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Garreth McDaid

4 months

Why are there protests at DP centres? Is racism involved? For some, yes, but that doesn’t fully explain it. Are there genuine concerns about services? Ukrainians are more of an issue in this regard, and we don’t see protests about them. So what is it? 1/*

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

@esaagar There isn't a single person in Europe who worries about their kids being shot at school.

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3 years

Wuhan's lockdown lasted just 76 days. We're at 295.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

40k at game in Copenhagen right now. But you still can't attend a match in Ireland. Remind me, how many awards have we given Tony Holohan?

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1 year

Canada Goose clothing is designed for artic temperatures. It's comical watching lads walking around Dublin in €1,000 jackets when it's 9'C.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

Remember, when Tony Holohan rocked up to the RCSI in a gown to get his award, he had banned graduation ceremonies in every 3rd level institution in the country.

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2 years

@guyverhofstadt So free speech is basically whatever you agree with?

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

20 years ago this month I bought a clapped out 2 bed cottage with an asbestos roof in the middle of nowhere, while everyone around was building mansions. Still here today. Solid as a rock.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

When are we going to have a conversation about this?

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

We now have: - the most vaccinated people - the most restrictions - the most COVID Take a bow #NPHET .

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2 years

Remember, we re-opened really, really, really slowly so that we could stay open.

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Garreth McDaid

8 months

Literally looks like he's just finished an 18 hour shift in a North Korean Tractor Factory.

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Garreth McDaid

5 months

There are young people commuting into Dublin City centre from houses with 30 years mortgages while there are Dublin City Council tenants not paying their rent and collecting €14k per year tax free for renting out a room. Think about that.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

What's your PCR test count? Mine is 2. I expect there are people who have 40+.

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Garreth McDaid

4 years

#Covid2019ireland 64 people on trollies yesterday, compared to 479 a week ago. Abundentally clear now that A&E was being roundly abused. Lessons need to be learned.

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Garreth McDaid

4 years

@rtenews @FergalBowers - Defy restrictions - Don't present for tests - Delete the app This is a democracy, not a technocracy. Life is about health, happiness and freedom, not life span.

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Garreth McDaid

3 months

@piarais91 You think we should go back to 8 people living in 2 room hovels and dying at 35 after spending our entire lives footing turf and eating mealy potatoes?

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

This is scathing. No other agency could survive this level of criticism without a response from government. NPHET have been elevated to a position that breaches any normal democratic threshold.

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Holohan’s views on antigen tests ‘inaccurate’, Harvard professor says

Academic tells committee the rapid tests identify people at their most infectious

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

RTE's New Year's countdown is like the afters at a funeral.

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Garreth McDaid

1 month

Had my passport checked at steps of plane in Dublin this morning. Significant GNIB presence. Why did we have to endure 2 years of left wing vanity about "war and persecution" before this penny dropped? A billion euros added to expenditure for the next decade to indulge them.

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Garreth McDaid

30 days

Jesus Christ. Mary Lou objects to 1,593 apartments in her own constituency.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

Stephen Donnelly got 7.6% of the FPV in Wicklow in 2020. He was elected on the 15th count. There is zero prospect of him being re-elected. And yet here he is, micro-managing your life.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

I'm vaccinated. I think vaccines are safe. I encourage everyone to get vaccinated. But mandatory vaccination and the normalisation of hate towards people who chose not to be vaccinated is not safe.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

@TheEconomist This you?

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Garreth McDaid

4 years

Candidates, best of luck. I ran twice. I got a few hundred votes. You may not win a seat, but for the rest of your life, you'll be able to look the blowhards and cynics in the eye and say that you at least had the courage to put your money where your mouth is. #GE2020

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Garreth McDaid

5 months

Saw International Protection up close today. On flight back from very safe EU state, toilet was occupied twice for over 30m each time. The 2 passengers involved thereafter turned up at the Garda Immigration passport check claiming they had no passport and didn't speak english.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

Sitting here flicking between 15k at French GP or 60k in Budapest for Hungary v France, thinking about my kids football match being cancelled due to a "close contact". It's humiliating being Irish at the moment.

