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TDS EAMON RYAN and Michael Healy-Rae have condemned the personalised online abuse they received during the recent election campaign.
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan, who announced that he would be stepping down as leader of the party earlier today, said that his party has been the subject of “a relentless attack, particularly on social media.”
He said that the party appeared to be subject to coordinated attacks in the comments section on any posts made.
“I decided to ignore the worst comments, even when it included vile statements about my own recently deceased father [when he died] some five years ago,” he said, adding that the abuse has only increased, particularly in the last year.
On Radio Kerry this morning, Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae appealed for an end to “the politics of horribleness” after he and female members of his family were subjected to “outrageous” social media attacks in the run up to the local elections.
Healy-Rae described how a video of his his mother, who died in 2015, that was posted to TikTok was particularly hurtful to his family.
The Independent TD said he discovered the online post after coming home from canvassing one evening.
The TikTok post included an image of his late mother, Julie Healy-Rae, and a picture of his sister and his wife.
In the image, his mother was frail and with a walking stick and the post had ‘‘all these dirty things underneath,” Healy-Rae said.
“It’s bullying, it’s intimidating, it’s nastiness. It’s taking Kerry politics into the gutter.”
“When I see it coming into Kerry, this is what hurts me,” Healy-Rae told Jerry O’Sullivan on Radio Kerry.
He added: “Where are we going to finish up. Will we finish up shooting each other again?
“Call it out for what it is – the politics of horribleness, the politics of hatred, and of nastiness. Give it up and live a proper life and that’s the message I give to people today.”
Healy-Rae earlier wished Ryan luck on X, saying that “public life isn’t always easy”, but he respected Ryan.
While @EamonRyan and I differ massively on policies and ideology, I wish him and his family nothing but the best of good luck, health and happiness in his retirement.
— Michael Healy-Rae (@MHealyRae) June 18, 2024
Public life isn’t always easy but he always stuck to his guns and I respect that in a person.
With additional reporting by Emma Hickey.
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Food and drink is where it’s at, and there’s room for future growth too.
And not one technology company, which is probably a little worrying. No dot com companies either, which given the latest fiasco in this area – the Facebook floatation – is probably not a bad thing!
AIB has a market cap of about €300m, not the €26,000m plus stated here. It may have had billions upon billions of taxpayers’ money pumped into it but that all went down a bottomless pit of property loan losses in order to pay back German banks.
Aside from tax loopholes and exploiting whatever they can in order to make money CRH,like nearly all modern business,are building a Apartheid Wall for the Israelis
How CRH makes some of its profits..
http://www.bdsmovement.net/2012/irish-and-palestinian-activists-to-crh-stop-cementing-apartheid-9057
What about the ESM listings? Personally I’d find them more interesting as this list is quite predictable.
No surprises at all really.
Some of the above (AIB in particular) have their shares listed on the ESM
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