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Brexiter MP Andrew Bridgen says even if a PM wins a confidence vote in the '22, he may have to resign anyway as "it would not be tenable for a PM to continue with 52% support from his parliamentary party". 52%.

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UK media getting very excited about roll out of Moderna Vaccine today, April 7. No mention that the “slow and cumbersome” EU regulator approved it on Jan 6, or the “incompetent” EU contracts ensured deliveries and use from Jan 12.....1/2

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Ian Blackford (SNP) says there are "credible reports of not one, not two, but three separate Christmas parties in Downing Street, including one in the Prime Minsters flat" - calls again on Johnson to resign

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Daily Express tells readers that EE is bringing back “dreaded EU roaming charges”. Reminder: EU banned roaming charges in its territory, which were brought in by phone companies.

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4 years

Yes - I was in Brussels for that meeting: officials said UK was invited to participate but declined. Switzerland and Norway did

Naomi O'Leary

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Regarding UK claim that 'comms mix up' stopped it joining EU scheme to procure ventilators: UK was invited to join health ministers meetings on March 6 & 10 that initiated procurement. It declined Telegraph reported worries that collaborating on health could interfere with Brexit

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Britain’s Foreign Secretary, on British TV, wearing British flag badge

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UK Attorney General Geoffrey Cox tells HoC the UK will remain a member of the Council of Europe and will continue to subscribe to the European Convention on Human Rights after Brexit (and presumably be bound by rulings of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg).

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EU Finance Commissioner Mairead McGuinness on Marr show - says EU has been vaccine internationalist, not vaccine nationalist. Has exported vaccine to 31 countries including UK

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3 years

2/2...nor that the “useless” procurement process saw the EU sign for enough Moderna to vaccinate 18% of population, while UK system has secured enough to vaccinate 0.5%. Funny that.

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5 years

1604 - work begins on the King James Bible, Shakespeare premiers “Othello”, Spain captures Ostend, Kepler spots a supernova - and the speaker of the HoC makes a ruling that screws up #Brexit in 2019

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3 years

Your weekly reminder - Brexit caused UK driver shortage, not Covid

Denis MacShane

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3 years

Key point. Truckers often paid by mileage so being stuck in Brexit custom queues means if EU citz they don't earn enough to get Patel permit to work in UK. @pmdfoster @lisaocarroll @RHARichardB Few have NHS Covid app so being pinged irrelevant. It's Brexit, nowt else

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2 years

This weeks Brexit news in a nutshell 👇

Gary #FBPE🇬🇧🇪🇺3.5%🍥Rejoiner💙Woke

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@Mij_Europe @BorisJohnson So he's in India to negotiate a trade deal while talking about reneging on a deal he negotiated with the EU

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UK government says it has made an "important shift" in negotiations with EU on Northern Ireland protocol - it is now focussed primarily on getting solutions to practical trade problems, customs checks etc rather than changes to governance and role of ECJ

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BIG DEVELOPMENT - Sidney Powell, Donald Trump’s former election lawyer has cut a plea deal in the Georgia election interference case. She will now testify for prosecution against Trump

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3 years

"When you've left, you've left" says Ivan Rogers, explaining why European Council leaders wont negotiate with Boris Johnson - its the Commissions's job to negotiate trade deals with non members. Would (and did) talk to British PM's Cameron, May and Johnson when UK was a member

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2 years

The art of the radio interview 👇

LBC

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2 years

'I don't care what your understanding is - I deal in the facts!' James O'Brien educates caller who falsely claims refugees will be able to return to Britain if their asylum applications are approved in Rwanda. @mrjamesob

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2 years

The state of UK politics, summarised….

LBC

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James O'Brien absolutely destroys Brexiteer after Brexiteer as 'all of their chickens have come home to roost almost at exactly the same time'. This is one of his most explosive monologues yet... @mrjamesob

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After Pompeo's bland answer, Raab could have given an equally bland answer, but chose instead to go on the attack against the EU in Washington. About half an hour earlier Boris Johnson said he didn't think EU was negotiating in good faith. Escalation

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David Davis says putting “no extension” in law means EU must “blink” in trade talks and do a fast deal, as no deal”will be much worse for them, much worse for Germany and Holland”. Says EU wasted time over last three years to run down the clock deliberately to pressure UK.