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Garreth McDaid

2 months

If you could house all these people in the morning, there's be even more tents there in 6 weeks. That's how pull factors work. The people who deny this are entirely to blame for this tragedy. This was not one inevitable.

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A volunteer group working with asylum seekers sleeping in tents says a humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Dublin City Centre. A number of the men have scabies, others have respiratory conditions | Read more:

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The thought of being wrong about asylum is so anathema to leftist intellectuals that they'd happily import the entire refugee population of the UK into rural Ireland rather than admit it.

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Garreth McDaid

3 months

Helen McEntee doing the media rounds claiming no one could have foreseen a 400% increase in IP applicants. Here she is in 2021 announcing an amnesty for 17,000 undocumented migrants

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

@Evie_Magazine Any man who tells you he hasn't been to a strip club is lying to you.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

Two weeks until the Student Accommodation crisis is going to hit the Government like a train.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

Ireland after 4 consecutive @FineGael Ministers for Justice. Note: they'll divert your attention next week with the promise of some vapourware tax cut that will never see the light day.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

Billions on PCR tests, billions on PUP, billions on PPE...they even spent €350k on 2 million "I got vaccinated" badges, but free antigen taxes for a couple of months is populism apparently.

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Garreth McDaid

1 year

@businessposthq @cooper_m So if you're a journalist with a Leinster Rugby season ticket it's OK to ask questions, but if you're a single Mum in Drimnagh you're a racist?

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Garreth McDaid

4 months

It 100% means their documents were destroyed, or surrendered to another passenger, because they would not otherwise be on the plane.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

My county now has a 5 day moving average of cases of: Zero My teenage children have been out of school for 15 weeks.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

So will this be it every winter? Where people on low incomes and small business owners are forced out of their jobs onto PUP, while the public sector and laptop class get to stay home on full pay, ordering fancy takeaways and watching box sets?

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

Pearse Doherty says "an interim operator must be found for the Stobart routes". Who does he have in mind? KLM? Emirates? The economic illiteracy of these people is staggering.

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Garreth McDaid

2 months

Fine Gael is sitting on a booming economy with full employment and staring down the barrel of electoral armageddon. Varadkar is more like a B list celebrity than a Taoiseach.

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Garreth McDaid

9 months

My 17 year old €10.50 per hour working in a local restaurant. How much would you like him to earn so that prices here are the same as in a Chinese restaurant you were at in the Costa Brava last week? €4 per hour? Would that be OK?

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

Cleaned up a bit.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

Seeing so many tweets of people's positive antigen tests, and noting intention to isolate. That NPHET withheld these for 18 months verges on criminal negligence.

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Garreth McDaid

1 year

The State is converting office blocks into hostels, completely flouting its own planning laws.

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Garreth McDaid

1 year

How The Ditch is constituted, funded or staffed doesn't change the facts it has reported. Its currently the only media outlet doing any investigative journalism, while MSM PolCors are hanging around Leinster House looking for jobs.

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Fair Play @MichealMartinTD , about time someone said it, The Ditch is nothing more than an electoral weapon, pushing an agenda of anti-government parties. Interesting to note the Pro Russian foundations of this outlet.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

The team singing the song was a minor issue. A forgiveable mistake. The vast swathe of the population trying to normalize it is a massive issue.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

Again, lots of people sitting down to dinner this evening thinking 47 people died from COVID is last 72 hours. This really has to stop.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

I'm vaccinated and think everyone should get vaccinated, but I'm not going to eat/drink indoors until such time as everyone is allowed to do so. I'd like support the industry but not at the cost of discrimination.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

So 5 lockdowns, 2 awards and 8 million vaccines later the pubs are shut again?

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Garreth McDaid

1 year

Imagine being in your 20s and hoping to own a home and a student union communist who has never had a job is shaping housing policy.

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Property developer Michael O'Flynn and @Pb4P 's @paulmurphy_TD debate the housing crisis and whether developers are making too much profit from the industry. #rtept

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

He's 88, diabetic and has had 2 heart bypasses. Was admitted as a precaution. But crank it up.

