The Living Alone Allowance has remained at €22. There has also been no increase in the Household Package which remains at €1.15 per day to help with either gas OR electricity. These would be the two main 'supports' payable all year available to People with disabilities reliant on SW who live alone.

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Imagine what we could achieve if we had this competence and leadership in government instead of opposition. Gibney cutting through Fine Gael mediocrity with precision.

Thank God the government still gives tens of millions to one of the cruelest and most unpopular 'sports' in Ireland. The bookies will be glad I suppose

Of course there is.

It's fantastic this is happening for artists. But let's look at those most vulnerable. Many with no hope of extra income. They get an extra €10 a week - even the HIGHEST possible pension rate makes that €319pw. Not a cent extra in Living Alone Allowance or Household Package. #IrishPolitics

The govt has taken the approach that Heather will have to weather the fall out from the Makky Ds Vat Cut Budget and spend the next two weeks explaining how the most vulnerable, and the average worker benefit from cheaper burgers. #Budget26 #IrishPolitics #Áras25 *who remembers vat on kids shoes?*

My 91 year old Mam will get an increase of €10 basic pension from January, and €4 fuel allowance. Meanwhile her electricity has gone up by 12.1%. She doesn't need 'supports' to help her find work. She needs to heat her home, pay her bills, and eat. And that's going to get more difficult. #Budget26

And the utter silence in response to concerns about an apparent data breach from journalists and politicians ('loony left' exempted) is deafening. How dare those leftists stand up for the rule of law! Cheek of them! #IrishPolitics #Áras25 #SpéirGhorm

I hope Heather's presidential goose has finished cooking before the increase in carbon taxes kick in... #Áras25 #IrishPolitics #SpéirGhorm

As the most vulnerable in society struggle to heat their homes thanks to the repeated failure of 'targeted measures' to keep pace with rising fuel prices/carbon taxes FG/FF are increasing carbon taxes just as many utility companies increased their prices by over 12%. #IrishPolitics #SpéirGhorm

ignoring the general theme of piss up/brewery this raises an interesting conundrum. Should Gavin win can he accept the office given he, himself, stated he has fallen beneath the standards of the office? Would he take it to make FF eat crow since they queued up to fling in under the bus? #Áras25

Last chance to register for Irish presidential election today. #spéirgorm #spéirghorm www.thejournal.ie/presidential...

Behold. The Gavin no not that Gavin brouhaha lives on! This time it's on purpose. #SpéirGhorm (And people said they would be no craic this time around. The fools.)

My sincere thanks to everyone who has supported the Global Sumud Flotilla. I'm home safe & will be followed by the other Irish people today. I'm just catching up and have much more to share but for now I am so so grateful for everyone's attempts to free us. Remember that Gaza is the story not us.

Budget Day. Will govt try to buy the #Áras for Heather? Or will they take a parsimonious approach thereby reminding a large cohort how much it dislikes Heather? Will any journo mention data protection? Stay tuned election junkies. #Áras25 #IrishPolitics #SpéirGhorm

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The stress and worry that woman caused is off the scale. People with disabilities were looking at the results of similar 'initiatives' in the UK and seeing increased poverty, sufficating despair, official bullying, and suicides.

Is very interesting how no journalists seem to want to investigate how 'multiple sources' could have knowledge of the results of a Garda vetting undertaken in 2018, and be in a position to pass it on to an ex-garda. #IrishPolitics #SpéirGhorm

@tonightvmtv.bsky.social Many people would like answers. Particularly about the confidentiality of garda vetting. #Áras25 #IrishPolitics ##SpéirGhorm

@tonightvmtv.bsky.social I would also like to know how 'multiple sources' in Leinster House were privy to the results of Garda vetting. And I repeat. Did Éamonn Ó'Cuív ask Ursula Ní Shionnáin what she intended to do with the guns given he recommended her to Catherine Connolly?

@tonightvmtv.bsky.social did anyone ask Éamonn Ó'Cuív if he asked what was happening with the guns before he recommended Ní Shionnáin for the job?

Excellent! ‘Ross Lahive to be sent forward for trial on charge of harassing librarian at Cork City Library.’ www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtan... #SpeirGorm

This won't help Heather. #Áras25 #IrishPolitics #SpéirGhorm

Peak FF values.

It really is. Now can I politely suggest that perhaps pensions and disability allowance be paid at the same rate?

