#Ireland

BREAKING: The EU is seeking to have some 15 customs + veterinary staff working alongside UK officials at NI ports to ensure the proper implementation of the NI Protocol, @rtenews
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Some thoughts on the #Apple case, Ireland and tax: The Court’s reasoning is very limited – as a result of viewing this solely within the framework of EU state aid
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The penny seems to have belatedly dropped for @BorisJohnson that he can have a no-trade-deal relationship with the EU - what he calls an Australian relationship - and he can
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Some thoughts on today’s briefing that may be useful. Everybody looks at data from their own perspective. Perfect example: people *love* county-by-county breakdowns even tho they mean very little. Counties
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Genuine question: when I respond to emails, I don't like dawdling around with 'hope you're well' / 'happy Friday'/ 'these trying times' etc. If I'm already in frequent contact with
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Oireachtas Committee on COVID-19 response.Focus today: nursing homes and direct provision centres.Watching live here:https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-tv/dail-eireann-live/ John McGuinness TD (FF) & David Cullinan TD (SF) have sta
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Thread - The Grealish remittances story is textbooks example of how far right spreads fear. They cherry-pick data & ignore warnings about inaccuracies. CSO/EU stats are better estimates but only
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I’ve been retweeting some of the #shoplocal lists - in fairness I’m not a shopper generally, but there some beautiful things on the lists,even I’d be tempted. What I do
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The respected Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in University of Washington, advisers to WHO, predict 66,314 deaths in the UK by early August. http://www.healthdata.org/  Their COVID19 projections of total
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This is an interesting issue. I’m not the right person to debate the merits of Richard’s argument based on (I think) MMT.https://twitter.com/richardjmurphy/status/1297823754005946368 We agree that it’s all in the end
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I'm a bit concerned by some of the narrative I've seen around third-level fees in recent weeks. Criticising them seems to have, in some quarters, moved away from their role
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A short note on this paragraph in Liz Truss’s leaked letter. First, it is important to note that under Article 5 of the Ireland/NI Protocol, the EU Customs Code (the
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Why it is important to educate yourself and stand up to racism. A thread. #BLACK_LIVES_MATTERS #BLM #Blacklivesmatter 1 / Everyone can see what is happening right now and I
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Fair bit of far right flags on the antimask/antivaxxer protest in London today. Just like in Germany, USA and Ireland, "anti lockdown" movement is absolutely full of this shit. Time
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A Thread:The ignorance and insensitivity shown by Laura Whitmore in those posts is horrible but not new. We all know it's indicative of a lack of understanding that so many
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If anyone is actually interested in why we are where we are in Northern Ireland, they should take a wee look at how chunks of the "peace money" that flowed
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