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Minister says his Twitter was ‘compromised’ after porn tweet

Alex White appeared to ‘favourite’ a tweet which included an image of a naked woman.

Updated 22:59

SOMETHING UNUSUAL APPEARED on the Twitter feed of the Minister of State at the Department of Health Alex White yesterday.

Just after 10pm last night, it appeared the minister ‘favourited’ a tweet by @lustsinner69, which showed what was described as a “beautiful goddess” who was naked, bar a t-shirt covering her shoulders.

The account, called Best Teenies, says that its models are over 18 years of age.

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White has since made his Twitter account private. When contacted by TheJournal.ie, the Labour TD for Dublin South said:

My twitter account was compromised. I am changing my password settings to protect the security of the account.

This isn’t the first time an Irish politician has claimed his Twitter account was hacked.

Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath said his Facebook account was hacked last year, after the account ‘liked’ a site delivering pictures of MILFs.

Last year, Jim  Higgins, the Fine Gael MEP denied using “foul language” on his Twitter, stating someone else had accessed it.

Additional reporting Michelle Hennessy

First published 09:32

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    Mute great gael of Eire
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    Jun 16th 2020, 2:58 PM

    Why not get the ECB to print the money and give it to the Irish Govt to kick start the economy. Create new projects all over the country and the money should filter down to everyone in the economy. The reason the ECB tries not to print money is to prevent inflation. That’s the only reason. But we are in a crisis and we need money to get the economy going again. Central banks can do what ever they want

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    Mute David Corrigan
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    Jun 16th 2020, 2:38 PM

    A lot will depend on how well (if at all) the tourist industry bounces back when restrictions are fully lifted.
    I think a lot of other sectors will be ok as they were performing well before the crisis hit.

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    Mute Martin Peter Rahill
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    Jun 16th 2020, 4:07 PM

    Clamping down on Tax Evasion rather than just increasing tax would be a fine chance. Nixers & other undeclared additional income cheat everyone. The “Welfare Cheats cheat us all” is a classist argument that cost a fortune to roll out – and gathered less money in enforcement actions than it cost.

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    Mute Michael Wall
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    Jun 16th 2020, 5:22 PM

    The ECB have already agreed to underwrite everything at 0%, no need for a recession. We can push money into the economy, build needed infrastructure all we need is a government and an Irish central bank with vision.

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    Mute Peter Hughes
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    Jun 16th 2020, 3:19 PM

    Sure we can blame the greens for it because somehow they buried us in corrupt debt for the last 20 years….knowing the moronic Irish voter down they will somehow come to this conclusion lol.

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    Mute Sean
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    Jun 16th 2020, 3:29 PM

    @Peter Hughes: well the green party last time they were in power introduced a regressive carbon tax which does nothing but punish people who have no choice to drive due to lack of rural public transport, can’t see them doing much better this time round

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    Mute Peter Hughes
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    Jun 16th 2020, 4:10 PM

    @Sean: Lol nothing to do with FFG and their stellar governance….we deserve them let’s face it.

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    Mute Mickomacko
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    Jun 17th 2020, 1:11 AM

    That building, it looks like there is still scaffolding around it

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    Jun 17th 2020, 1:11 AM

    That building, it looks like there is still scaffolding around it

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