Annette Rafferty

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

The fact UN climate conferences are not held on Zoom meetings is all the proof that you need that the “climate crisis” is a government-sponsored scam.

[John McGuirk @john_mcguirk]

"When the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland ceased operations in early 2023, it had 40 staff.

It was then replaced by Coimisiún na Meán. Which has more than 300 staff. Of those 300 staff, more than 10% are on more than €100k a year, funded by your taxes."

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

I am a 23-year-old meteorologist.

Greta Thunberg and I are the same age.

Despite having solid credentials, climate alarmists routinely criticize me because I don’t subscribe to their religion of doom. They say, “Chris is a kid and therefore he isn’t qualified to discuss climate change or advise lawmakers and world leaders.”

Yet, climate panic merchants have no problem with Thunberg, a climate activist with zero college education or training in meteorology and climate dynamics, advising world leaders.

Climate alarmists only care about one’s credentials if you are against their creed.

[Estelle Birdy @BirdyBooky]

This account of what happened to Josie Ray and her daughter Mary at the hands of this man and at the hands of the agents of this state is both shocking and shameful. A man was allowed land into a publicly owned house where an 89-year-old woman and her adult daughter, who has an intellectual disability, were the sole tenants. And despite the world and his mother and every relevant state agency, including the Gardaí, knowing there was a serious problem with this man being anywhere near these women, despite his refusal to leave, they weren’t able to drag him out and stop him going anywhere near these two vulnerable women. In fact, it seems, the only person who was threatened at all by the agents of the state, was the 89-year-old woman, who was threatened multiple times with losing her home because SHE was in breach of her tenancy, because this man had decided to takeover her home.
She was so terrified of him, after being in hospital, she refused to go back to her own home until he was gone.

And instead of making sure that this monster of a man was duly gone, so Josie Ray could return to her own home after being in hospital, what did the state attempt to do as a solution?
They attempted to find a place in a nursing home for Josie Ray, not a plane seat on a flight back to Chad, with a kick up the arse for this pig of a man.

When you get to 89, it’s most people’s dream to be able to pass away at home in your own bed. That’s probably what Josie had expected before Hasan Ali Gori decided to takeover her home.
Instead, she spent her last months terrorised in her house and her last minutes terrified and fighting for her life against this man.
If there isn’t a full enquiry into the role of state agencies in the eventual murder of Josie Ray, I am going to be very angry.
Will this state ever consider women’s safety and dignity ahead of a man’s desires? Truly, women in Ireland, especially those who are vulnerable through age or disability, are second class citizens.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

The Left has begun to unleash a campaign of vengeance on @elonmusk. But did they even think this through?! Because it won’t end well for them.

Last Saturday, two chartered party buses, funded by a network of left-wing non-profits, rolled up right in front of Elon’s house. They danced in the street for an hour and hit a Cybertruck piñata. But wait... aren’t these the same leftists that were insisting just last week that Elon was buying the election? Maybe they were celebrating that they were wrong.

Then you have NYU Professor Scott Galloway. He went on stage and boasted to a crowd about taking a dump in the passenger seat of his own Tesla before selling it. I can guarantee Elon wasn’t hurt by that. The only people affected by his “protest” were whoever bought that car from him and whoever had to clean up that mess.

And now, there’s incoming Texas governor Gina Hinojosa. She’s already pressuring state agencies to hold off on SpaceX land deals right next to Starbase until she takes office.

And of course, there’s half of Congress that’s threatening to sue him into oblivion.

I have a serious question for all these people: How do you think this will end?

Elon is a trillionaire with a rocket company. If Texas tries to shut him down, he’ll just move to another state. If Congress tries to make his life a living hell, he’ll move to any other country that wants his businesses and innovations. I’m sure Argentina would love for him to build there.

And if the whole world turns on him, there’s always space.

When government power and mob tactics get unfairly weaponized against builders like Elon, they leave. But guess what happens after that? Because it’s even worse for our country.

The next builder doesn’t come. If the Democrats make an example out of Elon because of his political stances, it tells all future innovators that they’re not safe here. Not unless they fall fully in line... kind of like fascism.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

Ireland has given €123million in aid to Ethiopia since 2023.

