No applying Irish sanctions. Why not apply their own? "While there will be no specific sanctions directly targeting the flow of Russian capital through the IFSC, Mr Coveney said they will be linked to “broader financial services, banking and individual oligarchs”." https://m.independent.ie/news/flow-of-russian-money-through-irish-financial-institutions-will-be-targeted-and-interrupted-by-sanctions-coveney-41374730.html
So wait.... Careful with the sanctions but plough on with military alliances?
Was outside the Russian Embassy at a protest at the weekend. Wasn't familiar with the leafy Orwell Road previously and was curious to see the area Mary Lou grew up in. I spoke to a couple of locals and was surprised that their accents were so different to Mary Lou's.
I thought she might make a return visit to her homeplace but there was no visible SF presence. Surprising, given their prominence at every other protest going. Perhaps they feel they should observe a decent period of purdah after their very recent U-turn on team Putin.
Seems the Ukraine protests are the only protests in recent memory that Mary Lou hasn't ensured she is front and centre at.
So you want Ireland to impose more sanctions than the EU, well take that to the government thread.
This is about Sinn Fein and as another poster has pointed out, Sinn Fein are nowhere to be seen on this issue, about the only protest they don't show their face at. They have a history of collaborating with tyrants like Maduro, Putin and Castro.
This is Sinn Fein at their best. One week they vote for a 10% cut in rents, thinking it wouldn't pass, when caught out by DUP abstentions, they reversed their vote the following week.
What complete hypocrisy. Not only are they doing a u-turn, they are doing a u-turn to help landlords.
Does anyone believe anything that they say now?
Read the post and please don’t try to attribute intentions to me that I did not imply.
I do not want to drag this thread off topic.
This is quickly turning into a conspiracy theory thread in my opinion. Sinn Fein are questioning Russian use of the IFSC and getting no replies. Does that worry you?
Vote for a rent decrease because they know it won't pass.... Then it passes and then they block it.
It's usually now when SF supporters try to tell us there is two separate Sinn Feins. SF Ireland and SF UK who got that money from the will.
Do SF (Northern Branch) own any property in Russia? Hearing rumours that Russia is part of their international property portfolio.
I would love to know how much property SF own in Russia.
Ah I was wondering why Marylou was banging don about fuel prices yesterday. The Taoiseach said during leaders questions that the government where looking at the issue. Once again the Shinner bots will fall hook line and sinker for this
Hilarious!
Interesting insight into the populist nature of Sinn Fein and why any party should be wary of entering coalition with them - they wouldn't even back their own Minister.
Sorry this went into the wrong forum.
Exactly the sort of person you want in charge of the national finances 🙄 just look at that attention to detail on show.
Not just Pearse - Mary Lou also calling for reducing excise on home heating oil from Nil to ????
Maybe she meant the carbon tax - but doesn’t fully understand the difference ?
In their rush to get their populist idea out there before the government decision that they knew was coming, they got their facts completely wrong.
Idiotic is the best word to describe their antics.
on the heating, I'd believe the Revenue Commissioners. I await the apologies from certain posters
https://twitter.com/wereontheditch/status/1501896984407547904
Another swing and a miss from pirate flag Paddy. At least he is not targeting nurses this time.
No idea where "the ditch" have pulled that from, but Mineral Oil Tax (MOT) is comprised of excise duty and carbon tax. For home heating oil, excise duty is 0 so all the MOT is Carbon Tax.
The confusion the last few days over it has been weird.
This confirms that there is no excise duty on home heating oil... the keyword there is excise duty.!!
'Martin misleads Dail over home heating oil', says the headline in this morning's Times Ireland.
A more correct headline would be Sinn Fein calls for reduction in carbon tax.
Sinn Féin wipes years of media statements from website - Independent.ie
they seem to fear the consequences for the next election when their old friends lose the war in Ukraine
Just heard that alright.
Wow.
Some nice propaganda there.
The information purge has to go on... I wonder if there is a record of these somewhere?
In fairness though, it's part of the course for SF/PIRA and their revisionist agenda. Sure in a few year's time they will be telling us all that they are the most pro-EU and anti-Putin party on the island, when in fact they are the complete opposite.
I am sure they are going to deny they said the following.
The silence here is deafening.
I’d say there is a lot of scrambling and frantic calls and texts going on in HQ this morning.
Among international participants were representatives of Sinn Féin, the Catalan Solidarity for Independence party and Italy’s European Communitarian party Millennium, as well as separatist groups from Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the US-based radical black power Uhuru Movement.
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