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Voter frustration.
FLASHBACK: In 2016, just 19 days before a general election, then-Minister of State Simon Harris told the public that it was Fine Gael’s “absolute commitment” to do away with the “hated USC” over the lifetime of that Government, stating: “We need to abolish it.”
Election pledge.
Campaign trail.
“Absolutely no truth in that whatsoever.”
Ongoing election campaign.
Election in Dublin Central on 22nd May 2026
“The stuff 30 years ago that everyone took as normal is now somehow extreme or offensive.”
“People tell politicians to f*ck off – they’re not interested in them.”
Aontú candidate for Galway West Orla Nugent says she was with the fuel protesters almost every day, and says the carbon tax should be scrapped for the duration of the cost of living crisis.
Public debt.
“Not good enough.”
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