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Evelyn Cusack says the ground is saturated and trees are in full leaf, so there is higher impact at this time of year than in a January storm with the same amount of wind #TodaySOR #Lorenzo
.@MetEireann’s Cusack says there’s likely to be flooding in coastal regions. Urges people to listen to advice of local authorities
Cusack says the ground is completely saturated at the moment so status yellow wind warnings will have fairly high impact
How many TDs are landlords, and how much do they earn?
Our producer @ali_mcconnell crunched the numbers, and we debated whether this was a conflict of interest for the TDs, with @bridsmithTD, @Damien_English and @lorcansirr
Here's what we found:
Our producer @ali_mcconnell crunched the numbers, and we debated whether this was a conflict of interest for the TDs, with @bridsmithTD, @Damien_English and @lorcansirr
Here's what we found:
According to the latest available Register of Members' Interests for Dáil Eireann (for the year 2018):
🔴 35 TDs in the current Dáil are landlords
🔴 That's 22% of the 158 sitting TDs
🔴 35 TDs in the current Dáil are landlords
🔴 That's 22% of the 158 sitting TDs
🔴 Fianna Fáil has the most Landlord TDs in the 2019 Register, with 17, which is 38% of their TDs
🔴 Fine Gael has the second-most, with 10 landlords, or 20% of their TDs
🔴 There are 7 Independent TD landlords, and 1 Labour
(Data according to latest Register of Interests)
🔴 Fine Gael has the second-most, with 10 landlords, or 20% of their TDs
🔴 There are 7 Independent TD landlords, and 1 Labour
(Data according to latest Register of Interests)
Thread: In advance of tomorrow night’s @rtelatelateshow with Peter Casey, I'm chonrologocially reporting some other appearances on Irish media of other international purveyors of lies and cruelty
let's start in four years ago. Katie Hopkins was on #LateLateShow on January 31, 2014
note how it starts - light entertainment tone, children, parenting - but controversial
