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Value of exports rises in November - CSO

A seven per cent increase from October to November 2012 was noted.

THE VALUE OF Irish exports increased in November, newly released figures from the Central Statistics Office show.

A seven per cent increase (€552 million) to €8,008 million from October to November was noted.

Seasonally adjusted imports decreased by €481 million (-11 per cent) to €3,724 million resulting in a 32 per cent increase in the seasonally adjusted trade surplus to €4,284 million.

The value of exports decreased by €305 million (-4 per cent) to €8,291 million year on year, from November 2012 to November 2011.

Exports of chemicals and related products decreased by €177 million (-3 per cent) with a decrease of €774 million in medical and pharmaceutical products partially offset by an increase of €427 million in organic chemicals and €126 million in essential oils.

On an overall basis, the EU accounted for €4,684 million (56 per cent) of total exports in November 2012, and he USA was the main non-EU destination for exports accounting for 18 per cent of total exports in that month.

Comparing November 2012 with November 2011, imports decreased by €251 million (-6 per cent) to €3,908 million. The larger decreases were for imports of mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials (down €116 million), chemicals and related products (down €105 million) and machinery and transport equipment (down €62 million).

Two-thirds of the value of imports in November 2012 came from the EU, with 35% coming from the UK. The USA (8 per cent) and China (7 per cent) were the main non-EU sources of imports.

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    Mute JC
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    Jul 11th 2024, 9:53 AM

    Tolls should be lifted full stop. We already pay car tax.

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    Mute Toca Stories
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:06 AM

    @JC: these toll roads are privately funded. If they weren’t then they wouldn’t exist and you would still be going through the local towns or the gov would have had to pay the cost of them and probably have to raise taxes to do so. Like a mortgage, these loans have to be paid back and in the meantime all the risks e.g. low traffic during covid etc are borne solely by the toll company. It’s actually a relatively low risk and good deal for the state

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    Mute Steve O'Hara-Smith
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:18 AM

    @Toca Stories: All well and good but I gather the costs of building and maintaining most of the toll roads have been covered many times over.
    The toll should have a limited period, just long enough to recoup costs and make a profit before switching to some other arrangement for ongoing maintenance.

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    Mute Laois Weather
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:21 AM

    @Toca Stories: They are *part* privately funded under the PPP (Public, Private Partnership) model fondly used by Fianna Fail.

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    Mute Name
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:24 AM

    @Steve O’Hara-Smith: you are aware that roads need maintenance, which has a cost? In fact, the cumulative cost of road maintenance tends to exceed the cost of original construction after a couple of decades.

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    Mute Steve O'Hara-Smith
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:30 AM

    @Name: Read the last sentence of my post.

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    Mute The next small thing
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:34 AM

    @Toca Stories: apart from the roads that the government has to pay extra to the company if usage is down, so to say the toll companies take all the risk isn’t true in some cases. No problem with tolls in general especially when they actually get rid of them after the 30 years (or whatever duration) as per the original agreement, although true to form in this country,.none seem to ever be abolished, how long is the east link toll there now?

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:38 AM

    @Steve O’Hara-Smith: IMO “that other arrangement” should still be tolls under the “user pays” model

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    Mute Pip morgan
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:53 AM

    @JC: I don’t use that road, why should my taxes be used to fund the maintenance of it.

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    Mute barry williams
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:59 AM

    @Toca Stories: the risks are not borne by the toll company. Like everything else the risk is borne by the the taxpayer. The state had to pay out 9 million euro to toll operators because of roads being used less during Covid

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    Mute The Firestarter
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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:05 AM

    @Toca Stories: I couldn’t disagree more, the majority of these roads were built during the Celtic Tiger when the country was awash with money, and let’s be honest they should have been built decades ago, when motorists were paying a fortune in road tax, to drive on dirttracks. The UK built most of their motorways during the 60s and 70s with the majority of them free to drive on. I have no issue with paying tolls for major road infrastructures such as tunnels or bridges, but not motorways.

