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Shane McGowan gives us a statement with his reaction to the #FairytaleofNewYork censorship calls @VirginMedia_One #TonightVMT
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"The European Union as far as I'm concerned are complicit in the genocide"
@ClareDalyMEP on the EU's response to the war in Gaza
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“Almost every study or observation on Ireland shows we are one of the least antisemitic countries in Europe.”
Jacob Woolf, a member of the Jewish community in Ireland, says despite isolated incidents, Ireland is not an antisemitic country.
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"[If] you get upset about the fact that the Gardaí are in it - that might not be the correct emotional response to a bunch of people getting thrown out of their home"
- Visual Artist Adam Doyle, also known as Spicebag, on his eviction image retweeted by @EOBroin
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Christy Moore performs Jim Page's song "Palestine" on #TonightVMTV
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🗣️ "We were told explicitly by people in the US: if you want to go to the Oscars, stop speaking about Palestine," @dlLambo says Kneecap won’t stay silent on the ongoing genocide in Palestine #TonightVMTV
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"The people who voted against the referendum, especially the mother one, we're not members of the far-right, we're not confused, we're not misinformed."
Sarah Carey tells @ciarathedoc why she voted 'no' in the referendum.
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Presidential Debate 2025: This is why Catherine Connolly thinks you should vote for her in the upcoming presidential election.
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🗣️ "The entire concept of community engagement is laughable," says @john_mcguirk speaking on the Coolock protests a year on.
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🗣️ "Those laws don't exist, Nick."
@kierancuddihy rebuts claims made by @Nick_Delehanty regarding flag laws in Denmark.
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"We can't house our own people, but we are going to increase our military spending?" says @catherinegalway, criticising calls to double Ireland's military budget amid growing domestic issues.
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WATCH: Aoife Moore reacts to controversy over the singing of 'Zombie' by Irish rugby fans in France
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"These younger boys.. they're being groomed almost by older criminals. They're in a situation where they have no respect for anybody and there are no consequences for their behaviour"
-John Lonergan on crime & anti-social behaviour in Dublin
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"You picked the only industry that women no longer have any role in and used that as your selection to praise men" @AntonSavageShow criticises the controversial tweet by @DavQuinn #tonightTV3 @cooper_m @IvanYatesNT
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"Cynthia Ní Mhurchú is best remembered for introducing Riverdance 30 years ago..."
@gavreilly says he's a little worried that it's almost impossible for a new person to get the audience.
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🗣️ "We are a country that is awash with money," says @edelmcginley.
🗣️ "When you talk it sounds to me like you care more about inoculating people against the far right than you do about those communities," responds @john_mcguirk.
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🗣️ "They were too mean to write their names on a piece of paper... All they would have been facilitating was democracy," - @MHealyRae
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Ivan Yates and @MHealyRae clash over the Kerry TD's defence of the FAI's John Delaney at an Oireachtas Committee yesterday.
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NEW: "He is there in black and white - Leo Varadkar, in 2016, being informed of that."
- @leeofthemail of @irishdailymail on the controversy around the State's strategy on refunding nursing home charges
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"I'm absolutely raging about it"
Journalist Larissa Nolan criticises the introduction of mask-wearing for some primary school children to combat the spread of coronavirus #TonightVMTV
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"It's a kip, it's an absolute kip"
- @McConnellDaniel on Dublin city & garda presence
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“They’re not voting for him on the basis that he’s a great guy… I don’t think this guy is running for Pope.”
@Ben_Scallan says those who're voting for Donald Trump in the US Presidential Election are doing so because they believe in his vision for America.
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"Did you listen to Israeli ministers who have over and over again called for Gaza to be wiped from the face of the earth?"
@OwenJones84 and @Alan__Shatter debate the conflict in Gaza.
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"We have a state that we've built here and bad and all as the damn thing is. We can't have people in cabinet, and in Government who are not up front about these matters."
Eamon Dunphy of @Dunphy_Official reflects on the prospect of Sinn Féin in Government.
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"I say the United States should not have overthrown a Government in Kyiv on February 22nd 2008..."