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3 years

The most effective politician in Britain writes….

Marcus Rashford

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3 years

Just heard @spectator are planning to run a story on me tomorrow about how I have benefitted commercially in the last 18 months…To clarify, I don’t need to partner with brands. I partner because I want to progress the work I do off the pitch and…(1)

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1 year

Leaving Ireland tonight, President Biden told reporters at the steps of Air Force one he intends to run for President again, and will make a formal campaign announcement soon.

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4 years

Oxford Circus, London. Noon....

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3 years

London has the best medical services in the UK. Today the Mayor of London declared a "major incident" fearing the health service will be overwhelmed by a surge in Covid cases. He says the virus is out of control. In some parts of the city 1 in 20 are infected.

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6 years

On board the new “Brexit buster” ship at Dublin port. Direct to Zebrugge - worlds biggest Ro-Ro ship - will take an 8km long line of trucks and trailers.

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3 years

Of course its not just Merkel and Macron who are meeting next week - all 27 leaders are meeting in the European Council. McGuinness explains this in the interview. Poor stuff @BBCPolitics

BBC Politics

@BBCPolitics

3 years

#CoronavirusVaccine : Will the EU stop some vaccines coming to the UK? #Marr asks EU Commissioner for Financial Services Mairead McGuinness, as Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron meet next week

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1 year

This thread 👇 is a useful cheat-sheet on the Northern Ireland protocol (and probably will be for years to come)

Michael Dougan

@mdouganlpool

1 year

It's tedious having to repeat ourselves every time Protocol on IRL/NI hits UK headlines (so many past threads...) but bottomless pit of Brexit dishonesty & incompetence makes the task unavoidable. So... a few simple bullet points, reminding us how to refute common ERG/DUP lies:

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2 years

Alex Jones ordered to pay $120 m damages to ONE of the fifteen plaintiffs in this case

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4 years

Raab said he looks forward to explaining the issue to Nancy Pelosi later.

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6 years

He said the best thing he did was to introduce the Erasmus programme of student exchanges - 30 years on an enduring success. Peter Sutherland dies aged 71

Tributes paid to former attorney general Sutherland

President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to former attorney general and European commissioner Peter Sutherland who has died at the age of 71.

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3 years

Last week UK passed vaccine milestone of two thirds of adult population double jabbed. A great achievement. One week later Ireland has passed that milestone (using EU vaccine procurement system).

Brian MacCraith

@muirtheimhne

3 years

A day of major milestones in the vaccine rollout: 💉 We now have >50% of our TOTAL population fully vaccinated 💉 2 out of 3 adults are fully vaccinated (~2.5m) 💉 >80% of adults have received at least one dose (>3m) 💉 >5.34m doses have been administered to date @HSELive

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The Taoiseach has tested Positive for Covid 19. It was detected as part of the Covid screening required to enter the White House for a planned meeting with President Biden on St Patricks day

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Ireland one of just 5 EU states to hit target of 1 dose vaccination of 80% of over 80’s by end march (was 94%) h/t @POLITICOEurope

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3 years

What on earth is going on in the Scottish National Party?

Joanna Cherry KC

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Today a fellow SNP member who threatened me with sexual violence was sentenced. My statement on the circumstances surrounding his offence is below. Thanks to everyone who has supported me through a difficult time. I won’t be making any further comment for now

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Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney: "The decision taken by the British Government today clearly undermines this commitment. A unilateral announcement is deeply unhelpful to building the relationship of trust and partnership that is central to the implementation of the Protocol"

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3 years

Matthew Parris in “The Times” unloading with both barrels on Johnson and Frost over NI Protocol

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4 years

Fun fact:UK/Japan trade is worth half as much as UK/Ireland trade!

David Henig 🇺🇦

@DavidHenigUK

4 years

Rollover of the existing EU-Japan deal confirmed 'in principle' (a usual negotiators trick, could mean many things), details presumably to follow but don't expect drastic changes from the existing, and the trade increase is versus a notional no-deal, not the current situation.

