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This is shocking. At an EU Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, Lynn Boylan lamented that it was “a pity we can’t use our own language.” When it was pointed out that she could, in fact, speak Irish, she backtracked almost instantly: "I wasn’t prepared, so I’ll use English."
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Ye won't believe this. After making a holy show of herself in one meeting over Irish. Boylan popped into the next meeting to demand EU treaties in Irish. She couldn’t read her own speech as Gaeilge but apparently will be able for dense legal texts in Irish. WTF?
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Michéal Martin absolutely scalds Richard Boyd Barrett in the Dáil. Someone call a burns specialist. "It's great to be virtuous, deputy, but for the workers’ representative, you lack all virtuosity when it comes to protecting Irish workers."
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For those of you defending Lynn Boylan for not being able to fire off a cúpla ceist as Gaeilige. Ni Mhurchu demonstrates how it is done here, provided you can actually speak the language. And I'm sure it's just an incredible coincidence that she posted it this evening.
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Protesters almost coming to blows with people trying to get to work.
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Pick your jaws up off the floor for this imbecility. Cathy Bennett, Sinn Féin TD, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Asks how much Ireland has put aside to find a candidate for the upcoming EU presidency. She had to be told it was Irelands turn to host the EU presidency.
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Go pick your jaws up off the floor after watching this. Footage of Catherine Connolly telling the Dáil that the attempted assassination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal should be seen in "context" because of the EU and NATO building missiles right up to "Russia's borders". #aras25
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A housing activist challenges Catherine Connolly as being the "barrister for the banks" in Galway. "I don't understand how you can make speeches about homelessness if you're partly responsible for evicting people out of their homes" #aras25
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The pollution at Aughinish Alumina is something to see. 183 Hectares of death.
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Woahhh. Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD calls out Sinn Féin for playing both sides of the argument on the ground when it comes to the far right. She says she witnessed it in Ballybrack this summer. By a long shot the strongest speaker from the Government benches tonight.
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Jim is asked repeatedly did he break the law. He obfuscates. Louise Burne says she finds it very hard to believe that he doesn't remember someone knocking on his mother's or father's door looking for clarity on money he owed them. #aras25 No way back from this for Jim Gavin.
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