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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 2h

The now deleted video from Heather Humphreys’ team including an image of the Reichstag building in Berlin.

Video focused on how Heather knows the border and the North - and was posted days after she said she doesn’t just go on “day trips”.

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Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 15h

Stephen Bourke calls for Maria Steen to "piss off"

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 16h

Maria Steen calls for presidential election to be cancelled over Jim Gavin’s departure

Conservative campaigner missed out on required signatures to make the ballot

www.irishtimes.com

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Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 1d

The Fianna Fáil worldview is constructed around the homeowner as the primary moral constituent of the nation.

That's why Darragh O'Brien made it his mission as housing minister to ensure negative equity would never again arisem

Owning two homes is twice as good. Why would they challenge him?

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 1d

Fianna Fáil: He's a landlord. What were we supposed to do? Not believe him? Come on now. That's silly.

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 1d

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Mícheál de Brún @thriftonaut.bsky.social · 1d

Great premise for a Meet Cute. Bound by intolerance, they find love. Crisis at the end of act 2, he finds her praying to St Anthony and can’t accept her idolatry. Finale, Enoch regains his freedom in time to perform his best man duties. Working title ‘Love is Only Between a Man and a Woman Actually’

Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 1d

It's great that he's found a mentor. Every young person deserves a hand up in the professional world and a chance to make their own way as an independent person.

www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

Maria Steen’s sister to mentor Simeon Burke during barrister apprenticeship

Barrister Simeon Burke, a brother of controversial anti-transgender schoolteacher Enoch, has finally found a “master” to apprentice with in the Law Library.

www.independent.ie

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Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 1d

It's great that he's found a mentor. Every young person deserves a hand up in the professional world and a chance to make their own way as an independent person.

www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

Maria Steen’s sister to mentor Simeon Burke during barrister apprenticeship

Barrister Simeon Burke, a brother of controversial anti-transgender schoolteacher Enoch, has finally found a “master” to apprentice with in the Law Library.

www.independent.ie

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Phil Nulty @nultyphil.bsky.social · 1d

The revenue rate of interest is 8% per year, calculated daily at 0.0219% for Income tax (vat is higher at 0.0274%, or 10% a year)

Though with Revenue, they don't compound so year 1 would be 3,300 at 8%, year 2 is 3,300 at 8% and so on

In total the interest would be 4,224 in interest.

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Dermot Frost @astarmain.bsky.social · 1d

As Revenue how much they would charge someone who owed them 3300 for 16 years. With interest and penalties I'd say it would be heading for 10k.

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Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 1d

That would be for a commercial/invoice debt under the late payments directive -- which also provides for recovery of expenses. Only in place since 2011 tho

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Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 1d

A whole business day has now passed and there has been no suggestion from Fianna Fáil or Jim Gavin that he's even thinking about giving his ex-tenant the money back. €3,300 in 2009 money is €4,300 today.

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Rudy Hellzapoppin' @rudyhellzapop.bsky.social · 1d

Christ, that couple down 3.3k in 2009, expecting their first child. Gavin absolutely shafted them. Shame on him.

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 2d

Montage of Heather Humphries learning Irish in the Gaeltacht like Rocky training to fight Drago in Rocky IV

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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 2d

Joking apart, has anyone got any Jim Gavin leaflets as I don't have any yet? #speirgorm

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Alan Dunne @aldunne.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow's headlines:

Out on a Jim
It Wasn't Rent to Be
You're Gavin a Laugh

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.bsky.social · 2d

Two weeks of journalists asking Jim, Micheál and assorted FFers who their voters should support.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliantly, @iamreddave.bsky.social points out that the law doesn’t allow for withdrawal of a presidential candidate after nominations have closed.

Section 30(1), Presidential Elections Act, 1993

www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1993/act...

al 30.-(1) A person in respect of whom a nomination paper has been delivered to the
ire. presidential returning officer pursuant to section 14 may withdraw his candidature at any time before the completion of the ruling on nominations but not thereafter.

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 2d

JIM GAVOUT

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

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Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 2d

Banter outcome.

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: Jim Gavin withdraws from Presidential Election.

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Peigín Leitirboxd @joeyp.bsky.social · 3d

Hey look it's colonial violence....but wait, it's in the imperial core? That can't be right

Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) arrest protestors in Trafalgar Square, London, for holding signs which say they oppose genocide and support Palestine Action.

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 2d

CAN YOU IMAGINE being his electoral strategist, asking your guy "do you a former tenant €3300 that they overpaid you from 16 years ago?", and the answer being anything but a resounding NO

The Week in Politics @rtetwip.bsky.social · 2d

Regarding the €3300 reportedly owed to a former tenant of his, Jim Gavin tells @aine-lawlor.bsky.social that he 'does not have all the information to date' and that he is 'looking into it'

#RTETWIP repeats at 3, 6:30 and 10 on the news channel and at 23:10 on @rteone.rte.ie #presidentialdebate

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Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 2d

It'll be fine though. There will be a tweet out saying Dublin Bus is honouring rail tickets.

www.irishtimes.com/transport/20...

MetroLink construction to cause rail closures for up to 21 months

Passengers face disruption from Maynooth and Dunboyne to Dublin

www.irishtimes.com

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Rudy Hellzapoppin' @rudyhellzapop.bsky.social · 2d

So Gavin had 3k of other people's money "resting" in his account. Lol

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Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 3d

I just think it's interesting that the consensus communicated to us by the quality press for many years has been that the Áras doesn't matter. I always wonder whether that has anything to do with Fine Gael's inability to win a presidential election.

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Wendy Lyon @wendylyon.bsky.social · 3d

They were still showing trams for the Point several days after the George’s Dock fire knocked that whole stretch of the line out

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Stephen Bourke @anburcach.bsky.social · 3d

It strikes me that those responsible for external comms in many Irish public sector and adjacent organisations simply lack the proactivity to put out information of this sort without a calendar telling them to.

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Daithi @daithig.bsky.social · 3d

Ah! Still crazy how they will put a sign up for temporary weekend works.

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