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Andre Rourkevor 7 Tagen

They have no concept of money when they live on there expenses and bank there salary’s there not living in the real world the lot of them 🥵 a shower of ####s

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Sandra Mvor 7 Tagen

#NotAngryEnoughYet

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elizabeth byrnevor 7 Tagen

It’s to push the green agenda - sell them their heat pumps that run in esb which may stop and then u need the thing on the roof. Money money either way.

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EV. Éireann go brágh.vor 7 Tagen

Budget was an insult . They hate us.

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