Michelle

Can laugh at myself, but equally at others 🤣

[Seóirse Sparks @SeoirseSpark2]

From an ambulance driver!

Eight hours on the road to Galway and back - and the world felt both very small and very exposed...

There is something surreal about watching a country unfold through the narrow frame of an ambulance window.

Four hours there - and four hours back - sirens at intervals, the low hum of urgency never quite settling - while outside, tractors and articulated lorries line the routes in quiet defiance. Farmers and drivers, livelihoods pressed to the edge by the blunt arithmetic of fuel prices. A country paused... A country pushing back...

And yet - something else.

When the blue lights cut through the slow tide of protest, the road opened.

Not reluctantly. Not grudgingly. Instinctively.

Engines idled. Gaps appeared. Hands signalled. A passage was made.

A quiet choreography of respect, repeated across miles of road. No announcements. No negotiation. Just a shared understanding that, whatever else is happening, some things come first.

In that moment, whatever grievances held those roads in place yielded to something older, deeper - an unspoken social contract. That life takes precedence. That urgency, real human urgency, still matters.

Inside the ambulance, time moves differently. Suspended. Clinical. Personal.

You become acutely aware of your own fragility - your body reduced to numbers, rhythms, probabilities. A fast-tracked angiogram awaits. Efficient. Necessary. Almost transactional.

And yet, layered over it all is a wider unease - not just about the heart, but about the world it exists within.

Because beyond the blue lights and the motorway miles, something else is unfolding.

Across the Atlantic, Donald Trump dominates the airwaves... again - language stripped of diplomacy, restraint, or anything resembling statesmanship. Threats of ending civilisations issued with a casualness that would once have been unthinkable, now folded into the daily churn of headlines. The stakes, of course, remain very real.

And so the dissonance sharpens.

A man in an ambulance, heading west, thinking about inflammation and arteries -
while a world leader speaks in tones that inflame nations.

Farmers block roads because they can no longer afford to move forward -
yet those same farmers move without hesitation when a life is in motion...

The first week of April feels less like a moment in time and more like a fault line - between noise and substance, performance and principle, power and responsibility.

There was a time - not perfect, not innocent - but steadier. When politics, for all its flaws, at least aspired to be just... 'boring'. Competent. Measured. When the adults, however imperfect, held the room.

Now it often feels like the room has been handed over.

And yet, on a blocked road somewhere between east and west, there was a reminder:

When the moment truly mattered -
when it was life or delay, urgency or obstruction -
it was not the powerful who led.

It was ordinary people, without hesitation, without announcement, without ego,
who cleared the way.

Not for recognition. Not for credit. But because it was the right thing to do.

And that should give us pause.

Because if the baseline of leadership has now been set by those standing quietly at the side of the road - instinctive, grounded, decent - then the question is no longer what leadership looks like.

The question is why so many of those in power fall so far short of it...
MSM won't publish this,,

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

Dear @MichealMartinTD

This is how you lead

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

I couldn’t care less if people aren’t happy with me posting that tourism is decimated in this country and Killarney, like everywhere in Ireland is feeling the brunt of it too

I said back in mid Feb that the CSO figures would be the same as January’s awful stats if not worse and yet again, here are the government official stats proving what I said would happen 6 weeks after I said it would

This is a bloody EMERGENCY now at this stage. Tourism down 30% and spend down likewise for Feb 25 compared to Feb 24

This is all on this useless government whose policies have decimated our industry. March will be no different and April is looking awful from my forecasts.

I don’t care if they don’t like me screaming it out loud. I don’t care if they want me to shut up. I am the only person calling this out and we are now in crisis mode and it is now spilling out into other industries who are also feeling the squeeze too

What has to happen for more people to stand up and hold our pathetic government accountable? Does everyone need to lose their job? Do we need another 200,000 illegal immigrants to move in and take up our remaining tourist accommodation? Do more family run businesses need to go bust? Does everyone’s child need to leave Ireland? Do we need more politicians to stick their two fingers up at us?

Like seriously, wtf needs to happen for people in this country to realise the absolute hellhole of a path this country is on and wake up and do something about it.

Look at these government official stats!!!!

