

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5 years

Just one week, and British tabloids have: 1. Contacted Garett Thomas parents to tell them their son was HIV positive. 2. Published story detailing how cricketer Ben Stokes’ siblings were killed, upsetting him greatly. And then this. They represent the very worst in our society.

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Just received notification from the Mail on Sunday that, in a week in which I have received death threats, they are tomorrow going to publish my private address.

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Be in no doubt that if you opt to march behind banners of this kind: you ARE a far right supporting racist.

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3 years

Sorry, Mr Frost. The EU will not bend its rules to suit a former member state, whose leaders are trying to manufacture a permanent war with the EU, to shore up a domestic position that gets more exposed by the day, in flagrant violation of WA/TCA.

Lord Frost: EU at risk of making 'historic misjudgment' over protocol concessions

The Brexit minister will urge the European Commission to bend its rules and accept that the ECJ's involvement in Northern Ireland must end

www.telegraph.co.uk

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3 years

Johnson blames migrants from Central+Eastern Europe for negatively impacting wages in 🇬🇧 after 2004. Ireland accepted proportionately significantly higher No of CEE migrants + not only did wages go UP (despite 2008 calamity), so did productivity (a lot)

‘Economically illiterate’: PM’s Tory conference speech gets frosty reception

Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying ‘shortages cannot be blustered away’

www.theguardian.com

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John O’Brennan

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4 months

Serbs are marching for democracy again tonight. They march without the support of the European Union and the United States, which cling to their abnormal attachment to the Vucic regime as a ‘stabiliser’ in the Balkans.

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1 year

Magnificent

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1 year

If I had been wrong about - literally - every prediction I had made over the last decade, I think I might be reluctant to keep drawing public attention to my dunder-headedness. But not Dan Hannan. Bless.

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4 months

Democracy is a potent thing. Belgrade residents are fighting for it, peacefully and powerfully.

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@JohnOBrennan2

11 months

One of these guys fled his capital city when it was threatened by danger. The other refused every opportunity to leave.

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11 months

Brexit in one tweet: A completely incoherent Leave supporter 7 years on from the referendum, describing non-existent EU rules, insisting ‘we played by the rules and Johnny Foreigner didn’t’.

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Wow. Every second if this is worth watching - An extraordinary speech at the UN from President Osmani of Kosovo, facing down an ultra nationalist Serbian president for the multitude of crimes committed by past Serb regimes.

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John O’Brennan

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4 months

It is barely believable that this can happen to an opposition leader in an EU candidate state. Senior EU (and US) actors have said *virtually nothing* about this and uttered completely inadequate criticism of the huge election irregularities in the recent Serbian election.

Jakub Bielamowicz

@KubaBielamowicz

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Shocking footage of Serbia’s opposition politician @Sandulovic_N being released from hospital. As per his wife’s account, Sandulovic was kidnapped & beaten in the premises of Serbia’s intel agency BIA by Radoičić & other perpetrators of the Banjska attack.

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Kosovo is not Serbian. Djokovic supports the enormously destructive Serb imperialism that led to mass killing of Kosovan Albanians in 1998-99. He should be thrown out of the French Open, and out of tennis.

Novak Djokovic courts controversy at French Open with political message

Novak Djokovic has caused controversy with a political message during his first-round victory over Aleksandar Kovacevic

www.theguardian.com

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2 months

How on earth did America get to this point?

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John O’Brennan

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6 months

One of the most glorious segments in modern television. Kudos to @MichaelLCrick Watch to the end!

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3 years

British shoppers now paying “a THIRD more” for EU-sourced goods in a development which The Times calls “unexpected”. There is a price for everything and *this* is literally the price for not listening to experts.

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18 days

Someone has been watching too many ‘how did Hitler do public speaking’ videos. As ever, an epic fail.

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7 months

Wow. Good to see at least one member of the European Commission *gets it*. Thierry Breton puts Elon Musk on notice that the EU will not allow him to flood the information landscape with the kind of toxic disinformation it has been flooded with over the last few days. 👏👏

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2 years

Just in: Northern Ireland Protocol 1 Brexit 0

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2 years

I’ve rarely seen one of Putin’s liars put in the spot like this.

