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Daragh @shutupdaragh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you were being really cynical, you might suggest that constantly increasing our reliance on corporate tax revenue from multinational companies is an intentional gambit to hand those same companies more and more power over how the country is run and stop future govs going against them

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Every year Ireland gets stern warnings about how reliant it is on corpo tax revenue and every year it cuts its other tax nets to make that reliance worse.

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If Budweiser was trying to identify individual alcoholics and send them personalized "Chuck, you haven't had a drink in a while, here's a free case on us" ads we would rightfully call for them to be drawn and quartered

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The answer to pretty much every cost of living concern you’ve ever had is a well-funded public option because the root cause of the every cost of living concern you’ve ever had is private companies trying to increase profits I know this makes me sound like a communist but that’s only because I am

Everybody wants to “run the government like a business” until it comes to basic concepts like using economies of scale to drive down prices and scrapping expensive systems of means testing that cost more money than they save

You wouldn’t be so worried about increasing fuel prices with a robust public transport network The housing situation wouldnt be so dire with a proper social housing system Who cares about private insurance premiums going up when there’s a well funded public option?

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I don’t want my taxes cut. I want my public services to function properly even if that means increasing my taxes

Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 06/10/2026

Just did one of those Budget Calculators and apparently I’ll have €70 more disposable income a month. Hardly life-changing money Do you know what would make a much bigger difference? Proper state healthcare so I don’t have to pay a lot more than €70 a month for private health insurance

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This is neoliberalism in action. Private businesses cannot provide satisfactory public services because the profit motive has primacy.

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Mojito Fiend @ronronzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘We all need to responsible for cutting costs but also the public service is inefficient but also we’re cutting taxes even though we’ve been warned time and again that our tax base is too narrow.’ Like will you please just invest in public services

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I actually love billions going to subsidise fossil fuel companies instead of long term solutions. It's class that we can afford to prolong the issue of fossil fuel dependency indefinitely. I love it

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As someone who will probably "benefit" from this in the next few weeks, this is a bad idea. I'm not being "helped to buy". Taxes I've already paid, and that could've gone to funding basic services, will instead be funneled to the wealthy developer of an overvalued property.

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Well, that’s the housing crisis solved then. No way this could backfire and actually end up inflating property prices even further. Now to take a big sip of coffee and read about economics for the very first time

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 06/10/2026

Another budget with a surplus in the billions and taxes cut while nothing works and we have record levels of homelessness. You’d start to suspect they don’t actually want to fix any of the problems…

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[All national infrastructure slides further into a sinkhole; A&E waiting times move closer to 13 hours; it costs eleventy trillion euro to buy a house] yay I have €750

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/10/2026

Abu Dhabi want you all to know that they absolutely don't own Manchester City but if Manchester City are sanctioned for their industrial scale cheating, then the UAE could pull all investment from Britain.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/10/2026

Etihad Airlines, owned by Abu Dhabi, want you to know they invested all their own money in Manchester City, despite their first investment being 45 times their profits at the time

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Paul Price @swimsure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"On a per capita basis, Ireland is subsidising fossil fuels at a rate up to 5 times the EU average." "The total fossil fuel subsidy figure for 2026 may well now be more than €6 billion." Compare: the new Children’s Hospital cost €2.24 billion & the total Education Budget for 2026 is €13.5 billion.

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Samhain’d Lad @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How do we think this team are feeling about the fact that a squad member made an “impassioned plea” to play games against a bunch of genocide loving freaks and one of his teammates got racially abused, most of the rest were accused of racism and one of the coaches was spat on

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ok never mind i guess

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The Jets have just made their first interception since the 2024 season

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Josh Allen please save my Sunday

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Yeah this result is pretty devastating but I’m not sure today should change your opinion on whether or not Renée should go tbh

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Can’t believe I tricked myself into being excited about this season even after we offered Foord a new contract

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Whatever dark magic Renée used to get us that Champions League…she is paying that bill now

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Lisa Baum has been an incredible signing even during a difficult start to the season

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the samsara enjoyer @rubot.ie · 04/10/2026

That was an incredibly Arsenal goal for Man City to concede

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this is what i am always trying to explain. when i do a boycott or attend a protest, people say "this won't change anything" that's not the point! the point is we have one choice, at any moment, what WE do with our body, speech, mind. that's what you change in the universe, what yOU do. it matters

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

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Munster need another try here or else we’ll end up with no Irish teams in the playoff spots/top half for the second week in a row. That can’t have happened many times in the various iterations of the Celtic League/URC

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A film that really knows itself

Try a direct result of the ref allowing the Sharks to slow the ball down at the ruck for more than five seconds with no penalty

How have they not got a yellow card yet?

His dad is our Head of Rugby Development so didn’t have to look far 😅

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Knock on there is justice for the most blatantly crooked lineout you’ll ever see not called

Twice now we’ve had lads tipped past the horizontal with no punishment

Would have thought a high tackle on the try line would have been a yellow card…

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It’s just as likely that I misheard it and you’re right tbh

He said “you’re the captain” when he was giving the penalty against him

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Extra weird since Kelleher is the one who is actually allowed to talk to the ref

Kelleher’s warning for appealing to the ref results in a penalty to the Sharks but Hendrikse’s warning for appealing to the ref results in…also a penalty to the Sharks

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Irish football team getting bombarded with nonsense questions by Israeli media because Irish people are anti zionist

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Who could have predicted that the Israeli media would just shamelessly lie and act as attack dogs for the Israeli government? There’s just no way anyone could have seen this coming