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https://www.europesays.com/ie/674575/ It’s political party think-in season, but what’s the point of it all? #Analysis #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Éire #EndaKenny #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FiannaFail #FineGael #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #LeoVaradkar #MainNews #MainNews #News #PoliticalAnalysis #ThinkIn #ThinkInSeason #ThinkingBig #TopStories #TopStories

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1185624/ The two things that make Ireland expensive: Energy and housing – The Irish Times #Business #CelticTiger #CentralBank #CostOfLiving #DepartmentOfFinance #DonaldTrump #Economy #EnergyCrisis #FineGael #HousingCrisis #Immigration #IrishFiscalAdvisoryCouncil #Oil #renewables #UK #UnitedKingdom

The two things that make Ireland expensive: Energy and housing – The Irish Times

The sources of stress differ across regions. In developing countries, it’s food prices. In the US, healthcare often…
#Economy #business #celtic-tiger #centralbank #costofliving #department-of-finance #DonaldTrump #energycrisis #FineGael #housingcrisis #Immigration #irish-fiscal-advisory-council #oil #Renewables
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/671773/ The two things that make Ireland expensive: Energy and housing – The Irish Times #Business #CelticTiger #CentralBank #CostOfLiving #DepartmentOfFinance #DonaldTrump #Economy #Éire #EnergyCrisis #FineGael #HousingCrisis #IE #Immigration #Ireland #IrishFiscalAdvisoryCouncil #Oil #RENEWABLES

https://www.europesays.com/ie/668709/ Impact of levy to cover education spending overrun bemoaned by Department of Enterprise – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FiannaFail #FineGael #Headlines #IE #Ireland #JackChambers #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #News #PeterBurke #SinnFein #TopStories #TopStories

https://www.europesays.com/ie/649436/ New Arts Council chief takes on a troubled organisation in tough political climate – The Irish Times #ArtsCouncil #dublin #Éire #Entertainment #FineGael #IE #Ireland #PatrickODonovan

https://www.europesays.com/ie/648919/ Water rationing is probably inevitable unless people are made to pay for it – The Irish Times #Éire #EndaKenny #Environment #FiannaFail #FineGael #IE #Ireland #JimO'Callaghan #LocalPropertyTax #MichealMartin #Opinion #PhilHogan #Science #SinnFein #StephenCollins #UisceÉireann #WeatherIreland

https://www.europesays.com/ie/648805/ Pearse Doherty says there will be further fuel protests if excise duty cuts are not extended #Business #Dail #DailRecall #Diesel #Éire #FiannaFail #FineGael #FuelExciseDutyCuts #FuelPrices #IE #Ireland #MaryLouMcdonald #MichealMartin #PearseDoherty #petrol #SinnFein #Taoiseach

https://www.europesays.com/ie/642445/ TDs call on pharma company to work with HSE to give access to life-changing drug Skyclarys #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Éire #EmilyFelix #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FiannaFail #FineGael #Friedreich #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #News #TopStories #TopStories

https://www.europesays.com/ie/642052/ ‘A very dark day in Carlow’: Sisters seriously injured in fatal M9 crash are named – The Irish Times #AnGardaSiochana #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Carlow #ChildrenSHealthIrelandChiAtCrumlin #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FiannaFail #FineGael #Headlines #IE #Ireland #Kildare #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #MichealMartin #News #StVincentSUniversityHospital #TallaghtUniversityHospital #TopStories #TopStories #tusla

https://www.europesays.com/ie/640476/ Micheál Martin says talk of Border poll makes him go ‘bananas’ – The Irish Times #BelfastAgreement #Brexit #Business #Éire #FiannaFail #FineGael #IE #Ireland #JimO'Callaghan #MichealMartin #NorthernIreland #SeanLemass #SharedIsland #SinnFein #SocialDemocraticAndLabourParty

https://www.europesays.com/ie/625378/ Vape tax increase being considered after it raises €22m in nine months – The Irish Times #Business #Éire #FineGael #IE #Ireland #RevenueCommissioners #SimonHarris #Vaping #YourStories

https://www.europesays.com/ie/617744/ Irish officials proposed scrapping ‘linchpin’ of climate legislation – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #ClimateChange #DarraghOBrien #DepartmentOfClimateEnergyAndTheEnvironment #DepartmentOfPublicExpenditureAndReform #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FiannaFail #FineGael #FriendsOfTheEarth #Government #GreenParty #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #News #RodericOGorman #TopStories #TopStories

https://www.fogolf.com/1341938/the-streisand-effect-path-to-power-episode-134/ The Streisand Effect | Path to Power Episode 134 #2025RyderCup #AughinishAlumina #Cooper #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpIreland #FineGael #Ireland #IrishGovernment #IrishPolitics #matt #MattCooper #MicheálMartin #PathToPower #PathToPowerPodcast #RyderCup #RyderCupIreland #SinnFein #StopTheGame #StopTheGameCampaign #StreisandEffect #trump #TrumpIreland

https://www.fogolf.com/1341938/the-streisand-effect-path-to-power-episode-134/ The Streisand Effect | Path to Power Episode 134 #2025RyderCup #AughinishAlumina #Cooper #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpIreland #FineGael #Ireland #IrishGovernment #IrishPolitics #matt #MattCooper #MicheálMartin #PathToPower #PathToPowerPodcast #RyderCup #RyderCupIreland #SinnFein #StopTheGame #StopTheGameCampaign #StreisandEffect #trump #TrumpIreland

