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Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell and Michael Fassbender named as 'British' for London film awards

The London Critics has changed the names of the categories in response to criticism.

ronan Saoirse Ronan in Brookyn. Cut her open and she'll bleed Kerrygold.

ANOTHER AWARDS NOMINATION announcement, another hames made of calling Irish people ‘British’.

This time it’s the London Film Critics Circle, who’ve got together in their circle and decided that Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell and Michael Fassbender are all British.

While Ronan and Fassbender were all nominated in their international categories (grand), they were also nominated in these categories (not grand):

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Irish-born, Canada-living Emma Donoghue was also nominated as “Breakthrough British Filmmaker of the Year” for Room (she wrote the novel and the screenplay). Not grand.

Brooklyn was also referred to as a ‘British’ film. No*.

However, since receiving a number of complaints online, London Critics has now changed the names of the categories, inserting ‘Irish’ next to British:

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We have been through this! To recap:

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Hozier isn’t British, Paul Dunne isn’t British, Colin Farrell isn’t British, Conor McGregor isn’t British, Michael Fassbender** isn’t British and Saoirse Ronan*** most certainly isn’t British.

GET YOUR OWN DEADLY PEOPLE.

*Okay so it received some BBC funding, but there was so much Enniscorthy. The lad from The Gloaming sang a song. Come off it! 

**Okay so he’s German-Irish. But he grew up in Kerry and there are the school pictures to prove it.

* *And Saoirse Ronan was born in New York, but she’s as Carlow as they come. Quare Carlow. 

H/T @DonaldClarke63

Written by Emer McLysaght and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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    Mute Roy Dowling
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    Jul 18th 2021, 12:58 PM

    It’s amazing how landlocked countries in eastern Europe don’t have as many water shortage as an island that is surrounded by water and where rain falls the majority of the year.

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    Mute Stuart Keogh
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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:04 PM

    @Roy Dowling: Exactly Roy. Ive learned that its just one thing after another in Ireland. No rant neccessary, its just a given. All it took was 4 days of no rain for us to have a water shortage

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    Mute john smith iv
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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:32 PM

    @Roy Dowling: they all have water charges. That tends to promote conservation.

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    Mute Frank Cauldhame
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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:42 PM

    @john smith iv: So do we John, it comes from car tax and VAT.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:47 PM

    @Frank Cauldhame: no Frank. That’s not a tax on water consumption which lowers demand because people conserve.

    And All those countries have VAT and car tax.

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    Mute Frank Cauldhame
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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:49 PM

    @john smith iv: Yes John, it is, you are spoofing. How many of those countries have VRT?

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    Mute Roy Dowling
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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:56 PM

    @john smith iv: So the people conserving water is going to make a big difference. If only the government, councils and Irish water wanted to conserve water and fix the infrastructure and save all the water that gets lost before it gets to the people.

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    Mute Dave.
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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:57 PM

    @john smith iv: John your heads in the clouds if you think water charges would help here. There solution then would be to hike them up again and again. Mean while the network pisses out water, cause the government deemed it more nessacary to pass the buck, spend billions on setting up corporate red tape rather than actually investing in the network by funding speficaly to local authorities to invest in the underling infrastructure to stop said water pissing out of the network.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:58 PM

    @Frank Cauldhame: many. Irrelevant to the argument about water charges. Water charges ringfence money for the water provider and encourage people to not use so much water as it costs them money. Same as any consumption charge.

    Anyway that’s the reason as to why other countries on Europe do better.

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    Mute Frank Cauldhame
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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:05 PM

    @john smith iv: We already pay, its not our fault that FG & Labour tried to (and failed spectacularly) double tax us on water consumption by setting up a billing company without fixing the infrastructure first. This is all old hat by the way. What political party do you think will attempt to reintroduce billing people for something they already pay for?

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    Mute Ross McCarthy
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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:17 PM

    @Frank Cauldhame: I think the point being missed here is that other countries pay by volume of water used and treated… and this encourages conservation. Yes we already pay though other taxes but not in a way that relates to use so no-one is bothered to conserve.

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    Mute Mr.Portly
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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:26 PM

    @Frank Cauldhame: you seem to have a counter argument for anything John says. VRT has nothing to do with water conservation. Neither does USC, or PAYE or PRSI for that matter. Factual information proves that taxes on water encourage the population to conserve water. Just because we are against water charges doesn’t make the facts fake.

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    Mute Frank Cauldhame
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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:28 PM

    @Ross McCarthy: The solution is to spend the money already collected in taxes on repairing the infrastructure, all that water currently leaking away will then be conserved.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:31 PM

    @Frank Cauldhame: you are not getting the point here. We pay for water but you pay the same if you use/waste a liter or 1000 liters. I hope it’s clear now.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:36 PM

    @Ross McCarthy: Point being missed here those incharge of the water system ignored the crumbling infrastructure for decades. Then rather than actually fix it they spend over a billion settings up a utility company and installing meters to try force people to pay for water and then use less and conserve water as a result. Reality is conserving water won’t make a difference until they fix the infrastructure as most of the water is lost before it gets to people’s houses.

