Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 31/03/2024We've the highest migration rate in the world and tourism is in a state of collapse. So, just the 180-degree opposite from the lie you paint. Have you ever been to Ireland? 110
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 20/03/2024- There was no Roman army in Ireland. - Boudica's revolt was pre-Christian, by centuries. - Saxon England was already Catholic! What we have here is two Yanks imagining things about Britain/Ireland and then choosing to be vexed by the figments of their imagination. This is so Murica, it's perfect 251
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 20/03/2024No one cares what the Argentinian Communist says. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 19/03/2024What army forced conversion to Christianity in Ireland? 100
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 19/03/2024If you are saying that Christian proselytising was at the end of a sword, you'd be half right. Some was, some wasn't, Things like international trade made a large impact. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 17/03/2024There was no land available to your forebears in Tennessee in the 1170s You were misinformed. 100
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 15/03/2024At no point in this brief essay do the Bishops demand the Rus invader return to their homelands and leave Ukraine in peace. Nothing else they could ever say matters. It's continuing a very troubling theme starting from the top and that Argentinian communist squatting on St Peter's throne. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 15/03/2024If you are passing through Frankfurt on the way to China, does one become German? 120
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 13/03/2024Britain has been engaged in now 14 years of slow-rolling defence cuts. They are not going to correct course. In truth, the cuts will only continue. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 13/03/2024No one is soiling themselves over 10 centimeters in a generation. I say this as someone living 400m from the coast, that hasn't perceptibly risen in my lifetime. Building on sand bars, subject to the usual toing and froing of erosion and deposition was always foolish. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 13/03/2024Whaaaaat! Kremlinistas aren't going to like that. 010
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 13/03/2024Pretty much confirmation that he's already dead.... and dead for some time. He was never camera -shy up until a few months ago. 020
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 13/03/2024They weren't. The video of the strike showed the helicopters with rotors turning and crew milling about. 120
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 12/03/2024Interesting video. We don't know how many GMLRS rockets they were engaging.... but S-400 missiles are certainly a lot more expensive than an M-31 guided rocket. It's not a bad way of exhausting the enemy's magazine. 020
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 12/03/2024Is it not odd that a single engine fire on a 4-engined plane should cause it to crash? It shows that the IL-76 lacks engine fire suppression. 100
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 12/03/2024What was your experience of democracy and "authoritarianism" in Ireland? 100
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 12/03/2024It's a bizarre claim that that is a "command ship". The BSF doesn't have such a ship type and I don't think the Russian Navy has one at all. The only navy in the world that does is the US and their ones are geriatric hulls from the 1960s 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 12/03/2024The Argentinian Communist sends an underling to "correct" his words. The Argentinian Communist is too committed to his beloved Kremlin to do so himself These geriatric cold warriors will never change. They have to go Our Catholic Church would be better served having an actual Christian leading it 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 12/03/2024There is no world where Murphy would be Bond. 1) He's way too old. He would be the oldest actor to ever make their Bond debut. 2) He has the height and build of an average 13yr old girl. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 12/03/2024Every house in Ireland was sent a pamphlet on what the two amendments say Irish people deemed that the state weakening its responsibilities to vulnerable citizens coupled with making inward migration even larger than it already is, undesirable Thus the status quo remains and no one is worse for it 110
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 11/03/2024Over the centuries, Sweden led and fought many wars in Europe. Now they are part of the family of collective European security. Such wars are now a near impossibility. This is an undeniably good thing to see. 010
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 10/03/2024Thank you So, some of it is the social welfare paid to pensioners who cannot afford government's extremely high tax rates on fuel. "revenue forgone" seems to be NOT crucifying farmers for green diesel. If you've ever been to Ireland you'd know taxation on fuel is probably the highest in the world 100
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 10/03/2024Ok, though don't rule out the complete and total lack of democratic mandate or legitimacy. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 10/03/2024That's 3% of annual government expenditure. I can't find it in the either the budget 24 documents or the Dept of public expenditure database. Sounds fantastically implausible for such an outflow to be unrecorded and going solely to foreign corporations. 100
