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Mick Caul

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Interested in politics & advocating for a fairer society. Will never accept that homelessness is normal. #HowIrelandWorks #not1home

Dublin, Ireland
Joined May 2011
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Mick Caul
4 months
57 v 72 Government votes with #vulturefunds Votes against the @SocDems amendment calling for a 100 per cent stamp duty rate on the bulk buying of homes by vulture funds. This would prevent speculators from snapping up multiple homes in housing developments at the expense of…
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Fionnan Sheahan losing his sh1te with the artist Spice Bag for his work #TonightVMTV #HowIrelandWorks
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4 years
Ministerial Clap Rather than giving the three 'super' junior ministers another €16,000 on top of their €124,000 - @RBoydBarrett suggests giving them a round of applause like they gave healthcare workers on the frontline #Dail #corruptkip
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4 years
This is not good look. One of @DonnellyStephen advisors, @colette_sexton trying to stop the media from asking questions on #GolfGate Fair play to them for ignoring her suggestion. #RecallTheD áil
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3 years
When I saw how little media coverage the story of the woman who lost her unborn baby after a savage beating on Dame Street recieved. I said to people, I bet she was a homeless woman. She was. Some people really don't matter in this society. #DontForgetMe
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4 years
So there is a vote on the @SocDems bill to give workers a living wage - @EamonRyan of @greenparty_ie has to be woken up to vote AGAINST it #Dail
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🤣 Eamon Ryan is looking for every single councillor "to be queer" in the local elections. Varadkar breaks his bollox laughing. A man free of the pressures of the role of An Taoiseach.
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10 hours radio a week gets Claire Byrne a whopping €280,000 from the Licence Fee 🤕 It has to stop, these salaries to the *stars* are immoral. #todaycb #HowIrelandWorks
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4 years
Fair play to @gavreilly who kept going as protesters shouted ' fake news get off the air' 👏 at the #Dail
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5 years
This is a disgraceful way for the Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar to address a member of parliament - @Ginosocialist has the very same mandate as every other politican in the #Dail
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3 years
I'm openly telling you, I haven't read 3,000 pages. Although our former President tells us that she read it, she tells us, it's 'scholarly and profound' - I absolutely, fundamentally disagree. - @catherinegalway #MotherAndBabyHomes Full contribution 👇
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3 years
😔I never thought I would witness such scenes in Dublin City Centre. Shameful. A year ago we had an election with housing / homelessness as the number 1 issue. #DontForgetMe #rtept #HowIrelandWorks @DarraghOBrienTD @LeoVaradkar @MichealMartinTD @EamonRyan
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10 months
Varadkar says he continues to have confidence in the RTÉ executive board as he sits beside Simon Coveney whose brother Rory Coveney is on that executive board in RTÉ. #HowIrelandWorks
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2 years
I'm back! Everything maybe wiped but I can work on that this evening. Will thank you all later for helping to #reinstatemick 😍
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1 year
F**king Ditch Without The Ditch, Robert Troy would still be a Minister, without The Ditch, Damien English would still be a Minister - no wonder you are attempting to undermine the Ditch, because they have been quite successful in exposing corrupt, unethical practices by…
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2 months
Really great work from @TomClonan keeping us all informed about the impact for disabled citizens in this referendum #Ref24
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Ireland 2025
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3 years
Sickening. They've removed the long benches from the front of the Custom House & replaced them with these grotesque yokes to stop the homeless from sleeping on them. @DubCityCouncil never fail to sicken. #not1home #Homeless #DontForgetMe
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2 years
There you have it - selling us off!! 71 v 60 @fiannafailparty @finegael & @greenparty_ie vote to allow #cuckoofunds to continue to bulk buy homes over the rest of us - while paying no tax. #HowIrelandWorks #HousingCrisis #Dail
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3 years
We are going to need a protest, like nothing the country has seen before. And drive this government out of office and demand an election. They are literally selling the country from under us.
