Anton Mannering

Decent at Keepie-uppie. Poor in nets. Founder @GestureLoop. Building @Coupfinity

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

That red card for Zwane is absolutely shocking refereeing.
No context of the situation taken into account. Really just unbelievably bad. #mexico #southafrica #worldcup

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

@Raudenbusch1 The fact you feel the need to dress up eugenicist savagery in pseudo-intellectual language and rationalizations says all that is needed about it.
"Oh God! To hear the insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust!"

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

@McJuggerNuggets You will never know the joy you have missed out on and have kept from the world.
May God have mercy on you and open your eyes.

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

@Mubarak_mubious Banking

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

@GamewithDave

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

I think many future elections will be won by whoever seems most credible about pursuing and applying appropriate sentences for pedophiles (and enablers), political corruption and public sector fraud.
All those people seem to be the same lately.

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

Wait til this gets applied to professional Rugby. 😂

The person responsible for this should not be allowed to continue in their role.

Nonsense.

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

The wokery must end:

The "beep test", a standard fitness test for firefighters for 40 years, discriminates against women and advantages younger candidates, a tribunal has found.

Cork Fire Brigade has been ordered to pay €8k in compensation to Terézia Foott, aged in her 40s who failed to advance.

She was held to the same standard as the man in his 20s who completed the beep test alongside her on the day.

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

@andrewrobs @anon_opin Nike was started by a lad from Askeaton called Niall Kearney. Hence Ni-Ke. The Greek goddess things is just marketing. True story... 👀 #possiblyfabricated

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

@ArendelLady @marcwilliams25 @GreeneMan6 You are correct. Brunette was the prettiest by a decent margin followed by Kim Catrall. I will die on that hill. I also do not remember her name. The character was a bit spoiled and annoying though.

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

@Clearpreso In future you may have to get a ticket from a person to talk to the machine. Enjoy the current utopia.

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

@_onlyscott Di Maria, Beckham, Heinze

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

Sin é anois. Daoine gan focal Gaeilge ag éirí an-chráite mar gur úsáid Príomh-Aire Indiach é le haghaidh teachtaireacht pholaitiúil. A Thiarna dean trocaire. 🙄

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

I'm not saying "W" is going to be a pile of crap, because everyone with a brain already knows it.
I am saying congratulations to whoever managed to talk the EU into giving them the resources. Guaranteed money with no failure measurement. Awesome work.

[Fredrik Lundberg @lundberg24]

Thomas Sowell - Western civilization under siege:

”Western civilization has survived the invasions of Genghis Khan from the East, the Ottoman Empire from the South, and two world wars originating from within. But whether it will survive its own intellectuals is much more doubtful.

The battlefront is everywhere, but especially where the young are being taught from the elementary school to the university. The sins of the human race are being taught to them as the special depravities of the United States or of Western civilization.

Deep thinkers like to talk about such things as the oppression of women in Western society, when in fact women have had a much lower position in Islamic cultures, for example, and girl babies were often routinely killed in parts of Asia. It was a Western nation, Britain, which put an end to the burning of widows alive on their husbands funeral pyres in India.

Slavery is of course the trump card of critics of Western civilization. But the tragic fact is that this abomination has existed on every continent inhabited by man. The pyramids were built by slaves, long before Columbus discovered America, and human beings were bought and sold for centuries in Asia as well. Slavery existed in both North and South America before the first white man set foot in the Western Hemisphere.

Hard and painful as it is to realize today, leading moralists in many lands and in many centuries saw nothing wrong with slavery. It was precisely in the West, notably in England, that a moral revulsion against slavery and a movement to stamp it out everywhere developed in the late eighteenth century.

Only the unchallenged might of the British navy, patrolling the waters of Africa for decades in the early nineteenth century, brought the shipmen of slaves to the Western Hemisphere to an end. The Czarist regime in Russia, though despotic by Western standards, stamped out slavery among Central Asians in its domains. The efforts of many Western powers to stop slavery within their empires and spheres of influence in Africa and the Middle East continued on well into the twentieth century, over bitter opposition by Arabs and Africans alike.

The West must accept its share of the blame for participating in the exploitation and degradation of human beings, but that is very different from taking the rap for everybody else-or allowing phoney history to poison its own children's minds today.

