Lou Minus

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@243_cal Daily reminder:

Mass surveillance isn't intended for criminals. It's intended for you.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

It’s time mainstream media and senior politicians started openly discussing the power, influence & funding of NGOs.

Ireland’s crime crisis is only going to get worse until we build a new prison.

The CSO’s own statistics tell show criminality is a career that goes unpunished.

Spending 4x more on IPAS centres than prisons is a policy choice.

Tolerating crime is a policy choice.

Refusing to discuss the problem is cowardice.

Make Crime illegal.

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

Brazilian woman murdered in #Limerick

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

Non national in #Galway abducted girl and held her for 14 hours.

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@nwbble - Female told not to touch apple

- Female doesn't listen and
takes apple, dooming humanity to a life of toil and hardship.

Literally nothing has changed. There's nothing new under the sun.

[The Irish Political Analyst @AhernHerbe8277]

The Labour Market isn't booming.
In fact it has entered a sustained period of consistent decline:

-Unemployment has risen 25% over the past 24 months.

CSO figures:
- In July 2026, the Monthly Unemployment Rate was 5.1%, up from 5.0% in both June 2026 and July 2025.
- In terms of age, the monthly unemployment rate for people aged 15-24 years (Youth Unemployment Rate) was 12.3%, up from a revised rate of 11.8% in June
- The employment rate, which measured labour force participation for people aged 15 to 64 years was 74.3% in Q2 2026, down from 74.7% in Q2 2025.
The employment rate is usually seen by economists as a better indicator of unemployment than the Unemployment Rate, as it includes the long term unemployed who have given up looking for a job.
- The estimated labour market participation rate in Q2 2026 was 66.0%, down from 66.4% in Q2 2025.
Live Register —
- The seasonally adjusted Live Register total for July 2026 was 174,500 people, up by 1,200 people from June 2026.
- The unadjusted Live Register total stood at 191,880 people for July 2026, of which 52.2% were male and 73.4% were Irish. This was an increase of 6,253 people or 3.4% when compared with July 2025.
- The 25-34 years age group made up the largest number of those on the Live Register in July 2026 at 47,045 people or 24.5% of the total.
- The counties that recorded the largest percentage increases in the number of people on the Live Register in the 12 months to July 2026 were Wexford (+7.2%) and Longford (+6.2%), while the largest decreases were in Monaghan (-4.1%) and Clare (-4.0%).

The reason people can't get jobs?
There aren't many jobs around.

[Cllr Gavin Pepper @gavpepper85]

🇮🇪 THE IRISH PUBLIC DESERVE TO KNOW WHAT OUR COURT INTERPRETER BILL IS COSTING

I went looking for the actual figures on what the Courts Service has been spending on translators and interpreters.

These are figures obtained from the Courts Service through Freedom of Information requests:

2020 — €1.20 million
2021 — €1.57 million
2022 — €1.96 million
2023 — €1.93 million
2024 — €2.99 million
January–June 2025 alone — €2.09 million

That is approximately €11.74 MILLION between 2020 and June 2025.

And look at the increase.

The annual bill was about €1.2 million in 2020. By 2024 it had reached almost €3 million.

In criminal proceedings, where an interpreter is required, the cost is borne by the State through the Courts Service.

Now, to be absolutely accurate, the Courts Service does not publicly provide a proper breakdown showing exactly how much of the overall interpreter bill relates to criminal cases alone, separate from every other type of court proceeding.

And that itself raises a question.

When millions of euro of taxpayers' money are being spent every year, surely the Irish public is entitled to a clear breakdown showing:

How much is being spent specifically in criminal cases?
How many interpreters are being paid for?
What languages are being requested?
And how much is being spent on each language?

This isn't about whether somebody is entitled to understand criminal proceedings — of course they must be able to understand the case against them.

It's about transparency and public money.

If the State is spending millions every year, the taxpayers funding it should be able to see exactly where that money is going.

Sources: Courts Service Freedom of Information figures and RTÉ Investigates.

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@soundmigration I'll take things that never happened for $500, Alex.

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@jamesfallon40 @patricej36 Some people just do things for pure love for the game.

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@miranowhere

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@patricej36

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@AnthonyLCasey @rtenews

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@punishablepress

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@amanda2026ie Lads, has he got fake tan on?

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@TheFlareNews - Take away Soc Media
- Now the prisoners in Plato's cave have no more shadows on the wall to stare at and and keep them distracted any longer.

Bold strategy, let's see how it plays out.

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@smsll555 - Literally said two posts previously that we'd have to leave the EU

- Proceeds to pose a question, hurr durr how can we do that when we're in the EU

You're literally a moron

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

- Sending back foreign criminals

And Libertarian shows his TRUE FORM.

This is Libertarianism, Ireland isn't the ancient ancestral homeland to an ethnic people. It's a mere economic zone. You can come here as long as you're not a criminal.

[smsll @smsll555]

@Satiric_Hylic @EireNua1 We're trying to tell you it won't, you absolute spa gobshite. Strong borders, free markets, decentralization, proper borders and sending back foreign criminals if convicted will save us. YOU're plan won't work, simple as. What the hell is your preferred economic model anyway?

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@smsll555 - I remember what you said.

- Literally ignored what I said and posed a question that was already answered two posts back

- Insists he remembers

Ok non

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

Woman's body discovered in #Limerick

[nwl @nwl88444048]

Before sharing this banned video today, we did consider its content.

Truth is, this video is only banned in Ireland. It is not banned in UK or USA or EU because presumably it doesn't breach Youtube community standards in those jurisdictions.

Whilst the video is selective in its narrative, it doesn't appear to contain significantly fabricated content, and certainly doesn't appear to show unlawful content.

If the video were removed for legal reasons, then we wouldn't have shared it. But a removal at the behest of the Irish government only, which doesn't have an official or lawful role as censor, just invites curiosity.

[Lou Minus @Satiric_Hylic]

@TheFlareNews