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Poll: Do you think there should be restrictions on diesel vehicles?

The UN climate and clean air coalition says soot from diesel vehicles is among the big contributors to ill health and global warming.

DUBLIN AND URBAN areas across the country could have bans or restrictions on diesel vehicles.

It’s understood that the government is talking about penalising those who operate diesel vehicles with bans and extra charges.

The UN climate and clean air coalition says soot from diesel vehicles is among the big contributors to ill health and global warming.

Such restrictions are already in place in London, Paris, Athens and Amsterdam.

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    Mute Tweety McTweeter
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    May 5th 2017, 7:01 AM

    The Independents don’t look like they’re going to rock the boat. It’ll be down to Fianna Fáil alone to decide how long this government lasts. No doubt they’ll only do it when they think there is most political gain for themselves.

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    Mute Gerry Carroll
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    May 5th 2017, 8:17 AM

    @Tweety McTweeter: does anyone know how long it takes to qualify for a ministerial pension?

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    Mute Barbara Edwards
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    May 5th 2017, 9:40 AM

    @Gerry Carroll: I was wondering too. It’s probably a factor. That and the summer recess!

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    Mute Rochelle
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    May 5th 2017, 10:05 AM

    @Gerry Carroll: It’s apparently 2 years. Wonder if they’ll become a bit more restless by then!

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    Mute Jim Kirby
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    May 5th 2017, 10:45 AM

    @Gerry Carroll: Two years but the pension dosent kick in until you reach 65 years

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    Mute Nigel O'Neill
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    May 5th 2017, 11:25 AM

    @Tweety FF are in Government in all but name

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    Mute John Kennedy
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    May 5th 2017, 7:14 AM

    Leo or Simon?, does it matter?, Muppet A or Muppet B?, makes no difference, we still end up with a Muppet

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    Mute brian boru
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    May 5th 2017, 8:23 AM

    @John Kennedy: Neither of theses two dwarf politicians inspire me in any shape or form, It will truly be a sad day for the country where either of these two men take the mantle of leadership from Enda.

    Leo is a disgusting politician in my opinion who has had his eye on the top job since his time in the US and will use any one or any part of Irish society as cannon fodder to get there. Simon is a none event. Both will do their utmost to divide Irish society in order to retain the reins of power. Hopefully an election comes before either one of these ruthless individuals come to power.

    Harris would be my preferred option in the ranks of intellectual nothings that FG offers.

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    Mute David Huston
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    May 5th 2017, 8:44 AM

    @John Kennedy: But one of them would be absolutely fabulous darling.

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    Mute pat seery
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    May 5th 2017, 7:51 AM

    Have either of them asked F F who they who they will elect as the next Taoiseach

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    Mute Phil Keenan
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    May 5th 2017, 8:38 AM

    Kim Jong Kenny

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    Mute Tomasz Irlandczik Krótki
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    May 9th 2017, 7:57 PM

    @Phil Keenan: He’s not well at the moment. In fact he’s ‘Kim Jong Ill’.

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    Mute lavbeer
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    May 5th 2017, 8:25 AM

    The journalist is doing his best to make a story out of it. Read it on the examiner website. “Lashes out” “frosty reception”. A non-story if ever there was one.

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    Mute Catherine Sims
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    May 5th 2017, 10:18 AM

    @lavbeer: Fair enough but the whole incident kind of shows Endas anger at the mere serfs questioning him on when he is going to actually follow through on what he promised to do.

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    Mute Just Me
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    May 5th 2017, 12:06 PM

    @Catherine Sims: Enda Kenny is 40 odd years in the Dail. 30 odd years of that was spent as a nobody. Now that he has power and tasted the extra gravy, he will be reluctant to give it up. Enda will end up getting carried kicking and screaming out of his perch in the Dail.

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    Mute Willy Malone
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    May 5th 2017, 7:14 AM

    Coveney. Simple maths. The majority whom voted against gay marriage, are a massive vote of FGs . The Catholic party , the one whom forces all to stand in the Dail before proceedings for prayer , having a gay leader seems a bit hypocritical…

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    Mute lavbeer
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    May 5th 2017, 8:19 AM

    @Willy Malone: would a gay minister not be the same?

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    Mute Willy Malone
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    May 5th 2017, 8:24 AM

    @lavbeer: I’m sure he would be no different. My point is , as a Catholic party forcing , even docking TDs a days wages for not adhering to standing for prayer , is highly hypocritical of a so called Conservative Catholic Party. Does Homosexuality have a place in the Catholic religion ! Not in agreement with catholism , but pointing to my use of the word hypothetical..

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    Mute Gulliver Foyle
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    May 5th 2017, 8:31 AM

    @Willy Malone: you are forgetting that both FF and FG have absolutely zero issue with being​ hypocrites​.

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    Mute lavbeer
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    May 5th 2017, 8:55 AM

    @Willy Malone: so they have stand for a minute and utter a few words if they wish. Big deal. Every club has rules.

