Conor McWade 🇮🇱 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇮🇪 @Conor1960
Free Market Capitalist, Liberal, pro-American, Atheist & #lufc. Against the leftwing - easy options & free lunches - media propaganda. FG activist. Dublin, Ireland Joined March 2010-
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Here's a chart from a presentation I did recently. 5 year employment growth across a bunch of developed economies. Ireland is in green.
“When the facts change so do my opinions.” What does Paul do? Everything to further the “Revolution”, why does he like the triple lock? Because it gives control to Russia & China.
“When the facts change so do my opinions.” What does Paul do? Everything to further the “Revolution”, why does he like the triple lock? Because it gives control to Russia & China.
The Abbott team were absolutely fabulous with our students from the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities
The Abbott team were absolutely fabulous with our students from the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Anything China or Russia don’t want us to do. These are the real enemies of democracy. Not your knee jerk student revolutionary anti-US/NATO bogey men. We’d spent nearly 50 years protected by NATO from your communist mates. Now we are protected from Russian aggression.
Anything China or Russia don’t want us to do. These are the real enemies of democracy. Not your knee jerk student revolutionary anti-US/NATO bogey men. We’d spent nearly 50 years protected by NATO from your communist mates. Now we are protected from Russian aggression.
Canvass this evening. Thanks to my team for their amazing support. Thankful to the residents for taking the time to meet and talk to me even on a very wet day! Bus Connects continues to be the biggest concern amongst all residents in areas of #DublinBaySouth @FG_DBS #teampunam
Hes running in the same LEA as me Am I expected to attend debates with him and feel safe? Am I expected to believe he is engaging in good faith? My politics are the opposite to his should I be required to be on the receiving end of this aggression? @women4election @SeeHerElected
10:84 (+3.5 wind) for Rhasidat Adeleke over 100m at the Texas Invitational tonight 🤯🔥🔥🔥 Sarah Lavin's National 100m record 11:27🤩 relays.texassports.com/2024-texas-inv… #IrishAthletics
Oh. Guess what the CTA (Common Travel Agreement) between Ireland and Britain says...
Candidate campaigns for Dublin seat in the European Parliament based on @DailyMailUK that well known friend of Ireland & the EU.
Candidate campaigns for Dublin seat in the European Parliament based on @DailyMailUK that well known friend of Ireland & the EU.
The former leader of the Scottish National Party is being strangled by… “nationalism”. This eejit knows zero about anything.
Population estimates, CSO 🇮🇪 1950: 2,969,000 2023: 5,281,600 Change: +2,312,600 Components of population change, 1950 - 2023 🇮🇪 Natural Increase*: +2,209,000 (96%) Net Migration**: +103,600 (4%) *Births minus deaths **Immigration minus emigration cso.ie/en/releasesand…
The widespread adoption of vaccines has reduced infant deaths by 40% over the past 50 years. What an incredible live saving measure! And there are very many more lives to be saved thanks to new vaccines and even wider adoption in the years ahead. 👏 #WorldImmunizationWeek
Saturday morning - Meet & Greet was an amazing experience. It was a pleasure to meet so many people and grateful to many who thanked me for the prompt response to their queries. I will always be grateful and thankful to my constituents #Dublinbaysouth for their support. Thanks to…
Tragedy of Civil War shows importance of political compromise - McDowell irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/0…
Today, Taoiseach @SimonHarrisTD and Minister @HHumphreysFG led the commemoration marking 50 years since the murder of Senator Billy Fox by the Provisional IRA. We remember Billy, his legacy, and why we must always stand together to ensure this never happens again.
The difference between the two human beings sitting here enjoying a drink and the two human beings shouting and cursing is a thing that money can't buy: class. Don't mind them @LeoVaradkar They are not fit to kiss your feet! 😜😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The difference between the two human beings sitting here enjoying a drink and the two human beings shouting and cursing is a thing that money can't buy: class. Don't mind them @LeoVaradkar They are not fit to kiss your feet! 😜😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Received my new business card. The QR code allows you to sign up to my WhatsApp channel and you can connect to my website - PunamRane.com for regular updates. #Finegael #Dublinbaysouth #Kimmagerathmines @FG_DBS
Bumped into these good folks from DCC working on a Sunday. Sincere thanks to @DubCityCouncil for organising the cleanup of footpaths on Orwell Road. The residents association & I had put in numerous requests and I’m delighted to see this work being done. #Rathgar #Dublinbaysouth…
This year marks 50 years since the murder of Senator Billy Fox. Billy was killed by the Provisional IRA — the only member of the Oireachtas to be murdered during the Troubles. We remember Billy, his legacy, & why we must always stand together to ensure this never happens again.
