Beware of sophisticated online scams as we head towards #COP28
The latest involves contacting people in Ireland to tell them that they owe people in Africa money for bad weather.
MARGARET HICKEY asks 'What's the T', Norma? As in the Truth?
"Norma’s glassy-eyed evasiveness in the face of Ben Scallan's persistence should trigger a wider discussion about integrity and accountability in Irish politics."
https://t.co/HbYpW0aW8Z
@dublincomments I'd say we're already doing it.
It would be cruel and unkind to prevent those fleeing persecution from notifying their relatives that they gave succeeded in entering Ireland illegally and that their application for asylum has begun.
I’d nearly say that parents have finally made it onto the radar of @GovIE after seeing this.
I have pointed out to this Minister on a number of occasions that no parent ever consented to involving our children in the National LGBTIQ+ Inclusion Strategy through Bi Cineálta/Cineáltas, which she published last summer. There was no mention of our oversight then!
Perhaps it is time to delete #BiCineálta and suspend that National (and EU) Strategy until the overreach has been corrected?
I really enjoy these posts by @Ben_Scallan. I always wonder if his peers have similar questions or do they just look at the ground when he speaks?
@ColetteColfer Thanks Colette. I think your first communication did as you describe it. Maybe we agree. Trans girls are girls and enjoy the human right of sport to compete and have fun. Have a good weekend.
Indian flasher came her for a better life.
"Patrick Flynn, defending, said his client is an Indian national who had arrived in Ireland a month earlier to study at the Smurfit business school in UCD and was living in the Smithfield area at the time."
https://t.co/Ji8TC2wPNG
@NewstalkFM Full disclosure of the exact number of in-scope beverage containers (the total “placed on the market” denominator underpinning Ireland’s Deposit Return Scheme) has never been published as a standalone, clearly-stated annual figure.
#Scam
This is just SO realistic.
I can totally sympathise with anyone who has been so cruelly conned out of their life savings, not.
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(An ad on GMAIL)
METHODOLOGICAL REASONS WHY IRELAND'S OFFICIAL IMMIGRATION STATISTICS ARE STRUCTURALLY INACCCURATE
-5 Factors which indicate its flaws
A. Lack of Population Register
-Ireland is the only major EU country without a population register — most EU states use administrative registers (population, foreigners, health, tax); Ireland uses a household survey (LFS)
- LFS-based estimation is inherently less accurate than register-based methods and systematically produces lower figures
B. Undocumented/Irregular Migrants
- Visa overstayers and undocumented residents are entirely invisible to the methodology — no official estimate has ever been attempted by the Department of Justice
- The only stock estimates come from NGO residual methods (MRCI: 15,000–26,000), which are themselves derived from UK research coefficients, not Irish data
- The 2022 regularisation scheme (4,710 granted status) provides only a hard floor — excludes those too recent, ineligible, fearful, or unaware
C. Foreign Students
- Sub-12-month residents (language school students, short-term courses) are excluded by definition. Some may overstay visa or change visa status to long term when already in country
- Education datasets were only incorporated into the experimental administrative methodology recently and with lag
D. Ukrainian/Temporary Protection
- Ukrainian Temporary Protection beneficiaries were partially and inconsistently incorporated across years
- ~84,100 Ukrainians estimated still present by early 2026, with 121,048 PPSNs issued — only partially captured in flow figures
E. Eurostat Divergence
- Eurostat's DEMOBAL (residual) net migration figure is substantially higher than the CSO figure — the gap likely partially represents the true undercount (although as illegal migrants still not included, along with some other groups, these statistics are also likely an undercount)
- The CSO submits its own survey data to Eurostat's POPSTAT flows, so Eurostat flow data does not independently correct the problem
- Eurostat POPSTAT data lags 12–18 months, making recent years unavailable
A man who has been charged in relation to a "frenzied rampage" connected to the death of Qayyum Balogun on Dublin's Clarendon Street has been admitted to bail.
https://t.co/B6ds0PSyvW
Ireland's and Europe's media, in concert with EU policy, guided by the UN, supports the ethnic replacement of European people in their own countries.
It is not a far right position to acknowledge this and object to it.
Then she tried to flip responsibility for this onto parents.
The same parents that foolishly trust that the Minister for Children might protect the interests of children.
"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."