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Mary O Riordan retweeted
What's the exact number in IPAS Centres in every town & village of Ireland working, earning and paying NOTHING towards their living costs @finegael how much are they costing the taxpayer every week??
Mary O Riordan retweeted
I think the real issue here is the cost of living in Ireland. Energy prices are highest in EU. Rents are through the roof, cost of food shopping. As a public sector worker id be happy it they abolished USC. People are struggling to get by.
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Mary O Riordan retweeted
Michael name 1 thing in the world that got better when it was left to the private sector? Did bin collections improve ? Nope got worse and more expensive? What about electricity or Gas ? What about buses and rail or hospital and housing ? When ran for profit services get worse
Mary O Riordan retweeted
Yes perhaps we should privatise a lot of those services. That worked well in Maggie Thatcher's UK?
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In the early 2000’s I was working nights, West End Central.
Got a 3AM call of a man harassing women drunk on Regent St, outside Hamleys.
I walked down, full uniform.
This guy was wasted.
Swaying too and fro. I stood in the doorway of Hamleys and watched him.
He had no idea I was there.
His drunken ass would try and accost women walking past, most also the worse for wear from drink, but none as bad as him.
I can only describe what I witnessed as predatory. Entitled, if that makes sense. Expecting someone to recognise him, and go home with him.
I waited for him to go hands on which looked more and more likely, as he became slightly more aggressive with each refusal.
Then I too would go hands on.
Then as one woman passed, he slurred “hello” and reached out to her, but he saw me.
He knew.
As drunk as he was he still corrected his behaviour immediately.
He smiled weakly and stumbled to the edge of the kerb, holding out his arm.
A black cab stopped.
He fell as he tried to get in the back.
The cabbie saw me watching him, and the window came down.
“Are you taking him or me?” he asked.
“He’s your problem now.”
That was best, as he was certainly not a problem I wanted to leave the custody Sergeant with.
That man was David Walliams.
I dealt with lots of famous people in the three years I was at West End Central and many of them presented a level of egotism bordering on the narcissistic.
I’m not saying that fame create entitlement. But it will amplify traits and behaviours that were already present.
What I’m trying to say is when people only hear the word “yes” all the time, they stop recognising “no” as a legitimate answer.
#RussellBrand #london #england
Mary O Riordan retweeted
🚨DISGUSTING: This is Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, Recorder of Cardiff. She sentenced ex-soldier Daffron Williams — a 41-year-old veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and suffers from PTSD — to two years in prison (half to be served in custody) for Facebook posts made in the tense days after the Southport child murders.
His posts referenced “civil war is here” and included anti-Islamic imagery. She acknowledged his military service, good character references, and mental health struggles… but still sent him to prison for words on the internet.
The same judge has also jailed others for social media posts in the post-riot crackdown, including 24-year-old David Morgan who received 20 months for tweets involving Nazi imagery and racist content.
Yet when Rees Newman — convicted of the historic rape of a girl under 14 — appeared before her for breaching his sex offender requirements, she suspended his two-month jail term, explicitly citing prison overcrowding.
A veteran with PTSD goes to prison for Facebook comments warning about cultural conflict.
A child rapist walks free because the jails are too full.
Injustice every day whilst child rapists wander our streets free everyday 🤷
Mary O Riordan retweeted
The part of the David Walliams investigation I can't get past is the ages. TWO women say they first met him when they were 15. FIFTEEN. Whatever happens next, we need to have a very serious conversation about famous men and their access to teenage girls.
Mary O Riordan retweeted
🚨BREAKING: David Walliams has been directly named as the secret celebrity accused of being a sexual predator with accusations over many years including victims as young as 15
Walliams had previously used an injunction to keep these accusations from the public but a Judge recently ruled against this allowing him to finally be named
Mary O Riordan retweeted
David Walliams has just released one of the most sickeningly calculated PR statements I have ever read, and he only did it because the High Court finally threw out his expensive legal injunction to keep his name a secret.