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10 months

This is as extreme a communication I’ve ever seen from a 🇬🇧 Prime Minister. Put aside the performative bluster and it is A grade Enoch Powell: creating a *Really* hostile environment for the poor misfortunates who turn up on British shores needing protection. Shame on him.

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

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This is what we’re up against. The Labour Party, a subset of lawyers, criminal gangs - they're all on the same side, propping up a system of exploitation that profits from getting people to the UK illegally. I have a plan to stop it. Here’s how 🧵

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The grade inflation in Irish universities is hugely embarrassing. These are the figures for First Class Honours. They are - literally - unbelievable. We need to return immediately to a CREDIBLE award structure.

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1 year

Ireland has taken in approx 5 times the number of refugees from Ukraine as the UK has.

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4 months

The new French Prime Minister is *not* “openly gay”. He is gay. Can news organisations stop using this ridiculous adage?

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2 years

The Northern Ireland Protocol is working. The all island economy is becoming a reality.

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1 year

UK waters are “too polluted to swim in” and this is in stark contrast to most EU countries where water quality has improved substantially over the last two decades.

UK waters are too polluted to swim in – but European countries offer answers

The UK needs to clean its rivers and coastlines, and could look to Europe for how to do it.

theconversation.com

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My God. This is the ultimate @BBCNewsnight train wreck. The young disciple is a worthy representative of Liz Truss.

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2 years

Man who ‘Got Brexit done’ pleads with his successor to ‘Get Brexit Done’.

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

5 years

Fact check: - the EU budget is extremely small, at 1% of EU GDP. - only 6% of that figure is spent on administration. - The EU employs fewer people than a mid-sized British city - Most MEPs don’t steal from the EU, as Brexit party MEPs have been accused of doing.

Michael Heaver

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5 years

Me in today’s Daily Mail: EU has been spunking away your cash on champagne, theme park visits and boozy parties. Why would we sign up to a new EU Treaty so they can have another £30bn+. Forget it. #NoDeal

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This is how you deal with the nutcases on @GBNEWS

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@JohnOBrennan2

5 years

Ireland's export figures for May, 2019: USA: €3.7bln Germany: €1.5bln Belgium: €1.4bln GB: €1.2bln Sorry, Fraser. Nice try. Over the course of joint EU membership since 1973 the share of Irish exports going to UK has fallen from 55% to 10% See

Fraser Nelson

@FraserNelson

5 years

Irish exports to Britain rose €53m to a record €1.25bn "despite Brexit," it seems.

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John O’Brennan

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The country is full of interesting people and yet this stale old show keeps bringing back the same water treading bores to wearyingly retread the same old ground. Does anybody in the production team at #LateLate have the slightest sense of imagination?

The Late Late Show

@RTELateLateShow

8 months

Kicking off episode two in style #LateLate

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So, basically the EU has helped vaccinate one third of the entire population of the UK since December (more than 20m doses without any in other direction) while being stuffed by Astra Zeneca. A simple thank you would be sufficient @BorisJohnson

EU leaders back 'global value chains' instead of vaccine export bans

Refusal to support measure despite Ursula von der Leyen highlighting 21m doses sent to UK

www.theguardian.com

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John O’Brennan

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Boris Johnson’s letter to his MPs contains this jewel: We “created a new and friendly relationship with the European Union”. This, as he literally is about to introduce legislation to torch the Northern Ireland Protocol (and TCA).

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10 months

Just listen. The silence is deafening.

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9 months

The peerless @MarinaPurkiss pointing out a few home truths about Boris and Brexit to the hapless Peter Bone.

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John O’Brennan

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2 years

When the Minister for Education cannot write her own language and has to be corrected by an English teacher.

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6 years

Image of the day

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4 years

Let me get this right. The party that refused to punish Dominic Cummings for breaking the Covid lockdown rules now proposes to fine ordinary folk £10,000 if they do the same as he did?

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3 years

Nice to see the return to fashion of 1970s-era Yugoslav curtains.