TOURISM DOWN 30% FEBRUARY 2025 COMPARED TO FEBRUARY 2024

LOOK AT IT FFS!!!

[Michelle @Shell_we_dance5]

@Leoyourleader He’s a fucking retard

[Michelle @Shell_we_dance5]

@3bucksleft1 Well said

[Niall Boylan @Niall_Boylan]

RTE have lost all credibility with this dramatic nonsense over a bit of snow. So the new buzz words are “multi-weather hazard event”. Ireland has always 4 seasons in one day. They are damaging small business all over the country with this catastrophising of natural weather.

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

Dear Irish politicians.

Em, just wondering when ye plan on forming a government. Don’t mean to rush ye or anything. But it’s been about 5 weeks since the general elections and you were all kinda saying that you were gonna do wonders for small businesses and whilst yer still showing no sign of forming a government, we’re kinda still trying to keep our heads above water and keep the doors open

Just wondering if ye were serious about saving so many employers in this country or was it just a kinda thing you said for votes

But don’t worry. No rush, we’ll just keep on battling away I guess

[Michelle @Shell_we_dance5]

@libsoftiktok Retard

[Michelle @Shell_we_dance5]

@greenparty_ie Would you get a grip… no one gives a shit, you complete morons …. Credibility 0

[Michelle @Shell_we_dance5]

@Care2much18 I’ve never heard of this case in Ireland Ever! How tragic and seems so carelessly obvious what happened..

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

What is the point anymore

No one gives a shit

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

😂😂 you gotta laugh at this stage

‘Running out of time????’

It’s bloody freezing every day. Enough of this shite already.

It’s like covid all over again where they had to come up with ‘no symptoms’ being a bloody symptom!!!

It mightn’t feel hot, mightn’t seem hot, mightn’t even look hot, but it’s boiling ok!!!

Oh ok!

[Diana Panchenko 🇺🇦 @Panchenko_X]

Corruption in Ukraine?

You will be shocked!!!

Watch till the end!!!

Please share.

[Steve Jones @Jones787Sj]

Let's go again *hit the button* if you are with David Bellamy.....
I for one say aye.....

[MichaeloKeeffe @Mick_O_Keeffe]

Irish people listen up ;

You have good hearts and you are kind people but that will be your downfall.

Hundreds of thousands of foreigners are entering Ireland every year with the intention of making our home theirs.

I've seen a lot of people be very easily manipulated into accepting asylum seekers or refugees when they're told that they are families or they come from Palestine or Ukraine.

Families use more resources than anyone. Their young boys will grow up to be men who resent you. You are competing with them for housing and doctors etc.

Then Palestinians, firstly most of them aren't from Palestine. They're just saying that that to pull on your heart strings. Secondly, why would they not resettle in a nearby muslim country? 🤔

In Kerry muslims have raised over €1.1 million to expand their Islamic center.

We are being replaced in our own country and your kindness only hastens that replacement.

We can have our own country where our children have a future, or we can be kind to foreigners.

[Erin Hanzo @ManDearSir]

The Man In The Hat Has Been Identified

UK Private Security Services.
Working here with Birmingham FC.

The Black And Tans Have Returned

#IrelandisFull #Clonmel
#IrelandBelongsToTheIrish

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

Whatever happens with the transfers now, @Niall_Boylan is an absolute legend for doing so incredibly well. To get this far is some achievement considering being completely blanked by RTÉ Prime Time

Fought like an absolute gent and has won so much support from so many. Even those that have you so much stick secretly admire you for getting this far

In the laps of the gods now but you can be very proud of your first election campaign

Btw, TD Boylan has a catchy ring to it too……..

[Niall Boylan @Niall_Boylan]

You couldn’t make this up:
Reckless spending of taxpayers money as €600 a week is spent on asylum seekers in Ireland, and the majority should not even be in the country. Do we spend €600 a week on every pensioner, on children with special needs or disabilities, on our own citizens who need help? No, we don’t!

I would only spend the €600 once, and that’s to escort failed and unqualified asylum seekers to the nearest airport and back to where they came from.

I implore you to send a clear message to the government, Sinn Féin, Labour, Social Democrats, and People Before Profit: do not give them or any of their local or EU candidates your vote on Friday.

#VoteNiallBoylanNo1