[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @danobrien20 Dan O'Brien Dan O'Brien posts on X about ireland, debt, number of, egypt the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::330609607/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +19% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +91% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +191% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::330609607/posts_active)  - X Week XX +13% - X Month XXX -XX% - X Months XXX +44% - X Year XXX +165% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::330609607/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.25% - X Month XXXXXX +1% - X Months XXXXXX +6.80% - X Year XXXXXX +8.50% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::330609607/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::330609607/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [finance](/list/finance) #4864 **Social topic influence** [ireland](/topic/ireland) #93, [debt](/topic/debt) #117, [number of](/topic/number-of) #99, [egypt](/topic/egypt) 4.08%, [norway](/topic/norway) 4.08%, [surge](/topic/surge) #40, [denmark](/topic/denmark) 4.08%, [defence](/topic/defence) #1038, [iceland](/topic/iceland) #126, [prime minister](/topic/prime-minister) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@cunneenkeith](/creator/undefined) [@denisdaly](/creator/undefined) [@maceochi](/creator/undefined) [@thecurrency](/creator/undefined) [@eueurostat](/creator/undefined) [@iegallowglass](/creator/undefined) [@garrettdonnelly](/creator/undefined) [@dendradwar1](/creator/undefined) [@theheathensoul](/creator/undefined) [@paatidemann](/creator/undefined) [@csoireland](/creator/undefined) [@rory_shamrock](/creator/undefined) [@justinmckenna](/creator/undefined) [@ttaoiseach62135](/creator/undefined) [@cpbyrne](/creator/undefined) [@glennshearer](/creator/undefined) [@ui_sinead](/creator/undefined) [@conorworld](/creator/undefined) [@ciarankilbride1](/creator/undefined) [@johnmadden2706](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::330609607/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Could those who argued that Ireland had influence in the Middle-East with colonial history and neutrality often cited as factors explain why Ireland will not be attending the signing ceremony in Egypt Prime minister of Nato-member Norway a country of similar size and distance from the region is invited" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1977735162604470393) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-13T13:56Z 24.6K followers, 177.5K engagements "Interesting letter to editor by Stephen Kearon a former government special adviser" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1979842731917910520) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-19T09:31Z 24.6K followers, 76K engagements "With the asylum system back in the news worth sharing some hard data. As one might expect given Ireland's geography the number of applications (relative to population) has traditionally been below the EU average. That changed quite suddenly in early 2022 and Ireland has mostly been above the EU average since then. A surge of applications in the UK since 2022 seems to be the most likely explanation" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1980672519397855744) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-21T16:28Z 24.6K followers, 31.4K engagements "Irish public spending on welfare/redistribution as a share of all spending is now the highest in the OECD at 58%. Yet more evidence of the left-leaning nature of Irish politics to add to this recent discussion" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1973814620508074370) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-02T18:17Z 24.6K followers, 13.8K engagements "Might be an appropriate moment to re-up a recent column on Ireland's shift towards the populist left" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1976217541740773811) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-09T09:25Z 24.6K followers, 6905 engagements "Worth reposting this to highlight that Irish neutrality is an international irrelevance and it does not enhance the country's position in the world. Denmark and Norway founding members of Nato have been elected to the UN Security Council more than any of the small European neutrals. Times elected to UNSC Austria3 Denmark5 Finland2 Ireland4 Norway5 Sweden X Switzerland 1" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1977741780276711520) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-13T14:22Z 24.6K followers, 31.3K engagements "One reason for declining faith in experts is because ten of thousands of academics wrote for decades about something that never existed: 'neoliberalism'. The size of the welfare state continued to rise during the so-called neoliberal era by every available measure one depicted below. Netherlands is the only example of any significant reduction in welfare spending relative to GDP over these decades" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1977769333423034602) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-13T16:12Z 24.6K followers, 24.4K engagements "First column on the year was a wish list of XX things that would make Ireland and the world better" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1979534299092406431) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-18T13:05Z 24.6K followers, 9689 engagements "@DanMulhall Any thoughts on writing a memoir Dan Important for public understanding of diplomacy to