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4 years
Jack Chambers losing the plot - #GE2020 focusing minds. 😇 #cblive
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4 years
'I am deeply concerned by a party and a leader who sat around a cabinet table with people who were subsequently jailed for corruption' - @MaryLouMcDonald @MichealMartinTD handed his arse this evening #Dail #GE2020
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3 years
These are interesting fake followers stats.
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3 years
Questions no Answers. Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD now having a row with @gavreilly accusing him of overplaying differences in what he said & what @LeoVaradkar said on how long restrictions will last. The worst government at the worst time. #HowIrelandWorks
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4 years
Are @FineGael / @fiannafailparty playing fast and lose with the peace process? @DevineDrKaren asks where is the evidence to back up the claims by Drew Harris #SaturdayRte #Ge2020
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1 year
Outrageous stuff !! Distraught house-hunters who went sale agreed on seven properties in an estate in Co Mayo have been informed that the houses have now been sold to a single buyer instead A company called Greendrive Asset Holdings Limited, with an address in Kilmaine, Co…
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2 years
Neoliberalism. We have now 10,325 people homeless and your telling us that your policies are working ? I live in a city where last week someone was on a trolley for SEVEN DAYS, almost blind with a catheter - @catherinegalway #NoConfidenceGov #WeWantAnElection
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1 year
Eamon Ryan, with a salary of around €190,000 plus expenses & with 8 Advisers earning a combined salary of €729,669 Says Government will have to ‘wean’ people off cost of living supports i.e keeping the lights on or putting food on the table #CostofLivingCrisis
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Mick Caul
3 years
🔥 Would you like to apologise to Barry Cowen for the leeway you've shown the Tánaiste & Foreign Affairs Minister ? Similarly, Dara Calleary got swift justice. Full link 👇 #MerrionGate #HowIrelandWorks ( Question @Philip_Ryan )
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1 year
Extraordinary Stuff !! Asked why Barry Cowen was sacked for not answering questions before the Dail, while the opposition is refused the opportunity to ask Niall Collins questions for the second time. The Tanaiste refuses to answer @HollyCairnsTD questions, but goes on to attack…
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Mick Caul
6 months
Chilling- Israeli Embassy has questions to answer. There's a particular campaign going on with the Israeli Embassy in relation to anyone who speaks out or says something differently. And a speech I made in the Dáil has been the subject of, more than a comment, a detailed…
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The Government has now approved proposals for two referendums on 8 March 2024 I have serious difficulty promoting this referendum and I repeatedly classify myself as a very strong feminist - but this is an insult and it's a double insult to hold it on…
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6 months
Standing ovation for the Palestinian Ambassador at the #SFAF23 this evening. 'The world sees Israeli actions for what they are. Barbaric, hateful, cowardly, war crimes' @MaryLouMcDonald #GazaCeasefireNOW Rte News
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1 year
If Niall Collins goes, the Government falls. They can't allow an online publication to wipe out a Government. That's why the reluctance of the MSM to cover it. #HowIrelandWorks #DeNiall #Ditched
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1 year
#DeNiall Why has the Irish Media gone silent on the Minister Niall Collins Scandal ? Is it not the role of the media to hold the government & power entities to account ? Newspaper publishers recently won their battle for print and digital newspapers to be zero-rated for VAT…
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Mick Caul
4 years
Hamburg can build a children's hospital for €70m Helsinki can build a hospital for €170m Dublin? Over €2BN ++ - it stinks, that all to familiar smell of corruption that is so ingrained in the politics of Fine Gael and Fianna Fail #LookBack2019 Happy New Year.
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3 years
Are we all agreed ? The Government is not fit for purpose ? The worst at the worst time ever.
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3 years
Powerful Contribution Voluntary never Discriminatory 'What is really extraordinary is, the more that we vaccinate, the more that we use enforcement - that's an appalling scenario, with absolutely no pathway out of this.' @catherinegalway #Dail
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4 years
What was Sean O'Rourke doing at an Oireachtas Golf Event ? The man who was until recently being paid over €300,000 to hold politicians to account on @RTERadio1 . #golfgate
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4 years
Something that has never happened before - Minister @ReginaDo lost for words as a young woman tells her she should be ashamed - "we are forced to emigrate to have a family". 👏👏👏 NINE YEARS IS ENOUGH WE, deserve better. #GE20 #GE2020 #rtept
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3 years
Taoiseach says he will be travelling home to see his family tonight in Cork - like id love to see my own family, but they are not within the 5Km limit.