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Dr Gabriel Scally

3 years

Concern about the variant first identified in India can only grow after a former Indian PM is admitted to hospital with COVID even though he has had two doses of vaccine.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

@DeirdreConroyIE @MountainAsh2020 @TheCrownNetflix That's 43 years ago. It was a horrible incident but you can't present individual events from the Troubles in isolation. That's really disingenuous, and really has nothing to do with modern Sinn Féin.

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Garreth McDaid

4 months

So how do they get on the plane if they've fled persecution without docs? These are the same people accusing others of spreading misinformation.

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Garreth McDaid

12 days

@mjc0ughl4n You don't want an asylum system that is fair and efficient. You want one that is open to wide scale abuse and have no issue with the humanitarian consequences provided all the right people are "owned".

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

All 3 kids stuck at home *again* due to slightly stronger than normal wind. Sun out now at 1pm and total calm. The country is being run by busybodies and neurotics.

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Garreth McDaid

1 year

@pmaceinri "Full" refers to housing, sewerage, water, electricity, schools, GPs etc, stuff that takes years to bring on stream, as evidenced by people sleeping in the streets. It doesn't refer to land mass. We're talking about people here. Not sheep.

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Garreth McDaid

3 months

Worth reposting this now that we 1,000 asylum applicants without accommodation. It's like an ad for a Italian beach resort.

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People in Ireland want to see Direct Provision ended. I am absolutely committed to dismantling the failed system and replacing it with a new model that is rooted in human rights. #EndingDirectProvision

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Garreth McDaid

10 months

Dublin is a small city by international standards. The frequency with which tourists are ending up with life altering injuries is an absolute disgrace. @FineGael and @HMcEntee should be deeply ashamed that they've allowed this to happen.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

Pat kept his Botox clinics open all though lockdown 2021 as the were "providing an essential service".

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

Every member of the Oireachtas should be deeply ashamed of the cesspit they've allowed our historic capital city to become.

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Garreth McDaid

4 years

@madelexne @jasonomahony Worst movie ever.

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Garreth McDaid

2 months

For what it's worth: Family Ref: No New text is contradictory. You can't protect Marriage and grant equal status to "durable relationships", whatever they turn out to be. Care Ref: No The original text is anachronistic, but its better than the waffle replacing it.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

Michael Martin's political career has been defined by asking other people what he should do. Tony Holohan is a megalomaniac. Not a good combination.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

Sweden never closed it's schools for U15s. Not for a single day.

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Garreth McDaid

4 years

@paulmurphy_TD He's talking about part-time workers. Contemptible that you're trying to smear one of the country's largest regional employers with misinformation.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

I hope no pub in Dublin serves George Lee a pint ever again.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

If 61 people on flight are infected and they're all fine then what the fuck is the problem?

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Garreth McDaid

5 years

@Delilah_cat @Kenny1Mai No, but it means they made it to Bulgaria. Bulgaria isn't a war zone.

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Garreth McDaid

6 months

@eimearnics @HamillAF One in 5 people living here is an immigrant. That happened over just 20 years.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

If @sinnfeinireland and @EOBroin managed to f*ck up the Dublin rental market in Opposition, imagine what they'll do in Government?

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

Why are multiple @greenparty_ie councillors trying to discredit @RiochtConor2 ? It's dispicable behaviour.

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Garreth McDaid

5 years

@deanofsurrey @tconnellyRTE Exactly. Britons only support partitioning other countries.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

SF don't want Corporation Tax increase to apply where turnover is less than €750k. Who's going to tell them Corporation Tax is levied on profit, not turnover?

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

If any other agency had err'ed so dramatically in their modelling/forecasting they would have been disbanded in a hail of media criticism. #NPHET

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Garreth McDaid

4 years

Imagine having the bravery to confront Gerry Adams at a SF conference, about the murder of your husband, and then bring hounded out of the place by a mob of nationalist thugs. This is Sinn Féin. Then. Now. Always.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

The pharma companies are now saying immunity from your 3rd jab wanes after *10 weeks*. You'll be queuing again by the end of February.