    On the main question Leo is a minister so FG it seems doesn’t have an issue with gay. Their Seanad leader is also gay.

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    Mute Willy Malone
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    May 5th 2017, 9:00 AM

    @lavbeer: So you agree , hypocrisy​ is fully accepted in the Blouse shirts ☺

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    Mute Deborah Behan
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    May 5th 2017, 12:16 PM

    @lavbeer: every club has rules? They are not a member of the catholic club they are elected representatives and can pray on their own time if they want.

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    Mute Rachel Didleu
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    May 5th 2017, 2:01 PM

    @lavbeer: so is Michael d

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    Mute lavbeer
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    May 5th 2017, 2:42 PM

    @Willy Malone: I don’t think they are on this one. No.

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    Mute lavbeer
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    May 5th 2017, 2:45 PM

    @Deborah Behan: Give over will you. It’s less that a minute a day when feck of them are there anyway. They had to reduce the number to 10. Too many easily offended in this country. Too much of minority driving the agenda these days. And expecting the majority to pay.

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    Mute Tomasz Irlandczik Krótki
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    May 9th 2017, 8:01 PM

    @lavbeer: Unfortunately, our population is far from being gay, quite depressed, in fact. Enda is like sh*t on a shoe, even if you get rid of it there’s always the ‘after-whiff’.

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    Mute Gerard Heery
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    May 5th 2017, 8:47 AM

    Muppet dictator enda,” don’t ask me any questions that I have to give an answer”

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    Mute Donncha Mac Sléimhne
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    May 5th 2017, 10:01 AM

    @Gerard Heery: Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile….

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    Mute Gerard Heery
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    May 5th 2017, 1:24 PM

    @Donncha Mac Sléimhne: he was caught out again this morning about sauda woman’s rights issues

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    Mute Ciaran Kehoe
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    May 5th 2017, 9:04 AM

    Kenny lashed out because “How dare the wee people of Ireland question our infallible leader”. Kenny won’t go until he is forced out. About time FG grow a pair & oust ” The self appointed “Great one”. Meanwhile Enda will continue to be busy brown nosing Merkel

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    Mute offtheball
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    May 5th 2017, 8:48 AM

    That journalist probably thought he’d create a storm by embarrassing the Taoiseach but he actually succeeded in embarrassing the nation. What a gobshi#e.

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    Mute lavbeer
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    May 5th 2017, 8:57 AM

    @offtheball: embarrassed himself as he had to justify his costs by writing a story about nothing.

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    Mute eastsmer #IRExit
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    May 5th 2017, 9:07 AM

    @offtheball: Embarrassed no one really, he asked a question that he could not ask in Ireland because of the constant deflection of FG to minor matters.
    There is at least a scandal once a week in Ireland and all we get from FG is – Oh, look over there, we have to say a prayer in the Dáil.
    FFFGLAB are really only ‘middle management’ here in Ireland, their masters are in the EU HQ

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    Mute Peter donnelly
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    May 5th 2017, 9:32 AM

    @offtheball: EH no dick
    head kenny embarrassed the nation by his reply to a straight forward question which is one that is of importance to the people of Ireland and as usual couldnt give a straight answer….

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    Mute Christopher Gardiner
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    May 5th 2017, 4:29 PM

    @offtheball: Who is the nation, Is that a person. Oh you meant the people. I hate to break it to you but the people of Ireland think Enda is a Pric*.

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    Mute Tomasz Irlandczik Krótki
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    May 9th 2017, 8:06 PM

    @eastsmer #IRExit: we have to have a prayer in the Dáil, to show we’re holier than Fianna Fáil, while the Health System’s getting sicker, the TDs squabble & bicker, so let’s start a fight about prayer, in the Dáil!

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    Mute Marcia Craine
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    May 5th 2017, 8:10 AM

    Justin’s socks are a match. He’s so cool can he come here and take over? Even just for a few days?

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    Mute Anne Honer
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    May 5th 2017, 7:16 AM

    Enda one or enda two neither has guts stand up to him ffs

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    Mute Adrian
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    May 5th 2017, 8:12 AM

    I hope the journalist had a good go back! Enda’s a lame duck taoiseach now so this crap from enda should hold no credibility now.

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    Mute DeFonz
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    May 5th 2017, 8:25 AM

    I thought he had gone

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    Mute Eugene Comaskey
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    May 5th 2017, 9:50 AM

    What a sill man that McConnell, asking a Mickey Mouse question away from home. The Taoiseach was in Canada to conduct business on behalf of Ireland and we have a clown asking a silly question. Fair play to Kenny.