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Mick Caul
10 months
Housing Crisis, Health Crisis, Cost of Living Crisis, Cronisyism & Corruption. On holiday now until September 20th. Is this the worst Government the country has ever had ?
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Mick Caul
2 years
'Sweet Jesus, what have we done as women to allow somebody like this speak in our name & attempt to reassure us that we own this hospital and we go through this labyrinthine thing, for what ? To serve the Interests of SVHG ' @catherinegalway #NMH
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1 year
Powerful! #WhereDoWeGo ? A married woman, with a child going through chemotherapy who is going to be evicted. Another lady who has stage 4 COPD, on constant oxygen is going to be evicted by your Government. "We always knew that Fine Gael didn't give a damn about them,…
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Mick Caul
4 years
I saw @GardaTraffic takes bags of cans from a couple of homeless men tonight, after they bought them in the shop. I'm now reading @GardaTraffic decided to give Phil Hogan a caution rather than a €60 fine and two penalty points for driving while on the phone. #GolfGate
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2 months
The strongest feeling I have, is my disappointment with the Government what they have done. They used propaganda to push through two changes to our constitution in a manner that was patronising and patriarchal. And that women's group joined in and used that type of language, is…
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4 months
Hard to believe what this country has become. The Government has a lot to answer for. These children don't deserve to face this today. Shameful day in Roscrea. #RefugeeCrisis
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10 months
The people who come to the soup kitchens are mainly families with young children who have no cooking facilities in emergency accommodation. The volunteers are the best of people showing humanity at its very best. There is very rarely any trouble just desperate, hungry people.
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8 months
Can we not just agree, whatever your politics, that children with scoliosis/spina diffida or any other illness should not be left, waiting in agony for years for surgery. Surely the country can manage that ?
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2 years
This Morning This Evening
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3 years
I'm ten years on Twitter. Over last week, I've been forced to mute more abusive anonymous accounts than over the whole of previous ten years. Asking people to contact their TD & ask two questions, should not be faced with such hostile reaction Keep asking Who are #Merrion50 ?
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1 year
Leo Varadkar is on Rte Radio 1 blaming homeless people for being homeless. Almost 12 years in Government.
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Mick Caul
3 years
Stephen Donnelly will be looking to join Labour.
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4 years
Varadkar has heard stories of people asking to be laid off so they could claim the €350 Covid_19 payment. This is bullsh1te.
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6 months
Worth a Watch. Fine Gael really don't care about working class communities. Scathing contribution from @GaryGannonTD this afternoon. The experience of the Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire parents over the last 24hours. At 2.30 today, when those parents collected their children,…
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Mick Caul
10 months
Sean Fleming was the junior minister who said people should shop around instead of “complaining” about the rising cost of living. Look at the expenses he was claiming when the Dáil wasn't sitting. #HowIrelandWorks
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Having claimed to have driven more than 8,000 kilometres in three months when the Dáil wasn’t sitting, Fianna Fáil junior minister Seán Fleming has denied submitting inaccurate ministerial driving expenses claims. His diary accounts for less than 1,000.
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3 years
The Healy-Rae Millionaires hammered by @DuncanSmithTD #D áil
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Mick Caul
4 months
Ireland is Broken A UK-BASED property investment fund has purchased 85% of the homes in a new housing estate in north Dublin. Occu, a private rental sector company owned by Sw3 Capital, is now advertising the four-bedroom properties for rent at €3,175 per month.…
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2 months
Brilliant ✊️ @GaryGannonTD
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“The media would call me racist and far right, would you agree?” “I’d call you a gobshite” @garygannontd hits the nail on the head here!
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2 years
Before the opposition can raise their concerns about religious influence over the New National Maternity Hospital they have to stand up and say their prayers.
