Francis X Kennedy

[Andy Mitten @AndyMitten]

Started telling the players a day in advance that they’re in my list of Manchester United’s greatest players for @TheAthleticFC

Just received this back from number 18, published tomorrow after I’ve spoken to more who played with him.

[Elizalde @ProTraderX619]

Argentina 🇦🇷 vs Paraguay 🇵🇾 in qualifiers, a foul was committed on a Paraguay player and and Argentina proceeded to score after series of long passes.

VAR cancelled Lionel Messi goal because they was a foul far back in the build up to that goal, since possession wasn’t lost.

[Colum Eastwood @columeastwood]

I assume this is a mistake because unity does not require ‘enduring consent’. The parameters are clear in the Good Friday Agreement, the goal posts need to remain where they are.

[Ambassador Edward Walsh @USAmbIreland]

We were honored to have @POTUS send a special message to the people of Ireland for America’s 250th birthday. 🇺🇸 🇮🇪

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

New Website Just Dropped.

This one tracks Ireland’s asylum and immigration statistics using interactive dashboards.

From IPAS spending to deportations, arrivals, PPS numbers. Using the data, we can see:

1) Arrivals from Somalia are up 90% in 2026
2) Backlog of asylum appeals is up 383% since 2023
3) Almost €300m has been paid to owners of CityWest.

It was developed by a friend.

I’m also working with other devs who want to make public data more open. We are all volunteers who care about Ireland.

We receive €0 from Coimisiún na Meán

Isn't it amazing how none of our highly paid media are capable of this type of work? Why is that?

🇮🇪 👨🏻‍💻

[nwl @nwl88444048]

View from the ivory towers of Tara Street...

2,000 words today from the Irish Times on the demise (for now) of Phoenix magazine, which concludes that its downfall primarily stems from the effective elimination of corruption in the State, thanks to tribunals and that. The elimination of corruption means the demand isn't there for a magazine like Phoenix!

Below is an extract of the opinion poll conducted by the Electoral Commission in aftermath of local and European elections in 2024. Outside the ivory towers of Tara Street, does this suggest that corruption in public life is now extinct?

And the Irish Times has the neck to criticise Phoenix for its "fixation" on the "undermining" of Ireland's neutrality. This is the same Irish Times which has a master algorithm to relentlessly promote militarisation and the destruction of the Triple Lock.

The bell has tolled for Phoenix, sure. But the Irish Times is just keeping its head above water thanks to the Government giving it zero VAT in 2023 (worth around €5m year to the group to its bottom line) and in 2026, it will receive €1.259m from Coimisiun na Mean plus €252k in a joint grant with Connacht Tribune. We'd estimate paper sales of its main paper at less than 30,000 a day, and would take the digital subs claims with a desert-sized helping of salt. Tara Towers isn't immune from the bell-tolling itself.

[Peadar Tóibín TD @Toibin1]

FG Minister Helen McEntee was asked on RTE Radio, would the government support a new EU tax.

She didn't answer.

She wasn't really pushed for an answer.

There is absolutely no way we should have an EU tax.

[Mr. KMG @KissMyGritsFL]

@libsoftiktok Us normal gays want nothing to do with the mentally deranged TQ+ freaks.

[Pat Leahy @PatLeahyIT]

https://t.co/Kv2ty3w0BS

I'm very sorry to see this. The Phoenix gave me my first job in grown-up journalism and I spent three very happy years there. John Mulcahy, Paddy Prendiville and Paul Farrell were great teachers and the magazine was a unique voice in Irish journalism

[Gays For Trump @GaysForTrump]

Nithya Raman even LOST her own district (CD-4) to Spencer Pratt and Karan Bass, but you expect us to believe she beat them BOTH by winning 40% of the vote in the rest of the city by mail-in ballots? 🧐

[Global Dissident @GlobalDiss]

🚨🇧🇪 BRUSSELS IN MELTDOWN

The capital of the EU has descended into CHAOS.

Fires in the streets. Barricades going up. Property damaged.

This is the city that lectures Europe on how to run itself.

Brussels can't even keep order in its own backyard.

[gript @griptmedia]

"Outrageous": @Ben_Scallan grills Children's Minister Norma Foley after RTÉ promoted a book instructing under-16s on how to engage in explicit activities:

"I don't know that book, I'm not familiar with it -"

"Minister, I actually emailed your office about this ahead of time."

[Old Gassy @OldGassy1984]

Nicola Sturgeon finds herself struggling to log in to a website...

[Francis X Kennedy @FXKennedy]

@MarioNawfal We should normalise there being consequences for false accusations - otherwise there will always be a small number of people who use them cynically and strategically to gain advantage or, if they are sociopaths, for social drama/mental health reasons.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 U.S. teacher was falsely accused of sexual abuse when she took an energy drink away from a pupil.

Despite cameras proving she wasn't even in school on the day of the alleged offence, she was put on administrative leave.

[Antonia Leslie @antonia_leslie]

Hi John, Irish Jew here, daughter of a German born Holocaust survivor and no, I have never experienced antisemitism here in Ireland. I'm very happy with our boycott of the Eurovision and Richie Sadler's comments re the football match. I'm extremely proud of my fellow Irish and their stand against genocide. As my late mother taught me.."Never again means never again..to anyone ..anywhere... ever.." I hope this clarifies the issue for you.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

The audacity here is actually off the charts.

Return is a “Not-for-profit” funded by the public. They made €100m in year one.

This money stays on their balance sheet. It doesn’t go back to the State.

But €100m isn’t enough. They wanted tax exemptions too.

So using your money they hired a Fine Gael councillor to go and lobby his Fine Gael colleague who was Minister for State.

Both the councillor & Minister also paid entirely by you.

Throughout this chain of events Not a single extra euro in value was generated for the State.

No innovation,
No entrepreneurship
Just leeching & looting of the taxpayer.

Does anyone care ???

[Francis X Kennedy @FXKennedy]

@libsoftiktok @grok Is this for real?

[Antonello Guerrera @antoguerrera]

Former Ferrari chairman Montezemolo tears the new electric Ferrari “Luce” apart:

“I cannot say what I really think: I would harm Ferrari. We risk the destruction of a legend. So sorry. Take the Prancing Horse off. At least the Chinese won’t copy this car”

[When Football Was Better @FootballInT80s]

Where were you on 26/05/1999?

If you’re a Manchester United fan, that day will be etched in your memory forever.

Their first UEFA Champions League Final for 31 years appeared to be heading for heartbreak.

Trailing 1-0 to German giants Bayern Munich going into injury time, it seemed that Alex Ferguson’s men had nothing left….

Clive Tyldesley, sounding magnificent on comms, takes the story up.