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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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When they changed to reduced sugar it was the end….. Lilt has never been the same.
@Shane McGrath: Exactly. I’ve been cutting down on soft drinks because I’m allergic to aspartame. It used to be my only reason for ordering regular instead of diet drinks.
And the other artificial sweeteners aren’t doing any favours to the taste either.
If they had reduced the sugar, and left it at that, I wouldn’t mind, but trying to compensate by using artificial sweeteners is wrong on so many levels.
@Shane McGrath: Blame the sugar tax for ruining lifes small pleasures.
If you don’t have Lilt and Cidona as your Christmas softdrinks are you even Irish????
@Fi Wyse: or Tanora if you’re from Cork
@Sara McS: Tanora and a chicken fillet roll. Gift nyom
Rockshandy rules this isle!… Victory!
@thesaltyurchin: The Mas with the flat 7up might not agree with you…..
@Fi Wyse: or the boiled red lemonade. A legendary cure-all! :)
With the cost of living these days lilt might be the closest we get to the tropics.
More than the product itself, I liked the original advertising campaign. Everytime I drank it, or even now when I just think of it, I think of the West Indies and that ‘totally tropical taste’.
I’m sure Fanta will reconsider their decision on the results of this poll, so get voting everyone!
After a sweaty hot day in the bog bringing home trailers of turf, there’s nothing like going to the fridge and opening and downing a can of lilt……..
Who
The
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Cares
Don’t drink it, but I’m outraged anyway. Is there a protest arranged or maybe an online petition? Anyone know the number for Joe Duffy?
The Aldi version is very nice!
@Gareth Miskelly: no it’s not it’s mank
Fanta was created by Coca Cola for sale in the Nazi market during WWII. That was the company’s way of getting around federal legislation banning trade with Germany. Germany was the only production base for Fanta until the parent company started global sales. It’s a small world, really..
Yes, it’s totally tropical
Just YUCK
Listing the ingredients for fun :)
Carbonated Water, Fruit Juices from Concentrate 5% (Pineapple, Grapefruit), Sugar, Citric Acid, Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Sweeteners (Acesulfame K, Aspartame, Sodium Saccharin), Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Flavourings, Stabilisers (Acacia Gum, Guar Gum, Sucrose Acetate Isobutyrate, Glycerol Esters of Wood Rosins), Colour (Carotenes). Contains a Source of Phenylalanine.
Total Carbohydrates 4.6g
Total Sugars 4.6g
Fair enough, I’ll be trying the Fanta version.
Never liked the stuff but I have a mate that’s addicted to it. He’ll be freaking out
Always dreamed of being “ The Lilt Man “ – not the same on courtown beach though :-(
Shrugs shoulders and walks away…
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