That brutal Belfast stabbing makes it to the top of the web editions of @thetimes and @Telegraph but neither @IrishTimes nor @Independent_ie lead with it. We live in a land of carefully curated news where political values matter more than news values. @RuadhanIT@cormacbourke
Aontú submitted a bill into the Dáil Bill's Office today that seeks to remove Ireland from the EU Migration Pact.
Sign the petition, which has nearly 20,000 signatures.
https://t.co/DUBCiQ05vV
More than 1,600 children in Ireland have now spent over 10 years in State care.
Figures provided to me by Tusla show:
• 4,449 children have been in care for more than 2 years
• 3,203 children have been in care for more than 5 years
• 1,614 children have been in care for more than 10 years
Yet Tusla has confirmed there is currently no national reporting framework for permanency pathways for children in care.
It cannot centrally identify the permanency objective for children in long-term foster care, nor can it provide national data on placement instability or children placed outside their home area due to placement shortages.
This is not about blaming frontline staff, foster carers or social workers.
It is about ensuring that vulnerable children achieve stability, permanence and the best possible future.
If we do not measure outcomes, we cannot know whether the system is delivering them.
I have submitted further Parliamentary Questions seeking improved national reporting and stronger oversight.
#ChildProtection #ChildrenInCare #Tusla #Accountability #Dail #IndependentIreland #KenOFlynnTD
Starmer's regime remanding protesters straight to prison in the wake of Henry Nowak murder.
Prisons are full, yet they found space for this young lad for the "crime" of throwing a beer can.
It hit the floor, that's the instant jail sentence!
This is a mink. Most people never see or hear about them because millions are bred on fur farms, where they spend their lives in cages before being killed for their fur... 😔
Rupert Lowe is the most surgically astute man in Britain’s political arena today. His competence and integrity is overwhelming. This country is remarkably fortunate to have his presence in its hours of need.
Every parent of a child aged 11,12,13 and 14 needs to watch this.
@NormaFoleyTD1
You are a thundering disgrace that this is allowed to happen under your watch. Stop sexualizing our children, stop passing the buck and take accountability for your role as minister. #SPHE
You won't see this on #MSM so share it far and wide.
#ResignFoley
https://t.co/WoqmHAaZRL
Spot on again from Ken O’Flynn.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael want to hand over control of Ireland’s migration policy to the EU via the Asylum Pact so they can shift blame for their catastrophic border management onto the EU.
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Such a powerful message from @VP
This is a shot across the bows for the borderless planet / one- world government / 'humanity is nothing but a data-set' vision that drives so much policy without our awareness....
Thank you jd vance.
Immigration is important and inevitable.
But we need a modernised plan.