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    Mute sean weir
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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:17 AM

    @Toca Stories: that is absolutely rubbish,toll company has a contract with the govt ,and on some roads the govt is paying the toll companies because they have not reached their targets

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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:24 AM

    @Steve O’Hara-Smith: that’s exactly what is happening with all of the tolls except the m50 and ringsend- it was a state decision to keep the tolls on those roads. The m50 actually funds a lot of the rest of the network resurfacing and maintenance. If it didn’t then tax revenue would need to make up the difference. Like it or not there is no one making huge obscene amounts of money from tolls. In fact some have actually made a huge loss as the expected traffic never materialised.

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    Mute John Brennan
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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:58 AM

    @Toca Stories: Off course they would have been built. Financing badly needed road infrastructure is a sure thing in a country like Ireland where tolled infrastructure like the Liffey bridge will pay for itself many times over. The government could have easily built those roads on the strength of toll income alone. PPP’s another FFG racket to enrich a few at the expense of the many.

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    Mute Heather Knowles
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    Jul 11th 2024, 12:07 PM

    @Pip morgan: Could say that about anything. Childless people paying tax to fund education, healthy people who never use hospitals paying to fund healthcare etc. In a functioning society tax is used to pay for services for the greater good. Unfortunately in Ireland we pay tax and see it squandered, the childrens hospital being a prime example. We seem to be incapable of using our tax money efficiently. Pity we can’t bring in a scandi government for a few years. High tax but excellent services.

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    Mute hans vos
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    Jul 11th 2024, 12:27 PM

    @Pip morgan: There are probably a lot of roads that you don’t use but still you pay for the upkeep. Otherwise why should others pay for the roads that you use and they are not.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 12:34 PM

    @Steve O’Hara-Smith: yeah that’s what Haughey said about the east link (before he realised that one of his rich friends would buy it from the state at a small cost!!

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    Mute John Moylan
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    Jul 11th 2024, 12:47 PM

    @JC: a key tenet of having toll roads is that there must be a toll-free alternative route. There are. Nobody stopping you from using them.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:10 PM

    @JC: absolutely 100% They should . We pay for car tax and our cars get wrecked with. Pot holes. Where is all this toll money going

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    Jul 11th 2024, 3:17 PM

    @Toca Stories: All those toll roads were built under a prublic private contract. So no – private companies did not totally pay to have the M50 or any other road built. The toll was only ever meant to be temporary till the government recouped the money they spent. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/m50-tolling-to-continue-until-2035-1.799406

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    Mute Ann Reddin
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    Jul 11th 2024, 3:19 PM

    @Name: What do you think you pay road tax for? Not that hard to figure out – to maintain roads. And lets not forget that most of our motorways were built with money from the EU.

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    Jul 12th 2024, 10:29 AM

    @Pip morgan: I don’t use hospitals. Why should my taxes be used to pay for them?

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    Mute Patrick MC Dermott
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    Jul 11th 2024, 9:58 AM

    Tolls should only apply until cost of making the road is recovered. It should not be an indefinite taxation on motorists, where most of the money collected, is leaving the country.

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    Mute East Cork Cheeses
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:07 AM

    @Patrick MC Dermott: well , in theory it is – when PPP contracts are up ,they revert to state ownership , which should be soonish for some of the roads
    The exception is the m50 toll, which is state owned and costs almost the most of the cost of the toll to collect ..

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:11 AM

    @East Cork Cheeses: the Eastlink bridge is now state owned and a toll still applies.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:26 AM

    @Patrick MC Dermott: these costs have to be recovered in perpetuity as there are ongoing maintenance costs, which tend to exceed the original costs of construction. Hence we’ll always have to shell out. Best this is done by the users of the road than the general tax payer.