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    Mute Flynners01
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    May 5th 2017, 10:01 AM

    @Eugene Comaskey: do you really believe that eugene? He had every right to ask him any questions he wanted. Is there a protocol that says he are only allowed ask certain questions when you go more then 5 miles from shore. This man should’ve been sacked for trying to belittle the people of Ireland with his “mae culpa”

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    Mute Justin Gillespie
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    May 5th 2017, 11:15 AM

    @Flynners01: Enda was absolutely right. Did the journalist think for one minute Enda was going to name a date for him there & then? No way was that going to happen so why ask the question unless he was just causing mischief.
    A good toe in the hole from Enda would not have gone amiss.

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    Mute Just Me
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    May 5th 2017, 12:21 PM

    @Eugene Comaskey: ehh! The reporter in question is the political editor of the Irish Examiner. A paper with large distribution figures and incidentally the local paper of one of his rivals Simon Coveney Far from being a Micky Mouse question as you describe, will be detrimental to Kenny by his attitude and non answer.

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    Mute Flynners01
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    May 5th 2017, 1:41 PM

    @Justin Gillespie: lol. I’d say what goes on in your head is some crack. If enda Kenny worked for a private company he’d have been sacked years ago for telling the world about the soldiers standing at the atms. Them journalists are there to stop him from telling more lies.

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    Mute Christopher Gardiner
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    May 5th 2017, 4:31 PM

    @Eugene Comaskey: He does Fuc* all on behalf of Ireland don’t insult us. He cares about his ego full stop. We can’t get rid of the Cun*.

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    Mute Christopher Gardiner
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    May 5th 2017, 4:32 PM

    @Justin Gillespie: Yea its called accountability and your right Enda doesn’t know the meaning of the word.

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    Mute Liam Preston
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    May 5th 2017, 12:07 PM

    Kenny… the accidental Taoiseach……Forgotten but not gone!!!!!

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    Mute Anastasia
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    May 5th 2017, 8:18 AM

    What a great country Canada

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    Mute Art Attack Head
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    May 5th 2017, 7:38 AM

    These lads are both sh*te.

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    Mute Les Behan
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    May 5th 2017, 11:19 AM

    Enda will go when Fianna Fail tell him to go.

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    Mute Rob Cahill
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    May 5th 2017, 9:48 AM

    Next should be Mary Lou McDonald if we had any sense. And I am far from a Shinner before the usual sock puppets start.

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    Mute Eoin Mulhern
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    May 5th 2017, 8:39 AM

    Looking at these two make me sick.

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    Mute Flynners01
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    May 5th 2017, 1:46 PM

    Oh no, enda has being telling more lies about raising women’s rights with Saudi Arabia when the fail records show that this didn’t happen. Another “mae culpa”. How much more of this can we take

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    Mute TradingDuck
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    May 5th 2017, 11:57 AM

    To be fair it wasn’t the time or the place to be asking that question. It was never going to serve any purpose.

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    Mute Jim Kirby
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    May 5th 2017, 10:42 AM

    Imagine going all that way to ask such a silly question–The Examiner must have a lot of spare cash

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    Mute Ciaran Coye
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    May 5th 2017, 11:57 AM

    Anything trump can do I can do better, says Enda.

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    Mute Patrick James Walsh
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    May 5th 2017, 1:19 PM

    While normally I have would have no sympathy for Kenny, the media going on about this is soo boring for the rest of us. This particular journalist has been jumping up and down like a jack in the box with the same question for months now, ` Taoiseach:, when are you retiring?` .

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    Mute D'Murph
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    May 5th 2017, 12:10 PM

    What a clown yo travel that far and ask that question.
    Enda was right to challenge that.

    That said sooner he goes the better

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    Mute Christopher Gardiner
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    May 5th 2017, 4:34 PM

    @D’Murph: Why don’t ye Enda ass Lickers get a room.

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    Mute Bairéid Rísteard
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    May 5th 2017, 9:48 AM

    Had a go a being a journalist.. Is there anything this man can’t do?

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    Mute @mdmak33
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    May 5th 2017, 11:42 AM

    IA will not exist after a GE.

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    Mute bigjake
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    May 5th 2017, 1:10 PM

    Oliver Callan says it all

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    Mute Paul Maher
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    May 5th 2017, 4:45 PM

    Not true about the question asking Enda when he’ll resign. Journalist said that Enda had referred to Trump as racist etc. Asked Canadian PM about that. Really inappropriate gutter journalism and was cringe worthy to listen to an Irish journalist whose only objective was to embarrass his Taoiseach in front of the Canadian PM. Pure stunt pulling job. Mortifying . Enda should have punched the head off him!

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    May 6th 2017, 2:30 AM

    In a government with promises far far away…

    I can’t believe that Enda travelled that far as well… To escape the same question lol.

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    Mute Christopher Gardiner
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    May 5th 2017, 4:25 PM

    He’s a totally useless Cun*. A dummy for a t shock.

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    Mute Jimmy Mac
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    May 5th 2017, 2:53 PM

    This clown needs to get a life, he licks ass and talks shit a the same time, muck man from Mayo

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