Siobháin

Busy working mum. RT is not an endorsement. A 'like' means I read your tweet, I may or may not agree with it. I enjoy reading opposing arguements on same topic.

[Siobháin @Lovesaholiday]

Google's age verification requires either a selfie or official photo ID to prove you're not a child. If you don't volunteer either, your settings are automatically changed. Looks like it's not just social media that will require ID.

[Siobháin @Lovesaholiday]

Going to miss social media. Will delete accounts on principle when the time comes to prove my age.

[Siobháin @Lovesaholiday]

@CormacLucey @ronanlyons Elderly distant relation in UK downsized to a 1 bedroom property. Biggest mistake she ever made. Lost her neighbours & community. Her family lived a distance away and could no longer stay over. Visits became rare. Her church was her only real support.

[Siobháin @Lovesaholiday]

@RonanMullen I suspect social media companies aren't kicking up a huge fuss about this as they will benefit from adults having to upload their Passports/Driving Licence to continue to use apps. On a different note - hackers will get extra data on us too!

[Siobháin @Lovesaholiday]

Social media platforms seem OK with being banned for the under 16s. No big outcry from META for instance. What long game are they playing? @elonmusk

[Siobháin @Lovesaholiday]

@RonanMullen Disagree on this. The chat features on online games and unfiltered internet is more dangerous yet no real action has been taken. Kids don't look at TV so now their only access to current affairs will be through govt approved apps and govt subsidised news outlets. Very N Korea.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Eighty years ago this country tore up its parks and flower beds to grow food, because it had just learned, the hard way, what happens to an island that cannot feed itself. In 1917, German U-boats came within a few weeks of starving Britain into surrender.

So when war came again, the lesson was already carved deep. They called it Dig for Victory. Allotments on bomb sites, pigs kept in suburban back gardens, every spare scrap of soil turned to production. And the herd and the dairy were treated as exactly what they were, a strategic national asset. Milk came almost entirely from our own fields, protected as a lifeline for the nation's children. Cattle and sheep turned grass that could grow nothing else into meat and milk, into leather for boots and wool for uniforms, food and matériel produced at home while the convoys carrying the rest were being sent to the bottom of the Atlantic.

That homegrown capacity helped keep an island under blockade fed and fighting long enough to win the war, twice over.

The generation that lived it never forgot. Food security is built over decades and lost in a single season, and there is no buying it back once the farms and the skills are gone. An island that leans on the kindness of distant suppliers can be brought to its knees without a single soldier landing.

For a while, the country remembered. It backed its farmers. It valued the man with the herd. It understood that a field full of cattle was the thin line between a nation that feeds itself and a nation that merely hopes.

Then it forgot. Slowly, comfortably, on a full stomach. The shelves were always stocked. The food always arrived from somewhere. A generation grew up that had never once felt the cold fear of an empty larder, and decided, from inside that total security, that the cattle were the problem and the farms could go.

So now we tax, buy out, cull and regulate away the very capacity that two world wars taught us to treasure. On purpose. Proudly. With the serene confidence of people who have never missed a meal and cannot imagine that they ever will.

The grandparents of the people writing these policies dug up their own gardens to keep this country fed. The least their grandchildren could manage is to not dismantle the farms while the lesson is still legible on the war memorials.

[Siobháin @Lovesaholiday]

Reading about @elonmusk becoming a trillionaire - amazing! Also thinking of those born into extreme poverty with no hope of escape. It's a strange world.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

En el este de Camerún, asi se ven las minas de oro, con madres con sus bebés en brazos y niños de menos de 5 años recolectando el mineral en aguas contaminadas, para llenar los bolsillos a los capitalistas.

Esto es el capitalismo, pero como no ves su cadena de producción esclavista en los paises donde los buitres capitalistas saquean los recursos, parece que este otro mundo no existe.

Ya lo decía Lenin hace más de
100 años: "El capitalismo convierte incluso a los niños en mercancía; millones de niños en países colonizados africanos mueren de hambre y trabajan como esclavos para que las damas burguesas de París Ileven seda, oro y diamantes".

[John Dabell @John_Dabell]

Nightmare start to my holiday. All my feed for my feeding tube has been lost by British Airways which means I have nothing to put down my gastrostomy tube for the duration of my holiday.

[nwl @nwl88444048]

Shouldn't the FF justice minister Jim O'Callaghan be making a statement on the Sudanese suspect in the Belfast attack?

