EOIN MURRAY

The longest journey begins with a single step............

[Peadar Tóibín TD @Toibin1]

Ireland is now the most expensive country in the EU for housing, health, alcohol and electricity

Push back, sign the Aontú petition.

https://t.co/2KZobnzM44

[MichaeloKeeffe @Mick_O_Keeffe]

Tomorrow will be 5 months since Irishman Frank Daly was killed, and no charges have been brought against the driver. Some people even speculate she has fled the country.

Back story :

86-year-old Frank was walking through Dublin city when a bus ploughed into a pedestrian area and killed him.

The driver was an African female.

In the immediate aftermath the media and NGOs immediately jumped into action to claim the driver had a medical episode and lost control of the bus as a result.

But that was quickly debunked, and then the story just disappeared.

It doesn't take 5 months to investigate something like this, either the state is intentionally dragging it out and waiting for all the anger to disappear, or the driver really has fled Ireland.

Either way, we deserve an update and Frank deserves justice.

[Patrice Johnson 🇮🇪 @patricej36]

What a bunch of clowns.

Why aren't they getting the same garda treatment as the fuel protesters?

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

Irish Govt gives Somalia its highest warning of “Do Not Travel”

This is likely because:

99% rate of FGM
Rape goes unpunished
Being gay is a death sentence
Most corrupt country in the world

It would be one thing if we were taking in women and children only.

But no, we are taking 70%+ single men.

This is not ok.
It makes no sense.
Being afraid to call this out is cowardice.

[Paul Treyvaud @PaulTreyvaud]

Because Irish journalists have been paid off not to

[Michael McCarthy @punishablepress]

This is a photo of Helen Ogbu and her husband in Nigeria.

Look at the bottom right corner.

It was taken in 2010, 4 years after Helen first claimed asylum in Ireland.

[Keira Connolly @keira_con]

📌 The Helen Ogbu Controversy: A Breakdown of the 4 Key Contradictions

The ongoing controversy surrounding newly elected Galway City Mayor and Labour Cllr Helen Ogbu isn't just about a simple website "typo". It raises serious, fundamental questions about the integrity of our international protection system, political campaign narratives, and accountability in public office.
When the exact timeline is cross-referenced with public records and her own published interviews, four glaring logical contradictions emerge that the Labour Party's defenses fail to adequately address.

1️⃣ The Timeline Contradiction and the Campaign Narrative

The Claim vs. The Fact: Throughout her political rise and recent election campaigns, official biographical profiles and local press narratives explicitly stated that she "fled to Ireland... after her husband was tragically murdered for his political activity in Nigeria".

The Reality: Public records show her husband, businessman and politician Sunny Ogbu, was assassinated in Nigeria in October 2010. However, Helen Ogbu had already been living in Ireland and utilizing the state-funded Direct Provision system since 2005/2006. This massive multi-year gap has led to widespread accusations of political misrepresentation to create an emotionally resonant asylum narrative.

The "Typo" Defense: The Labour Party and Cllr Ogbu have blamed "web development errors" and "administrative incompetence" for the mistake. However, critics argue it is highly implausible for such a specific, foundational element of an asylum backstory to be repeatedly published, circulated in print, and left completely uncorrected for years if it were merely a clerical error.

2️⃣ The 2001 Trip and the Residency Strategy

The Penneys Incident: According to her own public media interviews, Ogbu’s very first entry into Ireland occurred in 2001 while she was heavily pregnant. She claims she traveled to the country simply to "visit friends." While shopping, she went into pre-term labor inside Penneys on O'Connell Street, Dublin, resulting in the birth of her daughter.

The Legal Loophole: Prior to the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum, any child born on the island of Ireland was automatically granted Irish citizenship by birthright. Under the legal framework of that era, having an Irish-citizen child provided non-EU parents with a powerful pathway to legal residency. Commentators note that this sequence of events aligns perfectly with what was critically referred to in public discourse as an intentional birthright citizenship residency strategy.

3️⃣ The Diplomatic Background & The Access to Asylum

The Diplomatic Employment: Before moving to Ireland, Ogbu held a Master’s degree in Diplomacy and worked for ten consecutive years with the South African High Commission in Nigeria, serving directly as the social secretary to the Ambassador.

The Resource Paradox: The international protection system is legally designed as a mechanism of absolute last resort for vulnerable individuals fleeing imminent, unavoidable danger with nowhere else to turn. Critics point out that an individual with a high-level diplomatic career, deep institutional connections to a foreign G20 embassy, and a wealthy, politically connected husband did not lack alternative global options, resources, or legal travel channels.

Why Ireland Over South Africa?: Working inside an internationally protected foreign embassy means she had direct, immediate access to secure diplomatic networks. If a severe, state-level threat to her life existed in Nigeria, the South African High Commission possessed the legal channels to facilitate immediate emergency visas or safe passage directly to South Africa. Bypassing a regional superpower to travel thousands of miles to Ireland specifically landing just before giving birth fuels the suspicion of a calculated economic and residency choice rather than an emergency flight from persecution.

The Return Home: In a profile interview with The Times UK, she admitted that after the 2001 birth of her child, she voluntarily returned to live in Nigeria because "things calmed down for a while," claiming her life was only at risk when her husband ran for elections. Under international refugee conventions, an individual claiming an active, systemic threat to life cannot safely oscillate between their home country and a safe haven based on shifting political cycles.