Meanwhile, Ethiopia has entered into a multi-BILLION DOLLAR deal to buy Russian Fighter jets & missiles.

But Ireland strongly supports Russian sanctions intended to weaken its war economy

Ireland has also provided €670 million in aid directly to Ukraine since 2022 + accepted a hundred thousand Ukrainian refugees at a costs of billions.

How do these policies fit together?

Can someone in Govt please explain this to me because I don't understand.

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

New York repealed its religious exemption for school vaccines in 2019, then fined three one-room Amish schools $118,000.

Their lawyer surveyed the roughly 160 children at those schools. You'd expect about nine cases of asthma alone.

What they found instead: those children had zero of the chronic conditions plaguing American kids. 🧵

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

IRELAND 🇮🇪

Irish journalists have had their wishes come true

Following a week of incitement against Catholics across all major Irish media outlets, a chapel was ATTACKED

Our Lady's Secondary School Chapel in Belmullet was ransacked in a hate attack

When will the media be held accountable for inciting hate?

[J.K. Lunden @Jklunden]

🚨 Parents are contacting us in distress about Trans Activist BelongTo "Stand Up" Week taking place in their children’s schools.

Here’s another example - a Catholic school in Ireland. Where are the Bishops?

How is this inclusive of families who believe there are only two sexes? For parents who don't want children to be taught the lie that they can change their sex? Parents deserve a voice, and children’s concerns must be heard.

[Guillaume Herblot 🎖️ @Guigz75116]

Le camp du bien a un visage. Regardez-le, c’est le votre.

Ce n’est pas une image de guerre. C’est un adolescent de 14 ans, enveloppé dans une couverture, les yeux écarquillés, le visage marqué, sorti d’une maison privée près de Kiev où une unité du 1er Corps Azov de la Garde nationale détenait des mobilisés et des déserteurs. Des hommes en sont sortis avec des traces de coups. Quatre ont été hospitalisés. Budanov est venu sur place, a sorti le gamin et a déclaré qu’il y avait « beaucoup de bâtiments comme ça ». Azov a confirmé que le lieu leur appartenait.

Ce visage, c’est le visage de la honte des européistes jusqu’au-boutistes.
Depuis des années, sur les plateaux télé, les mêmes voix nous parlent d’État de droit, de valeurs, de civilisation, de défense de la démocratie. Ursula von der Leyen multiplie les déclarations solennelles. Emmanuel Macron parle de l’Europe puissance qui protège. Les globalistes expliquent que chaque euro versé à Kiev est un investissement dans l’avenir moral du continent.

Et maintenant ?

Von der Leyen : absente.

Macron : absent.

Les institutions européennes : silence.

Les commentateurs qui hier encore détaillaient les moindres accusations contre la Russie : plus un mot.

Vous le saviez depuis longtemps.

Vous saviez ce qu’était Azov avant son intégration, vous saviez les pratiques de mobilisation forcée, vous saviez que des unités retenaient leurs propres soldats dans des conditions qui n’ont rien à voir avec l’État de droit. Vous avez choisi de fermer les yeux parce que le récit exigeait un camp du bien et un camp du mal. Dès que les victimes sont ukrainiennes et les auteurs « nos » alliés, la vertu devient facultative.

Ce garçon de 14 ans n’est pas une exception. Il est le produit d’un système que vous financez, que vous armez, que vous légitimez, et dont vous refusez de voir les conséquences. Quand on vous parle d’État de droit depuis les plateaux, on oublie de préciser que cet État de droit s’arrête là où les intérêts stratégiques commencent.

Regardez-le.

Ce n’est pas la Russie qui l’a mis dans cet état. C’est le camp que vous soutenez jusqu’au bout, sans jamais regarder ce qui se passe vraiment derrière les discours.

Vous n’êtes pas au courant par accident.

Vous choisissez de ne pas l’être.

Vous êtes la honte.