When did he fly from Paris to Dublin? On what documentation? Was the airline issued with a €2500 fine (as pertained then, it was increased to €5k in 2024) for failing to check documentation while BOARDING in Paris? Did he seek asylum in Dublin? Where did he live?

And could Jim also give us an update on Khalil Ahmed (24), the Irish citizen detained in Britain in March 2026 under terrorism laws after being found with a large cache of guns and ammunition. When was Ahmed granted Irish citizenship? When did he live in Ireland and where? Is Ireland cooperating with Britain in the investigation.

And finally, could Jim tell us about the 19-year old detained by Gardai three weeks ago as part of a major British prosecution of an Afghan child grooming gang in Norfolk, England. Who is the 19-year old? Where was he living in Ireland and when? The extradition returns to the High Court this morning where a Pushto translator will be attending.

[Laura Perrins BL @LPerrins]

Family of Stephen Ogilvie issue a statement.
Mr Ogilvie lost his left eye in the attack.
In a statement issued through Independent Councillor Stafford Ward, the family of Stephen Ogilvie said that they "want to make it clear that overnight unrest is not welcome".
"We are completely devastated by the horrific attack on our loved one on Kinnaird Avenue. This has been a massive shock to our whole family, and right now, our only priority is being at his bedside and helping him recover.
We want to say a profound thank you to the local people who bravely stepped in during the attack. Your quick actions absolutely saved his life, and we will never forget what you did for him in that moment. We also want to thank the emergency services and the doctors and nurses looking after him.
We are aware of the tensions and talk of protests following this incident. We want to make it absolutely clear that overnight unrest is not welcome, and peaceful protest is the only way forward. We have many migrants who make a deeply valuable contribution to our country, including in our healthcare system and hospitality sector and we depend on them to make our country work. We do not want this terrible tragedy to be used to divide people or fuel hostility.
We are asking the media and the public to please give us some space. We need privacy to focus on our family right now, without cameras or people speculating about what happened.
If you know anything at all about the attack, or saw anything strange near Kinnaird Avenue, please go to the police. Thank you for respecting our privacy."

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

Remember, if it wasn’t for @elonmusk buying Twitter, none of us would have a clue about this horrific attack in North Belfast. It still hasn’t seen the light of day on any MSM TV news station.

Now you know why they are doing everything they can to ban social media.

Start with the kids first, then move up to the rest of us.

[Siobháin @Lovesaholiday]

@Default69202648 Downplaying that horrific attemped beheading? Unfollowing.

[gript @griptmedia]

EXCLUSIVE: "I told her personally" - An ex-Fine Gael Justice Minister said that in 2023 he privately raised a number of controversial books with then-Education Minister Norma Foley, including "What's the T?", telling Gript "I even named the books for her":https://t.co/5MldGKgw6R

[Siobháin @Lovesaholiday]

@MissLauraMarcus As an Irish person I was educated to feel enormous sympathy for the Jewish people and don't know anyone who is anti Jew. We are not rascist against Jews.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[Susanne Delaney @SuzieD755164]

Important:

It is wise to remove videos of this what was perpetrated upon this man. A kind looking, gentle man. A father. Because it is actually only helping the culprits in the long run. Posting their faces can affect the investigation and affect trial. Once they were charged the case is subjudice. We know now who the perpetrators were, so it would be kind to the family to remove the video that will haunt them for eternity. It is adding to their anguish.

Also please donate and share as the financial burden of a funeral can be removed from the family, even if their grief can not and never will be removed.

https://t.co/1upmxFbR96

I offer my deepest sympathies to
the Alexander Coughlan's family (not least his two young children), friends and community. These are the darkest days they will ever have. It will be a very long time before they feel the light upon them again. If ever. Two young children robbed of a father in the most brutal way. Cruel and callous beyond anything I can ever understand or fathom.

A sudden death is hard enough to carry the weight of. A murder is incalcuably heavy. A murder perpetrated in the manner this one was is a weight that no loved one can ever be expected to carry. So many lives shattered and ruined.

Rest In Peace.

[ANTHONY COSTELLO @COSTELLOANTHONY]

A Go Fund Me has been set up by the family of Alexander Coughlan who was killed after a barbaric assault in Blanchardstown on Sunday. Please consider donating or sharing to help ease their burden. Every contribution matters. RIP

#alexandercoughlan

https://t.co/nbzoQup6oF

[El @Ellebelles1]

‘Selfless’ Alexander Coughlan, who died after robbery in Blanchardstown, will be ‘deeply missed’

https://t.co/fUDW5899am