#Ireland #JackChambers #FiannaFáil #FineGael #Europe #EU

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#FineGael #FiannaFáil #Ireland #Europe #EU #Spéirghorm

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https://www.europesays.com/ie/603693/ Public urged to avoid areas of Co Wicklow due to reignition of wildfire – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FiannaFail #FineGael #Headlines #IE #Ireland #Kilkenny #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #NationalParksAndWildlifeService #News #tipperary #TipperaryCountyCouncil #TopStories #TopStories #wicklow #WicklowCountyCouncil

https://www.europesays.com/ie/597620/ Mary Lou McDonald says Irish unity talks with Simon Harris ‘extremely constructive’ – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FiannaFail #FineGael #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #MaryLouMcdonald #News #SimonHarris #SinnFein #TopStories #TopStories

Patrick O’Donovan ‘safe and well’ and recovering with family after falling ill in Brussels – The Irish Times

Minister for Communications Patrick O’Donovan has returned to Ireland after being taken to hospital while on official business…
#Belgium #BE #Europe #Europa #EU #België #belgien #Belgique #belgium #FineGael #Nachrichten #Nieuws #Nouvelles #patrick-o-donovan
https://www.europesays.com/3125898/

https://www.europesays.com/dk/128092/ Patrick O’Donovan ‘safe and well’ and recovering with family after falling ill in Brussels – The Irish Times #Belgium #Brussels #FineGael #PatrickODonovan

https://www.europesays.com/ie/581965/ Patrick O’Donovan ‘safe and well’ and recovering with family after falling ill in Brussels – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FineGael #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #News #PatrickODonovan #TopStories #TopStories

https://www.europesays.com/be/28400/ Patrick O’Donovan ‘safe and well’ and recovering with family after falling ill in Brussels – The Irish Times #Brussels #FineGael #PatrickODonovan

https://www.europesays.com/ie/581326/ Presidential election displayed Republic’s ‘intolerance,’ says head of Orange Order – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #ChurchOfIreland #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FineGael #Headlines #HeatherHumphreys #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #News #NorthernIreland #OrangeOrder #PresidentialElection #TopStories #TopStories

I can't wait to read this & re-enforce my despair for the state of #Ireland for young workers & for people & animals, generally! Thanks in GREAT part to policy choices & greed-driven, narrow-minded, status-quo-oriented, short-term decision-making by inept ruling govt parties #FineGael & #FiannaFáil!

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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1071330/ What happens to Northern Ireland after unity? Answers are starting to emerge – The Irish Times #BelfastAgreement #Brexit #ClaireHanna #EuropeanUnion #FiannaFáil #FineGael #JimOcallaghan #MaryLouMcDonald #MicheálMartin #NorthernIreland #PatLeahy #SharedIsland #SimonHarris #SinnFein #SocialDemocraticAndLabourParty #UK #UnitedKingdom

https://www.europesays.com/ie/570090/ Fine Gael is now the most popular party in the country, poll says – The Journal #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FiannaFail #FineGael #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #News #OpinionPoll #OpinionPolls #politics #SinnFein #TopStories #TopStories

https://www.europesays.com/ie/562846/ Boy with educational needs receives 18 rejections for special school place – The Irish Times #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FiannaFail #FineGael #Headlines #HildegardeNaughton #IE #Ireland #IvanaBacik #LabourParty #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #MichealMartin #News #TopStories #TopStories

https://www.europesays.com/ie/562244/ Customers unlikely to see drop in prices due to VAT cut for restaurants, Harris says – The Irish Times #Business #DepartmentOfFinance #Éire #FineGael #IE #Ireland #PeterBurke #SimonHarris #tax #vat

Ireland’s budget plan has a name: ‘Sure it’ll be grand’ – The Irish Times

Forget the bravado about Ireland’s EU presidency – which begins on Wednesday – showcasing our position at the…
#Economy #austria #CentralBankofIreland #denmark #department-of-finance #EconomyofEU #EconomyoftheEU #EUeconomy #Europe #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #FineGael #patrick-honohan #Tax #UnitedStates
https://www.europesays.com/3098062/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/561090/ ‘Soundbites’ on Irish unity not helpful, says Taoiseach, after recent O’Callaghan comments – The Irish Times #BelfastAgreement #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #CommonGround #dublin #Éire #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #FiannaFail #FineGael #Headlines #IE #Ireland #JimO'Callaghan #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #MichealMartin #News #NorthSouthMinisterialCouncil #NorthernIreland #SharedIsland #SimonHarris #StormontAssembly #TopStories #TopStories

