Annoying that the minister cannot answer the question satisfactorily.
It's clear to me that both the state broadcaster and the department are promoting reading content that is unsuitable for children.
#LeaveTheKidsAlone
The Irish Govt's decision to join the EU Migration Pact could go down as one of worst decisions in the history of the State.
We had the option to Opt-Out
We are not in Schengen
We have a common travel area with the UK
The lack of debate, media attention and opposition is alarming.
I made this vide exactly 2 years ago:
A post every Irish person should read from a mother destined to be alone in her old age with her children scattered around the globe. An increasingly common phenomenon.
Ireland is no land for young people.
This…
Is one of the most pathetic and spineless displays of moral cowardice I have ever seen in my entire life.
Yes, she is telling the truth - it is truly an honest answer - she really hasn’t read the book.
Because she has likely quite consciously and deliberately avoided putting her eyes near the damned thing so she could say she doesn’t know anything about it…
Is there no limit to these people’s deliberate dereliction of duty?
Thousands or euros spent on mobile phone pouches for schools…
Why?
As much probably to avoid students having the ability to record lessons and communicate immediately with their parents - rightly or wrongly.
However, whatever the motivation, it’s a serious approach to a problem.
Why didn’t she say that any parent who disapproves of these explicit books can have them sealed up with the mobile phone pouches?
Or offer some kind of serious answer? Or even suggest that she’d condescend to look into the matter?
Because she is too afraid and too concerned with her own political career to risk taking on the forces that are responsible for this - and may indeed not care what Irish schoolchildren are exposed to.
Where exactly does the buck stop?
Why are these ludicrous individuals continuing to remain in their positions?
Outrageous is putting it mildly.
These people are going to be the death of this country by a thousand cuts and a thousand abdications of their professional and ethical responsibilities.
These positions were not created with a view to simply using them as a gateway for craven career bureaucrats to slide into to a job in a place like the world bank when they get their golden ticket in the post…
This same farcical, time wasting approach is ubiquitous throughout the government and the political establishment.
Vote them out very quickly indeed - and put serious people in who will make a serious attempt to do their jobs.
@independent_ire@AontuIE@IrexitFreedom
"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."
The West has created an utterly evil state religion where an accusation of “racism” is the gravest offense that can be committed, even worse than rape or murder!
So if police show up at a crime scene and a British boy is bleeding out and an immigrant says the British boy is racist the cops will cuff the dying British boy.
In case you missed it, today an activist journalist working for the Irish Times which is funded by the government and an Anarchist activist working for an NGO which is funded by the government tried to write a hit piece about the independent author and journalist who wrote a book about how the government, NGOs and the media are Vandalising Ireland.
I can't think of a better advertisement for that book.
Make sure you have your copy!
The UK police officer who responded "I don't think you have mate" to a young man who told him he had been stabbed should face criminal charges for negligence and his role in Henry Nowak's death.
But he's only a symptom of the problem. The problem is their training, where they are trained - not even consciously - to see white people as the villains and minorities as the victims. That will take decades to unwind.
So apparently this - Mark Malone - is the guy who has now made a fool of both Conor Gallagher and Hugh Linehan at the Irish Times.
He is a decades-long anarchist who has a profile and writings on the extremist Anarchist Library online. He is now receiving NGO (Irish taxpayer) funding to smear regular Irish people like a pound shop SPLC.
Here he is defaming and utterly mischaracterising my peer-reviewed research on Antifa last December in words almost identical to Hugh Linehan’s from his podcast. It’s clear he is extremely angry that my research outed fellow hard left activists in the US and now he - and the IT - have made me a target because of it.
An anarchist extremist leading the Irish Times by the nose. My, how far the “paper of record” has fallen.
Call me old fashioned but using a radical left Anarchist without any credentials in extremism studies or a related field, without any academic or notable written output on the topic that would elevate him above curious activist status, and who uses his social media to stir up rage and label people, as your go-to for unbiased analysis of the Irish 'far right' makes the Irish Times look, well, activist-driven. 🤷♂️
This is incorrect and defamatory.
1. Used 16 prominent self-identifying Antifa accounts as seed accounts gathering their follows and followers.
2. I then used social network mapping software - industry standard at the time, Gephi - to apply a K-core decomposition model which resulted in a network of 962 highly connected accounts for analysis.
3. I then applied various centrality (degree, eigenvector) measures to identify various networks and prominent individuals within the stable core of 962.