read what insiders write. Think @EamonDelaney10 was the last DFA person to write one" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1979885029951185036) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-19T12:19Z 24.6K followers, XXX engagements "A Limerick is surely to be written with words Brolly folly and trolley (off his) and lolly (loss of)" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1979925978676674765) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-19T15:01Z 24.6K followers, 9027 engagements "Is Ireland headed for a 'diplomatic crash' as @Levellingbook has warned Today's column discusses that Budget 2026 and the nothingburger on defence spending the latest salvo from the US on the OTB the scale of Irish redistribution and government debt - 200bn+ and another 180bn in pension liabilities" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1976575796304072895) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-10T09:09Z 24.6K followers, 8981 engagements "Europe cannot be a herbivore in a world of carnivores" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1979578258245996634) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-18T16:00Z 24.6K followers, 4891 engagements "@maceochi @grok Finland added" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1980302567335669823) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-20T15:58Z 24.6K followers, XXX engagements "Ireland and Denmark are almost identical in size. Irelands military capital budget for 2026 is XXX million" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1976997068054184055) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-11T13:03Z 24.6K followers, 59.8K engagements "With the asylum system back in the news worth sharing some hard data. As one might expect given Ireland's geography the number of applications (relative to population) has traditionally been low compared to the EU average. That changed quite suddenly in early 2022 and Ireland has mostly been above the EU average since then. A surge of applications in the UK since 2022 seems to be the most likely explanation" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1980669016201961980) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-21T16:14Z 24.6K followers, XXX engagements "Government debt stood at 40031 for every person in the country at the end of 2024 according to today's @CSOIreland figures. In gross terms public debt remains well above XXX billion. When liquid government assets are accounted for net public debt is XXX billion" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1980216367665316051) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-20T10:15Z 24.6K followers, 13.9K engagements "Illustrates well how different Ireland's positioning on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been compared to the rest of Europe. Full report here" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1980283658805096693) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-20T14:43Z 24.6K followers, 12.5K engagements "Ireland among the least competitive when it comes to tax in OECD. On individual/personal taxes this ranking puts Ireland right at the bottom. As a life-long supporter of the European welfare state model and of competitive free markets its increasingly clear that the balance has shifted too far towards the former. Balance is always needed to get the best societal and economic outcomes" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1980345284937887895) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-20T18:48Z 24.6K followers, 29.4K engagements "Irish public debt was XXX% of all revenues collected by the government in 2024 according to data published by @EU_Eurostat today. This is a good measure of debt particularly for Ireland where debt:GDP is a bad measure owing to inflated GDP. Across the bloc as a whole public debt was XXX% of annual revenues" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1980605433933856973) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-21T12:01Z 24.6K followers, 11K engagements "Being mid-table in public debt after a decade of some of the strongest rates of growth in the world AND 160bn in corporation tax Definite 'could do better' on the report card" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1980639906390241723) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-21T14:18Z 24.6K followers, 7158 engagements "John is a councillor who doesn't understand that printing money isn't a panacea and who hasn't read anything about the UK's public finances in recent years. This is from mid-2023" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1980674368834244802) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-21T16:35Z 24.6K followers, 12.1K engagements "One of the most inexplicable things in Irish life/politics is that those most hostile to British sovereignty over part of the island have no issue with being entirely dependent on the British military to protect the whole island's airspace" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1978457624002662876) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-15T13:47Z 24.6K followers, 30K engagements "Today the European Commission published its 'Defence Readiness Roadmap'. No EU member or any of its institutions ever wanted to go down this route but the world has changed unfortunately. Members who don't want to contribute will be viewed as free-loaders losing influence and relevance in the bloc" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1979205333298909269) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-17T15:18Z 