ITV and The Guardian have officially named him as the television star accused of preying on girls as young as 15.
Look at the exact language his crisis managers instructed him to publish today. He claims he simply behaved "thoughtlessly" during "casual sexual relationships" and regrets not taking people's feelings into account. He admits to a power imbalance but insists he never abused it.
You do not have a casual, thoughtless sexual relationship with a 15-year-old. You cannot dismiss allegations of preying on teenagers as just being a bit clumsy with women's emotions.
We are watching the exact same playbook we just saw collapse in Southwark Crown Court.
Another untouchable television darling, protected for decades by a complicit media, using high-priced lawyers to gag the press while trying to reframe predatory behavior as a minor lifestyle quirk.
The darkest part of this entire scandal is how the British entertainment industry operates.
They knew exactly who these men were. They did not just cover for them. They handed them prime-time family television slots, gave them awards, and literally published their children's books, all while leaving young girls to deal with the trauma in total silence.
The expensive legal injunctions are finally failing. The dam is breaking, and the networks that enabled them are going to have nowhere left to hide.
Mary O Riordan retweeted
Simon on the other hand has actually cost the state billions by being completely inept and is now, again, trying to deflect from his own incompetence. It's not the fella in the tracksuit that caused the banking crisis.. it's the fellas in the suits (paraphrasing Emmett Kirwan)
Mary O Riordan retweeted
Ten women reported the same man at Cornell. TEN. And nothing was done to stop him. Then people turn around and ask why women don't report. Maybe start asking why nobody listens when they do.
Mary O Riordan retweeted
The Guardian just named him. David Walliams named as celebrity who tried to block publication of sexual misconduct allegations.
Preying on the young.
Mary O Riordan retweeted
Proof positive that for all the cynical roaring about "restoring our sovereignty" in the debate over the Triple Lock, FFG could not give less of a damn about it:
"We must end national vetoes on EU foreign policy."
They want to abolish Ireland's veto in EU foreign policy decisions, and hand over control to a majority of Member States in the EU Council, leaving us no say over our own foreign policy positions.
Mary O Riordan retweeted
Nothing to see here. Scroll on. Keep talking about Russell Brand! I said KEEP TALKING ABOUT RUSSELL BRAND! Ignore all of this. Nothing ever happened!
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There was €1.2 billion spent on IPAS accommodation last year. The highest paid contractor got €45.55 million. The Plans to make working residents contribute anything toward their stay have been pushed back again, this time to 2027.
The system is wide open, the contractors are cleaning up, and Irish taxpayers keep footing the bill. Where’s the prime time investigates on this RTE ?
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Mary O Riordan retweeted
But .... but ..... Ireland's bestest and brightest security experts in @IrishTimes @Independent_ie @businessposthq have repeatedly assured us it was the Russians!
BREAKING: European Union says Iran hacked cooling systems in 700 supermarkets in France, raising freezers and fridges as high as 80°C and spoiling massive amounts of food, declaring the EU will now impose sanctions on Iran.
The attack also caused around 20 fires.
"I can confirm that this attack was carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of the Islamic Republic of Iran," France's FM Barrot says.
"It marks the first large-scale cyberattack aimed at sabotage on our national territory, and it constitutes a major attack on the nation's interests and the security of the French people," he adds.
Mary O Riordan retweeted
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At least they were jailed for 18 months.
"Michael McMahon (47) of Roosevelt Cottages, Navan Road" helped "Cristian Turbat" in this scam, I'm glad he was punished as well.
€21,350 was found in their gaff as well. How do these poor folk get that cash???
Mary O Riordan retweeted
Maybe Simon Harris should get his righteous sword and shield,mount his righteous horse and strike down the welfare bums who suck the life out if this country.
These are the people who choose welfare as a lifestyle.
@SimonHarrisTD
@FineGael
@TheMandyGall
@punishablepress