4 I then applied linguistic/text analysis of bios & posts of those in the core to classify: Cognitive and Violent extremists.
My methodology was both groundbreaking as it took methods applied in research on far-right and Islamic terror networks and applied it to Antifa, and was in line with methodological best practice at that time.
The research passed double blind peer review and was published in Social Network Analysis and Mining (2022).
You have both mischaracterised and dismissed my research and I now expect you to retract this and apologise. You hold a position in a publicly-funded NGO dealing with extremism but have not produced a comparative academic paper to mine, yet you have diminished mine. Your credibility in your role is now on the line. Retract and apologise.
Culture, history, landscape and archaeology belong to all the children of the nation and as such should be preserved and embodied by all parties of a nation.
But since the late 1990s, as FF/G evolved into globalist parties with a chronic addiction to FDI, they shedded their care for the nation in pursuit of GDP. Care for the nation fell by default, to the opposition and Sinn Fein who, being an all things to all people party, were happy to pretend to be a nationalist party also. They are not.
Since the 1970s, SF have evolved into a socialist 32-county republican party. There is no rooted love for the nation there. The nation and it's cultural elements are simply tools, no, weapons to achieve their goals.
This is best exemplified in their promotion of the Irish language. The promote this above any other element of Irish national identity because it is accessible to anyone anywhere. If any 'refugee' or immigrant of any stripe comes to Ireland and learns the language, SF can say that they're more Irish than the Irish themselves.
This weaponisation of Irish for political ends is neatly exemplified by the national media's promotion of Kneecap ostensibly because they rap in Irish but mainly because of their socialist political ideology.
Language is a cornerstone of identity but alone it is hugely diminished in its power. Were the German and Swedish linguists that studied Irish through the 1960s and 1970s Irish for having studied it? No.
A nationalist party is a party that loves and protects, in the deepest possible way, all of the elements of the nation. It's people, their music and dance, their customs and culture as held orally and in writing, as embedded in the important landscapes, monuments and accumulated experiences of every generation of Irish people that have lived on the island of Ireland stretching back millennia.
Such a party doesn't only protect the past as the root of Irish identity in the present but conducts the business of politics in a serious and clear-eyed manner that ensures the survival and thriving of the nation and its people into the future. They see politics as a far more than a job or God-forbid, a career. They see it as an almost spiritual act of service.
Nationalism is love. A true nationalist party is a party of love.
Re-Turn:
Bin raiding is now a primary source of litter across Dublin, costing taxpayers an extra €500k+.
Medical experts have called for the introduction of “infection-control measures” because bottles are toxic.
Shops are being charged 2.2c per container. This fee is set to rise.
Meanwhile ReTurn sits on €100m cash.
5 key Management paid €1.1million.
12 Non-Executive directors share €600k
PR Budge: €4.6million
Operation Support: €1.4million
Office & Admin: €1.8million
IT costs: €2.8million
What is “operation support”??
On top of all this the board decided they needed to start a lobbying campaign to get VAT tax exemptions.
So they hired a Fine Gael councillor to lobby Fine Gael Ministers.
Take a minute to think about all of this.
This is quintessential Ireland 2026.
We are living through a lost decade of abundant wealth and surplus.
No new roads.
No public transport.
No schools, teachers, houses
Instead we get ReTurn.
We get ReThink, IHREC, IPAS, SEIC, Coimisiún na Meán & hundreds of NGOs
None of these entities are innovating or creating real productive employment.
American capitalism is fuelling Irish socialism.
What a “hateful” comment to make!
This is obviously just the enthusiastic celebration of a diverse and unique subculture growing in Europe.
We should, of course, embrace it; rather than engaging in narrow-minded (and potentially racist?) condemnation!
Moreover, these people have clearly sacrificed their important time and effort into producing such modern art on the streets, and MUST be financially compensated IMMEDIATELY!
I propose routing some public money through an appropriate and trustworthy NGO, who will distribute the funds appropriately…
🃏🃏🃏
Citizen taxpayers, I guess the joke will be on you - again! 🫵
You gonna pay?
I hadn’t realised this.
Re-Turn is making bin charges more expensive.
Bin companies are losing €15m in revenue from aluminium cans and PET bottles. The cans are worth €800 - €1400 a tonne & bottles €500.
So we are paying twice!
Deposit charge + higher bin charge.
I think we need to start a Boycott.