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Dominic Raab in Washington blames "EU's politicisation of the issue " for threat to NI protocol (i.e UK breaking intl law) says UK action is defensive, precautionary, and proportionate. We cannot have the EU seeking to erect regulatory border down the Irish Sea

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3 years

Leaders of France, Germany and EU all held meetings with Boris Johnson this morning. All three raised the issues around the Northern Ireland Protocol….

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4 months

Just landed at Des Moines, Iowa. Its minus 21 degrees Celcius. Weather means only one gate operating, so we have to wait till the other flight is loaded and pushed off stand….

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If they are beating up Von Der Leyen, then Biden must have landed some heavy blows. The clue?: the more the British talk about sausage meat, the more they are losing the argument...

Robert Peston

@Peston

3 years

I am told @POTUS did mention his Good Friday Agreement concern in bilat with @BorisJohnson but UK sources insist it was no big thing. They expect @vonderleyen to make quite a big thing of it though (well the chilled sausage element) at the press conference on Sunday

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5 years

Farage-backed Irexit Party gets 2,441 votes in Dublin Euro constituency (out of 363,947 votes cast)

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3 years

First it was the Irish, then it was the French, now its the Germans.....

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This day two years ago I started work as RTE Washington Correspondent. I had stepped off the plane the night before and started catching up with the extent of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A lot can happen during a trans-Atlantic flight….

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Including 1.9m population of Northern Ireland, the whole island population is now 6.9 million

Central Statistics Office Ireland

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Ireland's population was estimated to be 5.01 million in April 2021, which is the first time the population has risen above five million since the 1851 census, when the comparable population was 5.11 million. The total population on the island of Ireland in 1851 was 6.6 million.

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Former Taoiseach John Bruton said in early 2017 “ The British people will have to undergo #Brexit before they realise what a bad idea Brexit is”.

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3 years

Waiting for a deal to drop on a crisp and chilly Christmas Eve. Update on ⁦ @rtenews ⁩ at 12:50

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EU has now overtaken USA in vaccination rates (at the same time it exported half its vaccine output to countries around the world)

Suzanne Lynch

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How Europe, after fumbling start, overtook the United States in #vaccination via @nytimes

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3 years

Dr Merkel is a scientist.

Alex Taylor

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"It was absolutely important that Germany didn't grab all the vaccines for itself and that we shared them with our European neighbours and the world, even if that slowed us down for 1 or 2 months. We can very proud of that" Merkel's last summer press conf My subtitles Eng.

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Woke up to this bombshell - the end of civilisation as I know it: a truly great Newsman hangs up his mic. The best field operator I have ever worked with, as well as king of the studios. Dobson to retire after '37 fantastic years' at RTÉ via @rte

Dobson recalls 'extraordinary stories' during RTÉ time

Broadcaster Bryan Dobson has said he covered some "extraordinary stories" during his 37 years at RTÉ after announcing his retirement today.

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Good Morning - its 30 days to your next Brexit deadline…..

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Boris Johnson ends news conference without answering a key question - when did he know Dominic Cummings was in Durham

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Depp V Heard libel trial - Depp claim 1 Washington Post op-ed: Jury finds for Depp: was it made by Heard Yes: Was it about Depp - Yes: Was it false - yes: Was it Defamatory - yes……

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5 years

And the Grand Place/Grote Markt goes green!

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2 years

Brexit news.....

Secure Transportation Ltd

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@vanmaneuro One of my vans just coming out of Dover a minute ago.

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Taoiseach Micheal Martin says he is very much against EU ban on exporting vaccines. Says it would be a retrograde step.

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Bust of John Hume unveiled at Irish embassy in London via @rte

Bust of John Hume unveiled at Irish embassy in London

The Irish Embassy in London has unveiled a bust of the late John Hume, one of four memorials to the Nobel peace prize winner.

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Molly Martens Corbett and Tom Corbett sentenced to serve extra time in prison for manslaughter of Jason Corbett. They will serve between 7 months and 23 months in addition to the 44 months they have already served

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The number of patients in London hospitals went up by27% over the eight days to yesterday. the number on ventilators went up 42% in that period. there are 7,034 people in London hospitals now - 35% more than the previous peak in April.