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Mick Caul
1 year
70 v 78 Heartless & Cruel - how could a Government vote against this. Amendment in the name of Peadar Tóibín TD to the Government amendment on the Sinn Féin Motion re Eviction Ban. "calls on the Government to make provisions to ensure that no person can be evicted if they…
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Mick Caul
4 years
Looks like Regina Doherty will be applying for a Public Services Card as she is unlikely to hold her seat. #GE2020
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Mick Caul
1 year
Where do they go @joefingalgreen ? ✊ We have a neighbour, she is a widow she has four children...she's out on the 15th of May, where's she going Joe ? @loreillysf Incredible to think the Minster once worked in homeless services and was a whistleblower, now part of the…
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Mick Caul
5 years
I very rarely hear about Peter Casey except from the media . Real solution to migration is to stop bombing people out of their homes @lukeming #TonightVMTV
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Mick Caul
3 years
The HSE Boss, Paul Reid gets paid about €35,000 a month. A month 👀
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Mick Caul
7 months
💯 Paddy Cosgrave has nothing to apologise for All those tech companies and individuals that are now returning their passes for the Web Summit in Lisbon next month are the ones that should be cancelled. And that includes the Collinson brothers Irish owned Stripe.…
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11 months
Incredible For 4 Hours Radio a week - Brendan O’Connor confirms that his pay is €245,004 - the same figure he received in 2021.
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Mick Caul
4 months
A garda suspended for three years after he provided an elderly, isolated man with an unclaimed bicycle for transport during the pandemic will appear before a sworn disciplinary inquiry on Tuesday. ​ #HowIrelandWorks #Garda Ali Bracken
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Mick Caul
5 years
Incredible. I see @rte removed Noel Edmonds mentioning the Irish Banking Crisis on the 'Ray Darcy Show' from the @RTEplayer ? Completely edited this section out. #RTEbias
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With this Government, it seems if you fail, you can fail to the very top. Powerful contribution from @MaryLouMcDonald as she sets out the record of Simon Harris -the man who brought down the last government, when Fianna Fáil had no confidence in him. The man who failed in this…
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Mick Caul
4 years
The women were hidden away. It's time to stop talking about the vulnerable women - they weren't vulnerable. They were strong, vivacious women, who were made vulnerable by the system. Who were demonised by the system.- @catherinegalway #Dail #StopTheSeal #MotherAndBabyHomes
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Mick Caul
3 years
'There's no phoneline to rat out bankers, there's no phoneline to rat out corruption at the various levels'- Emmett Kirwan #ResignLeo We, deserve better.
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Mick Caul
2 years
On practically every street in Dublin City Centre there is a human being in a sleeping bag. This is @MichealMartinTD & @LeoVaradkar 's Ireland. We are better than this.
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Mick Caul
4 years
@LeoVaradkar I'll leave that there.
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Mick Caul
1 year
A Government of the Left with our first woman Taoiseach @MaryLouMcDonald - without Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael is exactly the bit of hope the country so desperately needs. #LateLateShow
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Mick Caul
4 months
Dail suspended in uproar as Government refuses to give time to debate the Genocide in Gaza. #D áil #GazaGenocide
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Mick Caul
3 years
Irish Erasmus students to have hotel quarantine paid for by State - you'd wonder what the student nurses have done wrong ?
