Alan Corcoran

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

This is a fairly common rant by far-right types - contending it's not safe for women in Ireland due to immigration.

I'll go through it and offer some counterpoints.

Not least it's objectively safer for women today than it was at any other point in Irish history. /1

[Alan Corcoran @apcorcoran]

@poetsoup https://t.co/vEPSqgzZvK

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

This is how Belfast looks on my femicide map.

Each of the ~1,000 pins is for a woman or girl murdered in Belfast between 1900 - 2025.

Almost all of them murdered by men and mostly by the type of men who were strolling around Belfast tonight wrecking their own city. /1

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

44,000 likes and 1.1 million views for a video of complete lies, alleging a migrant assaulted a holidaymaker.

Literally none of that happened.

I'll go through the facts of the video; albeit a forlorn task, given none of these racist bullies care about stuff like 'the truth.' /1

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

This is the dumbest tweet ever written by an American, an astonishing achievement given the depth of competition for that accolade.

It's hard to know where to even start.

I'll go from the top and try wade through it, to arrive at where the focus should already be. /1

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

An all-out assault on the truth, perpetrated by hateful bigots with no interest in truth.

Quote: "An Irish farmer has been thrown off his farm and refused to be let back on with a cohort of migrant scum forcing him off his own land."

Lies.

I'll go through the facts here. /1

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

Today in 1916, the second full day of the Easter Rising. Let's get behind the barricades and into the brutal action. The streets of Dublin have become a battlefield of smoke, shrapnel and sudden death. The rebellion reached a grim crescendo, with some of the fiercest fighting erupting at key strategic points across the city.

British troop, fresh off a transport boat at Kingstown. found themselves plunged into urban warfare for which they were entirely unprepared. The bloodiest confrontation of the day, and arguably of the entire Rising, unfolded at Mount Street Bridge.

Here, just 13 Irish Volunteers valiantly held off over 1,000 British soldiers of the Sherwood Foresters regiment. The British, many of them raw recruits with barely a week's training, were ordered to march straight up Northumberland Road directly into a meticulously planned ambush.

From fortified positions in 25 Northumberland Road, Clanwilliam House, and the Parochial Hall, the Volunteers opened fire. The British advance faltered, then collapsed. Over 200 British soldiers were killed or wounded in just a few hours. The rebels suffered just four dead.

It was a David-and-Goliath moment, and for many it confirmed the Volunteers' belief that cunning and conviction could outmatch brute imperial force.

Meanwhile, the GPO on Sackville Street remained the nerve centre of the rebellion. Inside, Padraig Pearse and James Connolly issued proclamations and coordinated dispatches, their world already shrinking beneath the encroaching circle of British arms.

Outside, sporadic gunfire echoed through the ruins of a city in lockdown shrouded in smoke. British snipers targeted rebel outposts with deadly precision.

In the South Dublin Union, now the grounds of St. James's Hospital, fierce hand-to-hand combat raged. Éamonn Ceannt’s men, including the legendary Cathal Brugha, held their ground against a superior British force.

Brugha was shot over twenty times, yet he continued to fight, revolver in hand, bleeding and unbending, until finally carried to safety.

Elsewhere, Éamon de Valera’s battalion at Boland’s Mill maintained control over the railway lines and approaches from the south. Their orders were simple, deny access to the city. De Valera, then a maths teacher and obscure Volunteer captain, ran his position with icy precision.

These lines would become vital as more British troops flowed into Dublin via Dún Laoghaire and Beggars Bush.

By the end of the day, martial law had been declared across Ireland. General Sir John Maxwell, recently appointed military governor, was en route to Dublin with sweeping powers.

But it wasn’t just soldiers who were dying. Civilians bore the brunt of the violence. Sniper fire did not discriminate. Stray bullets killed children, dockers, nuns. The fires that had begun on Monday now spread unchecked in certain quarters, and already food shortages and fear were beginning to grip the tenements.

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[Alan Corcoran @apcorcoran]

@TamKevin1 The Christchurch Inn, good location 👍

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

Think Michael Healy-Rae the wealthiest TD in the Dáil, is a man of the people? Lets have a gander at this cutest-of-hoors staggering finances and property portfolio....

He declared 14 houses for letting in Kerry, three guest houses, one rented commercial unit, a vacant premises, an apartment for letting, an unspecified number of apartments in a separate development, an unspecified number of rooms for letting, and student accommodation in Limerick. That's before you get to the rest.

