Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness has told Newstalk that the referenda was a "complete cock-up" by government.

He said government has been ignoring the people and agreed it's time to abandon the hate-speech laws to focus on fixing basic problems like health care and school bus-runs instead.

"They've done huge damage in terms of public trust. They've exposed themselves as well as to how far they will go in their arrogance to get what they want."

He believes Fianna Fáil damaged itself going into coalition with Fine Gael and propping them up in the last government.

"It's hard to tell the difference between any of the parties in government, and that's not good for democracy."

Matt Carthy TD is on groveling duties for Sinn Féin. He told Newstalk that re-running the referenda is not on Sinn Féin's priority list at all and it won't be happening if they form the next government.

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Going live shortly at 9:45 to talk about the referenda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzRH5TV5hYY

Audience all laughing at Roderic O'Gorman in hiding.

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The National Women's Council of Ireland does not represent women.

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Audience laughing at O'Gorman again as Katie Hannon plays backup.

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The YES/YES voter who said she was devastated having to wake her daughter up to tell she still had duties in the home after the referenda were defeated is Labour election candidate for Ballymun-Finglas Linda O'Sullivan.

RTÉ deleted their clip on X featuring her after this was pointed out.

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The Kurdish man who attacked concerned locals with a railing on Sandwith Street last year and who is wanted in Turkey on terrorism charges after escaping prison there has a different name in today's RTÉ report on the asylum seeker slum outside the IPAS centre.

In 1996, Musa Dogan was convicted of committing criminal acts aimed at implementing a Marxist-Leninist regime using armed force. He originally got the death penalty, but it was reduced to 20 years. Turkish authorities say he had set fire to public buildings and a car, committed a bank robbery, wounded a guard and trapped a taxi driver in the boot of his cab.

RTÉ named him as Pir-Sami Kupiszewke. They didn't name the Trotskyist organisation he is associated with and who is responsible for the messaging on the tents: The Revolutionary Housing League.

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Clonea Strand Hotel in Dungarvan trashed by asylum seekers over a disagreement about the food being served according the source of the video on tiktok who wrote:

"The true story is that the owner of the hotel gets money to prepare food for refugees, but he buys the cheapest food and no one can eat food."

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No accommodation left for tourists in Killybegs says taxi driver Derek Vials who says soon there won't be anywhere left in south west Donegal either.

Vials told Ocean FM that it's affecting his business along with many others in the area but says the Irish Times won't print his letters highlighting their complaints.

He says his issue isn't with the individual accommodation providers profiteering in the asylum industry but with government policy enabling it.

"Now, there is a goldrush happening and a few people are making a killing out of war and people's misery but that's a different debate, but we're not going to be a social dumping ground for this government any longer."

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A huge crowd turned out at a public meeting in Ballaghaderreen against plans for 47 modular homes beside Oakwod Private Nursing Home to house 206 Ukrainians.

More than 400 objections have been lodged with Roscommon County Council for the proposed site made up of 18 three bedroom units and 29 two bedroom units.

Local Sinn Féin TD Claire Kerrane and Cllr Michael Mulligan criticised the Dept of Integration over the plan and advised people on delivering the submissions.

Local businessman Micheál Frain told the Roscommon Herald that “Ballaghaderreen has been walked on”.

Extra services were promised in 2017 when Syrian refugees arrived in the town. “It’s seven years down the line, no extra services have come to Ballaghaderreen, it’s a simple as that.”

RTÉ reported on Friday that modular homes for Ukrainians cost an average of €407,500 per unit.

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Local man Michael Scally says there's been no benefit to Ballaghaderreen since asylum seekers started being dumped in the town in 2017 despite promises from the government.

"The TDs in this town are not government TDs so what more can you expect but more and more dumped on top of us. So enough is enough here tonight"

"I'm an elderly person. I'm 80 years of age and I meet every day elderly people who are looking for houses and they cannot get them. There are people beside me here who have been turned down over and over again."

"We must look after our own people."

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Fianna Fáil Senator Eugene Murphy at the Ballaghaderreen public meeting.

"You cannot take any more people. I'm not going to allow this to happen and I will stand with you on it."

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