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Garreth McDaid

5 months

Technically, you could take all the TDs from all the political parties, put them in a room, send in a stranger, and that stranger would leave the room an hour later thinking they'd just attended a single party conference.

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RTÉ News

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Minister Simon Harris has called on all parties to "pull together" ahead of next years referendum on women's duties in the home, while Labour's Aodhán Ó Ríordáin warns of a potential lack of energy due to wording | Listen to RTÉ's Your Politics Podcast:

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Garreth McDaid

1 month

Literally no one is claiming this.

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Hazel Chu

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People claim girl's sports are not worth investing in since no one will watch and it's not exciting. There was over 6,000 fans in RDS today and it was one of the most adrenaline rushing final minutes I've seen in a while. So very proud of our women's team! #IREvITA #GW6N

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

There are now 20 European countries with a higher death rate from COVID19 than Sweden.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

#NPHET won't allow cases to peak without more restrictions. If cases fall without their intervention, everything they have done over last 2 years will be called into question.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

A reminder of NPHET's modelling predictions from 4 weeks ago.

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Garreth McDaid

4 years

@MariaLaoise Good for him. I hope it's full of sex toys and gay porn.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

At the end of this, how do we reconcile the knowledge that we don't actually have inalienable rights? That we exist entirely at the whim of the media and politicians? It was a criminal offence to go to Dublin Airport in March.

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Garreth McDaid

1 year

@JoeBiden Big Pharma have had a pretty good run since March 2020. I'd don't think they'll lose any sleep over this.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

There's probably people going to pubs now who haven't been in one in 10 years just so they can report on Twitter whether their vaccine was checked.

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Garreth McDaid

1 year

Leftists who stridently opposed letting Uber operate in Dublin tweeting about waiting for 2 hours in subzero temperatures for a taxi is choice.

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Garreth McDaid

1 year

So we spent 6 weeks saying it was OK to sing "Up the Ra" and then 2/3rds of people in Northern Ireland said they weren't interested in a United Ireland? Is that about right?

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

@FineGael @HHumphreysFG You can't shut down society and trample on people's rights to protect a dysfunctional public sector. Literally WTF?

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

The problem now is that many people won't let go of restrictions because they see it as a defeat to people less morally pure than them.

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Garreth McDaid

10 months

As comical as this is by itself, it's even better when you realise that none of the airports are connected to the network.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

"He's Irish!" "He has a job in America!" "We HAVE to do a documentary!"

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

It's now 12 days since an unaccountable public servant went on social media to chastise the public and government with total impunity and instead of getting a warning he got an award from the @RCSI_Irl .

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

Thus far, the Government's response to inflation has been to: 1. Call for higher pay 2. Give people money We're dealing with people who literally haven't the faintest idea what they're doing.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

If you need a test and a vaccine passport then logically the passport is worthless. There is no science in any of this. It's all political. Political leaders needing to be seen to be doing something.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

A dude at work, in his place of work, clean shaven, clean suit, no mask, well paid, where he has been every working day for the last year, who has just suspended a life saving vaccine, asks people to "do a little bit more".

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RTÉ News

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Deputy CMO Dr Ronan Glynn has welcomed the decision by the EMA about the AstraZeneca vaccine. He said that an update will be issued tomorrow after NPHET, NIAC and the HPRA come to a position on the issue |

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Garreth McDaid

2 months

On the road to oblivion.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

The cynic in me would say that all the people who were queuing for boosters 3 weeks ago are now queuing for PCR tests.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

Six months ago, if you used Telegram to tell the world "Ireland is full" it meant you were a right-wing extremist. Now it means you're the Government Minister.

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Government to use social media to tell Ukrainians there is no accommodation in Ireland

Social media platforms such as Telegram could be used to warn Ukrainians there is no accommodation for them in Ireland.

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Garreth McDaid

2 years

@rtenews I'm not anti-mask or anti-vaccine and I was at this protest. I'm concerned about the State preventing children from going to school. What a disgusting attempt to smear ordinary people who have zero political representation.

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Garreth McDaid

3 years

What are NPHET going to do when they run out of January and February deaths to report?

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