Clive Collins

Clinical informatics enthusiast with keen interest in using technology to deliver better healthcare. Clinical Strategist, tweets my own views

[Krysta 🤫🦜 @FeverBallUp2]

Bro its this angle of caitlin clarks CURVED BOUNCE PASS between Rhyne Howard legs to a cutting lexie hull jumper for me‼️

Like the split second from decision To execution.. just wow

#FromAnywhere|#NowYouKnow|

[Galway Advertiser @galwayad]

Former president Michael D Higgins has strongly criticised the University of Galway for its collaboration with an Israeli university that allegedly maintains close ties to defence contractors contributing to the ongoing genocide in Palestine https://t.co/ssfomDLlL2

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

"I was just following orders" was rejected as a defence at the Nuremberg trials by the way

[Elaine Mullally ☘️ @mullallyelaine]

If Micheal calls a referendum on increasing minister numbers, the people want him to hold referendums on
1) Immigration - opt us back out of the EU Migration pact

2) Digital ID

3) Hate Speech Legislation

4) The triple lock

It won’t cost any extra money to run them all at the same time. Why not do what the people want as opposed to what you want the people to do?

[Charlie Weston @CWeston_Indo]

Ministers approve €45,500 pay rise for CEO of VHI amid claims premiums are spiralling https://t.co/3S8ZDFLm7E

[Jonathan Mills @Muinchille]

@BarryAndrewsMEP @MichealMartinTD @fiannafailparty You're joking if you think we're paying for yet more of you. It's not about the mercs and perks; that's for jealous journalists. It's the damage you all do and the unnecessary interference in people's lives that's the real cost.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

NO! Germany's "historical responsibility" is to prevent genocides. NOT to support Israel to commit genocide

Germany committed genocide against the Herero and Nama (1904 - 1908), it committed the Holocaust and now it supports Israel's genocide against the Palestinians

SHAMEFUL

[Coach JK @John_Kavanagh]

My 2yr old son getting notice hes on a 3yr waiting list. Thank you @HSELive , im sure when hes 5 this will be really useful. Let's bring in another couple 100 thousand and get the waiting lists up to 5yrs!

🤡 country.

[Charlie Weston @CWeston_Indo]

Government urged to act after second report confirms Ireland has highest electricity prices in EU https://t.co/MaJlo4jgpG

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

This was HEARTBREAKING

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, exposed Israel:

"I held a lifeless child in my arms. There was no equipment to save him. This is not a war; it is a massacre of the innocent."

[Luke O' Connor @LOCthedreamer2]

I've been looking into the 1990's corruption cases involving Denis O' Brien in Ireland and it is just so typical of the Irish media how he was let off the hook from any scrutiny whatsoever in the aftermath.

Evidence of corrupt payments to politicians like Michael Lowry and Pádraig Flynn for mobile phone contracts and favourable legislative decisions all have been untouched by the Irish media as they are terrified of legal action from the billionaire.

Even in 2015, when the New York Times were reporting how O' Brien in conjunction with the Clintons had plundered Haiti for relief funds in the aftermath of a 2010 Tsunami, the Irish commentariat were silent.

O' Brien's Digicel Group has disclosed that it is cooperating with a US Department of Justice (DOJ) inquiry into potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) related to its business dealings in Haiti.

In 2019, Digicel and former Haitian President Michel Martelly were named in a $1.5 billion US civil lawsuit filed by a rival telecom. The lawsuit alleged that Digicel, politicians, and other companies were part of an illicit conspiracy involving telephone traffic and an education tax.

O’Brien, who served as Chairman of the Clinton Global Initiative's Haiti Action Network was blamed by Peter Schweizer in a 2015 book, Clinton Cash, for the lack of oversight which allowed money be funnelled out of the Haiti relief fund in order to personally enrich the Clintons.

#HowIrelandWorks

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

You sent your soldiers into a foreign country to kill, destroy and occupy, and you're complaining that the people of that country are fighting back? Unbelievable.

[Dr Harold News @DrHaroldNews]

Simon Harris has reassured worried Leaving Cert students that if they don’t get into university, they can always get a job building the National Children's Hospital, where they’ll earn €1 million a day.

[Alexie C Rivera @RedPillLaredo]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.
@WNBA @IndianaFever
This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/inOzS5bpCQ…

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

For any British viewer, watching these Irish commentators explain why it is important for Ireland to boycott a football match against Israel is like being thrust into an alternate universe. One where morality – not money – guides the agenda.

A different world is possible.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

The world KNEW
@Keir_Starmer KNEW
@YvetteCooperMP KNEW
@HFalconerMP KNEW
@BBCNews KNEW
They are all COMPLICIT

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

Hey @Tony_Burke we would like to discuss with you not letting terrorists come to “heal” in australia after committing a genocide.

[Aidan Joyce @AidanJoyce]

I'm certain, he is leading the country to a place worse than most people realise and I am not just talking about the catastrophic demographic change.
They are taxing us to oblivion and squandering our money like drunk kings at a banquet, feasting while the people count coppers in the dark. The risks we face, the scandalous spending should have people up in arms. Where is the investigative reporting to blow this open? No where to be seen bar the press pack they are handed by the government who have bought and paid them. We're in some sh1t.

https://t.co/dSKdLGzdwo

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

Tyre is older than Rome, King Solomon's Temple, Alexander the Great, and Carthage.

Israel is DESTROYING Tyre—a city more than 5,000 years old and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.