Changed name cause people thought I was an Italian dictator
My views are my own and all that. (Brian I.)
“All in the game yo, all in the game.” ...
Feb 15, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
A quick lesson on how Ireland works, and how RTE is not an "impartial public broadcaster"
On the Claire Byrne Show last night, property developer Michael O Flynn was asked to give his "impartial opinion on SF housing.
He claimed that "the State cannot provide
#cblive
cheaper housing, and that supply is the problem", claiming SF are stopping supply of housing.
Claire however never mentioned that Michael O Flynn was one of five property developers, who took the Government, via NAMA to European Court in 2015, to stop NAMA using its assets
Nov 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Are (some) Irish people, the only people in the world, who feel the need to offer "parity of esteem" to their aggressors in their Independence struggle?
Should we "remember" the British intelligence men shot the morning of Bloody Sunday with some kind of "pity"?
Why?
Where, anywhere, in the world, does this happen?
Why would it happen?
Is there a section on a Cenotaph in Britain with the names of Kevin Barry, Dick Mc Kee, Peader Clancy or Sean Treacy on it?
Nov 14, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The bitterness of the attacks by FG towards SF is not simply political, its existential. It's from not only a political party, but from a certain class of people, fighting for their very future, and what they see as their birthright.
Look at the dynastical nature of FF and FG
they have generations of families who carved up the spoils of power in Ireland. People who were born not only to be TDs, but judges, civil servants, state board members, media jobs, cllrs, etc, charity executives etc etc. For every FF person in a high office job, there is a