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    Mute Shawn O'Ceallaghan
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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:53 PM

    @Roy Dowling: not that amazing, giant rivers running through them and they suffer from droughts

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:53 PM

    @Fionn Darland: I wondered when you’d arrive fionnUALA. Well Mr FG, if you think it’s a good idea forFG to try and reintroduce double charging for water then let them try, see how it hits them at the polls!

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:54 PM

    @john smith iv: they don’t have USC to pay.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:54 PM

    @Fionn Darland: Fionn your obsession with sf is really sad. I’ve never voted sf btw. Usually the local ffg candidate.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 3:49 PM

    @john smith iv: John, people have no respect for saving and conserving water in Ireland, and comments ‘re other taxes paying for water and sewage services are disingenuous.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 6:35 PM

    @Patrick St Lawrence: Including the government who get taxes to ensure such water is conserved through leakage but the money was squandered. So they now want MORE money to hand out contracts to councillors and ministers who have companies that facilitates pipe laying.

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    Mute James Gorman
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    Jul 18th 2021, 11:16 PM

    @Roy Dowling: its amazing how many people conflate the availability of treated water with how much it rains in that country

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    Mute Eoin O Shea
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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:06 PM

    Here we go, the annual rhetoric about how much it would cost to repair old water infrastructure! Ah sure let’s just leave it get worse!

    And don’t start about water charges! If they wanted, they would find the money. Maybe delete one of the many redundant management layers in HSE.

    Uh oh, I brought water charges and HSE budget into the one comment ;-)

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:17 PM

    @Eoin O Shea: The final deletion right there, should have brought up the Childrens Hospital funding to cover the water costs while we are at it for maximum deletion!

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    Mute David Corrigan
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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:28 PM

    @Eoin O Shea: “Irish water customers..”. They are always good for a laugh..

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:12 PM

    This is it – I don’t remember buying shares in them either!

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:23 PM

    I reported a leak 10 weeks ago and all that has been done so far is an arrow painted on the road pointing to it. Irish Water is a joke.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:41 PM

    @Brendan The Godfather: yeah it’s the same where I live. They must all be working from home. Lego!

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:11 PM

    @Mary Nugent: The worst thing about it was they actually sent me a DM on Twitter saying they had repaired it. It is still spilling water out onto the road.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:24 PM

    @Brendan The Godfather: I swear, if we lived in a desert they’d find a way to charge us for sand.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:35 PM

    @Brendan The Godfather: I hope you posted a video of the leak on Twitter in reply.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 3:19 PM

    @Fiona Fitzgerald: It is outside my window. I have sent them numerous pictures of it. For a long time they said they couldn’t find it now they have the painted arrow pointing to it. Ridiculous.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 3:53 PM

    @Brendan The Godfather: IW have a contract with the local authorities to fix these leaks. This was forced on them by unions. If it is still leaking, it is because the local authority has not repaired it.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 4:17 PM

    @John Buckley: So what do we need IW for??

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    Jul 18th 2021, 4:49 PM

    @Brendan The Godfather: it should be fairly obvious. The network was taken off the local authorities because they had destroyed it; not repairing or upgrading and granting plannings where the infrastructure didn’t have the capacity. Now, all new connections go through IW and they inspect all new sites and enforce any corrections. Any development that they don’t have the capacity to take gets refused planning. The contract with the local authorities ends this year so then they have total control of the network.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 5:53 PM

    @John Buckley: it’s 2025

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    Mute Stephen Byrne
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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:27 PM

    Third world water management in the wettest country in the EU

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:12 PM

    Obviously capacity was never increased to match demand, maybe build more reservoirs?

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:32 PM

    @SaveTheTrees: About 40% of the water supply in Ireland is lost though leaks, almost half the capacity of reservoirs is lost.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:43 PM

    FFS, 3 days of sunshine in this country and we run out of water, Dublin water restrictions today, it will be followed by the rest of the country in a few days, 16 months with the toughest and longest lockdown in Europe because our health service is a joke with no spare capacity to deal with covid and now 3 days with no rain and we have run out of water, lol, what an embarrassing country, there must be giant crater like holes in all the reservoirs, once again another national embarrassment, cue the government cheerleaders, go :)

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:30 PM

    @Hugo Bugo: Not cheerleading the government but the use of “embarrassing country” and “national embarrassment” shows that you known very little outside your own tiny bubble. Every country deals with issues and you should spend some time in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa or South America to gain some perspective on how good you have it here.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 3:23 PM

    @Denis Ryan: We pay first world rates for third world services. We have the best little country in the world for those who are connected. The rest of the population are cash cows. It’s managed like a kip and there is no getting away from that.
    We have the potential to be a serious country to live it. We just keep electing underqualified failures to manage our resources.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 3:43 PM

    @David Corrigan: Your very first sentence tells me that you have never spent any amount of time in what you call third world countries. The term that is used these days is developing nations. To address your last point you are suggesting to remove who you thing are underqualified elected officials with what. Even less qualified TD’s like the bomb maker from Dublin or the anti vaxxer from Clare or the brilliant decision making of a td who brought a garda killer who then tried to kill her into her life. Genius.

