Fiona Lawless

SIGH. Now to be fair the Post and the Leader serve their purpose, to dry out my football boots and to make sure any breakables I pack stay intact

For context, in the time since this meeting began, I have had breakfast in Heathrow, flown back on a delayed flight to Shannon, taken a meeting online in the airport, got back to Limerick city, bought my niece's birthday present, had lunch, read your whole thread, finalised some work documents

I just wish more people could see what they are doing!

How? Like how are they getting away with this fuckery? Absolute madness. Are they trying to claim overtime or something?

I've been thinking about how Britain's legacy in Ireland is a civic tradition of state cruelty and Jim O'Callaghan is that tradition writ large. #speirgorm

How many inhumane anti-immigrant policies does it take to change a lightbulb?

Change? Change! Don’t be stupid, the idea is to keep people in the dark about the real causes of inequality and the housing crisis.

Correct. So what is he waiting for? Could someone please remind this man that he is, in fact, the Minister?

On Simon Harris and the immigration debate.

I dislike cold, grey weather but 15 degrees at 8am in November is worrying.

Who are the 32 politicians in the Dáil who declared themselves as landlords last year? The register of interest for the new Dáil was published this week.

Timmy Dooley is a landlord and has declared income from properties in Rathfarnham and Ringsend. The cheapest one bed listed in daft in these places is 1600 a month. He also owns land in Co. Clare.

www.thejournal.ie/who-are-land...

a man in a colorful sweater says " no more mister nice guy " ALT: a man in a colorful sweater says " no more mister nice guy "

Remember - if it's OK to call @paulmurphy.pbp.ie et al "far left" or "hard left" for saying that people deserve homes and basic services, then it's entirely OK for you to call politicians "far right" and "racist" when they try to blame a housing disaster they created on immigrants.

79% of homes sold in Dublin this year were bought by landlords, 75% by large landlords. About 1 in 5 TDs are landlords.

This is disgusting dog whistling. The problem has never been people seeking asylum. The problem is people seeking to endlessly profit from folks just looking for a home.

Ya but this is so blatant, so deliberate. Such an attempt to harm people. The government have a lot to answer for with their stoking of it and not taking harder action

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

I have already ended up in a argument today with someone saying I shouldn't assume it was a far-right fire attack on an IPAS centre (following a number of far-right fire attacks on IPAS centres) because it was probably "kids messing with fireworks" so this is worth hammering home I think

This is horrific. I cannot believe people are doing this.

My first thought when I saw the horrific news from Louth is that our Tánaiste and Taoiseach are directly responsible for inciting this hatred and legitimising hate

I am going to lose my fucking mind!

One more time:

THE REASON THERE WERE A LOT OF SPOILED VOTES IS BECAUSE THERE WAS A CONCERTED ORGANISED CAMPAIGN BY BAD ACTORS TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO…

(YOU GUESSED IT!)

SPOIL THEIR FUCKING VOTES

It wasn’t organic! Now shut up and stop being enragingly thick

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Probably not great for FF/FG to project the impression that they’ll give up on the ol’ norms once they stop working in their favour.

😂

Catherine Connolly: the outspoken leftwinger set to be Ireland’s next president Independent candidate’s smooth campaign has enthused younger voters but views on Nato and Hamas may concern European allies

Catherine Connolly: the outspoken leftwinger set to be Ireland’s next president

I wouldn't say she was a name unknown to most Irish people a few months ago. She went viral during covid for scolding the then Minister of Health for speaking over her and generally being rude when she was Leas-Ceann Comhairle. She's been a long standing advocate on the mother &baby homes

SNAP

If I never hear the phrase rural pursuits again it will be too soon. #Aras25

That phrase grates on me more than it should

"I won't insult our allies like the EU/UK/US... Connolly will damage our relations with them" line that FG and FF have used in the campaign would carry more weight if we didn't have Michael D Higgins making similar critiques as the President for the last 14 years.

#Aras25

Noticing lots of people saying that they don't agree with Catherine Connolly on everything.
Neither do I.
I've yet to find a politician that I fully agree with. I've never found ANYONE I fully agree with, or who fully agrees with me. Have you?
#SpeirGorm
#Áras25

As a colleague noted, they have only been calling for civil unrest in response to one of these reports, the one reportedly involving an immigrant. 2/

Didn't the Bar Council also say that barristers couldn't disclose clients and vice versa? So is JCMN suggesting Connolly violates that guidance?