#Ireland

A lot of pessimism today.People have no grasp on how exceptionally well Ireland (society - all of you) has done in recent months and how hard it was to sustain
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My wife (The good lady data scientist her indoors) has done an analysis of Ireland's peformance in the most recent PISA results. They do not bode well for the future
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Imagine being such an obsessed weirdo Leinster fan that you try to grief a father's tweet about how proud he is about his son making the Ireland team for first
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Does anybody - at all - care about facts?No, Ireland do not have "the highest Covid infection rate for healthcare workers". I'll have to check again but we're not even
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1/16 A thread on air policing, by which we mean the use of interceptor aircraft in peacetime to maintain the integrity of our airspace (as opposed to ‘air superiority’ or
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serious #brexit story alert - companies now starting to see penny drop on what rules of origin does to supply chains (food for example) but Brussels seems deaf to both
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Yesterday I saw a tweet - and promptly lost it, sorry whoever it was - wondering about 'anti-bellwethers', seats in elections that always vote for the losing side. So, of
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1/4 At this point in the Brexit process, when we remainers can only wait in horror, like passengers in a bus with defective breaks that is hurtling towards a cliff,
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Chart update! The 2nd ever ministerial direction citing all four possible grounds was issued at Defra in December 2020, concerning the Movement Assistance Scheme for NI agri-food traders after #Brexit
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Why I have decided to leave the Greens:I said it several times that if they went in with FG I’d walk. FG voted to let migrants drown, and at home
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Thread:1. The land and islands that we now call Scotland assumed its current extent in 1482. That means Scotland has been part of the UK longer than it was a
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Thread: An infamous hate group masquerading as a gay rights organisation has sent Transphobic & mendacious emails to many Republic of Ireland school principals this weekend to undermine diversity in
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Right now there is confusion in Europe about whether this new variant in the UK cited by Johnson as the reason for cancelling Christmas is actually a significant danger, or
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Been filming at an industrial estate not far from Ballymena. Head of Manufacturing NI tells us of significant problems especially with UK suppliers. Many simply not willing to supply goods
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A certain Irish woman is running around spreading hatred towards non-white immigrants.One thing I'm guilty of is not doing enough to counter messages of hate with ones of positivity.So here's
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1/14 West Belfast seems to be in a perpetual cycle of car violence. These problems have never been addressed structurally by fixing our streets and neighbourhoods instead money is squandered
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