Gross double standards in judging Western and non-Western cultures have become so commonplace among intellectuals that few seem to notice it any more. Tragedies and injustices common to the human species around the world are referred to as flaws in "our society." Every ugly incident, however isolated, is immediately magnified in the media, and often treasured for years afterward, as something to be resurrected whenever anyone dares to say anything good about America or Western society.

Meanwhile, many of the same intellectuals gush over foreign tyrants and brush aside their bloody oppression as mere stages on the road to a glowing future. At the height of Mao's "cultural revolution" in China, an orgy of intolerant repressions, terror, public humiliations and mass killings-Western intellectuals flocked to China and returned to say how wonderful it all was. Mao's little red book of sayings was a hot item in campus bookstores while he subjugated one-fourth of the human race and made them pawns and guinea pigs for his visions.”

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

@elonmusk @wef Tell them to screw off

[Patrick McGreal @PSIA1851]

The Garda Síochána Powers Bill 2026 is now moving through the Oireachtas, and people need to understand what it means for their constitutional rights. This is not a small technical Bill. It goes right to the heart of personal liberty, privacy, and the limits of State power.

The first major issue is personal liberty. Under Article 40.4 of the Constitution, your freedom of movement is protected. You cannot be detained unless it is strictly in accordance with law. But this Bill allows Gardaí to require a person who is not under arrest to accompany them to a Garda station for a search. That is a deprivation of liberty in substance. Irish law is clear. If someone restricts your movement without proper authority, that is false imprisonment. And the law says consent is not valid if it is obtained by force, threat, or by making you believe you have no choice. This Bill risks creating detention without arrest and without the safeguards that normally protect people.

The second issue is privacy and personal data. The Bill gives Gardaí the power to operate your electronic devices, extract your data, copy it, and keep it. That means your messages, your photos, your contacts, your private life. The Constitution protects your personal rights, including privacy and the integrity of your data. These powers are extremely broad, and the Bill does not include strong limits or protections for sensitive information. There are no special safeguards for journalists, lawyers, political activists, or children. Once your data is taken, it can be examined and stored, and that raises serious constitutional concerns.

The third issue is the inviolability of the home. The Constitution protects your dwelling with the highest level of security. But this Bill allows search warrants for a wide range of offences, including some that are minor. When you combine that with the digital powers, it means a search of your home could lead to a full extraction of your digital life. That may not be proportionate or necessary.

The fourth issue is freedom of expression and assembly. Expanded stop and search powers in public places can have a chilling effect on protests, political gatherings, and public demonstrations. People may feel intimidated or afraid to attend events if they believe they can be stopped, searched, or have their devices taken without strong justification.

The fifth issue is the rights of children. The Bill does not contain child‑specific protections. Children’s phones and devices often contain extremely sensitive information. There is no special procedure for searching minors or handling their data. That is a major gap.

This is not about being anti Garda. It is about ensuring that any new powers respect the Constitution. Personal liberty, privacy, the home, freedom of expression, and the rights of children are not optional. They are fundamental rights. And once powers like these are handed over, they are very difficult to take back.

People need to understand what is in this Bill now, while it is still moving through the Oireachtas. Your rights matter. Your privacy matters. Your freedom matters. And this Bill deserves serious public scrutiny.

View the Bill here:
https://t.co/4uHgi41LwN

Always keep a close eye on the Bills our Oireachtas members are presenting. In this instance, the Bill is being presented on behalf of the Minister for Justice, who holds a statutory office, not TD Jim O’Callaghan personally.

Ministerial actions are carried out by corporate bodies under section 2 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, which means they are less directly accountable than an individual Senator or TD.

You can review the current Bill moving through Parliament here: https://t.co/YbYSyxfNaf

#BeBillAware

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

@rryssf Welcome to the party. We've been solving this with https://t.co/HJXXbUliZc for a year now. 😁

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

God bless and protect the people of Iran. May they receive the freedom they seek.

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

@diddy2019 @declanganley @Paschald I find this to be so obvious that it's incredible to me that so few people see it.
Every policy has the end result of increasing demand or decreasing supply of alternatives.
People really think it's an accident.🤦‍♂️

[Anton Mannering @antonmannering]

@declanganley I think current policies show that they know exactly what will happen. All their policies have the same end result.
They drive price increases in the housing market. It's not incompetence or an accident it's deliberate.