Caitliceach, céile, athair, údar a shantaíos naofacht, grá Dé agus na comharsan. Catholic, husband, father, author, seeking sanctity, love of God & neighbour.
The Irish establishment media has written a neat script about "Heroic" Helen Ogbu, the new Black mayor of Galway. The Nigerian born asylum seeker, direct provision survivor, foster carer, now mayor, its a perfect happy ending "immigrant success story". They're all celebrating it, all from exactly the same script.
But here’s what they've convieniently left out.
Back In 2001, at the peak of Ireland’s "anchor baby" scandal thousands of heavily pregnant Nigerian women were flooding into the country to take advantage of the "Citizenship by birth" rule, In 2003 alone, 4,625 babies were born to "non-national" women in Dublin’s three main maternity hospitals aline, and 1,528 of those were born to Nigerian mothers. Politicians like then minister for justice Michael McDowell and leader Bertie Ahern publicly condemned it. The issue became so inflammatory the Irish Government held a referendum in 2004 to amend the constitution and end the practice. The result? almost 80% of Ireland's people voted to close the loophole forever.
One of the Nigerian women who timed her trip perfectly was one Helen Ogbu. In 2001 she flew from Nigeria, which is over 5,200 kilometres from Dublin while heavily pregnant. There were no direct flights between the two states and she would have needed a visa, she then had to endure at least 11 to 13 hours of flying, with connections through Europe (usually London, Paris or Amsterdam)
This is a very long, expensive, and physically tough journey for anyone, never mind a woman in the late stages of an apparently complicated pregnancy, all supposedly just to "visit friends?"
Helen Ogbu subsequently gave birth to her daughter in Dublin, securing Irish citizenship for her child, and then promptly returned to Nigeria.
Despite this early "interaction" with the Irish state, her own website (and Labour Party material) completely and convieniently ignores this reality, they state -
“In 2006, my family and I moved to Ireland, seeking safety and a fresh start after the tragic loss of my husband.”
Despite this obviously intentional omission regarding her travel to Dublin while in the late stages of pregnancy, there’s one other glaring problem, her husband, Sunny Orji Ogbu, wasn’t assassinated until October 2010. Four years later in Nigeria.
As the inconsistencies and selective narrative parroted by the idolising Irish media unravels, there are more questions which nobody in the Irish Times or RTE seems to want to ask.
Her husband was a successful businessman and politician in Nigeria, he had property holdings, several business and came from a large well know elite Nigerian family, Where did all his money go? In Nigeria it is exceptionally unusual that a wife would not inherit the deceased husbands estate, but Helen Ogbu says she arrived in Ireland "with nothing" and survived on "Direct Provision" from the Irish state?
Three big questions. Zero answers from the Irish client media. Just lectures about racism for anyone questioning the rise of a Nigerian immigrant to become the darling of pro migration elites?
Race shouldn't be a shield from enquiry and accountability.
A 9-year-old boy was walking home from football when he spotted something that didn’t look right.
Three grown men were allegedly trying to drag a girl into a van.
Most people would freeze in that moment.
Most adults would.
He didn’t.
He started shouting, ran straight at them, and caused such a scene that they panicked and fled.
The girl got away.
Nine years old.
That isn’t just bravery that’s extraordinary courage.
Fair play to that lad. A true little hero he deserves a medal👏👍🇬🇧
There is "real anger " in Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael this week after party leaders supported Sinn Féin's abortion proposal - with a feeling that Micheál Martin and Simon Harris "rescued" Mary Lou McDonald "after two bad bye-elections", sources told Gript.
https://t.co/EDOLKGOHRL
An American scientist had a hand in the COVID outbreak in 2020, says Tulsi Gabbard.
"Dr Fauci provided millions of dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The work is viewed as the source of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic."
Something that should NOT be said, according to Kier Starmer: 'Only women have cervices'!
No wonder Britain is in decline with such decadence being prpmoted by the political cabal in control of a once great nation.
Happy Father’s Day.
Today, we celebrate all of the fathers who loved their children into existence, who cherished them in the womb and continue to love them beyond.
We thank God for the men who embrace fatherhood and faithfully support women and children. 🙏🏻
#HappyFathersDay
Until the past few decades, most people only knew about CO₂ from biology classes at school.
They were taught that CO₂'s foundational role was the way plants used carbon dioxide and sunlight to create energy and produce the world's supply of oxygen. The full story of the rise of biology and Earth's climate—and the actual role of CO₂—is widely mapped in the geological record.
Looking back to the Eemian, the last interglacial period 130,000 years ago, we find it was fully 2°C warmer than today; and hippos and lions wandered through the semi-tropical Thames Valley. Yet this warmth was not due to CO₂ levels, which stayed around 285 ppm.
Throughout the current Holocene warm interglacial, there have been several lengthy warm periods. The Holocene Optimum and Medieval Warm Period were each 1–2°C warmer than today, attributed to natural variation, also not to CO₂. This was from natural variability.
It all suggests that the IPCC and its doomsday scenarios placed little value on the observable geological history of climate.
Cllr Pepper is right to highlight this attack on truth, family, & Ireland's Christian heritage.
Tá an ceart ag an gComhairleoir Gábhán Piobard aird a tharraingt ar an ionsaí seo ar an bhfírinne, ar an teaghlach & ar oidhreacht Chríostaí na hÉirean.
Can people see what is happening in this country?
We now have Ruth Coppinger TD bringing forward a bill to recognise non-binary and intersex people in gender recognition and birth certificates. In my view, birth certificates should remain based on biological sex: male and female.
This is not about attacking anyone. It is about protecting the rights of everyone, including women, children and families. When the meaning of male and female is changed in official State records, there are wider consequences, and those consequences deserve proper public debate.
Both the Government and parts of the Opposition now seem far too comfortable dealing with major social and constitutional questions through Dáil motions and bills, rather than putting serious matters directly to the people.
That should worry everyone.
The people already rejected the proposal to remove the word “mother” from the Constitution. That was a clear democratic decision. Since then, many women I have spoken to have told me they are deeply disappointed with Mary Lou McDonald’s position and with Sinn Féin’s direction on these issues.
In my view, Mary Lou’s bill looked more like an attempt to follow the agenda of the Social Democrats than to listen to ordinary people. That should be a serious wake-up call.
Politicians are elected to govern and administer the country. They are not elected to dictate how people should live their lives or to make fundamental changes to society without proper public consent.
This is not how democracy should work. Major issues affecting family, identity, rights, women, children and official State records should be debated openly and, where appropriate, put to the people.
What is happening in the Dáil is deeply concerning, and it has to stop. Mary Lou McDonald should seriously consider her position as leader of Sinn Féin.
This is wrong, it is disappointing, and it is a dangerous road for Irish democracy.