Based on CSO median property price data for December 2025, his residential and guest house portfolio is estimated to be worth around €5.6 million. Twelve properties in the Killarney, Kilgarvan, Kenmare and Barraduff area, where the median house price sits at €332,500, give a rough valuation of €3.99 million.

Then his six properties in the Tralee and Castleisland area, with a median of €270,000, add another €1.62 million on top. The actual figure could be higher or lower. The register isn't that specific.

On the rental income side, 14 Kerry two-bedroom houses at current market rents would generate €18,340 per month, or €220,080 per year. https://t.co/eVNC8FjlgK figures show listed monthly rents on two-bedroom houses in Kerry rose 7.3 per cent last year to €1,310, with four-bedroom houses up 8.8 per cent to €1,879.

Then there's the land. He owns 100 acres of farmland and forestry in Kilgarvan, another 42 acres of forestry, and a further 4 acres of farmland elsewhere in the area. Based on the most recent Sherry FitzGerald assessment of €14,125 per acre for southwest farmland, the 100-acre holding alone could be worth around €1.46 million. The Institute of Professional Auctioneers and Valuers values Munster forestry at €6,960 per acre, putting the 40-acre forestry plot at approximately €278,000.

His company Roughty Properties received €470,000 from the Department of Children in 2024 for Ukrainian accommodation, paid out month by month, €49,640 in March, €52,080 in April, and so on. He also draws income from Kerry County Council's rental accommodation and housing assistance payment schemes.

He has been a landlord since he was 18. When he first entered the Dáil in 2011 he already owned 14 properties! The register shows 16 properties in 2016, 19 in 2018, 21 in 2020, 24 in 2022, and 28 for 2025, including his family home.

Public records show none of the four companies he directs, Roughty Properties, Black Cap & Co, ML Healy-Rae Properties and Roughty Plant Hire, ever drew down a mortgage. The family plant hire business, now primarily run by his nephew Johnny Healy-Rae, recorded net assets of €4.6 million at the end of 2024.

It received €501,000 for Kerry County Council work in 2025 and €384,000 in 2024. Cork County Council paid a further €334,135 across the same two years. Ah but sure begorrah, he doesn't care about money. He's a lovely wee hat and sure he only cares about de poor folk like you and me...

[Alan Corcoran @apcorcoran]

@HealthyAlfred Works for rats does not mean it works for humans.

[Jesus H Christ! @ThatBloke_Jesus]

Sorry for the inconvenience but I will be dead till Sunday

Have a nice weekend

Love J

[Alan Corcoran @apcorcoran]

@benjamincowen Watch this for some of Raoul's great past takes https://t.co/WaHPaQ6PnR

[Farooq Ahmed @FarooqAhmedX]

Remember when guys like Raoul Pal started shilling shitcoin scams to retail investors? Rugged hundreds of thousands and got REKT themselves.

The crypto class of 2024, chasing meme coins, is about to learn those same lessons the hard way.

People are regarded and they don’t listen.

Bitcoin maximalist have been right all along.

The answer is simple:

Stay humble and stack sats.

[Digital Asset News @NewsAsset]

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[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

I'm aware Eoin Lenihan is as thick as two short planks but still this is impressively stupid.

A reinstatement to the order paper wouldn't have enabled women in Ireland to, quote, "abort healthy babies up to the point of birth."

I'll go through the existing and proposed law. /1

[Alan Corcoran @apcorcoran]

@MoonOverlord $400,000,000 million = $400 trillion

[Mr.Tayto Ireland @MrTaytoIreland]

I am not the father.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Usual mob furious about something that didn't happen.

Spreading a doctored Daft .ie screenshot claiming 'no Irish' are allowed to rent a house in Killarney.

The people sharing this nonsense are probably in the market to buy a bridge, if you're selling one. 😂

Just the worst.

[Little Green @thelittlegreen6]

Donald Trump quotes Paddy Losty 😂😂😂

[Alan Corcoran @apcorcoran]

@fesshole Talk about a sticky situation

[Craft beers of Ireland & beyond. @craftbeersoflre]

‘Breweries are going to go out of business’: Water charges hike another setback for sector https://t.co/dLhugwT2GL
Surely with the level of money Return are generating from non returned cans, they could refund the producers fees with a maximum of €30k per company.