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Leaked - The Social Democrats Alternative Budget for 2027 (opens the original)
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To those of you upset that your hard-earned taxes are going on things they don’t like, you're not the first. But before the Irish government's big reveal next Tuesday, Other Irish Political Parties will have set out their stalls. The Social Democrats will be attempting to drop the hand on the Irish electorate tomorrow at 11 am with their alternative budget 2027 for Ireland. It's at 11 am, so the Leinster House press gallery presumably has time to sleep off the previous evening's proceedings or a
ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE AN IRISH POLITICIAN IS MURDERED (opens the original)
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Jo Cox was murdered on a West Yorkshire high street a week before the Brexit referendum, which is to say she was murdered in the last moment when British politics still pretended it was about something other than the management of its terminal decline. Thomas Mair, a lonely man (they always seem to be) with a Nazi shrine in his bedroom and a head full of far-right pamphlets, then stabbed Jo while shouting “Britain First”, the name of a political party he saw online. A 77-year-old local man, Bern
The Dead Internet Theory Is Probably True. (opens the original)
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Bad news for democracy, advertisers and you.https://www.irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie/p/online-ireland-is-a-bot-farm
Trump’s Visit to Ireland (opens the original)
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Trump is coming to Ireland. He is not coming to see Newgrange or the Book of Kells; he is coming for golf, probably the only swingers’ party he can go to these days without getting arrested. I want to light a smoke and sit with this for a second, because, being Irish, our natural inclination is to reach immediately for the irony, and I think the irony, in this case, undersells the abject horror most sane Irish politicos are feeling right now. This is not a President of the United States attendin
Ex-Politicians writing articles about the problems they failed to fix are the worst. (opens the original)
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The Art of the Post-Career Mea Not-So-Culpa
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