#Ireland

Eoin Galvin

EoinGalvin

On the 2-year anniversary of the 8th-Amendment referendum, here is a short thread about the people I met/heard about while canvassing in Kerry. #RepealMemories An elderly woman who had decided

YouGov

YouGov

Most mainland Brits (54%) now don't care whether Northern Ireland stays in the UK or not - an increase from 41% in October. Only 24% said they'd be upset by

Hugo Brady

hugobrady

Gaelic influence hides in plain sight everywhere in #Iceland: placenames, beehive huts, folklore, encoded in the sagas and above all in Icelanders' DNA. Key to the mystery is a system

Danny Boy

Care2much18

Some interesting weaponizing of Ireland's death rate going on by very ignorant people."Ireland have the 9th highest death rate per capita".Do we now. 1. Some countries are counting hospital deaths

Graham Neary

GrahamNeary

I've gone deep into the mortality numbers for Ireland and Covid-19. This is what I've learned.Thread. The death toll in Ireland from Covid-19 is officially 1,773. But this includes people

John O’Brennan

JohnOBrennan2

Some thoughts on collapse of digital tax talks. While this is routinely presented in Ireland as ‘bad news’ for the economy, in truth the OECD process never had enough ‘bite’

Gabrielle Monaghan

GabbyMonaghan

There's a fierce whiff of the 1980s in corona-era rural Ireland. Everyone's bored and on the dole and going to restaurants isn't a thing. There's feck all on the telly.

Austin Stack

austingstack

#COVID19Mortality from @austingstack & @len_browne on April 13 show stabilisation and relative plateauing of metrics for most but not all European Countries. Mortality Rates pmp- Spain & Italy - France

Brad Setser

Brad_Setser

A common comment I receive, in public and in private, is that I don’t understand trade in services.The U.S. after all, is a big exporter of high-end services, and runs

Danny Boy

Care2much18

People are talking some amount of nonsense today.https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1283077914393706497 Spikes, 2nd waves, "back to where we were in March!", it's all those bloody tourists, there's a horde of flesh-eating

Ruth Mason

ProfRuthMason

1/ Thread giving background on the shocking victory of #Apple and Ireland victory against the @EU_Commission yesterday in the EU General Court @EUCourtPress 2/ Recall the facts: Two stateless subs

Frank Kilkelly

kilkelly

"The Curious Case of the 1% Positive Rate Baseline in #Ireland"A #COVID19 thread.The HPSC and HSE provides us with this chart for "Positive Rate (%) Previous 7 Days" on their

Brad Setser

Brad_Setser

U.S. corporate tax reform didn't get rid of the incentive for big multinationals to play tax games."“The location of intellectual property is more of a tax-planning exercise than movements of

John Peet

JohnGPeet

Even by his own low standards, Boris Johnson’s Telegraph article plumbs new depths of shoddiness and dishonesty (short thread) 1/ It was obvious to anyone who thought for 5 minutes

Old Ireland in Colour

irelandincolour

Countess Markievicz, born Constance Georgine Gore Booth, Irish politician, #EasterRising revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, first female cabinet minister in EuropeWith Poppet and Fianna Éireann officersWaterford1917Source: https://fli

David Frost

DavidGHFrost

1/7 I would like to make a few comments and state a few facts, in my capacity as the PM's negotiator in the current and last autumn's talks.https://twitter.com/MichelBarnier/status/1305078026514968577 2/7 On