🧵HOW FF/FG LIMIT HOUSING SUPPLY FF & FG deliberately limit housing supply. This has been unofficial policy for 14 years. They claimed that they were trying to increase supply, while actively ensuring it remained low. This thread exposes how & why they did it.👇
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Replying to @Paddy4631792105
Indians buying new builds. Somalis, Nigerians, Pakistanis and Romainians in social housing with the rest of the world and Ukrainians competing with the Irish for rentals. The country is broken.
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Day 13 The Irish Times have deleted their double-tap postings of my various failures. But still no sign of any reports on the Dublin City Council Social Housing statists.
Day 12 The Irish Times has branded me a business failure to the nation. Just because I couldn’t sustain paying 23% VAT in a diesel crisis etc. This is the same Irish Times who lobbied the Govt relentlessly to reduce their own VAT rate from 9% to 0% in 2022. They hailed it as an “end to tax on information” But not only do they no longer pay VAT…. the Irish Times Group has been paid €2.5million+ by Coimisiún na Meán since 2024 ! ! Lucky ducks ! Yet, despite all these resources, they have not been able to report the latest Dublin Social Housing statistics… like the failed business-man, pay his VAT.
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In the speech, 196 words were devoted to Ukraine/Russia and 671 to Israel/Palestine.
H.E. Micheál Martin, Taoiseach of Ireland @UN #GeneralDebate 🔗Access the recording and transcript of the statement here: gadebate.un.org/en/81/irelan… #UNJournal #UNGA81 © UN Photo/Loey Felipe
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An anti-AI protest outside Google’s offices today. Note the presence of a Palestinian flag. Can someone please explain the alignment between the Palestinian and anti-AI protestors?
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Wait …. Have the Irish Times now deleted BOTH tweets about my doggy business ?? Is this true? If so, Why? I’m genuinely confused.
Replying to @erskinechilders
They have deleted both posts about Nick! 😂
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This is not about providing asylum nor refuge; it's about importing human beings as a product that benefits neither the State nor the people, but instead, they are being used as a product to generate enormous wealth for landlords, by housing them at the expense of Irish taxpayers
Another month, another new homelessness record - and over half are not Irish citizens. Read more in the comments 👇
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Angela Rayner’s department has launched an investigation after admitting that it deleted all responses to the Islamophobia definition consultation. This is a truly shocking admission. Not only does it appear to breach the Government’s own data policy — which requires data to be retained for at least two years, and for 20 years if it is of historical importance — it raises serious questions about what the department is trying to hide. Did extremists have the opportunity to influence the drafting of the Islamophobia definition? All the arrows point in that direction. Will Garton, the chief civil servant at MHCLG, has finally written to the Shadow Justice Secretary confirming that “further work” will be undertaken to investigate these concerns and provide a comprehensive response. Mr Garton also said that ministers were not involved in the decision to delete the consultation responses. But if ministers did not instruct officials to delete them, who on earth did? The definition has already been weaponised to silence legitimate criticism of Islam, its practices and its history. Angela Rayner has some serious questions to answer. She must come clean to the British public. Read more from FSU Campaigns Officer @MaxHThompson 👇
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T Blair is smart. This is drivel. Macron is a lame-duck president. Merz is the most unpopular Chancellor in the history of the federal German republic. Meloni is PM of Italy. So exactly who is going to spearhead this radical reform? It’s fantasy. And who comes next? The AfD is outpolling the CDU/SPD combined. Le Pen wins every generic poll to be next President of France. Another four European countries will go Right in the next 12 months. Mr T Blair and the British Left in general are in la-la land when it comes to Europe. They don’t read the foreign pages of our own press, never mind the foreign press. That will also become apparent if you watch the Lib Dem on @bbcquestiontime tonight. Total failure to address the points I made to him.
And exactly who is going to do this ‘radical reform’? This is wacky baccy stuff.
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There will be two very interesting commemorations tomorrow. One in Dublin and one in Meath. Check them out if you can.
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RT @IrishmanIRL: Africans fight in an Irish school
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Prominent Gazan journalist Motaz has now revealed that media in Gaza was produced under duress and with heavy self-censorship due to journalists’ fear of Hamas. That has enormous implications for western media, celebrities and human rights organizations who all spent three years of war telling us to trust the journalists on the ground. We now must question if any of the information coming out of Gaza from these journalists was subjected to any reasonable verification process. Here is Motaz with some of his friends.
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On 7 August 2026, the BBC reported that “The University of Cambridge will review its process for appointing senior academics following the resignation of Jason Arday in the midst of a plagiarism row. The institution said findings from an investigation into the education professor's academic qualifications and appointments would ‘feed into’ a new review on the appointment process for senior academic roles.” [italics added] bbc.com/news/articles/c05q0n… But the New York Times reported on 26 September 2026, that “The University of Cambridge has abandoned plans to fully investigate its hiring of Jason Arday, the professor who became a lightning rod in the debate over diversity-and-inclusion efforts in higher education, following his abrupt death last month. Instead, the university said, the inquiry will examine whether the school offered him sufficient support amid accusations that he plagiarized portions of his doctoral thesis and embellished his personal narrative. Dr. Arday may come up as part of a broader look at university hiring practices, but he will not be a focus. That marks an abrupt shift from the plan announced this summer, when the school’s vice chancellor, Deborah Prentice, promised a ‘thorough and transparent’ investigation into Dr. Arday’s appointment.” [italics added] nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world… Seven weeks is a very long time in the academy, a time which apparently allows Cambridge to shift from the hard-hearted process of reviewing its hiring practices in the wake of hiring Jason Arday, to the touchy-feely process of investigating whether Arday was offered sufficient support. As the old Bill used to say: "Nothing to see here; move along."
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New report: HSE hospitals are appointing doctors from outside the EU without having assurances about their competence in the English language, while Garda vetting and police clearance from abroad was low to moderate – and non-existent – in some cases: gript.ie/shocked-reaction-to…
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Mad idea ... Irish colleges should focus on teaching Irish students in Ireland...
Irish colleges should focus on teaching abroad, not attracting foreign students – Minister irishtimes.com/ireland/educa…
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Vikings & Normans were small minorities (<1-3% of Irish population) so they were absorbed culturally & genetically into the Irish population. The Plantations—15% of population over 140 years, remain a problem (>10% so no need to assimilate). Ireland is currently 23% foreign born.
Replying to @fitzfromdublin
I think the point is that we are all descendants of immigrants. The Gaels displaced the previous inhabitants (Tuatha De Danann ?). Then came Vikings, Normans, English, Scots, and more recently Italians, Poles, eastern Europeans, Asians and Africans.
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Following Dublin City Council's release of social housing data broken down by nationality, a Fianna Fáil councillor has said other local authorities should follow suit.
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Irish colleges should focus on teaching abroad, not attracting foreign students – Minister irishtimes.com/ireland/educa…
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There is a MAJOR suspected election fraud scandal in Sweden by the left and the media outside of Sweden is still mostly ignoring it.
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The amount of bus drivers in Belgium being attacked by migrants is so staggeringly high that the state run bus company (@delijn) has sent a memo to its bus drivers telling them to stop asking for tickets. Meanwhile, bus drivers who complain about migrant violence or behaviour still face firing and legal 'hatespeech' consequences. Complex societies collapse gradually, then all at once.
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