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PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND Reform Minister Brendan Howlin stopped by for a High Table Interview today.
You can watch some of our wide-ranging interview below.
Here’s what we learned, aside from the fact he’s got moves:
The minister is “really proud” of Labour and what they have achieved in office – recently launching 5 Days 5 Ways to highlight the party’s “record on reform”.
Howlin told us ultra-left parties and politicians are “professional agitators” who “thrive in chaos”.
He knows they’re becoming more popular – due in part to the public being angry at the government after years of austerity – but thinks people “are rational when they come to vote” and won’t necessarily support these groups on election day.
Watch Howlin describe why he feels Labour is a better option than Sinn Féin, and if he thinks Gerry Adams could be Taoiseach:
The Irish Times reported this morning that public servants are in for an €800 windfall after years of cutbacks, ahead of next week’s talks on pay restoration.
Is this figure in the right ball park?
We also asked Howlin about the controversial remarks made by Finance Minister Michael Noonan, who said some unemployed people are “allergic to work”.
Does he agree?
Finally, watch Howlin discuss why he’s nervous about the upcoming same-sex marriage referendum:
He said he’ll likely be voting No in the presidential age referendum, by the way – as he has “real doubts” about a 21-year-old running for president.
There’ll be more from our interview with Howlin over the coming days.
All videos: Paul Hosford/Órla Ryan
Maybe the DUP can buy it with all their orange men.
@Gerry Gleeson: awful, just awful
The Mam from Del Monte say no.
It’s sad to think that things that where around so long that went through so much and now through supposedly better times can’t survive. I know it’s usually down to be over leverage but still sad all the same especially our independent country shops.
@Be Lucky: we need to save it as a lot of families depend on this nutrition
@Lance Taylor: hey Lance do you like their peaches?
@Stiles: undoubtedly
What’s happened to yer man?
@ANDY EARLEY: Went off to get the suit cleaned,nothing but a yes man anyway.
Why cant irish gov bail them out? We did for the banks, BAM, developers and many many more, sure aren’t we great lads?
Some of the best fruit I ever did taste especially the peaches. They make wonderful trifle with the man from delmonte
Good, they’re a horrible company with an appalling environmental and civil rights record, the very opposite of fair trade.
@Dermot Blaine: Those colonialism celebrating ads were a total horror show. I’ve never trusted anyone who willingly wears a cream outfit since.
While we’re on the subject, everyone needs to watch Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. If you still think it’s ‘defence’ after watching it, your moral compass isn’t off, as much as smashed to pieces and lost at the bottom of the ocean somewhere…
@SerotoninWars: After watching that , make sure to watch the Hamas October 7th film.
@tommy bailey: Whatabout whatabout whatabout. Unlike you, I listen to all sides and try and be as balanced as possible. All you have are excuses. You clearly haven’t watched the documentary. I really doubt you would be here making excuses if you had. Anyone who has watched it will know why. 15 thousand dead children and counting…
@tommy bailey: Palestine was under Israelis oppression before Oct 7th .
Are we now not allowed to fight for our freedom .
Like our 1916 women & men .
They too were condemned by people like you .
@tommy bailey: I don’t think any fair minded person would have any sympathy for the elimination of Hamas after the atrocities they committed, however you need to remember that long before the events of October 7th the Palestinian people men, women and children were dehumanised by a large section of Israeli citizens and treated as such. After all who voted in the most far right government in the history of the state of Israel some of who’s members want to exterminate the whole male Palestinian population.
Canned food is war world 2 era food. Beans. Hoops. Fruit. Condenced milk
@Justin Holtom: I love the hotdogs and beans in a tin they are lovely. Then the peaches for dessert a great meal altogether
@Justin Holtom: It will come in handy for WW3 too.
@Justin Holtom: Canned laughter is a bit old hat too. Very disappointed when I picked up the wrong tin once. Having said that, spaghetti hoops with Tabasco or Piri Piri is the kind of luxury the rich wish they had when they’re faced with more quail or endangered animal steak.
@Justin Holtom: Shows what you know….canned food is a form ofea preservation that has been around for a couple of centuries, since the early 1800s and is so effective, it will be a long time before it will be surpassed. After all, once what is in your freezer defrosts in a power outage, it has to be used immediately or thrown away! canned goods, are a way the preserve out of season foods, and not worry about that kind of stuff.
Del montes liabilities are twice the price of a united Ireland? And they’ve no overstaffed civil service
@P. V. Aglue: silly comment
Just to let you know for the future
Your headline reads
Tinned food brand …
This is incorrect
You cannot tin anything
The headline should read
The canned food brand Del Monte
Kind regards
Michael oreilly
@Mjor Spain: fehk off back to your oule AmeriKKKaw “O’Reilly”. Tins are tins in Ireland. And the foods inside the TINS are TINNED.
Cans are for “Minerals” (aka NOT “Sodas” and absolutely never “Pop”)
The man from the bank, he say no.
Makes no sense whatsoever that this type of company could ever run out of cents.
It must have been abominably mismanaged in recent years. How they cannot be booming and drowning in profits following:
- A 10-year-long Recession.
- A Pandemic with plentiful panic buying, stockpiling, and the Consumer auto-response to hardships = retro’ comfort foods.
- and A frikken Russian re-invasion into a former Soviet-occupied Nation…
- …and resulting War Inflation triggering crushing Poverty and belt tightening.
- OH! …and a Brexit-related British-centred crippling delinquency in farm worker supply and consequential lack of timely harvesting of fruit and veg’ crops leading to widespread fruit decay and supply deficits to *fresh* fruit/veg’ retailing. Plus a similar less severe but not insignificant anti-immigration suppression of supply farm staff/fruit pickers in other EU Nations (like Italy).
Tinned and Frozen should be BOOMING!!!
There must be nothin’ but delinquents at del monte
What about the Man.
Makes no sense whatsoever that this type of company could ever run out of cents.
It must have been abominably mismanaged in recent years. How they cannot be booming and drowning in profits following a 10-year-l
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