4️⃣ The 2010 Funeral Stay & Legal Re-Availment

The Ultimate Inconsistency: The most legally challenging aspect of the narrative to reconcile with the definition of asylum occurred in late 2010. Following her husband's tragic assassination, Ogbu voluntarily boarded a flight and returned to Nigeria the very country she claimed she was fleeing for her life and resided there for approximately four months to attend his funeral and settle family matters.

A Pattern of Travel: Crucially, this trip marked the second time Ogbu chose to return home to Nigeria after seeking status or safety in Ireland. Having already returned once following her 2001 trip, this second extended stay in 2010 shatters the concept of permanent, un-navigable exile.

The Principle of Re-Availment: In immigration and refugee systems worldwide, voluntarily returning to the country of feared persecution multiple times and remaining there for extended periods is a major legal red flag. International frameworks typically view this as definitive evidence that either the immediate threat to life has ceased, or that the applicant has voluntarily "re-availed" themselves of the protection of their home state, fundamentally undermining the legal necessity of refugee status abroad.

⚖️ Conclusion

The transition from living in Direct Provision to becoming the First Citizen of Galway is a historic narrative. However, public representatives must be held to strict standards of transparency. Blaming an emotionally manipulative, factually incorrect campaign timeline on a "website typo" avoids the core issue.The intersection of high-level diplomatic employment, substantial family resources, intermittent and repeated returns to Nigeria, and the precise timing of a pre-2004 birthright citizenship loop leaves serious questions that the public, the media, and the electorate have a right to see transparently answered.
#HelenOgbu #Galway #IrishPolitics #DirectProvision #ImmigrationIreland #LabourParty

[Niall Boylan @Niall_Boylan]

Today I spoke to Journalist Larissa Nolan about the Bottle Return Scheme. She says it isn't saving the planet, it's punishing consumers. Has Ireland's biggest "green" policy become one of its biggest rip offs? Listen to the show in the replies.

[nwl @nwl88444048]

"On Fri­day we made nine phone calls to Ms Ogbu, fol­lowed up with text mes­sages, as well as 11 calls to sev­eral Labour press officers, along with emails and text mes­sages seek­ing clar­ity on the dis­crep­ancy."

Irish Daily Mail comes out fighting today, justifies its journalism in the face of attack by the Labour party. It contradicts claims by the Labour party about their journalism, and sticks to its guns in its core claim that Helen Ogbu and Labour had misrepresented the circumstances in which she came to Ireland.

Here's the story free to read.
https://t.co/o8AnAOMSa9

We are now all pretty clear that there was inconsistency over the date of the death of Helen Ogbu husband in Nigeria. Many would like to know if this inconsistency had any influence on Ogbu's permission to remain in Ireland. Presumably this is where the story now goes...

[Niall Boylan @Niall_Boylan]

So Zelenskyy wants the Irish government to accelerate their investigation into a company operating in Ireland and to apply EU sanctions if the investigation warrants it.
Who voted for this man in Ireland? Since when does he tell us what we should or shouldn’t do?
The world will eventually see this man for what he is?

[Paddy McKenna @paddymacc1]

Five months on from this horrendous debacle and still no charges have been brought against the bus driver who drove her bus onto a pedestrianised street killing one person and injuring three others.
The official silence is deafening

[Peadar Tóibín TD @Toibin1]

A semi state company, the ESB, who made €650m profit last year,

Is putting up the cost of electricity.

This is despite Ireland having the 2nd most expensive electricity prices in the world.

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

Dublin hasn't seen as many members of an Garda Síochána since the water meter installations.

[Niall Boylan @Niall_Boylan]

It’s time for the Irish courts to send a strong message that we don’t and won’t accept these despicable crimes when it comes to sentencing this monster.

[Knights Templar International @KnightsTempOrg]

CONVENT AND ST PATRICK BURIAL SITE BURN DOWN IN DOWNPATRICK, MEDIA SAYS NOTHING

Yesterday the convent and the burial place of Saint Patrick himself in Downpatrick was reduced to ashes.

Locals say it was arson. The resting place of the patron saint of Ireland set on fire, and the legacy media has nothing to say. The politicians have nothing to say.

A Catholic site tied to one of the most important figures in the history of these islands burns, and you get silence.

That silence tells you everything.

[TheLiberal.ie @TheLiberal_ie]

This makes me absolutely sick to my stomach.

Zelensky gets a standing ovation in Dublin as the Ukrainian flag gets flown over Dublin Castle.

We want these Ukrainian freeloaders out of Ireland 🇮🇪

[Paddy McKenna @paddymacc1]

Didn't he and his ilk call us "Far Right and "Racists" for saying just this

[Brendan. Abolish Unit Pricing. Give us a break. @Dexxie57]

Oireachtas to spend €400k on its own brand of red and white wine for the Dáil. Can’t afford my energy bills and the government is spending €400,000 on wine. Where is the fairness in that?? https://t.co/22DB6HQ20F

[David Quinn @DavQuinn]

The suspect in the attack on the Talbot Street mosque is an Iranian Muslim. This will get little publicity now. https://t.co/TKsfjL2A0P

[Mandy Gall @TheMandyGall]

I'm sorry but this is outrageous @OCallaghanJim here in Sligo you have just opened 5 brand new IPAS apartment blocks, high end all inclusive and then you go and say this??! OUTRAGEOUS!!