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Nice reminder …..
5 years ago, 1000s paid their #1st USC under #fiannafail. @finegael will abolish USC over the lifetime of the next Government #ffardfheis
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Always a treat to play the Old Head ⛳️
Topped of by bumping into @ScottBrown8 at the 19th👌👌
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Does Ireland reward work?
In Dublin, a single parent must earn at least €55k a year to be in the same financial position as a long-term unemployed person.
#Budget2027
@fiannafailparty @FineGael @SimonHarrisTD @MichealMartinTD – at Dublin City, Ireland
Wow… incredible clearance
WHAT A WAY TO WIN YOUR FIRST RANKING TITLE!!! 🏆
Chang Bingyu produces an ALL-TIMER of a clearance to beat soon-to-be world number one Zhao Xintong 10-7 and win the #WuhanOpen!
Surely the first title of many for the 24-year-old?
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Premium section in Croke Park! This cost 17.20! This is absolutely shocking what is going on here @CrokePark I know we are a captive audience but still
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A home theater installer has calibrated over 3,000 TVs in 12 years from $400 budget sets to $15,000 flagship OLEDs in custom media rooms.
He walks into people's homes, looks at their TV for 5 seconds, and can tell them exactly what's wrong.
He told me: "Almost every TV I see is running in the same mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent showroom lights. The motion smoothing is on. The sharpness is cranked. The eco dimmer is cutting brightness by 30–40%. And the TV is taking a screenshot of the screen every few seconds and selling the viewing data to advertisers. People are watching a $1,500 panel the same way it looked on the store shelf and that's the worst possible way to watch it."
He said a properly calibrated TV doesn't look "better." It looks like a completely different television.
He changed 9 settings on my TV in 15 minutes.
The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. Skin tones stopped looking plastic.
Dark scenes became visible. The TV stopped spying on me. And a movie finally looked like a movie instead of a daytime talk show.
"TV manufacturers ship every set optimized for a showroom, not a living room. Then they bury the settings that fix it inside 6 menus nobody opens."
Here are the 9 things he changed:
Very disappointing to hear @crossbar13 has been dropped by @RTEsport @RTEgaa from the radio on the biggest day… His co-comms insights and analysis has been very enjoyable this season . Farcical he’s not on board today … @sportsdes
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Good piece here on why Ireland is ranked worst-in-Europe on personal taxes. The top German rate is 45%, but applies to income well over a quarter of a million euro.
In Ireland, the government takes 48% on anything above €44,000, which was the average earnings in 2024 (latest CSO figures available). It moves to 52% at anything above $70,000, as the higher USC kicks in.
For around 4 in 10 people, the government takes more of their overtime, extra work, bonuses and pay increases than they do.
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Years of Catholic symbols and Irish flags being burned, and it took them burning a mosque model for the police to arrest someone. Couldn't make it up.
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Haaland walking and pretending like he does not know what is happening 😂
He learned well from the master at that.
Another farce by @RTEgaa . Games running into each other … and then refer us to Rte player for Cork v Offaly and they’re showing the football on that too .
Can ye get anything right ???
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On the second day of the world cup can we all just give a nod to the Holy Bible for men over forty who remember 1990
Another farce by @GAA_BEO . Can’t get the Cork v Tipp on the screen as they said they would . Can only hear commentary ….. @officialgaa need to do better for our game . @OfficialCorkGAA
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A guy sat at his laptop ready to permanently delete his 15-year-old Gmail account.
He was getting 400 spam emails a day. Fake Best Buy receipts. Phishing links from "Netflix." Cryptic extortion threats.
He hovered his mouse over "Delete Account" and sighed: "I just want peace."
His coworker, a former email deliverability engineer, looked over his shoulder.
"Before you nuke 15 years of contacts and data, let me show you something. Your email isn't broken. It's weaponized. There are 22 ways you've been leaving the door wide open. Google won't tell you this because the data collection feeds their entire ad engine. Give me 14 minutes."
Here's what she showed him:
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Employer gives worker a €1 pay increase
The employer must pay out €1.11 including employer's PRSI
48 cent (43%) goes to the worker
63 cent (57%) goes to the government
So the real marginal rate of income tax in Ireland is 57%, not 40%
independent.ie/business/pers…
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Tonight I took this pic of SETU 's Calum Corcoran taking a shot. My Canon R1 picked up the arc of drops created by his fast swing! Not sure if the eye could pick it up. Taken at 1/2000 OF A SEC. Best viewed on a big screen. @SETUCarlowGAA_ @Carlow_GAA @Natsport @TheLeftWingBack
