A Young Teen Girl Collapses Inside Easons, Blanchardstown Centre - One of Ireland’s Largest Shopping Centres - Convulsing and Foaming at the Mouth. Connolly Hospital, with One of Dublin’s Major Emergency Departments and Ambulance Fleets, Is Minutes Away. 999 Was Called Immediately. No Emergency Response Yet. No Visible First Aid Administered. Now 105 Minutes and Counting.
This evening, at approximately 6.10pm, a young Irish girl collapsed in what staff described to me as a serious medical emergency on the upper floor of Eason’s two-level unit in Blanchardstown Centre.
A 999 call was made.
98 minutes later, there was still no visible emergency medical response at the scene.
Let that sink in.
A child collapsed on the floor of a major shopping centre in Dublin 15. She was unconscious. Her parents were sitting beside her on the floor. Staff had closed the upper level of the store where the incident occurred.
And people still tried to get in.
Not to buy medicine. Not to get food. Not to deal with an emergency of their own.
The upper level of this store sells stationery, envelopes, picture frames and similar retail items. The ground-floor bookshop remained open. This was not a question of essentials. This was not necessity. This was consumer selfishness stripped naked.
The girl was only feet from the entrance. She was plainly visible. Yet people argued with staff that they should still be allowed in, as though a collapsed child on the floor was merely an obstruction between them and stationery.
According to the manager, people did not ask how the girl was. They did not ask whether she was alive, conscious, breathing, safe, or being helped. They wanted what they had come to buy.
That is not merely disappointing. It is obscene.
I am deliberately not showing the girl, her face, her parents, or any identifying image of her in the attached video. This post is not about exploiting a child’s distress. It is about recording the disgrace of what happened around her.
Connolly Hospital is only minutes away from this location. It is a large hospital with a major Emergency Department. In a normal vehicle, it is close. With blue lights, in an emergency, it should feel almost next door.
And yet, 98 minutes after the emergency call, no visible emergency medical response had arrived.
I do not know where exactly the failure occurred. I do not know whether the issue lies with dispatch, capacity, triage, staffing, ambulance availability, or some other breakdown in the system.
But I know what I saw.
A 13-year-old girl collapsed on a shop floor. Her parents sat beside her. Staff tried to protect the scene. Members of the public argued to get past her. And nearly an hour and forty minutes after a 999 call, the emergency response still had not visibly arrived.
This is Ireland in 2026.
A child can collapse in one of Dublin’s largest shopping centres, minutes from a major hospital, and the system can leave her on the floor long enough for strangers to become irritated that they cannot buy envelopes.
It is now approaching two hours and still no emergency medical response.
This is not normal.
This is not acceptable.
And someone needs to answer for it.
Opinion Piece.
Ruth Coppinger’s Non-Binary and Intersex Bill: A Classic Example of Dáil Insanity
Ireland is in crisis. Homelessness has smashed through 17,000 people for the first time in the history of the State, with figures hitting over 17,500 in emergency accommodation by March 2026.
Young people are packing their bags and leaving the country in large numbers, fed up with sky-high rents, unaffordable housing, and a government that seems more interested in virtue signalling than fixing the basics.
And what does Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger think the Dáil should be debating right now?
A private member’s bill to slap an “X” marker on birth certificates and gender recognition certificates for “non-binary” people, while also allowing parents to register intersex children as something other than male or female.
This is not serious lawmaking.
It is ideological theatre.
Coppinger’s proposal would embed the idea that sex is a spectrum and that feelings can override biology on official state documents.
Non-binary is not a medical condition it is a modern social trend, largely driven by online culture and activist pressure.
Intersex conditions are rare disorders of sexual development, not proof that humans come in three or more sexes. They deserve proper medical care, not a legal fiction that rewrites reality for everyone else.
Yet here we are, with a sitting TD demanding that the Irish parliament waste its time rewriting birth certificates to accommodate a tiny activist fringe.
Birth certificates record biological sex for very good reasons: medicine, sports, prisons, single-sex spaces, and statistics that actually matter for policy. Turning them into a feelings-based document does not help intersex people. It erodes the rights and protections built on the binary reality of male and female.
Meanwhile, the real Ireland struggles on.
Families are still living in hotel rooms and cars.
Young graduates and tradespeople are emigrating because they cannot afford to start a life here. The Dáil could be hammering the government on housing supply, planning reform, and cost-of-living measures. Instead, we get another round of gender-identity politics from the usual suspects on the hard left.
This bill is the perfect symbol of how out of touch parts of the left political class have become.
While ordinary citizens deal with the consequences of failed housing policy and stagnant wages, Coppinger and her allies want to turn the national parliament into a gender studies seminar.
It is performative, divisive, and a complete waste of legislative oxygen.Ireland does not need more “X” markers on official documents. It needs homes built, costs controlled, and a political class that remembers its job is to solve practical problems — not invent new ones to score points in the culture war.
Coppinger’s bill deserves exactly the contempt it is already receiving from people who have had enough of this nonsense.
An unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before the president as a gesture of cooperation.
Then, at the last moment, the United States abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to turn around and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.
What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had thrown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.
This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.
And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear.
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