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    Jul 19th 2021, 7:23 AM

    @Denis Ryan: Your mask FINALLY slipped.

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    Jul 19th 2021, 9:20 AM

    @David Corrigan: you said it – we keep electing them

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:20 PM

    Because thousands of restaurants,Pubs and offices are still using water whilst closed

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    Mute Ann Experiment
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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:06 PM

    Data centres much?

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:21 PM

    @Ann Experiment: Data centres much what?

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:29 PM

    @Ann Experiment: Is that English or are you really Yoda?

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    Jul 19th 2021, 11:04 AM

    @Ann Experiment:
    By 2030 we will have more than 100 data centers
    Using our water and driving up the price of electricity fact..

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    Mute Tommy Mc Quaid
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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:09 PM

    A couple of days of sunshine and heading towards a water shortage. Thankfully I harvest rainwater to look after my garden. Plenty of it and it is very cheap. Whoops cats out of the bag the tax spy will see this post and rain will be taxed.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:30 PM

    @Tommy Mc Quaid: Good work, I do the same, I have plenty of 2-litre bottles of rainwater, with sprinkler heads, to last through the hot spell. Also handy for flushing if it comes to that.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:47 PM

    Fix the victorian era water pipes under the city.

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    Mute Sean
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    Jul 18th 2021, 12:58 PM

    In Nevada someone drives around and hands out $80 dollar fines for wasting water – dripping taps, watering the garden, using lawn sprinklers and hoses, etc. An approach like that could work wonders in Dublin as a deterrent.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:04 PM

    @Sean: yea because we live in a desert

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:06 PM

    @Sean: we’re an island .. they’re a desert .. take a day off man ffs

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:13 PM

    @Sean: fantastic Seán fine the people for years of underinvestment in their water supply which they paid taxes towards

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:27 PM

    @Sean: And don’t they offer citizens any incentive to conserve? We could all have rain barrels installed by now for a fraction of the cost. I’ll say no more in case they start taxing the level of rainfall next and you need a licence to carry a brolly.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 3:36 PM

    @Wessss: you know you can’t just take water from the sea and drink it ya??

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    Jul 18th 2021, 11:08 PM

    @Fiona Fitzgerald: it’s actually illegal to catch rain water in some states in America. Mad country

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    Jul 19th 2021, 11:04 AM

    @alan hickey: Which ones and why?

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    Jul 18th 2021, 3:41 PM

    Never let it be said that the king of Quangos “Irish Water “ misses a trick . Fix the leaks and forget this privatization nonsence .

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    Jul 18th 2021, 1:23 PM

    Here we are, 100 years later, still arguing for worse.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:31 PM

    What a surprise. It gets hot and Lidl & Aldi have their “family size” inflatable pools on sale. No one has an idea how to maintain the water in the pool, impulse buys this crap and a week later dumps 1000 litres of water as it’s getting green because it’s not treated…

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    Jul 18th 2021, 6:10 PM

    @Good: and use it to water the apple and pear tree in the garden so it used for a good purpose

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    Jul 18th 2021, 7:36 PM

    Wonder how the soutside villas with swimming pools are not using too much water …my boss is having a great old time splashing away

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    Mute Gerard Heery
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    Jul 18th 2021, 11:30 PM

    And don’t for we’ve a half million new residents in Ireland in the last ten years using water it all adds up to a water shortage after four days without rain

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    Mute The world outside the M50
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    Jul 19th 2021, 1:35 AM

    It’s the local councils or private contractors get to fix any leaks that are found.
    We are all paying – well at least I am via ongoing harsh taxes.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 11:05 PM

    Any restrictions on the data centres? Sure their not putting the water supply under any pressure at all

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    Jul 18th 2021, 6:30 PM

    It a joke

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    Jul 18th 2021, 4:04 PM

    Well, cars need to be washed, but no one wants to pay for it..

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    Jul 18th 2021, 9:39 PM

    @Breda Kelly: In Ireland nobody wants to pay for any services…haven’t you noticed ?

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    Mute David Corrigan
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    Jul 19th 2021, 7:25 AM

    @John Blowick: We overpay for every service here. Haven’t you noticed?

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    Jul 19th 2021, 7:38 AM

    @David Corrigan: On the contrary, we pay through the nose for everything in this country and get little to no value for it. We also pay for services provided to the church who can well afford to pay for it themselves. The taxpayer is the cash cow for the few.

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    Jul 18th 2021, 2:28 PM

    Shame the money wasted on setting up irish water and installing meters didnt go to fixing or improving the infrastructure.

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