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John O’Brennan

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6 years

This is not the act of a friend? Brexit does potentially catastrophic damage to the island of Ireland. And you didn’t give your ‘friend’ a moment’s thought as you pressed the Brexit button. Ireland is defending its national interest and will continue to do so.

Effie Deans

@Effiedeans

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I find it hard to forgive Leo Vardkar. He has made life for the UK as difficult as he could. This is not the act of a friend & we should treat his country accordingly

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John O’Brennan

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I’m not sure British people understand the amount of ‘soft power’ that can accrue from programmes like Erasmus+. People carry those positive experiences into business, diplomacy etc. It will be a tragedy if the UK is outside these structures of cross border exchange post-Brexit.

UK House of Commons

@HouseofCommons

4 years

MPs have voted against New Clause 10 being read a second time, by 344 votes to 254. This new clause would have required the Government to seek to negotiate continuing full membership of the EU’s Erasmus+ education and youth programme.

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Stephen Colbert - wow. Just watch.

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

1 year

European of the year 🇺🇦🇪🇺

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

6 years

When Ireland joined the EEC income per Head was 55% of then EU average. Today Irish income per head (GNI) is 37% higher than the United Kingdom’s. Brexit actually emphatically confirms Ireland’s voluntary choice to be part of the European Union. But thanks for thinking of us. X

Christopher Howarth

@CJCHowarth

6 years

@Mal_Contented @agentathcliath @eddietheknife @WeDoABetterFry @Paula14mcbride Re-joining the UK is the only way to reunite Ireland and the British Isles. Brexit makes Irish EU membership less logical.

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

4 years

Nothing to see here - just the @MailOnline complaining about the lack of immigrants to pick fruit, having spent years campaigning to kick out of Britain immigrants who pick fruit.

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

6 years

Britain is NOT Ireland’s biggest trading partner. Just 13% of Irish exports went to UK last year. More than 40% go to EU, 18% to US. So can you stop telling LIES about Ireland?

Andrew Pierce

@toryboypierce

6 years

. Britain is Ireland's biggest trading partner so why when Ireland and GB do not want a hard border cant compomise be reached

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

4 years

I have not read a better piece on Trump’s America (possible exception @fotoole cited here) I have rarely read as good a sociological essay. Take the time to read and absorb. It lays everything out with extraordinary acuity.

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

8 months

These disgraceful old codgers still belting out sectarian lines is one thing. The enthusiasm of the young crowd singing ‘Up the ‘Ra’ is incredibly depressing.

JOE.ie

@JOEdotie

8 months

The Wolfe Tones ended up drawing one of @epfestival ’s largest ever crowds today! 👀🇮🇪 Crowds of up to 50-people deep gathered outside the Electric Arena tent at EP, with many festival go’ers bemoaning the decision not to book them to the main stage. #electricpicnic #wolfetones

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

2 years

The Minister for Disinformation refuses to do anything about Disinformation. You could not make it up.

JOHN NICOLSON M.P. 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

@MrJohnNicolson

2 years

The Disinformation Minister appeared before the @CommonsDCMS Committee today. Shockingly, he refused to distance himself from Boris Johnson's #JimmySavile lie aimed at Keir Starmer. Have a listen.

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

3 months

What an immensely courageous woman, calling out Putin tonight as she pays respect to Alexey Navalny.

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

4 months

Shame on all those who protested in Ballinrobe. I hope you never find yourselves in the position of having to rely on others when you are in desperate need of help.

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

2 years

A remarkable ten minutes of @mrjamesob radio, where @ProfMarkElliott demolishes the Johnson/Truss move to disregard the Northern Ireland Protocol. Really worth listening to.

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

2 years

Approaching 50 years of membership of the EEC/EU, 95% of Irish people believe that 🇮🇪 has benefited from being a member of the Union, the highest figure among member state populations.

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John O’Brennan

@JohnOBrennan2

4 years

The @Telegraph hasn’t quite been able to get its head round the fact that leaving the EU has, you know, like, actual consequences. Keep the European Health Insurance Card? On yer bike.

British holidaymakers enjoy one EU perk above all others — we must protect it

Things have gone very quiet on the Brexit front – travellers and politicians have other things to worry about at the moment, perhaps.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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