🗣️ “It’s sickening seeing them brought up before courts.”

The #TonightVMTV panel discuss the GRA proposal for a separate, work-specific driving licence for Gardaí - allowing members to carry out official duties without risking their personal driving licences.

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Serious concerns are raised over the safety of politicians after Michael Healy-Rae was allegedly assaulted in Dublin. The Kerry TD required stitches to a head injury and is now recovering at home.

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Serious concerns are raised over the safety of politicians after Michael Healy-Rae was allegedly assaulted in Dublin. The Kerry TD required stitches to a head injury and is now recovering at home.

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🚨 Metrolink enters tender phase as its cost threatens to go off the rails to over €17.5bn.

🚨 Is the Taoiseach 'out of kilter' on Irish unity?

🚨 Is Irish neutrality compatible with the EU's security plan?

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🗣️ “All the mainstream parties...are pushing something [Irish Unity] that wouldn’t have been on the table a few short years ago.”

🗣️ “I don’t think there’s much argument to say it couldn’t stem just from Brexit,”

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🗣️ “What is a realistic date for a border poll?”

🗣️ “We would like to see a reunification poll in 2030," says Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire TD, Sinn Féin.

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🗣️ “There is a risk for Micheál Martin that he may look out of date as this debate [on Irish Unity] moves forward,” says @conalthomas90.bsky.social

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🗣️ “You’ve moved from looking for a United Ireland to now looking to end the Union...you’re aiming way too big.”

🗣️ “Now you’re butting in to British politics. ‘Brits In’.”

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🗣️ “I like the Shared Island Unit...but by [the Taoiseach’s] own description, it is not a vehicle for constitutional change,” says Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire TD, Sinn Féin
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🗣️ “It is important that infrastructure spending, especially on transport, is not just a Dublin conversation,”

- Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire TD, Sinn Féin.

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🗣️ “Is [MetroLink] worth building for €17.5b? We’re talking about one line for €17.5b.

🗣️ "How many Luas lines would you build for that? You'd probably build six or seven."

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🗣️ “Are we coming to the situation where a politician is going to be really seriously injured, or worse?”

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🗣️ “We’ve seen a lot more confrontational approaches when it comes to public representatives.

"I think disinformation has a lot to do with it,” says @shonamurray.bsky.social 

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🗣️ “He received a number of stitches... he will be fine, but he is obviously visibly shaken.”

@conalthomas90.bsky.social gives an update on the assault on Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae.

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🚨 Ploughing Championships kick off as farmers face soaring fuel costs. Will Budget subsidies avoid Spring's fuel protests?

🚨 Wrong-way driving surges on our motorways, yet just six Gardai will have pursuit training by year-end.

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🗣️ “Why is it a mistake for Sinn Féin to hitch their wagon with the Welsh and the Scottish?”

🗣️ “There’s absolutely no desire from the Welsh people, from what I can see, that they’re interested in an independent state in Wales"

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🗣️ “It’s sickening seeing them [Gardaí and frontline workers] brought up before courts for trying to save people’s lives.”

The #TonightVMTV panel discuss the GRA’s suggestion for separate driving licences for Gardaí and other frontline workers.