Ireland’s media regulator has paid out €83 million in public money to broadcasters, newspapers and journalists since 2023.
Virgin Media. Irish Times Group. Iconic Media. Hot Press. The Journal. The list goes on.
Meanwhile Gript gets nothing from the State. And People Before Profit refuse to answer a basic Gript question on the Triple Lock, then answer the same question instantly for an Irish Times journalist.
When the State writes the cheques, editorial independence stops being a given. This needs scrutiny.
Pretty much sums up the rot, intellectual vacuousness and smug superiority of the new left.
Not in my name.
I personally identify as a refugee from the Old Left.
This crowd are the most pompous, sanctimonious and easily triggered brigade of student union wannabes Ireland has ever had to endure.
So Gript are
1) far-right
2) a threat to immigrants
3) a threat to LGBTQI
Take off the blinkers. These are highly contested issues and covering both sides doesn’t make anyone far-right. In fact, accusing someone for that reason is far-left. Its totalitarian. You’re the dangerous sensibility. Not Gript. How bloody dare you.
Yesterday my brother teacher @EnochBurke was taken from prison to a disciplinary inquiry by the Irish Teaching Council. He is facing the possible removal of his licence to teach. His crime: refusing to accept that you can be suspended for not endorsing LGBTQ+ ideology. The inquiry is required to be held in public, but throughout the day more than ten heavy-set security guards dressed in black guarded every entrance to the building and demanded the names of anyone attempting to attend. This was naked intimidation. Very few people would feel comfortable attending in such circumstances. The same guards worked hard to protect the Teaching Council panel from scrutiny when they exited the building, including the chairman Andy Pike. Pike has shared mockery of Enoch Burke’s stand on his social media and is himself a promoter of transgender ideology. Enoch has now spent almost two years in prison, meanwhile every form of perversion is taught to children in schools every day. This is a dark day for Ireland.
"THE LAWS OF HUMANITY"
In 1940, in the midst of World War II, Italian submarine commander Salvatore Todaro made a decision that is still regarded as one of the most humane acts in the history of naval warfare.
While on combat patrol in the Atlantic Ocean, his submarine, Comandante Cappellini, sank the Belgian merchant ship Kabalo.
According to the laws of war, everything should have ended there. The submarine was expected to dive immediately and leave the area. Remaining on the surface meant risking the lives of the crew and jeopardizing the entire mission.
But Todaro saw something else. Among the wreckage in the cold ocean were people fighting for their lives.
Sailors. Shipwreck survivors. Men with little chance of being rescued in time.
He did what no one expected. He ordered the submarine to surface and take as many survivors aboard as possible. There was not enough room for everyone, so some had to remain in a lifeboat. Then Todaro went even further: he ordered the lifeboat to be tied to the submarine and began towing it toward a safe shore.
For several days, the submarine traveled almost defenseless — slowly, on the surface, constantly risking detection and attack. Crew members reminded their commander that he was endangering the entire operation for the sake of men who had been the enemy only hours earlier.
Todaro's reply became legendary:
"They are not enemies now. They are sailors."
After delivering the survivors safely and handing them over to local authorities, the submarine resumed its military mission.
More than 80 years have passed. Countries, borders, and wars have changed.
Yet this story reminds us of something important: even in the darkest times, a person remains human. Sometimes a single act speaks of true greatness far more than any victory on the battlefield.
For there are the laws of war.
And then there are the laws of humanity.
And it is those that are remembered the longest.
Not one liberal politician or journalist argued that the George Floyd "I can't breathe" clip shouldn't have been shared. They only want to stop you seeing the Belfast clip because it's massively, massively inconvenient to them - 'sensitivity for victims' has zilch to do with it.
This NGO mouthpiece is everything that's wrong with Ireland...well fed, well paid talking absolute shite and doesn't give af about ordinary people afraid of getting beheaded
I cannot express how much I loathe these people
Sitting there with his lopsided head pontificating about how everyone else is the real problem not the savages murdering or raping people
Party Leader Michael Collins TD called for an urgent debate the EU Migration Pact in the Dail. That request was voted down by Government.
@MichaelC_IND_TD
The EU Migration passed by the last Dáil by just 7 votes. 40 of those who voted for it are no longer in the Dáil.
The EU can now dictate how many migrants Ireland takes. Simon Harris admitted to Aontú he doesn't even know what it will cost.
The new Dáil should get a vote.
‼️WESTMEATH GOAL‼️
A savage steal from John Heslin opens the gates for Kevin O'Sullivan to secure a goal in the closing stages of extra-time🥅🔥🤝
@westmeath_gaa@CavanCoBoardGaa#WESvCAV
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