Doherty welcomes “landmark” air passenger rights agreement

Fine Gael MEP Regina Doherty has welcomed a landmark agreement in the European Parliament to strengthen air passenger…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanParliament #FineGael #ReginaDoherty
https://www.europesays.com/europe/79203/

Something our Kind & Benevolent Leaders ( #FineGael & #FiannaFáil) will no doubt completely ignore, as they steamroll over any objections to the aggressive construction of data centres & the development of all manner of needless, environment-destroying, AI-related fuckery. #Ireland #EU #Europe

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Something our Kind & Benevolent Leaders ( #FineGael & #FiannaFáil) will no doubt completely ignore, as they steamroll over any objections to the aggressive construction of data centres & the development of all manner of needless, environment-destroying, AI-related fuckery. #Ireland #EU #Europe

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Something our Kind & Benevolent Leaders ( #FineGael & #FiannaFáil) will no doubt completely ignore, as they steamroll over any objections to the aggressive construction of data centres & the development of all manner of needless, environment-destroying, AI-related fuckery. #Ireland #EU #Europe

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Sounds like the shared ethos of #FineGael & #FiannaFáil!
#Ireland #Spéirghorm #EU #Europe

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@2legged

Dáil Éireann has voted against legislation seeking to impose #sanctions against #Israel, by 77 votes to 62

https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0520/1574420-dail-israel-sanctions/

The Sanctions Against The State of Israel bill was tabled by #PeopleBeforeProfit, but opposed by the #FiannaFail / #FineGael government.

Well no more Irish Butter, Cheese or Whiskey Purchases in my area of influence. And no other purchases or visits.

There are other choices
FSCKING Shameful.

Sport and Politics

I have found this a very disappointing weekend in many respects for sports. Two Irish rugby teams (Ulster and Leinster) both lost their cup finals against French opposition (Montpellier and Bordeaux in the Challenge Cup and Champions Cup, respectively). Glamorgan’s cricketers lost their first two Twenty20 games of the season (both narrowly). And today’s last round of matches in the English Premier League saw Newcastle lose, an outcome made worse by the fact that Sunderland won.

At least however there was an opportunity to enjoy Ireland’s greatest spectator sport (after hurling, of course): the counting of votes in an election. Friday saw two by-elections, one because of the resignation of Paschal Donohoe (FG) from his seat in Dublin Central in order to take a lucrative job at the World Bank, and the other vacated by Catherine Connolly whose seat in Galway West became vacant when she took on the role of President. Neither of these are constituencies in which I could vote, but it was fun watching the results come on.

These elections, like all elections in Ireland, were held under a system of Proportional Representation (Single Transferable Vote). The constituences return multiple members in a General Election, but in the case of a by-election only one candidate is elected. This simplifies matters a bit because the part of the process that involves transferring surplus votes from candidates who exceed quota is not needed. Voters rank the candidates in order of preference with votes progressively reallocated as the lowest-ranked candidates are eliminated. You can rank all the candidates or just some. In the system employed here one ranks the candidates in order of preference with votes progressively reallocated in various rounds until one ends up with one winner.

There was also the presence of gang leader Gerard Hutch among the candidates in Dublin Central, but in the end he didn’t put up a serious challenge.

Opinion polls gave Sinn Féin’s Janice Boylan a narrow lead on first preferences, but since SF are notoriously transfer-unfriendly, I was very confident that lead would be overturned by Daniel Ennis of the Social Democrats. As it turned out, however, Ennis actually led on first preferences which confirmed me in my opinion that he would win. This is how the transfers panned out.

Ennis won comfortably, and John Stephens of Fianna Fáil gaining the distinction of getting the lowest share of first preference votes that his party has ever recorded in an election. There are some bizarre transfers, e.g. from the left-wing PBP (People Before Profit) to Fine Gael. Other than that the outcome was as predicted.

Not long ago Sinn Féin were riding high in the polls and might have expected to win a seat here, especially since Mary Lou McDonald, the Sinn Féin leader, holds a seat in Dublin Central, but their popularity has slumped. I think that’s primarily because they have recently lurched to the right – rather like UK Labour has – and many who want a genuinely progressive alternative to the crumbling neoliberal consensus have decided that they can’t support SF which puts on the mask of a progressive party when it suits them but are quite to remove it when chasing the right-wing vote. is quoted as saying that there is ‘no confusion’ for voters about whether the party was left-wing or right-wing. I think she is correct there, but perhaps not in the way she intended…

A genuinely left-wing party of the size of Sinn Féin should be building coalitions and knocking at the door to power, but instead it has squandered its position by pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment, jumping on the bandwagon of the recent “fuel protests” and signing up to transphobic policies in Northern Ireland. I don’t understand why they have chosen this path, but it looks very foolish to me. I’m not the only one to think this. Is Morgan McSweeney now working for Sinn Féin?