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    Mute Brendan Fitzsimons
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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:29 AM

    @East Cork Cheeses: no it doesn’t

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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:19 PM

    @Name: if that’s the case there should be a toll on every road in the country.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 3:22 PM

    @Name: And again – road tax. I suggest you contact the relevant authority and ask what they’re spending your road tax on if not for maintaining roads. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any maintenance crews fixing the M50

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    Jul 11th 2024, 9:29 PM

    @Name: In fairness, the m50 is probably the cheapest road in Ireland to maintain per km travelled per car

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    Jul 11th 2024, 9:51 AM

    Sure why not lift them for horse racing, rugby matches, soccer and communions? Ridiculous suggestion.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:00 AM

    @Ben dover: In order to avoid the chaos seen before the Limerick / Cork match with huge numbers from 2 counties converging on the toll from different motorways.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 12:36 PM

    @Ben dover: I

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    Jul 11th 2024, 12:53 PM

    @Stanley Marsh: On that, I’m considering what the motorway usage would be if it was free for that period? Wouldn’t far more drivers opt for it as a potentially quicker & more direct route? Surely more people use the Port Tunnel on bank holidays because it’s cheaper then.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:20 PM

    @Ben dover: Not necessarily. If you’re stuck in a 5km tail back you’re not getting the value you’re paying for – i.e. free flowing traffic. You might as well be stuck outside Kildare or Monasterevin like the old days – so why should you have to pay?

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:01 AM

    Ireland shouldn’t have tolls at all, we paid enough motor tax & various other motoring related taxes.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:29 AM

    @Okiec 666: not enough to cover the costs of car infrastructure

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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:31 AM

    @Name: many times more than enough actually.

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    Mute East Cork Cheeses
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:03 AM

    So the guys who use those roads day in day out should pay the tolls – but the one offers should get a special deal – because they’re special,

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:25 AM

    @East Cork Cheeses: Haulage vehicles should be exempt. They are already diverting through Abbeyleix-Urlingford to avoid the toll which is an excessive amount, thus creating traffic problems along the N77-R639. The purpose of the M8 was to take trucks off the old N8, but due to excessive tolls this isn’t working out.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:22 AM

    @East Cork Cheeses: Another way of looking at it though – If the tolls were dropped during this time, then the guy who uses these roads day in day out wouldn’t be stuck in a 5km queue to the toll

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    Jul 11th 2024, 9:51 AM

    I was at Arcade fire the other night, tolls were charged on journey there, so no.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:23 AM

    @Eddie Garvey: An Arcade Fire gig doesn’t have the cultural importance of an All Ireland Final, nor does it have the potential for tens of thousands of fans from the same region using a single piece of infrastructure to travel to the venue.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 12:23 PM

    @Ajax Penumbra: well tens of thousands use the same road every day to travel to work to earn money and pay taxes so the country can have vital services and so they can look after their families so if they have to pay then those who want to watch a game of hurling should pay. At least the latter have a choice, the former do not.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:06 PM

    @Eddie Garvey: Hardly the same thing – do you think Malahide Castle was built to host live gigs? Croker’s a national stadium!

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    Jul 11th 2024, 6:19 PM

    @Ajax Penumbra:
    Cultural importance… LOL

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:25 AM

    No. I have to use it every day to go to work and see the parents. Why should others get off if they are only up for a match.

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    Mute F Fitzgerald
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    Jul 11th 2024, 12:59 PM

    @Annette: I honestly wouldn’t begrudge them a few toll-free hours in Dublin as a once-off. I mean, they could say that they don’t get the benefit of the motorway when they’re not using it. It would be a great gesture.
    Besides, it spares all the other roads for that peak. I was once stuck on the coast road for an hour while matchgoers drove back after an All-Ireland match – that’s before they had other routes. Town used to be massively congested before we had the Port Tunnel too.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:32 AM

    Would this move really alleviate congestion considering nobody speeds through even an open toll barrier at 120kph?
    Here is an idea: take the bus or train and stop clogging our roads and footpaths with your Landcruisers.