@JeffreyASachs on why he believes that the US's foreign policy has been largely to blame for the war in Ukraine.
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"The stories we are hearing from Italy are horrific....get the public health right now we can't afford the disaster later"
@ProfJohnCrown reacts to the spread of #COVID19
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'What is affordable housing?' - @PearseDoherty challenges the programme for government. #TonightVMTV
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🗣️ "I don't think we have a housing crisis. I don't believe in an immigration crisis. I believe we have something bigger, I believe we have a political crisis."
@Nick_Delehanty on why he is seeking to run for the Áras.
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"I'm thinking of my Dad, he'd love to be here..."
@AodhanORiordain with an emotional reaction with @gavreilly as he's elected as a Dublin MEP.
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WATCH: Former RTÉ correspondent @ciaranmullooly reacts to the Ryan Tubridy payment controversy
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🗣️ "There is no genocide." — @Alan__Shatter
🗣️ "So you are a genocide denier." — @chrisandrews64
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"He knows what the people want him to say about various issues but I wonder will that actually be translated to tangible action..."
@Ben_Scallan talks about the 'Harris hop' and gives his views on the Taoiseach's performance.
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“We should have no hand, act or part when it comes to complicity in genocide.”
Sinn Féin’s @Farrell_Mairead tells @ClaireBrockTV that Irish airspace being used as a route to carry munitions to Israel makes us complicit to what’s happening in Gaza.
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"The way in which he was repeatedly thrown under the bus by Jack Chambers early this morning, and Micheál Martin this evening, was quite unedifying."
@fionnansheahan on how the Fianna Fáil leadership handled Jim Gavin's withdrawal from the presidential race.
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Does the US want to end the war in Ukraine?
"This is costing our people millions of Euro on a weekly basis..."
"The US is such a provocation ... and we should not have our military on Russia's border..."
@nealerichmond and @JeffreyASachs debate.
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"If the people who are in this employment are not getting paid a living wage, then what's the point of it all?"
- @aoifegracemoore on record employment rates during a cost of living crisis
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President of Sinn Féin @MaryLouMcDonald reacts to @finegael allegations of 'Trumpism' politics after confidence motion in @LeoVaradkar.
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“Israel is a terrorist state” - Sinn Féin’s Foreign Affairs Spokesperson @mattcarthy
“Israel has to be stopped” - Labour Leader @ivanabacik
Opposition parties react to a second day of device explosions across Lebanon.
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"How many people are doing the same thing, how many charities exist for exactly the same purpose"
#ConorSkehan on the duplication of NGOs and charities.
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"(He) held me like a punching bag almost... until I eventually fell to the ground."
Natasha O'Brien describes how her attacker, Cathal Crotty (22), didn't stop and she feared she would die.
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"This shows the confusion that there will be in immigration law"
@SenatorMcDowell disagrees with @HMcEntee that the family referendum won't impact immigration laws
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"Frankly I think it's despicable that she [Yuval Raphael] should be targeted in this way. She should be a welcome person in the Eurovision Song Contest."
@Alan__Shatter on Israel's participation in Eurovision.
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"I am listening to weasel-words week after week in the Dáil," @catherinegalway doubts the current government will hold onto Ireland’s triple lock and long-held military neutrality.
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"The system is completely broken"
@SenatorKeogan reacts to a Business Post poll showing three out of four people think Ireland has taken too many refugees #TonightVMTV
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“I actually think it would be more appropriate to call them vampire funds, because essentially what they’re going to be doing is feeding on generation rent for decades to come”
- @RoryHearne on vulture funds and the housing crisis
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WATCH: Minister of State @NiallCollinsTD again defends questions around planning application made over 20 years ago.
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🗣️ "There is a democratic deficit, I think, in this election," @Toibin1
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🗣️ "It's a very intelligent way of participating in democracy.” - @declanganley
🗣️ "Kieran this is just ridiculous.” - @deecorbettryan
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"These sort of things really break down the trust, especially in a housing crisis, between the people & the politicians"
- @aoifegracemoore on the impact of political scandals on the public
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"Warmongering as if war is good—war is appalling," says @catherinegalway, arguing that there is still a chance for peace through diplomacy.
