Elizabeth

[Elizabeth @emcnicho]

Is @rte more controlling than the Catholic Church?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Michael McCarthy @punishablepress]

The Protests and the Irish Government.

[Dr. Eoin Lenihan @EoinLenihan]

Over the past 10 years, the National Women's Council of Ireland has received almost €10 million in public funds. Staff costs are 96% funded by public money. They are among the most powerful and controversial lobbying groups in the nation basing all of their actions on Social Justice Theory and Intersectionality. But they are not just paid by the government to lobby the government. They are also silent partners when it's useful. Helen McEntee's Zero Tolerance programme, complete with a multi-million Euro endowment was devised in partnership with the NWC.

They then stepped back into their advocacy roll to oversee its implementation and even though they literally devised the programme, they've written a major report as head of a union of other NGOs - The National Observatory on Violence Against Women - complaining that the programme doesn't go far enough to protect women and, surprise, surprise, demanding more money and closer partnership with NGOs to get the programme to work better.

This is now the typical arrangement between government and NGOs. The line between the two is impossibly blurred and the only certainty is that the NGOs budgets and remits keep expanding. This is the NGO Industrial complex.

The NWC have 169 members under their umbrella covering everything from abortion pressure groups to the Marie Keating Foundation to the IFA and Irish Country Women's Association. Sinn Fein and Fine Gael are also members - perhaps explaining Helen McEntee's particularly close embrace of the NGO.

At this point, the NWC cannot call itself an NGO.
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[Elizabeth @emcnicho]

21 days since internet stopped working with @eir . If I was a chicken, I would have hatched out of the egg around about now.

[Elizabeth @emcnicho]

Day 20 of no internet from @eir. If I was a frog I would have hatched from frogspawn into a tadpole by now.

[Elizabeth @emcnicho]

Technical support refuse to put you through to a manager and there are too many other people with higher peiorities to be put onto priority list. @eir What the actual???

[Elizabeth @emcnicho]

19 days without internet from @eir . Online interview in 2 days, will we be able to do it? 😱

[Bradford City AFC Academy @bantamsacademy]

Keep battling, Bantams! 👊

#BCAFC | #CRYvBRA

[Michael McCarthy @punishablepress]

A genderfluid, polyamorous Sri Lankan says the Irish flag is causing division — and argues the real problem is not taxing billionaires and large corporations.

[Bradford City AFC Academy @bantamsacademy]

Hear from Joel Martin after the young Bantams booked their place in the third round of the FA Youth Cup last night. 🗣️

#BCAFC

[Elizabeth @emcnicho]

@salvation_f You

[Eric Grimberg 🇦🇷 🎗 @EricGrimberg1]

"SAVE THE CHILDREN"

[Peadar Tóibín TD @Toibin1]

Only 8% of deportations are being enforced by the government.

3,350 people flew into Dublin Airport with no travel documents or false travel documents.

Harris and Martin talk about changes in immigration, but the chaos continues.

[John McGuirk @john_mcguirk]

RTE says 68% turnout reflects "disillusionment with the entire political class"..... in another country.

45% turnout here with 13% of all votes cast however... represents a historic mandate for Catherine Connolly.

[Ben Scallan 🇮🇪 @Ben_Scallan]

RTÉ, without a hint of irony, talking about the election that just took place in Argentina:

[Elizabeth @emcnicho]

@Connolly_HQ 😂😂😂😂

[Elizabeth @emcnicho]

@paulmurphy_TD 😂😂😂

[Elizabeth @emcnicho]

@DarranMarshall 😂😂😂😂