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    Mute John Manahan
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:36 AM

    @Name: bus or train already sold out. Train would have been absolute disaster if it was Clare v Limerick final , capacity just doesn’t exist for large-scale movements of people from the same area.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:48 AM

    @John Manahan: won’t the train coming from Cork be full as it reaches Limerick junction and the Clare people will be hoping to get on it at that point

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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:11 AM

    @James Leahy: the train from Cork will be full long before reaching Limerick Junction , just checked online a while ago – there are only 3 trains leaving Limerick before 12.15, which is absolutely ridiculous.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 12:07 PM

    @John Manahan: the Clare fans would want to be making alternative arrangements. Ryanair were £19 return from Kerry airport up to last week

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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:09 PM

    @John Manahan: Better get online now – the Big Green Bus has about 40 seats left for the 21st on various coaches! Might have to be at the stop early, but you get to sleep all the way up while someone else does the driving ;-)

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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:21 PM

    @John Manahan: And where are they meant to get the extra trains from?? Magic?

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    Jul 11th 2024, 3:42 PM

    @John Manahan: They put on extra trains for the All Ireland semi’s and finals depending on where the fans are coming from. The first trains on All Ireland Sundays arrive in Dublin at 7.30 am. They all managed long before the M50 was built to make it to Dublin. And I know this because I was a restaurant manager and worked as a waitress before that. We’d have queues for breakfast outside the door by 8.30 am every year unless of course it was Dublin and Wicklow/Meath/Drogheda, when we’d still be busy but nothing like when two further away counties were playing.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:15 AM

    For safety tolls should be abolished, why push people on to more dangerous secondary roads?…that would be a courageous political move to help save lives

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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:23 AM

    @Spartacus Ireland: How many lives are we talking?

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    Jul 11th 2024, 9:05 PM

    @Spartacus Ireland:
    Money always comes before saving lives on the roads here, the positioning of speed cameras clearly shows that.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:31 AM

    No way. Not for Gaa .

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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:32 PM

    There’s always one anti-GAA begrudger.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 6:57 PM

    @Shaner Mac: But there’s always plenty of GAA fans who believe that they are God’s Chosen Ones, who should have everything they want for free.

    Anyway, this is all about one useless politician looking to get a few more votes after his last failure to get into the Dail.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 8:00 PM

    @Shaner Mac: There’s a bit of a point though, it’d be like a subsidy to allow further ticket rises. They should make it free for 16 seater buses, etc and increase the price for cars on the day in order to encourage private organisation of buses. (And make a big advertisement campaign in the lead up on radio & tv.)

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:46 AM

    I don’t follow hurling. But I occasionally go to the odd music festival outside of the pale. So can I go to these toll free?

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    Jul 11th 2024, 5:22 PM

    No worries, let the train take the strain!

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:11 AM

    Five kilometers is nothing. Remember when us Dubs took an hour to pass the manual toll on the M50 toll bridge? If people do not want to queue they can always get a tag. I know it seems like a “good” solution to a specific problem but remember this is an entertainment and social event and maybe the toll companies need a rule that says if there are more than say five cars in each queue then the barriers open to clear the queue. This would be fair on everyone and every event.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:33 AM

    @Niall O’Cofaigh: there is exactly that stipulation in the contracts. Never seen it done despite undermanned toll booths.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:42 AM

    If people haven’t noticed ffg agenda is to give as much if our infrastructure to the few at the expense of the many

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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:41 AM

    There should be a law that if a tailback back exceeds 500m, the barriers must open to relieve the traffic.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:00 AM

    The people whinging about tolls would be the first in line crying when the roads with tolls fall into a poor condition after abolishing tolls. Whinge. Moan. Baaaaaaa. Bleat.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:25 AM

    There should be no toll on the M4 it not even a motor way a badly built road , that should of been a straight motorway to Sligo no widen to almost motorway standard left with 100 speed limit only to make more revenue.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:36 AM

    @Be Lucky: the M4 is a high grade motorway untill becomes the N4 near Mullingar. There are no tolls on the N4.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 12:11 PM

    All the tolls in Ireland should be barrier free. You should not have to stop. They do it on the M50. Why can’t they do it on the rest?

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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:14 PM

    Oh, you mean everyone should buy a toll tag? Hardly a saving if they only use it once in a blue moon, to be fair?

