🇮🇪'The banks got bailed out - we got sold out' 🏧 Ireland paid 42% of total cost of European banking crisis. irishexaminer.com/ireland/42… Why were Irish people, under threat from the ECB required to do so? - @vincentbrowne (bring back #vinb) #twip #marian #Ge18 #TEN

7 in 10 young people are thinking of leaving Ireland. Every one of them is someone's child, friend, a future we can't afford to lose. They're not asking for much: a home, a fair chance, a reason to stay and contribute. To my senior colleagues, we must do better, and we can.

RT @MaryLouMcDonald: The FAI still has time to do the right thing by its players, management and supporters. Ireland should not take to th…

The biggest elephant in the room is the VAT RATE at 23%. They reduced the VAT for restaurants to 9% and they are keeping the 23% on ESSENTIALS like FUEL...

🤒 Very hard to watch families struggling to keep the lights on / food on the table, while this lad who greenlit the €3B+ !? National Children’s Hospital gets handed the keys to the Department of Finance. Zero accountability in Irish politics.

Leaders' Questions - Thursday, 24th September 2026 Budget 2027 will punish those who take the Bus - @rodericogorman #FFG have made a choice - that in the middle of the #CostofLivingCrisis you've chosen to hike Bus / Train Fares. (Fare increases is not about providing extra services #NTA) #Dáil #LQs #Transport

Leaders' Questions - Thursday, 24th September 2026 'Simon's Sieve Gets Leakier Everyday' #Budget27 @geraldnash People need to know what your plan is for the energy crisis? Windfall tax on energy companies / Finally commit to €400 energy credit. #Dáil #LQs #EnergyCredits

Leaders' Questions - Thursday, 24th September 2026 While the profits of energy companies are booming - people are being left in the cold @WhitmoreJen Calls for windfall tax on energy companies with €400 energy credit in #Budget27 #Dáil #LQs #EnergyCredits

Leaders' Questions - Thursday, 24th September 2026 ▫️Calls for a €400 energy credit in #Budget27 ▫️People are being 'ripped-off' from every direction @PearseDoherty ▫️Energy regulator warned that removing energy credits would see the number of people in arrears increase- exactly what has happened. #LQs #Dáil #EnergyCredit

Pól de Buitléir’s final tweet. RIP

€80,000 COMPO Damages & Medical, Legal Expenses Healy-Rae brothers, friend to pay after assault ✍️@Aidanthehack

Be on the right side of history and stop the game against Israel

Laura Fletcher Simon Communities of Ireland has warned that single adults have been largely overlooked in housing policy and homelessness responses, despite being the dominant demographic living in emergency accommodation. The most recent figures from the Department of Housing show 61% of all adults living in emergency accommodation are classed as "single". #HomelessCrisis rte.ie/news/2026/0924/159273…

Government report on data centres was 'flawed' and 'exaggerated', new research claims The researchers say that the arguments offered by the industry and successive governments in favour of data centres “do not stand up to empirical scrutiny” and are “designed to inflate the economic value of data centres”. The study also suggests that nearly 50,000 homes could have been built, or tens of thousands of jobs created across education, health or social sectors, if the resources used expanding data centres were directed elsewhere. #datacentres #HowIrelandWorks #FFG thejournal.ie/government-dat…

Ipsos B&A Poll @IrishTimes 24/09/26 ▫️Sinn Féin remains the largest party, now polling at 23 per cent (down one point), ahead of Fianna Fáil on 18 per cent (down one) and Fine Gael on 17 per cent (down one). ▫️The Social Democrats are on 8 per cent (up one point), followed by Aontú on 5 per cent (up two). Labour and Independent Ireland are on 4 per cent (no change), with the Greens (down one) and People Before Profit-Solidarity (up one) next on 3 per cent. Support for Independent candidates is at 14 per cent (down one point). 📉Satisfaction with the Government’s performance continues to edge downwards, to 29 per cent, a one-point decline compared with the previous poll in February. This represents a low point for the Coalition in this term. Poll reveals growing fragmentation of the Irish political landscape ✍️Kieran O'Leary irishtimes.com/politics/2026…

Shock as accused persons cross-examine alleged domestic violence victims due to solicitors’ strike - ✍️Shane Phelan A domestic violence charity has expressed shock after alleged perpetrators were said to have cross-examined injured parties during recent bail applications. The issue, which is believed to be unprecedented, was highlighted this week by Sinn Féin TD Matt Carthy, [@mattcarthy] chairman of the Oireachtas Justice Committee. #CourtsCrisis #Solicitors #Genuinely independent.ie/irish-news/co…

A WHISTLEBLOWER has alleged that Garda personnel were wined and dined' and brought to a brothel' in Italy by a weapons supplier, the Seanad has heard ✍️ Brian Mahon Senator Michael McDowell told the Seanad this week he is concerned about abuse of Garda power on a 'major scale' following a series of allegations by whistleblowers whom he believes to be 'genuine, patriotic servants of the Irish State' 'He was warned against speaking to other persons about his concerns and his position was threatened by his superiors. The matters he was concerned with were very serious.' #Whistleblowers #Garda #HowIrelandWorks @irishdailymail

Data centres ‘may have used as much water’ last year in Ireland as more than 340,000 homes ✍️Ian Curran ▫️some 18.5 per cent of the total number of occupied dwellings in the Republic, researchers have estimated in a new report. Co-authored by academics from Maynooth University (MU), University College Dublin (UCD), and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the report uses publicly available data to outline “the widespread costs” of data centre development and its “disproportionate drain on public resources”. #datacentres #Water #HowIrelandWorks irishtimes.com/business/2026…

Eviction of woman (87) from her home of seven decades highlights Spain’s housing crisis Pensioner’s removal followed a steep rent hike by an investment fund Ms Abascal’s lawyer, Beatriz Duro, said court officials and representatives of the investment fund, Urbagestion, had refused to suspend the eviction despite a pending court filing, humanitarian appeals and evidence that public authorities were working to secure alternative accommodation. #InvestmentFunds #HousingCrisis #EU #Spain independent.ie/world-news/ev…

Polithicks #FFG ‘All hell seems to have broken out’: FF and FG at loggerheads over sports grant announcement @JackHoJo Sources on the Fine Gael side said that Government advisers had been briefed on Monday that the information on registering for the scheme would be made public on Wednesday. irishtimes.com/politics/2026…

Leaving The Land. Yesterday we learned that almost seven in ten young adults are considering moving abroad for a better quality of life. Government supporting Fianna Fail backbencher, @JamesOConnorTD asks the youngest member of the cabinet @jackfchambers how government feels about this specific issue? #Dail #NoCountryforYoungPeople