RTE 1: 'Today' with Claire Byrne

And a bonus point for mentioning Sheeran (though that may have been the other lad? Jim?), my heart jumped for joy, im not alone... Claire seemed genuinely gobsmacked that these two weren't on board with the GB love-in

Tis embarrassing 😞what are we like at all... Anyway must get on the road and out of this blasted place for a while, keep my sanity intact🚝🖐️🤚

Pascal the Rascal sounds his typically chirpy self this morning 🙄

I'm not at all sure Stephen Donnelly knows what is going on re the Booster Roll out 🤔

This Mica Redress scheme is demonstrating a complete failure of the political system. How on earth have we ended up in a position where these residents in Donegal have us over a barrel and demanding levels of funding that are completely out of kilter with reality??

If it needs a general election, let's have one and let the rest of the countries voters decide what parties are prepared to deal with this in a modest way.

As it is, we are being royally screwed.

Don’t worry Dee, “Pat’ will find a way to maximise the payout on this.

Of course I sympathize with the home owners but where did these materials emanate from.?

who were the Builders?

What valuation was on the LPT this year.?

Where are the insurance people?

Surely if the alleged outstanding issue iS supposedly around 65 K then the insurance should be involved?

There will be a killing made out of this akin to the ‘cash for ash’ debacle if it’s not watched very very carefully by an independent qualified person or persons.

Aah poor Joe, the greatest chancer and mutton head of them all.

If poor Joe got his way honest folk like you and I, who took responsibility and bettered, or tried to better ourselves

would be bled dry to support non triers spend the day in Joe Corals.

Absolute head banger.

He was a hard worker himself, I agree there

Discussing the Don Tidey kidnap now on Claire Byrne. The army guy recounting the story (PJ Higgins) for some reason makes the observation that it's possible tha some of the directors of that IRA operation could be future Minister's for defence! It seems the prospect of a future Sinn Fein government is an appaling vista in RTE

You could understand him being bitter though - one of his colleagues was murdered by the IRA and no-one was ever convicted of it.

However, his bitterness unfortunately has led him to make statements that he cannot verify - who were the directors of that IRA operation? What role do they have in SF now? Are they members of the Dail? Are they on the SF front bench?

In order to improve electability, SF have been gradually retiring those who were formerly involved in the IRA thus allowing their current crop of politiicans to say that they were never involved and besides, that's all in the past.

Hopefully if this does come to pass, we don’t have to put all defense and justice legislation through Connolly House?.

Wouldnt fancy the front seat passenger in the lorry to be overseeing our policy in those ministries.

Claire Shocked , Slates could come off in high winds 🙄

A very substantial yellow warning remains in place says Claire...

Bloody hell, she's even trying to make a yellow warning sound dramatic.

Edit: was only a matter of time before she brought up climate change after being told yesterday by an expert that Barra was a classic winter storm, but keep beating that drum until you get someone who agrees with you Claire. It's a fact that if Ireland meets it's climate change quotas we won't have anymore storms 😂

barely slept last night after 3am. trees down round the town . still blowing here in donegal. might have seen it before but still a notable storm.