BL. Legal Panel Member IPO. Former Editor Leinster Express/LaoisLive, Leinster Leader & Offaly Express

Joined May 2010
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RT @_PeterRyan: Toibin is just lying here. Increased prices didn’t cause pumps to run dry. The blockades did. Had no reply once refuted.
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The pumps ran dry because a shower of bully boys staged an illegal blockade. That's the truth of the matter. 🙄🙄
“This is the first time since 1980 since petrol pumps have run dry” — Peadar Tóibín TD, Aontú Leader, says Governments handling of the fuel protests brought the country “to a standstill” 📺 Catch up on #MondayGR on Virgin Media Play and YouTube
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JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible
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I can’t stand this abuse to the Gardai In all honesty, what are they supposed to do? & if the same ones giving them dogs abuse had PETA or climate activists blockading their farms & premises then they’d expect the Gardai to move them on to let them get on with their business
Lads giving out to the gardai that they pay their wages while shutting the country down and looking for a bailout from the Irish taxpayers is very Irish.
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Lads giving out to the gardai that they pay their wages while shutting the country down and looking for a bailout from the Irish taxpayers is very Irish.
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“There’s not a businessman in this country that doesn’t owe the revenue money” Really Sharon Keogan? I know a lot of business owners who work hard and are tax compliant?

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RETWEET if you stand with Pope Leo against Donald Trump!
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President Trump has posted this picture on social media of himself as Christ healing the sick. I’ve long given up saying how hard it is to think of any previous US president who behaved like Donald Trump, but comparing himself to Jesus puts him on another level altogether.
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RT @NiallJournal_ie: Another convoy of trucks has gone in to Whitegate Refinery. Safe to say blockade is no more. And there is the famed a…
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Replying to @griptmedia
Refusing to give a urine sample to the guards 3 times is total and utter disgrace
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Shame the morons protesting are unable or unwilling to understand this. They are making an already difficult fuel situation (directly caused by Trump) into a disaster. Bannon’s toxic bullshit all over this mess.
These two tankers are waiting at Whitegate 👇 Demurrage is basically a charge you get hit with when a tanker is stuck waiting instead of loading or unloading on time. At a place like Whitegate refinery in Cork, if a crude tanker can’t offload because of delays, the ship is still costing money every hour it sits there doing nothing. It’s usually around €3,000 to €7,000 an hour, sometimes more depending on the size of the ship and the market. So even a short delay can quickly turn into tens or hundreds of thousands of euro, and that cost normally lands on the oil company that chartered the tanker.
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For the slow ones (and they are a lot of them) - Irish taxes on diesel are not particularly high in EU - No one was protesting about these a month ago - Trump started a war which spiked prices - Protests started (funnily only in Ireland) So the trigger is the problem.
Fuel prices in Finland. Struggling to understand why the idiots in Ireland think they're any worse off? And secondly, why aren't they protesting down at Trump's golf course in Clare? It's all his fault
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You were entirely wrong in your statements -as a professional Journalist you let the side down. More importantly as a politician you always opt for the extreme on all issues. Ranting & raving which is what you were doing is just plain wrong.
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Replying to @laoisedebrun
So you as a barrister have sympathy for someone who has had 500,000 Euro tax charges against him. Some barrister
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When you stumble across an Irish ukulele jamming session on a Friday afternoon in Portugal
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