24.6K followers, 19.3K engagements "Reflective of the move leftwards in Irish policy choices in recent decades social spending accounted for XX% of all government expenditure the highest in the OECD in 2021. At the turn of the century it was much closer to the OECD average in the low 40s" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1980301523222683995) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-20T15:54Z 24.6K followers, 6185 engagements "Friend points out that RTE news app has Middle East as priority topic. Europe and Ukraine are not priority topics. Have we floated into the Persian gulf" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1980366946936975582) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-20T20:14Z 24.6K followers, 15.3K engagements "Two points worth adding. Roderic O'Gorman's tweets in multiple languages reckless though they were were posted in February 2021 almost a year before the surge in applications which occurred very suddenly from the beginning of 2022 as the first chart shows. Iceland experienced an equally sudden if much bigger relative surge at exactly the same time as the second chart shows" [X Link](https://x.com/danobrien20/status/1980958589587014032) [@danobrien20](/creator/x/danobrien20) 2025-10-22T11:25Z 24.6K followers, 5927 engagements
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@danobrien20 Dan O'Brien
Dan O'Brien posts on X about ireland, debt, number of, egypt the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Week XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX +19%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +91%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +191%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX +13%
- X Month XXX -XX%
- X Months XXX +44%
- X Year XXX +165%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +0.25%
- X Month XXXXXX +1%
- X Months XXXXXX +6.80%
- X Year XXXXXX +8.50%
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Social category influence countries XXXXX% finance #4864
Social topic influence ireland #93, debt #117, number of #99, egypt 4.08%, norway 4.08%, surge #40, denmark 4.08%, defence #1038, iceland #126, prime minister XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @cunneenkeith @denisdaly @maceochi @thecurrency @eueurostat @iegallowglass @garrettdonnelly @dendradwar1 @theheathensoul @paatidemann @csoireland @rory_shamrock @justinmckenna @ttaoiseach62135 @cpbyrne @glennshearer @ui_sinead @conorworld @ciarankilbride1 @johnmadden2706
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Could those who argued that Ireland had influence in the Middle-East with colonial history and neutrality often cited as factors explain why Ireland will not be attending the signing ceremony in Egypt Prime minister of Nato-member Norway a country of similar size and distance from the region is invited"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-13T13:56Z 24.6K followers, 177.5K engagements
"Interesting letter to editor by Stephen Kearon a former government special adviser"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-19T09:31Z 24.6K followers, 76K engagements
"With the asylum system back in the news worth sharing some hard data. As one might expect given Ireland's geography the number of applications (relative to population) has traditionally been below the EU average. That changed quite suddenly in early 2022 and Ireland has mostly been above the EU average since then. A surge of applications in the UK since 2022 seems to be the most likely explanation"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-21T16:28Z 24.6K followers, 31.4K engagements
"Irish public spending on welfare/redistribution as a share of all spending is now the highest in the OECD at 58%. Yet more evidence of the left-leaning nature of Irish politics to add to this recent discussion"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-02T18:17Z 24.6K followers, 13.8K engagements
"Might be an appropriate moment to re-up a recent column on Ireland's shift towards the populist left"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-09T09:25Z 24.6K followers, 6905 engagements
"Worth reposting this to highlight that Irish neutrality is an international irrelevance and it does not enhance the country's position in the world. Denmark and Norway founding members of Nato have been elected to the UN Security Council more than any of the small European neutrals. Times elected to UNSC Austria3 Denmark5 Finland2 Ireland4 Norway5 Sweden X Switzerland 1"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-13T14:22Z 24.6K followers, 31.3K engagements
"One reason for declining faith in experts is because ten of thousands of academics wrote for decades about something that never existed: 'neoliberalism'. The size of the welfare state continued to rise during the so-called neoliberal era by every available measure one depicted below. Netherlands is the only example of any significant reduction in welfare spending relative to GDP over these decades"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-13T16:12Z 24.6K followers, 24.4K engagements
"First column on the year was a wish list of XX things that would make Ireland and the world better"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-18T13:05Z 24.6K followers, 9689 engagements
"@DanMulhall Any thoughts on writing a memoir Dan Important for public understanding of diplomacy to read what insiders write. Think @EamonDelaney10 was the last DFA person to write one"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-19T12:19Z 24.6K followers, XXX engagements
