Luke 'Ming' Flanagan @lukeming@respublicae.eu

RT by @lukeming: Braverman is gone. Good riddance.

A Dismal home secretary in every respect - including myopic populist positions on drugs.
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/SteveTransform/status/1723983620480680028#m

[2023-11-13 08:38 UTC]

RTE doing a great job as Israels mouthpiece.
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https://nitter.cz/rtenews/status/1723453292372529584#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/lukeming/status/1723994553395388825#m

[2023-11-13 09:21 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: Welfare Cheats Cheat Us All?

There is a Clark Kent among us. The superhero of this piece is the archetypical mild-mannered reporter, a household name, none other than Mr. Philip Boucher-Hayes.

Back in January 2019, Philip’s act of superheroism was broadcast live as he stood toe to toe with the Minister for Social Protection.

Philip questioned the Minister about the Department’s failure to pursue employers who evade
employers’ PRSI by mislabelling employees as self-employed.

Both the Minister and the mild-mannered reporter fully understood the implications of the questions being asked.

It is fair to say that the public didn’t until two weeks ago when RTE admitted to the Public Accounts Committee that it owes a minimum of €20,000,000 for misclassification of RTE employees as self-employed.

“In spite of the fact that this is a criminal law, under the statute books but your policy is: not to
enforce it” Boucher-Hayes challenged the Minister.

“I don’t want to penalise anybody. I don’t want to make employers the bad guy...” the clearly
flustered Minister replied.

Later in 2019, at the Oireachtas Social Welfare Committee investigating bogus self-employment, the Assistant Secretary General of the Department responsible for PRSI collection, told the Oireachtas that evasion of PRSI is a criminal offence under sections 251, 252 &amp; 254 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005. The Assistant Secretary General did not inform the Committee that it is the policy of the Department not to apply the welfare legislation to employers to avoid making employers the ‘Bad Guys’.

Despite scores of hours spent in Committee Meetings since the RTE barter accounts scandal began,
the Department of Social Protection has not been asked why RTE the welfare cheat, is getting a ‘Free
Pass’ from the Minister when RTE has accepted and conceded to 150 individual instances of
mis…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/williamhboney1/status/1723648659932270773#m

[2023-11-12 10:27 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: Number of journalists who have retweeted 100% verifiable evidence that RTE has acted criminally and @HHumphreysFG is giving RTE a free pass on welfare fraud?

ZERO!

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/williamhboney1/status/1723672480286376236#m

[2023-11-12 12:01 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: Protesting violations of Irish neutrality and the US military's links to war crimes in #Palestine at the @Shannonwatch protest today.

The names of the children slaughtered in #Gaza over the past month were read out during the protest outside @ShannonAirport

#WarCrimes @ipsc48

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ciarantierney/status/1723809318137409911#m

[2023-11-12 21:05 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: You know I will be supporting the motions. But here's the figures:
I've replied to over 5000 emails calling for a ceasefire &amp; the expulsion of the Isreali Ambassador.
I've replied to a total of 7 pro-israeli emails over the same time...
#IrelandStandsWithGaza
#GazaCeasefireNOW

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ThomasPringleTD/status/1723831867059630387#m

[2023-11-12 22:35 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: My soul aches.

We can’t hear the screaming of the injured or the young crying out for their mothers.

We can’t hear the breaking of bones or crushing of skulls when the buildings collapse.

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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CoriBush/status/1723413042325590404#m

[2023-11-11 18:51 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: The Netherlands are often touted as a country experiencing 'diffuculty' with their liberal cannabis policy.

This couldn't be further from the truth.

The Dutch Government is currently fully legalising cannabis in some cases, read their official documents below.

#Legalise

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/r_crainn/status/1723481298482667899#m

[2023-11-11 23:22 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: 🚨 Unspeakable horror at Al Shifa hospital in #Gaza, reports @UNICEF: infants in incubators dying in darkness.

An avoidable tragic crime, targeting the vulnerable with inexcusable cruelty. Further evidence of #GazaGenocide.

This demands accountability. Israel must face justice!

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ThomasPringleTD/status/1723504825986437579#m

[2023-11-12 00:55 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: An important rally takes place at Shannon Airport tomorrow (Sunday, 2pm)

Horrific to think white phosphorous or missiles used on innocent children in #Gaza may have been transported through @ShannonAirport in "neutral" #Ireland

@ipsc48 #WarCrimes

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0DhmMuP4kgP7bVxCS2oVqPbLq5QCGbdC9LJav2RzLncHzAnMH3dNgsP9HBZJqrKGcl&amp;id=100064571626791

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ciarantierney/status/1723332717113188791#m

[2023-11-11 13:31 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: 42 overdoses recorded in Dublin in space of 36 hours https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2023/1110/1415823-heroin-dublin/ via @rte

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/tonyduffin/status/1723088177097777363#m

[2023-11-10 21:20 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: Over 20 heroin overdoses but nobody gives a damn.

If they were cattle the govt would call an emergency cabinet meeting.

If we cared the Injection centre would be open &amp; functioning if even on a mobile basis.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/AodhanORiordain/status/1722928119626022987#m

[2023-11-10 10:44 UTC]

Always amazes me the chasm of attitudes in the
https://nitter.cz/IrishTimes
toward alcohol in comparison to cannabis. Cheers to our health service for covering the bill.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/lukeming/status/1722953139043631538#m

[2023-11-10 12:23 UTC]

Lads selling weed =menace to society
Lads selling alcohol =pillars of society
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/lukeming/status/1722956442334892373#m

[2023-11-10 12:36 UTC]

Unless of course you're fleeing persecution. In that case you can just drown. Wouldn't do a lot for one's mental health.
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/lukeming/status/1722959295321420230#m

[2023-11-10 12:48 UTC]

Gold standard for Mental Health.
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https://nitter.cz/EPPGroup/status/1721973292729348257#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/lukeming/status/1722959684380795296#m

[2023-11-10 12:49 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: For more than a month we have watched the carnage in Gaza.

Enough. We need more than words. We need action.

Next wk, the Dáil will debate a @SocDems’ motion to:

• impose economic sanctions on Israel
• expel the ambassador
• refer Israel to the ICC

https://www.socialdemocrats.ie/social-democrats-motion-calls-for-economic-sanctions-on-israel/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/SocDems/status/1722967392320426359#m

[2023-11-10 13:20 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: There's plenty of consensus that the so-called 'war on drugs' has failed, but less so on what to do after.

We're showing how to regulate non-medical psychedelics responsibly and effectively in our new guide, launching on November 14th! Preview it now ⤵️ https://buff.ly/40uZgH9

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/TransformDrugs/status/1722970383442173978#m

[2023-11-10 13:32 UTC]

Put one of these in a pot and put it on the gas hob when I was 6. Didn't end well.
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https://nitter.cz/TG4TV/status/1722730667874656357#m
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🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/lukeming/status/1722976054988394890#m

[2023-11-10 13:54 UTC]

RT by @lukeming: Number of overdoses in Dublin rises to 34 amid Heroin warning:
@RTERadio1 reporter Carole Colman talked to @myuisce outreach members Gillian O'Donnell and Rob Nowlan and @TonyDuffin, CEO at @AnaLiffey Drug Project.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22319968/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/tonyduffin/status/1723003927031853340#m

[2023-11-10 15:45 UTC]