Can’t beat an ice cream from @TEDDYSfamous99s @SimonHarrisTD @barrymward @DunLaoghaireTn
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Eoin O'Malley @AnMailleach
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This isn't a coincidence. It is the product of sensible economic policies & effective economic planning/management by @FineGael in Government over the past decade.
Here's a chart from a presentation I did recently. 5 year employment growth across a bunch of developed economies. Ireland is in green.
Here's a chart from a presentation I did recently. 5 year employment growth across a bunch of developed economies. Ireland is in green.
Do RTE employ any researchers for @RTEUpfront ?? This is the father in law “concerned local” Aoife was weeping about on TV last night Lovely fella isn’t he?
On January 17th, 1978 the Minister for Health, Charlie Haughey, rejected calls for a public inquiry into the death of Tommy Hayden. Tommy was 9-years-old when abducted from state care and murdered. An innocent child, forgotten in the passage of time, he should be remembered. /1
CW: Child abuse, sexual abuse, murder, misogyny, suicide. This isn't an easy story to tell or to read. It should never have been allowed to happen and pretending it didn't happen isn't going to alter the fact it did. Only read further if those issues are not too distressing.
Catherine Hayden lived with her 3 children in Gardiner Street in Dublin. The children's father died tragically from cancer, at just 36-years-old, which entitled Catherine to a widow's pension. Government stripped her of pension when she met a new man, who was also unemployed.
Catherine said, quote: "I did not want much, only a little place where I could live with my children in peace. The state can pay money to deserted wives and unmarried mothers but they'll do nothing for me and my children. Tommy never really had a chance." Catherine, pic below.
Owing to her widow's pension being taken away, Catherine couldn't afford to raise her children. Social workers deemed her an "unfit mother" almost solely on the basis that she couldn't provide them with food and clothes. Quote: "I'm an unfit mother, why, because I'm poor?"
Catherine's 4 children were taken off her and placed into state care. Tommy, then aged 6, and his brothers sent to Irish Sisters of Charity in Madonna House on June 5th, 1974. One staff member at Madonna House was a guy named John Dwyer, a member of the De La Salle Brothers.
In late 1976 the manager of Madonna House, Sister Carmel, warned John Dwyer about his "over-involvement" with Tommy. Tommy was moved with his brothers to St. Kyran's in Rathdrum. John Dwyer routinely took Tommy out of St. Kyran's "to go shopping, playground and to funfairs".
On September 16th, 1977 he arrived at St. Kyran's and waltzed out of the building with Tommy. The next day he sold his car for £1,000 and they got on a flight to Heathrow. Nobody at Dublin Airport asked what this man was doing going to London with a child who wasn't his child.
From September 17th - 30th, 1977, John Dwyer checked in at 3 different hotels and told reception that he was with his son. He spent hundreds of pounds on toys for Tommy, brought him to cinema, funfairs. They shared a double bed and took baths together in these hotels. 😢😢😢
On October 1st, 1977 they arrived in Scotland. The first hotels Dwyer tried to check into didn't have a private bathroom, with a bath, so he went to the Royal British Hotel in Edinburgh. During their regular bath, on October 3rd, he held Tommy under the water and drowned him.
John Dwyer was sentenced to life in prison for murder. At his trial, it was stated by the prosecutor that there was "no suggestion of an improper relationship" between John and Tommy. As if a grown man sleeping with a 9-year-old boy is somehow proper. Absolutely outrageous.
On November 6th, 1987. John Dwyer was found dead in Grenochil Prison in Alloa, dying by suicide. The less said about that so-called man, the better.
Charlie Haughey was asked in November, 1977 and again in January, 1978 to hold a public inquiry. He declined both requests, saying he was: "satisfied that the quality of the care provided between 1974 and September of 1977 was satisfactory." A frankly unbelievable assertion.
The state had an obligation to protect children in their care. Instead they allowed a 25-year-old pedophile to waltz in-and-out with a child who wasn't his. If that's "satisfactory care" then I hate to see what 'unsatisfactory' looked like, though I suppose we all know.
A child was groomed, abused, abducted from the state and murdered, while supposedly being in the care of this state. His heartbroken mother loved that boy but was too poor to raise him. This is a photo of Tommy. An innocent child, who deserved so much better. RIP ❤️
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