ROBERT TOWEY

[gript @griptmedia]

The Mercosur trade deal could make Europe more reliant on imported food while putting domestic farmers at an even greater disadvantage. Is food security being traded away?

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

I kid you not, a journalist who tried to expose Cambridge professor Jason Arday was investigated by POLICE!

Police asked the reporter to stop asking questions because of his "mental health" and Arday's law firm suggested it was "racially motivated".

After a FOUR MONTH investigation they dropped the case. This is INSANE!

[gript @griptmedia]

People living in IPAS accommodation do not make a contribution toward their accommodation, the Minister said two years after issue first raised. But Tóibín noted that 76,500 labour market access permissions had been granted to asylum seekers since 2020.

https://t.co/IXhNfJVx2C

[Cormac O'Malley @cormacpro]

Genuinely incredible. Hollister, hang yer heads in shame. Slop.

[Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld]

You cannot make this up. 🤡

Cambridge professor Jason Arday told a university audience he appeared on the TV series “Seven Up.” One small problem: that show premiered in 1964. He wasn’t born until 1985.

He also claimed he didn’t learn to read or write until he was 18, then somehow ended up a Cambridge professor.

Now he’s in the middle of a plagiarism scandal too, accused of lifting parts of his PhD thesis from someone else’s work. His response? He’s not a “liar” or a “fantasist,” just misunderstood.

Being on a TV show that aired 21 years before you were born isn’t a “misunderstanding.” It’s fiction. 😂

At what point do we stop calling this an “error” and start calling it what it is?

[Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold]

July 2020. Steps of the Supreme Court. America’s Frontline Doctors stood in white coats and told the American people the truth the regime did not want spoken:

COVID was treatable.

Early treatment worked.

Nobody needed to die.

Lockdowns were never necessary.

We were censored within hours. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube erased the video. Careers were destroyed. Doctors were threatened. Patients were denied the medicine that could have saved them.

They called us dangerous.

They were the danger.

History has already rendered its verdict. We were right. They lied. And the people paid the price in lives, liberty, and lost years.

Watch it. Share it. Bookmark it.

Never let them memory-hole what they did.

The truth was never the threat.

Their power was.

[Lunix Twin @LunixTwin]

Tim Robbins reveals what Romanians told him cancel culture reminds them of and it will make you rethink everything

"I asked, what was the uptake on the vaccines in Romania? And they said something like 40%. I said, well, how do you explain that? And they said, well, you know, we lived under the Soviet Union for many years, so we know how to look like we comply when we're not complying."

"And I said, what else reminds you of the Soviet Union? And they said, without a doubt, cancel culture."

"Soviet Union used to keep files on all of us, right? So as long as you're a good party member, there wouldn't be a thing said. But once you stepped out of line, they brought out that old file. Now that affair with your secretary from 30 years ago is going to ruin your life. They're going to ruin your family. They're going to kill your career. And they're going to make a big public display of it to show other people to stay in line."

"And they felt like cancel culture was basically operating in the same way as the Soviet Union did. And it was really interesting to see that perspective in Eastern Europe."

[Elaine Mullally ☘️ @mullallyelaine]

Did you know that on the 26th July an interesting new provision was quietly signed into law. This new provision gives the Defence Forces MORE power and a cleaner mandate to intervene in the event of - say.. - another fuel protest!

The Criminal Law, Civil Law and Defence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act of 2026 amended the Defence Act 1954 and, for the first time, expressly sets out when members of the Defence Forces can use force while supporting An Garda Síochána and while protecting military installations.

This provision is VERY convenient for the government in the case of a new fuel protest or any similar demonstration.

As you may remember, the intervention of the Defense Forces was at the time a controversial move by the government. Many contested whether it was legal to deploy the military for such a purpose. This law removes that ambiguity and makes it clearer how the Defence Forces can intervene in the support of An Garda Síochána.

As the original post by Irish Defence Forces Veterans News https://t.co/o07rK05D3x tells us “a member deployed on ATCP duty may now use force that is reasonable, proportionate and necessary in performing the assigned duties.”

It is hard to believe that this has nothing to do with the backlash the government faced after deploying the Defence Forces for the fuel protest and it’s even harder to believe that they won’t use this as cover to squash future dissent!

The Irish army should never be used against the Irish people. Do you agree?

[Niall Boylan @Niall_Boylan]

OMG 😳 We are fools to accept this. 91k pay rise to 410k while most struggle to pay the ever rising electric bill. This just sums up Ireland.

https://t.co/XDnh6xJ46c

[Ken O’Flynn TD @kenoflynnTD]

ESB CEO gets a €92,000 pay rise to €410,000. A 29% jump, signed off by Government.

Almost 320,000 households are in arrears on their electricity bills.

Reward at the top, hardship at the kitchen table. I will be raising this in the Dáil.

[J.K. Lunden @Jklunden]

My heart is full today.
We will take this breakthrough.

RTÉ, The Irish Times, The Independent, Newstalk,
county councils and others vilified us, accused us of spreading misinformation, and tried to tear us down. Georgina Heffernan stood apart. She published the truth.

Natural Women's Council interview was also referenced.

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[Ken O’Flynn TD @kenoflynnTD]

The Dept of Housing has spent 9 years funding housing research with the ESRI.

In 9 years it has never once studied whether housing is driving young Irish people to emigrate.

Then in the same reply, it waves the link away.

You cannot plead ignorance and claim certainty in the same breath.

[Mandy Gall @TheMandyGall]

Remember that time this IPAS owner tried to squeeze 500 men into an old paint factory in Coolock, and RTE rolled him out to make people feel sorry for him 😂

[Dr Gerard Waters ,GP @OTURISK]

The vast majority of the population were incapable of understanding the stupidity,laziness,greed ,cowardice and dishonesty of the medical profession in 2020. They implicitly trusted their doctors particularly the perceived family friends in the community. Boy did they have an eye opener in the last couple of years when they learned of the massive betrayal by those very people.