[Ben Scallan 🇮🇪 @Ben_Scallan]

Pure ideological poison.

https://t.co/IJ6uxu51M7

[gript @griptmedia]

Almost 90,000 cattle slaughtered without prior stunning in Ireland in last 18 months, according to FOI figures - but Department of Agriculture declines to provide figures for the scale of halal meat production:

https://t.co/Wnm42DpvWL

[Deep Leaks @DeepLeaksHQ]

🚨 BOMBSHELL FROM JAPAN — THEY CAN’T HIDE THIS ANYMORE

Professor Robert Clancy just dropped the receipts:
A massive Japanese study tracking 20 MILLION people found that ALL excess deaths were in the vaccinated group.

The unvaccinated group? ZERO excess deaths. And here’s the killer detail: mortality surges exactly 3 months after every booster — with peak deaths hitting around 100 days post-vaccination.

The pattern is undeniable. In my opinion, they can no longer suppress the information on the COVID vaccine. The data is out. The cover-up is crumbling. The world needs to see this.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

456 PATIENTS DIED

This is one of the biggest medical scandals in British history and there is a decent chance you have never heard of it.

Between 1988 and 2000, patients admitted to Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Hampshire for things like hip fractures and chest infections were routinely put on syringe drivers pumping a steady stream of diamorphine, a powerful opioid. Many were not in pain. Most died within days of being hooked up.

Nurses noticed straight away. In 1988, staff on the Redclyffe Annexe told their managers something was badly wrong. They told their union, the Royal College of Nursing. They kept raising it for years. Management's response was to tell them to stop making waves.

The doctor overseeing the prescribing was Dr Jane Barton. In 2010 the General Medical Council @gmcuk found her guilty of serious professional misconduct in the care of 12 patients. She was not struck off. She retired instead, presumably somewhere with no syringe drivers.

3 separate police investigations by Hampshire Constabulary went absolutely nowhere across 3 decades. Zero prosecutions. Grieving families asking why their relatives died 5 days after routine surgery were treated as the problem.

Then in 2018, after a 4 year inquiry costing 14 million pounds, the Gosport Independent Panel confirmed what those nurses said in 1988.

456 patients died after being given opioids with no medical justification. The panel said probably 200 more died the same way, but their records had gone missing, because of course they had.

Kent Police @kent_police then launched Operation Magenta, reviewing over 750 patient records, taking 1200 witness statements and eventually naming 24 suspects. In November 2025, 7 years into that investigation and 37 years after the first nurse spoke up, police told the families of 101 patients there would be no charges. Their cases did not meet the evidential test. The rest remain under review, with the Crown Prosecution Service @CPSUK holding the final say on any charges, whenever that call finally comes.

So here is where things stand. A regulator confirmed the misconduct. A panel confirmed the cover-up. Nurses were proven right 30 years after the fact. And to this date, not one person has been prosecuted for any of the 456 deaths.

If you raise a concern about patient safety and get ignored for 3 decades, congratulations, you were right all along. Doesn't bring anyone back though.

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[GP @Graham_dePenros]

Contractors are on the radio saying they can't afford fuel.

Farmers can't pay the contractors. Farmers are already in arrears to contractors. Farmers can't get a fair price for beef. Farmers can't get a fair price for milk.

Households can't afford kerosine. A caller rang in and said 640 litre fillup today cost €1400, their last bill was for 500 litres and was €640, 11 months ago.

The government is taking 55% tax on every litre. The senior Irish politicians are everywhere except here. In the last week, McEntee gave Zelensky €12M. That's their priority. Winter is coming.

War is also coming. When there are wars there's no elections. When there are wars, the politicians don't or won't be quizzed on what they did or are doing. They won't answer in peacetime. They certainly won't answer in wartime.

What are you going to do? Go to Moate and wave a flag and shout a bit?

[GaelsForFairPlay @GaelsFairPlay]

The LGFA's policy of male inclusion requires that applicants over the age of 16 reduce their testosterone to a specified level.
But scientific evidence demonstrates unequivocally that testosterone suppression does not negate male advantage.
Across sport globally, the overwhelming majority of governing bodies have followed the science and updated their policies to prioritise fairness and safety for female athletes.
Yet the LGFA will not review its policy despite acknowledging the situation has evolved significantly since 2023.
This raised serious governance questions.