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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:21 PM

    @Brendan Nolan: all of them have a free flow lane for tag holders

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    Mute Regular John
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    Jul 11th 2024, 9:14 PM

    @F Fitzgerald: You don’t have to have a toll tag to use the M50, there are other ways to pay…

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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:39 PM

    The sense of entitlement in the Grab All Association is nothing if not persistent.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:01 AM

    Yes! travel ban should be lifted ,for women abused ,working at oil countries
    They not belong to EU and EU not belong to camel owners

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    Mute sakk sa
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:22 AM

    @james rowan: ⁷

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    Mute Leinsterprincess
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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:01 AM

    Yes because everyone in Ireland loves hurling. Every single one.

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    Mute F Fitzgerald
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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:11 PM

    @Leinsterprincess: We do. It’s only that we couldn’t all get tickets for the All-Ireland!

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    Mute honey badger
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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:10 AM

    Tolls should only be lifted if there’s a risk that traffic congestion could affect my plans – so no, not this time.

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    Mute Old Times
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    Jul 11th 2024, 12:18 PM

    Good luck with that. These companies are rubbing their hands on days like this

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    Mute Will
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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:03 AM

    Should be done on certain days to help people out but that would make too much sense

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    Mute reg morrisey
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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:09 PM

    Why should they be lifted just for bloody gaa fans ffs

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    Mute Regular John
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    Jul 11th 2024, 9:17 PM

    @reg morrisey:
    Yeah, charge the boggers more. If you haven’t got a D reg you pay double !

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    Mute John Manahan
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:33 AM

    Maybe 3 hours each way 10.30 to 1.30 beforehand and 6 to 9pm afterwards.

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    Mute Liam Meade
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    Jul 11th 2024, 11:28 AM

    Only for the winners….

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    Mute F Fitzgerald
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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:12 PM

    Ouch, that’s worse. Sure then no one would leave!

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    Mute Donal McCarthy
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    Jul 11th 2024, 3:13 PM

    I would be almost certain that the people who have a problem with tolls pay very little income tax.
    What should really happen here is that etags should be mandatory and linked to a bank account.
    Also, all motorways should tolled on a distance covered basis.

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    Jul 11th 2024, 5:28 PM

    @Donal McCarthy: Strange take. If you’re on a motorway you’re a fully qualified driver, either driving for a living or not, you’d still be on enough to run a car. And hardly retired. It doesn’t follow that you’d be on minimum wage. How would the distance factor in? Should cars be tagged on and off at exits to track how far they drove?

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    Mute eddie walsh
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    Jul 11th 2024, 3:12 PM

    Should tolls be lifted if somebody’s going to hospital?

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    Mute Sean O'Dhubhghaill
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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:19 PM

    To make sure they ‘don’t miss the match’! LEAVE EARLIER!

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    Mute Gerry Collins
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    Jul 11th 2024, 1:57 PM

    Why doesn’t everyone just leave on time or even earlier then no one will be late!

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    Mute Liam OTailliuir
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    Jul 11th 2024, 7:22 PM

    Discount bus/train tickets maybe. Gaa really needs to up its game on linking up with public transport and offering park and ride.

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    Mute Mick Hanna
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    Jul 11th 2024, 5:26 PM

    They should be Lifted Altogether.

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    Mute Paul
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    Jul 11th 2024, 7:02 PM

    Make the toll free if England win the euros.

    There the bloggers will have to support the Kings team!

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    Mute Garreth Byrne
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    Jul 11th 2024, 10:36 PM

    Horse-drawn tubtraps should be tollfree – but fines for failing to remove equine droppings from roads.

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    Mute Robert Halvey
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    Jul 11th 2024, 3:42 PM

    I know iam off script but I need to ask this question, Nathan Carter playing in an irish prison without the prisoners, to me is obsession, what do the rest of think

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    Mute Jack Hayes
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    Jul 11th 2024, 4:23 PM

    @Robert Halvey: If there isn’t going to be an inmate audience at this charity fundraiser, I suspect that it’s to do with Article 16 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

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