"A Limerick is surely to be written with words Brolly folly and trolley (off his) and lolly (loss of)"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-19T15:01Z 24.6K followers, 9027 engagements
"Is Ireland headed for a 'diplomatic crash' as @Levellingbook has warned Today's column discusses that Budget 2026 and the nothingburger on defence spending the latest salvo from the US on the OTB the scale of Irish redistribution and government debt - 200bn+ and another 180bn in pension liabilities"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-10T09:09Z 24.6K followers, 8981 engagements
"Europe cannot be a herbivore in a world of carnivores"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-18T16:00Z 24.6K followers, 4891 engagements
"@maceochi @grok Finland added"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-20T15:58Z 24.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Ireland and Denmark are almost identical in size. Irelands military capital budget for 2026 is XXX million"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-11T13:03Z 24.6K followers, 59.8K engagements
"With the asylum system back in the news worth sharing some hard data. As one might expect given Ireland's geography the number of applications (relative to population) has traditionally been low compared to the EU average. That changed quite suddenly in early 2022 and Ireland has mostly been above the EU average since then. A surge of applications in the UK since 2022 seems to be the most likely explanation"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-21T16:14Z 24.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Government debt stood at 40031 for every person in the country at the end of 2024 according to today's @CSOIreland figures. In gross terms public debt remains well above XXX billion. When liquid government assets are accounted for net public debt is XXX billion"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-20T10:15Z 24.6K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Illustrates well how different Ireland's positioning on the Israel-Palestine conflict has been compared to the rest of Europe. Full report here"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-20T14:43Z 24.6K followers, 12.5K engagements
"Ireland among the least competitive when it comes to tax in OECD. On individual/personal taxes this ranking puts Ireland right at the bottom. As a life-long supporter of the European welfare state model and of competitive free markets its increasingly clear that the balance has shifted too far towards the former. Balance is always needed to get the best societal and economic outcomes"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-20T18:48Z 24.6K followers, 29.4K engagements
"Irish public debt was XXX% of all revenues collected by the government in 2024 according to data published by @EU_Eurostat today. This is a good measure of debt particularly for Ireland where debt:GDP is a bad measure owing to inflated GDP. Across the bloc as a whole public debt was XXX% of annual revenues"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-21T12:01Z 24.6K followers, 11K engagements
"Being mid-table in public debt after a decade of some of the strongest rates of growth in the world AND 160bn in corporation tax Definite 'could do better' on the report card"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-21T14:18Z 24.6K followers, 7158 engagements
"John is a councillor who doesn't understand that printing money isn't a panacea and who hasn't read anything about the UK's public finances in recent years. This is from mid-2023"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-21T16:35Z 24.6K followers, 12.1K engagements
"One of the most inexplicable things in Irish life/politics is that those most hostile to British sovereignty over part of the island have no issue with being entirely dependent on the British military to protect the whole island's airspace"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-15T13:47Z 24.6K followers, 30K engagements
"Today the European Commission published its 'Defence Readiness Roadmap'. No EU member or any of its institutions ever wanted to go down this route but the world has changed unfortunately. Members who don't want to contribute will be viewed as free-loaders losing influence and relevance in the bloc"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-17T15:18Z 24.6K followers, 19.3K engagements
"Reflective of the move leftwards in Irish policy choices in recent decades social spending accounted for XX% of all government expenditure the highest in the OECD in 2021. At the turn of the century it was much closer to the OECD average in the low 40s"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-20T15:54Z 24.6K followers, 6185 engagements
"Friend points out that RTE news app has Middle East as priority topic. Europe and Ukraine are not priority topics. Have we floated into the Persian gulf"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-20T20:14Z 24.6K followers, 15.3K engagements
"Two points worth adding. Roderic O'Gorman's tweets in multiple languages reckless though they were were posted in February 2021 almost a year before the surge in applications which occurred very suddenly from the beginning of 2022 as the first chart shows. Iceland experienced an equally sudden if much bigger relative surge at exactly the same time as the second chart shows"
X Link @danobrien20 2025-10-22T11:25Z 24.6K followers, 5927 engagements