As I write, the count in Galway West is still going on but it has come down to a contest between two unpalatable right-wing candidates so I’m not following it as closely. Oh, the Fine Gael candidate has won.

Dublin gangland figure brings extremist views to Irish mainstream on campaign trail https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/gerry-hutch-dublin-byelection-campaign-extremist-views-irish-mainstream #Ireland #Europe #WorldNews #FineGael #SinnFin #FiannaFail #Migration #EuropeanUnion #Islamophobia #MaryLouMcdonald #Race

Dublin gangland figure brings extremist views to Irish mainstream on campaign trail https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/gerry-hutch-dublin-byelection-campaign-extremist-views-irish-mainstream #Ireland #Europe #WorldNews #FineGael #SinnFin #FiannaFail #Migration #EuropeanUnion #Islamophobia #MaryLouMcdonald #Race

Dublin gangland figure brings extremist views to Irish mainstream on campaign trail https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/gerry-hutch-dublin-byelection-campaign-extremist-views-irish-mainstream #Ireland #Europe #WorldNews #FineGael #SinnFin #FiannaFail #Migration #EuropeanUnion #Islamophobia #MaryLouMcdonald #Race

Dáil Éireann has voted against legislation seeking to impose #sanctions against #Israel, by 77 votes to 62

https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0520/1574420-dail-israel-sanctions/

The Sanctions Against The State of Israel bill was tabled by #PeopleBeforeProfit, but opposed by the #FiannaFail / #FineGael government.

Neither genocide in #Gaza nor kidnapping the President's sister is enough to persuade #MichealMart8n and #SimonHarris to act. 😡

#Palestine

Dáil Éireann has voted against legislation seeking to impose #sanctions against #Israel, by 77 votes to 62

https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0520/1574420-dail-israel-sanctions/

The Sanctions Against The State of Israel bill was tabled by #PeopleBeforeProfit, but opposed by the #FiannaFail / #FineGael government.

Neither genocide in #Gaza nor kidnapping the President's sister is enough to persuade #MichealMart8n and #SimonHarris to act. 😡

#Palestine

Dáil Éireann has voted against legislation seeking to impose #sanctions against #Israel, by 77 votes to 62

https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0520/1574420-dail-israel-sanctions/

The Sanctions Against The State of Israel bill was tabled by #PeopleBeforeProfit, but opposed by the #FiannaFail / #FineGael government.

Neither genocide in #Gaza nor kidnapping the President's sister is enough to persuade #MichealMart8n and #SimonHarris to act. 😡

#Palestine

Dáil Éireann has voted against legislation seeking to impose #sanctions against #Israel, by 77 votes to 62

https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0520/1574420-dail-israel-sanctions/

The Sanctions Against The State of Israel bill was tabled by #PeopleBeforeProfit, but opposed by the #FiannaFail / #FineGael government.

Neither genocide in #Gaza nor kidnapping the President's sister is enough to persuade #MichealMart8n and #SimonHarris to act. 😡

#Palestine

@kimlockhartga It definitely SHOULD be an international incident.

But I don't trust the Irish Government to take a strong stand. Neither #FiannaFail nor #FineGael is seriously committed to supporting Gaza, and they both have a long history of small gestures. So I don't see Ireland demanding EU support, which is the nain path by which this could become a bigger row.

@kimlockhartga It definitely SHOULD be an international incident.

But I don't trust the Irish Government to take a strong stand. Neither #FiannaFail nor #FineGael is seriously committed to supporting Gaza, and they both have a long history of small gestures. So I don't see Ireland demanding EU support, which is the nain path by which this could become a bigger row.

@kimlockhartga It definitely SHOULD be an international incident.

But I don't trust the Irish Government to take a strong stand. Neither #FiannaFail nor #FineGael is seriously committed to supporting Gaza, and they both have a long history of small gestures. So I don't see Ireland demanding EU support, which is the nain path by which this could become a bigger row.

@kimlockhartga It definitely SHOULD be an international incident.

But I don't trust the Irish Government to take a strong stand. Neither #FiannaFail nor #FineGael is seriously committed to supporting Gaza, and they both have a long history of small gestures. So I don't see Ireland demanding EU support, which is the nain path by which this could become a bigger row.

Imagine if the Irish government made arrangements like this. But no, we can't have nice things here. #FineGael #FiannaFáil #Spéirghorm #Ireland

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