[Elaine Mullally ☘️ @mullallyelaine]

Reported crimes committed by foreign nationals in Ireland for the month of July 2026.

There were 69 reported cases of crimes committed by foreign nationals during the month of July. Please watch and share this video!

Thank you to Laois (Portarlington) Cllr. @AidanMullins7 for compiling this data.

We are calling on the Irish Governmet to collect and publish transparent data on the nationality of all crimes committed in Ireland.

[Mandy Gall @TheMandyGall]

Omg @virginmedia why don't ye show @rte up and have this man on...or are ye all the same

[J.K. Lunden @Jklunden]

Never forget. a

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

Riding through the dead of night, under the moonlit skies of 18th century Ireland, they came. Disguised in masks and white smocks over their clothes these faceless rural avengers called themselves na Buachaillí Bána, the Whiteboys.

Emerging in the 1760s, first in Tipperary and soon across Munster and Leinster, the Whiteboys were not rebels seeking revolution but tenant farmers fighting for survival. Their enemies were not kings or parliaments, but rack-renting landlords, tithe hungry clergy, and the creeping enclosure of land that had once belonged to everyone and now belonged to profit.

Rack-rents were excessively high rents imposed on tenant farmers by absentee landlords. They bled the land dry, pushing farms to mere subsistence. This practice allowed landlords to maximize profits by exploiting high demand for land and the tenants' lack of tenure security. Rack-rents severely impoverished the rural population and were a primary cause of agrarian unrest.

Making this terrible situation worse were enforced Tithes, paid to the Protestant Church of Ireland by a largely Catholic peasantry. In addition to this were similiarly Priests' dues from their own faith. The knockout blow for rural communities were evictions and enclosures. Cattle replaced people, and grazing commons vanished behind hedges and ditches.

The Whiteboys responded in the only way they could. Their methods were brutal, theatrical, and symbolic. They levelled fences that enclosed once common land, tore down walls, and filled in ditches in what became known as “levelling.” They hamstrung cattle, not out of cruelty, but as protest against the economic shift to pasture farming. They issued threatening letters, written in florid, apocalyptic tones and signed by mythical figures like Captain Moonlight or Queen Sive Oultagh’s children.

They marched through villages in military formation, fifes playing, banners flying in an eerie pantomime of rebellion. They burned houses, freed prisoners, and brought a terrifying kind of justice to the landlords, tithe collectors, and “land grabbers” who dared take over evicted farms.

While their tactics unsettled both the authorities and the Catholic hierarchy, the Whiteboys weren’t anarchists. They weren’t trying to topple the state. They were defending a way of life they saw being destroyed. Though predominantly Catholic, their ranks could include Protestants too. What bound them together wasn’t religion, but class survival and a common moral cause.

The British response was swift and harsh. Troops were dispatched. Special laws, known as the Whiteboy Acts, were passed to allow for arrest without warrant, night raids, and brutal punishment. Some Whiteboys were executed. Others were transported to Australia, shipped across the world for the crime of demanding dignity.

The three great waves of Whiteboy activity were 1761–64, 1770–76, and 1784–86 but the term Whiteboyism became synonymous with rural unrest and secret justice. To some they were savages. To others, folk heroes. But to the history of Ireland, the Whiteboys remain a stark reminder of what happens when Irish people are cornered.

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[John Duggan @JohnDugganSport]

It now seems that when you join the dots, the 2026 World Cup was a glossy brochure for private investors to parasite off the game of football in the future. The absurd ticket prices, the hydration breaks, the half time show, the bending of the rules for entertainment, not sport.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Norman Jackson climbed out of a Lancaster bomber onto the wing, in the freezing slipstream, four miles above Germany, to put out an engine fire with a hand extinguisher while the aircraft flew on through the night. It is one of the most physically unbelievable acts of courage in the history of the air war, and the fact that he survived it at all is a miracle.

Jackson was a flight engineer, and by April 1944 he had already finished his tour of 30 missions. He did not have to fly again. But his crew still had sorties to complete, and he would not let them go without him, so he volunteered for one more, a raid on Schweinfurt. On the way home a German night fighter tore into them, ripped open the wing, and set the fuel tank ablaze. A wing fire on a bomber full of fuel meant the aircraft would explode within minutes. Everyone aboard knew it.

Jackson, already wounded by shell splinters, did the only thing that might save them. He got a fire extinguisher, strapped on his parachute, and had his crewmates feed the rip cord out slowly so his canopy would billow behind him as an anchor. Then he pushed himself out through the hatch into a 200 mile an hour wind and hauled himself out onto the wing of the flying bomber, in the dark, at 20,000 feet, and started fighting the fire by hand.

He nearly did it. He got the extinguisher onto the flames and had the fire coming under control. Then the night fighter swung back for another pass and raked the aircraft again. Jackson was hit in the legs, the fire flared back up and burned his hands and face, and he was swept off the wing into the night. His parachute, already burned by the fire, streamed out only partly open and smouldering.

And he lived. He fell four miles with a half-burned parachute and hit the ground with a broken ankle, a shattered leg, and terrible burns, but alive. The Germans found him and he spent ten months in hospital before a POW camp, from which he later escaped. His own crew, who bailed out and assumed he was dead, survived to tell what he had done, and that is the only reason the story is known.

They gave Norman Jackson the Victoria Cross. He climbed onto the wing of a burning aircraft in flight to save his friends, and then fell out of the sky on fire, and got up and walked away from it.