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COMMENT: Pat Flanagan
13:33, 23 NOV 2018
Pat Flanagan column: There’s two Irelands when it comes to healthcare
Fine Gael
'The difference between life and death can depend on what type of Ireland you can afford to live in'
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Pat Flanagan column: Irish State has blood of 798 dead babies from Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway on its hands
Tuam babies scandal
While the Government might like to portray the country as an outward-looking secular egalitarian society, this week the world got a glimpse of real Ireland
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Pat Flanagan: Everybody has a job - but workers can't afford to live in Fine Gael's bankers' republic
COMMENT: Pat Flanagan
Even people who appear to be in relatively good jobs can’t seem to make ends meet and are being forced to beg and borrow to meet their bills
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Pat Flanagan column: A tax on smartphones to fund obscene RTE presenter salaries is a joke
RTE
"RTE has never been great in the comedy department but they’ve surpassed themselves this time for this is one hell of a joke"
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Pat Flanagan column: Bankers seeking more than €500,000 pay should send their CVs to Christy Kinahan
COMMENT: Pat Flanagan
The cheek of an upstart German station to quiz a former Irish Prime Minister about how huge amounts of cash mysteriously found its way to him...
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Pat Flanagan column: Garda crime figures are a disgrace - how can anyone miss 234 deaths?
An Garda Siochana
We were being told Ireland is a low-crime country - when all along at the back of our mind we knew it was rampant
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Pat Flanagan: United Ireland is a lovely idea but public must choose between patriotism and empty pockets
COMMENT: Pat Flanagan
Would workers here be willing to accept an extra 10% or 20% in tax in a 32-county Ireland?
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Pat Flanagan: Why we need to wage war on criminals' 'victim syndrome'
Pat Flanagan
We live in an age where killers and perverts are treated as victims while the actual victims are treated as if they are partly, or even wholly, responsible for the crime committed against them
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Our State's first reaction is to sweep the dirt under the carpet...if the scandal keeps growing, they just order a bigger carpet
COMMENT: Pat Flanagan
"It would appear there are elements here who are determined to prevent what really happened to little Mary Boyle being made public"
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