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Joe Noonan
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Mary Linehan’s friend, husband and partner through five sun-dappled decades. Father to four wonderful children.
Jun 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
To Be What We Are @StPetersCork Part of @CorkMidsummer
Jun 24, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
“As of Monday coming, the Minister for Justice is going to make an application in the High Court seeking an order under the Act which will require the retention of mobile phone data on everyone, you, me, the entire citizenry, for an extended period of time, including our whereabouts, who we called, texted and so on.
To do that, the application will be ex parte, in camera, [one sided, in private] none of us will have visibility into the arguments before the High Court judge who will hear the application, none of us know who the judge is.”
Jun 23, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Twice in a week the Times publishes what others are accused of publishing.
First they mid-state their own poll result on NATO to grossly inflate support for joining that body. Today they publish this, reversing the truth about who resigned after a gross Ministerial insult to the President in 1976.
Jun 22, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
An Tánaiste @MichealMartinTD stayed for almost the entire forum @UCC today, paying close attention throughout. He is wrong to say - as he did just now on @rtenews - that the view that there is a serious imbalance on the panels overall is confined to "the far left."
It's not. That criticism made, there was much of value said and questioned today. The range of people in the room was impressively wide and diverse, something the floor contributions during the four sessions showed.
Jun 21, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
They are all well aware of it so I’m sure they will. Morning theme
Nov 11, 2022 • 29 tweets • 12 min read
Breaking: Ratification of CETA unconstitutional. Supreme Court. Patrick Costello TD succeeds in a hugely significant vindication of citizens' rights and their place in the constitutional architecture of Ireland.

The court judgments will need close reading. There may be a legislative path to legitimate ratification, avoiding a referendum.
Nov 10, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
SCt: Combined effect of Arts 9(2), (3) & (4) #Aarhus is that states must ensure that proceedings in which decisions granting development consent are challenged for non-compliance with national law relating to the environment are not prohibitively expensive
courts.ie/acc/alfresco/6… Heather Hill Image
Jul 13, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
WWN: The government celebrated its confidence vote win by ramming through a planning bill which every single interested party that isn’t a money grabbing developer has labeled ‘a disaster’. @WhisperNewsLTD
waterfordwhispersnews.com/2022/07/13/gov… WWN smashes embargo😂
The vote doesn't happen until after debate that begins this evening at 7.09pm & ends around half nine.
The government hammered through the suspension of standing orders earlier today - a move needed because the late changes are o/s the scope of the Bill.
Jul 13, 2022 • 87 tweets • 28 min read
Haven’t we had enough planning scandals?
irishexaminer.com/opinion/commen… ‘It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the amendments are being rushed through to avoid controversy, negative media coverage, and the requirement to actually explain what is at issue.”
- @Mickcliff

‘Again.’
- Me
Jul 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
New from Orwell Rd:

It’s Ireland’s fault the Russian Federation is waging war on Ukraine. Image Is binn béal ina thost.
Jul 11, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
People are not entitled to suddenly open doors without checking - Judge
#driving #MobilePhone #cycling #harming irishtimes.com/crime-law/cour… This happened near Memorial Park, Islandbridge, Dublin.

The van driver’s door suddenly opened in the path of the man travelling by bike.

The injured man said the driver had been on his phone while seated in the van as he heard him speaking on it just as the door opened.
Jul 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Keith Earls will captain Ireland in the game against Aotearoa NZ Maori tomorrow. This man endures and inspires.
From 2009 - @KEITHEARLS87 #IREvNZ
#Maori @IrishRugby
@MRSC16
youtube.com/shorts/qOw2mlS… See? #maorivireland #suaf #Try
Jul 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Part of #FourCourts100 exhibition in the Round Hall. Image Have to check the family tree to see where Ernie features. A 🗝 could come in handy.
Jul 11, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Decisions of ABP can be struck down by the Court.
There is an exceptionally short time limit to get Court permission to mount a case - just eight weeks from decision date.
That period may be extended by a Judge for 'good and sufficient reason'.

irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4091… This week the Govt is pushing 'urgent' amendments to the Planning Act. They could propose allowing more allegedly tainted decisions to be reviewed by the Court.
Instead as Fred Logue shows, they are making Court challenges even harder.
Who benefits?
Jan 28, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
'Key learnings' A a layman, I seem to recall our Public Health doctors saying these things to anyone who would listen close on a year ago.
Jan 28, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
'The past year of Covid-19 has taught us that it is the behaviour of governments, more than the behaviour of the virus or individuals, that shapes countries’ experience of the crisis.'
theguardian.com/world/commenti… Related bmj.com/content/371/bm…
Jan 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Minister for Health admitted that many of the new “restrictions” approved by the Cabinet this week have yet to be hammered out and are simply an "outline" of plans.

Coronavirus loves vague.

irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4021… Vague and vaguer
https://t.co/x4kGP50Tf0
Jan 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Garda: Are you at home?

Person not at home: I am Guard.

Garda: That’s great thanks.

This is genuinely the intended enforcement method of home self-isolation announced by government, according to RTÉ @RTENewsPaulC

#CallMe #Covid19Ireland #DetailedPlanning @FlannOBrienSoc this one’s for you! 🚲📞⚖️🦠
Jan 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Prof. McLysaght:
“The discouraging thing is that what they did yesterday is not going to work, and the fear is they think they have done something.”
Quarantining at home

covid-strategy-must-be-adopted-to-avoid-recurring-lockdowns-scientists-1.4469321#.YBGcuZcSSBg.twitter where family or flatmates are exposed to the virus is not quarantine at all.

Her biggest concern is that there doesn’t appear to be a public health strategy beyond March 5th, when the current Level 5 lockdown is due to end.

“Even if they were to say our target is to get
Jan 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Dr Mai Mannix, DPH: ‘Our baseline of cases is far too high at present for us to drop the guard, and we now have a collective responsibility to suppress the spread of the virus in the community, as our healthcare services continue to treat a irishexaminer.com/news/munster/a… significant of very ill patients with Covid-19.’

#Covid19Ireland #RespectPHD
Jan 27, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Political control of what should be a Public Health-led response in a public health emergency carries problems.

In media terms, one is that pre-eminence is given to politicians arguing over the merits of public health measures, to the exclusion of our Public Health Doctors.👇 Fortunately, several of our Public Health Consultants have been given scope in some newspapers and many have availed too of social media to alert the public to their views. @irishexaminer @businessposthq notable here.

Not heard so on RTÉ, with one or two exceptions.