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🗣️ "Maybe we stop after five second chances," @john_mcguirk says, arguing that Ireland's bail laws are too lax.
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"You shouldn't be able to buy healthcare because of the size of your wallet. You shouldn't be able to by an extension of your life because you get an early diagnosis because of your wallet"
Liam Doran on the need for a one-tier health system in Ireland.
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'The schools must open in September...'
@ciarakellydoc reacts to new school guidelines and says 'there can be no protected group of workers when everyone else is pulling their weight'
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Ivan: "What has the Seanad ever done for a mother of three in Tallaght?"
Gary: "Such as @SenLynnRuane, who's a mother of two in Tallaght, who's been an amazing addition to the Seanad."
@1GaryGannon with the answer of the night on the topic of Seanad reform.
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"The whole narrative is sort of upside down"
- @RBoydBarrett on the Israel-Hamas conflict
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🗣️ "The politicians in general cannot do the job that they are being paid to do, so a 14-year-old has to do it for free." — Cara Darmody, Disability Campaigner, live from Leinster House
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"Migration is no longer a humanitarian issue, it's become an industry where a certain cohort are getting very rich"
@gavreilly reads out our viewers' texts while Harry McEvansoneya responds to concerns.
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"It's one year, estimate the grades this year and revert to normal process next year"
@ciarakellydoc on the Leaving Cert exams during #Covid19
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"Referring to people as 'scumbags' in the Dáil - that is unacceptable"
- John Lonergan reacts to comments made by Minister for Justice Helen McEntee
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🗣️ "€1.79 for a 1L of Avonmore milk — that's more expensive than petrol," @fionnansheahan highlights the cost of living pressure facing Irish households ahead of cuts to one-off supports #TonightVMTV
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"Why if the hospital is going to be independent, does it have to be owned by a Vatican approved private company?"
- Dr Peter Boylan on co-location and the National Maternity Hospital
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"Someone on an income of €40,000 they could be spending 60 percent plus of their take home pay, that is just absolutely unsustainable"
- @RoryHearne on the percentage of salaries being spent on rent due to the rental crisis
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"There's a chilling effect on them expressing their legitimate point of view, whether it's right or wrong"
- Senator @RonanMullen on proposed new hate speech legislation
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"The Oireachtas will be staring at decisions coming down from the courts which can only be amended by referendum."
@SenatorMcDowell on the upcoming referendum seeking to broaden the definition of family.
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Breaking News: Joe Biden was about to introduce Volodymyr Zelenskyy when he said this...
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"I was just very relieved that it was Micheál Martin and not Simon Harris who was going," @odohertyI64991 shares his reaction to the Taoiseach's White House meeting with Donald Trump.
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🗣️ "How can you defend what happened yesterday?"
🗣️ "I will defend whatever I choose to defend."
@ClaireKerrane and @McConnellDaniel discuss the unprecedented nature of yesterday's Dáil row.
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"We'll be waking up on Sunday morning, on Mother's Day, if these two referenda go through, having taken 'mother' out of the Constitution..."
@SenatorMcDowell on what he sees the impact of a 'Yes' vote as being.
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"We've seen already on this Island over and over again how coming in and using all this force on a community is just going to make things worse.
Artist Spicebag on escalating tensions in Coolock.
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"All the people here want is to be consulted, and to be listened to, that the town is full"
@mattiemcgrathtd on the clash between protesters and Gardaí in Roscrea
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"They were stunned that on Friday evening nothing happened, nothing came from Ireland."
#TonightVMTV get heated as @ciaranmullooly confronts @timmydooley with EU Commission correspondence over Ireland's response to Storm Éowyn.
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'I think we need an All-Island approach, it would be more preferable to border controls.'
@HollyCairnsTD and @Fergusodowd debate an All-Island approach to tackling Covid 19
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"I will not get over the fact that as of yet a woman has not occupied the highest office in government."
@MaryLouMcDonald on why she believes she'll eventually be Taoiseach.
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"A thousand dollars for two nights in this..."
Our panel is discussing You Tuber Spanian's scathing review of Dublin after he shelled out €604 for two nights for a small room above a pub.
