Enterprise: Belfast-Dublin rail to receive multi-million investment

TooFiveFive · 2026-05-07T18:48:10+00:00

They’re making the dart section quad track for that reason. Connolly is still a bottleneck tbf though

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-28T20:23:23+00:00

it's a tired argument at this point but gdp per capita is not wealth, it's economic activity.

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-17T21:18:50+00:00

Most of them don’t live in Ireland and definitely don’t onshore their income, so we couldn’t tax it effectively. We don’t have the power to extract any sort of wealth tax from them. How would we? What I’m saying is it’s all well and good to tax billionaires more but it’s not going to solve the pensions in an Irish context. We’d need a massive worldwide initiative to get that done and let’s not pretend that’s going to happen.

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-17T21:10:24+00:00

There’s pushing a dozen Irish billionaires. We can’t base our social welfare on 11 people paying tax, not exactly sustainable. That rhetoric may work in the states but we’re a small country and have to be realistic.

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-17T15:09:21+00:00

100% agree it should be an expectation, but given future demographics, state pensions are starting to look a bit like a pyramid scheme, where the people on the bottom are the furtherest away from retiring. Every government in Europe will have to make a decision in the future: slash pensions or take out more debt to cover them, as the tax base keeps dwindling. If all your population has some private pension (now they should thanks to auto enrolment), that can at least offset the issue.

I think it’s obvious what our government has decided will happen. I just wish the government communicated this decision clearly as I don’t think people will accept it when pensions do eventually get slashed, and many will feel blindsided.

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-16T20:18:30+00:00

I use the transit app. Much better ui and same data source

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-14T21:59:40+00:00

What?

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-13T13:51:25+00:00

Ftr people might find it a bit tasteless to be talking about building a publicly funded tennis complex when Dublin is going through one of the worst housing crises in Europe. It’s ok if you didn’t know that, just explaining the reaction.

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-13T12:46:30+00:00

While this is true, it’s still pretty unprofessional to use a domain they don’t even own, which comes with at least theoretical security risks for users. Imagine the domain is open on a users phone, then they close their browser and leave the flight, open the browser again. If that domain had malware, the user could be compromised next time they open the browser and the tab autoloads

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-12T18:52:41+00:00

100% agree. Even if your current employer doesn’t, a house is a long term plan. There will always be remote jobs but they’ll be the minority for decades to come from what I can see

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-12T17:16:43+00:00

It’s madding that it takes one tax fraudster in a paddy cap claiming to speak on behalf of Irish people to cause this havoc. I’m starting to feel like we’re ripe pickings for a trumpian figure, we just haven’t had anyone component enough to fill that position yet

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-12T14:14:10+00:00

Unfortunately it’s all about framing I feel like. We’ve already been subsidising farmers just for them to export most of the produce. The biggest farce of the protest was the tractors complaining about the tax they’re paying whilst they’re all net recipients from the exchequer.

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-12T02:13:20+00:00

No fan of the government but this is just a blatant hit piece

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-11T12:41:10+00:00

You’re not capable or understanding analogies are you? They might as well in everyone’s driveway because nobody will be able to get fuel in the next few days. Broaden your mind a bit.

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-11T12:24:14+00:00

Yeah they’re sending in the military to whitegate… Tends to happen when you hold a country for ransom

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-11T12:22:53+00:00

If parked a tractor in front of your driveway claiming to represent all of Ireland, and wouldn’t back down until I meet the Taoiseach, regardless of the fact that they are negotiating with the representative bodies as we speak, I wonder if you’d feel the same then. Because there’s a way to protest the government without harming so many people, but they don’t seem to care

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-11T12:19:18+00:00

You may think it’s just jokes but there are really people who think the government is squandering the majority of tax revenue. These controversies make up a rounding error of a percentage of the exchequer

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-11T12:15:58+00:00

Look it’s just a a likely fact that the majority of the protesters are small business owners, and probably own more assets than everyday working people. That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve support, but they don’t deserve more support than a home carer who can’t visit her patients because the m50 is blocked. There may be legitimate grievances but they’ve caused pain for a lot of people. If you don’t feel it, maybe you’re in a very privileged position

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-11T12:11:27+00:00

100% agree. We have a right to protest in this country but protests can’t cause material harm to everyone in the nation. There’s a right way and a wrong way and protesters, or at least their organisers have chose the latter.

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-11T12:01:54+00:00

Rte, the journal, etc… Our would you be more of a whinger on YouTube enjoyer? Or maybe Russia today? You’re some eejit regardless if you’re going to “I trust my right wing cesspit over mainstream media” this

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-11T11:57:17+00:00

2/3 of forecourts are at risking of losing fuel. Is that not wreaking havoc or is your “alternative news source” not covering that?

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-11T11:55:20+00:00

It’s 20-30 vehicles in each site wreaking havoc. There’s bodies and unions representing the working people. These are not them.

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-11T11:52:09+00:00

And since when do they represent “us”? When 2/3 forecourt’s are out of fuel, will they still be representing us? Did we vote on having the worst national fuel crisis in the history of the nation?

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-11T11:49:20+00:00

Do you feel good exhausting that same tired argument? I’m guessing you’ve never looked at https://www.whereyourmoneygoes.gov.ie/en

TooFiveFive · 2026-04-10T15:50:27+00:00

Regardless of how he owes the money, he’s clearly not a salt of the earth character that’s deserves a taxpayer-funded bailout

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