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5 years

Read this one to the very end - especially if you are a journalist

Irish Freedom Party / Irexitparty 🇨🇮

@IrexitP

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“I’m sorry about it, we’ve suspended him” -Nigel Farage. Finally we can reveal the complete story of British Neo-Nazi’s trying to subvert Irish politics and our upcoming Irish EU election campaigns. Full story here, please share our story -

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The Irishman who came in from the cold - Le Carré got Irish citizenship following Brexit vote via @rte

Le Carré got Irish citizenship following Brexit vote

John le Carré, the British novelist who cast flawed spies onto the bleak chessboard of Cold War rivalry, was so disillusioned by the 2016 Brexit vote to leave the European Union that he secured Irish...

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The full eclipse - as seen in Sandusky, Ohio

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EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness - Article 16 clause in export control order on Friday “was not brought to my attention”

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McGuinness says she hopes there will be a MOU on financial Services agreed soon. But says UK left EU so its financial firms lost passporting rights. She will not replicate membership conditions for City of London

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1 year

At the Shamrock Ceremony in the White House. Happy St Patricks Day

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Ian Wright of Food and Drink Federation says transport will get worse - trucks corssing short straits now about 2,000 - normally 10,000. Also Irish sea volumes very light, system not stressed but will be

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This is a superb explanation of infection rates and health care capacity. Goes some way in explaining why Merkel has been in power so long

Benjamin Alvarez

@BenjAlvarez1

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This is how Angela Merkel explained the effect of a higher #covid19 infection rate on the country's health system. This part of today's press conf was great, so I just added English subtitels for all non-German speakers. #flattenthecurve

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Ireland still at Number one, btw...(and 6 of top 10 are EU states)

Bloomberg UK

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The U.K. comes in 25th place in Bloomberg's Covid Resilience Ranking

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3 years

From 2008 - Pint saved as EU allows Ireland and UK to opt out of metric system via @IrishTimes

Pint saved as EU allows Ireland and UK to opt out of metric system

THE PINT of beer is here to stay after the European Parliament decided yesterday to allow Ireland and Britain retain imperial…

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3 years

“Will you profit from Brexit...” His latest project

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DC to Des Moines - home to hotel, 12 hours. Not bad given the weather situation

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5 years

Ever wondered what the Irish word for Brexit is?....

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Prime Ministers spokesman says checks on goods arriving at NI ports from GB are going ahead as usual today. Agriculture and Environment Sec George Eustice to meet Edwin Poots to discuss situation - commons statement later today.

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Sadiq Khan says he wants to see compulsory wearing of face masks, including outdoors

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Lord Puttnam on UK ministers, Brexit & IRL “I was staggered at the display of pig-ignorance towards the fundamentals of Irish history, let alone sensitivity towards the reality of cross-border relationships” via @DPuttnam

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2 years

So, Jury awards Johnny Depp total of $15 million, and Amber Heard $2 million. Heard down net $13 million.

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Nicola Sturgeon comes out firing at Parliamentary committee - “I broke the age old pattern of allowing a powerful man to get what he wants”

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A great long read for this weekend on the Anglo-Irish treaty debates 100 years ago. Deep background for Article 16 #Brexit nerds:The Treaty debate - a close-run thing via @rte

The Treaty debate - a close-run thing

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Northern Ireland manufacturing businesses don't see the Protocol as their biggest problem. Or their second biggest problem, or third biggest.... via @rte

Availability of workers damaging NI firms - survey

A survey of manufacturing firms in Northern Ireland has found that the availability of workers, and not the Northern Ireland Protocol, is the most damaging issue to the manufacturing sector there.

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2 years

A country with similar population and wealth to Ireland....

Alexander Stubb

@alexstubb

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Finnish government decides to order 64 F-35 aircrafts.

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European Commission announces a second contract with Moderna to buy an additional 300 million doses of their Covid vaccine

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An Post have made a special stamp to mark 100 years of diplomatic relations between the United States and Ireland. President Biden is getting a first day cover set

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Brexit deal done. UK claiming they got everything they wanted. Statements from Johnson and von der Leyen at 1500 gmt

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My meagre belongings from London finally arrived in DC last weekend. They were packed the week before Russia invaded Ukraine. Perhaps not everything was worth shipping: seven months is a long time in politics .