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 10/03/2024There was a point in time (~250yrs ago) that Ireland was the largest producer of corned beef in the world. Cork was the epicenter of its production. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 10/03/2024Yes, we arrived. It's our country. Our constitution. You are whinging about things you know nothing about, but I presume you are used to that. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 10/03/2024Constitution declares that "mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour" Normally the gov (rightly) tries to get people off the dole and into work, including cutting benefits for job-shirkers Mothers raising children are protected because of that necessary duty of care 110
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 10/03/2024A tough day for the wokewaffe who failed in their desire to see protections for women eradicated from our constitution. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 10/03/2024Voting to protect mother's facing poverty was deemed sensible. Voting to protect the existence of the word "family" in law was deemed sensible. Voting to ensure the state could not abrogate it's responsibility in providing care for the disabled was deemed sensible. 110
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 10/03/2024My wife voted No. My sister voted No. My mother voted No. My Gran voted No. Why? To protect and defend women in our constitution from a government seeking to delete them and the value they play in our society, while at the same time seeking to absolve the state's responsibility in disability care 210
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 10/03/2024The government said their desire to eliminate the definition of "family" was to bring in ever more migrants (into a country already with the world's highest immigration rate). They didn't make any attempt to defend their second amendment on the role of the state for caring for the disabled. 110
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 10/03/2024The Argentinian Communist has never demanded that Russia ends it's war on Christian Ukraine. Not that I would expect him to..... as he himself isn't a Christian. It's just the pretense that is particularly galling. 010
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 09/03/2024An Argentinian Communist demands that Ukraine capitulate. Commies can't be Christians. 010
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 09/03/2024It may come to pass that the EU becoming a military alliance in 2009 was a good idea. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 09/03/2024"the Scots think the Irish are lightweights, and need to drink more whisky. But at the same time, the Irish think the Scots are malnourished, and need more Guinness." Did you run out of characters and couldn't cram in any more asinine racism? 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 09/03/2024The votes are sorted to eliminate invalid/spoiled ballots. Then they are split into Yes or No. Then they are counted. All the while separate from the counters there are other "tally men" who monitor the counters. So in a binary choice vote, it's easy to see the probable outcome early on. 110
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 09/03/2024The government themselves seemed rather embarrassed by their desire to change the meaning of the word "family" to encompass anything and everything. It's good for governments to hear the word 'No' from time to time. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 09/03/2024Indeed, we do things pretty well in that regard - In person, limited scope for postal voting. - Tiered permissions for voting based on citizenship or lack of. - Ballot card and/or ID needed. - All counting done in person while monitored This referendum was an unnecessary waste and rightly rejected 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 09/03/2024"I learned the kerosene used for domestic heating in Ireland is actually aviation fuel" lol..... who told you that?! 100
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 09/03/2024It's true that women have never left the kitchen. An exhausting existence. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 09/03/2024Years ago Boeing offered the US DoD a "powered JDAM-ER". Putting a small turbojet engine on the back of a 500lb JDAM + wing-kit. Precision strike with multiple warhead options out past 500kms at very low cost. The Americans stupidly declined. The Russians are smarter than that. 010
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 09/03/2024Ukraine still has no answer to Lancet. And they still haven't realised that arty + SHORAD should be teamed up. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 09/03/2024Hawks pretending to be doves is nothing new. 000
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 07/03/2024Tough day for the Tankie/Fash alliance & their hatred for all things West. But a better day for European security. Red-Brownists taking another L 030
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 07/03/2024The far-left/far-right alliance (they are practically indistinguishable) are the only ones upset by this. As readers might notice. 020
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 07/03/2024Now NATO can have a proper 8-group football tournament. 020
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 07/03/2024Two world wars caused by European nations at war with each other. Now Europe is almost completely unified together in an alliance making such a reoccurance of the actual world wars an impossibility. Collective security & allyship among democratic nations is an undeniably good thing. 110
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 07/03/2024The real number is closer to 7kgs (according to Teagasc) 010
Thomas Murphy 🇮🇪 @centreground.bsky.social · 07/03/2024Indeed we have a wonderful quirk where mothers are constitutionally protected from sacrificing care to their children in order to provide for their children. The government seek to remove this as well as duties of care towards those with disabilities. 000