[John McGuirk @john_mcguirk]

I don't normally get so angry I could scream, but the latest Tusla outrage really should bring down the Government. Albert Reynolds' Government fell for far less. Credit to Kitty Holland for at least caring:

https://t.co/K2PnHrZ33o

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

‘I have to go to a hostel and I’m scared’: Growth in older homeless numbers ‘almost inevitable’
✍️Gráinne Ní Aodha

Rose*, a 62-year-old woman from North Dublin, is going to be evicted from her home of 30 years next Thursday morning.

“This time next week I’ll be out of here,” she told the Irish Examiner through tears, while sitting in her kitchen surrounded by her belongings that she had begun packing away.

#HomelessCrisis #Evictions

https://t.co/KiEvjxgy8h

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

This week a council approved a solar farm on two hundred and thirty-five acres of grazing, and the family who had run cattle on it for generations said it would probably finish them. The panels will be there for forty years. The cattle were there for four hundred.

The land is not the developer's. It belongs to an estate or a pension fund, and the developer offers a rent per acre no cow has ever earned. The farmer gets a letter. The council, told to triple solar by a minister who has never kept a beast, finds that the loss of a herd is not a planning consideration.

So the field goes under glass. In Britain a solar array produces for about one hour in nine. It makes most in June at noon, when the country needs it least, and nothing on a January evening, when it needs it most, so a gas station is kept idling behind every one. The panels are made in China from polysilicon out of a province the government will not name. They lose output every year they stand there, and at the end there is no plan and no bond for taking them away. A quarter of a million square metres of glass, aluminium and copper cable, in a field, with a thirty-year lease and a company that will not exist when it ends.

Under the panels the grass dies for want of light, the soil compacts under the plant, and the hedges go because the fence has to be electric and the fence has to be straight. The sheep in the brochure are for the photograph.

The cattle were a solar panel already. Grass takes the light, the cow converts it, and the output is beef, every day of the year, on no cable, no subsidy and no inverter, for as long as there is rain.

They have replaced a power station that makes dinner with one that works on a sunny afternoon and sits dead the rest of the time, and the family who ran the first one are being evicted to make room for the second.

[GP @Graham_dePenros]

PAIN IS THE ONLY TEACHER LEFT FOR IRELAND AND THE REST OF EUROPE.

Alastair Crooke who was born in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland in 1949, and has had quite the career, whom quite unremarkably and many years ago I had the pleasure of meeting, has declared the following, which is in a conversational tone and not a prepared article, but is nevertheless devastatingly accurate:

"Pain is the only thing that changes a locked position. Europe has no jobs because it destroyed its manufacturing, and it has no policy except war on Russia. France and Britain are already deep in crisis. The question is how much of it Europe will take before it asks whether attacking Russia is in Europe’s interest at all.

I think when you get into that sort of state where things seem so completely deadlocked, the only thing that really changes people’s perception and their ability to change position is pain. And I think pain may come from a different area, but it may come from the economic situation, where France and Britain are in deep economic crisis, and most of Europe is in a catastrophic economic crisis and employment crisis.

There are no jobs because they got rid of their manufacturing industry and all those jobs. If they come back, it’ll be Chinese manufacturing. And if you look inside a Chinese factory, count how many blue-collar workers you see on the assembly line. You won’t see any. There will be just one data engineer in the whole place. And then most of the service industries are now managed by others who’ve come in. People have immigrated into Europe.

They serve many of these, and young people who leave university with a law degree - AI has cut out one whole layer of middle-class, young middle-class jobs which are now going to be taken over by AI.

So there are going to be no jobs and no prosperity because inflation and price rises are surging in Europe. I mean, I come back from London; prices are unbelievable.

So they don’t know what to do. So will they change? I think only pain. If the crisis is deep enough, people are going to say to them, in the AfD in Germany and others, Mélenchon in France. Mélenchon just said we are going to leave NATO.

He said, if he’s President, we are going to leave NATO. And so there are people beginning to say it, but unfortunately I think it’s going to require more pain before we get to the point where people say, let’s think this through from the beginning and let’s see what is the interest of Europe at this stage.

Is our interest to go on attacking Russia? Do we think that that is going to change Russia? Is he going to change the Russian position? Is Putin about to disappear? No? Well, then perhaps we ought to rethink our policies. And I think that’s what we can only hope will come about from this.

Pain is the only teacher left for Europe."