If there are politicians in Ireland who would like the GRA reviewed, I'd be curious to know which part, and why. The fear that rapists might use self ID to avoid conviction is addressed in Section 23 of the Act. Gender Recognition Act 2015, Section 23 share.google/X1X9ECfybHhV...

They have landed in Athens. Sarah Clancy waving the Palestinian flag!

This might be even better than "Gavin no not that Gavin. Another Gavin. In a completely different country. Oh fuck off Yanks FFS and read the fucking hadhtags" we had yesterday. #SpéirGhorm

Longing for the days of the Brightish Umpire.

Our alternative to discomfort in this election is to allow a compliant pawn to waltz into power. Someone who failed our disabled community, failed to protect our environment, and failed the people of Palestine. Someone who has just shown she will fail our trans community too. A coward's president

Is Heather Humpthreys using her two spare homes to store boxes? While theres 1000+ people on Housing Waiting List & only 21 homes to rent in whole of Co. Cavan (none in Cootehill) 14.1% of homes in Cavan are empty 11.8% of Cootehill homes are empty #DerelictIreland #Aras25 #Speirgorm

The first flotilla’s Irish participants have just been released from Israeli prison; they’re on their way home now. Meanwhile, we on the second flotilla are nearing Gaza. Keep speaking up for Palestine. We’re sailing not only for aid but for self-determination & we won’t stop until Palestine is free

Any chance @newschambers.bsky.social @gavreilly.com ye could look at the apparent breach of data protection laws in a @thejournal.ie article just a few days ago? A government minister and a Garda commissioner once paid the price for such things. #Áras25 #IrishPolitics #SpéirGhorm

Greta Thunberg is among 28 French citizens, 27 Greeks, 15 Italians, and nine Swedes being flown to Athens today. #SamudFlotilla #FreePalestine

The Irish participants in the #SamudFlotilla are on their way home.

Anyone surprised that Heather, ten years after Gender Recognition became law during which there have been zero issues bar the loony right causing trouble, trots out the 'biological adult female' line? Heather - the candidate endorsed by Gript. #Áras25 #IrishPolitics #SpéirGhorm

Bets that Heather was on the phone to Pascal and Jack first thing to demand an maaahoosive increase in the budget for carers and people with disabilities in the budget. Which is tomorrow. #Áras25 #IrishPolitics #SpéirGhorm

And there's the smoking gun. Commadant Jimbob told the Indo he had checked his records from 16 years ago and there was nuttin bout dis. I said he better hope his former tenants didn't keep records... Guess what happened next. #Áras25 ##IrishPolitics #SpéirGhorm

How's that going to work with 1st preferences for Gavin? We all know there will be cos eejits vote too. Wouldn't it be gas if he 'won' all the same. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 #Áras25 #IrishPolitics ##SpéirGhorm

I dunno. I reckon if I was thinking about participating in the blood sport that is an Irish Presidential campaign I'd make sure every closet was skeleton free. Before entering. And yet people don't. It's a conundrum. Anyhoo bye Jim. We hardly knew ya. #Áras25 #IrishPolitics #SpéirGhorm

I imagine it was fairly stressful for the people trying to find some way of contacting their former unregistered landlord to get their money back.

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30... Remember this video for the centenary of Easter Rising 2016 - ‘ahistorical sh*te’ (D Ferriter)- defended by the then Heritage Minister! No mention of Pearse, Skinnider etc-but included the Queen, U2. Is this a president we want,one who evades #aras25 #speirgorm

I've been blocked by a rake of middle aged male Fine Gealers, and Americans today. Which is nice.

Asked to provide evidence that Connolly portrays Russia as the victim this poster posted a short snippet of this speech in 2018 where she is engaging in a discussion on the expulsion of the Russian ambassador. Years before the invasion of Ukraine. The dirty tricks aren't even clever. #Áras25

Ye langers.

Humphreys' refusal to meet with people while a minister was a known trend. As was claiming things were not her dept. She must be up there in the records books as Minister who had the widest diversity of people protesting her decisions (and literally calling her useless in interviews). #Áras25

Someone needs to check on Pat Leahy. And give him a schlap of a history book. #Áras25

A tale of two headlines. Presumably the husbands of Connolly and Humphreys are fine with having media scrutiny of their lives splashed across the media. It's only Jim and his family who are paying for *checks notes* his decision to run for the highest office in the land. Poor Jim. #Áras25.

As I opened my laptop this morning I uttered the words "so, let's see today's pearl clutching about Connolly, should be some doozies after yesterday's poll.." They need to top 'Daly/Syria/Nazis/armed convict/Burke' as none of those worked.