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On what is supposed to be Brexit day, another huge freight ferry makes its maiden voyage from Dublin to Zebrugge, bypassing UK land bridge

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Essex truck people smuggling case sentences - Ronan Hughes 20 years, Gheorghe Nica 27 years, Maurice Robinson 13 years 4 months, Eamon Harrison 18 years

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There is a lazy and deliberate narrative put about that “The EU” imposed austerity on Ireland - Patrick Honohan sets out the real historical facts @IrishTimes . Uncomfortable reading for some (but not those who remember what actually happened)

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Asked for third time if EU is going to ban vaccine exports. McGuinness says any decision is for leaders to decide at EU summit later in the week. Says EU has put facts on the table and urges other countries/stakeholders to do the same

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Really sad about this. Wonderful colleague. All the RTÉ news and current affairs staff covering the election this weekend will hurt from this. They won’t let it show, of course - professional broadcast journalists. But inside..... via @rte

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Map of the week

Tom Moylan

@moylato

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Metal bands per 1 million people 🎸🤘

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Urges countries to work together to ramp up production of vaccines and components, and sort out supply chains. Says it is interesting that when facts are put on the table how differently people interpret those facts

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Says the UK has a list of over 100 products that cannot be exported, that could be seen as nationalism, or as a government ensuring its own people are looked after. Urges lowering of temperature on debate, but full declaration of facts.

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He also noted that fewer than 6% of UK population had been fully vaccinated (i.e. two doses), so it would be some time before there were any surplus doses available

RTÉ News

@rtenews

3 years

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney said no offer of excess vaccines has been made to the Government from the UK government, but "if there was, we would be very interested in talking to the British government about that"

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seanwhelanRTE

@seanwhelanRTE

4 years

Victoria Station, just after 4pm this evening. Normally the start of the evening rush...

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seanwhelanRTE

@seanwhelanRTE

4 years

“I dont think there can be a Free Trade Agreement if Britain does not implement the Withdrawal Agreement”, Tanaiste Leo Varadkar tells @morningireland

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seanwhelanRTE

@seanwhelanRTE

3 years

DUP leader Arlene Foster, calling for replacement of NI protocol on BBCR4 links EU vaccine policy - says that EU move to activate Article 16 was “an act of aggression”, ban on vaccine export to Italy also shows EU “only interested in protecting the bloc, not in protecting NI”.

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seanwhelanRTE

@seanwhelanRTE

4 years

IRL tried to repay the full loan adead of schedule twice. UK refused, unlike Sweden and Denmark (and the IMF).

JPCampbellBiz

@JP_Biz

4 years

Ireland, on schedule, made its latest bailout loan repayment to the UK yesterday: £403,370,000 in principal and £1,344,183.56 in accrued interest. (In December 2010, the UK agreed to provide a bilateral loan of £3.2bn as part of Ireland's bailout.)

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seanwhelanRTE

@seanwhelanRTE

1 month

Still at it…..👇

David Frost

@DavidGHFrost

1 month

Varadkar was able to insist on Ireland's national interest (as defined by him) because he accurately read the feebleness of most of the British establishment in standing up for our country's interests and their lack of conviction in delivering the Brexit referendum result. As…

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seanwhelanRTE

@seanwhelanRTE

3 years

This is why EU member states are bound by treaties - “trust is good, law is better”, to quote VDL (and an indication of renewed UK efforts at divide and rule, Frost instructions to devolved admins, Orban etc)

Mujtaba Rahman

@Mij_Europe

3 years

‼️The EU will soon adopt a “code of conduct“ for how 27 should interact with UK. Will force a level of transparency, co-ordination on EU capitals & their dealings with London Unprecedented for EU to do this with a 3rd country. Shows how little 🇪🇺trust there is with 🇬🇧 at moment

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seanwhelanRTE

@seanwhelanRTE

4 years

All irish journalists and media execs. should refect on the contents of this thread - not because its pro EU (as you would expect from the suthor) but because of what it says about media manipulation and campaigning by foreign nationals in Irish politics.

Neale Richmond

@nealerichmond

4 years

So this weekend, like many, we’re going to see the usual #brexit suspects come out with some of their regular outbursts. Here’s a few thoughts I have via a #Thread below.

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seanwhelanRTE

@seanwhelanRTE

2 years

Main evening news in Britain….

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