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Mick Caul
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Taoiseach & Tánaiste #ChangeisComing ✊️
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Mick Caul
1 year
Incredible stuff. Neale Richmond trying to claim that Government transparency led to the resignation of Damien English, when it was the investigative journalism of @wereontheditch that forced his hand. #HowIrelandWorks #TonightVMTV
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Mick Caul
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Country is Broken #WhereDoWeGo ? @LeoVaradkar @MichealMartinTD @EamonRyan Elderly homeless man in Offaly sleeping in car for four weeks "It pains me to publicise my current state of affairs," he said, “but I have no other choice." #HousingCrisis
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Mick Caul
1 year
The lads wearing their daffodils after failing to support a simple ammendment yesterday to protect people with cancer from eviction. #WhereDoWeGo ? #Dail #LQs
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Mick Caul
1 year
Looks Great! #EvictionBan Spice Bag
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“Stick that in your paper.” 👏🏼 @fionnansheahan @paddycosgrave @KNEECAPCEOL
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4 months
Hate speech bill is ‘restrictive and undemocratic�� warns barrister, as 7,000 people sign petition Grace Sullivan also warned that people may not be aware of how detrimental the Government’s new bill could be to their freedom of speech, until after the law has passed. The new…
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Mick Caul
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RTE Secret Payments - Gets Worse ! Did you ask Dee Forbes to resign ? " I did, last Friday' -Siún Ni Raghallaigh - ( June 16th ) Did you not think the Oireachtas would want to ask her questions ? Who went on to the @rtenews #sixine and never informed the viewers. This is not…
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😆 someone's looking for attention
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2 years
Dublin Airport only guaranteeing security staff 20-hr week & €283 wage amid severe passenger delays Pay people a decent wage with decent terms & conditions and you wouldn't be left wishing for staff ?
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"We have to put our hands up and say we got that wrong. We wish we had more staff available" - daa apologises for Dublin Airport delays
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Mick Caul
1 year
F**king Ditch Barry Cowen failed to declare his ownership of 32 acres of farmland for nine years – only rectifying the issue after the resignation of his party colleague Robert Troy. Today Cowen confirmed to The Ditch the land is let – meaning not only has he failed to declare…
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Landlord Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen doesn't declare his rental income from farmland that he hadn’t acknowledged his ownership of for almost a decade He only declared he owns the 32 acres after his party colleague Robert Troy resigned his junior ministry
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Are there no consequences for this? Are they allowed to do as they f**king like? Josepha Madigan made bogus ministerial mileage claims over four years. #HowIrelandWorks #GeneralElectionlNow @wereontheditch need to be commended for their work on this.…
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Varadkar keeps saying the €500 tax rebate for renters represents a months rent for most people!? What planet is he leaving on ? This Government is out of touch. #CostOfLivingCrisis #LQs
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Mick Caul
3 years
Looks like it is not just @finegael who have concerns about the Minister for Health and his ability to get the #vaccine out in a timely manner. #Dail #ThirdWave
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Mick Caul
10 months
RTE Secret Payments -July 5th 2023 Media Committee Jollies Why does your husband go along to every event with tickets bought by RT€ ? @ImeldaMunster #dail #RteGate
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Mick Caul
1 year
12 YEARS since Fine Gael infamously declared they would "end the scandal of patients on trolleys" A record 931 admitted patients are waiting for a hospital bed, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. #HealthCrisis #HowIrelandWorks
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Mick Caul
6 months
Dublin stabbing: Victim is from migrant family The child, who suffered catastrophic injuries when she was stabbed outside a Gaelscoil on Parnell Square, was born to a father from eastern Europe and a mother from South America.
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1 year
IT BEGINS Shocking video footage has shown a family of eight being evicted without notice from rented accommodation just days before St Patrick’s Day. The Brazilian-Portuguese couple evicted from their Donegal home were told that their children could be taken from them, the…
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Mick Caul
1 year
Green party leader Eamon Ryan’s St Patrick’s Day trip will exceed a whole year’s worth of carbon emissions from the average family car. He flies to Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, which equates to a total of 4.52 metric tonnes
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Mick Caul
4 years
There were many reasons @LeoVaradkar was rejected in the February election. Here, @lukeming lays out the reasons why on #TonightVMTV in 2019. #NotMyTaoiseach
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Mick Caul
2 years
A man believed to be homeless was found in a tent on Monday in Dublin 2 - it is believed he had been dead for several days. A second man was found dead in emergency accommodation on Thursday. What's happened to Ireland ?
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Mick Caul
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It appears to be, at the very least, a mentally ill man, who is accused of the multiple stabbings at Parnell Square was previously released by a Judge for having possession of a knife and criminal damage without any charge or referral to the probation services or mental health…
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