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"The only assistance I want to give the Taoiseach is to get him out of government as quickly as possible." @EOBroin in response to @CowenBarry
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NEWS: "I told everyone it was six months, but it actually a year. I couldn't tell my family and friends that I was leaving for 12 months." @PhelanVicky on her treatment plan in the US.
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“There’s always a desire with Sinn Féin to cast doubt on them, to cast suspicion on them.”
@philipoconnor believes every political party should be held to the same standard, but there’s a “subtext” around the scandals which have recently engulfed Sinn Féin.
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"Sir, – I attended court with a young homeless boy who had been charged with theft of a bottle of orange, value €1."
Father Peter McVerry tells us about the letter he sent to The Irish Times today titled 'A tale of two cities'.
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“We could’ve had a deal many years ago … in fact we had a deal … but the United States, Ukraine, Germany and France agreed amongst themselves not to implement it...”
@JeffreyASachs on whether a peace deal is possible between Russia and Ukraine.
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🗣️ "We are a neutral country and we should be using our voice, as small as we are." – @catherinegalway
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"The Government has repeatedly departed from NPHET advice” says @paulmurphy_TD in disagreement with Fine Gael TD @CarrollJennifer
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🗣️ "We have a Government made up of landlords, which represents landlords, who want rents to increase... that is Government policy."
@paulmurphy_TD says the new rent measures will drive up rents, property prices, and homelessness.
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"There's been a 47% increase in child homelessness in the last year. And now we're going to consult the AG about potentially having a ban on evictions? There should be a rent freeze, there should be a ban on evictions"
- @HollyCairnsTD on the homelessness crisis
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Sinn Féin's @PearseDoherty outlines why he thinks banks are profiteering from the pandemic.
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"I can guarantee you, there'll be judicial oversight of that."
Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan responds to news that a court order granted to An Garda Síochána seeking to access the direct messages on Twitter (now known as X) associated with the website Gript.
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"If you put those who have so spectacularly failed to manage a health service in charge of managing the country the results, unfortunately, are predictable"
Independent @MlMcNamaraTD on the new restrictions imposed by the Government.
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🗣️ "I've a problem with the participation of Israel and the attempt by anybody to 'music-wash' this genocide."
@loreillysf on Israel's participation in Eurovision.
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"Saying durable relationships are also families, gives rise to a number of unforeseen circumstances, which will lead to legal chaos..."
@SenatorMcDowell on why he will vote no in the Family Referendum.
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"Racism is racism and it hurts"
@Love1solidarity on discrimination faced by Travellers in Ireland #TonightVMTV
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🗣️ "Were those promises kept?" — Kieran Cuddihy
🗣️ "No, those promises were not kept." — Cara Darmody, Disability Campaigner, live from Leinster House
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"You don't have a clue—you can't name an NGO."
A heated debate erupts in-studio over Independent Ireland's proposal to cut NGO funding.
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It ended with a song...From the Dublin Welsh Male Voice Choir. Thanks to all those who watched, featured in & supported #vinb over the years
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'.. that's a 3,000% return on investment.'
@kevinblake2011 on Irish Government funding of the horse racing industry
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"I have blessed a cow in labour, I have blessed a sick parrot, I blessed a horse donkey, but I can't bless two men or two women who love each other. There's something not quite right about that"
- Fr Joe McDonald on Catholic Church & comments by Pope Francis today
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"Our problem at the moment is over the last five or six years because of @FineGael housing policy, the cost of owning your own home has gone up so much that even people on good incomes can't afford to buy.
@EOBroin @sinnfeinireland on Ireland's #housingcrisis
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🗣️ "We have an attitude towards criminality which almost tends to blame society for the existence of the criminals," @john_mcguirk.
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🗣️ "Paul, yet again, displays his ignorance of what it takes to run a business."
🗣️ "If you can't make money while paying people at least the minimum wage — I mean, really, should you be in business?"
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🗣️ "Most of that has been taken away from the people of Saggart," @LindadeCourcy voices community concerns over the government's €148m CityWest purchase for asylum accommodation #TonightVMTV
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