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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 3h

In a damning review, the Parliamentary Budget Office has said Budget 2026 will lead to average income losses across all income groups.

http://jrnl.ie/6839245t

Civil servants' review of Budget 2026 shows poverty will rise next year

In a damning review, the body said Budget 2026 will lead to average income losses across all income groups.

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Aodhán Ó'Coileáin @werslabber.bsky.social · 3h

Representing a murderer in
court does not make the barrister a murderer, or a sympathiser. Ditto representing a bank does not make the barrister an accomplice. #Aras2025

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 3h

I've just started reading this and hoo boy, is it a dinger.

Bookstation Ireland @bookstationeire.bsky.social · Jul 20

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 3h

Breaking: Young Fine Gael are just as thick as their predecessors.

Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 8h

Is there a barrel bottom that hasn’t been scraped yet in the determined drive to attack the character and professionalism of the Left candidate who’s doing well in polls? Of course Catherine Connolly BL acted for clients on a normal disinterested basis!

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Catherine Connolly did ‘all types of work’ as barrister and represented banks during crash

Presidential election candidate says she was ‘obliged as a lawyer to act on behalf of variety of clients’

www.irishtimes.com

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 5h

#BREAKING | Spain’s parliament has officially enshrined its arms embargo on Israel into law — a landmark move amid global outrage over Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 4h

Do YFG not realise that they are the youth wing of Fine Gael?

Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 4h

Puerile nonsense #Áras25

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

They created a fairy tale land for one grandpa and he's having the time of his life. His entire reality is like that thing where the brain releases a bunch of euphoric chemicals when it's dying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

Hello?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · 6h

Judging barristers and solicitors on the clients they have worked for has been a very dangerous and deadly false narrative just a few miles up the road. The Irish media should know better than to try and draw inferences

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Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social · 5h

Micheál Martin's "decent man" persona is struggling to sync up with his "I haven't contacted Jim Gavin since he dropped out" persona

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 4h

A full house in Dublin tonight for a powerful launch of the brilliant poet, academic and activist Prof. Refaat Alareer’s ‘If I Must Die: Poetry & Prose’. Refaat was murdered by apartheid Israel in Gaza and his great friend and editor Yousef M Aljamal spoke beautifully about his own family's history

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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 6h

The ease and speed with which he fucked Jim Gavin under a fleet of busses tells you all you need to know about Micheál Martin.
A sleeveen who values the party and power over all else.

Mícheál Lehane @fertha.bsky.social · 6h

The FF Leader has apologised to his colleagues for the presidential election debacle at a parliamentary party meeting tonight. In an emotional and humble address Mícheál Martin spoke of his lifelong commitment to the party.

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 6h

Coalition Encourages Taxpayers To Donate Any Gains In Budget To Help Pay Data Centres' Energy Bills https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/08/coalition-encourages-taxpayers-to-donate-any-gains-in-budget-to-help-pay-data-centres-energy-bills/

Coalition Encourages Taxpayers To Donate Any Gains In Budget To Help Pay Data Centres' Energy Bills

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

Doing crowd work from notes. Pitiful

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 12h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Sharrow 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇪🦄💙📚🎃 @sharrow.bsky.social · 7h

Oh we have plenty to be fucking angry about.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 7h

Taoiseach Micheál Martin told Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty today to stop shouting at him, telling him he doesn't have to be "Mr Angry" all the time. jrnl.ie/6838845t

Taoiseach tells Pearse Doherty to stop being 'Mr Angry all the time' during exchange on Budget

The Taoiseach defended the budget, stating that he was clear before the election what the priorities would be.

jrnl.ie

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Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 8h

It beggars belief that FF were contacted on Sept 8th, and if they thought there was any veracity to it, that the money wasn't in Niall's account by Sept 10th at the latest.

Harry McKillen @harrymckillen.com · 11h

Oh sunny Jim. Take the L on this one. First he couldn't recollect the issue at all, and now when he's presented with receipts he now with full clarity says there's inaccuracies 🤣 #Áras25

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“We have reached out to Mr Donald and explained to him that we have been instructed to make the payment of 3,300 euro to him subject to clarifying two issues - we await hearing back from Mr Donald and once those two issues are clarified we can then proceed to close out on the matter,” the statement notes.

“From Mr Gavin’s initial consideration of the podcast it is clear there are inaccuracies,” the statement adds

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Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 8h

Glenveagh home builders operating profits soar 86% but yeah developers can't break even
What disgusting gaslighting by the government
This continued culture of money for the boys is f*cking scandalous
#DerelictIreland #HowIrelandWorks

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 8h

I do find it kinda baffling that the government took something like 1.5billion out of the economy just to reduce the already reduced vat rate on restaurants and hotels and stuff rather than literally anything else. It's just absolutely wild to me! #SpeirGorm

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John Moynes @johnmoynes.bsky.social · 8h

Extremist cadres in Fine Gael are planning for an independent Dundrum if Connolly wins. Bird Avenue being fortified.

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 8h

#Áras25

Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 8h

Is there a barrel bottom that hasn’t been scraped yet in the determined drive to attack the character and professionalism of the Left candidate who’s doing well in polls? Of course Catherine Connolly BL acted for clients on a normal disinterested basis!

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Catherine Connolly did ‘all types of work’ as barrister and represented banks during crash

Presidential election candidate says she was ‘obliged as a lawyer to act on behalf of variety of clients’

www.irishtimes.com

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 8h

Attacking lawyers for representing their clients is par for the course on the hard right in Britain. This is not news, it's campaigning and doing so in bad faith.

Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 8h

Is there a barrel bottom that hasn’t been scraped yet in the determined drive to attack the character and professionalism of the Left candidate who’s doing well in polls? Of course Catherine Connolly BL acted for clients on a normal disinterested basis!

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Catherine Connolly did ‘all types of work’ as barrister and represented banks during crash

Presidential election candidate says she was ‘obliged as a lawyer to act on behalf of variety of clients’

www.irishtimes.com

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Gerry McBride @gerrymcbride.bsky.social · 8h

Niall Donald talking about how Jim Gavin ripped him off included the truest, most Irish statement I’ve ever heard in my life, like this absolutely would be what your friends would say to you in these circumstances

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